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In honor of his passing, this if my favourite non-Foley Terry Funk story, taken from Bruce Hart's autobiography 'Straight From the Hart': Bruce, Bret and Dean Hart travel down to Texas to work with Dory, only to find him away but are told that his younger brother Terry would look after them
"Terry said he had an angle in mind, which entailed me pretending to be a mark in the crowd and running into the ring on the finish to save the local hero Dick Murdoch. Murdoch would be caught in the Russian sleeper hold, being applied by the dastardly Boris Malenko - their top heel.
I told Terry I'd be happy to give it a shot. Since I was supposed to appear to be a "mark", Terry didn't want us to be seen getting out of his car or walking in with him , so he dropped us off what he said was a block or so from the buildnig - which proved to be a mile or two. When we finally made it to the arena and sat down ringside and proceeded to play our roles - hardcore mark types - booing, cheering and whatnot, our actions seemed to rub some of the rednecks we were sitting near the wrong way and we almost got into a fight or two with them.
During the main event, when Malenko gos hist dreaded Russian sleeper hold on Murdoch, I slid under the bottom rope and jumped on Malenko's back, piggyback style.
I should note that I'd never met either Malenko or Murdoch before this and I sensed something was wron, as Malenko tensed up and I heard him telling Murdoch "some fucking mark just jumped on my back." He then gave me a stiff head mare on the mat. As I was laying on the mat, I saw him wrapping the chain around his fist and drawing back to clobber me with it. Wide-eyed and scared shitless I began shouting, "Kayfabe, kayfabe", which is the wrestler's way of letting the other guy know that you're not a mark. He looked at me, kind of perplexed and I shouted, "Terry Funk told me to run in on the finish." Malenko and Murdoch looked at each other, puzzled and Murdoc then snarled, "That fucking Terry and his ribs."
At that point, I suddenly found myself surrounded by cops, who handcuffed me and dragged my ass out of the ring. They threw me in the back of their police cruiser and i was contemplating having to spend the night in a southern jail - which, based on movied I'd seen, was nothing to look forward to.
My spirits brightened mometarily when I saw Terry Funk come out the back door of the arenaa and approach the police cruiser. I figured that he'd tell the cops everything was cool, but he instead launched into an Academy Award-deserving rant about how I'd endangered the safety of thousands of fans, beseeching the cops to lcok me up and throw the keys away. He then stormed away in a huff, making out to be incenesed and leaving me to ponder how I was going to get my ass out of this thing."
Eventually Lord Alfred Hayes talked the cops into letting Bruce go, and he says he and Terry laughed about the incident and became good friends.
RIP Terry Funk
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1 hour ago, Peck said:
I was really surprised to hear Trish use the term "frog" tonight towards the Quebec fans. I was always under the impression that was an ethnic slur. I've worked in the pro hockey ranks for almost 25 years and I definitely know a few guys who have gotten suspended for calling someone that over that period of time.
Perhaps there's some French-Canadians on the board who can enlighten me?
I thought the same, but then I was just rewatching a 'Kitchen Nightmares' (the UK one) and Gordon Ramsay talking about this all-French kitchen staff by saying: "I need to turn this kitchen of frogs into princes" so apparently it's not a strictly-enforced ethnic slur?!
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2 hours ago, Godfrey said:
Drive around southern Ontario and you'll find rednecks here too, the kind that think Trudeau is a communist for not being racist enough. Don't get them mixed up with the finance dudes who like to buy F150s and pretend they're rednecks as an excuse to be racist
Saw a pickup truck today parked with one tire on the sidewalk in BC, needless to say: two MASSIVE "Fuck Trudeau" stickers on the back of that window.
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3 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
It still baffles me how Page finally got over. Here's this ex-manager washup, too old, ugly, had a bad gimmick the first time around, and yet he becomes an underdog hero. I myself was an enormous fan! Was it really just the Diamond Cutter? I mean a cooler version of the most popular move in wrestling can do a lot, but it's crazy that it could revive and in fact make a guy's entire career.
