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Jefferoo posted:Does anyone have video of Lex Luger showing up on WCW? Been trying to find it again for laughs and not having any luck. Do you mean his first appearance in the company or the unveiling of The Total Package where he stands in the ring and flexes for several minutes under dramatic lighting and music
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oatgan posted:Do you mean his first appearance in the company or the unveiling of The Total Package where he stands in the ring and flexes for several minutes under dramatic lighting and music The total package thing is so loving hilarious. It's posted somewhere near the beginning of this thread (I think) because it was the first time I had ever seen it. It's bizarre. He just sits there flexing while Elizabeth looks extremely awkward.
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oatgan posted:Do you mean his first appearance in the company or the unveiling of The Total Package where he stands in the ring and flexes for several minutes under dramatic lighting and music The one where everyone's all "WHO'S THIS GUY WHY IS HE HERE" in some mall or whatever. Total Package is loving god-tier wrestling bullshit, that should be taught in public education.
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I vaguely remember, at some point leading up to Luger "becoming the Total Package" through the power of flexing in a spotlight, that he did an interview on Thunder with someone (Mike Tenay?) and the entire focal point that it built up to was that, while he was currently at 4% body fat, could he ever get it down to 3%? And there was this ominous silence and Luger stared at the camera all intense-like and said something like "Maybe." I wish I could find it on the internet, it's probably a lot less funny than I'm remembering it. Basically everything involving Lex Luger was equal parts inexplicable and pointless.
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If you haven't seen the rebirth of The Total Package you really should https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEEv0GZNTM&feature=youtube_gdata_player "Wow, what a moment." - Tony Schiavone
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Lets not forget all the amazing funeral segments with Luthor and Baggwell
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Jefferoo posted:The one where everyone's all "WHO'S THIS GUY WHY IS HE HERE" in some mall or whatever. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vxwc_wcw-nitro-9-4-95-part2-1st-ever-nit_news#.UW8GwLWkp8Q 4:17
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oatgan posted:If you haven't seen the rebirth of The Total Package you really should Wait...that's the loving Shockmaster voice, isn't it?
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That aired opposite The Rock: This is Your Life. Hilarious.
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Jack Krauser posted:That aired opposite The Rock: This is Your Life. Hilarious. Huh, I had no idea. I imagine that wouldn't have hurt Rock's ratings, all the WCW guys awkwardly flipping away from Lex's posedown.
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I saw this when I was 14, and I distinctly remember thinking, even then, "What the gently caress is this?"
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oatgan posted:If you haven't seen the rebirth of The Total Package you really should I like how annoyed Schiavone is with the ghost interrupting. tooonyyyyy "What?"
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Jack Krauser posted:That aired opposite The Rock: This is Your Life. Hilarious.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:58
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Not just at the time. More people watched that segment live than any other wrestling segment in the history of Mankind.
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Highest rated segment ever is an Undertaker/Austin match, I'm pretty sure.
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LividLiquid posted:Highest rated segment ever is an Undertaker/Austin match, I'm pretty sure. This Is Your Life is #1 actually, followed by Rock/Shane in a cage match in 2000.
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One of Nash's recent shoots goes into why they did the whole Lex/Total Package thing, but I can't quite remember how he explained it. I just scoured his Youshoot really quick but couldn't find it, anyone remember?
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Apr 18, 2013 00:34
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Meltzer has stated on a few occasions that This Is Your Life being the #1 segment is a myth. Several segments have gotten higher ratings, among them Undertaker/Austin (which wasn't up against Nitro at all iirc) and the actual highest rated segment of all time, Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco vs. The Mean Street Posse. This is actually brought up on one of the Legends Roundtables.
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oatgan posted:the actual highest rated segment of all time, Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco vs. The Mean Street Posse. I just. . . OK.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I just. . . OK. Are we talking highest ratings as in TV ratings or highest ratings as in fans enjoyed this ***** no questions asked rating. Because that Stooges/Posse match is probably both.
