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he1ixx posted:Is there any place to see the order of shows to make sure I'm going in order? WWE's search really leaves something to be desired. It goes RAW-NXT-Smackdown-Main Event-Superstars. Right now PPVs go Extreme Rules-Payback-Money In The Bank-Battleground-SummerSlam-Night of Champions-Hell in a Cell-Survivor Series-TLC-Rumble-Fastlane-WrestleMania and they're generally held either mid-month or last week of the month. Don't watch Main Event or Superstars for sure, maybe watch Smackdown.
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Gonzo McFee posted:J-Ru are you forgetting that epic feud D-Bry had with K-ane after winning the title? bryan drove a forklift to the ring and then jumped off of it, and then he left with a neck injury
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Lady Naga posted:It goes RAW-NXT-Smackdown-Main Event-Superstars. Got it. Thanks.
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Gonzo McFee posted:J-Ru are you forgetting that epic feud D-Bry had with K-ane after winning the title? I'm trying, yes.
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ChrisBTY posted:What were some other notable blatant attempts at sabotaging a wrestler's career/image over the years? I know this is a hard subject because in wrestling a lot of really stupid things are just that; stupid, not malicious. 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.
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Jerusalem posted:If I remember right, the show also started with Hogan, Austin and Rock in the ring where Austin (I think) said words to the effect of,"It's great we're here, but our time has passed, and it's time to see a new generation of stars take the spotlight", and the show that followed did give a very real sense that this was the way they intended to go. They didn't, but at least for the night it felt that way.  It was like all the loose ends of Wrestlemania's past had been tied up and it was truly time for a new era!
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Feb 4, 2016 22:37
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Then Daniel Bryan got injured and turned the world to poo poo.
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Feb 4, 2016 22:39
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the current timeline is all brie bellas fault
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I watched that Summerslam and holy poo poo. That's all I can say really. Holy. poo poo. Ok I can say a few more things. The excitement of the matches and the crowd reactions were way more intense than any thing I've seen since I started watching (around a month ago). CM Punk is my new hero. Daniel Bryant seems like a neato dude. That ending.... wow.
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D-Bry's neck was the gossamer thread holding the fabric of WWE together.
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he1ixx posted:The excitement of the matches and the crowd reactions were way more intense than any thing I've seen since I started watching (around a month ago). http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28aoao_wwf-raw-is-war-4-1-1999-the-rock-vs-mankind-for-wwf-championship_sport he1ixx posted:CM Punk is my new hero you have good taste and i like you, friend
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he1ixx posted:CM Punk is my new hero. Then Money in the Bank 2011 is the show for you.
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And just think, where Wrestlemania 30 was an amazing show with a great ending, two years early we got "18 seconds." Still one of the best GDT reactions ever.
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he1ixx posted:Is there any place to see the order of shows to make sure I'm going in order? WWE's search really leaves something to be desired. During Bryan's gradual face turn, there's waa also a short-lived D-show called Saturday Morning Slam which is pretty much The Daniel Bryan Comedy Hour, where they let him cut loose with his lovable indie heel act. Every single second Bryan is on that show is comedy gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwimyIZKSbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1Vkgcp5XE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWuXdqvOBM
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Tyma posted:During Bryan's gradual face turn, there's waa also a short-lived D-show called Saturday Morning Slam which is pretty much The Daniel Bryan Comedy Hour, where they let him cut loose with his lovable indie heel act. Every single second Bryan is on that show is comedy gold.
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Tyma posted:During Bryan's gradual face turn, there's waa also a short-lived D-show called Saturday Morning Slam which is pretty much The Daniel Bryan Comedy Hour, where they let him cut loose with his lovable indie heel act. Every single second Bryan is on that show is comedy gold. How can you mention DBry's obsession with bears and not include this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf527KRaCEc
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projecthalaxy posted:Is the go home Raw the one where HHH and Steph spend 20 minutes trying to kill Bryan because I thought that was a couple weeks before. Definitely watch that one though. poo poo you're right. That should've been the go-home though.
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In the Observer yesterday, Cornette called pro wrestling "a uniquely American art-form." He's dead wrong, right? Without considering the origins of grappling itself, I can think of international wrestlers as far back as the 1900s, like the Great Gama. Is it a thing where many different local interests in fighting/grappling led to the performance of worked matches worldwide? Or was pro wrestling really something started in North America and spread to other regions? e: And for the record I think a ballet dancer gimmick would be much cooler and more entertaining, than Ta-Gar Lord of the Volcano, JIM Electric Lady fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Cornette is talking bollocks as ever. Pro Wrestling started in France about a century before it started in the US.
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I'd say American pro-wrestling is certainly the loudest form of pro-wrestling, but saying that this makes it uniquely American is like saying cars are uniquely American because of Monster Trucks.
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Tyma posted:During Bryan's gradual face turn, there's waa also a short-lived D-show called Saturday Morning Slam which is pretty much The Daniel Bryan Comedy Hour, where they let him cut loose with his lovable indie heel act. Every single second Bryan is on that show is comedy gold. These are incredible. Majestic.
