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| Up North |
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70 | 41.92% |
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21 | 12.57% |
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18 | 10.78% |
| The XXX Porno Wrestling on the Other Channel |
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46 | 27.54% |
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its choosing to forget one measly murder vs whitewashing and profiting from a hundred thousand murders
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Dec 8, 2018 04:32
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Went with Snuka, although the Iraqi sympathizer thing was notable for getting a secondary spinoff entry of Vince trying to get Meltzer fired from The National for rightly reporting on all their disgusting horseshit. That reporting and then the Observer afterward reporting on how Vince tried to get him fired is good reading. They also made up a bomb threat to move their failing Wrestlemania to a smaller venue. Man, the Iraqi angle was just a series of poo poo shows.
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Dec 8, 2018 04:34
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bartok posted:I had nearly forgotten about the treatment of Chris Kanyon and then I remember that segment on Smackdown where he comes out of a crate dressed like Boy George and the Undertaker just wails on him then it ends with a really nasty unprotectected chairshot. It's pretty loving hard to watch and doesn't paint Undertaker in a good light. the undertaker is a white supremacist
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Dec 8, 2018 04:42
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Went with the Snuka thing because they lionized a murderer post-Benoit, it is a tough choice though.
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Dec 8, 2018 05:05
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I listened to the podcast this morning and now I am all caught up, this last one was the hardest choice for me
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Dec 8, 2018 05:17
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Super No Vacancy posted:the undertaker is a white supremacist this seems very likely.
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Dec 8, 2018 05:29
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I went Snuka because the Iraqi angle can easily be attributed to America's genera lovely treatment of war. With Snuka, they honored him to the end.
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Dec 8, 2018 06:40
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I'm surprised X-Pac in blackface isn't on the list. That one always rubbed me the wrong way because one of the WWE Countdown shows talked up that segment and made sure to take a second to talk up how hilarious X-Pac's impression of Mark Henry was.
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Dec 8, 2018 07:39
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I forgot about the 2011 Punk/GLAAD thing but it was some amazing bullshit.quote:A rep for the WWE tells TMZ, "WWE does not condone this type of language or bias and we reinforce that with our talent who are independent contractors."
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Dec 8, 2018 09:00
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To be fair the Suzan B Koman foundation is probably only a few steps below the WWE in terms of Evil
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Dec 8, 2018 09:04
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Wazzu posted:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1267263/ she was 23 at the time Dave got that one wrong then
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Dec 8, 2018 09:48
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First one I went with Road Costs, because it's a recurring issue and inexcusable for a company that's the richest it's ever been. Second one was a bit harder, but I ended up going with the Gulf War Exploitation, if only for the scale of it.
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Dec 8, 2018 10:20
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one thing WWE should consider is to use the name of a good dead person on some sort of event or cause even though it's actually bad. don't just partner up with a company already doing it but do it themselves based on a wrestling personality. i think that would be a good fresh way to Be upsetting
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Dec 8, 2018 11:11
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Cavauro posted:one thing WWE should consider is to use the name of a good dead person on some sort of event or cause even though it's actually bad. don't just partner up with a company already doing it but do it themselves based on a wrestling personality. i think that would be a good fresh way to Be upsetting The Big Van Vader Foundation for Killing Puppies and Kittens.
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Dec 8, 2018 11:18
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Cavauro posted:one thing WWE should consider is to use the name of a good dead person on some sort of event or cause even though it's actually bad. don't just partner up with a company already doing it but do it themselves based on a wrestling personality. i think that would be a good fresh way to Be upsetting WWE Presents Mr Rogers' Neighborhood, a WWE Network special event taking place in beautiful Saudi Arabia!
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Dec 8, 2018 11:18
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Jerusalem posted:WWE Presents Mr Rogers' Neighborhood, a WWE Network special event taking place
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Dec 8, 2018 14:48
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Your winner: https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament/status/1071461894802866177
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Dec 8, 2018 19:07
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Rafter, do you find that a lot of things in the 64 are from a particular era like the attitude era or the Hulkamania era or whatever era we are in now?
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Dec 9, 2018 00:14
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TV Zombie posted:Rafter, do you find that a lot of things in the 64 are from a particular era like the attitude era or the Hulkamania era or whatever era we are in now? I think the majority of entries on the kayfabe bracket are from 98-2008, with a pretty even distribution of Attitude era and Ruthless Aggression or whatever you want to call it. The business stuff is a pretty even spread from the mid 80s until now.
