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I really liked Mero in 1996 too. He had a couple good matches with Austin and there was an effort to everything not a lot of guys put on in 1996. I think the wrestlers hated him though which hurt any memories of him.
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May 31, 2014 23:46
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I expected not to like Mero's early WWF run but most of the matches were solid. He was out with his knee injury when I got hooked on WCW so I didn't see him during my brief Raw viewings until after his recovery. He wasn't any good in 98, but I'll agree with the sentiment about 96. I've never even been that high on his WCW work.
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May 31, 2014 23:58
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1996 Mero is probably one of the most underrated workers in all of the 1990's WWF and would have absolutely been worth his contract had he stayed healthy but he was one of the most universally disliked guys in locker room, and sadly at least 2/3 of that was purely due to jealousy for his salary and being able to bring his smoking hot wife on the road with him. Now post-Benoit he's probably been blackballed from getting any sort of recognition at all from the industry. Even Foley spent a good page or two in his first book railing against the guy for no other reason than the fact he believed Mero was making too much money.
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Now Marc Merro is a motivational speaker - http://www.thinkpoz.org/
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He did a nice SSP for a good sized guy.
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Nystral posted:Now Marc Merro is a motivational speaker - http://www.thinkpoz.org/ Mero really didn't research before choosing that name.
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Yeah, I hate Mero even more now that I see his botox-riddled surgically modified permanent smile staring over a microphone like a Mickey Mouse death's head. Please you blind, stupid horrific freak, please tell me the secrets to staying positive, staying motivated... Think Poz. How could you trust this has been who looks bizarrely artificial, like a clown Hummel figure? How could anyone see this guy teaching empowerment to children, going state to state, city to city, school to school, and not suspect something insidious hiding just under the surface? Watching Mero try to get himself over on national news by politicizing the deaths of Nancy and Daniel Benoit made me really hate the guy. God Of Paradise fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Jun 1, 2014 11:04
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In the mid-90s WWF, they had a ton of really terrible performers - why didn't they raid ECW and other indys? Was it a matter of just not having the money to hire talent, or was WCW giving anyone they tried to get a bigger payday?
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Bigass Moth posted:In the mid-90s WWF, they had a ton of really terrible performers - why didn't they raid ECW and other indys? Was it a matter of just not having the money to hire talent, or was WCW giving anyone they tried to get a bigger payday? How many of the ECW talent (Mid 90s, so after WCW already had grabbed up Eddie, Benoit, Malenko, Rey?) actually went on to do something of merit outside of ECW? WCW had already taken a lot of the talent from there, and all that were left were guys who were maximized to potential in ECW who would have just flopped in WWF as bad as their current roster I think.
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Jun 1, 2014 14:29
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www.thinkpoz.com posted:After reaching the pinnacle of sports entertainment as a WCW and WWE Wrestling Champion Weighing in at 239 pounds, the World Wrestling Federation WRESTLING CHAMPION, MARC! MERO!
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Marc Mero lost 95% of his appeal once he didn't have the Badd Blaster.
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Jun 1, 2014 15:59
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What was the context behind Batista saying "basketballs don't hold grudges"?
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Purple Monkey posted:What was the context behind Batista saying "basketballs don't hold grudges"? Denver Nuggets Pepsi Center issue, Khali squeezes a basketball in his bare-hands and had a match with Batista coming up.
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Jun 1, 2014 16:24
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Onmi posted:Denver Nuggets Pepsi Center issue, Khali squeezes a basketball in his bare-hands and had a match with Batista coming up. Probably he popped it but until I have confirmation I'm just going to imagine a very menacing barehanded squeeze.
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Are there any big stars from the Monday Night Wars that didn't work in both WWF and WCW? It seriously seems like everyone who had even a little name recognition was in both at some point or another, either at the height of their popularity or before/after their career peaks. The Rock is the only one I can think of who was a big star but never wrestled in WCW. Kane maybe?
