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Kentucky Shark posted:That's a pretty special circumstance though...Michaels can get heel heat in Canada without much effort. I also remember the MSG crowd booing him pretty heavily at WM 20. Other than that, he's been a pretty permanent face since he came back from his back injury. It's just hard to boo a guy who is still the best overall performer in the company even after he had a near-career ending injury. Eh, you're not wrong, I guess it's less "Shawn can still pull off being a heel" as it is "Shawn can pull off being a tremendous tremendous dick" which doesn't always get booed.
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Perry posted:Thank you all, that cleared a lot of things up. Here's Vince McMahon to play me out. For reasons unknown, I feel like I just read a really dirty joke.
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reality_groove posted:Thanks! Look excited and look like you're about to ring the bell for every nearfall.
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Nov 25, 2009 22:45
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HulkaMatt posted:Look excited and look like you're about to ring the bell for every nearfall. Hope Kane doesn't get mad about anything.
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HulkaMatt posted:Look excited and look like you're about to ring the bell for every nearfall. Also keep the time in time-limit matches. Or any match where they put in "rounds" for some reason.
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Nov 25, 2009 23:10
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HulkaMatt posted:Look excited and look like you're about to ring the bell for every nearfall. Accept that in the order of people to be thrown around by monster heels, you're above the cameraman, but still below announcers, even Cole. Also, remember that when a wrestler asks for your chair (or your tiny, deadly hammer) that he isn't really asking.
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HulkaMatt posted:Look excited and look like you're about to ring the bell for every nearfall. Like this? 
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You'll also once in a while get your head loving kicked off by Shawn Michaels.
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apsouthern posted:Like this? Are you telling me there's a separate, microphoneless timekeeper's bell for use in matches?
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apsouthern posted:Like this? Look. You know drat well they get that poo poo wrong.
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Kentucky Shark posted:That's a pretty special circumstance though...Michaels can get heel heat in Canada without much effort. I also remember the MSG crowd booing him pretty heavily at WM 20. Other than that, he's been a pretty permanent face since he came back from his back injury. It's just hard to boo a guy who is still the best overall performer in the company even after he had a near-career ending injury. Everyone always talks about HBK's Bret Hart promo in Canada and rightly so. But there was two other awesome heel promos that Shawn did in the same month that people seem to have forgotten about. In one of them, in a debate format, Shawn completely destroyed Hogan on the mic directly to his face. He was downright vicious and came out as if he was trying to bury Hogan's real life character. It should be remembered more than their Summerslam match with Shawn's overselling, but for some reason it isn't. It's a shame I can't find it on youtube. I might have to put it on there one day. Shawn would have no problem at all with getting heel heat anywhere if he really wanted to be a heel. some bust on that guy fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Nov 26, 2009 |
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CarlCX posted:When you've been a veteran/legend for that long and you're still around, at a certain point, it becomes awful hard to make fans boo you. Kane heat?
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Something just occurred to me about Sheamus and his title shot. When was the last time there was a number one contender in a PPV main event that doesn't have a t-shirt or any merchandise?
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Grant DaNasty posted:Something just occurred to me about Sheamus and his title shot. When was the last time there was a number one contender in a PPV main event that doesn't have a t-shirt or any merchandise? Off the top of my head-Umaga?
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Grant DaNasty posted:Something just occurred to me about Sheamus and his title shot. When was the last time there was a number one contender in a PPV main event that doesn't have a t-shirt or any merchandise? Bob Holly? Faarooq?
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Farooq, Bob Holly, and Umaga all had at least action figures before they got title shots. Farooq's title shot was at King of the Ring 1997. He blamed the loss on the Nation of Domination and he fired Clarence, Crush, and Savio, so this toy set was from before his title shot.  Bob Holly's title shot was at Royal Rumble 2004. This action figure was from 1999.  Umaga's title shot was at Royal Rumble 2007. This action figure is from Cyber Sunday 2006 because he had his "Samoa" tattoo by Cyber Sunday 2007. Yes I'm very bored. Grant DaNasty fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Nov 26, 2009 |
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Capsaicin posted:When did Farooq Asad get a title shot? King of the Ring 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Ring#1997
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From the CM Punk promo on Monday I have to admit that I might actually be living under a rock or just behind on the times or something, so I ask, how prominent is the Straight Edge lifestyle in the US?
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The Cosby Mysteries posted:From the CM Punk promo on Monday I have to admit that I might actually be living under a rock or just behind on the times or something, so I ask, how prominent is the Straight Edge lifestyle in the US? it's a small subset of hardcore kids, like it always was. when other people abstain from substances etc, it's just called "being uptight"
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Meat Recital posted:Are you telling me there's a separate, microphoneless timekeeper's bell for use in matches? To add; It has a sticker on it that says "Title". That implies to me that there is a SEPERATE bell for title and non-title matches. Title-match bell is holding Non-title-match bell down.
