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Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody?
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Jun 23, 2022 03:24
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NikkolasKing posted:Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody? For the reverse question, what are the most dangerous? Sandman getting brained by a cast iron pan courtesy of Mick Foley, who didn't realize it was cast iron until halfway through his swing, could've been a lot worse. Bonus points if the item is too dangerous to use "properly" so they gotta fake it, like HHH's stupid sledgehammer.
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Jun 23, 2022 03:42
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Drew McIntyre's sword
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Jun 23, 2022 03:43
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NikkolasKing posted:Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody? Powder thrown in the face has to be one
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Jun 23, 2022 03:49
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The invisible grenade probably. Or maybe Antonio Honda's inflatable hammer
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Jun 23, 2022 04:04
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NikkolasKing posted:Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody? I never saw the match, but I remember a funny story where the Blue Meanie was helping Jim Neidhart cheat in an indie match and was supposed to hand him a foreign object for Neidhart to knock out the opponent. As a rib, he gave him a rubber chicken.
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Jun 23, 2022 04:06
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NikkolasKing posted:Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody? Fingerpoke of doom of course
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Jun 23, 2022 04:19
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I just remembered Hogan failing to light some flash paper, forever, until it went off in his hand. Might've been against Warrior in WCW and he still sold it?
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Jun 23, 2022 04:24
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Related, but - My friends and I always cackled in the N64-era games where you could pull a Stop Sign out of the crowd/under the ring - did that ever happen in real life?
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Jun 23, 2022 04:24
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NikkolasKing posted:Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody? Matzusawa-san in YMZ uses a leek
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Jun 23, 2022 04:30
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BaronVanAwesome posted:Related, but - My friends and I always cackled in the N64-era games where you could pull a Stop Sign out of the crowd/under the ring - did that ever happen in real life? Yes, it was a pretty common spot in hardcore matches. The first time was especially clever: a guy in a ECW crowd has a sign that says "Tommy use my sign", he bopped Raven with it, then notices the sound it made, tears at the paper, and there's a stop sign underneath it.
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Jun 23, 2022 05:27
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raven brought the stop sign into wcw as well. his giant would usually hit people with it
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Jun 23, 2022 05:33
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I just remembered Hogan failing to light some flash paper, forever, until it went off in his hand. Might've been against Warrior in WCW and he still sold it? Halloween Havoc ‘98. The entire match was a trashfire, and I think the cause of the flash paper was that Hogan’s gloves were slick because baby oil and sweat, so he couldn’t reliably get the bic he was holding to work and in a panic, the moment he did he just turned to try to “throw the fireball”, and instead of it going up and out and into Warrior’s face for a big theatrical thing, Hogan’s pivot created a little windstream that carried the now flashing paper up and into Hogan’s own face, burning his eyebrows and I think a bit of his mustache? And the match descended even further down from there. But nothing was quite as funny as that moment. Also the PPV where Bischoff didn’t inform the providers ahead of time they’d be going over the originally allotted time so I think just as the bell rang for the main event of DDP and Goldberg, which might be the best Goldberg match ever, the feed just straight cut out and went to the PPV channel’s promotional roll ahead of the midnight replay that you generally got when you ordered PPVs back then. WCW apologized, offered refunds to anyone who wanted it but would also allow anyone who didn’t get the refund to get the Tuesday replay - with the main event included - for free, and also aired the match the next night on Nitro in the main event slot, and this was enough to give one final ratings win to WCW against the WWF. After that, the split slowly widened, accelerating after the “butts in seats”/Fingerpoke of Doom Nitro (ironically three years to the day of Bischoff seeing NJPW Wrestling World 1996’s packed Tokyo Dome for the UWFi/NJPW feud where Nobuhiko Takada, representing UWFi, tapped out IWGP champion Keiji Mutoh with an armbar, winning the belt, and set off a lightbulb in Bischoff’s head about the appeal of an “inter-promotional war” angle where the invaders take control of the top belt), and just became a wreck as they fumbled to try to find something, anything to be as big as the Outsiders angle and Hogan heel turn and ensuing nWo/WCW story. You know, when you lay it all out like that, what a loving ride the descent of WCW was. The week to week was dogshit, but goddamn if it wasn’t trash TV in a way you almost never get anymore. What a time to be alive.
