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pretty much every local indie has one tall guy who does the "step over the ropes" entrance even if they have to loosen the gently caress out of the ropes to allow him to do it
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I know a friend who's maybe 6'1" max who does it but the top rope at this fed is like a good 6 inches lower than average and the top rope is always pretty loose.
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anakha posted:Yoshihiro Takayama might be the right answer here. I remember watching him stretch to step over the top rope in NOAH. He's also listed as 2cm shorter than JBL. I looked this dude up and it said he's 6'5". Do Japanese promotions pad height and weight as much as Western promotions? I don't think JBL is really 6'5". I saw Batista IRL and I'd guess he's really 6'4" or 6'5"*, and I think he's bigger than JBL *I am referring, of course, to penis size
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I think JBL was a legit 6’4” in his football days
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Son of Man posted:I looked this dude up and it said he's 6'5". Do Japanese promotions pad height and weight as much as Western promotions? I don't think JBL is really 6'5". I saw Batista IRL and I'd guess he's really 6'4" or 6'5"*, and I think he's bigger than JBL Takayama's listed MMA height is also 6'5" so I'd assume it's legit.
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This question is a bit more niche but for fans of F4WOnline, how were Bryan, Vinny or Craig as wrestlers? What about this Buddy Wayne? I've never watched Indie stuff but I am going through their Retro shows and I just got the one that was mostly a Buddy Wayne tribute from 3 years ago when he passed away and it moved me enough to want to look up his matches with Bryan. I think it must be Wayne in some of the matches I found on YT but they were 2 minute squashes where Edge and Bam Bam killed him without him really doing anything. Then again, if listening to F4W has taught me anything, a wrestler managing to not gently caress anything up aka "doing nothing" is a rare talent.
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Bryan was and is still a very solid if unspectacular wrestler. I think Vinnie would be the first to admit he mostly sucked. I have no idea about Craig but I can’t imagine he was ever any good
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I seem to remember Buddy being good
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Buddy seems like he was real good from what I’ve seen of him. Definitely a victim of being around before small guys made it in WWE
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NikkolasKing posted:This question is a bit more niche but for fans of F4WOnline, how were Bryan, Vinny or Craig as wrestlers? What about this Buddy Wayne? I've never watched Indie stuff but I am going through their Retro shows and I just got the one that was mostly a Buddy Wayne tribute from 3 years ago when he passed away and it moved me enough to want to look up his matches with Bryan. Buddy Wayne was good in the sense say a Brad Armstrong was good. You aren't going to find a lot of great matches but he was rarely in that position. Buddy especially was someone booked in the second match on the card and would have a really good second match on the card. He was very well regarded in the industry.
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bryan carried marko stunt to perfectlyfineindiemidcardmatch/***** fairly recently
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What are notable Rumble examples of a jobber/lower midcarder eliminating a big star. Maven & Undertaker, anything else?
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Kennel posted:What are notable Rumble examples of a jobber/lower midcarder eliminating a big star. R-Truth threw out Mark Henry and Big Show at the same time once, if that counts. He didn't really have anything going on at the time and it was over a year before he got his big heel push. Test threw out Jericho back when Jericho had a big feud with Michaels going on and Test's whole thing was Stacy Kiebler calling his fans "Testicles."
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All the talented PNW wrestlers for a while were Buddy Wayne's students.
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TTBF posted:All the talented PNW wrestlers for a while were Buddy Wayne's students. It took me reading this page and being very confused for a few minutes to realize there's more than one dead wrestler named Buddy Wayne, and everyone here's old enough to remember one of them, and I'm thinking of the other. --- Last week I watched Raw for the first time in months (I was on the road, sue me. I'll watch again next Monday). Stupid assed cuck angle aside, when did Lana and Rusev drop their Eastern European accents?
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I think Darby Allin mentioned on the Jericho podcast that he was trained by (or at least one of his trainers was) Buddy Wayne as well?
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Were super hard chairshots or other weapon shots to the head a product of the 90s or have they always been a problem in wrestling? Still going through Retro shows and they note how Sgt. Slaughter, an old school vet, did the softest chairshot imaginable while everyone else on this '98 Raw was trying to kill each other with chairs, swinging as hard as they possibly could.
