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When did Rocky Maivia become the Rock? I wasn't watching wrestling at the time so was he just Maivia one week and come out the next week cutting a promo saying Im the Rock?
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oldpainless posted:When did Rocky Maivia become the Rock? I wasn't watching wrestling at the time so was he just Maivia one week and come out the next week cutting a promo saying Im the Rock? From Wiki: After losing the Intercontinental Championship to Owen Hart on the April 28, 1997 edition of Raw is War,[19] and returning from an injury, Johnson turned into a heel character (villain). He joined the Nation of Domination with Faarooq, D'Lo Brown, and Kama, using the ring name "The Rock" Rocky Maivia, which was quickly shortened to simply "The Rock".[20] During that time, Johnson attacked and insulted the fans in his promos. In sharp contrast to the overly positive persona of Rocky Maivia, The Rock was a charismatic bully, eventually driving out the group leader, Faarooq in March 1998.[20] The Rock also referred to himself in the third person, starting many sentences with "The Rock says..."[20]
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Apr 21, 2010 19:18
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God I hated The Rock when I was young and wanted Austin to kick his rear end constantly. He was so good at what he did 
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Apr 21, 2010 19:27
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The heel turn itself (RAW 8/11/97) His first heel promo the following week (full promo here)
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Apr 21, 2010 19:33
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Burrito posted:God I hated The Rock when I was young and wanted Austin to kick his rear end constantly. I couldn't hate The Rock because he was so drat entertaining and my entire circle of friends took to throwing Rock quotes at each other at every passing opportunity. As well as the occasional Rock Bottom.
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Apr 21, 2010 19:52
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rotinaj posted:The WWE should allow as many chairshots as the wrestlers want. I don't want to limit the use of chairshots because violence in my wrestling?  , but I think they should be scaled back more so hitting someone will actually mean something.
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Apr 21, 2010 20:11
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I think wrestling should consist of only unprotected chair shots to the head. Also, the chairs should have blades on them, so guys don't have to blade themselves anymore.
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Apr 21, 2010 20:48
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Trollologist posted:I think wrestling should consist of only unprotected chair shots to the head. Also, the chairs should have blades on them, so guys don't have to blade themselves anymore. This is basically CZW.
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Apr 21, 2010 21:23
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tzirean posted:This is basically CZW. This made me realize I never actually saw anything from CZW and look them up on Youtube. These are the dumbest-assed motherfuckers.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:07
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tzirean posted:This is basically CZW. Yeah. I could probably find you a razorblade board/chair match if you want, dude. They exist. God, deathmatch tournaments are my secret shame. It's hilarious to watch these guys horribly loving themselves up for little pay and no glory outside of a gym with 50-60 people in 'em.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:10
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rotinaj posted:Yeah. You must be in absolute love with IWA:MS then.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:17
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My favorite death match weapon is the stick with the giant water bottle wrapped in barbed wire on the end.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:18
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LightsGameraAction posted:This made me realize I never actually saw anything from CZW and look them up on Youtube. That's pretty much everyone's first reaction to CZW. Check out IWA-Mid South as well for the same reaction.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:18
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CVagts posted:You must be in absolute love with IWA:MS then. Actually? Yes, I do/did. IWA:MS is really the place that didn't do poorly done/totally retarded deathmatch stuff like CZW and still put on regular deathmatch tournaments. CZW is a really, really bad fed. Worlds worse than IWA:MS. Ian is a lovely booker and a terrible wrestler and any vanity angle he does is awful, but his tournament shows, both King of the Deathmatch and the TPI are entertaining.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:36
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Neodoomium posted:That's pretty much everyone's first reaction to CZW. The best thing about IWA-MS death matches is when Chuck Taylor would come out after those matches and start pitching a fit because he found a thumb tack in the ring.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:37
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Burrito posted:The best thing about IWA-MS death matches is when Chuck Taylor would come out after those matches and start pitching a fit because he found a thumb tack in the ring. If Mick Foley taught us anything, it's that one of the benefits of a hardcore fed is that you can make a heel very easily by having a guy just refuse to do anything hardcore.
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Apr 21, 2010 22:43
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IWA-MS has had some good matches over the years (despite Ian's awfulness) like Delirious vs El Generico or Necro vs Joe or Necro vs Low Ki. But I hate death match stuff so \/ \/
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Apr 22, 2010 03:21
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Is there any dream matches that anyone wants to happen within WWE at the moment with their current rosters?
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Apr 22, 2010 03:28
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The Cosby Mysteries posted:Is there any dream matches that anyone wants to happen within WWE at the moment with their current rosters? Have Kofi and Rey ever had a 1 on 1 match?
