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Davros1 posted:In '90s WCW there was a tag team comprised of Tex Slazenger and Shanghai Pierce. Shanghai Pierce just might be the greatest name in all of pro wrestling. Shanghai Pierce also had one of the worst wrestling names as Henry O. Godwinn. His WCW partner became his kayfabe brother Phineas, who later became Mideon. And now you know the rest of the story. Rusty Shackelford fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Mar 7, 2014 |
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DeathChicken posted:Yeah, and he was also the guy who played Bane in Batman and Robin.
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Endorph posted:So he's had the best acting career of any wrestler. I caught a movie on Showtime yesterday that had Steve Austin as a racist prison guard saying the N word a bunch, does that count? I think I saw Kevin Nash and Goldberg too.
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emjayo posted:Whatever happened to Luke Gallows? He fought the Great Power Uti and was never the same again, RIP
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I heard from the dirt sheets that The Great Power Uti was going to come on a victory tour of the US and beat Bully Ray and John Cena in the same night, but unfortunately, those big meanies at the World Bank have frozen his accounts. If you could wire him just $3000...
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Phineas, who later became Mode on. PSP's Adventures in Autocorrect
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Unlucky7 posted:Speaking of NJPW, where do I go if I want to check it out? Real answer: Check out the NJPW thread here. They stream bigger shows on Ustream for $20-$25 or so, but most of them end up on Daily Motion or vimeo soon after. If you like what you see (you will), consider paying for a future show. The more support it gets outside of Japan, the better for non-Japanese fans. Maybe. Hopefully.
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Unlucky7 posted:Speaking of NJPW, where do I go if I want to check it out? Static Rook posted:Real answer: Check out the NJPW thread here. They stream bigger shows on Ustream for $20-$25 or so, but most of them end up on Daily Motion or vimeo soon after. If you like what you see (you will), consider paying for a future show. The more support it gets outside of Japan, the better for non-Japanese fans. Maybe. Hopefully. Yes, please pay for a show if you enjoy the product as they should be rewarded for consistently putting on great shows and instituting profit sharing among their workers. Here's a helpful guide to their workers and angles written before this January's Tokyo Dome show which is their equivalent to WrestleMania. Here's part 1 of the Dome show, and that guy has the rest uploaded as well. Here's a a playlist for last months New Beginning in Osaka PPV which was an incredible show headlined by arguably the best two matches this year. As Static Rook said, please ask any further questions in the NJPW thread. The next big cards are the New Japan Cup later this month, and all three days will be available as UStream iPPVs.
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Ghostpilot posted:WWF was in the midst of the steroid trial, so they did what they could to disguise the fact that their guys were getting smaller now that they were off the juice. Is that why they started the Icopro thing? To say they were on supplements rather than steroids?
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JPrime posted:Is that why they started the Icopro thing? To say they were on supplements rather than steroids? Icopro started before the steroid bust around the time Vince started the WBF as part of his wanting to break into and take over the bodybuilding industry.
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I always figured Gorilla was making a sideways steroid joke with his Icopro shilling. "Tatanka is clearly a firm proponent of Icopro!" Kind of like the Terry Garvin School of Self Defense.
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Did King Kong Bundy do anything at all of note in-between Wrestlemania 2 and 3? Even his Wiki page goes from one to the other. Did he just do the house show circuit with Hogan for a month or two and fall into obscurity?
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So this just kind of popped up into my head yesterday, but I was wondering what kind of affect, if any at all, the writer's strike in 2007 had on the WWE. Were they still able to write? I know I was watching at the time, but for the life of me I can't remember anything ever being mentioned about it.
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Officer Farva posted:So this just kind of popped up into my head yesterday, but I was wondering what kind of affect, if any at all, the writer's strike in 2007 had on the WWE. Were they still able to write? I know I was watching at the time, but for the life of me I can't remember anything ever being mentioned about it. I'd bet every penny I've ever owned, seen or thought about that WWE's creative staff either aren't WGA members or knew that if they walked out they weren't going to have jobs to come back to.
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Officer Farva posted:So this just kind of popped up into my head yesterday, but I was wondering what kind of affect, if any at all, the writer's strike in 2007 had on the WWE. Were they still able to write? I know I was watching at the time, but for the life of me I can't remember anything ever being mentioned about it. There's no unions anywhere in wrestling.
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What are considered some of the best debuts in WWE? It seems like Jericho had a pretty cool one, but what about others?
