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Grittybeard posted:Come the gently caress on, you can't take a man's shtick just because he's dead.
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Eli Wiggum posted:Curt Hennig is rolling in his grave right now I haven't watched wrestling in years and never seriously watched it, but I remember being really impressed by how much he sold being hurt when whoever he was up against did some fancy pro-wrestling move on him.
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Jul 21, 2017 18:47
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Grittybeard posted:I haven't watched wrestling in years and never seriously watched it, but I remember being really impressed by how much he sold being hurt when whoever he was up against did some fancy pro-wrestling move on him. Hart/Perfect at SummerSlam '91 was one of the better matches I have seen
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Jul 21, 2017 18:50
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Eli Wiggum posted:He definitely would have had a World Title run if it weren't for Hulk Hogan and his bullshit politics Man, wrestling used to be so good...
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Jul 21, 2017 18:52
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Grittybeard posted:I haven't watched wrestling in years and never seriously watched it, but I remember being really impressed by how much he sold being hurt when whoever he was up against did some fancy pro-wrestling move on him. Yeah, I only watched for a few years in the early 90's, but man did they have a bunch of mid-card guys who were great at making audiences absolutely hate them and then get their poo poo kicked in. Million Dollar Man, Ravishing Rick Rude, IRS, The Mountie... SMH, not a Citigroup or JP Morgan exec in the bunch!!!
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Jul 21, 2017 18:54
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weird Asian candy posted:Man, wrestling used to be so good...  yeah, especially during the Monday Night Wars and the Attitude Era. Right now the WWE is total trash and has been for a while since they're coasting on account of being a virtual monopoly.
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Jul 21, 2017 18:55
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Eli Wiggum posted:
Bring back the gimmicks! Make everyone a comical profession that just happens to also wrestle constantly. Where is the silicon valley doucehbag who has an app that he activates to summon a bunch of freelance jobbers to fight for him?
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Jul 21, 2017 18:59
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Bret Hart was always one of my favorites, he always did a good job of making his moves look mean as gently caress. Falling headbut to the Inverted atomic drop to the Stomp to the Boy, he sure hated 
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Ok this is actually pretty good out of Orrin Hatch. https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/888089537469177856 https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/888182240680738816
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I didn't realize the challenger explosion was real, but apparently I made a lot of references to it as a kid (I was 5 when it happened, and I saw it Live). Apparently I'd go around and make KABOOM effects and splay my arms out at random people.
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Jul 21, 2017 19:05
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Mel Mudkiper posted:If anything it makes me feel better. For the longest time I was worried this was a new rise of far right nationalism and watching it collapse under total incompetence has been very therapeutic. They've been very good at the racism stuff, though.
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sean10mm posted:Bret Hart was always one of my favorites, he always did a good job of making his moves look mean as gently caress. Some of my favorite wrestlers growing up...Junkyard Dog, Koko B. Ware, British Bulldog, Brutus the Barber Beefcake, Bam Bam Bigelow, Sargeant Slaughter, Titonka, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, Steiner Brothers...man so many good wrestlers! Obviously the big names were great...Hulk, Andre, Million Dollar Man... Remember those pillows they used to make of the wrestlers and those figures you would put your finger into? Good times...good times...
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weird Asian candy posted:Some of my favorite wrestlers growing up...Junkyard Dog, Koko B. Ware, British Bulldog, Brutus the Barber Beefcake, Bam Bam Bigelow, Sargeant Slaughter, Titonka, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, Steiner Brothers...man so many good wrestlers! Obviously the big names were great...Hulk, Andre, Million Dollar Man... Oh man I loved Sargent Slaughter! I had the GI Joe of him and everything.
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it's funny how people criticized cena for having 5 moves of doom when bret did it too not to take away from bret
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Vertical Lime posted:it's funny how people criticized cena for having 5 moves of doom when bret did it too One thing I noticed from watching some old wrestling bits from when I was a kid was that I apparently did not give a poo poo about the in-the ring wrestling. I just cared about how good they were at selling the character and also animals are rad as heck (Jake the Snake, Koko B Ware and the British Bulldogs)
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^ Absolutely!  pubic works project posted:Oh man I loved Sargent Slaughter! I had the GI Joe of him and everything. Hell yeah! I did too! 
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Jul 21, 2017 19:27
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Kalli posted:One thing I noticed from watching some old wrestling bits from when I was a kid was that I apparently did not give a poo poo about the in-the ring wrestling. I just cared about how good they were at selling the character and also animals are rad as heck (Jake the Snake, Koko B Ware and the British Bulldogs)
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Eli Wiggum posted:You aren't kidding. I was a huge Ultimate Warrior mark as a kid, ignoring the fact that he had poor cardio and an atrocious moveset. I just loved his nonsensical promos. <vigorously shakes ropes>
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Jul 21, 2017 19:28
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Eli Wiggum posted:You aren't kidding. I was a huge Ultimate Warrior mark as a kid, ignoring the fact that he had poor cardio and an atrocious moveset. I just loved his nonsensical promos. Me too. Was Hacksaw Jim Duggan like legit retarded? Also, used to love the Bushwhackers running around lickin' people's heads.
