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Spent most of the day trading texts and links with my sister about Roddy Piper. I hated him, hated him as a kid because he was so mean to Hulk. But going back and looking at all that stuff as a teen and again now, god drat the guy was so, so good. That 2008 Rumble pop got me teary-eyed, gotta admit. He looked so happy to be there, poking Snuka in the eye one more time  If the steroids and coke don't kill you while you're doing them, they just bide their time and strike 20-30 years later.
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Two Beans posted:CM Punk sitting against the ropes just marking out as this unfolds in front of him. That wild, wide grin is kinda adorable. I'm just pointing out that Vince's 70th birthday is the Raw after Summerslam.
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Aug 1, 2015 21:46
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Today is my birthday. I may just have to subject my party guests to a double-feature of They Live followed by Hell Comes to Frogtown.
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Aug 1, 2015 21:47
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Freudian slippers posted:Doesn't really say much. 61 is still far too young. The unfortunate part of wrestling. It's one of the hardest careers in the world, especially if you want to be famous enough to make a living out of it. Wrestlers who make it to their 60s are usually retired, battered in ways nobody can imagine, and with very large medicine cabinets.
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Aug 1, 2015 21:49
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DEAR RICHARD posted:Legit bummed about this. Piper was huge in Portland in the 80s/90s. So huge, in fact, that my mom texted me today saying that she was sad about it. same with my grandma, she used to go to the pacific northwest wrestling shows to see him way back when
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Aug 1, 2015 21:53
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I Greyhound posted:http://www.wwe.com/videos/jimmy-snuka-and-roddy-piper-enter-back-to-back-in-royal-rumble-match-royal-rumbl-25061462 Thank you man this...this just made my day. Punk and Mundo marking out, Taker selling the effects of headbutting Snuka. Hearing those pipes play to hear that crowd pop. Feels good.
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Aug 1, 2015 21:56
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Was snuka the one to allegedly killed his girlfriend?
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Aug 1, 2015 22:03
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Chromatic posted:Was snuka the one to allegedly killed his girlfriend? Yes.
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Aug 1, 2015 22:10
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I'm really glad the newer generation stays away from a lot of the vices and behavior that was prevalent in the 80's and 90's. Sure they may drink and party hard every once and a while, but they're not going through mountains of coke and painkillers every time they travel the eastern seaboard like the guys did decades previous. Rip Piper
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Aug 1, 2015 22:17
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Chromatic posted:I'm really glad the newer generation stays away from a lot of the vices and behavior that was prevalent in the 80's and 90's. Sure they may drink and party hard every once and a while, but they're not going through mountains of coke and painkillers every time they travel the eastern seaboard like the guys did decades previous. It's gonna be weird watching Xavier grow old while LPing.
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Aug 1, 2015 22:21
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Meltzer was credited verbally as "one wrestling analyst" and got cut down to an 8 second clip of a skype video call where he didn't even get a name identification bug. lol
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Aug 1, 2015 22:26
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Given that Piper was a wrestler, had addiction issues and battled cancer, the dude is a loving badass for living as long as he did. Gonna miss him.
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Aug 1, 2015 22:26
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Chromatic posted:I'm really glad the newer generation stays away from a lot of the vices and behavior that was prevalent in the 80's and 90's. Sure they may drink and party hard every once and a while, but they're not going through mountains of coke and painkillers every time they travel the eastern seaboard like the guys did decades previous. I don't think there's a diva in nxt or WWE who isn't single either. Everybody's in nice wholesome relationships
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Aug 1, 2015 22:26
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I guess I take solace in the fact that it wasn't a suicide due to CTE or death via drug overdose. It still sucks that he's dead, but it's not immediately apparent that his career as a wrestler had a hand in killing him, and that his death was via "natural causes," so to speak. Don't get me wrong, it still sucks that he's dead and I"m going to miss seeing him once or twice a year on WWE TV. I just wish I'd gotten into wrestling in the 80's when he was the top heel. It seems like you truly had to "be there" in the moment to really appreacaite it. Piper was part time when I got into things in 1993. I'm not counting his time in WCW and his "Age in the Cage" match with Hogan at whatever the gently caress PPV it was. Also, he was scheduled to be on a podcast about 2 hours after news broke that he was dead. It looked at the guy's Twitter and it's heartbreaking--- "I was supposed to be talking to him right now... I loved him like a Dad." 
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Aug 1, 2015 22:33
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Gaz-L posted:His dog collar match with Valentine is a hell of a spectacle, but be aware it's loving brutal in terms of the violence. This and the IC title match he had with Bret were a couple of my favorites by far. That, and his "retirement" match against Adrian Adonis, HUGE pop from the Mania crowd for that match.
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Aug 1, 2015 22:50
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Roman Reigns posted:I don't think there's a diva in nxt or WWE who isn't single either. Everybody's in nice wholesome relationships Seth!
