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Dawgstar posted:Geez, Hogan must have liked Luger. He tapped out and didn't immediately pop right back up in disbelief. I loved that night and got really pissed off when the stripped him
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Tato posted:This cool rear end poo poo happened on August 4, 1997 I love that even the ref is so shocked and excited when Hogan gives up that his first move is to put his hands on his head in amazement before calling for the bell.
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Ganso Bomb posted:I love that even the ref is so shocked and excited when Hogan gives up that his first move is to put his hands on his head in amazement before calling for the bell. WCW had some really great refs. Pee Wee above, Nick Patrick (who I didn't know was a second generation wrestler who went into refereeing) and Marc Curtis (also a really good wrestler but too small for the time), rest in peace. Lil' Naitch too. Robinson probably took one of the sickest bumps I've ever seen a non-wrestler take when Macho Man dropped the elbow on him. You might ask yourself, Dawgstar you sexy wrestling mark, hundreds of people took that! How is it sick? By the time Randy dropped it on Robinson, Randy's hips were so bad he didn't really protect his opponent as much so essentially Robinson takes it like a falling stalactite to the chest.
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My favorite thing is the note commentary drops that none of the nWo got to touch Luger before he touched them and threw them out of the ring. No DQ fuckery or bullshit, the title has changed hands and the nWo lost at their own game. Reminds me of the first time The Shield lost, same moves as before but this time the babyfaces had a counter ready for all of them, then the audience starts to think that something may be different this time...
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Dawgstar posted:WCW had some really great refs. Pee Wee above, Nick Patrick (who I didn't know was a second generation wrestler who went into refereeing) and Marc Curtis (also a really good wrestler but too small for the time), rest in peace. Lil' Naitch too. Robinson probably took one of the sickest bumps I've ever seen a non-wrestler take when Macho Man dropped the elbow on him. You might ask yourself, Dawgstar you sexy wrestling mark, hundreds of people took that! How is it sick? By the time Randy dropped it on Robinson, Randy's hips were so bad he didn't really protect his opponent as much so essentially Robinson takes it like a falling stalactite to the chest. That was a shoot elbow drop brother. Lil Naitch got a collapsed lung and a couple of broken vertebrae from it.
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Yeah at a certain point Randys elbow drop stopped being "A bump you took" and started being "A terrible thing that happened to you".
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Lex was crazy over and had a terrific redemption story (he lost the original WarGames match against the nWo) and then, farrrrrrrrrt.
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D.N. Nation posted:Lex was crazy over and then, farrrrrrrrrt. How many times did this happen to him, at least three?
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This example, not going over Yokozuna at SummerSlam, not going over Flair in the late '80s.
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D.N. Nation posted:Lex was crazy over and had a terrific redemption story (he lost the original WarGames match against the nWo) and then, farrrrrrrrrt. Why did they strip him of the title I can't remember except thinking at the time it made no sense and was a terrible story
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Shard posted:Why did they strip him of the title I can't remember except thinking at the time it made no sense and was a terrible story they didn't, Hogan just beat him at Road Wild later that week
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Yeah WCW just wanted to pop a TV ratings and didn't have any long terms plans so quick 1 week title reign that really meant nothing and kinda of hurt Luger. So peak WCWSiKboy posted:Yeah at a certain point Randys elbow drop stopped being "A bump you took" and started being "A terrible thing that happened to you". Randy's hip hurt from him taking most of the bump on the mat but instead of getting a new finisher that would hurt him less he just decided to land on dudes and whelp
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D.N. Nation posted:Lex was crazy over and had a terrific redemption story (he lost the original WarGames match against the nWo) and then, farrrrrrrrrt. Honestly for a time starting when he showed up on Nitro Lex was secretly the best worker on the card, character wise. Some great stuff with smiling at the fans and slapping hands when Sting was looking and then scowling at them when he wasn't.
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Dawgstar posted:Honestly for a time starting when he showed up on Nitro Lex was secretly the best worker on the card, character wise. Some great stuff with smiling at the fans and slapping hands when Sting was looking and then scowling at them when he wasn't.
