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oatgan posted:sting spent weeks telling everybody that he was there to stop the injustice of the authority and that WCW was dead but he went and got the original TRIPLE H's FRIENDS for backup anyway Fixed for stupidity. EDIT: Why did Vince hate Dusty in the 80s?
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The Huckster/Nacho Man promos had to be pretty high up there in the pettiness scale.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:04
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Web Jew.0 posted:What are some examples of the WWE being overtly petty and spiteful? Like having Ryback squash JTG after he complained about not getting comped tickets and Cole saying "tweet that JTG!" - That Raw where they were forced out of the original building because the Lakers were in the NBA finals. - Everything CM Punk-related after Punk left the company. - Billionaire Ted. - Cesaro going on a huge jobber streak for doing an interview that said people were tired of Cena vs. Orton. - "Batista's going to Wrestlemania! Deal with it!" - Those segments on the final Nitro where Vince would talk about someone who definitely wasn't making the trip over to WWF so he could verbally bury them (Luger and Jarrett come to mind). - The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:06
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Vince wearing blumenthal on his rear end after Linda lost.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:10
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Corzaa posted:EDIT: Why did Vince hate Dusty in the 80s?
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Aug 12, 2015 04:15
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MagicCube posted:Everything involving the Young Bucks over the past year. There was that time Stephanie fired someone (Was it Patrice O'Neal?) TWICE. He didn't get upset about it, so she called him back and fired him again.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:16
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Fake Diesel and Razor. Akeem the African Dream.
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Gavok posted:- That Raw where they were forced out of the original building because the Lakers were in the NBA finals. The other way around, the Denver Nuggets made the finals and were to host a game that night so Raw went to Staples Center, home of the Lakers (the Nuggets' opponents in the finals) instead. The owner of the Nuggets was universally derided as The Bad Guy by all, not just WWE, because he leased the arena ahead of time, openly flaunting that he did not expect them to reach the finals.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:17
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Corzaa posted:Why did Vince hate Dusty in the 80s? It was at least partially because no matter what goofy bullshit Vince forced on him (see: dancing, polka dots, Sapphire), Dusty was always able to get over with the fans. Vince loving hates it when a wrestler is successful despite WWE's booking.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:20
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ecavalli posted:It was at least partially because no matter what goofy bullshit Vince forced on him (see: dancing, polka dots, Sapphire), Dusty was always able to get over with the fans. Vince loving hates it when a wrestler is successful despite WWE's booking. Also, Dusty was super over and had drawn big in territories Vince had nothing to do with until he killed them.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:22
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Gavok posted:- That Raw where they were forced out of the original building because the Lakers were in the NBA finals. -Don't forget that they were working on one just like it for Bret before reaching out and asking if he'd be willing to collaborate and let bygones be bygones. -Blaming Miz for the bad buyrate of Survivor Series against Rock and Cena, despite it being clear there were other valid reasons for the show tanking. -Openly sabotaging employees who receive outside opportunities by saying stuff like "Oh no, you want John Cena, not (insert superstar here)" -Having a Denver Nuggets vs LA Lakers match because of some scheduling conflict with the arena -Acting like the downtrodden underdog every time the media rightly lambasts them for doing something tasteless/dumb/outside their wheelhouse -Thumbing their nose at anybody who refuses to work their very limited style specifically designed to fit their notion of what wrestling is....which leads me to my next point.... -Acting like wrestling is the aspect of the show they should be ashamed of. Yeah athletes performing dangerous feats, *THAT'S* your show's problem. Not your gross attitude about women, your weird ideas of what's socially acceptable w/r/t race, your weird ideas of what a real man behaves like, or your plainly obvious contempt for the fans. Nah. No, it's the athletic dudes in the ring performing moves that take years off their life if performed improperly. That's the trashy aspect that has people up in arms. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 04:23
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Corzaa posted:Fixed for stupidity. because he was the booker for his chief rival
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Gavok posted:- That Raw where they were forced out of the original building because the Lakers were in the NBA finals. It was the Nuggets and tbqh accepting a booking for an arena during a playoff run because you don't expect your team won't make the finals is a pretty bad thing to do.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:36
