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Just watched the Foley documentary on the Network, and I have a quick question - I wasn't watching at the time, what was he like on commentary when he had that run on Smackdown?
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Awful. It seemed like he was trying way too hard to be funny, and he'd only stop long enough to make fun of whatever was happening in the ring.
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Mar 23, 2014 14:20
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I kept hearing mention of the name Art Donovan in some of the podcasts I listen to and decided to track down what it was in reference to. I then came upon across 1994's King of the Ring. Wow. 
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Mar 23, 2014 14:52
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Ghostpilot posted:I kept hearing mention of the name Art Donovan in some of the podcasts I listen to and decided to track down what it was in reference to. I then came upon across 1994's King of the Ring. And the eternal question will go on forever, passed down from time immemorial. "How much does this guy weigh?"
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Mar 23, 2014 15:05
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VogeGandire posted:And the eternal question will go on forever, passed down from time immemorial. If I ever visit Donovan's grave, I will be disappointed if that quote is not carved on his tombstone.
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Mar 23, 2014 15:26
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Which match was it when Daniel Bryan was the one who finally beat the Shield in a six man tag?
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Mar 23, 2014 18:28
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Spikeguy posted:Which match was it when Daniel Bryan was the one who finally beat the Shield in a six man tag? Payback 2013 I believe. Errr it may have been a random Smackdown now that I think about it. Daniel Bryan fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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Mar 23, 2014 18:29
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Spikeguy posted:Which match was it when Daniel Bryan was the one who finally beat the Shield in a six man tag? SmackDown 6/14/13.
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Mar 23, 2014 18:40
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I thought the Shield's first 6 man tag loss was to Christian and The Usos. Which kind of made a little bit of sense, as they were heading for a Dean/Christian feud and wanted the belts on the Usos for a while now, but in hindsight is kind of a  moment
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Mar 23, 2014 18:43
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Batista posted:Payback 2013 I believe. Errr it may have been a random Smackdown now that I think about it. Payback was Bryan/Orton against Rollins/Reigns for the tag belts.
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:I thought the Shield's first 6 man tag loss was to Christian and The Usos. Which kind of made a little bit of sense, as they were heading for a Dean/Christian feud and wanted the belts on the Usos for a while now, but in hindsight is kind of a No, that was two weeks later. They lost to Bryan, Kane, and Orton on SmackDown when Bryan tapped out Rollins.
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Mar 23, 2014 18:45
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What is Dean's finishing move? I don't think I've ever seen him do it or it be pointed out.
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Mar 23, 2014 20:20
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Shield's first 6 man loss is on the network, SD 6/13/13: http://network.wwe.com/video/v31334627
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Spikeguy posted:What is Dean's finishing move? I don't think I've ever seen him do it or it be pointed out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0UCwCCjXkQ The Headlock Driver. It's like a backwards DDT.
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Mar 23, 2014 20:25
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Ghostpilot posted:I kept hearing mention of the name Art Donovan in some of the podcasts I listen to and decided to track down what it was in reference to. I then came upon across 1994's King of the Ring. All three men on that announce desk are dead.
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Mar 23, 2014 21:08
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Ghostpilot posted:I kept hearing mention of the name Art Donovan in some of the podcasts I listen to and decided to track down what it was in reference to. I then came upon across 1994's King of the Ring. The last time I watched that show I had just read League of Denial and it made me kind of sad to hear Art.
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Mar 23, 2014 21:33
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MassRafTer posted:The last time I watched that show I had just read League of Denial and it made me kind of sad to hear Art. Is that about head injuries?
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Mar 23, 2014 21:34
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Is that about head injuries? Yeah.
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Mar 23, 2014 21:35
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spongeh posted:Shield's first 6 man loss is on the network, SD 6/13/13: I just noticed the woman that's super excited about Dean Ambrose as he hops over the barrier. She has a great  face.
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Mar 23, 2014 23:59
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Watching a fat bleach-blonde Brian Lawler come down the ramp to his old music and doing the entire Grandmaster Sexay routine to no crowd reaction was hilarious/pathetic. Not only that but he was completely out of breath for the ensuing promo. He was so out of shape his entrance gassed him. MassRafTer posted:Edge is a big dude, but in WWE he never got to really look like a big bully so it had to be fun for him to wrestle Rey and basically be a giant. I remember HBK looking thrilled in the ring when he got to be the big man for a change against Rey. Edge was deceptively big, so much so that in his Wrestlemania match against Undertaker, they actually booked him as a guy who was on equal footing with Taker in terms of size. I remember that being surprisingly equally matched despite always considering Edge a "small guy". I think it's just because he's so goddamn lanky that it made him look smaller. I don't know what Jack Swagger's excuse is. Dude's huge but I always forget just how huge.