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SiKboy posted:To add; It has a sticker on it that says "Title". That implies to me that there is a SEPERATE bell for title and non-title matches. Title-match bell is holding Non-title-match bell down. Whatever could be the reason for having two seperate bells?
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SiKboy posted:To add; It has a sticker on it that says "Title". That implies to me that there is a SEPERATE bell for title and non-title matches. Title-match bell is holding Non-title-match bell down. Title-match bell is the HHH/John Cena of ring bells. I knew it!
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SiKboy posted:To add; It has a sticker on it that says "Title". That implies to me that there is a SEPERATE bell for title and non-title matches. Title-match bell is holding Non-title-match bell down. Non title match bell is in the doghouse
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Rockfish posted:when other people abstain from substances etc, it's just called "being uptight" Or just being ordinary people who for whatever reason abstain from substances and don't make a big deal (or any deal) out of it whatsoever.
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Jerusalem posted:Or just being ordinary people who for whatever reason abstain from substances and don't make a big deal (or any deal) out of it whatsoever. Yeah, and "I try to be sensible with the substances I put into my body because I'm not too keen on the bodily reactions they cause and I'm better than you  " doesn't have as much of a ring to it.
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Jerusalem posted:Or just being ordinary people who for whatever reason abstain from substances and don't make a big deal (or any deal) out of it whatsoever. That's what he said 
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Jerusalem posted:Or just being ordinary people who for whatever reason abstain from substances and don't make a big deal (or any deal) out of it whatsoever. But I AM better than them.
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reality_groove posted:Thanks! They're usually part of the ring crew or office. I think Mark Yeaton does stuff managing merch sellers at arenas. Ring announcers often had a similar thing. Howard Finkel was part of the office after becoming full-time announcer and Tony Chimmel is head of the ring crew. oldpainless posted:Whatever could be the reason for having two seperate bells? One's gimmicked.
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Is wrestling considered easier to do athletically than football? The Rock became a Pro Wrestler after his football career was cut short, and Brock Lesnar quit wrestling to try to be a Minnesota Viking. I wouldn't think that's the case since you lift people and whatnot but I'm curious.
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crankdatbatman posted:Is wrestling considered easier to do athletically than football? The Rock became a Pro Wrestler after his football career was cut short, and Brock Lesnar quit wrestling to try to be a Minnesota Viking. I wouldn't think that's the case since you lift people and whatnot but I'm curious. Athletic ability is only one of many criteria for being a successful wrestler but it's the only criteria for being a successful football player. There have been plenty of wrestlers with little to no 'athletic' ability that have become successful by entertaining the fans in other ways. On the other hand, making a professional football teams roster requires you to simply be faster, stronger and more skilled than everybody else who wants that job. Kickers dont count and never will. If the question was supposed to be 'which is harder overall to succeed at' then that's a different story.
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Supreme Allah posted:Athletic ability is only one of many criteria for being a successful wrestler but it's the only criteria for being a successful football player. There have been plenty of wrestlers with little to no 'athletic' ability that have become successful by entertaining the fans in other ways. On the other hand, making a professional football teams roster requires you to simply be faster, stronger and more skilled than everybody else who wants that job. Kickers dont count and never will. Football is harder. Brock was world champ within six months of debuting in professional wrestling. He never made it in the NFL. I rest my case.
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harder athletically, wrestling wins. just look at the amount of deaths under age 40 and the amount of people who've had to have that spinal fusion surgery in WWE alone. to succeed in, football by a mile. wrestling relies more on politics and knowing the right dude than actual wrestling ability. football is all skill.
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Ok. Possibly the dumbest question of all time. Was the WWF ever an actual "federation" in the true sense of the word (small companies getting together as a unit)like the NWA or was it just a name to make it sound good? If the latter's the case, then WWE is probably a more accurate, if dumber sounding, name for the company.
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Certain football positions are harder on the body than wrestling. There are some players from the 70s and 80s who are worse off than wrestlers from that era, and had a much shorter career than guys like Hogan who wrestled a safe style but did it for 25 years.
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Hey, what is the deal with Jesse Ventura's commentary on some of the videos? Sometimes he is on there but other times, like on the Rise and Fall of WCW DVD, you can plainly see Jesse at ringside talking and moving but it is all blanked out and only JR commentates. Does anyone know the reason for this?
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oldpainless posted:Hey, what is the deal with Jesse Ventura's commentary on some of the videos? Sometimes he is on there but other times, like on the Rise and Fall of WCW DVD, you can plainly see Jesse at ringside talking and moving but it is all blanked out and only JR commentates. Does anyone know the reason for this? vince didn't want to pay jesse royalty fees.
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dusty udder smoker posted:vince didn't want to pay jesse royalty fees. But doesn't he have to pay royalty fees to anyone who ever commentated then? What makes Jesse such a special case? Did he want like ten times as much as anyone else?
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