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sportsgenius86 posted:The UT-HBK rematch video with the Placebo song is the best thing WWE has ever done. This is true, but really that entire 14 month program - storylines, promos, video packages, matches, everything - is the best thing WWE has done in many, many years.
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sportsgenius86 posted:The UT-HBK rematch video with the Placebo song is the best thing WWE has ever done. 
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jeffersonlives posted:This is true, but really that entire 14 month program - storylines, promos, video packages, matches, everything - is the best thing WWE has done in many, many years. which is probably the best example in many, many years of something that was put together almost exclusively by the two people involved and not high-level creative, no?
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sportsgenius86 posted:which is probably the best example in many, many years of something that was put together almost exclusively by the two people involved and not high-level creative, no? There is also the HBK/Jericho feud and to a lesser extent Jericho/Rey.
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Mar 28, 2012 02:11
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Christian-Jericho with Trish involved in 2003-04 was planned by them
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I've spent the last few days listening through the Bryan and Vinny shows from the Raw/Impact Monday Night Slaughterings. If you signed up after that happened like me and haven't gone back to hear those shows, dear god is there some freaking gold in there.
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Mar 28, 2012 02:35
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When dave mentioned not doing the job "like the undertaker did that one time" was that at Unforgiven after Brock won the title? Because that match sucked with a DQ finish.
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Mar 28, 2012 02:51
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LordPants posted:When dave mentioned not doing the job "like the undertaker did that one time" was that at Unforgiven after Brock won the title? Because that match sucked with a DQ finish. Yes.
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Mar 28, 2012 02:55
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njsykora posted:I've spent the last few days listening through the Bryan and Vinny shows from the Raw/Impact Monday Night Slaughterings. If you signed up after that happened like me and haven't gone back to hear those shows, dear god is there some freaking gold in there.
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Endorph posted:What dates would these run from? Did they have a specific name on the site, or was it just a period where Raw/Impact were so bad that B&V did nothing but make fun of the shows? I imagine he means the Monday Night wars B&V shows from 2010. They would be the shows from early March through early May.
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Mar 28, 2012 05:50
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I can't wait for the 2000 word write up on Teddy Long's failures as a GM.
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Mar 29, 2012 04:36
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Interesting show this morning. I had no idea WWE was considering building a MMA company around Bob Sapp,
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Latest Art of Wrestling is hilarious. "BROOM BROOM, BROOM BROOM! IS THAT A CAR? NO SIR, IT'S THE SOUND OF YOUR PEERS TALKING ABOUT YOU BACKSTAGE!"
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Mar 29, 2012 18:22
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Gonzo McFee posted:Latest Art of Wrestling is hilarious. please tell me he stopped doing the interview the most obnoxious fan he can possibly find.
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I UNironically hope that posh English fan becomes a thing in all wrestling companies. Ted Dibase: Who wants some of my money? Brendon Burns:CAPITALISM IS A BROKEN SYSTEM! Gonzo McFee fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Mar 29, 2012 |
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triplexpac posted:Interesting show this morning. I had no idea WWE was considering building a MMA company around Bob Sapp, Is that the Shane McMahon project?
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Lone Rogue posted:Is that the Shane McMahon project? Maybe, I have no idea really. Dave just talked about the WWE wanting to get into MMA, building the promotion around Sapp. It would feature ONLY heavyweight fighters (of course). The best part was they'd want the guys to do pro wrestling AND MMA, I have no idea how that would work out. Dave said they actually had extensive negotiations with Sapp, and he was basically promised everything that Bobby Lashley ended up getting instead.
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triplexpac posted:Maybe, I have no idea really. Dave just talked about the WWE wanting to get into MMA, building the promotion around Sapp. It would feature ONLY heavyweight fighters (of course). The best part was they'd want the guys to do pro wrestling AND MMA, I have no idea how that would work out. I know they kept on trying to sign Sapp for something. Never realized it was for the XFL of MMA.
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triplexpac posted:Maybe, I have no idea really. Dave just talked about the WWE wanting to get into MMA, building the promotion around Sapp. It would feature ONLY heavyweight fighters (of course). The best part was they'd want the guys to do pro wrestling AND MMA, I have no idea how that would work out. Josh Barnett's done both actively, hasn't he? He doesn't wrestle much, obviously, but assuming the idea would be having them work occasional PPV matches, and not a full house show schedule, it's not impossible. Probably dumb, of course, but doable.