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Ktik posted:Are we talking highest ratings as in TV ratings or highest ratings as in fans enjoyed this ***** no questions asked rating. Because that Stooges/Posse match is probably both. Let's go to the tape! http://www.wwe.com/videos/pat-patterson-and-gerald-brisco-vs-the-mean-street-posse-loser-leaves-wwe-match-26024642
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I just. . . OK. -edit- The best part of that match is at the end when Patterson starts to take his shirt off and JR yells "DON'T DO IT! DON'T DO IT! BAH GOD" as if he just watched Mick Foley fall off of a cage 
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Zack_Gochuck posted:I saw this when I was 14, and I distinctly remember thinking, even then, "What the gently caress is this?" I saw it as a 12 year old and totally bought into the Rebirth of the Total Package. I was a mark.
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Zack_Gochuck posted:Not just at the time. More people watched that segment live than any other wrestling segment in the history of Mankind. Brilliant.
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I thought the record was for The Main Event I in 1988? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_The_Main_Event#Show_notes quote:This live broadcast remains the most watched wrestling program in American television history with a 15.2 rating and 33 million viewers. The Monkey Man fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Paulocaust posted:Wait...that's the loving Shockmaster voice, isn't it? Yes it is, both instances provided courtesy of Ole Anderson messing around with a voice modulator backstage if memory serves.
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Scirocco Griffon posted:Yes it is, both instances provided courtesy of Ole Anderson messing around with a voice modulator backstage if memory serves. How do you pronounce 'Ole' anyway?
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rhymes with holy
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EvilMuppet posted:How do you pronounce 'Ole' anyway? This way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KABUQxllGbk
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EvilMuppet posted:How do you pronounce 'Ole' anyway? Oh-Lee
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Oh-Lee is right. It's something they used to call us Norgies here in Ballard (previously a Norweigan neighborhood in Seattle), too. Ole for Norgies, Sven for Swedes.
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Jim Duggan and Jake the Snake were driving buddies in the WWF and routinely got hosed up as hell on everything under the sun. The Jake Roberts episode of Art f Wrestling is really good.
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My favorite WCW thing was that they had bigger better obviously fake weapons. Ring bell shots? Heh, sorry no, we got tasers, bear mace, cattle prods, an ELECTRIC CHAIR, the entire Junkyard Invitational. And they would use one of these huge scary world-ending weapons like every month. It was like the summer of '03 when Jericho had his handcuffs for everybody and Angle was running around with a tranq rifle.
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crankdatbatman posted:I saw it as a 12 year old and totally bought into the Rebirth of the Total Package. I had blocked this out of my memory completely, and I can see why, this is the worst promo I have ever seen. Maybe the worst part was Schiavone just naming all muscle groups. I'm not from the States so when this was on, I was unable to switch the channel over to Raw. Imagine the pain, if you will.
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The Total Package rebirth is also just a more convoluted rip off of Luger's debut as the Narcissist in WWF. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEB38XueRA Bobby losing his goddamn mind is so much more entertaining than Tony.
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Perry Normal posted:The Total Package rebirth is also just a more convoluted rip off of Luger's debut as the Narcissist in WWF. Bobby doing anything is so much more entertaining than Tony.
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The Narcissist was really the best gimmick Luger ever had. He even played it perfectly in the ring. He was this big oaf who just wanted to check himself out in his mirrors, and would knock you out to go back to the important task of checking himself out in the mirrors.
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DeathChicken posted:The Narcissist was really the best gimmick Luger ever had. He even played it perfectly in the ring. He was this big oaf who just wanted to check himself out in his mirrors, and would knock you out to go back to the important task of checking himself out in the mirrors. I really loved the "metal plate in the forearm" gimmick, they did it really well for the time.
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DeathChicken posted:The Narcissist was really the best gimmick Luger ever had. He even played it perfectly in the ring. He was this big oaf who just wanted to check himself out in his mirrors, and would knock you out to go back to the important task of checking himself out in the mirrors. Mr Wonderful also had this gimmick in WCW. This led to a funny match against Disco Inferno. Orndorff was posing in the mirror, and Disco decided to look over Orndorff's shoulder so he could check his hair. Orndorff promptly knocked Disco out and pinned him.
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On a similar note, the high point of Disco's gimmick for me was when he submitted to a wrist lock in a match due to his fear that it would stop him from being able to hand jive.
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