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Apr 22, 2010 03:35
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Shitty_Wok posted:Have Kofi and Rey ever had a 1 on 1 match? Yeah Rey beat him in 3 minutes.
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Apr 22, 2010 03:44
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The Berzerker posted:IWA-MS has had some good matches over the years (despite Ian's awfulness) like Delirious vs El Generico or Necro vs Joe or Necro vs Low Ki. But I hate death match stuff so \/
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Apr 22, 2010 03:44
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The Cosby Mysteries posted:Is there any dream matches that anyone wants to happen within WWE at the moment with their current rosters? Yoshi Tatsu vs. Everybody
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Apr 22, 2010 03:54
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TheOneTrueKing posted:While technically the ban is on "unprotected" chair shots to the head, it really means no chair shots to the head at all ever again. I'm going to miss the one man conchairto. It's banned with a fine involved. Meaning if two guys feel their feud needs an unprotected head shot to put it to the next level, they'll take the fine and do it. Trust me, this isn't the last you'll see of headshots. Just the last of headshots for no good reason.
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Apr 22, 2010 04:52
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Have Bourne and Rey ever gone 1-on-1?
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Apr 22, 2010 05:27
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sportsgenius86 posted:Have Bourne and Rey ever gone 1-on-1? Yes. On some Raw. I think Bourne actually went over. This was when he was on ECW.
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Apr 22, 2010 05:51
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The Cosby Mysteries posted:Is there any dream matches that anyone wants to happen within WWE at the moment with their current rosters? Bourne/Mysterio with proper time given to it. Edge/Christian and Cena/Undertaker too.
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Apr 22, 2010 06:17
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I can't be the only one who, for some perverse reason, would love to see Batista vs. Sheamus. Or Sheamus vs. Undertaker. Also, Miz vs. Morrison, but built as a one on one feud and with a proper PPV blowoff for it.
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Apr 22, 2010 06:25
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TL posted:I can't be the only one who, for some perverse reason, would love to see Batista vs. Sheamus. Or Sheamus vs. Undertaker. I could watch Miz vs. Morrison feud forever.
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Apr 22, 2010 06:30
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TheOneTrueKing posted:While technically the ban is on "unprotected" chair shots to the head, it really means no chair shots to the head at all ever again. I'm going to miss the one man conchairto. Why would they stop the use of the conchairto? It's not like Edge actually smacked them in the head. The worst the would actually get would probably be a ringing in their ears for a bit.
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Apr 22, 2010 07:56
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Veg posted:
Oh yes, this. Also re-uniting them and giving them a face tag-team run. Given how they've both grown as performers it would be pretty amazing.
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Apr 22, 2010 08:56
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I haven't watched Raw in a long time, is it getting worse it has it peaked awfulness?
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Apr 22, 2010 14:03
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How much truth is there to the rumor that Vince told Jericho that he was the worst champion of all time during his first undisputed run?
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ultimateforce posted:I haven't watched Raw in a long time, is it getting worse it has it peaked awfulness? They seem to know what they're doing with the guest hosts now (or at least know how to make the show embarrassing to watch for only a few minutes with the bad ones), so it only gets unwatchable once a month, tops.
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ultimateforce posted:I haven't watched Raw in a long time, is it getting worse it has it peaked awfulness? I've only been watching it regularly again since November-ish but I'd have to say that apart from the Jerry Springer guest-host episode(which as far as I'm concerned was the peak awfulness) the show has gotten exponentially better since then. There's still problems, most of the matches are far too short and wind up looking like squashes. The guest host spots have been cut back a lot or at least worked into the flow of the matches better but there's still enough of them that they don't always find an appropriate amount of time to focus on each feud. Still it's gotten much better as I've been watching it, but just judging by the WWE discussion thread I think a lot of whether you think it's better or worse has to do with your tolerance of the guest hosts. So it's very much a different strokes situation.
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Apr 22, 2010 16:41
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every raw is literally the worst raw EVER
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Apr 22, 2010 16:48
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You can't make smarks happy. Today sucks, yesterday sucked, 2002 sucked, and 2012 will suck.
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Apr 22, 2010 16:51
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Of course today sucks, TNA is on.
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Apr 22, 2010 17:00
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Chilly McFreeze posted:Of course today sucks, TNA is on. But it's the same TNA we've already seen!
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The Cosby Mysteries posted:Is there any dream matches that anyone wants to happen within WWE at the moment with their current rosters?  The big matchups get burned through too quickly when you've got 4-6 hours a week to fill. I miss that feeling of excitement you'd get when two wrestlers who had never been in the same ring would finally have a match.
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Burrito posted:But it's the same TNA we've already seen! Even worse!
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