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Tuesday Nitro is reaching a point where Tony starts to get insufferable. Some of it isn't his fault, no one can make that many Surge plugs sound good. Sure Surge is the greatest drink known to man, but after awhile it rings hollow. But beyond the plugs and the terrible writing he's calling, he was a vindictive, petty man too.
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MassRafTer posted:Tuesday Nitro is reaching a point where Tony starts to get insufferable. Some of it isn't his fault, no one can make that many Surge plugs sound good. Manflurry would like a word
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Jun 9, 2016 15:54
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:What about mongo Never mind that poo poo
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Jun 9, 2016 15:58
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I think Tony's biggest problem was his overuse of hyperbole. "This is the greatest night in the history of our sport," was said way too many times, for example.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:38
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It's that kind of thinking that led to WCW's demise, Rusty. Tony wasn't afraid to announce the fact that Nitro just kept getting better and better despite naysayers like yourself and Shave Seltzer.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:53
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Crazy exaggeration is the lifeblood of wrestling anyway. I miss the glory days of HE MUST BE 7'5!!! when the Giant came out
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Jun 9, 2016 19:17
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Or Joey Styles screaming about how a bump DAMAGED HIS SPINE OH MY GOD
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Rusty Shackelford posted:I think Tony's biggest problem was his overuse of hyperbole. Huh weird, I never noticed that before
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Marquis de Pyro posted:WE GOT A FLYING FOLEY!!! REMEMBER FOLKS HASHTAG FLYING FOLEY!!! *10 minutes later* LOOKS LIKE HASHTAG FLYING FOLEY IS TRENDING ON TWITTER Luigi Thirty posted:Mongo ruled shut up I am ON RECORD as a mongo liker
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Jun 9, 2016 23:28
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I would kind of like to hear the poo poo announcers today applied to older wrestling. "Well, the WWE universe certainly has a divided opinion on this guy! Love him or hate him, you gotta respect X-Pac!"
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Jun 9, 2016 23:33
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And here comes Hulk Hogan in the new #NWO shirt, which you can buy from the gift shop
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Crazy exaggeration is the lifeblood of wrestling anyway. I miss the glory days of HE MUST BE 7'5!!! when the Giant came out Someone once fell from the top turnbuckle to the outside and jr was screaming that he fell thirty feet.
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Jun 9, 2016 23:48
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Possibly my favorite moment in WWE history is Michael Cole yelling HE COULD BE DEAD!!!!! when Vince McMahon fell off the side of the steel cage through a table
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Jun 10, 2016 01:39
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MassRafTer posted:Tuesday Nitro is reaching a point where Tony starts to get insufferable. Some of it isn't his fault, no one can make that many Surge plugs sound good. Sure Surge is the greatest drink known to man, but after awhile it rings hollow. But beyond the plugs and the terrible writing he's calling, he was a vindictive, petty man too. in Tony's defense, imagine a world in which you got passed over for a job, the dude who got it was great for a year, and then proceeded to piss it all away and you have to go on tv to an audience of millions and try to put a shine to it as the idiot who got your promotion is fly fishing in montana
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Jun 10, 2016 01:43
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Halloween Jack posted:Shave Seltzer Makes me laugh every time I see it
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Jun 10, 2016 02:01
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exploding mummy posted:in Tony's defense, imagine a world in which you got passed over for a job, the dude who got it was great for a year, and then proceeded to piss it all away and you have to go on tv to an audience of millions and try to put a shine to it as the idiot who got your promotion is fly fishing in montana Sure but then there's the guy he held a grudge against for years and pounced on when he said something stupid on a gameshow. Tony owned.
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Jun 10, 2016 03:03
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Schiavone being better than Michael Cole/JBL/Byron Saxton does not mean he was actually any good. Schiavone sucked nuts
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Jun 10, 2016 03:34
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Tony was actually good for a large part of his career because he announced wrestling like it was a sport and his voice was suited for it. I wonder how much he was getting paid in those last few years.
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Jun 10, 2016 03:44
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Apparently the final 18 months of Nitro are about to be uploaded to the Network 
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Vertical Lime posted:Apparently the final 18 months of Nitro are about to be uploaded to the Network Any "highlights" of the pre collapse year are you guys most looking forward to?
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Vertical Lime posted:Apparently the final 18 months of Nitro are about to be uploaded to the Network just another way wwe is trying to undermine tuesday nitro for the new live smackdown
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MassRafTer posted:Sure but then there's the guy he held a grudge against for years and pounced on when he said something stupid on a gameshow. in Tony's defense, the man he held the grudge against was the person who actually made the decision to go with Bischoff so it's part and parcel of his misery
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:Any "highlights" of the pre collapse year are you guys most looking forward to? 
