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MrBling posted:He's a firefighter now. Imagine how many lives lost because Scotty insists on doing the Worm before connecting the hose to the hydrant every time...
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Did he ever actually appear on television outside of the hype videos? I remembered him as a Monster of the Week for Taker, but they decided to cancel the debut for some reason. that was Hade Vansen who had a bunch of promos but never debuted.
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spongeh posted:that was Hade Vansen who had a bunch of promos but never debuted. No, Mordecai was the future Kevin Thorn
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I meant the "monster of the week who disappeared before debut," sorry. Mordecai had a few matches and ended up as Kevin Thorn, Hade Vansen had a bunch of (pretty cool) promos and was intended to go up against Taker but he never had a televised match.
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There was also Nathan Jones who got a bunch of hype videos and was going to tag with Taker at Mania but that fell through and he quit within the year including months of being off TV.
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Tell us how he left wwe. That's the best part of his story.
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Please refer to Nathan jones as "the colossus of boggo road"
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oldpainless posted:Please refer to Nathan jones as "the colossus of boggo road" lmao i havent thought about this in 13 years. why is it still in my brain
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ICHIBAHN posted:Tell us how he left wwe. That's the best part of his story. Looking it up it looks like he was on tour in Australia with WWE and basically said "Welp, traveling kinda sucks, seeya!" and left.
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Grozz Nuy posted:Ricochet does 450s too, but he'll use it as a springboard move rather than a top rope move and hardly ever finishes matches with it. Yeah - Puma does 450s, but they're certainly not enough of a core and unique part of his arsenal that Fenix doing a 450 counts as stealing Ricochet's move. Fortunately, Vampiro responded to that bit of commentary by immediately listing like half a dozen puro guys who did 450s.
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For all of Vampiro's issues as a commentator, I love that he calls out Striker every time he says something excessively dumb.
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Nathan Jones' pre-taped hype vignettes were pretty awesome though.
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the lone upside of not getting el-rey network was that when I did watch some of lucha underground it was striker-free on commentary on the uni-mas broadcast (last year when uni-mas still had LU)
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Sean O'Haire was another great gimmick that got ruined by inept booking immediately. His "devil's advocate" hype promos were really interesting but they had no idea how to book a big muscular dude who moved like a cruiserweight. I think the only things he ended up doing were getting Brian Kendrick to streak and joining Roddy Piper for some reason. Which is a shame because he was a solid worker who could've been a lot bigger than he was.
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sticklefifer posted:Sean O'Haire was another great gimmick that got ruined by inept booking immediately. His "devil's advocate" hype promos were really interesting but they had no idea how to book a big muscular dude who moved like a cruiserweight. I think the only things he ended up doing were getting Brian Kendrick to streak and joining Roddy Piper for some reason. Which is a shame because he was a solid worker who could've been a lot bigger than he was. A highlight of those promo packages was coming back from one on PPV and having King flabbergasted and talking about how God would kick Sean's rear end for saying what he said about living without religion.
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sticklefifer posted:Sean O'Haire was another great gimmick that got ruined by inept booking immediately. His "devil's advocate" hype promos were really interesting but they had no idea how to book a big muscular dude who moved like a cruiserweight. I think the only things he ended up doing were getting Brian Kendrick to streak and joining Roddy Piper for some reason. Which is a shame because he was a solid worker who could've been a lot bigger than he was. He kept on corpsing and they stuck him with Piper to try to save the gimmick
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Shinsuke Nakamura How much is WWE paying him? Is that more than he could get in Japan? Same question for Kana (Asuka) and Hideo Itami. I'm interested in how much money the WWE is spending on Japanese wrestlers, since they keep hiring pretty big stars. Are the deals exclusive? Might this mean we get to see more live events filmed in Japan?
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OldTennisCourt posted:A highlight of those promo packages was coming back from one on PPV and having King flabbergasted and talking about how God would kick Sean's rear end for saying what he said about living without religion. Any idea which PPV this is? This sounds hilarious.
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Backlash and Judgment Day 2003 are the only PPVs he appeared at with that gimmick far as I can see, so it should be one of those.
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ThePariah posted:Any idea which PPV this is? This sounds hilarious. Judgement Day 2002. I don't know when in the show it happens, wanna say middle of it, but they play his hype up package and he's talking about living without religion or something like that and King's like "WELL, THE BIG MAN UPSTAIRS, HE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT MR. SEAN O HAIRE!"
