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History Comes Inside! posted:I didn’t say it wasn’t good, I said it’s more of a “wow haha what a thing that is” if a mainstream company with a giant audience does it vs a little company in front of a comparatively tiny audience. It's worth remembering that at the time FMW did the pool match they were capable of outdrawing Wrestlemania: they were routinely doing in the region of 30,000 at Kawasaki baseball stadium, where as 94 Mania did 18,000
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fez_machine posted:It's not a US promotion (but I'm not sure why you'd keep the question to major US promotions) Oh just because it's what I've seen the most of, so seeing something "weird" like a swimming pool would be the most novel There's so many promotions all over the place that someone, somewhere has probably done whatever insane spot I can think of Honestly one of the best things PSP does is getting more people (like me!!!) into more cool promotions and matches and wrestlers and you're totally correct that I should be looking everywhere when it comes to cool stuff!
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I want to say it was CZW that did fish tanks full of sea urchins that you could slam your opponents into back in the day. They might have also done electric eels but that part was probably worked.
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Trying posted:WCW ran an annual Spring Break Nitro from Club La Veda on a floating ring According to Nash there was a memo posted in the locker room saying no one was to go in the pool. This led to everyone trying to figure out ways to end up in the pool. What a stupid rule, everyone watching those shows was waiting for someone to get thrown in the water.
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Jan 20, 2022 08:03
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So what was the point of Hercules? It seems the only thing you could rely on him to do was swing a chain without yeeting it into the crowd. Also, am I crazy or do we watch his body just fall apart over the course of like five years? He looks loving terrible by his last match in the fed.
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Jan 20, 2022 17:51
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Pope Corky the IX posted:So what was the point of Hercules? It seems the only thing you could rely on him to do was swing a chain without yeeting it into the crowd. Also, am I crazy or do we watch his body just fall apart over the course of like five years? He looks loving terrible by his last match in the fed. Torture Rack (before he switched to the Full Nelson after several years)
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Jan 20, 2022 17:58
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Power and Glory was a fun team. Which is pretty incredible given one of those guys was Paul Roma
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Sid Justice and Alex Wright vs. Power and Glory is my dream match.
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DeathChicken posted:Power and Glory was a fun team. Which is pretty incredible given one of those guys was Paul Roma I think people are a little unfair to Paul Roma. He wasn't some great technical wrestler, but he could have been used better. He had a decent look and could heel it up nicely. He was just that little bit too short for WWF at the time and so he became a jobber. If he had come to WCW earlier he could probably have had an alright midcard singles career. He shouldn't have been a horseman though.
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DeathChicken posted:Power and Glory was a fun team. Which is pretty incredible given one of those guys was Paul Roma
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sticklefifer posted:Wacky sunglasses, Slick as manager, and a cool-rear end double team finisher. What's not to like? Don't forget the fuckin' crop tops, more dudes need to be wearing crop tops
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Also Gorilla Monsoon calling them "Herc & Jerk" on commentary.
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did anyone else used to like the warlord and wish he would win the royal rumble. in 1991 especially or any years around there. please respond
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Cavauro posted:did anyone else used to like the warlord and wish he would win the royal rumble. in 1991 especially or any years around there. please respond Yes because the Warlord owned. But only as a singles wrestler with the Lord Zedd motif.
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Jan 21, 2022 00:30
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It wished that stuff happened today. The whole "Winner gets a Title Shot at WM" took the whole fun out of the RR.
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Waitaminute, Wikipedia's claiming Syxx was actually the seventh member of the nWo, after Hall, Nash, Hogan, Dibiase, Giant, and nWo Sting. This can't be right, can it?
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Arbite posted:Waitaminute, Wikipedia's claiming Syxx was actually the seventh member of the nWo, after Hall, Nash, Hogan, Dibiase, Giant, and nWo Sting. Wikipedia has a shockingly handy chart of all the nWo members and it looks like Fake Sting edges Syxx out by just a bit on joining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_World_Order_members Hell, I forgot The Nasty Boys were nWo members for a whole 7 days. TheKingslayer fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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He was the syxxth as far as in-ring talent goes as DiBiase was supposedly only the money man backing them.
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Syxx was the 1-2-3 Kidd and 1+2+3=6. (Also 1x2x3=6)
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Cavauro posted:did anyone else used to like the warlord and wish he would win the royal rumble. in 1991 especially or any years around there. please respond I still want Warlord to win the Rumble in 2022. Edit - have Warlord kill Roman and the real Tribal Chief, The Barbarian, comes out to avenge him.
