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Where is Wade Barrett. I literally cannot watch this stuff without him. Jobbering and all.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 06:20 |
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Cromulent posted:For other inside references on air, look up Kevin Nash doing commentary on Thunder on his last day as booker. He's just blatantly saying stuff like "I don't remember what I booked here." or "When you see a video package of a guy, you know he's going over." Review a Wai is covering this show this week and I'm looking forward to it quite a lot because I've never actually seen that episode.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 07:16 |
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Supreme Allah posted:Where is Wade Barrett. I literally cannot watch this stuff without him. Jobbering and all. Last I heard he had to go back to England to renew his work visa. His segments in the online content haven't interacted directly with anyone else as far as I know, so he might not be back yet. I'm hoping he'll come back to a push.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 08:26 |
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Castomira posted:Were there ever any Jakked/Metal matches that could honestly be said to be three stars or higher? I've been reading through the match results for the various shows and it's remarkable how boring I remember the matches being, even as a grade schooler. There was a great Taka/Daniels match on Shotgun which was replaced by those shows. Once the changeover happened there was a period of cruiserweight matches that were in that range, I think mainly with London?
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 08:32 |
Velocity had some good matches with the cruiserweight revival. Almost all the matches were short. If they gave somebody on Jakked two ad breaks like Main Event they could have had a great match.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 08:46 |
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Supreme Allah posted:Where is Wade Barrett. I literally cannot watch this stuff without him. Jobbering and all. On the JBL&Cole Show, delivering bad news to people. *sigh* BadNewsBarrett
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 10:22 |
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The 3 matches I remember liking on Jakked were Raven vs Lo' Ki, Mike Awesome vs Albert (I was kinda surprised), and a Dudleys/Kai En Tai match (they wrestled a couple times on Jakked, I think). Keep in mind that pretty much every Jakked match, if not all of them, were under 10 minutes because it was also a recap show, so all of these fall under "pretty good considering how much time was given", rather than "holy poo poo what a match!".
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 16:58 |
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MassRafTer posted:There was a great Taka/Daniels match on Shotgun which was replaced by those shows. Once the changeover happened there was a period of cruiserweight matches that were in that range, I think mainly with London? Yeah, on Velocity, Paul London and Akio/Yang/Jimmy Wang Yang (it was the Akio gimmick at the time) had a series of matches that were all pretty good. AmbassadorFriendly fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Sep 15, 2013 |
# ? Sep 15, 2013 17:12 |
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Has John Cena ever hit an Avalanche AA? It seems like he goes for it in every big match but he's probably never actually succeeded.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 17:36 |
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Bard Maddox posted:Has John Cena ever hit an Avalanche AA? It seems like he goes for it in every big match but he's probably never actually succeeded. I feel like he hit one in the big RAW rematch with CM Punk. I may be wrong, though.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 17:47 |
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Bard Maddox posted:Has John Cena ever hit an Avalanche AA? It seems like he goes for it in every big match but he's probably never actually succeeded. He hit one through a table for the finish of the TLC match vs. Edge.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 17:52 |
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What was Matt Bloom's gimmick in the Prince Albert/A-Train days? He's one of those wrestlers I remember absolutely nothing about character-wise.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 18:01 |
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Has there been a wrestler that has gone on record about hating a gimmick that has gotten them over?
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 18:07 |
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Hidden Mother posted:What was Matt Bloom's gimmick in the Prince Albert/A-Train days? He's one of those wrestlers I remember absolutely nothing about character-wise. Prince Albert days he was a tattooist i think he may have tattoo'd a wrestler once and once only after a match. And A-Train was just big wrestle guy and nothing else. He used to hit some sweet moves on jobbers when he was on velocity/jakked/metal sometimes.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 18:16 |
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A-Train had a sweet backbreaker where he had them up on his shoulder and jumped up and dropped to his knees and he had a good bicycle kick. Of course he'll always be most famous for taking the most hosed-up f5 in history.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 18:21 |
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Ghostpilot posted:Has there been a wrestler that has gone on record about hating a gimmick that has gotten them over? It only slightly counts, but Steve Austin originally hated the name Steve Austin and was pretty much given that name as an audible to keep him from having the same name as "Dr. Death" Steve Williams.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 18:59 |
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The Croc posted:Prince Albert days he was a tattooist i think he may have tattoo'd a wrestler once and once only after a match. And A-Train was just big wrestle guy and nothing else. He used to hit some sweet moves on jobbers when he was on velocity/jakked/metal sometimes. For some reason, I think it was also hinted that he was Droz's drug dealer. However, I don't know if this is something I remember as actually happening, or have created as a memory from reading terrible wrestling boards in my youth. After Droz, I remember him just floating around with no distinct character other than being a big hairy dude with piercings. He was with the Big Bossman, in T&A (probably the biggest thing for him, mostly due to Trish), briefly in the X-Factor (only remembered by me due to the Uncle Kracker theme song), and then was nicknamed The Hip-Hop Hippo while he teamed with Scotty 2 Hotty before disappearing on the B-Shows until he came back as A-Train.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 18:59 |
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Ghostpilot posted:Has there been a wrestler that has gone on record about hating a gimmick that has gotten them over? Golddust in his book, both as Goldust ("It ruined my marriage!"/"YOU'RE A human being, RHODES!") and in WCW as 7 ("This character's named Seven, by the way...")