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NikkolasKing posted:Were super hard chairshots or other weapon shots to the head a product of the 90s or have they always been a problem in wrestling? Mostly a product of the 90s, the older wrestlers didn't take near as many direct head shots like that
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Yeah, I remember it being a big deal when Slaughter used a (padded) chair against Hogan at Wrestlemania VII and that was '91.
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NikkolasKing posted:Were super hard chairshots or other weapon shots to the head a product of the 90s or have they always been a problem in wrestling? There's a good chance they originated with wrestlers seeing Japanese chairshots where the seat pops out when you hit someone square in the head. It looks very cool. American chairs don't do that though.
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The first hard chair shot I remember seeing was Rock scrambling what was left of Ken Shamrock's brains after Ken literally dared him to
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I imagine it was because when you hit someone in the head really hard with the wide top part of the chair, it produced a really loud clean POP noise that only CTE hits could offer
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Did anyone who wasn't Meng ever get hit with a wooden chair?
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Moe_Rahn posted:Did anyone who wasn't Meng ever get hit with a wooden chair? Big Bubba Rogers, which was the angle they were ripping off when they did it to Meng. edit: also a wooden chair factored into the finish of the Magnum TA/Tully I Quit match.
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Didn't Cornette tell a story about that, where they were supposed to weaken the chair but forgot?
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Halloween Jack posted:Didn't Cornette tell a story about that, where they were supposed to weaken the chair but forgot? Yeah, Klondike Bill forgot to gimmick the chair so Dusty broke a legit one over Bubba's head and it didn't even knock his hat off.
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Where do wrestlers get their ring gear? I’d assume big promotions like WWE have a costuming department, but what about indies and the like?
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The Lord of Hats posted:Where do wrestlers get their ring gear? I’d assume big promotions like WWE have a costuming department, but what about indies and the like? People make and sell them, or if wrestlers are enterprising they make their gear themselves. Colt Cabana taught himself to sew so he could make his own ring gear. Before being hired by AEW to make their costumes Denise Cutler (Brandon's wife) made a living making wrestling gear and cosplay costumes. Plus a lot of the basic gear can just be bought. Highspots, for example, sells off the peg or custom wrestling gear http://www.highspots.com/c/Wrestling-Gear.html
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Sasha Bank's husband makes wrestling gear I think.
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I think it was Royal Rumble '94 where they were using these chairs like they stole them from a school.
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those were the most produced chairs of 1988 through 1992. most likely got them for nothing or next to nothing to clear out space.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I think it was Royal Rumble '94 where they were using these chairs like they stole them from a school. God, I can still feel that cold hard plastic on my back from sitting on them at school.
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Sasha Bank's husband makes wrestling gear I think. He was a wrestler who made his own gear, then friends asked him to make their gear, and then their friends, etc. He ended up with so much business making gear he didn't have time to keep up with his training, so he quit wrestling to just make gear fulltime.
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Can anybody explain to me how Kota Ibushi was able to punch Okada square in the jaw with those amazing looking punches which were obviously worked (right?). I've never seen such realistic strikes and they were copied in the Tyler Bate/Jordan Devlin match in NXT UK. It's one of the most effectively worked "moves" I've ever seen.
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Can anybody explain to me how Kota Ibushi was able to punch Okada square in the jaw with those amazing looking punches which were obviously worked (right?). I've never seen such realistic strikes and they were copied in the Tyler Bate/Jordan Devlin match in NXT UK. It's one of the most effectively worked "moves" I've ever seen. Ask Terry Funk.
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Can anybody explain to me how Kota Ibushi was able to punch Okada square in the jaw with those amazing looking punches which were obviously worked (right?). I've never seen such realistic strikes and they were copied in the Tyler Bate/Jordan Devlin match in NXT UK. It's one of the most effectively worked "moves" I've ever seen. I think the magic of it is in the sell.
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With the Ibushi ones, it's definitely the Funk method. He's just fuckin' hitting him.
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Those punches looked crisp and stiff to me.
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So wouldn't that leave Okada with like, bruises and poo poo? They looked very real, but how does Okada appear the next night not looking like he'd been punched in the face for real?
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They're not pulled like most wrestling punches, but they're not throwing like a boxer either.
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