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Basic Chunnel posted:Big Dave always had great chemistry with Taker, so for his best matches you can start there. Eddie Guerrero celebrating his WWE title win at the end of WMXX was pretty great.
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Feb 21, 2016 18:35
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ayn rand hand job posted:Eddie Guerrero celebrating his WWE title win at the end of WMXX was pretty great. Yeah, it's weird that he came out there by himself after the main event, even though his match was much earlier in the night.
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OldTennisCourt posted:I was out of wrestling during Batista's entire run. Whats the general consensus on him and what are some essential matches I should check out? Everyone remembers him with rose-tinted glasses because of his final heel run, his initial run with Triple H, and the Undertaker matches, which were great, but most of his work was OK at best and people were deathly sick of him being the Guy on Smackdown. He was literally perma-#1 contender for several years.
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Feb 21, 2016 22:16
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But but but...... release the kracken!!!! 
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Everyone remembers him with rose-tinted glasses because of his final heel run, his initial run with Triple H, and the Undertaker matches, which were great, but most of his work was OK at best and people were deathly sick of him being the Guy on Smackdown. He was literally perma-#1 contender for several years. You just reminded me of that awful unending feud with Edge where Batista would get outsmarted every PPV but somehow earn another #1 contender spot so they could repeat the cycle until thankfully CM Punk cashed in his first Money in the Bank briefcase and ended it.
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batista and edge had terrible chemistry but they kept loving doing that match, it was maddening at least it was better than batista losing to the great khali
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:batista and edge had terrible chemistry but they kept loving doing that match, it was maddening I can't imagine taking all those lazy-rear end Batista Bombs (he stopped giving a poo poo about his form in ... what, 2007? '08?) was all that great for Edge's neck, either.
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How was JBL's WWE champ run in 2004 - 2005 received by smarks? I remember hating him intensely but maybe he was just a really good heel champ and I was 14.
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It was generally poorly received I think they built him up over a week like he went from nothing major to a supposed title contender overnight. Also had the worst stable possibly ever.
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Horse poo poo but he had a couple decent promos and matches with Eddie
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:How was JBL's WWE champ run in 2004 - 2005 received by smarks? I remember hating him intensely but maybe he was just a really good heel champ and I was 14. It was pretty bad. Xpac heat should be renamed JBL heat because the reactions to him were almost entirely "we don't want to see you" from both smarks and casual fans
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:How was JBL's WWE champ run in 2004 - 2005 received by smarks? I remember hating him intensely but maybe he was just a really good heel champ and I was 14. Pretty bad because non-Acolytes/APA Bradshaw is terrible. Also you are a baby and I resent you for your youth.
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titties posted:Pretty bad because non-Acolytes/APA Bradshaw is terrible. Also you are a baby and I resent you for your youth. I was 11
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titties posted:Pretty bad because non-Acolytes/APA Bradshaw is terrible. Also you are a baby and I resent you for your youth. Wouldn't this make him like mid 20s, he's not exactly in diapers. Presumably
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ICHIBAHN posted:Horse poo poo but he had a couple decent promos and matches with Eddie don't forget the barbed wire cage match against Big Show
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JBL's title run can best be summed up by the match where escaping a steel cage wasn't part of the stipulation but he won by escaping the cage anyway.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Wouldn't this make him like mid 20s, he's not exactly in diapers. Presumably SA's demo is really old.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Wouldn't this make him like mid 20s, he's not exactly in diapers. Presumably Yeah but I'm old as balls dude
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sticklefifer posted:JBL's title run can best be summed up by the match where escaping a steel cage wasn't part of the stipulation but he won by escaping the cage anyway. they actually said you could escape the cage to win, but pointed out that there was barbed wire on top and the door was going to be chained, so it'd prove to be near impossible since there was no way out
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Little did they expect that the Big Show's strength would lead to yet another screwjob cage escape
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JBL was a better promo than I thought he would be after years and years of playing the silent tough guy with Ron Simmons.
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That bullrope match he had with Eddy was still one of the grossest things I've ever seen and don't particularly need to see again.
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The Croc posted:It was generally poorly received I think they built him up over a week like he went from nothing major to a supposed title contender overnight. Also had the worst stable possibly ever. It wasn't quite as memorably bad as X-Factor, but it's a contender for sure.
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Thanks for the answers. I guess my teen self wasn't in the wrong for hating him back then!titties posted:Yeah but I'm old as balls dude Aren't we all old on these old, gay and dead forums of ours
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MrBling posted:That bullrope match he had with Eddy was still one of the grossest things I've ever seen and don't particularly need to see again. I saw it live. I decided to take my piss break / went outside to smoke during that match, do not regret.
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I was fourteen at the time of JBL's title run too, and it was one of the things that turned me off wrestling for years. I did like his entrance music though.
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JBL had his moments/upsides. For example, his rich guy schtick felt better realized than whatever the gently caress it was they gave Alberto Del Rio. Then there is also JBL on border patrol, or JBL drunkenly cutting a promo on an inflatable Godzilla.
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JBL in the stands making GBS threads all over ECW's false finishes at One Night Stand was pretty amazing and surprisingly shooty though it fit the tone of the show. His attempted shoot-murder of Blue Meanie later in the show was amazing in the negative way.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I was fourteen at the time of JBL's title run too, and it was one of the things that turned me off wrestling for years. I did like his entrance music though. I feel old
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ChrisBTY posted:It wasn't quite as memorably bad as X-Factor, but it's a contender for sure. I was rewatching some 2001 Raw episodes lately, and X-Factor was actually a great little midcard stable for the month or so I watched. They were feuding with the Dudleys and getting good heat from the crowd. Justin Credible wasn't really necessary though, it's more the duo of X-Pac and Albert that worked. Really, "little guy who runs his mouth and has a big guy who backs him up" is a staple for a reason. Also their awesome theme helped.
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triplexpac posted:Also their awesome theme helped. And here I thought we were friends.
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triplexpac posted:
Had me going up until the last line.
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Now guys, I know you hate X-Factor's Theme but you ain't got to talk to triplexpac like that.
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is Here Comes the Pain the beat modern Era wrestling game, or is Shut Your Mouth better
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They're both really good. Which one has the career mode where you form a five man faction that is completely randomly selected and almost always stupid? Because that one is the best.
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Ostentatious posted:is Here Comes the Pain the beat modern Era wrestling game, or is Shut Your Mouth better HCTP
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Whichever one allowed you to wrestle in Time Square and do elbow drops off of buildings/a helicopter was the best one
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As a general rule, the stupider a video game is, the better. Which is of course why the best wrestling game is WWE All-Stars, with a close second to whichever Smackdown vs. Raw had a storyline where Candice Michelle turned you into a chick via magic.
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