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Some Other Guy posted:I remember watching at the time and I thought the whole Luger as a patriot face thing was weird. He was a bad guy and all of the sudden he shows up in a red white and blue helicopter in american flag trunks and slams Yokozuna on the aircraft carrier. I didn't buy it. I wanted Tatanka to do it or Crush who was made out to be the favorite. I think Hogan leaving made them panic and shove Lex into a main event face slot. I'm only at WM IX (pray for me) but it is interesting to see all the Narcissist hullabaloo knowing how short-lived that gimmick would be.
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Some Other Guy posted:I remember watching at the time and I thought the whole Luger as a patriot face thing was weird. He was a bad guy and all of the sudden he shows up in a red white and blue helicopter in american flag trunks and slams Yokozuna on the aircraft carrier. I didn't buy it. I wanted Tatanka to do it or Crush who was made out to be the favorite. I remember buying it hook line and sinker. I was also wired with weird kneejerk nationalistic tendencies so he may have short circuited me with all the flag stuff.
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coconono posted:I remember buying it hook line and sinker. I was also wired with weird kneejerk nationalistic tendencies so he may have short circuited me with all the flag stuff. Same here. I loving loved it all and watched SS93 with an American flag next to me. God, what a loving dork.
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Mar 31, 2014 17:55
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it may have brought a tear to my eye because we finally got back japan for pearl harbor, but i still didnt buy luger as a face
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Some Other Guy posted:it may have brought a tear to my eye because we finally got back japan for pearl harbor, but i still didnt buy luger as a face So the nuclear bombs counted less than a Luger body slam? Kids are funny.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:10
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It didn't help he was literally the Narcissist like two weeks before at King of the Ring.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:11
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I'm up to the 93 Royal Rumble myself (Yeah, I just started on this CRAZY journey through WWE's Cartoon period). It does suck that Hart takes a back for Lex Luger.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:13
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Was "The Lex Express" actually a thing or was it just a gimmick? As that does seem a lot of effort for the result.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:14
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mrbasehart posted:Was "The Lex Express" actually a thing or was it just a gimmick? As that does seem a lot of effort for the result. What bugs me about it was, they put all that effort into it and never pulled the trigger on Lex becoming champion. I don't get it. They were (seemingly) building him up to be the next mega-face ala Hogan.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:25
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Going through the WWE Network schedule - I'm surprised on Sunday, there's no immediate replay of Wrestlemania 30. Of course they'll have it on demand. But instead - a new Countdown! Top 10 Most Infamous Gimmicks!
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You'd think they'd have a replay, especially since everyone seems to assume the stream will gently caress up at some point
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Mar 31, 2014 18:28
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Vintimus Prime posted:What bugs me about it was, they put all that effort into it and never pulled the trigger on Lex becoming champion. I don't get it. They were (seemingly) building him up to be the next mega-face ala Hogan. He didn't get the reactions, though. Just watched the Raw with the Brutus Beefcake comeback promo. In one of the pauses, an rear end in a top hat in the crowd screams as "KILL YOURSELF" as loud as he can.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:29
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Vintimus Prime posted:What bugs me about it was, they put all that effort into it and never pulled the trigger on Lex becoming champion. I don't get it. They were (seemingly) building him up to be the next mega-face ala Hogan. I guess either A: They figured Yokozuna was too good as a heel champion to have him drop just yet. He keeps the title till Wrestlemania X, dropping to Bret Hart or B: They realized that Luger is NOT World Title material and putting him in that position was a mistake.(Wasn't early 90s WWE Really dumb to begin with anyway?) Just my thoughts, I didn't start watching wrestling till 1998.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:30
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Speaking of Luger, why did they change his name from Narcissus to The Narcissist before his debut?
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Rodney the Piper posted:He didn't get the reactions, though. Holy crap, which Raw was this?
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Mar 31, 2014 18:33
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I'm amazed Yoko held onto the title for what ended up just shy of a year. The only other heel who got to do that was Savage, and he wasn't really a heel for all of it.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:35
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I don't remember which Raw it was, but yeah, Beefcake was giving this incredibly dreary promo about how he lost his face, lost his job and lost his wife in short order. Then he pauses. "KILL YOURSELF!"
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Mar 31, 2014 18:36
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Vintimus Prime posted:Holy crap, which Raw was this? Raw #4, if I'm not mistaken. The one the week after the great Hennig/Flair Loser Leaves Town Match. The hyped main event for the next week was... Doink vs. Typhoon.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:38
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(Sorry for the double post) Is there interest in watching stuff off the Network together on non-PPV Sundays? I could organize something the Sunday after next.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:40
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Rodney the Piper posted:(Sorry for the double post) We can do bad WCW PPVs. Russo at his worse is always fun. Edit: Wrestlemania is this Sunday!  Also,  Bossman's theme music in 1993!
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Mar 31, 2014 18:43
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Rodney the Piper posted:(Sorry for the double post) I'd be down for this
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Mar 31, 2014 18:48
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coconono posted:The pre and post shows are what you'd expect. I like the recap shows because it saves me from having to sit through 3 hours RAW. This guy on YouTube has been putting up weekly 5 minute videos called "Raw Is Abridged" which shows you all the important stuff in 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkZqCXqgfClLoB5-jCOb8hA The Post-Show is nice as it recaps the top two or three angles from the night, but they don't touch on the majority of the things.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:49
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Rodney the Piper posted:(Sorry for the double post) As long as it doesn't clash with total divas, sure
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Blasmeister posted:As long as it doesn't clash with total divas, sure I still think telling people to watch Total Diva's is some kind of sick joke.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:55
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One thing that I've noticed as I go through the archives is that Earl Hebner is the worst goddamn referee ever. He gets involved in matches, he passes out for minutes on the slightest contact, and whenever there's a submission hold applied his arms start flailing about like he had no bones. Same thing when he signals for the bell. The worst part is, now that I've noticed it, I can't stop noticing it and it's ruining a lot of matches for me. He's just so bad.
