Peck Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I did see that Nigel McGuinness was furloughed by WWE, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 49 minutes ago, paintedbynumbers said: so it's my best friend's birthday tomorrow. He just found out he is going to be a dad as well. I wanted to get him something unique.. For his bday I am looking to have Joel Gertner call him up and do one of his famous intro's. My buddy is a huge ECW mark. Good idea? I don't know how Joel is these days. But all goes well you can't go wrong with that. Random sidestep but it does make me wonder if RVD has a Cameo account. Now that would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintedbynumbers Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Just now, NikoBaltimore said: I don't know how Joel is these days. But all goes well you can't go wrong with that. Random sidestep but it does make me wonder if RVD has a Cameo account. Now that would be cool. He's going to do it!!! Joel is awesome. He worked on the Lucha Fest show I helped Sam Adonis out on. Spoke with Joel for about 45 mins after the show. Couldn't have been nicer. We keep in touch on twitter somewhat. He loved the idea. Not sure if RVD has a cameo. I know Graves does and a few others. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, paintedbynumbers said: He's going to do it!!! Joel is awesome. He worked on the Lucha Fest show I helped Sam Adonis out on. Spoke with Joel for about 45 mins after the show. Couldn't have been nicer. We keep in touch on twitter somewhat. He loved the idea. Not sure if RVD has a cameo. I know Graves does and a few others. Nice. I'm sure since you know him to a degree he'll do a good one. I'm half tempted to get Big E to do one for a friend of mine. I think she'll love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Randy Orton: *poops in a bag 15 years ago* IWC: Booooooo Randy Orton: BLM IWC: Yaaaaay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 7 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said: Random sidestep but it does make me wonder if RVD has a Cameo account. Now that would be cool. 7 hours ago, paintedbynumbers said: Not sure if RVD has a cameo. I know Graves does and a few others. He does. It's $100. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I just bought my first cameo ever from that dude Greg Proops from Whose Line Is It Anyway and he did a real good job. I recommend that guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Powerbombs into the turnbuckles are now banned in WWE. Not sure if other moves like german suplex or else to turnbuckles will be banned, but they could eventually ban them too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I haven't seen a ban this absurd since Kramer got banned from Joe's Fruit Store. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I still can't believe moves on the apron haven't been banned yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Raziel said: I still can't believe moves on the apron haven't been banned yet. I was thinking that too and was going to post the same thing, but then I also thought that I seem to remember WWE usually gimmicking the LCD side of the ring apron for those with some kind of padding? I feel like I saw that a couple times but I could be wrong Edited May 30, 2020 by Zakk_Sabbath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystman Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Zakk_Sabbath said: I was thinking that too and was going to post the same thing, but then I also thought that I seem to remember WWE usually gimmicking the LCD side of the ring apron for those with some kind of padding? I feel like I saw that a couple times but I could be wrong I've heard a theory that it might be the hardest part of the ring. 2 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Whenever someone gets slammed on the centre of the mat, it's never pointed out that that's the softest part of the ring, is it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystman Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 26 minutes ago, AxB said: Whenever someone gets slammed on the centre of the mat, it's never pointed out that that's the softest part of the ring, is it? That's because it's not. The softest part of the ring is where the secret passage The Undertaker crawls out of is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Tell Davey Boy Smith that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 11 minutes ago, AxB said: Tell Davey Boy Smith that. To be fair, WCW went with a trap door which was dumb as fuck. WWF went with gimmicking the ring so you can cut the canvas open with a box cutter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Which i think how it done before (sullivan booked that angle in both florida and knoxville) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I wonder how they gimmicked the ring so you could cut your way through. Cut planks maybe, that can be slid out from underneath when it's time? Or do you have basically a hole in the ring all night, and tell people to work around it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystman Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 33 minutes ago, AxB said: Tell Davey Boy Smith that. The Undertaker comes from a completely different dimension than the Warrior! Geeze. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 22 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said: To be fair, WCW went with a trap door which was dumb as fuck. How did this even work? Was there a C-shaped seam that was visible the whole night? I've never actually seen that show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great ML Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 23 minutes ago, mystman said: The Undertaker comes from a completely different dimension than the Warrior! Geeze. Parts Unknown and Death Valley...Warrior always spike of a spaceship, Taker rode his bike here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) 43 minutes ago, AxB said: I wonder how they gimmicked the ring so you could cut your way through. Cut planks maybe, that can be slid out from underneath when it's time? Or do you have basically a hole in the ring all night, and tell people to work around it? I know in ECW they told the boys not to bump in a certain area when they were going to do the whole fall through a mat or through the ramp deal. It was probably the same in WCW when Sting came from underneath the ring in 1997. I think because many times they were doing it for the main event in WWF or late in the show and it would be incredibly hard to avoid one spot all night that they made it where whoever was underneath the ring (be it Mankind or Taker) could move the boards etc. out of the way. 35 minutes ago, PetrolCB said: How did this even work? Was there a C-shaped seam that was visible the whole night? I've never actually seen that show. They had the trap door for multiple shows when Warrior was there in 1998, which is amazing that more people didn't get badly injured. However, this was when WCW had the very large, nice looking logos that covered roughly 75% of the mat. Later in 1998 (around the time Warrior got there), Nitro switched from plain grayish (sometimes dark blue) mats to ones with the giant Nitro logo on top. I think they made sure you couldn't see the outline of where Warrior was suppose to come from. Edited May 30, 2020 by Elsalvajeloco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Ive also heard guys say that mats with logos on them back then often made footing slick and potentially haxardous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, odessasteps said: Ive also heard guys say that mats with logos on them back then often made footing slick and potentially haxardous. Boxing (and now MMA) has had this problem for several years. Add in the fact that you have people spilling water on the mat by way of cornermen drenching their respective fighter in water. Sidenote: I was watching Halloween Havoc 96 (the show where Piper makes his WCW debut) last week. I know it was suppose to be a sight gag, but still. After Hogan wins his match against Savage, they have Giant come out with this ridiculously huge bowl of ice water. It's so heavy even a man his size is having trouble carrying it. As he tries to slide it in the ring, he spills 3/4 of it on the ring apron and becomes clearly irritated with himself knowing he fucked up the sight gag. When he gets in the ring and drops the remaining water on Hogan so Hogan can do a cartoonish recovery and make goofy faces, it goes over like a fart in church. It wouldn't have been funny if Giant didn't botch it and executed it perfectly. So what the fuck was the point in making a giant mess on the mat? Although it's at the end of the show, Piper still has to come in so he can have a ten minute, awkward back-and-forth with Hogan. Imagine if Piper, a man with notoriously bad hips, makes his WCW debut and then hurts himself slipping on ice water Giant spilled on the mat. That would have been an unmitigated disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) Nexus were scheduled to reunite for this year's WrestleMania weekend https://www.thesportster.com/news/nexus-scheduled-reunite-wrestlemania/ On the one hand, it seems a bit far-fetched that such idea(s) would be real, but it would have been a hell of a thing if true. I'd be lying if I said it didn't make me somewhat sad, being something I've hoped and dreamed would happen for years. Edited May 31, 2020 by The Green Meanie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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