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The Oddities don’t get enough recognition as a bad stable.
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They were over. It doesn’t really matter how bad you are if you’re over. There’s so much attitude stuff that is terrible in a bubble. That poo poo was over waaaay more then it should have been. Al snow in 1999 was more over then most of the roster is today and it’s not even close.
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Jul 14, 2019 05:46
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Very disappointed in myself how little effort it took to remember that Chavo’s MIA name was Lieutenant Loco.
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Jul 14, 2019 06:03
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The American Dream posted:Al snow in 1999 was more over then most of the roster is today and it’s not even close. Okay, brainstorming session: who on the current roster is more over than Al Snow in 1999? I'll start: John Cena
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Jul 14, 2019 06:19
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Admiral Joeslop posted:"Sgt. A.W.O.L."
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Defiance Industries posted:Okay, brainstorming session: who on the current roster is more over than Al Snow in 1999? I'll start: Paul heyman, Daniel Bryan, Ron Simmons
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Jul 14, 2019 06:48
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Lash LeRoux was a perfectly medium wrestler carried by the fact that he was extremely cajun and his sideburns were shaved into L's.
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MrBling posted:Lash LeRoux was a perfectly medium wrestler carried by the fact that he was extremely cajun and his sideburns were shaved into L's. i remember liking LeRoux at the time and it was mostly based on the sideburns
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Jul 14, 2019 08:25
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Lash LaRoux is also a hella good name
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Jul 14, 2019 09:14
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My favorite part of MIA was Van Hammer throwing a fit that he was only a Private, so they changed his name to Major Stash, rendering nonsensical a joke that wasn't even funny in the first place.
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Jul 14, 2019 11:44
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Very on brand for Vampiro, then.
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Jul 14, 2019 11:55
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Pope Corky the IX posted:My favorite part of MIA was Van Hammer throwing a fit that he was only a Private, so they changed his name to Major Stash, rendering nonsensical a joke that wasn't even funny in the first place. How is it nonsensical it makes it seem like he loves weed even more.
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Jul 14, 2019 17:00
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MassRafTer posted:How is it nonsensical it makes it seem like he loves weed even more. Probably not much as Kroniꓘ!
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Jul 14, 2019 19:13
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MassRafTer posted:The Misfits in Action were the worst stable in major league wrestling history. Yeah, they were awful, and aside from Chavo being decent, they were all individually terrible. It wasn't a matter of them not meshing well, they were just all bad wrestlers with bland personalities, and making them into a bad stable with an unearned push didn't make them any more interesting than they had been. I remember thinking they were trying to sell Hugh Morrus as WCW's answer to Mick Foley, and well, that certainly did not work at all.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:10
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I think you meant to call him by his real name, Hugh G. Rection.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:25
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rare Magic card l00k posted:MIA was better than the Natural Born Thrillers As a result, it's the kind of bad that you can laugh at. Watching NBT is like eating a loaf of Wonder Bread.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:27
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Numero6 posted:Probably not much as Kroniꓘ! WWE should really revive that tag team with Matt Riddle and... Well anyone. He's got the consumption covered himself.
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Jul 14, 2019 20:55
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LividLiquid posted:I don't think it ever played more than once per episode, but it played every episode of Nitro and Thunder for a bit there. I distinctly remember it being played at least twice, perhaps more for a little while there, one in the first hour, one in the third, it's like they were using it to fill time
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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32jse
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Opinion(tm) time: Lex Luger doesn't deserve a lot of the hate he gets. He had good matches and programs up until 98 or so until like so many others, he stopped giving a poo poo 'cause WCW. fight me irl
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I actually think that there was a period around 1995-1997 where Luger was the most consistently well-booked guy in WCW. His promos and everything are still bad, but he's entertaining and his storylines more or less make sense to accommodate his schtick. I think most people in hindsight are put off him by the overexposure and ill-fittingness of the Lex Express/America gimmick in WWF, but yeah, when he got bad in late WCW he got REAL bad, and the Liz business probably doesn't help.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I actually think that there was a period around 1995-1997 where Luger was the most consistently well-booked guy in WCW. His promos and everything are still bad, but he's entertaining and his storylines more or less make sense to accommodate his schtick. I think most people in hindsight are put off him by the overexposure and ill-fittingness of the Lex Express/America gimmick in WWF, but yeah, when he got bad in late WCW he got REAL bad, and the Liz business probably doesn't help. Lex racking Hogan to win the title, even if only for a week, is one of my favorite wrasslin' memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEuQRggqU7A
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Randaconda posted:Opinion(tm) time: Lex Luger doesn't deserve a lot of the hate he gets. He had good matches and programs up until 98 or so until like so many others, he stopped giving a poo poo 'cause WCW. Lex the performer is underrated by fans, Lex the human being was not so good.
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What's great about Luger is even in late 99 when WCW got Russo'd he was still entertaining as one of many who stopped giving a single poo poo about anything. No fucks given Lex is best Lex. Try and tell me that that time he pretended to have fallen over and hurt his knee isn't the best bad acting in wrestling history.
