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MrBling posted:Oh right. Well yeah, that was just him leaving the company to do more drugs or whatever it was he did. Probably it was exactly that and he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so.
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MassRanTer posted:Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Lex Luger, Kevin Sullivan, The Barbarian, Meng, Z-Gangsta, & The Ultimate Solution (THE ALLIANCE TO END HULKAMANIA) in a Doomsday Cage Match A VHS of this PPV was my first real exposure to WCW. I unironically love the above match just because of how batshit insane it was. It was Hogan and Macho Man against like a million guys in a bunch of cages. Then I didn't watch any more WCW until a few months before Scott Hall hit the scene.
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What was up with the Furface thing never going anywhere? There was that really brief period in the 90s where Beefcake would run in and just completely destroy guys like Earthquake (and Quake was always really protected, even against Hogan), then it was dropped and never mentioned again.
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Man all this Ed Leslie talk is making me wanna do something horrible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXVrIgeD2iE&t=149s 3:14 is the best "THAT'S ALL OF HIS HAIR"
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DeathChicken posted:What was up with the Furface thing never going anywhere? There was that really brief period in the 90s where Beefcake would run in and just completely destroy guys like Earthquake (and Quake was always really protected, even against Hogan), then it was dropped and never mentioned again. I want to say backstage politics, but given the time period it's entirely possible that they just started the angle without thinking it all the way through and then quietly dropped it when they realized they had no idea where they were going with it.
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That wasn't too long after his parasailing accident, he probably wasn't ready to be on the road full-time yet.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:I still can't loving believe WCW initially called the Ultimate Solution "The Final Solution". The local fed here in Hawaii has a 400 lb Tongan dude named "The Final Solution". Unfortunately the significance appears to be lost on the crowd. http://olelo.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=26&clip_id=33038
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DeathChicken posted:What was up with the Furface thing never going anywhere? There was that really brief period in the 90s where Beefcake would run in and just completely destroy guys like Earthquake (and Quake was always really protected, even against Hogan), then it was dropped and never mentioned again. Beefcake probably wasn't ready and/or couldn't get cleared to return full-time, so they dropped the storyline and had him host The Barber Shop for the better part of a year. Hogan politics or no Hogan politics, I always felt bad for Beefcake. He was well on his way to becoming a star on his own merits before the accident derailed his career, then had his reputation ruined by the comeback he had to make due to his ex-wife cleaning him out in their divorce.
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Every once in awhile I will look through my folder of random wrestling photos and will think "I wish some higher quality pictures of the WCW Nitro Grill existed, I'd like to be able to read the description of the menu items..." Apparently I am not the only person who thought this as some dude on the board posted these:  
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I feel that The Gutbuster would in fact live up to its name quite well.
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In my never ending quest to provide you with the most comprehensive information on the greatest restaurant in the history of our sport, I used the way back machine to access the Nitro grill website.  Before the website was taken down, this message appeared on it: quote:NITRO GRILL DOWN FOR THE COUNT This was later changed to just it being down for the count before a redirect. RIP.
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I want a Booker T Bone steak and a seat in the ring. Front row so I can watch GOLDBERG!!!!!
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You don't order the Macho Man Nachos then I don't want to know you.
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Jack Krauser posted:You don't order the Macho Man Nachos then I don't want to know you. Nachos with black olives? No thanks.
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The Pretzel Pile Driver. Classier and less carny than Piledriver Peanuts.
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Crushrooms, ladies and gentlemen. Crushrooms. That's just... it's beautiful.
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I like the neW york myself.
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So that was all a plot by Eric Bischoff so he and the boys could go gamble and have a free place to eat, right?
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"Of course we knew Kanyon was gay. We named a salad after his finisher."
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"broken RIB black EYE" is the worst novelty restaurant menu pun I've ever seen and those prices really aren't bad for a themed steakhouse in downtown Las Vegas oatgan fucked around with this message at 14:47 on May 14, 2013 |
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Why the drinks aren't aren't named "Slammin' Soft-drinks" and "Fresh Brewed Glacier Tea" I'll never understand.
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May 14, 2013 14:46
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I want to know how the word "Brawl" gets translated to "Coconut Shrimp."
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oatgan posted:"broken RIB black EYE" is the worst novelty restaurant menu pun I've ever seen Even for 15 years ago?
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Halloween Jack posted:I want to know how the word "Brawl" gets translated to "Coconut Shrimp." You mean Bash?
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French fries piled high, topped with melted Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheese and crumbled bacon. Served with ranch dressing. Add our Choke Hold Chili - "Choke Hold Chili Choke Slam Cheese Fries" - OUCH!
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The best cheesy theme restaurant ever is still Don Cherry's.
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I'm sure by the 2nd customer the waiters just said "cheese fries."
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Zack_Gochuck posted:You mean Bash?
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Halloween Jack posted:Brawl, bash, whatever. WCW had The Worst names. I actually really used to like WCW's ppv names. I guess they're a product of their time. I cringe when I think of how they renamed Uncensored to "Greed" and Souled Out to "Sin." I think my favourite name is still Slamboree. The names were hokey and fun just like wrasslin'. Zack_Gochuck fucked around with this message at 15:20 on May 14, 2013 |
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"Starrcade" isn't even a pun, which makes it the best. It looks like it SHOULD be a pun, when it's not.
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I think a lot of them are just dull. WrestleWar, Superbrawl, and Battlebowl just sound like attempts to capture the WRESTLEMANIA magic, Beach Blast and Bash at the Beach just sound like a beach party. I liked Souled Out; the name has its own identity.
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I always liked Halloween Havoc.
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That menu is fantastic and I wish I could eat there. I at least applaud them for going completely in on the gimmick. Halloween Havoc was a great theme for an October PPV and I wish WWE had stolen it. The logo was great, name was catchy, and the spooky stage setup with giant pumpkin was killer. The Hell in a Cell thing has totally run its course so maybe someday HHH will resurrect this?
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I'm pretty sure that's a stock Goldberg picture with a knife and fork shopped in, which is hilarious and lazy.
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Yeah, Halloween Havoc was also pretty cool. It definitely had its own identity, and in the 90s I was a huge mark for anything spooky.
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DeathChicken posted:I'm pretty sure that's a stock Goldberg picture with a knife and fork shopped in, which is hilarious and lazy. The shadows under the knife and fork are obviously fake and the fork is too big, so that's definitely the case. Though WCW paying a ton of money to have Goldberg do a photo shoot just for that tiny header image is entirely believable in itself too. It's also hilarious how utterly out of place a pro wrestling themed restaurant is in the Excalibur, a casino themed after Camelot and sporting a brightly colored cartoon castle as part of its architecture.
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Look at the adjective- eat.
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oldpainless posted:Look at the adjective- eat. We didn't come here to eat. We came for the ambiance.
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Scirocco Griffon posted:
I don't know, I think WCW and "brightly colored cartoon" goes pretty well together.
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MD2020 posted:I don't know, I think WCW and "brightly colored cartoon" goes pretty well together. Which is funny, since before the Attitude Era happened WCW was supposed to be the more serious alternative to WWF's cartoony larger than life style. I just don't get why you'd set up a WCW themed restaurant in the one place in Vegas a serious pro wrestling fan probably would never want to stay at. Maybe there was some of that infamous "never talk about it on air" cross-promotion happening at the Excalibur that I don't know about. Did Goldberg run in and Jackhammer the Black Knight off of his horse during the nightly jousting show or something?
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