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The American Dream posted:I have zero interest in watching that. But I’m absolutely happy that this type of thing is there. Yeah, I was just thinking it's not my jam but I'm super glad there's a place where that sort of thing gets published. For someone who's into that sort of thing, a video like that is a dream come true. Personally I'd love it if they'd start acquiring the rights to and publishing promos cut by WWE stars back when they were in the indys. The moment I became a huge CM Punk fan was his "Drink your poison, I want you to die!" promo in England. I still to this day adore the Paul London and Bryan Danielson "Pod people" promo. There's so much good stuff out there from current and I'm sure HoF performers that could just get thrown on the Network as a small bonus thing.
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rovert posted:WWE Network uploaded a grappling contest between Craig Pittman and Booker T at the WCW Power Plant. i know this is extremely not fair to craig pittman, but i can only see him now as that guy that got chewed up by aleksandr karelin a lot of guys got chewed up by karelin
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I've always wanted this to be adopted by every TV Wrestling company https://twitter.com/BossMoz/status/1101833952564637696
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rovert posted:I've always wanted this to be adopted by every TV Wrestling company I love Bam Bam's reaction. Hands on hips and he doesn't even look angry, just disappointed. I guess nobody told him that there would be pyro in the middle of his match. Or, more likely, there were timing issues, and WCW in it's wisdom decided that they absolutely HAD to do the explody things exactly on the start of the 2nd hour, in ring action be damned.
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rovert posted:I've always wanted this to be adopted by every TV Wrestling company Further proof that WCW was the best. WWE wouldn't even spring for Gillberg's pyro now.
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Has Schiavone ever talked about no-selling the fact that there was a match in the ring when their 2nd Hour cue kicked in or were they all on autopilot at that point
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Has Schiavone ever talked about no-selling the fact that there was a match in the ring when their 2nd Hour cue kicked in or were they all on autopilot at that point Nitro commentary had a habit of ignoring midcard matches in favor of anything deemed more important, even if the more important thing was literally just the passage of time.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Nitro commentary had a habit of ignoring midcard matches in favor of anything deemed more important, even if the more important thing was literally just the passage of time. Yeah it's the most jarring thing about WCW because the commentators are legally required to just talk about the main event angle every 30 seconds, even if the match is on a level never seen at that time in WWF.
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Is cost-cutting the reason they rarely do fireworks anymore? Or has it been since the pyro rope fell on the crowd during that one WrestleMania?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Is cost-cutting the reason they rarely do fireworks anymore? Or has it been since the pyro rope fell on the crowd during that one WrestleMania? Yes, it was all cost cutting.
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Bring in a modern day IRS to be blamed for stuff like no more pyro whose catch phrase is “the cost has been cut”
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oldpainless posted:Kevinnashcitizenoftheworld.gif I don't care what the Retro Reviews say, I love Buffer. He is as hammy as prowrestling should be. Speaking of the reviews and the WCW commentators, I gotta find the Nitro where Bobby and Tony just totally give up and spend all night insulting each other. I think it was the one where Kidman won the WCW Cruiserweight Title for the first time? No idea why they gave up then since WCW was still very much alive at that point.
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NikkolasKing posted:I don't care what the Retro Reviews say, I love Buffer. He is as hammy as prowrestling should be. I can't get mad at a company trying to make big matches feel special. I mean, at least the effort was there!
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Buffer's introductions were good. Wrestling thrives on making poo poo look important.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Buffer's introductions were good. Wrestling thrives on making poo poo look important. IIRC, he got $100,000 for every appearance.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:IIRC, he got $100,000 for every appearance. Was more like 10K.
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Michael Buffer in the mid to late 1990s would only agree to deals where he received money specifically for saying the phrase "let's get ready to rumble" independent of the agreed price for his announcing. i could believe he gave them a discount given that it was a weekly gig for a while but it probably scaled with the event. He likely did make close to 100,000 for one shot at some point or another, but not regularly. He is a white supremacist. I'm talking about The Undertaker there.
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Bruce Buffer was the superior Buffer bro anyway.
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Michael Buffer was paid $10,000 per appearance to not give a poo poo.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Michael Buffer was paid $10,000 per appearance to not give a poo poo. "Bret 'Hitman' CLARK!" *cashes check*
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The amount of times he called it “Hulk-mania”... Actually, I’ve always wondered about WCW hiring Buffer. Did they do it simply because he has a distinctive voice and an important quality to his announcements? Or was part of it petty in that the WWF wouldn’t be able to use him for the Royal Rumble with his appropriate catchphrase?
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Mar 4, 2019 15:26
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It's because he's the greatest boxing announcer of all time and him standing there gives your match more credibility
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Smoking Crow posted:It's because he's the greatest boxing announcer of all time and him standing there gives your match more credibility That was the first part of the question, thank you. I just still find it funny that they spent millions on him over the years and he still refused to learn anyone’s name.
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His fierce competitiveness and desire to win has earned him the label of Bad Boy, and he's proud of it. Because he's so good, he's as bad as he wants to be. And that's very, very bad. Ladies and gentlemen, the ultimate bad boy, Dennis Rodman
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BGrifter posted:Bruce Buffer was the superior Buffer bro anyway. until you read their twitters. Michael Buffer is pretty cool.
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WCW wasted so much money but even if it was just the millionth Hogan squashing someone match they made it feel like a big deal and I respect that
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It's cool that WCW wanted to put on a better product for the fans so they spent half a million on buffer and a million on Voodoo Child (Slight Return) instead of buying a boat called the Sexy Bitch.
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I'm wondering how much Buffer has been paid for his Rocky movie appearances. I couldn't find anything on Google but did see that Midway paid him $100 million to license his catchphrase in perpetuity for their Ready 2 Rumble game series, the last of which came out on the Wii.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I'm wondering how much Buffer has been paid for his Rocky movie appearances. I couldn't find anything on Google but did see that Midway paid him $100 million to license his catchphrase in perpetuity for their Ready 2 Rumble game series, the last of which came out on the Wii. Goddamn Wouldn't that be more than the entire series has made in it's lifetime
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I'm wondering how much Buffer has been paid for his Rocky movie appearances. I couldn't find anything on Google but did see that Midway paid him $100 million to license his catchphrase in perpetuity for their Ready 2 Rumble game series, the last of which came out on the Wii.
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jesus WEP posted:that can’t possibly be an accurate figure It was the 90s, if they'd named their company wegivemichaelbuffer100milliondollars.com it would have raised the money from investors in 35 seconds. Of course nowadays we're far more sophisticated. You'd have to name a company wegivemichaelbuffer100milliondollarsblockchain to raise that kind of cash.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Goddamn Almost certainly! And it's just one of the reasons why Midway is still a major player in the games indust -- wait, no, it looks like they went out of business in 2009.
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Jerusalem posted:It was the 90s, if they'd named their company wegivemichaelbuffer100milliondollars.com it would have raised the money from investors in 35 seconds. with a mobile app.
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Mar 4, 2019 22:54
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And there would be a pound sign involved.
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Still mad I missed my mid-2000s shot at raising 100 million dollars with my MMO World of Wegivemichaelbuffer100milliondollars
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I will say that I can't really find a source for it. Another source says he's made $400 million total from licensing the phrase. Much like WCW, Midway was on top for a while then crashed down hard so it's plausible.
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both Michael and Bruce are well off. Michael does a bunch of charity stuff and advocates for good causes. Bruce snorts weird stuff and pays hush money.
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