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Hirez posted:What's the best Wrestling show's theme/year in your own opinion - personally I've always been a huge mark for All Japan's Theme music no question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6q_Ptv7EDo
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Holy poo poo, I had forgotten all about that theme and it all came rushing back when I heard "DIESEL COOL".
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Nov 17, 2020 04:22
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The Wrestle Kingdom theme slaps so loving hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xqL-F8uTw
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Ganso Bomb posted:Holy poo poo, I had forgotten all about that theme and it all came rushing back when I heard "DIESEL COOL". yea, after that i heard Diesel Cool, Undertaker... Shawn Michaels... [i started singing the rest until I got to Hakushi and marked out and had to restart... It's that saturday morning programming child memory, just like remembering the Xmen cartoon theme, Saved By Bell theme, etc etc
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Nov 17, 2020 04:34
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Dragon Storm and all the variants Dragon Gate has used throughout the years is the hypest theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3O6Qyqsjcg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H21IXzVYBR4
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Bob Backlund, Tito Santana (who who still active in the AWF in the early-mid 90s) and Yokozuna come to mind. (Oh wait, Santana and Yoko each wrestled exactly one WCW match ever. And Yoko did it when it was still JCP). Doing a little research you have both Smoking Gunns, both members of T and A and Tom Pritchard as well. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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Nov 17, 2020 06:47
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ChrisBTY posted:Doing a little research you have both Smoking Gunns, both members of T and A and Tom Pritchard as well. Dr. Tom appeared a few times in interpromotional SMW/WCW matches, most notably at Superbrawl III. Test and Albert both seem like edge cases (similar to the Rock or Mark Henry) in the sense that both of them started wrestling even later than Rock or Henry; both of them had their first matches in late 1997 and by early 1998 had signed developmental deals with WWF.
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Wow yeah. Keeping track of all the dudes who did random JCP jobs is pretty rough. Didn't know WCW co-promoted with SMW though.
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Nov 17, 2020 08:12
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RAW IS WAR'S A THORN IN YOUR EYE
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I'm gonna guess Bob Backlund never showed up in WCW. Maybe also The Headbangers? Bradshaw? Val Venis? Godfather?
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Nov 17, 2020 14:45
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Pope Corky the IX posted:RAW IS WAR'S A THORN
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Minidust posted:The old raw theme is credited to "Slam Jam," which according to Discogs includes "two rappers from german crossover kings Such A Surge." So now I'm wondering if everything aside from the title line is actually unintelligible German, rather than unintelligible English. Those lyrics remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. Apple Music has the full, I would guess correct, lyrics for the old raw song.
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Nov 17, 2020 17:35
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And why aren't you sharing them?!
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Nov 17, 2020 17:48
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Pope Corky the IX posted:And why aren't you sharing them?!      
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Nov 17, 2020 18:04
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It's the like with the back with the sword of me, Put your soul in my arms with the soul of Vince, But you aren't passing with my lame-brain spear! (...) God drat cracked the crawl, If you hide!
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I guess this is more about the community itself but what got you into the backstage stuff of wrestling? Why did it appeal to you? For me my first board was the gamefaqs wrestling message board.
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I think one of the old wrestling mags I had referenced The Grandstand, which was technically run by/in agreement with some internet provider. The Grandstand was connected to the official ECW site. I got internet in mid-1996. Beyond the ECW site, I can't remember how I found the AltaVista search engine, but started leading to some stuff. Email newsletters were the big thing back then.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I guess this is more about the community itself but what got you into the backstage stuff of wrestling? Why did it appeal to you? For me my first board was the gamefaqs wrestling message board. Now that I think about it, e-feds probably got me more interested in the idea of booking and by extension the whole backstage aspect of it. I would also wonder a lot about how much of the gimmick reflected the wrestlers' real personalities, same as people wonder about musicians and actors.
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I think I wanted RAW results and ended up at Scoops or Rantsylvania
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I think I wanted RAW results and ended up at Scoops or Rantsylvania similar. once you have *****CLICKED*HERE*FOR*MORE~!***** you are lost to a life of ruin
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Red posted:That's a tough call, because he basically followed the same formula for 20 years. Going back to Hogan's best matches, he had amazing chemistry with the Big Bossman (Boss Man? Bossman?), and their series of matches were all pretty great, and the crowds ate it all up. There's a really fun one in the Boston Garden where Hulk cuffs Slick, and abuses him repeatedly as a replacement for restholds, and the match is just nonstop action. Edit: Also, their SNME cage match, where Hogan cuffs Bossman to the ropes so he can escape, and they showed actual blood! Amazing that Bossman looked like a big fat guy in his 20s, but could really go, but looked like he was in much better shape in the late 90s, but had become pretty immobile. Who knows what the gently caress he was doing that he died of a heart attack at 41. Red fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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He was moving around pretty well in the 90s. That was when we got nutty poo poo like his top rope crossbody to Earthquake, where he got caught like a sack of potatoes Edit: Oh, *late* 90s. Yeah, by then he was probably cooked physically
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what you have to remember about these old "lazy" wrestlers is they were working 320+ nights a year and a lot of them were jacked up to the gills
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How were Kenny and Kota as draws in DDT? I assume Budokan Peter Pan was their peak, how were they besides that?
