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Benne posted:Wasn't this around the time that Khali got busted on Wellness? Nah that was ELEVATED ENZYMES IN THE LIVER or whatever the gently caress and he got replaced with Big Slow in a PUNJABI PRISON MATCH~~~~~!!! at GAB. Khali got cleared before the Summerslam match but they probably realized how absolutely loving terrible that match would've been live.
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HerraS posted:Nah that was ELEVATED ENZYMES IN THE LIVER or whatever the gently caress http://livertox.nih.gov/AndrogenicSteroids.htm quote:Androgenic and anabolic steroids have been implicated in four distinct forms of liver injury: transient serum enzyme elevations...
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Yet Vince was still hell bent on pushing Khali to the moon and not a year later he would be the WHC beating Batista and KANE in a triple threat. Jesus Christ 2006 and 2007 were loving BAD years to watch WWE. edit: loving laffo if Khali for reals was busted for roids since Bobby Lashley was pulled from the exact same PPV for the exact same reason
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Hey hey those are some serious aspersions to cast on Bobby Lashley. His physique has been crafted naturally through years of top-level athletic competition, all the way back to when he wrestled in college at 170 lbs.
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Clearly this question does not deserve its own thread. I'm wondering if there are any West Palm Beach or South Florida goons that would know a good bar to go see Summerslam. With wrestling fans and noise and beer. Failing that, my charming bride is trying to talk me into flying to NY to see Stephen Amell up close. Would prefer to not be bankrupted just yet. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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HerraS posted:Yet Vince was still hell bent on pushing Khali to the moon and not a year later he would be the WHC beating Batista and KANE in a triple threat. Jesus Christ 2006 and 2007 were loving BAD years to watch WWE. during all this john cena had a really good match with khali at extreme rules
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DynamiteKidd posted:Hey hey those are some serious aspersions to cast on Bobby Lashley. His physique has been crafted naturally through years of top-level athletic competition, all the way back to when he wrestled in college at 170 lbs. I really enjoy Bobby Lashley's Bellator fights, good mix of striking and grappling. Anyone know if Lashley is ever going to face James Thompson?
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HerraS posted:Nah that was ELEVATED ENZYMES IN THE LIVER or whatever the gently caress and he got replaced with Big Slow in a PUNJABI PRISON MATCH~~~~~!!! at GAB. Khali got cleared before the Summerslam match but they probably realized how absolutely loving terrible that match would've been live. That PPV was so terrible. They changed half the card last minute with zero promotion beforehand because they had no contingency plans for wellness yet - people were taken off the air immediately. It's also the reason Regal's amazing run as GM came to a screeching halt.
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A Khali Last Man Standing sounds like it would be a very sad and inane spectacle because this is a man who can barely stand up and walk. I wasn't really watching at the time, so maybe he was in much better condition then than at the end of his WWE run, but even so.
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sticklefifer posted:That PPV was so terrible. They changed half the card last minute with zero promotion beforehand because they had no contingency plans for wellness yet - people were taken off the air immediately. It's also the reason Regal's amazing run as GM came to a screeching halt. The PPV happened a year before Regal became GM in 2007 and that run ended the year after he had already won the King of the Ring.
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HerraS posted:The PPV happened a year before Regal became GM in 2007 and that run ended the year after he had already won the King of the Ring. He means wellness, not this particular payperview
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Khali was always terrible, but he was still better back then. I liken it to Andre circa Wrestlemania 5 to Andre circa Wrestlemania 6.You knew what you were going to get either way, but at least one of them could walk.
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Gavok posted:I'm writing about the Undertaker's history at Summerslam and I've noticed that he's missing from SummerSlam 2006. Apparently, he challenged Khali to a Last Man Standing match and it was put on Smackdown instead. Is there any story behind that? Because cutting Undertaker from Summerslam is such a weird thing to do. 94
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ICHIBAHN posted:Why the hostility and negativity towards Quackenbush? He's a huge doofus who takes himself too seriously and makes people sleep on couches among other atrocities.