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DynamiteKidd posted:The other way around, the Denver Nuggets made the finals and were to host a game that night so Raw went to Staples Center, home of the Lakers (the Nuggets' opponents in the finals) instead. The owner of the Nuggets was universally derided as The Bad Guy by all, not just WWE, because he leased the arena ahead of time, openly flaunting that he did not expect them to reach the finals. Whoops. My bad. Anyway, it all worked out in the end. They fired Mr. Kennedy. Oh, I got a good one! Eric Bischoff mentioned that he still got royalties for his book being sold off WWE's website. In response, they started selling the book for a penny.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:-Don't forget that they were working on one just like it for Bret before reaching out and asking if he'd be willing to collaborate and let bygones be bygones. Oh god, this initiative remains some of the most disgusting behavior I've ever seen from a major corporation. It's a billionaire asking WWE fans — many of whom are statistically underemployed and undereducated — to publicly support his multi-million dollar corporation against entirely legitimate government inquiries and unflattering yet justified media coverage. And what do these loyal fans get in return? Money? Fame? A phone call from John Cena? gently caress no. They get the satisfaction of knowing that Vince McMahon can afford to freeze his head until such time as humanity can find a cure for whatever mental illness makes a man stuff leaves into a young woman's vagina.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:37
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Corzaa posted:Fixed for stupidity. JCP vs WWF was an extremely bitter, brutal wrestling war and Dusty was one of the figureheads of it.
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ayn rand hand job posted:It was the Nuggets and tbqh accepting a booking for an arena during a playoff run because you don't expect your team won't make the finals is a pretty bad thing to do. The owner, indeed, had business riding on his team not succeeding. And somehow this still became a "lol Vince what a petty loving loser dork lol always burying people for no reason who have never done him wrong" story
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ayn rand hand job posted:It was the Nuggets and tbqh accepting a booking for an arena during a playoff run because you don't expect your team won't make the finals is a pretty bad thing to do. These dates are locked in sometimes a year in advance and their contract contained a clause that gave the Nuggets priority on the date if they needed it so it wasn't a bad or abnormal thing.
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Aug 12, 2015 05:32
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This happens all the time. A couple weeks ago Taylor Swift had to reschedule a concert because the Houston Astros are actually playing baseball in October this year
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Aug 12, 2015 05:46
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oatgan posted:This happens all the time. A couple weeks ago Taylor Swift had to reschedule a concert because the Houston Astros are actually playing baseball in October this year Taylor Swift and Vince McMahon aren't too far apart personality-wise so expect numerous digs against the Houston Astros and the rescheduled concert to be in the Texas Rangers ballpark.
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Aug 12, 2015 05:59
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Are El Hijo Del Fantasma/King Cuerno and Brian Cage IRL friends? I watched Triplemania and was chuckling that Fantasma was hanging out with his LU trios partner.
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DynamiteKidd posted:The owner, indeed, had business riding on his team not succeeding. Maybe they could have just thanked the Staples Center and moved on, instead of making a match where John Cena and friends dressed in Lakers jerseys and beat up heels dresses in Nuggets jerseys?
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Blast Fantasto posted:Maybe they could have just thanked the Staples Center and moved on, instead of making a match where John Cena and friends dressed in Lakers jerseys and beat up heels dresses in Nuggets jerseys? Whoa, whoa, whoa! What are you, some kind of reasonable businessman?
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Aug 12, 2015 07:06
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Just watched steiner bros vs fire and ice and great american bash 1996. What was up with it? Seemed like nobody wanted to lose. Was there something more to it, or was it just a clusterfuck?
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MagicCube posted:Taylor Swift and Vince McMahon aren't too far apart personality-wise so expect numerous digs against the Houston Astros and the rescheduled concert to be in the Texas Rangers ballpark. While Taylor Swift covertly pockets a mega-huge cheque from the Astros, who go out of business in 3 months.
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Aug 12, 2015 10:24
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oatgan posted:This happens all the time. A couple weeks ago Taylor Swift had to reschedule a concert because the Houston Astros are actually playing baseball in October this year Must be early October.... 
