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SirPhoebos posted:What would this thread recommend as the best WWF/WCW/ECW wrestling matches for 1997-1999? Specifically stuff that you would show off to someone who likes Pro-wrestling but hasn't seen anything from the Attitude Era? Rey vs Eddy from Havoc 97 DDP vs Benoit vs Raven from Uncensored 98 Juvy vs Rey vs Kidman from Starrcade 98 Awesome vs Tanaka from Heatwave 98 and ECW on TNN #19 (from the Westchester County Center)
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Austin and Dude Love from Over the Edge in 1998.
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SG Bamboo posted:Robbie was so poo poo the first time she had to train him twice Bah, meant to put Charli Evans
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If you want some late-era ECW, Holiday Hell 2000 had a 2/3 falls FBI vs Tajiri/Whipwreck match that I remember loving at the time, though I haven't seen it since so I don't know how well it holds up.
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Rob Van Dam vs Jerry Lynn from Hardcore Heaven 99 is a personal favourite. Hardy Boyz vs Edge & Christian ladder match from No Mercy 99 was also pretty good and influenced a bunch of future matches.
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sticklefifer posted:If you want some late-era ECW, Holiday Hell 2000 had a 2/3 falls FBI vs Tajiri/Whipwreck match that I remember loving at the time, though I haven't seen it since so I don't know how well it holds up. Those 2 teams were magic together, partly because Guido made Tajiri look like a killer with his selling
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What are some of the best examples of what I commonly see referred to as "murder-Ibushi"? It's honestly one of my favorite little things in wrestling. It's not the first hit, but the gap between the first and second after activation where the guy's like "wait...gently caress". Bonus points for examples that aren't actually Ibushi.
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FakePoet posted:What are some of the best examples of what I commonly see referred to as "murder-Ibushi"? Hogan Hulking Up, and I'm only half-joking Benne fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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Aug 30, 2021 21:17
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Yeah, the murder's no-sell is literally what Hogan was doing for decades.
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Halloween Jack posted:Does anyone have a link to the "that escalated quickly" Gary Albright promo? Real heads know the one.
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While it's not really among the best matches, Mankind vs. Taker HIAC is obviously pretty important one from that era.
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Kennel posted:While it's not really among the best matches, Mankind vs. Taker HIAC is obviously pretty important one from that era. It certainly shows off the spectacle side of wrestling. 0/5 stars for wrestling, 5/5 entertainment.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:It certainly shows off the spectacle side of wrestling. 0/5 stars for wrestling, 5/5 entertainment. I'm just trying to imagine PSP as we know it reacting to Mick's bumps
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm just trying to imagine PSP as we know it reacting to Mick's bumps Imagine if it happened in AEW today and the fake outrage antis reaction.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm just trying to imagine PSP as we know it reacting to Mick's bumps
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sick foley with yet another wmoty
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karmicknight posted:Yeah, the murder's no-sell is literally what Hogan was doing for decades. Chief Jay Strongbow was doing that earlier than Hogan. His opponent would beat on him and he'd shake it off and start doing an invincible wardance. I'm not sure if there are instances before him, but probably. What makes Ibushi's so great though is that he's so stoic about it and stands perfectly still.
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With Ibushi it's that he not only no sells but also just goes killer on his strikes in a way he normally doesn't do which makes it crazy But the best Murder Ibushi spot is the counter Tana did in their G1 final where Ibushi starts to murder and Tana just no sells it
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Ibushi’s murder mode is different because he goes all stoic and dead-eyed rather than animated and hulking up.
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Yuka Sakazaki has a similar Murder Mode. It's like she's an android who has been activated.
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I remember Bryan Danielson kind of snapping and loving people up every now and again.
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Lamuella posted:Yuka Sakazaki has a similar Murder Mode. It's like she's an android who has been activated. Pissed off Yuka works so well because its such a contrast to her normal personality
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ken shamrock when he snapped
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What is Ultimo Dragon's entrance theme that's unfortunately muted in Dragongate streams?
