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heel turn posted:Did Barber actually finish the book? Getting Sabu on that episode would be a treat. He had a lot of unfavorable things to say about working for XPW in his book (which loving rules).
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Zombie Lemur posted:I remember seeing XPW on TV as a dumb, edgelord adjacent teenager and thinking it was trashy and low rent even back then. Yeah, a friend of mine had a small blog where he talked about comics and wrestling and such and out of the blue he got sent a handful of DVDs to review (not from the company, I think, but somebody wanting him to roast them) and one was XPW and I don't think we made it through more than a couple of matches.
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My only exposure to XPW was being a teenager and seeing the DVDs at the mall in the same section as the backyard wrestling and FMW DVDs, finding out they had a "Buck naked match" and getting let down that there was no actual nudity in it. Then of course New Jack throwing Vic Grimes off the scaffolding and it being labeled as "Owen Hart death" on Livewire I think it was also the promotion where Juvi cut his really weird promo where he compared himself to The Rock
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RealFoxy posted:My only exposure to XPW was being a teenager and seeing the DVDs at the mall in the same section as the backyard wrestling and FMW DVDs, finding out they had a "Buck naked match" and getting let down that there was no actual nudity in it. Then of course New Jack throwing Vic Grimes off the scaffolding and it being labeled as "Owen Hart death" on Livewire Yeah, he spends most of the promo saying gently caress You to individual fans
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, a friend of mine had a small blog where he talked about comics and wrestling and such and out of the blue he got sent a handful of DVDs to review (not from the company, I think, but somebody wanting him to roast them) and one was XPW and I don't think we made it through more than a couple of matches. They even had what appeared to be a low-rent HHH (Damien Steele).
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, a friend of mine had a small blog where he talked about comics and wrestling and such and out of the blue he got sent a handful of DVDs to review (not from the company, I think, but somebody wanting him to roast them) and one was XPW and I don't think we made it through more than a couple of matches. Haha, this reminds me of when I used to write music reviews years ago and the dude that was in charge of handing out the promos would sneak in some stuff he knew I'd hate because he wanted to see me tear it apart.
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Juvi was just really excited to be in a juicy house with all those juicy people
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Hoss Corncave posted:I'm pretty sure Juvi was doing Rock-esque promos in the dying days of WCW when he joined the Filthy Animals. I'm not sure if it was a decision by him or Russo to do them, but they were not good.
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Benne posted:MDK all loving day  
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Benne posted:RIP Justice Pain RSP's heel move after Justice's death... 
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That was even better than I could have possibly imagined. Absolutely perfect encapsulation of why we love Nick Gage and why his story is worth telling.
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The extent of my Nick Gage knowledge is "former CZW guy, robbed a bank, came back and now is cool as gently caress on GCW". So getting to the Tournament of Death was  This is already so good.
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he's so much like Narfi. ivarstead. peace brother
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This is a high point for the series, just the perfect story to tell and it's so well told. They got the exact right people to talk about Gage. MDK
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flashy_mcflash posted:This is a high point for the series, just the perfect story to tell and it's so well told. They got the exact right people to talk about Gage. MDK
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Digital Jedi posted:How long does it usually take for the episode to appear on Vice's site? Or youtube? The bootlegs started going up on Youtube an hour ago, they might put it up on the official channel tomorrow
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Yeah it usually goes up the day after. A lot of shows have to wait for the West Coast airing and late-night reruns before they can put it up on-demand.
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If it's like how they handled last season, there will be no official YouTube uploads from this point forward, and that is most likely the case since they handled the premiere the same way. Last season, I recall VICETV.com and the VICE TV app having the episodes up right away, but that's not the case now so it'll probably be up either at the top of the hour when the west coast premiere is over or tomorrow morning, methinks. That said, as alluded to above, YouTube enforcement has been...lax.
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I knew the bulletpoints of Gage's story but after watching it in full, MDK MDK MDK I do love Moxley trying to piss as many people off as possible with his "Vince McMahon wishes he could have someone like Nick Gage" comment.
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Next season hopefully The rise and fall and rise and faaaaaaaaaaaall of Sick Nick Mondo
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As another person knowing little about Nick Gage before this. Holy gently caress.
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just absolutely loving sobbed at the end. what a story. was Brett booking him while fully aware of his substance abuse and troubles? if so, gently caress him. “Oh I took him to Burger King on the way to the police station” who gives a poo poo, you encouraged his behavior to make a buck and capitalized on his name as soon as he got out. Carny twerp.
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the escape goat posted:just absolutely loving sobbed at the end. what a story.
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davidbix posted:...no. In 2010, Brett was just a referee and several years away from buying JCW to rebrand as GCW. Brett ain't perfect, but he's been an incredible friend to Nick and anyone who accuses him of using/exploiting the guy has no idea what they're talking about. I’m taking what I saw from the episode, but as always appreciate your input because you’re definitely more stuck in on the wrestling world and background than I am. Knowing that he wasn’t the promoter/booker at the time is definitely a good thing.
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davidbix posted:buying JCW to rebrand as GCW. I had no idea this was the origin of GCW 
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davidbix posted:The more I think about it, the more I'm pretty sure that, from a storytelling standpoint, it's the best episode of the series to date. Others, like Benoit, might be "better documentaries" on some level, and granted, I know some of the principles in the Gage episode personally, but I feel like they nailed it from a narrative point of view in a way that even the best episodes hadn't previously. For me, it was great because the people interviewed wanted to talk about Gage instead of "needing" to talk about the subject. Plus, it's one of the few subjects (if not the only one) that ends on a positive note. Nerder Death Kill
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