clintthecrippler
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2 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Jesus, in one single Tweet Tony Khan managed to:
1. Vehemently deny a rumor.
2. Put over one of his announcers.
3. Took a jab at his top heel.
4. Flexed his wrestling nerd muscles.
The dude accomplished more in a single Tweet than any 10+ minute opening segment of Raw in the last seven years.
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I am more than okay with piling on the booker who was gifted the MSG debuts of Jushin Liger and Great Muta and decided "you know who needs to go over here? KENNY KING"
As someone who was in the building that night, the ROH side of that show save for maybe the TV Title 3-way and the NJPW vs ROH tag title match up until the Enzo/Cass angle just kept draining the crowd energy that night. I genuinely can't imagine anyone who walked out of that building saying "that was a great night for ROH" and the general "evening of" consensus was that they blew their side of the biggest non-WWE show that NYC had seen in decades.
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12 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
watching the Flair/DiBiase Mid-South match, and if you don't wanna look at the gruesome scene developing from Ted DiBiase's head, you can watch the horrified fans behind the hard camera, including a mother shielding the eyes of her child as Ted DiBiase gushes blood in the ring
It's a family show. Like when the kids got to watch Kevin Sullivan stab Kanemura's arm with a spike in Smoky Mountain.
That still doesn't quite top my own personal favorite Mid-South fan reaction, from when the Rock N Roll Express is demonstrating how a straight jacket works for an upcoming match where Jim Cornette is going to be restrained in one to prevent interference, and a teenage girl in the front row very visibly and angrily shouts "Awwwww SHIT!" as the Midnight Express interrupts the demo because she knows that Ricky and Robert are about to get destroyed in front of her very eyes.
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Your reminder that God made the Devil just for fun, but when he wanted the real thing, he made Aja Kong.
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14 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
The first 3 matches on this MSG card are Sal Bellomo vs Baron Mikel Scicluna, Mr. Fuji vs SD Jones, and Iron Mike Sharpe vs Johnny Rodz. They're not holding anything back on this card.
Iron Mike Sharpe vs Johnny Rodz actually ended up being a shockingly fun match though. Rodz ends up being defacto face being the native New Yorker, and they have quite the "late 90's WCW Worldwide"-style hidden gem match.
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EDIT: accidental double-post
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23 hours ago, D.Z said:
Does anyone know which '70s territory this version of the "NWA World Tag Team Championship" is representing?
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On 12/1/2021 at 11:30 PM, Cobra Commander said:
I love that Kal Rudman was a radio-industry guru that rubbed shoulders with folks like Bruce Springsteen and Clive Davis, but once a month he would use his Saturday night instead to go have himself a wonderful time at the WWF show when it came to Philadelphia, commentate the matches with Dick Graham, and interview the wonderfully over-the-top characters of the WWF as if they were actual people.
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According to Amazon, this came out on DVD during the month of November, because who doesn't remember the Extremely Legendary run that Ric Flair had in 3PW?
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13 minutes ago, Ace said:
It's a tie-in to Rock's Netflix movie.
The initial reveal of Vince showing off the egg was one of the most unintentionally hilarious bits of WWE television all year, as it was obvious that no one smartened up the pre-game panel to the movie tie-in and they all seemed as confused as the audience as to the egg gimmick.
And that honestly right there is one of the bigger signs to me that WWE has lost its fastball at nearly every level possible. Even in times when the in-ring product was in shambles, they would always make sure to hammer home the dumb promotional tie-in gimmicks and angles.
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2 hours ago, Peck said:
Oh yeah? How about doing that with full cans, hmm?
Why would you promote alcohol abuse like that?
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9 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Shawn with Hall and Nash, would have done something stupid, no doubt.
Just imagining how much of a train wreck the promos would have gotten if a pilled-up Shawn that doesn't give a flying fuck was placed in the ring opposite peak-incomprehensible 1998 Roddy Piper makes me wonder if Bischoff would have ordered production to just cut to commercial sometime during.
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2 hours ago, J.H. said:
What if... Vince convinces to let Bret take the paycut and let's him stay, benches Michaels for the remainder of his deal and Montreal doesn't happen? Does Michaels going to WCW get us the same result as Bret going (i.e. Bischoff has 0 idea how to effectively use him) or does Shawn just spiral out of control bbefore that with tragic results?
James
I am still of the belief that Shawn going to WCW would have been even more disastrous than Bret going to WCW, as combined with him being in a company where his outside-the-ring issues would be more unchecked, he would still run into the brick wall that was Hulk Hogan's creative control clause, which also likely in that time period lead to even more exacerbation of his issues.
