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DynamiteKidd posted:I love Tomoaki Honma because he strikes me as so unique in wrestling, has there ever been another guy like that who never really won, but made his opponents fight for their victory and always had the crowd behind them? I mean Colin Delaney had of Honma's charm in WWE, and Mikey Whipwreck was a Triple Crown champ in ECW -- I've really never seen anything like Honma, who I'd describe as "fiery babyface who is technically a jobber but usually gets a bunch of hope spots" Tito Santana's prime as a singles guy was around 1985, but he stuck around for years as a high profile guy who never won but always looked credible.
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Aesop Poprock posted:He mentioned Whipwreck in that same post and why it wasn't what he was looking for cause he got big wins eventually. So those other ones probably wouldn't count either Dreamer said his goal was to never win any championships since it would kill his character if he ever actually won the big one. He didn't win a singles title until 2000 and that was because with the depleted roster by then they didn't have a choice.
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Pinstripe Hourglass posted:Tito Santana was nothing but garbage. Yessssssterday's news.
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Is Roman still wearing blue contacts? I remember that being a thing for a while, then completely forgot about it until a few days ago.
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Spikeguy posted:Is Roman still wearing blue contacts? I remember that being a thing for a while, then completely forgot about it until a few days ago. Bluelieve That
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I've been watching random Attitude Era episodes of Raw with Al Snow matches and I still don't get what his gimmick is supposed to be. All I know about him is that he's roided out now and did stuff for TNA.
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His gimmick was that he is technically competent but very boring.
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keevo posted:I've been watching random Attitude Era episodes of Raw with Al Snow matches and I still don't get what his gimmick is supposed to be. All I know about him is that he's roided out now and did stuff for TNA. He is crazy and talks to a mannequin head. He went crazy because he got buried in WWF
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Al Snow's gimmick is "Al Snow is a crazy person but like in a funny way. His only friend is a hairdresser's mannequin head."
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Aug 28, 2015 19:03
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Also lots of "dirty" puns involving the word "head"
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The only time Al Snow ruled was when he got his title shot in ECW and the ring was flooded with people throwing heads.
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Blast Fantasto posted:The only time Al Snow ruled was when he got his title shot in ECW and the ring was flooded with people throwing heads. And headbanging with them to Prodigy's "Breathe". gently caress, that was a great entrance. I think he ended up losing that match because he was getting called back to WWF. That turned out well for him.
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Blast Fantasto posted:The only time Al Snow ruled was when he got his title shot in ECW and the ring was flooded with people throwing heads. The guy Paul Heyman bought all those heads from was the first person he ever paid.
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Aug 28, 2015 21:12
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And then he had to dump the gimmick because parents' groups complained that Al Snow's doll carrying a "decapitated woman's head" glorified violence against women.
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It's weird that came up for Al's toy at the same time the Rock was giving Rock Bottoms to Stephanie on the reg
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Luigi Thirty posted:And then he had to dump the gimmick because parents' groups complained that Al Snow's doll carrying a "decapitated woman's head" glorified violence against women. It started because a college professor happened to see the toy while shopping and, yes, interpreted the Head accessory as being intended to represent an actual woman's head. So for some reason it probably looked like an action figure head instead of a featureless white wigholder
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Luigi Thirty posted:And then he had to dump the gimmick because parents' groups complained that Al Snow's doll carrying a "decapitated woman's head" glorified violence against women. To be fair, it's not like accusing wrestling of glorifying violence against women is a far-fetched proposition...
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DynamiteKidd posted:It started because a college professor happened to see the toy while shopping and, yes, interpreted the Head accessory as being intended to represent an actual woman's head. Yeah, it didn't even really look like the actual head, it was clearly just a mold from a barbie or something they had laying around. After the complaints they replaced it with a plain white one.
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Smoking Crow posted:He is crazy and talks to a mannequin head. He went crazy because he got buried in WWF What a dumb gimmick. zakharov posted:Also lots of "dirty" puns involving the word "head" I was assuming it was this since his theme was just asking if people wanted head.
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So like You didn't see him coming down with the mannequin head or anything That head was his entire character how hard is this
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DynamiteKidd posted:So like that's not true, he also had a dog
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Aug 28, 2015 23:24
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I was such a mark for Al. I even have my own Head.
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I do too. But I need it too live. I have an Al Snow beanie baby like thing that has a white head.
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6EQUJ5 6 7 posted:I was such a mark for Al. Me too. Remembered seeing him at a house show in a singles match against Phil Lafon. I sat gobsmacked at all the insane, inventive moves and counters he did in that match.
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natetimm posted:Jim Duggan was pretty over and lost a lot. How could he lose a lot when he never sold a single goddamn thing
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Davros1 posted:Me too. Remembered seeing him at a house show in a singles match against Phil Lafon. I sat gobsmacked at all the insane, inventive moves and counters he did in that match. Okay you're going to have to tell me about all the amazing moves Al Snow invented at a house show
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DynamiteKidd posted:Okay you're going to have to tell me about all the amazing moves Al Snow invented at a house show He hit a springboard shiranui to the floor
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Al Snow, master of Spanish Flowsion
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I can't think of an Al Snow move offhand besides the Moonsault and the Snow Plow and I write him in a TEW thread.
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Luigi Thirty posted:And then he had to dump the gimmick because parents' groups complained that Al Snow's doll carrying a "decapitated woman's head" glorified violence against women. They actually turned it into an angle where Al got depressed and talked about how Wal-Mart would sell guns and ammo, but selling a toy was off limits. Also, Al was Very European before it was cool to be Very European. E: Also, there's the Penis-Plex if we're talking about Al Snow signature moves. 
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Oh poo poo yeah, I forgot about Al Snow, European Champion, where he'd come out in national costumes. That was great.
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DynamiteKidd posted:So like Idk I thought there was more to it.
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What the hell does Paul Heyman's agency do besides the obvious answer of "not very much"?
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Mob posted:How could he lose a lot when he never sold a single goddamn thing He gets himself disqualified every time.
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Mob posted:How could he lose a lot when he never sold a single goddamn thing For a long time he was the guy someone beat up to get crowd heat on their way to fighting someone bigger. I can't remember if it was Earthquake or Yokozuna, but one of them really flattened him and he sold like death for it.
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It was Yokozuna. A friend of mine talked about how that was something of a seminal moment in his pro-wrestling childhood.
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ChrisBTY posted:It was Yokozuna. A friend of mine talked about how that was something of a seminal moment in his pro-wrestling childhood. Yeah, I was like 11 or 12 when that happened and it was really memorable to me too. I think Duggan was one of the first people to knock Yoko down, then Yoko banzai dropped the poo poo out of him, and they did the "internal bleeding" thing which was pretty stunning on a weekly syndicated early 90s WWF show
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