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D.N. Nation posted:HHH annihilating his quads was pretty gruesome; was there any "just hang it up, Trips" talk at the time? I remember even in like 2004 Trips was giving interviews saying he would probably only last two more years
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Feb 21, 2018 19:42
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Spuckuk posted:Other than Steve Austin, has anyone come back to regular wrestling from a really rough injury like that? Sid Vicious
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Smoking Crow posted:Sid Vicious Sid never really wrestled regularly after that and even 2 years later was limited to promos in the WWA. He's wrestled but not a ton.
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Feb 21, 2018 20:13
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When (and why) did they stop calling the 'crossbody' the 'crossbody block'?
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Feb 21, 2018 21:13
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DopeGhoti posted:When (and why) did they stop calling the 'crossbody' the 'crossbody block'? Probably laziness. One less syllable in a common term can be a welcome difference for people, like wrestling announcers, who get paid for talking rapidly for hours at a time.
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Feb 21, 2018 23:51
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What are some examples of something genuinely shocking and genuinely really important happening in this age of twitters and widely disseminated dirtsheets and SCOOPZ? Off the top of my head, I can think of Okada beating Tanahashi in 2012. Given what it was for and what it led to, would that be the biggest example?
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The Hardys coming back at Wrestlemania. While it did hit Twitter just before, it wasn't widely known because the show had started by then.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:14
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Did anybody know Rey Mysterio was going to be at the Royal Rumble?
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VJeff posted:What are some examples of something genuinely shocking and genuinely really important happening in this age of twitters and widely disseminated dirtsheets and SCOOPZ? Punk's walk out. Daniel Bryan's retirement. Brock Lesnar's initial return. Y2J in New Japan. E: Undertaker losing to Lesnar at Wrestlemania should probably be here too. Price Check fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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Feb 22, 2018 00:21
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Oh yeah Jericho is a huge one, that's true.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:26
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Rey definitely counts as surprising, but it was only a one-off, so I dunno how important it is. Although who knows, maybe it's what put Rey on the radar to lead to him working with NJPW. I dunno if Punk and Bryan count because those weren't planned, they were forced by real life. Jericho and Lesnar breaking the streak definitely count. Jericho's a weird case in that it had reached the point where most savvy people had expected Omega vs. Jericho, but I think most people thought they would wrestle on the boat or maybe Supercard of Honor, not freaking Wrestle Kingdom. The thought of that match taking place on a boat now seems so ridiculous in retrospect.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:35
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I think most of the cruise speculation was because people thought it was in 2017. It's not until later this year.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:40
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Wasn't Shane's comeback kinda surprising too? I guess Neville loving off could count too, it made 205 a mess that only now is getting better again.
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VJeff posted:Rey definitely counts as surprising, but it was only a one-off, so I dunno how important it is. Although who knows, maybe it's what put Rey on the radar to lead to him working with NJPW. I dunno if Punk and Bryan count because those weren't planned, they were forced by real life. Jericho and Lesnar breaking the streak definitely count. Uh, Kenny's doing the cruise, so it's pretty likely they will do a rematch on the boat.
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Feb 22, 2018 01:28
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There were whispers of Lesnar’s 2012 return online but they were dismissed by most. His music hitting was a massive surprise.
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Justin Godscock posted:There were whispers of Lesnar’s 2012 return online but they were dismissed by most. His music hitting was a massive surprise. I definitely recall some Brock-related signs in the crowd.
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Nakamura and Styles jumping to WWE is definitely up there, it was shocking enough that New Japan changed its contract structure to prevent mass poachings
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Jerusalem posted:Did anybody know Rey Mysterio was going to be at the Royal Rumble? I think RobViper on Twitter did he's a well connected Lucha fan, a friend of Rey and a Highspots employee. But they people who I usually ask about Rey didn't at all.
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VJeff posted:What are some examples of something genuinely shocking and genuinely really important happening in this age of twitters and widely disseminated dirtsheets and SCOOPZ? It's going back maybe too far, but John Cena coming in at #30 in the Rumble when he was widely understood to be six months away from competing again. The live thread was pretty fun when that happened.
