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Gavok posted:Yeah, I don't do it in a serious way to get them angry. I act genuinely shocked and hammy about it to play along. It's the best when afterwards you pout because the heel lost and let the kids rub it in. It may be a knock to your pride but it make's their weeks.
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El Duke posted:I think the online innovation curve kind of stops around Shane's departure. Then they just kind of left whatever he did going and never updated. He only left a year and a half ago.
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MassRayPer posted:He only left a year and a half ago. Silverlight didn't see mass penetration until earlier last year. And I don't really blame them for not moving towards Flash. The WMV thing seems a lot like "well this is fine, something better will come along" and Silverlight was it.
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Bobby Heenan was one of the funniest guys to ever get involved in wrestling, he had a razor sharp wit and was probably too quick for Shiavone, they still had some quality moments together but nothing came close to his stuff with Monsoon. It's a shame with his illness and what's happened to him we won't hear him on the headsets ever again. Taz and Booker are probably two of the worst colour guys out there today but at least you can get a laugh with Booker, Taz is just terrible. We need a new Heenan.
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Problem with Tony is he was horrible at hiding his dumb. Gorilla could hide his dumb easily because he knew how to hide a mistake he made. Tony Shiavonie and especially Mongo just kinda left it out there and treated it as gospel so Bobby couldn't play off of it. There were some great Tony/Bobby moments that get forgotten in time, but the biggest issue is that Heenan kind of changed up his commentary style while in WCW and it didn't open up as much for comedy. I still contend that I would rather listen to Tony Shiavonie than any commentator in pro wrestling working right now. Only guy close to him is Josh Matthews.
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Is Taz bad or is he just stuck with lovely material? In the Smackdown Six days I remember him being good with Michael Cole of all people...
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Taz isn't that great at calling matches, but if he's with the right guy they can get a great dynamic going that enhances the play-by-play. Him and Cole had that dynamic. Also, I think part of the problem is that he doesn't care about the TNA product. At all.
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El Patron posted:Taz and Booker are probably two of the worst colour guys out there today but at least you can get a laugh with Booker, Taz is just terrible. Booker T as commentator is like a cross between brain-damaged commentator/former boxer Floyd Wetherton from Family Guy and Chester Cheetah. And that's why I love him.
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LordPants posted:Is Taz bad or is he just stuck with lovely material? Taz is bad. TNA gives him a script but he's allowed to say what he wants. WWE had Vince chirping in his ear which kept him a bit more in line but Taz has been getting worse and worse over time.
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Jul 9, 2011 17:34
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Taz seems to not give a gently caress anymore. Near the end of his WWE run it seemed like he was unhappy and watching recent stuff and comparing his commentary in like 08 or so to 5 years earlier, he's just totally different.
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I think it was the 2004 Rumble that had JR and Tazz and I thought it was a really good combo. Tazz seemed to actually give a poo poo since he had someone actually good at their job with him.
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The answer is for TNA to hire Rene Dupree and allow at least one French Tickler spot per show. That'll get Tazz excited again. Tazz loving loved seeing Dupree do that stupid dance.
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But is Taz worse than Chet Lemon and Black Snow? edit: Let me phrase that differently, what would you prefer, Taz, or Lemon/Snow. 
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LordPants posted:But is Taz worse than Chet Lemon and Black Snow? I was always told to stay away from lemon snow.
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Taz seems to point out how dumb things are in TNA rather than try to sell them in spite of their stupidity. So when he asks people "Why the heck do you even have a title shot, you haven't even done anything in weeks?" or doesn't understand the stipulations of a match, and the couple times he's actually said on air "well that was dumb" I love him more. Other than that he just says whatever stupid thing pops into his head and identifies various holds and the toll they take on the body. He also has negative rapport with Tenay which doesn't really help.
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I really want the PSPodcast to do a WCW special episode asap. I love talking about that retarded company.
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weekly font posted:I really want the PSPodcast to do a WCW special episode asap. I love talking about that retarded company. I'll look back at Death of WCW.
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This past Thursday was the 15th anniversary of the Hogan heel turn at Bash at the Beach. Even though I was a hardcore WWF guy, I have to admit that before the nWo got stale, WCW got most of my viewing from that point.
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I'll be spending the weekend with a woman that is from near Atlanta. Her father was a chiropractor for WCW or WCW wrestlers frequently came to him. She promised to tell me all sorts of stories from his days working with them. So far I know that they we're very close with the Benoits. Her mother was helping Nancy with her parenting skills up until the end because she was an expert in the disease Daniel had. Her father was one of the last people that spoke with Chris. Perry Saturn is like an Uncle to her younger sister, they knew he was alive the entire time and I would assume he talked with him during his addiction to meth and homelessness. Maybe he even convinced him to get help. They talk quite frequently now. Her father likes to give names to inanimate objects for fun. quote:does your dad have the mop he fell in love with She's one of those academic types living in upstate NY getting her phd, so I kinda doubt she'd lie about something like old, obscure wrestling stuff based on a comment I made about N64 wrestling games. My friend Aaron says it's destiny, I think he's right. I'll make sure to find out who's a total rear end in a top hat and who was really nice. Maybe I can get some DDP stories too. The American Dream fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Jul 13, 2011 |
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Her father is a bad person and it is further evidence WCW was a bad company for sending its wrestlers to quacks.
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I thought Saturn got the mop gimmick as a punishment for getting rough with a jobber who accidently injured him ?