"He lives his gimmick, brother"
-Abdullah the Butcher
There's a story in Mick Foley's book where he talked about DDP working really hard and how one day Abdullah looked at Foley and said that DDP was going to be a big star and when Foley asked incredously "Dallas?", Abdullah uttered the above.But I do think there's something to that, you can see a lot of guys who were big athletes but not really used to being the center of attention outside of athletics and have no idea how to portray that, Foley talks about how DDP loved cheesy lines like when security guards asked how he was doing he'd say something like "Lady, I'm doing so good, I'd have to be twins to get any better". It lead to so many incerdibly cheesy lines ("Self high five" or that great story where he wanted his heel opponent to praise how good-looking and talented he was) but he felt...genuine in his delivery of it.
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I'm only a casual NFL fan but I kind of adore NFL pre-season. I especially like hearing the regional NFL announcers and their special guests. My three faves so-far:
-The Seattle crew which consisted of their usual announcer, a former Seahawk and a current Seahawk coach and they spend the entire time talking about the Seahawks, referring to the players by their first names and cheering for them with phrases like "I told him! I told him to do that!" and you wouldn't have known therefore two teams playing judging by the commentary and then it abruptly cuts out with a loud crack before you hear this super-serious, super-polished broadcaster voice and he says something like "Due to technical dificulties, we have lost the Seahawk broadcast"
-I can't remember which game it was but the guest commentator had this boisterous, hoarse PE teacher voice repeatedly shouting about "smash mouth football". And the pbp guy seemed to really enjoy breaking his balls and started reading tweets about him: Mina Kimes says she loves hearing your dulcet tones and he laughed and said "I dunno about dulcet" and then the Pbp goes " Another tweet asks if you swallowed a hotdog while you were calling the game" and he kind of chuckles sadly
-One of the guys in the Giants game last night who just HATED rookies. Every time there was a bad play he'd blame it on a rookie. He'd make comments like "The coaching staff told me he's improved his footwork so if it's still that bad, that should tell you how bad he was!" and " Well that's the problem with playing rookies! "
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1 hour ago, odessasteps said:
When I see it written this way. I imagine a death match between Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz.
I think we already have a winner in that one...
I'm so sorry
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1 hour ago, John from Cincinnati said:
Well hold on now. Us entitled rasslin fans need to appreciate that they only have five linear channels and people are dying to see the Roughriders or whoever the fuck on all of them.
This drives me bananas. Why are there 5 or so different channels that 80-90% of the time all show the same thing!?
The worst though, as a non-baseball guy, is when the Blue Jays are in the playoffs and it's on all but one channel, and you make the specific choice to watch that one non-Jays channel and then they cut in with Blue Jays highlights like "Hey maybe you didn't NOTICE are other four channels but the Blue Jays are playing!" ( I'm sure they do this with the Leafs too but I am a hockey guy so I've never noticed!)
44 minutes ago, odessasteps said:Which one, the Roughriders or the Rough Riders?
(I just realized the CFL talk here will not be the same minus our beloved leader.)
There's only one Roughriders now!
But definitely agreed on the latter!
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13 minutes ago, John from Cincinnati said:
Wonder if TK has heard what people think about his Canadian TV partner jacking them around with his new A-show.
Them showing all the Canadian=based shows then pulling it after they got back to the States irked me even more than if they had just said "We don't have the airtime" and never shown it at all.
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I still maintain Dana Brooke could have worked out but her NXT stay was way too short. She was a heat magnet with that weird armpit rubbing flex she did and she's obviously ridiculously athletic (that flip thing she does (did?) in her entrance was super impressive). But she was just starting to lean into a muscular heel bully role in NXT and get a little less clumsy in the ring when they nonsensically rushed her to Raw to be Alexa Bliss's muscle. This was set up to fail as Brooke wasn't experienced enough or noteworthy enough to be seen as a big deal. Coupled with the fact that women like Charlotte and Nia Jax dwarfed her which kinda negated the muscle part. I thinking she'd been given another 6 months or so in NXT she might have turned out well.