I always got the feeling that Hulk at least respected Bret as a worker even if he didn't see him as a "star" on his level. I just see Shawn getting told "that doesn't work for me, brother" whenever ANY idea of him in 1998/1999 interacting with Hulk got pitched.
Shawn MIGHT have a shot if he hung around long enough for Russo to make it to WCW, but even then, I can't imagine Goldberg having much patience for dealing with a pilled-up Shawn Michaels, and if they were put in the ring it's possible that Shawn's career would have ended too but in a more malevolent manner.
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On 11/9/2021 at 8:50 PM, Zimbra said:
FROM THE WHEAT!
And then there was THIS tonight!
Video from the crowd with better audio of the in-arena reaction.
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One of the great pop-culture developments of the last decade was a responsible adult informing John Carpenter that he can make money performing his film scores live. I've only seen him once but he looked like he was having a great time doing these concerts, and one of my favorite live music experiences of that year was watching him put the sunglasses on before performing his theme from They Live
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23 hours ago, elizium said:On this date at the Winnipeg Arena, jesus what a card
Roger Kent's call of the match is certainly a guy talking into a microphone while large dudes wrestle.
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Uh, this seems like it may be leading to something a bit more than a hiatus...
EDIT: obviously while not as important as the livelihoods of a few dozen wrestlers, I do hope that if Sinclair begins fielding phone calls regarding the tape library, they pick up Tony's call before they take Vince's call.-
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22 minutes ago, Swift said:
What are some of the strangest venues/locations wrestling shows have taken place in?
I'll start with this one - https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=288421
I will always have the biggest smile on my face watching Bull Pain work the crowd at the WOMEN'S PRISON:
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On 10/2/2021 at 6:48 PM, odessasteps said:
According to mark evaniers blog, there is now a Kino Lorner streaming service. Did I miss someone mentioning that?
kinonow dot com
Kino Now has been around for a couple of years as a VOD service.
What launched this past weekend was KINO CULT, which focuses exclusively on the horror/action/sci-fi/cult film side of their catalog. It is ad-supported, I havent had a chance to watch anything yet but hoping its more like Tubi and Roku Channel where its only 5 or 6 ad breaks per movie and they are all done at scene breaks and not the Crackle "4 minutes of ads every 10 minutes whether there's a proper scene break or not", though most ad-supported stuff seems to be the former these days.
Overall collection looks decent, not super large but every press release I saw noted that more movies will be added monthly, though you can also tell its mostly movies that they have probably made the money KL is going to make on physical Blu-ray sales already.
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6 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
Hmm. I reviewed my likes, and my closest guess is maybe because I liked a bunch of Proud N Powerful related stuff after Grand Slam last week
I'll still take one DM from Konnan plugging the podcast over the 300 Likes/Retweets from Paul Heyman Bot and Sock accounts blowing up my notifications after I made the mistake of tagging the HeymanHustle account in a post about one of his old magazines.
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2 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:
This is very random, but has anyone else here gotten a Twitter DM from Konnan? My phone went off at 2:30 this morning, and it's fucking K-Dawg asking "Do u listen to my podcast"
Did you mention him in a Twitter post or like a post from someone else that tagged his account? That happened to me recently after I posted about a Between The Sheets episode that was going over WWF House Show results from 1992 and it got revealed that Konnan wrestled frigging Pete Doherty at one of the Cape Cod Melody Tent house shows.
I got the same exact "do you listen to my podcast?" DM within the next 24 hours, I wouldn't be surprised if his social media managers just vanity-search and send those to anyone that tags him in a post.
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Bootleggy nonsense I stumbled across on eBay but this is the damn best bootleggy nonsense I have ever seen and I would love to see a legit beltmaker take a go at this one.
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I just watched AFTER HOURS for the first time a couple of months back and I am really happy I didn't see it during my teenage years because that movie would have scared me off from going out after 10PM more than any horror or slasher pic.
Last night I watched RIDERS OF JUSTICE starring Mads Mikkelsen on Hulu. Do not be fooled by the generic Americanized cover art and film title. It is an incredibly wonderful and twisted take on the revenge flick, and I am going to leave it at that because it is one of those flicks where the less you know going in, the better.
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There is the infamous late '80s vanity action flick, "Miami Connection," which has an opening establishing scene and a finale in Miami, but the middle three-quarters actually take place in Orlando. That's like the movie version of Mr. Atlanta hailing from Parts Unknown.
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February 2022 - Professional Wrestling Omnibus Discussion
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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My favorite all-time hometown introduction is still the tag team of Sting and Eddie Gilbert:
Sting - from "Every Man's Nightmare"
Eddie Gilbert - from "Every Woman's Dream"