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Jun 23, 2022 05:55
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The Cameo posted:Halloween Havoc ‘98. The entire match was a trashfire, and I think the cause of the flash paper was that Hogan’s gloves were slick because baby oil and sweat, so he couldn’t reliably get the bic he was holding to work and in a panic, the moment he did he just turned to try to “throw the fireball”, and instead of it going up and out and into Warrior’s face for a big theatrical thing, Hogan’s pivot created a little windstream that carried the now flashing paper up and into Hogan’s own face, burning his eyebrows and I think a bit of his mustache? The only flaw in that DDP/Goldberg match is, at least to hear Page tell is, Goldberg knocked himself loopy on the ringpost when he missed a spear. So when Page hit the Diamond Cutter, Bill did not stay down for a 2.9 or even a 2.5, he kicked out at just 2, all because he didn't know where he was or what was going on. I dunno if that explanation is true but either way, it has always bugged me, not least of all because I was rooting for DDP. Otherwise, definitely Goldberg's best match.
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Jun 23, 2022 11:06
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And apparently DDP was pissed after the match and went to confront Goldberg only to find him loopy and instead told him it’s all good.
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Jun 23, 2022 11:13
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The Cameo posted:Halloween Havoc ‘98. The entire match was a trashfire, and I think the cause of the flash paper was that Hogan’s gloves were slick because baby oil and sweat, so he couldn’t reliably get the bic he was holding to work and in a panic, the moment he did he just turned to try to “throw the fireball”, and instead of it going up and out and into Warrior’s face for a big theatrical thing, Hogan’s pivot created a little windstream that carried the now flashing paper up and into Hogan’s own face, burning his eyebrows and I think a bit of his mustache? If nothing else, his mistake was my gain because 15 year old EGG wasn't talking ma n' pa into buying the pape (™Big Daddy Magic), but he'd sure watch Nitro on TSN on Tuesday. Didn't the segment with the replay do great ratings?
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Jun 23, 2022 11:14
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for silly and also kind of dangerous, the Jon Moxley sawzall spot.
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Jun 23, 2022 11:25
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karmicknight posted:for silly and also kind of dangerous, the Jon Moxley sawzall spot. The shoot interview explaining that spot was great, and the dude that sawed him (I forget his name, sorry) was right in that people would flip over it despite being really fake. Mox sold it perfectly too, it was awesome.
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Jun 23, 2022 12:49
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NikkolasKing posted:Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody? JR's ringside candy dish
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Jun 23, 2022 15:37
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But that’s where he puts his Skittles.
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Jun 23, 2022 16:10
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El Gallinero Gros posted:If nothing else, his mistake was my gain because 15 year old EGG wasn't talking ma n' pa into buying the pape (™Big Daddy Magic), but he'd sure watch Nitro on TSN on Tuesday. Like I said, them putting that match on gave them one final ratings win against RAW (a 5.1 to a 4.5) after the WWF had begun to achieve a solid winning streak, but it was the very last time they’d ever do it. And it might not have worked if it hadn’t been a taped RAW that week, and once Vince said “gently caress it” and went live every week midway through ‘99, RAW would regularly do 6s(!) and some quarter hours would do insane numbers while Nitro would waver between 3s and 4s, that would turn into 2s and 3s when Russo started booking. I will correct myself, they didn’t put it in the main event slot of Nitro, they put the replayed match in the 9 PM slot so it ran opposite the open of RAW. Pretty smart placement. The main event of that Nitro was Bret vs DDP for the US belt. DDP won. Then Bret punched him with a taped fist to get his heat back. 
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Jun 23, 2022 16:24
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NikkolasKing posted:Given things like megaphones and shoes are deadly weapons in pro-wrestling, what is the silliest gimmick you've ever seen used to KO somebody? Admiral Joeslop posted:For the reverse question, what are the most dangerous? Sandman getting brained by a cast iron pan courtesy of Mick Foley, who didn't realize it was cast iron until halfway through his swing, could've been a lot worse. For things that were actually gimmicks and not aggravated assault: IWA had a match where someone jammed a box cutter deep into Spidar Boodrow's arm. CZW used a weedeater, they've had people thrown onto gusset plates, and there's been some Fans Bring The Weapons stuff that was too dangerous to use. quote:Bonus points if the item is too dangerous to use "properly" so they gotta fake it, like HHH's stupid sledgehammer.
