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sticklefifer posted:What was the origin of "Bork Laser"? I want to say it was something to avoid a copyright takedown, but I don't know the specifics.
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davidbix posted:It was Brock's Fire Pro name. No, that was Strong Monster, or Monster Gaea for America.
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Cavauro posted:it came from people putting up wrestling videos on youtube with code names. i think wrestling in general was called "cheese souffle" or maybe that was code for WWE or something. i'm sorry i don't know.
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Nick Jr. Face posted:On that note, why was "cheese soufflé" chosen as the code phrase for wrestling videos uploaded illegally to YouTube? this is like pizzagate for wrestling
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Nick Jr. Face posted:On that note, why was "cheese soufflé" chosen as the code phrase for wrestling videos uploaded illegally to YouTube? Pronunciation of Suplex -> Su-play -> Soufflé I'm pretty sure I remember reading that on these forums years ago
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Kosmo Gallion posted:What is the perfect wrestling match? Both are hard to watch now but people here have recommended Rey vs. Eddie at Halloween Havoc and Benoit vs. Angle at the Royal Rumble and both feel like the Platonic ideal of wrestling matches.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Is the Lore of the Fiend a real thing from WWE tv or is it just a Twitter thing? Twitter thing https://twitter.com/mearn/status/1349171717470609411?s=20 https://twitter.com/bryanalvarez/status/1349172183403094019?s=20
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Someone several pages back asked about the origin of "He's just having fun!" as a WWE thing. While there were "just having fun out there" gimmicks stretching back decades, I was reminded of where the actual commentary call originated while watching a Youtube video on fan reactions. It came from JBL (or Vince speaking through him) trying to mitigate the damage of crowd booing something they were supposed to like, so anytime it happened JBL would say "That's the great thing about WWE fans, they do what they want! They're just havin' fun!" rather than the take being "This is poo poo and they hate it."
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sticklefifer posted:Someone several pages back asked about the origin of "He's just having fun!" as a WWE thing. While there were "just having fun out there" gimmicks stretching back decades, I was reminded of where the actual commentary call originated while watching a Youtube video on fan reactions. It came from JBL (or Vince speaking through him) trying to mitigate the damage of crowd booing something they were supposed to like, so anytime it happened JBL would say "That's the great thing about WWE fans, they do what they want! They're just havin' fun!" rather than the take being "This is poo poo and they hate it." It morphed with a bunch of babyfaces whose entire commentary identity was "they just love to have fun!" Whether they won or lost didn't matter they just cared about having fun. Off the top of my head you have The New Day, Adam Rose, Lucha House Party. Part of the reason its so effective as an attack is it seems to evoke comparisons to Uncle Tom's or minstrel acts.
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sticklefifer posted:Someone several pages back asked about the origin of "He's just having fun!" as a WWE thing. While there were "just having fun out there" gimmicks stretching back decades, I was reminded of where the actual commentary call originated while watching a Youtube video on fan reactions. It came from JBL (or Vince speaking through him) trying to mitigate the damage of crowd booing something they were supposed to like, so anytime it happened JBL would say "That's the great thing about WWE fans, they do what they want! They're just havin' fun!" rather than the take being "This is poo poo and they hate it." It could also be a carryover from the NFL. Commentators like John Madden would often say of Brett Favre, "He's just havin' fun out there," or things of that nature, to the point that "funslinging" became a meme before memes were A Thing.
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It’s what the commentators say about a new babyface who doesn’t have a character, but is just some smiling dude. It’s become more prevalent because WWE cannot write babyfaces and so they all default to the fun-loving smiling happy dude.
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TheKingslayer posted:It's fun to think about how modern WWE would book stars of the past. Austin for sure would have been called Chilly McFreeze and wheel out a snow cone machine or some poo poo to his matches in NXT. No, no, the snow cone machine would be a main roster thing, on NXT he'd be giving Bobby Fish concrete shoes as part of the build to a match with Roddy that goes third from the top and ends in a count out
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Stealth Tiger posted:Just imagine stone cold, exactly as amazing as he was, except feuding with Shane and Stephanie instead of Vince. It would be nearly unwatchable. I honestly don't think he would be able to salvage it. Dean Ambrose with a hot dog cart.
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TheKingslayer posted:It's fun to think about how modern WWE would book stars of the past. Austin for sure would have been called Chilly McFreeze and wheel out a snow cone machine or some poo poo to his matches in NXT. I mean, the actual WWF at the time only let him use "Stone Cold" after literally trying to call him "The Ring Master" and watching that fail miserably so yeah.
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Stealth Tiger posted:Just imagine stone cold, exactly as amazing as he was, except feuding with Shane and Stephanie instead of Vince. It would be nearly unwatchable. I honestly don't think he would be able to salvage it. Stephanie would be getting slap spots in on him with no consequences for sure.
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Rocky Maivia was a "loves to have fun" gimmick.
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I'm very excited for Lulu Pencil's 100th match but Cage Match lists two different numbers for her: 1. https://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=21469&page=4 has 92 items listed 2. https://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=21469&page=22 has 91 matches in the match statistics Which one is accurate?
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Probably continues his trajectory of overpushed midcarder sometimes sniffing the main event. I do wonder what the plan was for his Money in the Bank run before he hurt himself.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How different would WWE be if Mr Kennedy doesn't have a mix of bad choices and bad luck We have two Mizes.
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It is, and also I think I found it. 
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Arbite posted:It is, and also I think I found it. Well, they got half the picture right
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"I must go, my planet needs me. WOOOO!"
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Arbite posted:It is, and also I think I found it. EVERYBODY DANCE NOW
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JOHN CENA posted:theres that one image where shawn michaels is somehow completely vertical and upside down That’s what I immediately thought of, it looks like he’s balancing himself on the top of his head with no other support.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:What is the perfect wrestling match? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrH4TuKq1I The creative ways both wrestlers find not to lose (breaking the bulb loses you the match) while being funny as all hell.
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Spuckuk posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrH4TuKq1I In terms of laying out a concept and using the skill of the participants to sell it, absolutely yes. This built in the best way and ended perfectly.
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Lamuella posted:EVERYBODY DANCE NOW I appreciate the effort you put into this
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Kosmo Gallion posted:What is the perfect wrestling match? Tetsuya Naito vs Taichi from TakaTaichiMania. It played to Taichi, Naito, Miho and even Kyohei Wada's strengths perfectly and played to the hyper partisan crowd
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How different would WWE be if Mr Kennedy doesn't have a mix of bad choices and bad luck They should bring him back, pair him with Eli Drake and change his name to NY Knight
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