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Aug 15, 2015 23:31
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Was poo poo.
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Coz he just showed up briefly in wrestling road diaries and I loving hate him solely for his lovely gear. Trousers up to his ears.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Why the hostility and negativity towards Quackenbush? He wears the shittiest suit imaginable.
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ICHIBAHN posted:Why the hostility and negativity towards Quackenbush? he threw a big baby fit at starbucks
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Gavok posted:Was poo poo. Denied; had two Undertakers, which is inherently awesome.
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one Undertaker is bad enough
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Xerzes posted:Denied; had two Undertakers, which is inherently awesome. I just watched this match the other day, and I'm wondering why the crowd was dead silent for most of it. Was it because the outcome was too obvious? Was it not as easy to tell who the real Undertaker was from the audience as it was on TV? Was the whole idea just too ridiculous even by the standards of the time? I didn't think it was a bad match, or at least not bad enough that the quality of the wrestling itself was at fault.
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They were in hushed awe of such a spectacle.
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it followed the Bret / Owen cage match, so the crowd was probably spent
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Gavok posted:Was poo poo. Did it have a nice Beaver?
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Rollersnake posted:I just watched this match the other day, and I'm wondering why the crowd was dead silent for most of it. Was it because the outcome was too obvious? Was it not as easy to tell who the real Undertaker was from the audience as it was on TV? Was the whole idea just too ridiculous even by the standards of the time? I didn't think it was a bad match, or at least not bad enough that the quality of the wrestling itself was at fault. It was a bad match built up with really dumb skits and the premise was dumb and ridiculous, there was no reason for anyone to care.
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I was there. The match was so boring. I remember looking around at the other people in attendance and we all had this look of incredulity.
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Pretty much all Undertaker VS Other Big Man matches are boring, or at least were boring before he decided to become mma jumplord during the 2000s. Add in identical moveset sand you have got a recipe for boredom. Like Massrafter said, the skits around it were garbage. The whole idea around the Undertaker is at its core, fairly serious, the UT Clone idea was presented to also be fairly serious. With these two things in mind, what did the WWF decide would be the best way to build heat for the match? The cast of the loving Naked Gun.
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There are 8 million jokes to be made about Taker and OJ by the way
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ICHIBAHN posted:The undertaker is fairly serious?! In the context of what is presented on TV, yeah. He doesn't do comedy skits or dance with Hornswoggle or any of that poo poo. While it has changed a LOT, The "Undertaker" concept is one of the most protected in wrestling.
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Dude threw Ultimate Warrior in a coffin and killed him (so he had to be replaced by a stunt double for 20 years). Undertaker was serious business from his debut on.
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Speaking of the Undertaker, is he supposed to be an animated corpse or is he just a dude with death powers?
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Smoking Crow posted:Speaking of the Undertaker, is he supposed to be an animated corpse or is he just a dude with death powers? Yes
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Smoking Crow posted:Speaking of the Undertaker, is he supposed to be an animated corpse or is he just a dude with death powers? Yes
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Well originally he was a proto-New Generation "wrestles on the side" gimmick and thus the character was "he is, indeed, an undertaker." Remember, he wore a tie and everything. I still love that every loving idea Vince had in the New Generation was "this guy has another job and wrestles on the side", with very few exceptions (Ahmed Johnson, Razor Ramon, Bam Bam, Marc Mero, and I guess Owen were just abotu the only guys who debuted during that period who didn't have cartoony gimmicks for whatever reason)
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DynamiteKidd posted:Well originally he was a proto-New Generation "wrestles on the side" gimmick and thus the character was "he is, indeed, an undertaker." Remember, he wore a tie and everything. If he was just a mortician who happened to like wrestling, then why was he controlled by the urn?
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The debuts of the Undertaker, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, Bam Bam Bigelow, Ahmed Johnson and Marc Mero span like 10 years.
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