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MassRafTer posted:2KW. One time home of Santana and Ortiz. He did some stuff with CZW, right? I remember that he almost got a run in ROH but he exploded his knee jumping into the ring and was out for a while.
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CombineThresher posted:He did some stuff with CZW, right? I remember that he almost got a run in ROH but he exploded his knee jumping into the ring and was out for a while. He did a few dates with both companies, some IWAMS shows & Jersey All Pro but yeah, he was very much a West Coast guy: Epic, RevPro, UPW, LA Dojo, not even sure he did many NorCal dates.
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I just watched Highlander for the first time and had no idea it would open with an amazingly-shot wrestling scene. Freebirds vs (internet tells me) Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell and The Tonga Kid. Billed as MSG in the movie but apparently shot at the Meadowlands (which makes sense since I think MSG had already been exclusive to WWF for a while?). What promotion/show would this have been? I'm assuming it wasn't 100% staged for the movie, since it appeared to actually be a full arena and everything. Or did they do a thing where they like paused the show and prompted the audience for a movie scene, like that Raw where they shot a scene for the Paige movie?
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Flight Bisque posted:
I think he tried to diss Taka Michinoku by calling him a "smelly shorts ping pong boy" and got schooled in return. He has not recovered since.
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Minidust posted:I just watched Highlander for the first time and had no idea it would open with an amazingly-shot wrestling scene. Freebirds vs (internet tells me) Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell and The Tonga Kid. Billed as MSG in the movie but apparently shot at the Meadowlands (which makes sense since I think MSG had already been exclusive to WWF for a while?). Pro Wrestling USA. The AWA, Crockett and Memphis briefly teamed up to run supercards to oppose Vince McMahon. It fell apart very quickly but they wanted to run their biggest shows in the Meadowlands at the then Brendan Byrne Arena with Sgt Slaughter and the Road Warriors as their big draws. It started big but the shows lost steam and no one could get along!
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MassRafTer posted:Pro Wrestling USA. The AWA, Crockett and Memphis briefly teamed up to run supercards to oppose Vince McMahon. It fell apart very quickly but they wanted to run their biggest shows in the Meadowlands at the then Brendan Byrne Arena with Sgt Slaughter and the Road Warriors as their big draws. It started big but the shows lost steam and no one could get along! MRT does not disappoint with the info, thanks!
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MassRafTer posted:Pro Wrestling USA. The AWA, Crockett and Memphis briefly teamed up to run supercards to oppose Vince McMahon. It fell apart very quickly but they wanted to run their biggest shows in the Meadowlands at the then Brendan Byrne Arena with Sgt Slaughter and the Road Warriors as their big draws. It started big but the shows lost steam and no one could get along! https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1154623436901294081
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RealFoxy posted:What ended up happening with the allegations against Enzo Amore? From what I remember, he was accused of assault against a woman in a hotel. Enzo didn't deny meeting her but claimed it was consensual and I remember some of her friends even claiming that she was making it all up for attention, going as far as posting screen shots of her messages both before and after sleeping with Enzo proving that it was consensual. The case got dropped because lack of evidence, was there any more to that story? The weird wrinkle is that it turned out that he genuinely had no idea that she had made the allegation and police were investigating. The part that was the last straw for WWE that got him fired, not telling them about the allegation/investigation, was something he was actually innocent of.
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Imagine the landscape of wrestling had PWUSA succeeded. I assume that would mean WCW doesn't happen, unless Turner finances that instead. Who was booking it?
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MassRafTer posted:Pro Wrestling USA. The AWA, Crockett and Memphis briefly teamed up to run supercards to oppose Vince McMahon. It fell apart very quickly but they wanted to run their biggest shows in the Meadowlands at the then Brendan Byrne Arena with Sgt Slaughter and the Road Warriors as their big draws. It started big but the shows lost steam and no one could get along! Who wound up taking all the money? Verne?
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forkboy84 posted:He did a few dates with both companies, some IWAMS shows & Jersey All Pro but yeah, he was very much a West Coast guy: Epic, RevPro, UPW, LA Dojo, not even sure he did many NorCal dates. Oh yeah, he had a really fun match with Generico in JAPW. I liked Tornado and it's sad that he had to retire relatively young, although he's definitely a relic of PWG's pre-woke period and I don't think his act would age well. Dawgstar posted:Who wound up taking all the money? Verne? Yes, in that he conveniently forgot to pay a lot of the guys who wrestled in those supershows.
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davidbix posted:Also, you can see the zipline camera that they used to get the big epic shot for the Highlander opening scene in the WWE Network version of that Meadowlands show that’s cool as gently caress
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davidbix posted:Also, you can see the zipline camera that they used to get the big epic shot for the Highlander opening scene in the WWE Network version of that Meadowlands show Holy poo poo that is a cool shot.
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What kind of probation would I get for strangling Mr. Bix for making me aware of the small eyes?
