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Baby Babbeh posted:What do you people who are cord cutters do for your internet, exactly? In Canada I have Shaw Cable. $70 a month let me bump up to a higher tier Internet package than I had before. With the cable I had slightly worse Internet and cable I rarely used for $110 a month. I decided I'd rather save the $40 and spend it on things that actually give me content I want like Netflix or if they start offering it unbundled HBO Go. I've been on the fence about the NFL streaming package as half the time cable didn't have the games I'd want and the sketchy Internet streams they post in SAS aren't always great quality. It's less about cost savings to me and more cable does a lousy job of always having the content I actually want available. Something like WWE Network is primarily attractive to me for the enormous on demand back catalogue, but tying it to a cable provider not even available in my half of the country is a problem.
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Watching an old episode of Nitro and Scott Steiner has a loving mullet. My world has been turned upside down.
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Stall_19 posted:Watching an old episode of Nitro and Scott Steiner has a loving mullet. My world has been turned upside down. If you do the math, I think you'll find you've been turned right-side up again.
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Stall_19 posted:Watching an old episode of Nitro and Scott Steiner has a loving mullet. My world has been turned upside down. That's the Scott Steiner I grew up on and your Scott Steiner is very odd to me.
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Baby Babbeh posted:What do you people who are cord cutters do for your internet, exactly? Because where I live the only real choice in broadband is Comcast and their bundle deals are cheap enough that its almost more expensive for me to just have internet even though I don't watch TV more than a few times a month. I get 50mbps service plus all local channels and PBS for $66/month. All from Comcast. On the topic of the network, it needs some work of course, but the draw for me is I can put on Starcade '85 and enjoy the hell out of it. I know other can't enjoy it, so, the value isn't there. If you don't like it, don't subscribe.
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I still can't reconcile Big Poppa Pump with long and dark haired Scott Steiner.
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oldpainless posted:I still can't reconcile Big Poppa Pump with long and dark haired Scott Steiner. It's a Doink thing. After the Steiner Brothers broke up, Scott Steiner was replaced by a roidbeast impostor who made no sense.
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When I've looked at old Steiner Bros stuff more recently, I've realized that Scott Steiner in that era was way bigger than I remembered, so the transition seems way less dramatic than it used to. I mean, look at this guy:![]() He's definitely smaller than he would eventually become, but that physique is already unnatural.
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I think he was a monster in high school too. Maybe not as big but super athletic and flexible. This is scary too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9WbYlu2dw
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the funny part is the old AWA guys had Rick Steiner picked to be the next big thing.
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coconono posted:the funny part is the old AWA guys had Rick Steiner picked to be the next big thing. that's the most AWA thing ever.
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Diabolik900 posted:When I've looked at old Steiner Bros stuff more recently, I've realized that Scott Steiner in that era was way bigger than I remembered, so the transition seems way less dramatic than it used to. I mean, look at this guy: Yeah, I think he got noticeably bigger between the WWF stint and his return to WCW too.
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coconono posted:the funny part is the old AWA guys had Rick Steiner picked to be the next big thing. As a kid I always liked Rick because he had way more of a character than Scott did. It's crazy how that flipped around.
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coconono posted:the funny part is the old AWA guys had Rick Steiner picked to be the next big thing. Who could have imagined the "dog-faced gremlin" gimmick might doom a guy to the mid-card?
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Before Scott could talk I would've picked Rick too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucc4FGfmWiQ
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Astro7x posted:I am honestly surprised we didn't get any mention of Oklahoma, Cruiserweight Champion. They probably didn't want to call attention to their own treatment of the Lightweight/Cruiserweight belts. Which is worse: Oklahoma as Cruiserweight champion or Hornswoggle?
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As a kid I liked Rick more too. Good nicknames beat out boring, non-cool/boring job nickname dudes 9 times out of 10.
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there's nothing boring about huge suplexes
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oatgan posted:there's nothing boring about huge suplexes Huge suplexes are cool, but not as cool as Big Daddy Cool.
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What if Big Daddy Cool did a big suplex?
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Rick would also inform people that if they wanted some, they should come get some. Which is clearly a line that John Cena has appropriated in his reign of doom. (Ignoring that DDP also used it in WCW later on).
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Wrong thread. So uh. What's Monday night wars covering this week.
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Goldberg.
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Can't wait to hear Nash talk about Goldberg wanting to punch the window with his fist instead of a bat again
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You see the fans wanted a realistic character like Goldberg while the WWF was insulting the fans intelligence with cartoony gimmicks in the mid 90s
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Astro7x posted:Can't wait to hear Nash talk about Goldberg wanting to punch the window with his fist instead of a bat again In a main event he needed to go 20. You were lucky if he did 12 at a house show.
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Its crazy how I could have sworn Shawn kicked Marty through the glass window but he didn't. I could picture it in my mind but it was a falsehood.
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ayn rand hand job posted:In a main event he needed to go 20. You were lucky if he did 12 at a house show. The Goldberg matches actually hold up really well when watching the old Nitros because they are so short. The crowd would really get behind him, and its fun watching them explode when he hits his big moves. Given that his gimmick was the winning streak, I wouldn't want to see the dude go 20 minutes. It's why I can't stand watching these epic long John Cena matches where you know he is just going to rapadoo in the end.
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I really liked the DX thing they did on the network. They should do more of those and take questions from the audience.
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The MNW episodes about WCW are so much better than the one's about the WWE because it's clear people are being allowed to be more honest in their comments. That said, I wonder what else they're going to cover? Next week is Jericho according to Wikipedia, and I'm guessing Undertaker will get his own episode. Other than Goldberg, the nWo and the cruiserweights, what else from WCW deserves an hour long episode? Sting? DDP?
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Seams posted:Other than Goldberg, the nWo and the cruiserweights, what else from WCW deserves an hour long episode? Sting? DDP? Three Count.
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If I don't get an hour-long Disco Inferno doc I'm cancelling my subscription.
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A Vampiro documentary consisting of an hour of former WCW talent calling him a dick.
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Catching up and watching the Goldberg one just now, it's really striking how every line Cena says about Goldberg could so very, very easily be applied to himself. Especially once they hit the part about repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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Can we get more of these on the Network, pretty please WWE? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eA1ZrmdmoA PS - If anyone can Avatar size/format this, would be forever greatful. ![]()
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so I wanna get revved up for hell in a cell Sunday and I wanna know what some of psps favorite hell in a cell matches are!
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MrDru posted:so I wanna get revved up for hell in a cell Sunday and I wanna know what some of psps favorite hell in a cell matches are! KOTR '98
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MrDru posted:so I wanna get revved up for hell in a cell Sunday and I wanna know what some of psps favorite hell in a cell matches are! Edge vs. Undertaker, Summerslam 08
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MrDru posted:so I wanna get revved up for hell in a cell Sunday and I wanna know what some of psps favorite hell in a cell matches are! ayn rand hand job posted:KOTR '98 Badd Blood '97 No Way Out 2000 There are no other HIAC matches.
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MrDru posted:so I wanna get revved up for hell in a cell Sunday and I wanna know what some of psps favorite hell in a cell matches are! There's a HiaC episode of countdown on the network if you want a sampler. Of the ones not mentioned HBK/Taker at Badd Blood '97 and HHH/Taker at WM28 are real good, however.
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