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Gaz-L posted:Josh Barnett's done both actively, hasn't he? He doesn't wrestle much, obviously, but assuming the idea would be having them work occasional PPV matches, and not a full house show schedule, it's not impossible. Probably dumb, of course, but doable. I don't see it being possible to keep up an MMA training regiment while also working a WWE schedule. You might have some fighters but nobody elite. Of course, Bob Sapp is kind of a crappy fighter and he's better just being the biggest man in Japan. With his attributes and natural charisma he'd make a better full-time pro wrestler. Same with Kimbo Slice.
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Mar 29, 2012 21:16
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I'm sure WWE's MMA fighters would be as good quality wise as the XFL's football players.
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triplexpac posted:I'm sure WWE's MMA fighters would be as good quality wise as the XFL's football players. Please tell me Rod Smart planned to sign. HEHATEME VS. BOB SAPP
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triplexpac posted:The best part was they'd want the guys to do pro wrestling AND MMA, I have no idea how that would work out. Japan did that a lot. Of course now pro wrestling in Japan is in the crapper and MMA is even deader.
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Mar 29, 2012 23:15
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Lloyd Boner posted:Japan did that a lot. Of course now pro wrestling in Japan is in the crapper and MMA is even deader. I just recently started getting into puro (late to the table, I know) and was amazed when I read about how far wrestling in Japan has fallen. I was familiar with it thru the 1990s/2000s, but never really got interested enough to watch, and it was always presented as something that was a huge part of Japanese culture. So I was kind of surprised to read that NTV eventually canceled all their wrestling TV back in 2009 or thereabouts.
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Mar 29, 2012 23:19
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I never even imagined this, and knowing that we were so close to Bob Sapp in a WWE ring but it didn't happen makes me so unbelievably sad. Could you imagine willie_dee making a GDT thread for Wrestlemania featuring James Thompson vs. Bob Sapp?
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Mar 29, 2012 23:34
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I'm pretty sure Dave was talking about two different instances with Sapp. WWE tried to bring him in about once a year from 2002-2007, and got very close in 2006.
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That just makes me wonder what held up negotiations, usually WWE gets what they want when it comes to talent, except Sting and AJ Styles.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:That just makes me wonder what held up negotiations, usually WWE gets what they want when it comes to talent, except Sting and AJ Styles. There were a couple different times things fell through. Sometimes he didn't want to work the house show loop and just TVs, sometimes he wanted Goldberg's deal where he could still work Japan, sometimes he had too many lucrative outside deals that he couldn't part with.
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jeffersonlives posted:There were a couple different times things fell through. Sometimes he didn't want to work the house show loop and just TVs, sometimes he wanted Goldberg's deal where he could still work Japan, sometimes he had too many lucrative outside deals that he couldn't part with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcwSRi43MRE And of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dCNym6sO3E
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You forgot this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUgJ9hEufGU
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Konnan and Court Bauer spent the first part of their interview talking about who smokes pot instead of booking. It's ok. http://www.mlw.com/
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Dave Meltzer posted:Please don't mock a man who has diligently trained for a year for a dream of going to the Olympics, only to have it snatched away by a serious injury three weeks before the trials. 
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LordPants posted:Dave kinda owns when he's trying to be funny. It's probably because he's constantly playing the straight man.
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Dave posted:No, I really feel bad for the guy. Holy poo poo
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I love this year and all the callers predicting riots and I hope I remember it next time I write something about this identity that the hardcore wrestling fan needs to craft for himself that is almost completely removed from reality. drat and Todd Martin is another example of mega-delusion. Rick fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Apr 1, 2012 |
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Rick posted:drat... Todd Martin. Yep.
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Todd Martin makes some decent points it's just that he's arguing against Bryan Alvarez the most obtuse human being on the planet.
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maniacripper posted:Todd Martin makes some decent points it's just that he's arguing against Bryan Alvarez the most obtuse human being on the planet. Todd Martin and Bryan are the same kind of guy, hard headed and 100% committed to their own opinion. Problem is while there's room for one of those guys on the website (Bryan) if you give the 2 a show together there's just going to be nothing but stalemate for extended periods of time and that's not fun to listen to. Also continuing my odyssey into Bryan and Vinny history, listened to the Wrestlemania 24 post-show today, with Bryan, Vinny and Craig driving somewhere in Orlando and recording as they went. Dear god that was a beautiful trainwreck of a show, also it's really weird just having Bryan say "FigureFourOnline.com" and not follow it up with the Observer.com bit.
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