clintthecrippler
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The "lifelong pro wrestling fan" in me sees that Harbaugh anecdote and says that the natural progression should be that the NCAA says they will accommodate Harbaugh's request...but only if he can beat Ohio State the next time they play.
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1 hour ago, Shane said:
I just saw this and immediately started to wonder when the hell Minoru Suzuki would have ever had a chance to work the Brooklyn Brawler. Y'all...I'm not sleeping well and this is what it's come to.
The one match that would have been stranger than Tenryu vs Brooklyn Brawler.
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12 hours ago, Death From Above said:
My favourite thing about the Chicago Street Fight is Jamie Dundee being pissed off in his shoot interview that because he was on a $500 per appearance contract, working technically the semi-main event of Wrestlemania paid him five hundred dollars.
Other favorite thing is that led to the incident later that year where The Sandman was dressing down Jamie Dundee for some sort of ECW locker room etiquette breach, and Dundee's response was "I was on Wrestlemania, bitch! What the fuck have you done?"
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This show just got posted to IWTV this week. The promo is fun, and the match (American Dragon/Super Dragon vs Nozawa/Kikuzawa (aka Kikutaro)) is a fun little watch also.
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1 hour ago, HumanChessgame said:
I don't have any new thoughts to add to the others expressed here, but I am curious to know if that Owen/Tenta match they showed clips of at the beginning is online anywhere?
If you are talking about the Stampede footage they showed early on, Owen's opponent was Mike Shaw as Makhan Singh.
Tenta got his start early in Vancouver, but sadly never worked Stampede during his early years. Lord knows him vs Owen and Pillman in those years would have been incredible.
That said, Owen vs Makhan Singh is still worth going out of your way to check out. Probably the best in-ring work of Mike Shaw's career as well.
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When this whole COVID thing is over, I am totally hugging everyone like Andre The Giant hugging this giant cake.
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18 hours ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:
They showed Dalton Castle vs Marty Scurll from Supercard of Honor XII on this week's show and I really enjoyed it until Marty went looking for the powder under the ring. It took him so long to find it that eventually Dalton needed to go to the outside and slam him to make the delay work. Thank goodness the audience bit so hard on the ref finger-break spot that followed.
I was in the building that night and I felt so bad for the two of them live. The two of them had a solid match, but the event had primarily sold its tickets based on Cody vs Kenny, and slotted this to be the final match, and 20% of the crowd had left by the five-minute mark, and the crowd that was remaining was burnt out from how high emotionally that Cody vs Kenny went.
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9 hours ago, thee Reverend Axl Future said:
13 schools - that's it for 1989. Moolah had a camp as well. Johnny Rodz was training as well but I don't know if he had an actual school yet.
dream baby dream,
RAF
Well shoot, now I want to know who was running Virginia Wrestling Academy and which wrestlers came out of it given that it was so "prestigious" that it had its own disclaimer that inquiries must come from "serious adults" only.
Would that have been Nelson Royal, maybe?
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22 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
That should've given AJ a job, and likely what Shane and him were trying to do. Too bad management never watched Metal.
My recollection is that AJ Styles WAS offered a developmental deal after this, but had a fairly successful side business going at the time (landscaping, I think?) that paid better than WWE's development deal at the time and also didnt want to uproot his family from Georgia to Louisville.
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"He likes to beat people up....he likes to dunk the ball....you know we're talking 'bout BARRY WINDHAM!"
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7 hours ago, RolandTHTG said:
Rey vs Marko Stunt. With Rey bringing the bully heel power offense and getting tied in the ropes Andre style.
There was a Rey vs Evan Bourne face vs face match on RAW back when Rey was still a bit more jacked and he took a bit more of a "power moves" role for the match and was actually quite good at sliding into the role.
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Yet for all the flopping and flying he did throughout the match, I still maintain that Hogan got his revenge in the end because when he saw Michaels finally stay down in position for the leg drop, Hogan took his sweet time milking the ear cups and cheers before finally delivering the leg.
And yes, as someone that was always more of a Bret Hart fan than a Shawn Michaels fan, I took great joy in HBK finally running into a political force that he couldn't manipulate.
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1 hour ago, LP Steve said:
Jesus Christ, what a size queen Jim Ross is!
I grew up on Ross in WCW, but I genuinely have a hard time listening to him on commentary from UWF and his first couple of years in WCW. He has the same issue as Mauro in that there are way too many matches where he is always ON and never uses his "inside" voice. It honestly reinforces to me that it's his Attitude Era run that truly made Jim Ross a true "Hall of Fame" announcer.
