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10 hours ago, Ryan said:

If Flair thinks he spoke to God while in a coma, someone needs to get him off whatever crazy pills he's taking because he'll be running for office soon enough at this rate.

So he was talking to himself???

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5 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:

It’s hard not to. The gifs, and parody videos were everywhere. That interview did him no favors. Those Stone Cold podcasts did nobody any favors whatsoever really. 

I always thought it was bullshit that Ambrose took the heat for that. 

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12 hours ago, mattdangerously said:

The Rock clowned on everyone, and most of them ended up doing fine. If Gunn couldn't overcome one promo, then maybe it's because he was never going to be a singles star. There's no shame in being a Stan Lane.

Billy never said anything bad about the Rock after leaving WWE. He said it felt like Triple H was trying to kill him off. In the Summerslam build up, Billy got the best of the Rock most weeks. I think that was the key to why the Rock worked, He would bury you on the mic, but was giving in the ring. Billy said he was more than happy to be back together with Road Dogg and out of the shark tank. 

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19 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:

And that local indy sounds awful but if it helps I feel your pain. 

They usually put on good shows, but that last one was miserable. For what its worth the regulars were not too mad about it. 

Also I have closed the door on AEW, every promotion has growing pains. I really want a second successful wrestling promotion. Its better for the long term health of wrestling and making sure it exists for new generations. 

I did see Moxley's debut and he looked great and Jim Ross sounded 20 years younger. 

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5 hours ago, Bustronaut said:

When did people realize that Randy Savage's gimmick was a Nature Boy/Gorgeous George knock-off?

To be fair, it was Gorgeous George vis a vis Ali that Savage was doing (he was a Memphis guy after all). Still, rip-off or not, Savage took bits and pieces from greats in wrestling and made them his own. He carried himself like Nick Bockwinkel, talked like Buddy Rogers on coke, and dressed like Gorgeous George all the while wrestling with an attention to detail that few have ever mastered. Calling him a knock-off seems a bit harsh.

 

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It's true, knock-off is harsh.  It's Gorgeous George by way of the 1970s version of masculinity, taking the Village People song and making it whole.  It was an incredible canny idea that likely only a wrestling kid could have come up with.

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The thing about Randy Savage's gimmick is, it's very hard for anyone else to take influence from it. There's nobody who is a bit like Randy Savage. They're either a tribute (Black Machismo Jay Lethal), a copy (Bad Bones' new The Badness John Klinger act), or it would never enter your head to compare them (Eddie Edwards and Killer Cross are both crazy psychos right now; Neither of them is anything like Randy Savage).

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