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Crazy exaggeration is the lifeblood of wrestling anyway. I miss the glory days of HE MUST BE 7'5!!! when the Giant came out "Look at him, Gorilla. Andre must be pushing 500 tonight." "I think at the weigh-in earlier, he was over 600, Jess. That's right, over six-hundred pounds." "I don't think so, Gorilla, he looks to be about five hundred." "That's right folks, five hundred and fifty pounds of giant are on the way to the ring right now."
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Platypus Farm posted:"Look at him, Gorilla. Andre must be pushing 500 tonight." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9AbN5dySl4
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Platypus Farm posted:"Look at him, Gorilla. Andre must be pushing 500 tonight." Gorilla and Jesse's bickering was awesome, and leagues above today's lovely commentary that's just another platform for Vince to spew his own weird insecurities all over TV.
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Vertical Lime posted:Apparently the final 18 months of Nitro are about to be uploaded to the Network https://twitter.com/WWE_Network_Bot/status/741314425664229376 Just got updated up to May 2000 Should I watch and spoil myself for Tuesday Nitros from a year from now?
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Even better https://twitter.com/WWE_Network_Bot/status/741314511244791810 The internet loved the reboot, but I knew it would fly over the typical viewer's heads So far they only uploaded 9 new Nitros from 1999-2000
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pre-repeated head trauma Daffney was so adorbz. Now she's gorgeous tho.
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CombineThresher posted:Gorilla and Jesse's bickering was awesome, and leagues above today's lovely commentary that's just another platform for Vince to spew his own weird insecurities all over TV. The funniest parts of their banter were always when gorilla would just give up, exasperated, and give him a "Highly unlikely, Jess" I grew up listening to them, and then to gorilla and heenan and yeah, we aren't even talking leagues, we're talking literally hanging from the rafters at the garden better.
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Platypus Farm posted:The funniest parts of their banter were always when gorilla would just give up, exasperated, and give him a "Highly unlikely, Jess" I literally can't decide which is better, Gorilla and Heenan, or Gorilla and Ventura. Jesse Ventura was the man, back in the day, who clued me in that it was the heels that more often than not had legitimate grievances, and the faces were whingy cheating tools. And when Gorilla was with Heenan, there was something awesome about the way Heenan would needle and needle and needle until the inevitable "Will you stop!"
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Which led to the biggest WILL YOU STOP ever when Heenan wouldn't shut up during Flair/Savage at Wrestlemania 8. It even stunned poor Bobby into a meek little "Don't yell at me."
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DeathChicken posted:Which led to the biggest WILL YOU STOP ever when Heenan wouldn't shut up during Flair/Savage at Wrestlemania 8. It even stunned poor Bobby into a meek little "Don't yell at me." I thought that was at Royal Rumble '92 when Flair came out second and Bobby lost his mind saying "You gotta be fair to Flair!" over and over again.
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Flair coming out at the Rumble is accompanied by Bobby reacting as though he just watched his kid get run over by a tractor. Wrestlemania 8 is where he won't shut up about Flair's robe during nearly the entire walk down the aisle, until finally Gorilla screams "WILL YOU STOP?!"
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I thought that was at Royal Rumble '92 when Flair came out second and Bobby lost his mind saying "You gotta be fair to Flair!" over and over again. Third, not second.
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Yay, I'm wrong about everything!
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BrigadierSensible posted:I literally can't decide which is better, Gorilla and Heenan, or Gorilla and Ventura. I think that the body and the brain were equal as far as color guys. The thing is that Gorilla was always the rock. Either of them werent' anywhere near as good when they commented with vince. I mean, they were still excellent, but either one of them with monsoon was just amazing. It's actually kind of funny. A childhood friend and I were talking the other day about wrestling, since we both grew up renting whatever tapes we could find at the local mom & pop, and for both of us, our memories of specific matches aren't ever that clear unless we've watched them recently. Same goes for entire PPVs. But we can both remember exactly things gorilla, jess and bobby said that made us laugh and laugh. Oh poo poo, what about some of those prime time skits with bobby and gorilla? Or when bobby came into WM 9 turned around on his donkey? that was better than the whole show.
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Ventura's heel commentator personality was good. Were there any great heel commentators before him, or was he kind of the prototype?
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It was pretty fun before he retired when he'd be announcing, get up to have a match, then come back to announcing. If he lost Monsoon would make fun of him.
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