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Was DiBiase around for long as the money man of the nWo? All I've ever seen is the clip of him counting on his fingers, and a few stills of him in the background.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Was DiBiase around for long as the money man of the nWo? All I've ever seen is the clip of him counting on his fingers, and a few stills of him in the background. Only a few months. He was supposed to be the financier, to justify everything they were doing, and a manager/spokesman for the group. But when Bischoff joined, they didn't need him to be a financier (since Bischoff had the power to let them do whatever they wanted) or a spokesman (since Bischoff never shut the gently caress up). So even when they used DiBiase, he was just a silent face in the nWo crowd, and after a few weeks of that he decided to go home.
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Dibiase was really bad as an nWo mouthpiece. He worked a little better with the Steiners as a babyface, but still wasn't able to capture the magic he had as a wrestler. Some wrestlerd just aren't as good talking about other people as they are themselves.
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MassRafTer posted:Dibiase was really bad as an nWo mouthpiece. He worked a little better with the Steiners as a babyface, but still wasn't able to capture the magic he had as a wrestler. Some wrestlerd just aren't as good talking about other people as they are themselves. This, too. I know he was the nWo's early spokesman but I don't remember a single thing he said.
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Okay, then I'm not loving crazy, because I have absolutely no memory of him being in the nWo other than what I already mentioned.
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Was Rick Rude the first guy to have been in both DX and nWo?
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sticklefifer posted:Was Rick Rude the first guy to have been in both DX and nWo? I think so. Syxx/X-Pac would be a close second going the other way from nWo to DX in 98.
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disaster pastor posted:But when Bischoff joined, they didn't need him to be a financier (since Bischoff had the power to let them do whatever they wanted) or a spokesman (since Bischoff never shut the gently caress up). A stable led by Hogan didn't really need a mouthpiece to begin with. They had plenty of guys who could do their own talking.
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sticklefifer posted:Was Rick Rude the first guy to have been in both DX and nWo? I think the only people to be in both factions are Rude, X-Pac and Michaels, so yeah.
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I had no idea Michaels was in nWo but I stopped watching in 1999 like any normal person so I had to google it and  
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Hirez posted:I had no idea Michaels was in nWo but I stopped watching in 1999 like any normal person so I had to google it and Shawn Michaels looks like he should be part of the FBI from ECW.
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Maigius posted:Shawn Michaels looks like he should be part of the FBI from ECW. Agreed, but the big story is X-Pac getting a piggyback from Big Show
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Hirez posted:I had no idea Michaels was in nWo but I stopped watching in 1999 like any normal person so I had to google it and It gets better. One episode, they spent the whole night being all like "The nwo is getting a new lad, who might it be, tee hee hee." It was Booker T for some reason. It also ended on an absolute wet fart, when Vince McMahon came out to the ring at the start of the episode of Raw, and was like "uh, yeah, the nWo sucks poo poo, so it's over now."
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If Summerslam had people thrown into swimming pools in every match it would be the best PPV of the year
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Maxwell Lord posted:If Summerslam had people thrown into swimming pools in every match it would be the best PPV of the year I'm imagining everyone selling gourdbusters like death because the fans are familiar with what a bellyflop feels like, and I need this event in my life now.
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rujasu posted:Agreed, but the big story is X-Pac getting a piggyback from Big Show I think the bigger story is that Big Show doesn't give his friends more piggyback rides. I mean if I had a friend as big, and as avuncular as the Big Show, I would be nagging them for piggy back rides all the time. And I am a grown man.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:So what was the point of Hercules? It seems the only thing you could rely on him to do was swing a chain without yeeting it into the crowd. Also, am I crazy or do we watch his body just fall apart over the course of like five years? He looks loving terrible by his last match in the fed. I think Herc was a victim of 'you've never seen his best stuff' that a lot of guys from that era were.
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Hirez posted:I had no idea Michaels was in nWo but I stopped watching in 1999 like any normal person so I had to google it and You didn't miss anything, IIRC, it went: Week 1: Booker T joins the nWo Week 2: Shawn joins the nWo, kicks out Booker T Week 3: Six-man tag or something and Nash blows out his quads Week 4: Vince comes to the ring, says they aren't doing the nWo thing anymore
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D.N. Nation posted:You didn't miss anything, IIRC, it went: Interesting thing here is that Michaels was at the tail end of his Attitude retirement phase. He wasn't actually wrestling when with the nWo, but weeks after the faction got shut down due to Nash's quad and other stuff, he was returning to the ring for his feud with Triple H. I wonder if the intended payoff of the nWo angle was to be the thing that brought Michaels back to being an active wrestler. Vince shutting down the nWo led directly into the introduction of Eric Bischoff to WWE as the Raw GM. I always remember the criticism that the two shouldn't have embraced as there was money in a Vince vs. Bischoff feud, but I always thought that idea would have been one of the worst things WWE could have done. They just did WWF vs. WCW and WWE vs. nWo. How was Bischoff going to take it to Vince, exactly? Send Ernest Miller?
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