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Jul 17, 2019 17:42
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I really liked the Narcissist character, where he wasn't even all that interested in fighting, he just wanted to knock you out so you'd leave him alone and he could go back to his mirror
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MassRafTer posted:The Misfits in Action were the worst stable in major league wrestling history. Yo, you dealin with the X-Factor
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Jul 17, 2019 18:56
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Were the lyrics "I know you hate X-Factor but you ain't gotta look at me like that"?
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Sandman McMahon posted:Yo, you dealin with the X-Factor A much better stable.
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Jul 17, 2019 19:24
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I at least remember (vaguely) things that MIA did. Straight up the only thing I remember about X-Factor is the lovely song. Genuinely not sure who wins this.
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Jul 17, 2019 19:50
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My favorite thing about X-Factor (and there are a lot of them) is how that Uncle Kracker song isn't even a song written for WWE, it's just a song he had on his album that they dubbed X-FACTOR over that bastard or whatever the original lyrics were. I wish they'd really gone all in on that for the era so the whole thing would sound like an old B&V song contest HI My Name is (wiki wiki) CRASH HOLLY WHO LET THE BRITISH BULLDOG OUT? Everybody BULL BUCHANAN's Back, All Right! Somebody once told me the REVEREND D-VON is gonna roll me Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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Jul 17, 2019 20:20
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would unironically love the Reverend Devon one
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X-Factors back causin’ mass destruction Guess who’s here? The bad boys of wrestlin’
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I'M STEVE BLACKMAN! skeedeedeebahdeebopboop bahdeebopboop
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Kind of on that note I'm kind of amazed that at no point did WWF ever do a Rikishi video package to Back That rear end Up or a Steve Austin video package to #1 Stunna. And yet they got the Big Show into the video for the Thong Song Remix.
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Jul 17, 2019 21:41
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They also had a period in the mid-00s where they chose songs for entrance themes with swearing in the chorus, so there were obvious cuts even on television. Lita’s theme was probably the worst. SO *static* YOUR RULES MAN!! SO *static* YOUR RULES MAN!! SO *static* YOUR RULES MAN!! SO *static* YOUR RULES MAN!!
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Jul 17, 2019 21:45
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Edge & Christian posted:And yet they got the Big Show into the video for the Thong Song Remix. i was previously unaware of this mildly interesting fact
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Jul 17, 2019 21:45
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It got heavily hyped up somewhere (WWF.com? On Raw?) and then yes, Big Show appears for approximately two seconds glancing and nodding approvingly at Foxy Brown's thong, all while being shot so he doesn't look remarkably large
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Edge & Christian posted:My favorite thing about X-Factor (and there are a lot of them) is how that Uncle Kracker song isn't even a song written for WWE, it's just a song he had on his album that they dubbed X-FACTOR over that bastard or whatever the original lyrics were. I think the original lyrics were "I know you hate that fact" which at least shares like, a single syllable with X-Factor, so there's like 0.1 points of cleverness in there. But at least X-Factor made some sense because they were all guys the fans hated, and it was an attempt to play off of that. It didn't exactly work, because the fans didn't "love to hate them" so much as they "wanted to change the channel every time they came on screen," but at least they had the sense to make their band of boring, disliked jobbers a heel stable instead of trying to convince the fans to like them.
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I'm going with The Natural Born Thrillers being worse than MIA. At least you could tell the members of MIA apart and they didn't spread through the entire show like Kudzu. X-Factor came at a time when I was ridiculously tired of X-Pac. All his matches stood out for being samey and he never jobbed despite being the sort of worker who should have jobbed left and right; not because he was awful but because he frequently worked with hotter/better acts. And I wasn't a fan of Albert, Justin Credible or Uncle Cracker either. NWO 2000 was a gigantic mistake on every level and needed to be scrapped once Bret went down for the count. At least MIA only pushed DeMott as a midcard act. NWO 2000 pushed Jarrett as a main event act. Do not mistake any of this for being a fan of MIA. Anything that helps Bill DeMott is autogarbage.
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Other Worst Stable Facts: [Yo You Dealin' With the] X-Factor managed to get wins over a bunch of jobbers, the Dudley Boys, K-Kwik, Steve Blackman, the Hardyz ft. Eddie Guerrero, and the APA. In their brief run, the Natural Born Thrillers went over against Rey Mysterio, Diamond Dallas Page, Kevin Nash, Kanyon, Lex Luger, Rick Steiner, Tank Abbott, Lance Storm, Mike Awesome, Jim Duggan, Booker T, Bam Bam Bigelow, Curt Hennig, Buff Bagwell, Ernest Miller, etc. etc. I think that's a solid argument for "worse than any of the other groups mentioned" on that level. There's an argument for "worst stable" in terms of wasted potential but most of those (League of Nations, Nexus, Latino World Order) are cases of mishandling good talent as opposed to pushing awful talent. X-Factor and Misfits in Action I would argue, while being dumb, are at least using most of the people involved to their potential.
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