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bradzilla posted:Are there any big stars from the Monday Night Wars that didn't work in both WWF and WCW? It seriously seems like everyone who had even a little name recognition was in both at some point or another, either at the height of their popularity or before/after their career peaks. The Rock is the only one I can think of who was a big star but never wrestled in WCW. Kane maybe? Undertaker?
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Abrasive Obelisk posted:Undertaker? He wrestled in WCW for a number of years in the late 80s/early 90s.
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Sting and Shawn Michaels.
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Kevin Nash didn't really work in either company
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Kane Kurt Angle Tazz Edge (?) The Hardys The Dudleys Lanny Poffo 
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Perdido posted:Edge (?) To answer your question:  With a name straight out of FCW, too
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Ktik posted:How many of the ECW talent (Mid 90s, so after WCW already had grabbed up Eddie, Benoit, Malenko, Rey?) actually went on to do something of merit outside of ECW? WCW had already taken a lot of the talent from there, and all that were left were guys who were maximized to potential in ECW who would have just flopped in WWF as bad as their current roster I think. What about the Dudley Boys?
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Jun 1, 2014 20:41
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Ktik posted:How many of the ECW talent (Mid 90s, so after WCW already had grabbed up Eddie, Benoit, Malenko, Rey?) actually went on to do something of merit outside of ECW? WCW had already taken a lot of the talent from there, and all that were left were guys who were maximized to potential in ECW who would have just flopped in WWF as bad as their current roster I think. Lance Storm held almost all of WCWs midcard titles at the same time
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Jun 1, 2014 20:48
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Tazz did a few things in WWE, RVD is a former WWE champion, and the first ever WWECW champion.
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Tazz had to retire almost immediately due to his hosed-up neck too.
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So here's a question, I recently told my parents that I'd gotten back into wrestling. When I was a kid my parents would watch it with me, we'd use to watch 1999 and 2000's WCW and they have a passing interest in wrestling. They don't really think/understand how the product has moved on since then though, what could I show them (promo/video package/match) to convince them or at least show them otherwise. I feel like the Pipebomb might be a good example but that needs a good lot of context beforehand.
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John Cena posted:don't show pro wrestling to your parents agreed.
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xNarUtoRKOrton420x posted:So here's a question, I recently told my parents that I'd gotten back into wrestling. That must have been hard. I commend your courage.
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xNarUtoRKOrton420x posted:So here's a question, I recently told my parents that I'd gotten back into wrestling. When I was a kid my parents would watch it with me, we'd use to watch 1999 and 2000's WCW and they have a passing interest in wrestling. They don't really think/understand how the product has moved on since then though, what could I show them (promo/video package/match) to convince them or at least show them otherwise. I feel like the Pipebomb might be a good example but that needs a good lot of context beforehand. Shield matches, any random Shield matches will do. They're all pretty good. If I had to pick one, show the first Wyatt/Shield match and the packages leading up to it (if there were any).
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With the news coming out that Michael Elgin is obsessed with what people think about him on Twitter, is there anyone else in the business notably like that?
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EugeneJ posted:With the news coming out that Michael Elgin is obsessed with what people think about him on Twitter, is there anyone else in the business notably like that? I subtweeted Austin Aries to Dixie Carter and got blocked by him. Dixie Carter DM'd me because of it.
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Daniel Bryan posted:I subtweeted Austin Aries to Dixie Carter and got blocked by him. Dixie Carter DM'd me because of it. Aries actually brought up having "a streak of four-star matches" on TV during his 2012 run, so yeah that's pretty self-obsessed
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I also know coconono pissed off Gerald Brisco on twitter by tweeting about Wes Briscoe last week and it was hilarious
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Gerry was definitely searching for all mentions of Wes after his NJPW match. He's deleted a bunch of them since.
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John Cena posted:don't show pro wrestling to your parents During the Kane/Bryan match at Extreme Rules my mom asked me who the guy with the beard was. I said he was the champion, she asked why he gets to be the champion when he's so small
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Luigi Thirty posted:During the Kane/Bryan match at Extreme Rules my mom asked me who the guy with the beard was. I said he was the champion, she asked why he gets to be the champion when he's so small A Good Mom.
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