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Hedgehog Pie posted:He's a boy, and they're men. And they just love to play with little boys. It works out fine because Rey also likes to beat his kids https://twitter.com/reymysterio/status/263061905764151296
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Hedgehog Pie posted:He's a boy, and they're men. And they just love to play with little boys. WCW is where the big boys play
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Steve Austin posted:WCW is where the big boys play with each other
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Beer_Suitcase posted:WCW is where the big boys play Look at the adjective
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When I watched that promo live I remember my dumbass 16-year-old self trying to figure out if "play" could also be an adjective.
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Outright trashing your own product and saying it's fake is extremely on brand for WCW in 1999.
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I swear we watched a clip of that show in one of MRT's sunday night viewings, but damned if I can find it
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DJExile posted:I swear we watched a clip of that show in one of MRT's sunday night viewings, but damned if I can find it Bix posted one: https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1296216186351484930
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Thaaaaat was it. Thank you!
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Angry_Ed posted:Unmasked Rey Mysterio was already a stupid idea so of course WCW had to double down on it and make it worse. He kept adding more layers - he dyed his hair, added suspenders, parachute or zubaz pants or something, and on and on. He was great in the ring, but why throw away your character's most appealing trait?
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Red posted:He kept adding more layers - he dyed his hair, added suspenders, parachute or zubaz pants or something, and on and on. He was great in the ring, but why throw away your character's most appealing trait? Masked guys don't get ovah
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Like it says a lot that unmasking Rey Mysterio was such a bad idea that even in Mexico where they treat unmasking as a thing you can never take back they were like "well technically it wasn't a real Luchas de apuestas match so yeah you can put the mask back on." I seriously don't know how often official Lucha Libre commissions have ever done that.
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Cavauro posted:Brett Hartt Brett Clarke
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Angry_Ed posted:Like it says a lot that unmasking Rey Mysterio was such a bad idea that even in Mexico where they treat unmasking as a thing you can never take back they were like "well technically it wasn't a real Luchas de apuestas match so yeah you can put the mask back on." I'm not the expert (MRT will probably come in behind me and correct me), but even in Mexico, it's not "a thing you can never take back." They try to keep people from putting on a new mask right away, so that the significance of unmasking isn't undermined, but luchadors remask under new gimmicks semi-frequently. Or look at Silver King. He lost his mask well before WCW, then twenty years later decided "I want to wear my mask again" and just put it back on. After a couple of years, the commission finally told him, "look, if you want to keep the mask, OK, but do something to justify it," and he said, "fine, sometimes I'll call myself 'Silver Kain' instead?" and that seems to have been good enough.
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Cavauro posted:Brett Hartt gently caress Brett Hart. I like his wraparound sunglasses, those are cool. But he SUCKS for refusing to drop the belt. He was going to take the strap to WCW. REmember when he got kicked in the head by that piss rear end Goldberg? That mother fucker, I'm surprised didn't kill Bret with his inexcusable inability to work a kick
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disaster pastor posted:I'm not the expert (MRT will probably come in behind me and correct me), but even in Mexico, it's not "a thing you can never take back." They try to keep people from putting on a new mask right away, so that the significance of unmasking isn't undermined, but luchadors remask under new gimmicks semi-frequently. Fair enough, I had completely forgotten about Silver King, and as such had created this mental blind spot where I thought it was "permanent". Or thought like in a Sin Cara/Mistico/Hunico situation they just never publically unmasked/remasked. Thanks for the info.
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Angry_Ed posted:Fair enough, I had completely forgotten about Silver King, and as such had created this mental blind spot where I thought it was "permanent". Or thought like in a Sin Cara/Mistico/Hunico situation they just never publically unmasked/remasked. No problem, and no worries (as I said, I'm not the most knowledgeable, either). It feels permanent because it's supposed to feel permanent, that's the whole mystique. And Rey might genuinely have had an easier time getting "approval" to re-mask, I can't say.
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Cheese Thief posted:gently caress Brett Hart. I like his wraparound sunglasses, those are cool. But he SUCKS for refusing to drop the belt. He was going to take the strap to WCW. REmember when he got kicked in the head by that piss rear end Goldberg? That mother fucker, I'm surprised didn't kill Bret with his inexcusable inability to work a kick Bret agreed to drop the belt on RAW in a 4 way the night after Survivor Series, Vince just didn't want WCW claiming they had his champion, which they basically did anyway
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Bret agreed to drop the belt on RAW in a 4 way the night after Survivor Series, Vince just didn't want WCW claiming they had his champion, which they basically did anyway The 4 way was going to be at the next PPV and it was all agreed to do that until Shawn and HHH started playing games.
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When you read the Observer and stuff from the Torch it's very clearly Brett was willing to drop the title but Shawn was very much at peak levels of being Shawn bullshit and Vince was very much listening to him and HHH (And also being knee deep in his own Bullshit). Even more funny is Shawn tried similar bull poo poo to beat Austin at Mania!
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SatoshiMiwa posted:When you read the Observer and stuff from the Torch it's very clearly Brett was willing to drop the title but Shawn was very much at peak levels of being Shawn bullshit and Vince was very much listening to him and HHH (And also being knee deep in his own Bullshit). Wasn't the tipping point, according to everyone, when Vince asked Bret to get a commitment from Bischoff to push everything back until after the December PPV, but Bret couldn't get a hold of Bischoff (legitimately, he was off on a hunting vacation or something), and Shawn/HHH tweaked Vince's paranoia that Bret was lying about not being able to reach Bischoff and Bret and Bischoff were going to screw him?
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disaster pastor posted:Wasn't the tipping point, according to everyone, when Vince asked Bret to get a commitment from Bischoff to push everything back until after the December PPV, but Bret couldn't get a hold of Bischoff (legitimately, he was off on a hunting vacation or something), and Shawn/HHH tweaked Vince's paranoia that Bret was lying about not being able to reach Bischoff and Bret and Bischoff were going to screw him? Bischoff agreed to it.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Even more funny is Shawn tried similar bull poo poo to beat Austin at Mania! Wait what? I thought Shawn was in loads of pain and hadn't wrestled since he bounced off the casket at the Rumble.
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Red posted:Wait what? I thought Shawn was in loads of pain and hadn't wrestled since he bounced off the casket at the Rumble. He was trying to convince Vince to have him win and up until the match the rumor was that Shawn would try to pull a last minute power play to get the finish changed
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Austin losing would have made WWF look like a low-rent WCW. I know Austin actually decisively beating HBK to win the title was a big reason why I began to watch Raw more than Nitro.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:He was trying to convince Vince to have him win and up until the match the rumor was that Shawn would try to pull a last minute power play to get the finish changed I've always heard the myth that Taker was in the back with his hands taped up if Shawn didn't do business. But that sounds like some bullshit. But also on brand for Taker so I'm conflicted. On the screw job, yeah Shawn was a dickhead but Bret should have dropped the belt. It's fuckin' fake dude.
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Bret did the right thing. You are worth more when you don't lose. Especially back then. Don't side with management c'mon. Especially not WWF management.
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MassRafTer posted:The 4 way was going to be at the next PPV and it was all agreed to do that until Shawn and HHH started playing games. Right. IIRC, it was supposed to be Bret/Shawn/Shamrock/UT?
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TheKingslayer posted:I've always heard the myth that Taker was in the back with his hands taped up if Shawn didn't do business. But that sounds like some bullshit. But also on brand for Taker so I'm conflicted. Why should he have agreed to help out the company that was letting him go as a cost cutting move? When you get fired from your job do you offer go mop the floors?
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