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Actual SFX shot from Highlander. Looks kinda like Mox when he was Ambrose.
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Rewatching Taker v Foley at KOTR 98. Who is the long haired ring official with the dyed streak in his mane, who helps Foley during the cage spot but also at the end? Looks like he’s a referee but can’t put a name to the face.
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britishbornandbread posted:Rewatching Taker v Foley at KOTR 98. Who is the long haired ring official with the dyed streak in his mane, who helps Foley during the cage spot but also at the end? Looks like he’s a referee but can’t put a name to the face. Francois Petit? He was WWE's massage therapist and semi-doctor in the '90s.
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Timby posted:Francois Petit? He was WWE's massage therapist and semi-doctor in the '90s. ...holy poo poo it is
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Next you'll tell me Chris Cassamasa had an ROH stint.
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Will enough time ever pass to rehabilitate Jeff Jarrett's image to when he is respected for what he did? Removing context and only looking at his career objectively he seems like he would be a shoo-in - multiple time world champion, main eventer for years, started multiple wrestling companies that at one point were the second biggest in North America, part of the Jarrett family dynasty. On the other hand - it's Jeff Jarrett. Where Triple H was a 7 pushed as a 10, Jarrett was a 4 pushed as an 11. And the context is TNA, the death of WCW, The Chosen One, slapnuts...
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Lid posted:Will enough time ever pass to rehabilitate Jeff Jarrett's image to when he is respected for what he did? Removing context and only looking at his career objectively he seems like he would be a shoo-in - multiple time world champion, main eventer for years, started multiple wrestling companies that at one point were the second biggest in North America, part of the Jarrett family dynasty. Also, 100% of his world championships were a combo of being because a friend was the booker, he was the promoter, and there was nobody else El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Aug 5, 2021 |
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I've always felt Jarrett was a perfectly acceptable midcarder who never, ever should have been near a world title and history would look kinder on him if he hadn't. Kind of like Justin Credible that way
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Lid posted:Will enough time ever pass to rehabilitate Jeff Jarrett's image to when he is respected for what he did? Removing context and only looking at his career objectively he seems like he would be a shoo-in - multiple time world champion, main eventer for years, started multiple wrestling companies that at one point were the second biggest in North America, part of the Jarrett family dynasty. I doubt it, the only reason people don't look into the racial discrimination and Terry Taylor poo poo in TNA is because TNA is such a joke and Jarrett with it. If people ever get the warm fuzzies for him, that stuff will be covered pretty quickly.
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Didn't Jerry Jarrett bail in the first year of TNA when he realized his son was more focused on ego booking himself instead of making money?
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smikey posted:Didn't Jerry Jarrett bail in the first year of TNA when he realized his son was more focused on ego booking himself instead of making money? He didn't bail on it that early but in late 2003 he was having heart issues due to stress and his doctor told him if it was his wife, divorce her, if it was his job quit, etc. So he got out of TNA soon after.
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DeathChicken posted:I've always felt Jarrett was a perfectly acceptable midcarder who never, ever should have been near a world title and history would look kinder on him if he hadn't. Kind of like Justin Credible that way Similarly I've thought of him as a territory guy who tried to go national and couldn't quite make it. Of course in Memphis he was also surrounded by a lot of very talented people like Lawler and Fuller but he seemed to more than hold up his end while he was there.
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re: The Sushi Incident - when is Io's contract up, and what are the odds she'd go anywhere else?
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What's this sushi incident?
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Hedgehog Pie posted:What's this sushi incident? https://twitter.com/SkullsMedia/status/1422738775969386497
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And here was me thinking the masked Japanese wrestler Sushi had done something
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Didn't Bobby Eaton have a really good tag team with Koko Ware at one point in time? (And I realize the answer is in part 'if Eaton teamed with somebody, it was a really good tag team.')
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forkboy84 posted:And here was me thinking the masked Japanese wrestler Sushi had done something Sushi-X from EGM showed up to take on all challengers in Killer Instinct.
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Dawgstar posted:Didn't Bobby Eaton have a really good tag team with Koko Ware at one point in time? (And I realize the answer is in part 'if Eaton teamed with somebody, it was a really good tag team.') Yes, they were called the New Wave
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It's even dumber when you realize that for a ton of NXT folks in Florida, sushi has been one of their favorite foods.
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Lid posted:Will enough time ever pass to rehabilitate Jeff Jarrett's image to when he is respected for what he did?
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Halloween Jack posted:Hitler was Time Magazine's Person of the Year, so anything is possible. He stole it from Ric Flair
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To be fair, Time's Person of the Year is ostensibly supposed to record what the biggest news story of that year was; we all know the story of how it was almost Bin Laden in 2001, before someone pointed out that that might not be a good PR move so they gave it to Giuliani instead (lol). Jeff Jarrett would never be Wrestling's Person of the Year unless you were doing the anti-version.
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I was also Time's Person of the Year once. So were you!
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