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SatoshiMiwa posted:But the best Murder Ibushi spot is the counter Tana did in their G1 final where Ibushi starts to murder and Tana just no sells it Ibushi saw the face of pure wrath and freaked out.
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Lily Catts posted:What is Ultimo Dragon's entrance theme that's unfortunately muted in Dragongate streams? Separados by Luis Miguel Bokutimo Dragon used a cover of it earlier
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FakePoet posted:What are some of the best examples of what I commonly see referred to as "murder-Ibushi"? The two best Ibushi instances of this are the match with Tanahashi in the G1 Final and the match with Okada at the Tokyo Dome.
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When did it become a requirement that all Hell in a Cell matches feature two people hanging onto the cage above the announcers tables for fifteen minutes smacking each other before someone finally falls through one of them? There's a compilation WWE put up on YouTube over the weekend and there's like seven or eight of the exact same spot in a row just with different people.
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Started with the first one
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TheKingslayer posted:I remember Bryan Danielson kind of snapping and loving people up every now and again. I hope he gets to bring back his "relentless elbows to the head & neck until the ref stops the match" finish
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Pope Corky the IX posted:When did it become a requirement that all Hell in a Cell matches feature two people hanging onto the cage above the announcers tables for fifteen minutes smacking each other before someone finally falls through one of them? There's a compilation WWE put up on YouTube over the weekend and there's like seven or eight of the exact same spot in a row just with different people. After Mankind/Undertaker when everyone realized they couldn't or wouldn't do that, and imitating Shawn Michaels instead was easier. It's also a symptom of the match being over exposed for the last twenty years.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:After Mankind/Undertaker when everyone realized they couldn't or wouldn't do that, and imitating Shawn Michaels instead was easier. It's also a symptom of the match being over exposed for the last twenty years. They should have cut HIAC off for like, 4-5 years afterwards. Instead, they watered it down (although I'm glad the psychotic bumps are less prevalent). Probably could have seen it coming when they put one on RAW.
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Has Ibushi ever won a match with the Bastard Driver? Every time he hits it its devastating, horrifying, and thinking about it... a near fall.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:They should have cut HIAC off for like, 4-5 years afterwards. Instead, they watered it down (although I'm glad the psychotic bumps are less prevalent).
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Halloween Jack posted:I think that when you turn various kinds of deathmatch into an event that just happens every October or December or whenever, it necessarily waters it down. Like, the Elimination Chamber makes sense as a concept because there's something for 6 guys to fight over, but why are two guys having a ladder match just because this is the month when we do that? Don't reverse-engineer the grudge to suit the grudge match in such a contrived way, is my opinion. 100% agreed
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What was the deal with Vince's Million Dollar Mania in 2008? I had been led to believe that it was all a work from the start, with the Rick Rolls and Vince being unable to use a phone just being your standard WWE "comedy", but I've also read reports that it was legit in at least the first two weeks, before they just admitted that it was a complete trainwreck that had lost loads of money AND viewers, and so they used it as a way to introduce the "Raw in chaos" and GM Mike Adamle storylines instead. I don't know who to believe. Slightly related, has the WWE stock ever plummeted whenever they've done a "Vince gets beaten up/killed" storyline, like when Trump somehow bought Raw and they had to immediately scramble to save themselves when the numbers fell off a cliff? I'm thinking of the limo explosion in particular, because I vividly remember WWE.com being plastered with "LIMO EXPLODES - VINCE MIGHT BE DEAD" headlines that seemed to fool a number of people. Or did they clarify that it was kayfabe... before having to put the kibosh on it anyway because of Benoit? Hedgehog Pie fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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that was not a work at all they would run afoul of a bunch of sweepstakes regulations, right?
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My favorite story about the limo explosion is that Trump thought it was real. Is it true? Who cares, it's completely believable.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:My favorite story about the limo explosion is that Trump thought it was real. Is it true? Who cares, it's completely believable. Even funnier, WWE's stock price dropped when he kayfabe purchased the company
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Admiral Joeslop posted:My favorite story about the limo explosion is that Trump thought it was real. Is it true? Who cares, it's completely believable. that was something triple h said on stern i believe
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