hammerva Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 Great new Table for 3 with Regal, Shemaus, and Bad News Barrett. Lots of really good stories. Love that apparently the music they play while you wait on the phone at WWE headquarters (or some office) is Regal's Mans Man entrance 1
Cristobal Posted November 11, 2015 Posted November 11, 2015 I want to watch that and then rewatch it to see how the poor closed captioning guy managed.
NikoBaltimore Posted November 12, 2015 Posted November 12, 2015 Much like the ESPN special, it sounds like he's yet again showing how awesome he is but is unfortunately saddled with what he's doing on TV. There's still a chance to see him just be him and it'll be grand. But time's ticking and gimmick's like the party pooper won't help his case. But it sounds like I should check this out, sounds like a good one.
Josh Mann Posted November 14, 2015 Posted November 14, 2015 Rose will make the move to being a full-time TV head sooner than later. The host thing really suits him. 1
lovchunky Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Fall Brawl 93 is pretty terrible. Where does Yoshi Kwan rank on the list of all-time racist gimmicks?
CSC Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Wow - never caught how strange it was with Roddy Piper on commentary pointing out that Dean Hart died the day before Survivor Series 1990, and then two minutes later Ted Dibiase introduces The Undertaker. Anyways, love the Network for times like this where I come on to watch a Table for 3 and get totally sucked in to a 25 year old PPV. 1
PetrolCB Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 The Network wormhole works in mysterious ways.
cwoy2j Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Fall Brawl 93 is pretty terrible. Where does Yoshi Kwan rank on the list of all-time racist gimmicks? I have no clue how you can have Rick Rude and Ric Flair work together and somehow come up with not only a boring match but an all-around boring angle. And whose bright idea was it to have Arn and Roma go 20+ minutes with the Nasty Boys?
Brian Fowler Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Late 93, WCW became convinced that 20 minute formula tags were a great use of the Nasty Boys. The one against Sting and Hawk at Starcade is particularly brutally bad.
PetrolCB Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 They weren't even being pushed by Hogan yet. THAT'S how bad it was. The only good thing the Nasty's did in WCW was kicking the shit out of/getting beat up by Cactus/Payne. God, the matches those four had were brutal.
PetrolCB Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Watching the Foley/Rock RR '99 match since I hadn't seen it in a while. I know it's been discussed to death; but, god damn it, how in the fuck did Mick keep going during that chairshot blitzkrieg? Is it that boxing brain callous that abled him to stay on his feet or is he just super human/stupid? Either way, probably both, it's disturbing.
JonnyLaw Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Wow I admit I was a pretty big Yoshi Kwan fan as a kid. I haven't seen him since until now, and holy shit, I feel stupid now.
Infinit Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 You would think a member of the New Breed would've known how idiotic that gimmick would seem to people in the future. 1
The Nature Boy Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 You would think a member of the New Breed would've known how idiotic that gimmick would seem to people in the future. He saw a future where he languished in obscurity so he sought to change that.
odessasteps Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 That might not even be champions worst gimmick.
Cristobal Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Wow I admit I was a pretty big Yoshi Kwan fan as a kid. I haven't seen him since until now, and holy shit, I feel stupid now. I didn't watch much WCW in that period, so I missed it. I went into that thinking, "Oh come on, it's wrestling. This won't even be in the top 50 of racist gimmicks," and I start watching and it's "Ok, that music is about what I was expecting...that costume...and he's walking like he's a frat boy coming out of a Bruce Lee movie...ok, this is kinda bad. I assume he'll be masked to hide his non-Asianness...oh dear God. They didn't. Jesus fuck he's got Ming the Merciless eyebrows. Yeah, ok, this is pretty goddamned racist."
cwoy2j Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 That's not a bad looking submission hold though. Looks pretty vicious. Maybe would be better if it was a claw instead of a generic "nerve hold".
Cristobal Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 Yeah but Jesse comparing it to a Vulcan neck pinch while he's got "Hollywood Asian" makeup on just makes a bad thing worse.
Technico Support Posted November 16, 2015 Posted November 16, 2015 That might not even be champions worst gimmick. Yeah, when you've worked a Nazi gimmick, "shitty Asian stereotype" isn't so bad.
PetrolCB Posted November 17, 2015 Posted November 17, 2015 The newest episode of JBL's show about Taker was really good. I can't wait for part two.
Uncle Coaster Posted November 17, 2015 Posted November 17, 2015 The idea that it's been a longer period of time since Austin retired than the amount of time from Undertaker's WWE debut to Austin's retirement made me feel really old. Also, I never heard the WrestleMania 25 story before about Undertaker asking Michael Hayes where they were in the lineup. That makes the match that much better to me.
cwoy2j Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 The idea that it's been a longer period of time since Austin retired than the amount of time from Undertaker's WWE debut to Austin's retirement made me feel really old. Also, I never heard the WrestleMania 25 story before about Undertaker asking Michael Hayes where they were in the lineup. That makes the match that much better to me. I was watching the Brain Busters/Demolition match where the Busters won the titles and realized that I'm about a year older than Tully Blanchard was in that match. That made me feel super old.
Cristobal Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 The only member of the WCW version of the Dangerous Alliance that was older at the time than I am now was Zbyzsko.
AxB Posted November 19, 2015 Posted November 19, 2015 If someone wanted to start watching NXT, what's a good place to start? Like how far back should you go? I watched the oldest episode on the Network which had Adrian Neville vs Corey Graves and his ridiculous skinny jeans as the main event. It was alright, but the crowd wasn't that into it. Also, how do you have a guy called Aiden English, and a guy called Adrian who is English on the same show? That would be like Sha Samuels feuding with Samuel Shaw.
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