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I have an answer to an age old wreslting question; why isnt NWA a large major promotion? Well, here it is. NwA does "built to fold" promos for anything from 6 months to about 2 years. Sometimes it's a large independent get together, sometimes it's an all act based one(during CYBER SPACE almost everyone was an alien or robot*but a few folks wanted to focus on getting themselves started so just did tights and a t shirt) and it's the low rent king of leagues for it. If it's not an xtrme stunt based one, it's got National Wreslting Alliance written on the paperwork somewhere. *or a conspiracy theorist whackjob alien robot.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:RAW IS WAR'S A THORN I remember a recapper that I read around the time who would come up with a different mondegreen for the theme every week, though the only one I remember is "RAW IS WAR'S ALONE WITH THAT GUY!" Speaking of old memories, I remembered a candid (?) interview with Anthony Norris ie Ahmed Johnson in WWE Magazine (or maybe their more adult side magazine, Raw, I forget) where he talked about his childhood which as he presented it was horrifically abusive, with his father being an utterly monstrous POS who did stuff like pour boiling water on Ahmed's stomach (because no one was allowed to touch 'his' food, but his siblings were starving so Ahmed broke the rules and got out some of 'his' hot dogs, and his father caught him and did that as a punishment) amongst other things: the abuse was so bad that Ahmed candidly said that when he was an adult he attempted to kill him twice, only to be stopped by his sister IIRC. Buttttttt Ahmed also supposedly got discharged from the military for striking a superior officer, claimed to play for the Dallas Cowboys whereas the Cowboys say they have no records of him, and there's more than one story about him acting as a pimp and being just as abusive to the women he oversaw in his own ways (I think there was a claim posted in the infamous "Sleaziest Stories Of Pro Wrestling" that he said he had his girls 'so pimped' that he was 'able to use their tongues as toilet paper'). Remembering that interview and these claims just made me wonder what the real deal with Norris was. A sad victim of the cycle of abuse? A liar? Or somewhere in the middle?
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Cornwind Evil posted:I remember a recapper that I read around the time who would come up with a different mondegreen for the theme every week, though the only one I remember is "RAW IS WAR'S ALONE WITH THAT GUY!" IIRC the pimping story turned out to be another man named Tony Norris Take the vast majority of the sleaze thread with a grain of salt. Whether he was abused, I really don't know
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Insert a Name Here posted:I have an answer to an age old wreslting question; why isnt NWA a large major promotion? What
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Cornwind Evil posted:I remember a recapper that I read around the time who would come up with a different mondegreen for the theme every week, though the only one I remember is "RAW IS WAR'S ALONE WITH THAT GUY!" I don't think one thing being true discounts the other if they're true. Hurt people hurt people.
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Nov 20, 2020 15:18
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It was CRZ who did the constantly changing Raw intro. RAW IS WAR'S A PORN IN YOUR STY
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Question? Who's the oldest regularly working wrestler in any decent sized promotion? Because I was astonished to find out Billy Gunn is 57 and still going at it.
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Spuckuk posted:Question? Joke answer: Luchasaurus Real answer: Billy seems right, if you count him as a regular performer. Dustin Rhodes is also 50+ and Jericho just turned 50. WWE has a few oldies who show up to beat the younger talent from time to time but they’re not really regulars.
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Spuckuk posted:Question? negro casas is 60 and killing it
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I think Tatsumi Fujinami is still wrestling fairly regularly
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Nov 20, 2020 21:59
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Great Kojika is 78
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Spuckuk posted:Question? I swore Butcher from AEW had to be in his mid to late 50s, but nope, early 40s. Minoru Suzuki is only 52, and I swear he's been 50 forever. Undertaker's last "match" was right around his 55th birthday. Ken Shamrock is in Impact, and he's 56. So Billy Gunn still going is goddamn impressive.
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whats crazy is not only is billy still going, but go watch his matches on AEW Dark. he wrestles every week, gets a lot of shine and heat moments in matches, remains very mobile and can for the most part hang with nearly everyone on the roster. i look back at tanahashi picking him for his IC Title Defense when he wrestled stateside in a much different light now.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I think Tatsumi Fujinami is still wrestling fairly regularly Fujinami is the guy I had in mind for oldest guy wrestling at all, but AFAIK he's mostly retired?
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Shamrock looks like a golem made of veins and wrinkles, I refuse to believe he's a year younger than Billy Gunn.
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someone post the gif of shamrock shoot powerbombing filthy tom tia
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