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Bard Maddox posted:There's no unions anywhere in wrestling. LIAR! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Ugj2fPpcw
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Funktastic posted:What are considered some of the best debuts in WWE? It seems like Jericho had a pretty cool one, but what about others? Kane's was pretty drat memorable. Gonzo McFee posted:Vince fired Jessie The Body Ventura for trying to make a Union. This is also one of the worst thing Hulk Hogan has ever done. Jesse was about to form a union for wrestlers, Hogan ratted him out to Vince, Vince fired Jesse. So the fact that wrestlers don't have a union is almost entirely on Hogan's head. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 7, 2014 |
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Vince fired Jessie The Body Ventura for trying to make a Union. Vince would literally buy union busters to break his workers legs before ever allowing a Union to form.
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Funktastic posted:What are considered some of the best debuts in WWE? It seems like Jericho had a pretty cool one, but what about others? Undertaker.
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Funktastic posted:What are considered some of the best debuts in WWE? It seems like Jericho had a pretty cool one, but what about others? Fandango is top 10.
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Does ECW's debut in WWE with Sabu diving off of the Raw logo count?
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Cena for sure.
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The Nexus had a cool debut if that counts.
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They definitely got their money's worth out of the guys that said "Nation of Domination" in their theme.
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The debut of the Wyatt Family and the Shield were pretty cool.
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Lesnar's debut was pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nETm-odrpWk
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Tazz at the (Rumble?) was cool too. I think he gave Angle his first loss.
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Supreme Allah posted:Tazz at the (Rumble?) was cool too. I think he gave Angle his first loss. Yeah that was pretty cool. The crowd pops huge for Tazz as the "mystery opponent"
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Funktastic posted:What are considered some of the best debuts in WWE? It seems like Jericho had a pretty cool one, but what about others? Mankind wasn't bad. He had a few weeks of vignettes to hype him as a masked nutcase who lived in a basement with a pet rat. It seemed like a strange heel gimmick, but could be neat, right? So Undertaker beats Diesel at WM12 in a hoss-off, and as you'd expect, taking a (kayfabe) beating, although getting a win. The next night on Raw, an exhausted Undertaker fights another hoss, Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw. They have a decent power match, but it takes a lot for UT to put Bradshaw away. Then Mankind randomly appears, and beats UT into oblivion.
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Does anyone have the original Mankind bio where it talks about him being a piano prodigy?
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Raven's WWE debut where he DDT'd Jerry Lawler in Philly and got a huge pop was pretty cool.
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VogeGandire posted:Kane's was pretty drat memorable. This gets my vote also, a memorable end to the best match the company had in years. I also liked Big Show's debut in WWE--coming out from under the ring during the Austin/McMahon cage match and throwing Austin through the cage for the win.
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I liked Mickie James' whole debut angle, with her being Trish's stalker.
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Red posted:Mankind wasn't bad. Mankind's intro was one of the things that brought wrestling to my attention. I only knew of certain wrestlers and didn't watch the product. I knew that the Undertaker was a tough guy though. So when I saw Mankind take him down, I thought holy poo poo this guy is a big deal. The announcers put Mick over really well in my 10-year-old mind.
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Schlitzkrieg Bop posted:I also liked Big Show's debut in WWE--coming out from under the ring during the Austin/McMahon cage match and throwing Austin through the cage for the win. Even better, his WCW debut was during the infamous, "IT'S NOT HOT!" Hogan segment where he appeared in the place of an exploding statue.
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Gavok posted:Even better, his WCW debut was during the infamous, "IT'S NOT HOT!" Hogan segment where he appeared in the place of an exploding statue. He is just getting revenge on Hogan for killing his father.
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I thought Big Show's debut in WWF made him look like a joke. He has one job, and that was to ensure that Austin does not win the match. He proceeds to screw up his first job. I know McMahon motions for Show to throw him into the cage, but they could have had a beat more of a beat down instead of Austin riding the cage wall to the outside. I know it wasn't the intial debut of Undertaker, but I have always loved the Bikertaker debut at Judgment Day 2000. It was at the height of the McMahon/Helmsley faction, and all kinds of chaos is happening in the ring near the end of the Rock/HHH Ironman match. The way Taker completely clears the ring and destroys everyone with chokeslams and tombstones was great.
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Gavok posted:Even better, his WCW debut was during the infamous, "IT'S NOT HOT!" Hogan segment where he appeared in the place of an exploding statue. Wasn't his debut walking up to Hogan during an interview segment on a beach?
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