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Scott Justice posted:Shinsuke Nakamura Aye probably, dunno how much, dunno why, yes they're exclusive and it's more likely than not there'll be more shows in Japan now
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I watched a really cool Thesz vs. Rogers 2/3 falls match from 1950 a few weeks ago, and it got me wondering: what would you guys say is the earliest match that still holds up?
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remusclaw posted:I thought it was basically a big boot where the guy doing it spins his body in toward the non kicking leg. Jenny Angel posted:I watched a really cool Thesz vs. Rogers 2/3 falls match from 1950 a few weeks ago, and it got me wondering: what would you guys say is the earliest match that still holds up? I want to say Gorgeous George, but a lot of his thing was deliberately stalling to piss off the audience to no end. sticklefifer posted:If pre-debut hype packages count, Mordecai comes to mind.
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Scott Justice posted:Shinsuke Nakamura I don't know about Asuka and Hideo, but Dave Meltzer reported on an episode of the Wrestling Observer podcast that Nakamura is getting WWE main event-level money despite being on NXT. Really, it's about the closest thing to an ideal situation a person in NXT could possibly hope for. Ghostpilot fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Ghostpilot posted:I don't know about Asuka and Hideo, but Dave Meltzer reported on an episode of the Wrestling Observer podcast that Nakamura is getting WWE main event-level money despite being on NXT. Really, it's about the closest thing to an ideal situation a person in NXT could possibly hope for. Wasn't that later clarified to be main roster money, not main event? I could be misremembering though; I get all my Meltzer reports second hand.
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On the subject of Scotty 2 Hotty, didn't he pull off a MOTYC with Dean Malenko once?
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Diabolik900 posted:Wasn't that later clarified to be main roster money, not main event? I could be misremembering though; I get all my Meltzer reports second hand. Super No Vacancy posted:main roster not main event Bah, so I was right before my edit. 
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Ostentatious posted:On the subject of Scotty 2 Hotty, didn't he pull off a MOTYC with Dean Malenko once? EDIT - better quality version in the related videos - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bid0s_scotty-2-hotty-vs-dean-malenko_sport Perry Normal fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Perry Normal posted:EDIT - better quality version in the related videos - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3bid0s_scotty-2-hotty-vs-dean-malenko_sport The only reason anyone even cares about this match is the DDT at the end.
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You gently caress right off with your lack of appreciation for Scotty 2 Hotty
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Ostentatious posted:On the subject of Scotty 2 Hotty, didn't he pull off a MOTYC with Dean Malenko once? I think considering who was involved it's safer to say Dean Malenko pulled off a pretty good match with Scott 2 Hotty. I don't think it'd be considered a motyc from what I remember though
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So Stan Hansen is getting in the WWE HOF. I just finished his book, and if you can get past the "grandpa telling stories" tone of it, he actually has a lot of interesting stories about Japan in it.
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sticklefifer posted:If pre-debut hype packages count, Mordecai comes to mind. The worst promo-to-ring-debut transition I can think of in relatively recent memory was that Totally Not A Sub-Zero Knock-Off in WCW. Not that the promos were all that good.
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DopeGhoti posted:The worst promo-to-ring-debut transition I can think of in relatively recent memory was that Totally Not A Sub-Zero Knock-Off in WCW. BLOOD RUNS COLD
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CopywrightMMXI posted:There's some movie called Wrestlers vs Zombies that had Piper and Angle and a bunch of others in it, but I'm not sure if it ever got released. this was definitely released and the director of the movie showed up when we watched it in synchtube to answer questions and have everybody rip on his bad movie
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DopeGhoti posted:The worst promo-to-ring-debut transition I can think of in relatively recent memory was that Totally Not A Sub-Zero Knock-Off in WCW.
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Would someone with an Observer sub tell me the snowflakes for Summerslam '94? Watching this on the network now, and going from the awesome Bret and Owen cage match to this horrible Taker vs Taker match. Why they put this match on last I have no idea.
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tao of lmao posted:Would someone with an Observer sub tell me the snowflakes for Summerslam '94? http://www.profightdb.com/cards/wwf/summerslam-3994-36.html
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tao of lmao posted:this horrible Taker vs Taker match take it back
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