Evans is somewhat similar though she had more charisma than Brooke. She was pushed too far, too hard, too fast (Those endless appearances where she strutted to the ring in weird millennial updates of old-fashioned Southern clothing, while they played her annoying theme and Michael Cole repeatedly yelled "THE SASSY SOUTHERN BELLE!" haunt me!). Like when she was shoehorned into that feud with Rollins/Becky by wearing Rollins name on her tights but she had neither the stature not the ability to be at that level. But I still think the natural thing to do was just go "She's a mom, she's a vet, U-S-A! U-S-A!" and the crowd would have cheered and you could have more talented heels look down on her and basically play her as the female John Cena: cheesy but still kind of cheerable.
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7 minutes ago, Matt D said:
My one big regret is that JR didn’t announce Jarrett vs Hardy
You would either get grumpy old JR mocking it as it went along or game JR trying to explain it as it went along and failing. Either option would have been amazing.
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I hated this show. Hated it.
Cassidy-Yuta was fine. You knew full well where it was going.
Omega's interview was pretty silly, and then he gets attacked by two guys who have absolutely nothing to do with him in AEW, just so they can shoehorn in a nonsensical multi-man match. This smacks of when WWE comes up on Survivor Series and teams would randomly attack other guys so they could put them in a multi-man match with no real backstory.
Jericho-Callis was just long and stupid. So Jericho agrees to join Callis because he's a mastermind, but said mastermind already had a photo set up because he didn't think he would join? Then why go out there? To set Jericho up to get beat up by Ospreay...you could have saved us many weeks of shitty segments if he had just beat him up to begin with?! Plus, Callis was just going to walk away with Jericho after all? So did he want him to join the group or not?! Was he trying to trick Jericho into thinking he wanted him in the group so he could be blindsided by Ospreay? Or did he actually want him in the group and was just going to text Ospreay "nm" after Jericho joined the group? And then Jericho berates Callis for being an idiot and a scumbag for like two minutes...two minutes after agreeing to join up with him? Is this supposed to make me want to cheer Jericho? Because he is ostensibly the face in this match, right? So, you're telling me the guy who formed group to worship him, betrayed said group, then agrees to join the most hated man in the company (No, not Punk), then turns around and berates him..that's the guy I'm supposed to cheer for? This is the worst, most poorly-executed AEW storyline in a long time. Just bafflingly, stupendously bad storytelling that makes everyone involved look incredibly stupid.
Darby/Allin-GOA was fine. Darby's stuff is always almost great. Sting's kidnapping of Nana was fine. Did Sting genuinely forget the date of the show or was that scripted? That was weird.
Speaking of bad, who did Roderick Strong tick off to get where he is today? I wonder if he would have stayed on as Diamond Mine's overbearing boss rather than be turned into the whiny, neck-brace-wearing cast-aside who INJURES his foot kicking the tire of the ferrari his best friend was driving. MJF's promo was okay but this whole thing mostly sucked, too.
The Texas Chainsaw match was one of the worst things I've seen. Probably the worst AEW match, maybe ever. It's like when WWE does those Christmas or Halloween hardcore matches where people meander along and get hit with wrapped cardboard boxes, except those usually have one great spot like someone being thrown into a Christmas Tree or something. This just had guys standing aroudn, meandering waiting to get hit and an ending that made Robocop's apperance look good. (So Jarrett says he has an in with Leatherface is really stupid, and Leatherface coming out is really stupid, and chasing off Karen Jarrett is really stupid but in the stupidest part of all, somehow this distracts everyone except Jarrett who wins the match!). I wish I had two more hands, so I could give this four thumbs down.
Baker-Bunny was okay. I think Bunny and her entourage would have freshened up the 4-way way more than Baker but AEW is going to shoehorn their top guys and gals on that UK show whether it works or not. Excalibur trying to get Baker over as a dentist when it failed once is really funny. Remember when she was first pushed as the face/ace of the women's division and JR would blather on endlessly about Baker's dentist credentials as if everyone is going "Man, I love dentists! She's kind of a mediocre wrestler, but her being a dentist changes my mind entirely!" Also, AEW taking Rebel away from Britt because she's a face is the kind of bad booking WWE is known for (Like Smilin' Brock Lesnar). I notice I'm mentioning WWE a lot here and that's cuz this was like a bad Raw. Like a bad, Anonymous GM-era Raw(And I kind of liked the Anonymous GM for a while!).