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Mar 24, 2014 01:25
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Edge's offence also belies his size, because he doesn't wrestle like a power wrestler, he wrestles like a mid sized WWE main eventer who works WWE style.
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Mar 24, 2014 01:36
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It was kind of funny, but in one of Swagger's recent backstage things he was next to Renee and looked positively huge. Then Cesaro came in, he still looked bigger than him. Then the camera panned and they looked about even heightwise. I think they're just filming him like crap.
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Mar 24, 2014 01:37
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Did anyone know Hornswoggle is in the Muppet movie?
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Mar 24, 2014 01:57
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sticklefifer posted:Not only that but he was completely out of breath for the ensuing promo. He was so out of shape his entrance gassed him. I can think of someone else with the same problem, except that he can't use being fat as an excuse like GMS can.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:50
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epitasis posted:Did anyone know Hornswoggle is in the Muppet movie? There was a screenshot in the Pictures thread a few months ago.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:54
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He has more lines than fellow Irish celebrity Saoirse Ronan!
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Mar 24, 2014 02:58
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Shima Honnou posted:I can think of someone else with the same problem, except that he can't use being fat as an excuse like GMS can. I'm pretty sure Batista's asthmatic.
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Mar 24, 2014 03:10
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This is going way back, but does anybody recall what people were saying leading up to Hogan's heel turn? Was it expected? In hindsight it looks like all the clues were there but that's easy to say now.
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Mar 24, 2014 06:48
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Hogan turning was such a tightly-kept secret that they didn't even let the announce team know it was happening, so I would be surprised if there was much talk about it being Hogan beforehand.
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Mar 24, 2014 07:26
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How much pull did Hogan have in WCW with booking when he was a face before the nWo?
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Mar 24, 2014 07:45
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Luigi Thirty posted:How much pull did Hogan have in WCW with booking when he was a face before the nWo? He had total control of all his angles from the time he signed with WCW.
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Mar 24, 2014 07:50
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Luigi Thirty posted:How much pull did Hogan have in WCW with booking when he was a face before the nWo? Sullivan was made booker because he would book to please Hogan, that's how much pull he had. The Hogan turn wasn't a total secret but they did a very good job keeping it a mystery. He was one of the names rumored, but they had enough other plausible names that it wasn't widely reported.
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Mar 24, 2014 07:51
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It probably helped to throw people off that they had other people prepared to turn if Hogan backed out at the last second, since there was a very real possibility he might do that.
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Mar 24, 2014 08:00
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Defiance Industries posted:It probably helped to throw people off that they had other people prepared to turn if Hogan backed out at the last second, since there was a very real possibility he might do that. Hogan says that now but since he says Sting was set up to turn if he backed out last second it's hard to believe him. Sting was one of the guys out there, so he could not have been in that spot. Luger was sent backstage in an injury angle so he could have plausibly been one, but I doubt there was any actual fear Hogan would back out. It's just one of the things Hogan says these days to get attention, like how he says he tried to get WWE to bring in Sting to replace him in 1988.
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Mar 24, 2014 08:03
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Defiance Industries posted:Hogan turning was such a tightly-kept secret that they didn't even let the announce team know it was happening, so I would be surprised if there was much talk about it being Hogan beforehand. The Brain knew! You can never trust Hogan!
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Mar 24, 2014 08:13
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Yeah Heenan was dropping it pretty thick for Tony to go "what no, he's Hulk Hogan, what are you mean whose side is he on?" to. Have scientists determined why Scott Steiner loses the ability to speak with a microphone in his hand? They could do genetic tests on him like Ozzy Osbourne. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Mar 24, 2014 |
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Mar 24, 2014 08:15
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I checked the Observer for that night and I guess Sting was the other option, but it seems like that wasn't a worry that night because Bischoff didn't get to the building before the main event started. Hogan made his decision 11 days prior, but there was worry he'd pull out until the day of. They were told not to worry about the third man during a meeting that afternoon, so it seems like Hogan was 100% on board the day of. Supposedly Nash and Hall weren't told until that night, although Meltzer doubted that.
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Mar 24, 2014 08:36
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Wasn't Bret Hart a possibility when they first came up with the angle? His contract was up and he was made a very nice offer, I think.
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Mar 24, 2014 11:51
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah Heenan was dropping it pretty thick for Tony to go "what no, he's Hulk Hogan, what are you mean whose side is he on?" to. He changes his voice fairly significantly when he does promos. Maybe he's focusing too hard on grunting out his steroid-fueled old lady voice instead of what he's actually saying.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Wasn't Bret Hart a possibility when they first came up with the angle? His contract was up and he was made a very nice offer, I think. One of the rumors I heard was that it was Davey Boy Smith who had a contract about to expire around that time and was considered for the NWO.
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