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El Patron posted:I thought Saturn got the mop gimmick as a punishment for getting rough with a jobber who accidently injured him ? It could have been WWF telling Saturn he's getting a retard gimmick and Saturn deciding he'll fall in love with a mop, inspired by his chiropractor's mop.
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I missed out on Saturn's amorous mop-adventures, but every time I read about it I have to think of UHF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9W-smdTVjA
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When did Hogan start using Voodoo Child for his entrance music? I'm watching the Best of Nitro DVD, and I'm having trouble remembering if they just dubbed over it or if he only used it on PPVs and such.
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Astro7x posted:When did Hogan start using Voodoo Child for his entrance music? I'm watching the Best of Nitro DVD, and I'm having trouble remembering if they just dubbed over it or if he only used it on PPVs and such. Somewhere late 96 early 97.
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It seemed really inconsistent too. He was Hollywood in late spring/early summer 2000, and came out to the Rockhouse theme.
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I'm pretty sure that's because WCW could no longer afford to license Voodoo Child at that point.
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1st AD posted:I'm pretty sure that's because WCW could no longer afford to license Voodoo Child at that point. D'oh!
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Lone Rogue posted:It could have been WWF telling Saturn he's getting a retard gimmick and Saturn deciding he'll fall in love with a mop, inspired by his chiropractor's mop. I'll get more details, I guess he has a box of shirts in their garage and she told me next time she goes down there she'd bring me back one. Fingers crossed this works out. Anyone I should ask her about? So far I have Jericho, Eddie, Russo. I will of course be asking about The Outsiders, Flair and Arn, if he knew Terry Funk and any fun random stories. I'm gonna tread lightly on Benoit because they seem like family friends and I'm sure that effected her even more then those of us who just knew him as one of the best of the era. Maybe I can get her to do a Q and A or possibly ask her father some questions. Since he has a lot of memorabilia and is proud of it I'm willing to bet he's a life long fan that landed a dream gig. And you know how we all love to brag about meeting our favorite athletes in their civilian life and how awesome and cool they are.
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:It seemed really inconsistent too. He was Hollywood in late spring/early summer 2000, and came out to the Rockhouse theme.
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The American Dream posted:I'll get more details, I guess he has a box of shirts in their garage and she told me next time she goes down there she'd bring me back one. Fingers crossed this works out. Find out what memorabilia he has. This seems like a "my uncle, who works at Nintendo" thing to me. You could always make very subtle Benoit jokes.
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ChampRamp posted:Find out what memorabilia he has. This seems like a "my uncle, who works at Nintendo" thing to me. To be fair, I've never heard someone say, "My uncle works at Nintendo. Got any questions for him to ask?"
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Lone Rogue posted:To be fair, I've never heard someone say, "My uncle works at Nintendo. Got any questions for him to ask?" You were comatose in the 80s?
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Moose Bigelow posted:You were comatose in the 80s? It was usually, "My uncle who works at Nintendo said they are making Super Mario 13 and it's going to have a white mushroom that turns you into an angel and Bowser is going to have three heads and the graphics will be done on Nintendo's new Mega Nintendo system with a controller that has 13 buttons* and it's all done with holograms!" Not, "Hey yeah, my uncle works at Nintendo. I've heard him talk about cool stuff. Got some questions?" *They usually get one thing right
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ChampRamp posted:Find out what memorabilia he has. This seems like a "my uncle, who works at Nintendo" thing to me. I'll admit the Benoit thing took me aback, but it would make sense that since her mother is a professor and expert on the disease Daniel had, living in the Atlanta area and her husband has a link to WCW, it would make sense that they would be in contact. Seems like Daniel was born right around when Benoit jumped to the WWF. Her family has a relationship with Perry Saturn, it's not like she's saying Hulk and Stone Cold always come over for Christmas dinner. When she said she had ties to wrestling I just guessed that she went to the same synagogue as Goldberg or someone was her neighbor. edit: I hope he has the Scott Hall picture Booker T got in that match. If I could ever get a picture holding that I would probably evaporate in the living room because my life's quest has been fulfilled. The American Dream fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jul 13, 2011 |
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The American Dream posted:I'll be spending the weekend with a woman that is from near Atlanta. Her father was a chiropractor for WCW or WCW wrestlers frequently came to him. She promised to tell me all sorts of stories from his days working with them. Sounds like bull to me. Daniel didn't have a disease (that turned out to be media speculation) and the last people he contacted before killing himself is well documented. I doubt that a chiropractor would be the unknown friend he called and left a voicemail for. quote:At about 3:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday, June 23, Chavo Guerrero received a voicemail message from Benoit's phone stating that he overslept and missed his flight and would be late for that night's house show in Beaumont, Texas. Guerrero called Benoit back and Benoit sounded tired and groggy as he confirmed everything that he had said in his voice message. Guerrero, who was "concerned about Benoit's tone and demeanor", called him back twelve minutes later. Benoit did not answer the call and Guerrero left a message asking Benoit to call back.
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The thing that made me know it was fake was the Saturn bit. He didn't stay in touch with his closest friends, but this guy/family, he did? Come now.
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ChampRamp posted:The thing that made me know it was fake was the Saturn bit. He didn't stay in touch with his closest friends, but this guy/family, he did? Come now. He did not even go to his mentors funeral. Also he was friends with Chavo and Chavo had Pepe.
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It's not "stupid" but something fun I like to look at from time to time (especially when doing EWR scenarios or talking about how much better WCW was at one point compared to the WWF) Here are the old school rosters for the WWF and WCW/NWA from 1986 to 1998.
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