RIPPA Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Because of the snow day that many of us are getting today. I have no shame. Of course... I am also remembering how indifferent I am to Al Snow's work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Ya think if I beat the shit out of Al Snow in Firepro today I'll feel a little bit better about this weather? Shoveling snow sucks, and shoveling snow in an air cast from the black ice ankle sprain I suffered Monday is even worse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 My YouTube skills are failing to find the ecw Voldemort match, but it's easily Snow's best imo. EDIT: I need to just stop typing on my phone, ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 http://youtu.be/jfE4gBzDCwU This really is like the most ECW-ish "match" ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 In the early 90's Snow and Sabu had approximately 150,000 matches in Ohio. This is one of them. (It's in four parts, but I'll have mercy on the folks with slower computers and only post part 1.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Snow was such a great talker in Smoky Mountain. It wasn't a promo until he cracked Unabomb up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Snow was such a great talker in Smoky Mountain. It wasn't a promo until he cracked Unabomb up. And to think he probably wouldn't have even gotten a shot if Eddie Gilbert hadn't been... well, Eddie Gilbert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 It's a snow day. I have to shovel. All I'll say is that I really liked that sit down urrrriiiiinnaaaggeee right into a wheelbarrow reverse powerbomb spot that he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 One of my childhood friends named one of the wrestlers in his action figure fantasy league "Shinobi" (in reference to Al Snow's one-off stint as Shinobi). I also recall that it seemed surprising that Snow didn't beat Shane Douglas in 1998, but they were calling him back to the WWF to do... essentially not much, in all reality. Pretty much most of Al Snow's real value in the WWF was with Steve Blackman, and I can't recall him really doing much worthwhile after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 How is Snow as a trainer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 He trained Maven. What more could you ask of the man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Al Snow was so weird. He did a lot of really fun things like Smokey Mountain and The New Rockers. Loved his match in ECW vs. Benoit. But the ECW Head stuff was ugh. His WWF stuff after was also so bland, although I sort of did like Head Cheese.What an up and down career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 The first minute of this video is just a parade of facepalms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Also, who ever thought the gimmick of 'a 5 star ninja' wouldn't be a rocket to the moon should have been fired. Also Tajiri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 The first minute of this video is just a parade of facepalms. Isn't there an Aldo/Avatar vs. Head Hunters match out there? I looked on Youtube and Dailymotion, with no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Al Snow was so weird. He did a lot of really fun things like Smokey Mountain and The New Rockers. Loved his match in ECW vs. Benoit. But the ECW Head stuff was ugh. His WWF stuff after was also so bland, although I sort of did like Head Cheese. What an up and down career. That's kinda how I feel. Snow's obviously a smart guy, clearly knows more about wrestling than we ever will, and explicitly puts more passion and effort into his work than just about anybody. Yet the results were a big pile of meh, more often than not. Admittedly a lot of that is due to horrible booking; you could've stuck Johhny Valentine and The Destroyer into that Kennel From Hell match and it still would've been the lamest thing ever. But things like his little heel run against Foley in '99 should've been way more fun than they actually were. One thing I think turns people off Snow is how legitimately angry and hostile he often seems whenever he's not doing comedy. He's got that sort of "WHY WON'T ANYONE LISTEN TO ME, I SPEAK THE GOSPEL TRUTH!" fanatical quality that drives away listeners regardless of the content of his message. Especially in that infamous shoot interview where he insists that there's only one "pop" on any wrestling show; I get his meaning, he's talking about that one moment in the night where the crowd loves something SO much that nothing can possibly follow it, but he kept insisting on his own hair-splitting semantics and it made everyone dismiss his point entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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