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Didnt Hacksaw turn heel and start waving a Canadian flag at some point when WCW was dying
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^ for like a minute yeah nobody started really caring about in-ring performance in the wwf until later in the 90's i've long maintained randy savage should be a college course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYRJLr90vSA
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Jul 21, 2017 19:36
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The bushwackers were awesome. They'd rub random guy's faces in their pits and it would be super stinky because they ate sardines. The undertaker was hilarious when he first started. He'd just do squash matches against 2-3 guys at a time and defeat all of them in 20 seconds, Also all the managers were the best. Jimmy Hart, Bobby the Brain Heenan, Paul Bearer with the undertaker, that weird go go dancer chick with Honky Tonk Man, Dottie with The American Dream....
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Kalli posted:The bushwackers were awesome. They'd rub random guy's faces in their pits and it would be super stinky because they ate sardines. Don't forget Mrs. Elizabeth!!!
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Jul 21, 2017 19:42
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I loved Monsoon and Heenan on commentary so much
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weird Asian candy posted:Don't forget Mrs. Elizabeth!!! Almost all the wrestling I watched was that stuff on Saturday morning, so the main headliners would almost never show up, so I didn't see Mrs. Liz until I started renting tapes from blockbuster, and then I was super confused about why Hogan and Macho Man were fighting over her and then best friends and man I never liked Hogan even as a kid. Hogan was too good for squash matches at 11 AM on Saturday morning, boo him.
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Kalli posted:Almost all the wrestling I watched was that stuff on Saturday morning, so the main headliners would almost never show up, so I didn't see Mrs. Liz until I started renting tapes from blockbuster, and then I was super confused about why Hogan and Macho Man were fighting over her and then best friends and man I never liked Hogan even as a kid. Hogan was too good for squash matches at 11 AM on Saturday morning, boo him. I remember when No Holds Barred came out and Hogan would plug it on television, threatening to beat up parents if they didn't take their kids to see the movie. I was legit scared that Hogan was going to track my dad down and beat him up 
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Kalli posted:Almost all the wrestling I watched was that stuff on Saturday morning, so the main headliners would almost never show up, so I didn't see Mrs. Liz until I started renting tapes from blockbuster, and then I was super confused about why Hogan and Macho Man were fighting over her and then best friends and man I never liked Hogan even as a kid. Hogan was too good for squash matches at 11 AM on Saturday morning, boo him. Yeah, I wasn't a huge fan of Hogan either growing up. And man, I don't remember Miss Elizabeth dying in 03...that made me sad Also lol Blockbuster. I'll take things that kids will have never heard of for $500, Alex! Eli Wiggum posted:The thing with Hogan is that, even at his peak as the top face in the WWF, he was a heelish motherfucker. I LOVED No Holds Barred. I remember thinking that Zeus dude was loving awesome. I doubt I could get through 15 minutes of it now though.
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Spoeank posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCAbBnWm4LM by the Alex Jones folk people. I missed this. It's amazing. I actually know one of the main guys involved in Super Deluxe. His name is Cyrus and he used to be involved in the earwolf podcast although I dont know tos what extent. He probably wrote that song. Super cool dude.
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How does the WWE not have a dude just doing Alex Jones? Everything that guy does is already a wrestling promo, just add some beef slapping to it and put a belt on him Vince.
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weird Asian candy posted:I LOVED No Holds Barred. I remember thinking that Zeus dude was loving awesome. I doubt I could get through 15 minutes of it now though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AIpeJ8zxEU&t=28s
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Vertical Lime posted:it's funny how people criticized cena for having 5 moves of doom when bret did it too Bret often ended matches with the same ending moves, but he had like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe2D7vu2G8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YqXHiK4WfQ Some are minor variants so it's not quite that crazy, but still.
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pubic works project posted:Who still needs a QB? I bet he's shot a 38 at Mar o Lago too, with 11 holes in one.
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the thing with wwe now is that it seems like sooner or later everybody's ruined vince mcmahon might as well be al davis in his final years, just replace fast receivers with big men
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Vertical Lime posted:the thing with wwe now is that it seems like sooner or later everybody's ruined If only there was a billionaire who was also a huge wrestling mark so he could snatch up a promotion like ROH and have it compete with WWE
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Read "the Squared Circle." The history of wrestling is fascinating.
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