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oatgan posted:sting spent weeks telling everybody that he was there to stop the injustice of the authority and that WCW was dead but he went and got the original NWO for backup anyway which was hilarious anyway because sting was basically the #1 enemy of the nwo
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Beaverseatwood2 posted:Just watched steiner bros vs fire and ice and great american bash 1996. What was up with it? Seemed like nobody wanted to lose. Was there something more to it, or was it just a clusterfuck? Can you explain more? I thought the Steiners won this one. I remember several Steiners vs Fire & Ice matches, with the one constant being they all loving ruled.
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Aug 12, 2015 12:58
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It's a total clusterfuck of giant men throwing each other everywhere and it ruled.
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Luigi Thirty posted:It's a total clusterfuck of giant men throwing each other everywhere and it ruled. A complete sprint every time. A 20 minute match in 5 minutes. All press slams and lariats.
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Aug 12, 2015 14:27
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oldpainless posted:Vince wearing blumenthal on his rear end after Linda lost. I'm pretty sure this was actually the night before the election.
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ecavalli posted:Oh god, this initiative remains some of the most disgusting behavior I've ever seen from a major corporation. It's a billionaire asking WWE fans — many of whom are statistically underemployed and undereducated — to publicly support his multi-million dollar corporation against entirely legitimate government inquiries and unflattering yet justified media coverage.
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Vote Barack and Linda
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What do people prefer: Now, when a lot of people lose all the time and it kind of brings their status down, or back in the 80s and 90s when people would almost never lose clean or not without getting their heat back right away?
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Spikeguy posted:What do people prefer: Now, when a lot of people lose all the time and it kind of brings their status down, or back in the 80s and 90s when people would almost never lose clean or not without getting their heat back right away? I preferred the 80s and 90s style, but that's probably as much nostalgia for my halcyon youth as anything else. I'm sure that had I been an adult during that era, I'd have complained just as loudly about WWF as I do about WWE.
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Spikeguy posted:What do people prefer: Now, when a lot of people lose all the time and it kind of brings their status down, or back in the 80s and 90s when people would almost never lose clean or not without getting their heat back right away? How about the top guys rarely lose but when they do it means something (and upsets aren't unheard of) and the results of almost all matches are clean pinfalls or submissions rather than interference and distraction finishes?
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Aug 12, 2015 17:55
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I really hate the idea of non-title matches. They just make everyone and everything involved seem worthless, as It reduces what should be a big fuckoff matchup to a throwaway where the champion inevitably gets beaten (something that should be a *huge* deal),.
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Spikeguy posted:What do people prefer: Now, when a lot of people lose all the time and it kind of brings their status down, or back in the 80s and 90s when people would almost never lose clean or not without getting their heat back right away? Part of the problem is the product right now is "we run 2/3 shows a week and everyone has to wrestle on every show" In the 80s guys would wrestle less televised matches, and when they did they were decisive wins. There were less PPVs, less chances to lose. So guys just ended up being better protected than they could ever be today. Austin was very protected in the Attitude Era, but he also rarely wrestled for free. If he did, it was generally a DQ finish.
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Honestly the way I got brought into it all was the Hollywood Hogan model of matches. He "usually" wouldn't wrestle until the PPV and it was almost always for the title so that meant something. I hope the WWE gets away from the model of having champs fight every Monday. It makes their matches mean more and then you wouldn't have bullshit like the champ losing a non-title match to prove they deserve a shot at the title. I'm digging the number one contender matches they've been having lately. It gives your upper-mid card something to do and branches into natural feuds.
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Spikeguy posted:Honestly the way I got brought into it all was the Hollywood Hogan model of matches. He "usually" wouldn't wrestle until the PPV and it was almost always for the title so that meant something. I hope the WWE gets away from the model of having champs fight every Monday. It makes their matches mean more and then you wouldn't have bullshit like the champ losing a non-title match to prove they deserve a shot at the title. I'm digging the number one contender matches they've been having lately. It gives your upper-mid card something to do and branches into natural feuds. While Woody mostly wrestled on PPV he almost never defended the title.
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