Bucks-Gunns was whatever. The Gunns are much more interesting than most of the teams above them. AEW almost needs US Tag Team Titles, really. FTR helping the Bucks overcome the odds is a plot point I feel AEW have done a hundred times. WWE likes to put their main eventers on the same team and win the tag titles and fight over it. AEW likes to have tag teams who are feuding help each other out because of "RESPECT".
Man, do I miss Collision (I am no paying TSN extra money to watch it though)
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29 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
I remember being so confused by this angle as #1. I had no idea Gary Spivey was a real person (Well as real as a TV psychic can be!). #2. Why he seemed to have a tennis ball on his head and #3. How this whole thing was going to tie into Danny Spivey (whom I had only seen once or twice and thought was amazing) because they wouldn't introduce a character with the same unusual last name as a wrestler and not draw attention to it.
Also, a quick Google finds he is still alive, still working as a psychic and his "hair" has gotten even more ridiculous
https://garyspivey.com/about/-
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On 8/9/2023 at 6:26 AM, hammerva said:
Just playing conspiracy theorist here but do you think the reason why they did the Barber Shop angle on the breakup with the Rockers happened because someone (probably Shawn) knew that before that Shawn threw Marty through a window in a shoot drunken fight and then got his ass kicked.
The video of Marty in India driving a police motorcycle into a damn hotel and hitting people is just insane. Like there is no way you can do that now without spending years in jail no matter the company or the star. Also this is clearly the new worst thing he ever did near a hotel waterfall.
I REALLY want to know who yelled "High spot!" when Jannetty crashes into those guys with the bike and knocks one into the fountain.
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19 hours ago, Casey said:
according to Fightful, Orange Cassidy is now a producer/agent as well as a full time roster member.
Workhorse.
Apparently one of the matches he produced was that sweet Big Bill/Cage vs Trent/Sydal match
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I actually do think, even as a not-so-much-a-fan-of-the-Bucks, that the Bucks would blow WWE audiences away. I know a good portion of WWE fans know them, but I think the first time the Buck did that thing where one of them hits the one guy with the move then backflips through the ropes onto the apron and flips onto the guy at ringside (or any of their other big moves) that the WWE Universe (yeah I went there!) would be BLOWN AWAY. Kinda like my favourite moment when they brough Tajiri in as Regal's bodyguard whatever and his first match he just busted out his standard ECW offence and the crowd was FLABBERGASTED.
I'm not sure how long or sustained their push would be: I could see someone(...cough Vince) get their dander up about guys who are so small going over strong andI could also see some guys getting annoyed with them. But I could also see them puting their ego aside for the last big payday of their lives, doing a few years and a few tag reigns in WWE before a Reunion Tour in AEW or settling down and doing something in California.
Roman Reigns hiring "the best tag team in the world" to take out "the best tag team in the world" would be pretty interesting to say the least. As would Cody and the Bucks vs. the Bloodline
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I don't dislike the MJF and Cole stuff (Though I do not like it NEARLY as much as some of you...) but I do feel it's kind of a waste of your World Champion. I guess if you're AEW, you're going to have to weigh whether ticking the crowd off in the short term by having MJF turn on Cole, or making Cole the biggest heel in the company by having him turn on MJF just after he'd won him over is the better choice. Because if you keep them together (Which is CLEARLY what the crowd wants), you're kind of stuck with a goofy dance-off world champion because you can't really get the belt off him and keep MJF as Cole's goofy buddy. The biggest loser out of this whole angle is Roderick Strong, who looks like a complete dork following Cole around in a neckbrace and going "What is going ON?!" while not actually caring so much about the guy who put him in the neckbrace.
B&G was okayish. A little too deatmatch-y for me. I thought the order of the competitors made no sense after Kenny/Claudio (The guy who wrestles long matches vs the kind of cardio), and, of course, Ibushi at the end. I like Takeshita (Though I liked him better as underdog young guy better) but him coming in as the last guy didn't really do much for me. Didn't care for the walk-outs either. Not sure how Pac goes from full of rage to take out the Elite after so many months off to "Eh, I'm out of rage and don't feel like being told what to do" in one week's time except for it needing to be done to build up the ROH PPV that they may or may not have forgotten about. I almost feel like they should've just delayed the match a few weeks (or whatever) and waited for Kingston and Danielson because it would have been a way better match with those two and subtracting the two who really had nothing to do with the feud.
