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oatgan posted:His heel turn came when his buddy John Morrison goaded him into putting a title shot he'd earned on the line. He lost, snapped, beat up John Morrison, and blew cigarette smoke on his body. As a heel he was really mad the company didn't give opportunities to black wrestlers. He took his frustration out on children decked head to toe in John Cena merch (little jimmys) and the parents who bought it for them because R Truth didn't have a t-shirt at the time because the company was racist and didn't push black people. I don't know if these segments flew over someone's head backstage or if they just thought it would be funny if he just became a raving moron who actually hallucinated an invisible child who followed him everywhere named Little Jimmy and was terrified of spiders but that's what happened
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oatgan posted:His heel turn came when his buddy John Morrison goaded him into putting a title shot he'd earned on the line. He lost, snapped, beat up John Morrison, and blew cigarette smoke on his body. As a heel he was really mad the company didn't give opportunities to black wrestlers. He took his frustration out on children decked head to toe in John Cena merch (little jimmys) and the parents who bought it for them because R Truth didn't have a t-shirt at the time because the company was racist and didn't push black people. I don't know if these segments flew over someone's head backstage or if they just thought it would be funny if he just became a raving moron who actually hallucinated an invisible child who followed him everywhere named Little Jimmy and was terrified of spiders but that's what happened The spiders thing, as far as I can tell, was improv because Michael Cole is an idiot. Truth was talking about being afraid of heights going into a MITB or some other ladder match, Cole called it arachnophobia because he is bad, and Truth ran with it.
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Xerzes posted:The spiders thing, as far as I can tell, was improv because Michael Cole is an idiot. Truth was talking about being afraid of heights going into a MITB or some other ladder match, Cole called it arachnophobia because he is bad, and Truth ran with it. yeah, Truth said he had acrophobia, and Cole is an idiot. that whole R-Truth run is one of my favorite things in wrestling. R-Truth is a genius. 
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Was his very brief pretty Ricky phase before or after the truth shall set you free run?
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freeranger posted:Was his very brief pretty Ricky phase before or after the truth shall set you free run? Before. It was a one off on Smackdown done purely for Vince's amusement.
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The strange thing about the feud from the video package is that he's making tons of good points about him basically being a comedy act who had to act like and idiot and rap and sing to be accepted and he never got a real shot and it seems like either Vince or a writer was like "uhhhh he's coming way too close to be totally in the right. poo poo...uh, make him attack an innocent father in the crowd! Make him crazy!"
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I think you'll find that R Truth was the second ever NWA/TNA world champion
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Minidust posted:Not sure of the exact timing, but there was a period where commentary mysteriously stopped calling the FU by name. Cole would say "Cena going for the victory!" when the move was being set up, stuff like that. After the no-name period they just started calling it the Attitude Adjustment as if nothing had changed. They abruptly took the U off the STFU at the same time, but bizarrely left the Five Knuckle Shuffle intact.
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Even without the goofiness, I thought R-Truth worked because of the story that set him off. At the time, the midcard and upper-midcard were bland as gently caress, but they always tended to throw just enough of a bone R-Truth's way. He'd win the midcard titles and they even had him eliminate Big Show and Mark Henry at the same time at the Rumble. He was the kind of guy you'd toss into multi-man title or #1 contender matches and never expected him to ever win. Kofi, Ziggler and face Khali had the same thing going on. So after all that, R-Truth finally got a title shot. Then a week later, everyone made fun of him for taking a sip of water during that match and his buddy beat him for the contendership. That's as good a springboard as any to turn a tired face into a rising heel.
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rotinaj posted:
Well it makes a little more sense when you remember that Big Show is Andre's son. Steph really looked up to Andre when she was a kid and I guess Vince didn't have the heart to tell her he died so he brought in Show like a replacement pet that looks similar
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during the big show vs the authority feud, they said that big show was her friend when she was a little girl.
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sticklefifer posted:They abruptly took the U off the STFU at the same time, but bizarrely left the Five Knuckle Shuffle intact. Which made the phrasing in this Fruity Pebbles commercial even MORE awkward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0GY2jTSEs
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Every so occasionally the WWE will stumble upon a gimmick which comes way too close to exposing how regressive both their company and their fans are. In the early days of Muhammad Hassan's run he and Daivari were just American born Muslims who were upset at the their treatment at the hands of a post-9/11 America. He would win clean and not give the crowd any justifiable reason to boo him, which kinda made them even madder. His early feuds were with mindless patriots like Jim Duggan who dropped the conventional "America; love it or leave it" rhetoric. The early Hassan character was a huge problem because wrestling fans never would have cheered him, had no justifiable reason to boo him and anybody who feuded with him looked completely in the wrong. Then the R-Truth thing. Which has been already broken down. Then the Real Americans. Surprisingly pushing patriotic nationalists as heels. Unfortunately much like the West Texas Rednecks a decade before before the crowd wound up chanting along with their asinine but patriotic sounding catchphrase.