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28aoao_wwf-raw-is-war-4-1-1999-the-rock-vs-mankind-for-wwf-championship_sport Holy poo poo. Hoe. Lee. poo poo. he1ixx fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Electric Lady posted:In the Observer yesterday, Cornette called pro wrestling "a uniquely American art-form." Pro wrestling as it exists now is very distinctly American. The evolution of worked matches at the turn of the century that resembled shoots to the performance style wrestling that came about in the 1920s is very much an American creation. Booking offices, touring groups, etc have their roots in that time. Edit: Before that the real development of wrestling as entertainment happened in the US, especially in the North East in the wake of the Civil War. Some of the earliest modern "pro" wrestling dates back to the Colonial period too. MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Electric Lady posted:In the Observer yesterday, Cornette called pro wrestling "a uniquely American art-form." But the entertainment medium we call professional wrestling, and the style of wrestling, was developed in the United States. There's a difference between matches being fixed with a predetermined winner for gambling purposes, and worked with planned spots, finishes, and cooperative moves designed to protect the wrestlers' health, entertain the crowd, and create incidents that would hype future matches. Americans invented worked wrestling. The style of wrestling was a "catch-as-catch-can" that hybridized European wrestling styles along with important influences from Indian and Japanese grapplers, and "Toots" Mondt invented what he called "slam bang action Western wrestling." Mondt was one of the "Gold Dust Trio" of promoters who largely invented pro wrestling as we know it in the 20s. Check out MRT's wrestling history thread. Discount Trombones posted:Not to mention the time he did the "I'm a ball, I can't be pinned" comedy spot on that show, much to the frustration of whoever his opponent was.
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Electric Lady posted:
I think you might like Ricki Starr
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pro wrestling is one of 6 original american art forms
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he1ixx posted:Holy poo poo. Hoe. Lee. poo poo. 10 year old me thought it was bizarre to see DX celebrating happily like heroes in the ring when they had plotted to put HBK through a windshield (leaving him looking basically dead) like an hour earlier in the show.
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Wrestlemania 30 is a bit like Wrestlemania X in that it seems like it's a harbinger of good times to come but it's more like "Enjoy it while you can, because we've sorta got nothing after this."
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Maxwell Lord posted:Wrestlemania 30 is a bit like Wrestlemania X in that it seems like it's a harbinger of good times to come but it's more like "Enjoy it while you can, because we've sorta got nothing after this." If you want to depress yourself after watching WMX, check out Survivor Series 94. It's like watching all the big non-Kliq names from WMX get bulldozed away. - Yokozuna loses a casket match against the Undertaker, which is basically the end of Yokozuna being a big deal forever. He's gone until the next Wrestlemania. - Bret Hart drops the title to Bob Backlund and sits on the sidelines for the next year, including the infamous Backlund match at WM11. - Lex Luger not only loses his Survivor Series match against the Million Dollar Corporation, but it's the blowoff match too! Luger straight up LOST the feud and moved on. - Owen Hart is a non-factor in the opening match and then has a role in getting Bret to lose the title. He ends up loving himself over because he gets dragged down the card with Bret. There's no real blowoff to their feud and he just does tag team stuff instead. Plus Earthquake and Savage were long gone too.
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Gavok posted:If you want to depress yourself after watching WMX, check out Survivor Series 94. It's like watching all the big non-Kliq names from WMX get bulldozed away. Well, there's a reason 94-95 is considered one of the worst periods in WWE/F history.
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Watching the attitude era raws on the network, and I'm up to the raw after King of the Ring. This has a three way match between HHH, Owen Hart and Ken Shamrock in a match called "The King of Kings match". Shamrock won this match so shouldn't he in fact be called the King of kings instead of HHH?
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Yup
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freeranger posted:Watching the attitude era raws on the network, and I'm up to the raw after King of the Ring. This has a three way match between HHH, Owen Hart and Ken Shamrock in a match called "The King of Kings match". Shamrock won this match so shouldn't he in fact be called the King of kings instead of HHH? Everyone should tweet this to HHH just to see how long it takes him to bring in Shamrock for a match.
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Davros1 posted:Everyone should tweet this to HHH just to see how long it takes him to bring in Shamrock for a match. Ken would probably do it after his 21 years in the making Royce Gracie rematch
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Ken Shamrock would probably do it for a ham sandwich. And right after he had eaten said sandwich.
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If he does that thing where he punches his head and then screams during his entrance I'm all for it.
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If he did, he'd be out for a solid 15 minutes or so. ...Just long enough for a HHH Wrestlemania entrance, I guess.
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Before you all dismiss this as a joke, note that Shamrock is 5 years younger than Sting and was still a star a shorter time ago than Sting's WCW crow run. It would be harder to overlook Shamrock's status as an MMA jobber, but then again WWE successfully ignores TNA even when bringing in TNA mainstays.
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