I liked Perry-Hook, but it seemed almost like AEW forgot about Hook's win streak because it was a rather lame way for it to end (belt shot) and Excalibur added almost as an afterthought "And ended Hook's undefeated streak". I like Perry's new classical theme but he almost should have just stolen WALTER's, he can't use it anymore. I think he also needs to be Hollywood-ed up a bit more. Maybe involving a limo in his entrance, put Anna Jay on his arm. Also a Mr. Hughes-style bodyguard...hey you know, he is still alive!
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I'm probably the least-enthused FTR fan on the board and even I have to concede that's the MOTW
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On 7/12/2023 at 4:44 PM, Cobra Commander said:
- Good Friends Better Enemies: the non-match with the Warrior
Speaking of Mandela Effect, did Warrior put Goldusts wig on and run around with it? Or am I conflating it with Goldberg and the wig?
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8 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
IT'S FUCKING REAL.
Disney is usually super cool with letting their intellectual property be used in unauthorized ways, so he's probably fine.
To be fair, do you think Disney can honestly prove that it's NOT Brian Knobbs?!
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19 hours ago, Hoffman said:
I always loved the newspaper misspellings. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1987 gave us wrestling results from Brad Hart, Bingo Warrior, Cowboy Bob Gordon, and Rockin' Robin somehow became Rockin' Lilly.
I saw one last year that proudly trumpeted an appearance by Seth "Franklin" Rollins.
Which both makes me laugh thinking about a wrestler looking for a tough nickname and somehow settling on "Franklin" and also the idea of Seth Rollins having a Franklin puppet a la Arrested Development
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Of all the AEW this week, so far, I probably enjoyed Big Bill/Cage vs Trent/Sydal. It was basically a squash with the occasional hope spot, then built to a 'do they have a chance small guys vs big guys'-match back into a big squash ending and a very hot crowd.
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19 minutes ago, Eivion said:
Only disappointment I had was Gable never explaining why he wanted to see his brother get his ass kicked.
Brother? They have different last names!
That match was great. Mean, stiff, felt like a genuine fight. Best Thorpe has looked, now he just kind of needs a gimmick outside of earnest guy who works hard. Kemp is always good, despite never really winning his big matches. I half-expected a Kemp/Steveson tag team. Steveson was good in the corner, but looked like a doofus wearing his medal. The guy randomly getting into the ring to fondle his medal was even sillier.
I figured out what my problem with Jacey Jayne is and that's that she's basically playing a hybrid of Tiffany Stratton (Pretty girl who brags about her looks) and Cora Jade (mean girl) but isn't as good at it as either of them. She needs some sort of hook: evil witch, vegengeful vegan, pirate...
I missed the last stretch except the end of Creeds/Dyad. Is the guy in the mask just Gacy? Or are they introducing someone else into it?
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There's a really fun Katana Chance-Emma match on Main Event this week which is fun because Katana Chance is so small that Emma gets to be Scott Hall, They talk about Emma being disenchanted with the new crop of superstars not respecting her and she wrestles that way, bullying Chance as if she's WCW-era Rey Mysterio. Lots of disrespectful-looking kicks and Emma busting out offence you never see (A wheelbarrow suplex) and Chance cutting her off with some pretty spectaculr high-spots (A handstand on the ropes into a headscissors! A standing shooting star press off of Emma's back!).. Ending is a little abrupt but Chance's 360 Codebreaker is pretty nuts.
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Jinder Mahal's transformation was pretty nuts.
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AEW TV - 8/23 - 8/29/2023
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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I really wanted Darby to go "I owe this man everything" while Nick Wayne shouted over his shoulder "Hey, I don't agree with this!" "Those two guys just beat the shit out of me, I am not down with this." "Seriously he just threw a tanktop with my blood on it -that he is somehow still wearing- at my mom, I don't think he's a good guy!"
Seems like they could have just had someone "injure" AR Fox as payback for going after Nick Wayne's mom, or something, then bring him back after they get back stateside. I hope I'm wrong, but this kind of felt like writing AR Fox out of AEW more than writing him out of All In.