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Feb 22, 2018 05:55
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Just the memory of that voicemail MRT left just losing his loving mind about Cena coming out always makes me laugh. 
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Feb 22, 2018 06:02
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Jerusalem posted:Just the memory of that voicemail MRT left just losing his loving mind about Cena coming out always makes me laugh. Imagine if Scotsman had picked up his phone and I hadn't been able to leave a message.
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Feb 22, 2018 06:05
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MassRafTer posted:Imagine if Scotsman had picked up his phone and I hadn't been able to leave a message. Hopefully he was too busy flipping out as well to answer
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Feb 22, 2018 06:15
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Cena coming out at no. 30 was magical. That was the point where I decided "gently caress it, I'm rooting for him."
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It was magical because everyone lost their minds. And then they remember how much they hated Cena and felt conflicted.
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Jerusalem posted:Just the memory of that voicemail MRT left just losing his loving mind about Cena coming out always makes me laugh. please tell me we have audio or a transcript of this
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rare Magic card l00k posted:please tell me we have audio or a transcript of this one of the first wrestlehut audio things i ever heard was that call lol i think its on youtube? it is not.
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Resident Idiot posted:It's going back maybe too far, but John Cena coming in at #30 in the Rumble when he was widely understood to be six months away from competing again. The live thread was pretty fun when that happened. May anyone have a link to that moment in the live thread?
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Ghostpilot posted:May anyone have a link to that moment in the live thread?
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Feb 22, 2018 16:58
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Woo boy I was maaad
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Jack Anderson posted:Cena coming out at no. 30 was magical. That was the point where I decided "gently caress it, I'm rooting for him."
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VJeff posted:What are some examples of something genuinely shocking and genuinely really important happening in this age of twitters and widely disseminated dirtsheets and SCOOPZ? The Rock coming back announcing he was going to host WrestleMania in 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgJSvWTionE
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Coaaab posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2754922&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=47 Jerusalem posted:We're all living in Banjo's world now I hope we see Banjo again, though I fear he may be fading from this world as John Cena's wrestling career winds down 
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Feb 23, 2018 03:17
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Weaklings and frauds; Cena is never and will never be good.
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Part time status does not seem to be doing for him what it did for Taker, that's for sure. Feels like he's showing up because they ask him too rather than because it's what he wants to be doing at this point.
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My view on John softened greatly some time ago. Dude works insanely hard and blaming him for WWE's creative laziness seemed unfair. However, one thing I was a bit surprised Roman never brought up during their little worked shoot promo segment was how John, once upon a time, made it clear that he didn't think much of Rock referring to WWE as his home and then buggering off again to go do movies and whatnot. Yet around that time, that is precisely what John had done, and continues to do. I don't have a problem with it because I'm tired of wrestlers dying young, and I'm glad John's realized he couldn't keep up his insane pace forever. I guess even though the segment was supposed to poke at sensitive nerves and whatnot there were still some no-no topics. Which is fine, but it might have made Roman look better to point out what a huge hypocrite John came off as in kayfabe.
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Did Roman really not bring that up? I know Miz did in the leadup to their Wrestlemania match. It seems like the lowest hanging fruit to grab at. e: Hell, Dean did back when they were feuding and gave us the classic line "Have fun being the guy who plays John Cena on TV." Nipponophile fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Feb 23, 2018 |
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It's funny in 2007 my opinion was the Cena/Umaga LMS match was slightly overrated (excellent but not MOTY) and Cena himself was slightly underrated, but not great. Being there for that Rumble sure made me a true believer.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:My view on John softened greatly some time ago. Dude works insanely hard and blaming him for WWE's creative laziness seemed unfair. However, one thing I was a bit surprised Roman never brought up during their little worked shoot promo segment was how John, once upon a time, made it clear that he didn't think much of Rock referring to WWE as his home and then buggering off again to go do movies and whatnot. I'm relatively certain Roman did exactly that. Like, he cut a promo very specifically going after John for specifically that exact thing with very specific callbacks to one of John's promos on the Rock on like exactly that subject. Anyway yeah he's really not much in the WWE anymore and hasn't been since early 2017, but. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbSPFq3EF_M John Cena will always be Good.
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