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 19:01 |
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Twin Cinema posted:For some reason, I think it was also hinted that he was Droz's drug dealer. However, I don't know if this is something I remember as actually happening, or have created as a memory from reading terrible wrestling boards in my youth. Albert was Droz's tattoo artist. It was Vic Grimes who was hinted as his drug dealer.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 19:01 |
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Thankfully grimes hosed up some top rope move or something and was released before that story went anywhere. I think he was only around for 2/3 weeks at the most.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 19:17 |
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The Croc posted:Thankfully grimes hosed up some top rope move or something and was released before that story went anywhere. I think he was only around for 2/3 weeks at the most. He then went to ECW and blinded New Jack.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 19:20 |
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rappinrodney.ogg posted:It only slightly counts, but Steve Austin originally hated the name Steve Austin and was pretty much given that name as an audible to keep him from having the same name as "Dr. Death" Steve Williams. Mick Foley hated when WCCW called him Cactus Jack Manson because he felt uncomfortable with the Charles Manson association. I don't know when he went back to just Cactus Jack.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 19:21 |
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bobkatt013 posted:Albert was Droz's tattoo artist. It was Vic Grimes who was hinted as his drug dealer. Ah, well that explains why I have conflated the two characters, because I have no memory of Vic Grimes being in the WWE, mostly because it was hilariously brief.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 19:27 |
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Ghostpilot posted:Has there been a wrestler that has gone on record about hating a gimmick that has gotten them over? Brodus Clay isn't on the record (I think) but, come on. He's over but. Come on.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 20:34 |
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Supreme Allah posted:Brodus Clay isn't on the record (I think) but, come on. He's over but. Come on. Wasn't Brodus the one who pitched the idea for the Funkasaurus?
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 20:36 |
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VogeGandire posted:Wasn't Brodus the one who pitched the idea for the Funkasaurus? I have no idea, he just instantly came to mind as a joke character that got popular.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 20:40 |
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Ghostpilot posted:Has there been a wrestler that has gone on record about hating a gimmick that has gotten them over? Dunno if it counts since he was already a big star prior to it, but it's pretty evident that Dusty really disliked all the stuff Vince had him do during his WWF run, even though it got him over hugely with the WWF's audience at the time.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 20:41 |
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How's JC feel about Fandango?
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 21:24 |
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Bard Maddox posted:Has John Cena ever hit an Avalanche AA? It seems like he goes for it in every big match but he's probably never actually succeeded. He used one in the finish to his title match with Lashley some years back.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 22:08 |
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Ghostpilot posted:Has there been a wrestler that has gone on record about hating a gimmick that has gotten them over? Would you consider the Red Rooster "over"?
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 22:35 |
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Bard Maddox posted:Has John Cena ever hit an Avalanche AA? It seems like he goes for it in every big match but he's probably never actually succeeded. II believe he beat Justin Gabriel with one during the Nexus feud on a random Raw. This was when his 450 was the murderdeathkill move of the moment and Gabriel actually got a lot of offense in.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 23:10 |
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Supreme Allah posted:Brodus Clay isn't on the record (I think) but, come on. He's over but. Come on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZS1lGzR31c about 1.40 in.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 23:22 |
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VogeGandire posted:Wasn't Brodus the one who pitched the idea for the Funkasaurus? He pitched Hall of Pain, which got used for Mark Henry. I don't believe he pitched Funkasaurus.
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 23:25 |
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loving wait. I just checked out the gif thread, and WHEN DID loving GOLD DUST COME BACK? Also Edge is back in the WWE? How long was he retired/out for? I loving miss all this poo poo because I think 'eh, it'll just be more of the same thing'
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# ? Sep 15, 2013 23:54 |
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Both just came back for a night. Edge has been retired since right after WrestleMania in 2011. Goldust came back that night also for the chance to get his brother rehired.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 00:00 |
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Well that's kind of a shame, I did like Edge when I was a kid. Also I loving marked out at those .gifs of Goldust. Gotta find that somewhere online, I think. edit: Did edge and christian ever patch things up? Deep Thoreau fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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Bash Ironfist posted:edit: Did edge and christian ever patch things up? I'm not sure what you mean here. They never reunited as a tag team (aside from some "one night only" stuff where a GM would force-team them together) and were singles wrestlers ever since the 2001 break-up. Personally, though, they are still friends and when Christian won the WHC at Extreme Rules 2011 it was Edge right there at ring-side with tears in his eyes as his buddy finally got his World Title.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 00:32 |
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Justin Godscock posted:I'm not sure what you mean here. They never reunited as a tag team (aside from some "one night only" stuff where a GM would force-team them together) and were singles wrestlers ever since the 2001 break-up. Personally, though, they are still friends and when Christian won the WHC at Extreme Rules 2011 it was Edge right there at ring-side with tears in his eyes as his buddy finally got his World Title. Yeah, thats what I mean. Like I remember there was all that drama with edge's wife or something? I may not be remembering it right.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 00:33 |
In storyline they made up at new years revolution 2005 when Edge tried to get himself replaced in the chamber match by Christian. They had a pretty cool little skit on the show where they sorted out their differences.
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 00:43 |
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Bash Ironfist posted:Yeah, thats what I mean. Like I remember there was all that drama with edge's wife or something? I may not be remembering it right. Are you not mixing up Matt Hardy + Edge & Lita?
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# ? Sep 16, 2013 01:53 |