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Jun 23, 2022 16:49
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Admiral Joeslop posted:For the reverse question, what are the most dangerous? Sandman getting brained by a cast iron pan courtesy of Mick Foley, who didn't realize it was cast iron until halfway through his swing, could've been a lot worse. It didn't get used, but there was that time where a gun was pulled on the match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFHejMa6zw edit: as for silliest obviously the finger gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhBC_a7PFI&t=2s Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jun 23, 2022 |
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Jun 23, 2022 17:16
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Oh poo poo I had no idea it was Ueki that pulled the gun, dude looks so different nowadays
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Jun 23, 2022 17:28
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Stone Cold pulled a gun on Vince once, right in the middle of the ring. He actually pulled the trigger and it was one of those fake guns where a little flag pops out and it says "BANG!" on it and Vince passed out from fear
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Jun 23, 2022 17:58
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Most dangerous thing I've seen in wrestling plunder was that spot where I think ot was Masashi Takeda (it was either him or his opponent from my memory) nearly got impaled throat first on I want to say garden shears thst had been propped up at a WM weekend Collective show during a death match. I enjoy Takeda, he really embodies extreme, but I don't want to see a spot like that again.
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Jun 23, 2022 17:59
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Elephant Ambush posted:Stone Cold pulled a gun on Vince once, right in the middle of the ring. He actually pulled the trigger and it was one of those fake guns where a little flag pops out and it says "BANG!" on it and Vince passed out from fear I thought he pissed his pants from fear?
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Jun 23, 2022 18:15
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In my head that Vince gun spot was on top of a building. Was there one where Austin pretended he was gonna throw him off a building and threw him into a kiddy pool? Maybe that was on top of a building or even possibly never happened.
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Jun 23, 2022 19:22
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Ganso Bomb posted:I thought he pissed his pants from fear? It's possible I'm misremembering
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Jun 23, 2022 20:14
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Most dangerous thing I've seen in wrestling plunder was that spot where I think ot was Masashi Takeda (it was either him or his opponent from my memory) nearly got impaled throat first on I want to say garden shears thst had been propped up at a WM weekend Collective show during a death match. I enjoy Takeda, he really embodies extreme, but I don't want to see a spot like that again. Takeda vs Jimmy Lloyd, Takeda kneed a scissors board into Lloyd and one caught him in the upper torso. Wasn't deep but visible and Jimmy seemed to understandably freak for a bit. Later the same year on the first GCW Japan shows Takeda took a spill on a board of knives that resulted in a cut so bad they had to stop the match.
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Jun 23, 2022 20:36
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His back winked at the camera after that knife board spot it was loving gnarly
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Jun 23, 2022 20:44
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Sid did you FORGET YOUR SCISSORS????
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Jun 23, 2022 21:50
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:In my head that Vince gun spot was on top of a building. Kurt Angle kidnapped Steve Austin and made him thinking he was being thrown off a bridge but threw him in a kiddy pool.
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Jun 23, 2022 21:58
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Bushmeister posted:Takeda vs Jimmy Lloyd, Takeda kneed a scissors board into Lloyd and one caught him in the upper torso. Wasn't deep but visible and Jimmy seemed to understandably freak for a bit. Literally the most distressing spot Ive ever seen
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Jun 23, 2022 23:07
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Does the Priscilla Kelly tampon spot count in this category?
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Jun 23, 2022 23:46
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claudio's been one of my favorite wrestlers since i first saw him at the shield v wyatts elimination chamber back when i first started watching wrestling. what are people's favorite matches of his where he really gets to showcase how cool he is? i wanna watch a few of his matches given that people are buzzing about him potentially showing up at forbidden door but i'm not familiar with his indie stuff and all the wwe matches have blobbed together into a mass of 'boy he deserves better'
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Jun 24, 2022 00:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5KY-1EfCtc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohsAJj5i49E
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Jun 24, 2022 00:10
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where did Tanahashi go on excursion?
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Jun 24, 2022 01:34
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I was trying to find the ROH Claudio vs Joe match where Claudio gives Joe a hanging vertical suplex and keeps him up for like a full minute, maybe more. But sadly I can't find it. I know it happened because I saw it live but I can't find it anywhere online 
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Suplex Liberace posted:where did Tanahashi go on excursion? he didnt. he was from the days in the dojo scouted as a main eventer and debuted into the main njpw roster right away alongside shinsuke nakamura and katsuyori shibata.
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