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Aug 1, 2015 23:11
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ZoDiAC_ posted:Seth! I'm sure he's in a nice wholesome relationship now
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Aug 1, 2015 23:26
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Roman Reigns posted:I don't think there's a diva in nxt or WWE who isn't single either. Everybody's in nice wholesome relationships Didn't Rosa Mendes have a fiance that was completely off the rails or something?
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Aug 1, 2015 23:55
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Fun fact, Roddy voiced a character called Flame Lord in Adventure Time. The episode 'The Red Throne' had a good parody of his 'They Live' alley fight. His opponent was Flame King, voiced by Keith David. 
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Aug 2, 2015 00:48
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Roman Reigns posted:I don't think there's a diva in nxt or WWE who isn't single either. Everybody's in nice wholesome relationships Jasmine/Nhooph and Emma single the rest aren't. It is still Wrestling and relationships only matter so much.
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Aug 2, 2015 00:57
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I'm in Winnipeg and I don't think we recognize one of our favorite sons nearly enough. Our local newspaper (free press) ran the obituary from the Canadian Press rather than writing their own and recognizing where he came from. I think I want to crowd fund a statue to honour him
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Aug 2, 2015 01:24
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rovert posted:Jasmine/Nhooph and Emma single the rest aren't. thank you for the scoops
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Aug 2, 2015 01:27
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Say Nothing posted:Fun fact, Roddy voiced a character called Flame Lord in Adventure Time. They really should have had Roddy Piper voice a character on Gargoyles.
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Aug 2, 2015 02:35
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Aug 2, 2015 02:36
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all of them are dead
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Aug 2, 2015 02:43
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Final Destination. Items allowed since Roddy got there.  rovert posted:Jasmine/Nhooph and Emma single the rest aren't. It's true I'll let y'all know when Paige and I set our wedding date. 
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Aug 2, 2015 02:56
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I did it. My friends will be saying "You have aroused...the three snakes!" for the next five years. RIP Roddy 
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Aug 2, 2015 05:36
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Ronda Rousey beat the poo poo out of Bethe Correia in all of 34 seconds and immediately paid tribute to Roddy. She said that he and her late father saw a great show
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Aug 2, 2015 06:30
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Dr. rear end posted:Ronda Rousey beat the poo poo out of Bethe Correia in all of 34 seconds and immediately paid tribute to Roddy. She said that he and her late father saw a great show This woman. Jesus. No better person to carry on the Rowdy name than a charmingly terrifying person.
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Aug 2, 2015 07:02
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I often consider buying UFC PPV just for Ronda fights, but the last three now have made it abundantly clear that I should just wait for the gif to come out.
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Aug 2, 2015 07:03
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TheJoker138 posted:I often consider buying UFC PPV just for Ronda fights, but the last three now have made it abundantly clear that I should just wait for the gif to come out. She's had 12 fights, and combined they total slightly longer than a full-distance UFC championship fight (title fights are 25 minutes, thus far in her career she's fought for 25 minutes and 36 seconds, only one fight lasting longer than a round)
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Aug 2, 2015 07:06
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I don't know if the other women are that bad or she's just that good but I can tell you the woman she fought tonight looked like she could rip my head right off.
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Aug 2, 2015 07:09
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BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:I don't know if the other women are that bad or she's just that good but I can tell you the woman she fought tonight looked like she could rip my head right off. From what I understand it's a combination of both. The women's division is newer and therefore not as solid as the men's, but she's also a genetic freak who trains like an insane person. I could be totally wrong here, I don't follow UFC that closely.
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Dr. rear end posted:Ronda Rousey beat the poo poo out of Bethe Correia in all of 34 seconds and immediately paid tribute to Roddy. She said that he and her late father saw a great show Instead of going for the expected submission offense, Ronda destroyed her with a Star Platinum fury of strikes. In other words, just when you think you have the answers, she changes the questions.
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TheJoker138 posted:From what I understand it's a combination of both. The women's division is newer and therefore not as solid as the men's, but she's also a genetic freak who trains like an insane person. I could be totally wrong here, I don't follow UFC that closely. That's about right, someone on the gdt compared it to an Olympic medalist in shooting taking out fish in a barrel.
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Aug 2, 2015 07:14
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Yeah with Ronda fights it's mostly a matchup of “a lifetime of training at the highest possible level” vs “hey, I can take a punch, I’ll try this MMA thing."
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Gavok posted:Instead of going for the expected submission offense, Ronda destroyed her with a Star Platinum fury of strikes. Boom, thread over.
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Aug 2, 2015 07:17
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Sasha aint ratchet posted:Didn't Rosa Mendes have a fiance that was completely off the rails or something? Jackson Andrews. Was on the main roster for two or three weeks. Weirdly long torso and roided to hell. Later came out that he had another fiancee in addition to Rosa, and the two did not know about one another.
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Halloween Jack posted:I did it. My friends will be saying "You have aroused...the three snakes!" for the next five years. Whoa wait, Dusty's death was an accident?
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Shima Honnou posted:Whoa wait, Dusty's death was an accident? All I know is he was rushed to the hospital after falling over and suffered massive complications, like kidney failure.
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