Like this example here, I get that it was a tag team title match, but every move is called like it's the hottest angle in the promotion, when at the end of the day it's still just Wild Bill Irwin and Leroy Brown vs. Jack Victory and John Tatum in a heel vs heel match that the live crowd seems to have little investment in.
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On 5/7/2020 at 7:05 PM, Matt D said:
Since that came up, here's a stupid question. It wasn't McAdam who said he was trying to get a deal with some streaming company, right? There was an old tape trader (I think) that also promoted that was posting clips he had of Sabu and lucha guys in a tag match. I thought it was somewhere in the midwest but I could have been wrong.
That sounds like John Arezzi, who promoted a tour I believe in the Philippines and Southeast Asia with a mix of ECW and lucha guys in 94/95. He posted some photos and short clips from that tour on his Twitter page and implied that he was looking for a streaming partner. I think he might have lucked into some matchups and team combinations that never occurred in the U.S. I believe it was called IWAS.
EDIT: found one of his posts. I mixed up two separate tours he ran, one in Philippines and SE Asia in 93/94 with Jake Roberts, Kevin Sullivan, and a bunch of ex-WWF names, and then he did another one in South America in 1995 with more ECW/lucha guys. One of those shows was headlined by Sabu and Psicosis vs Konnan and Rey Mysterio, which sounds like it could have been bonkers in 1995.
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14 hours ago, D.Z said:
I get that he still loves being in the ring but it's just irresponsible to let Dory Funk Jr. continue to wrestle.
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On 4/28/2020 at 11:24 PM, Curt McGirt said:
Thought I'd leave this here instead of in any of the music threads. Could have easily just wound up in the metal thread
Claudio really does have a great band together right now. If you ever get an opportunity to see him and his band do a live play-along to one of the movies that Goblin contributed a score to, definitely do so. I saw them on the 2018 tour they did for the original SUSPERIA and it was great.
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1 hour ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:
I’ve never heard of Australian country. Is that what the Crash Bandicoot soundtrack is supposed to be?
So far I've been given no reason to believe that all Australian country music doesn't sound like this.
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17 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
My parents were plenty lenient but I managed to really get their goat (heh) with the first Deicide album. Had to lie through my teeth about that one
Sounds like the opposite reaction of my Mom. When I was a teenager I showed my Mom a picture of Glenn Benton with the inverted cross branded into his forehead and her exact words were "oh, he's not scary-looking, he just looks like a DOOFUS."
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On the topic of Joey Styles, I believe the best commentary run of his career was that first year or so of ECW PPV's where he was essentially forced to pace himself for three straight hours, so he actually used "inside voice" for a good chunk of the show and since Paul Heyman was juggling a dozen other production duties since it was a live PPV, he wasnt as overproduced and came off the most natural he ever did during that run as well.
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Bob Backlund defending the WWWF Heavyweight Championship against Superstar Billy Graham in a Sicilian Stretcher Match at the Philadelphia Spectrum, September 1978.
Rules are a bit wonky but the match is damn great nonetheless and the crowd is absolutely molten for the entire last ten minutes.
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"If you wanted to talk about the elderly, you should have called last week when our pet care show was airing, but we were taping the elderly show."
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I think that video aired on Nitro one time...and then they immediately got destroyed by the Dungeon of Doom while the Leprechaun ran around screaming at everybody.
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LOL at Vince trying to pull carny wrestling promoter tactics in non-wrestling environments where people that know how the real world works and aren't marks for the idea of working for Vince say "Haha....NO".
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35 minutes ago, colonial said:
45 minutes of clips from a Dory Funk Jr.-promoted show from Belleview, FL, back on February 29th.
I thought about taking my eight-year-old to this. We're about 20 miles away from the location, she's asked about wrestling before, and it would have been cool to meet the Steiners (My daughter used to attend school in the district where Rick's a school board member, so we could bring that up to them, as well as Scott's restaurant). But then I saw the main event of the show ...
A six-man tag featuring the Steiners (who were 58 and 57 at the time of the show) teaming up with Dory Funk Jr., who is 79. Someone really needs to sit with Funk and beg him to stop getting in the ring. I feared the worst every time he moved.
And one week later Scott Steiner had his heart scare at the Impact Wrestling tapings.
Straight-up Squash Matches
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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There's a Road Warriors squash where Animal hits a shoulder block that just decimates a jobber, and David lets out a very orgasmic "OOOOOOHHH!", then is silent while the referee counts the pin, and then after the bell ring just quietly says, "that was good, Tony."