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ChrisBTY posted:Every so occasionally the WWE will stumble upon a gimmick which comes way too close to exposing how regressive both their company and their fans are. I don't see how it's asinine at all. The Real Americans only wanted to Make America Great Again. What's the issue?
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SirDippingSauce posted:Which made the phrasing in this Fruity Pebbles commercial even MORE awkward: John Cena is so good.
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John Cena said "Five knuckle shuffle in your face" in a cereal commercial three years ago and I'm only just finding out now EDIT: Oh he says "Of in your face". Not as good
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Hey, was Serena of the Strait-Edge Society any good? Punk, Gallows and Joey Mercury were/are all pretty great, but I don't really remember anything about her in-ring stuff. Wikipedia says she worked with Mickie James a lot in TNA, Shimmer and other indies and did some work in Japan. From that it would seem like she has chops, but does she?
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Deeb didn't do a lot.
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Didn't she get fired for drunk driving a boat?
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Supposedly. To which she replied "Why would anyone be drunk driving a boat"
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I don't even think "drive," is the right verb for boats
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Why wouldn't it be?
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You steer a boat
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Not when you're drunk you don't.
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oldpainless posted:You steer a boat I steer a car too. While I'm driving it. Much like a boat.
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IcePhoenix posted:I steer a car too. While I'm driving it. Much like a boat. When I am on a boat I am a mariner therefor I marinate the boat.
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Sanguinia posted:I don't even think "drive," is the right verb for boats steer is a subset of what makes up a drive in moore ways then one.
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exploded mummy posted:steer is a subset of what makes up a drive So she was using a boat to direct cattle?
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You pilot a plane, you conduct a boat.
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Are we talking about Harley Race again? I love Harley Race.
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DeathChicken posted:Supposedly. To which she replied "Why would anyone be drunk driving a boat" There is no plausible situation for me to be on a boat sober so like I don't understand that question.
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Sanguinia posted:Hey, was Serena of the Strait-Edge Society any good? Punk, Gallows and Joey Mercury were/are all pretty great, but I don't really remember anything about her in-ring stuff. Wikipedia says she worked with Mickie James a lot in TNA, Shimmer and other indies and did some work in Japan. From that it would seem like she has chops, but does she? She peaked as Paige Webb.
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RacistGuidingLight posted:There is no plausible situation for me to be on a boat sober so like I don't understand that question. Right? Cooler full of cheap pilsner gets packed before the fuckin' tackle box.
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The segment where Serena gives herself over to the SES is really good (I loved the SES, though, so I'm a little biased), but other than that I don't remember her doing much.
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Sanguinia posted:Hey, was Serena of the Strait-Edge Society any good? Punk, Gallows and Joey Mercury were/are all pretty great, but I don't really remember anything about her in-ring stuff. Wikipedia says she worked with Mickie James a lot in TNA, Shimmer and other indies and did some work in Japan. From that it would seem like she has chops, but does she? the only thing I remember was her having huge boobs and getting her head shaved, I don't even recall if they gave her any mic time
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Golden Bee posted:She peaked as Paige Webb. Was she a hacker in that gimmick, or did she just like web sites
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Sanguinia posted:Hey, was Serena of the Strait-Edge Society any good? Punk, Gallows and Joey Mercury were/are all pretty great, but I don't really remember anything about her in-ring stuff. Wikipedia says she worked with Mickie James a lot in TNA, Shimmer and other indies and did some work in Japan. From that it would seem like she has chops, but does she? Serena was a great female indie wrestler to be honest. Topped a lot of year end polls. Connected with fans in very strong way. Lauded for having the best punches in Wrestling but for a few men or women. Played Bayley's mentor in SHIMMER too.
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remusclaw posted:Okada is guilty of the crime of tailoring his level of effort to the situation at hand rather than operating at peak levels all the time. He's cool.
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More of a fun little experiment than a full fledged question What is the one MUST SEE PPV for each year of WWE history? Like: 2011: Money in the Bank 2012: Extreme Rules 2013: Summerslam etc. Go as far back as you'd like. I thought about making this it's own thread but I don't know. Maybe if you go into detail on each PPV it could work?
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OldTennisCourt posted:More of a fun little experiment than a full fledged question 2014: Wrestlemania
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I'd say Summerslam for 98 and 2000. Definitely WrestleMania for 2001.
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