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Spikeguy posted:Which one was her favorite? Mine wanted to watch the Del Rio one 100 times. So you know, it covered an hour of our time. haha, we kind of cycled through them all (twice) but she seemed to really perk up at the Mysterio traffic cop episode. She's pretty easily amused though so it was probably just the extra vibrant colours in that one. If you haven't seen it, Saturday Morning Slam has some really nice vignettes between matches that are definitely put together by someone with knowledge of how to do children's programming. I'm figuring that'll be a better introduction to wrestling than the episode of Impact we sat through when she was even younger and which should probably be considered child abuse.
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TheJoker138 posted:Speaking of Luger, why did they change his name from Narcissus to The Narcissist before his debut? narcissus was probably too esoteric and clever for something that was supposed to mean the same thing.
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flashy_mcflash posted:haha, we kind of cycled through them all (twice) but she seemed to really perk up at the Mysterio traffic cop episode. She's pretty easily amused though so it was probably just the extra vibrant colours in that one. You monster. We all know you start with Wrestlemania 11...
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Blasmeister posted:As long as it doesn't clash with total divas, sure Would Saturdays be better?
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Mar 31, 2014 19:32
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Watching Survivor Series 2013 and oh my loving God. Zeb and Cody twerking. I'm generally at a loss. And it's amazing.
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The Best Backstab Countdown is amazing. When it gets to the Owen/Bret one, the first thing you hear is Cesaro going "No no no! You got it all wrong! Owen didn't backstab Bret! Bret was being totally selfish!" Cesaro  Then you get an AWESOME segment of Damien Sandow explaining how he was doing the right thing at MITB '13.
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If this is Luger's actual theme song on the fourth Raw, I can't imagine that working for anyone at all. Edit: And then they have a fat lady do the placard deal, much to Luger's DISGUST. This is the same episode as a Tatanka match AND Jim Duggan doing a call-in interview over a Yokozuna match. Oh, early 90s. Fake editx2: Mr. Perfect passing a football to himself! Punch McLightning fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Vintimus Prime posted:What bugs me about it was, they put all that effort into it and never pulled the trigger on Lex becoming champion. I don't get it. They were (seemingly) building him up to be the next mega-face ala Hogan. They were so happy with how things were going into Summerslam they decided to hold it off until Wrestlemania. Luger cooled off tremendously after not winning the belt at SS and by Rumble the crowd reacted much better to Hart winning, so Luger's title win never happened.
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Capsaicin posted:The Best Backstab Countdown is amazing. When it gets to the Owen/Bret one, the first thing you hear is Cesaro going "No no no! You got it all wrong! Owen didn't backstab Bret! Bret was being totally selfish!" Cesaro is reight. There was no good reason for Brett to have not tagged Owen in, drat it.
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Wow, more Wrestlemania programming on the network. Seems like the Tuesday night after Wrestlemania, instead of Wrestlemania Rewind at 9pm, there will be "Journey to Wrestlemania". Only a half-hour so I'm guessing that Rewind will air at 9:30pm.quote:Follow a WWE Superstar behind the scenes before, during and after WrestleMania. Our cameras provide you an all-access pass along his journey to WrestleMania.
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Fatigue has not set in yet, but these old RAW episodes are a lot of fun. It helps they're only an hour long and they breeze by. Episode 31, CRUSH BRAH does a call-in interview. It goes disastrously too. I assumed it was just pre-recorded bits or something but no, it seems like it was for real. CRUSH BRAH has a terrible line and Macho says something and then there's a long pause... "Is that Macho Man Randy Savage?" And then the line goes dead. We've been doing the RAW-RAW-RAW-PPV thing and man, Summerslam 93 is rough. Luger's win is the most hollow victory. Everyone goes nuts over it and all he had was a countout. I think Heenan is the only one to mention that it means nothing Also, have there ever been any more "Quebec Province Rules" matches or was this gimmick saved for the uh...Quebecers?
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DudeDeuce posted:Wow, more Wrestlemania programming on the network. Seems like the Tuesday night after Wrestlemania, instead of Wrestlemania Rewind at 9pm, there will be "Journey to Wrestlemania". Only a half-hour so I'm guessing that Rewind will air at 9:30pm. I'm guessing this is what Bryan had Network guys following him around for.
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I'm sure this has been asked a million times, and I think I remember the answer, but I just want to be super careful : Some friends want me to host Wrestlemania, because I don't have any neighbours to piss off, by shouting at the TV. I'm in the UK, and I have a VPN that I can use to get a USA IP address. How do I sign up to The Network, and stream Wrestlemania?
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Tyma posted:I'm sure this has been asked a million times, and I think I remember the answer, but I just want to be super careful : I signed up, listed my address as a US one (Use the Zip 90210) and paid through Paypal. The rest should work fine.
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DrVenkman posted:I signed up, listed my address as a US one (Use the Zip 90210) and paid through Paypal. The rest should work fine. Haha even though I am nowhere remotely close to Beverly Hills, that's always the first zip code that pops in my head when I need to enter a random one.
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