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Dec 9, 2018 01:44
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Snuka has edged out the Gulf War and this one is now up for voting https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament/status/1071471465399312385
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Dec 9, 2018 01:48
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Easily the Kanyon stuff as it lead to his suicide most likely
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Dec 9, 2018 02:12
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I was at the show where Kanyon took that chairshot. Easily my least pleasant memory of any show I've been to.
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Dec 9, 2018 02:25
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I forgot just how racist the terrorist angle was until I watched it again. I forgot just how evil some of the Vickie stuff was until I remembered they went all in after she gave notice. https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament/status/1071581607033753602
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Dec 9, 2018 02:57
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Like if it wasn't just for how bad and racist the terrorist angle is I'd easily go Vickie but I just rewatched it and...yeah Terrorist angle is so bad even if they didn't air it it'd still be on it
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Dec 9, 2018 03:00
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Yeah I'm going with the terrorism angle, which is also notable for essentially killing Hassan's career (not that he was a great or even good wrestler, but once the angle aired and he got pulled from TV, that was it for him)
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Dec 9, 2018 03:53
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Benne posted:Yeah I'm going with the terrorism angle, which is also notable for essentially killing Hassan's career (not that he was a great or even good wrestler, but once the angle aired and he got pulled from TV, that was it for him) Part of that was that he had MASSIVE heat, he didn't understand wrestling politics.
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Dec 9, 2018 04:00
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Terrorist angle takes it for me because they could have edited it off and didn't.
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Dec 9, 2018 04:54
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MassRafTer posted:I forgot just how racist the terrorist angle was until I watched it again. Vickie stuff was weird as sometimes she was an effective on screen heel, way too often you'd just feel sorry for how the company was treating her.
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Dec 9, 2018 06:26
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brownface
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Dec 9, 2018 06:30
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The terrorist angle was pretty fuckin reprehensible because if I remember right, Smackdown wasn't aired live at that point so there was plenty of time to edit that out. No one gave a gently caress until public outcry. The Vickie stuff was a whole other world of lovely. Oh hey, sorry about killing your husband with our insane touring schedule and bullshit health oversight, you wanna wear a pig nose and get spanked in a bowl full of gravy?
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Dec 9, 2018 06:36
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Drop in the bucket at this point, but another one that could possibly land on one of the angles/kayfabe/on-air category slots for a future tournament: WWE aired a few weeks of hype video packages for Kenzo Suzuki's original gimmick "Hirohito", explaining that a descendent of Emperor Hirohito was coming to WWE to seek revenge on the United States for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The video packages included footage of Imperial Japanese war propaganda, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the aftermath of the atomic bombs.
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Dec 9, 2018 09:59
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Big Dave posted:brownface i think that fact gets forgotten in the story, that marc copani isn't even of arabic heritage
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Dec 9, 2018 13:08
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Seams posted:i think that fact gets forgotten in the story, that marc copani isn't even of arabic heritage Yeah, I think Daivari said Marc is Italian
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Dec 9, 2018 15:02
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sticklefifer posted:Drop in the bucket at this point, but another one that could possibly land on one of the angles/kayfabe/on-air category slots for a future tournament: And because IIRC he was supposed to feud w/them, around that same time was also when Benoit started being billed as from Atlanta and Jericho from NY.
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Dec 9, 2018 18:02
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Yeah, I think Daivari said Marc is Italian I grew up with him and his family. They are full blooded Italian, grandparents straight off the boat.
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Dec 9, 2018 18:07
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Fauxhawk Express posted:And because IIRC he was supposed to feud w/them, around that same time was also when Benoit started being billed as from Atlanta and Jericho from NY. There were also reports that Vince had a belief that foreigners wouldn't get cheered as much as as Americans, post 9/11.
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Dec 9, 2018 18:24
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https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament/status/1071829198929575936 As much as I wanted to vote for the Bryan thing in this tournament, it's not a fair matchup against gently caress Hogan Forever
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Dec 9, 2018 19:16
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Hogan would be very upset if he had to put Bryan over anyway.
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Dec 9, 2018 19:21
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freezing bryan's contract sucked for us, the fans, but rehiring hogan sucks for everyone
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Dec 9, 2018 19:32
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Difficult round, choice between horrible approach to workers right or loyalty to the money making scab that made sure they could do it.
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