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Alaois posted:they didn't, Hogan just beat him at Road Wild later that week Maybe I'm thinking of when luger and the giant won the tag titles and were stripped. Or maybe I have it all wrong
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jesus WEP posted:AEW should do this dynamic with like Nyla and Riho or something Absolutely. I'm a big believer in reusing angles every five years or so when people forget.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Randy's hip hurt from him taking most of the bump on the mat but instead of getting a new finisher that would hurt him less he just decided to land on dudes and whelp And instead of trying to 'encourage' him to not do that move they let him do it to a ref.
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https://youtu.be/LX3hnt3rFdY Mark “The Shooter” Curtis was the man. Also the Hulkster won the title back from that jobber 5 days later at road wild. Keep the title on Luger until starcade, Hall wins WW3 and gets the title shot. Sting/Hogan main event non title. Sting and Hall both win and now you jumpstart the break up of the NWO with Hall saying Hogan couldn’t get the job done.
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D.N. Nation posted:This example, not going over Yokozuna at SummerSlam, not going over Flair in the late '80s. I remember a B&V show about the 89 Bash I believe, they were praising Luger a whole lot, and Bryan asked "when did this guy stop caring", and the week between winning the title from Hogan and then being told he'd lose it to Hogan immediately was probably that point. 3 major chances at becoming THE star of the company only to have the ruf pulled from under you, why even bother anymore when your contract is guaranteed anyway.
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Germansimp posted:I remember a B&V show about the 89 Bash I believe, they were praising Luger a whole lot, and Bryan asked "when did this guy stop caring", and the week between winning the title from Hogan and then being told he'd lose it to Hogan immediately was probably that point. 3 major chances at becoming THE star of the company only to have the ruf pulled from under you, why even bother anymore when your contract is guaranteed anyway. A lot of wrestlers torpedo their own chance at the big break (and it's not like Luger didn't do well or have big matches) but Lex felt like he was on the cusp of something that many times only to have somebody over him go 'Eh, no.' I wasn't watching WWF at the time so I couldn't tell you what the crowd felt like as the Lex Express rolled on but they really wanted him to beat Flair in '89, maybe more than Sting.
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I always dislike in the Retro shows when Bryan and friends don't think about "oh, this person vanished." Stevie was with Raven from Raven's WCW debut and for at least a month, probably longer, but I just realized here at the breaking up of the Flock angle that Stevie hasn't been mentioned in forever. What happened?
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NikkolasKing posted:I always dislike in the Retro shows when Bryan and friends don't think about "oh, this person vanished." If I remember well he got a neck injury and released later.
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NikkolasKing posted:Stevie was with Raven from Raven's WCW debut and for at least a month, probably longer, but I just realized here at the breaking up of the Flock angle that Stevie hasn't been mentioned in forever. What happened? Nagging neck injury that he didn’t fix until after doing some ECW dates post-WCW. He also realized he wasn’t going anywhere in WCW after Raven told him he was there to just be his lackey. That’s all according to him via his Rise and Fall of ECW interview anyway.
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Vertical Lime posted:just retweeted by jericho lol this is weird as hell but edgecrusher is hard as gently caress, this owns
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Stevie Richards seems like a legit good dude, one of the few guys from that era who may be much healthier and happier now than he was back then.
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iamsosmrt posted:Stevie Richards seems like a legit good dude, one of the few guys from that era who may be much healthier and happier now than he was back then. I remember when Stevie was working the Velocity show with an gimmick that he was with Victoria and unlike everyone else he dressed up like her and seemed like her valet. They played it like look at this girly dude he's such a loser he acts like the woman. And all I thought was man these two are really cool I love how supportive he is.
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the Kip Sabian of his time
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iamsosmrt posted:Stevie Richards seems like a legit good dude, one of the few guys from that era who may be much healthier and happier now than he was back then. The story about Stevie Richards I remember was one year a baseball video game was giving a prize for the first person to pitch a perfect game. $1 million. Anyway, Stevie Richards, that Stevie Richards, did it, but didn't win the prize because for some reason the competition didn't start for nearly a month after the game came out. Always stuck in my mind that.
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Stevie Richards once tweeted me a YouTube video about the HAARP weather station conspiracy.
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Eh, as long as it wasn’t some type of Jews control the weather type thing it probably gets a pass. Pretty sure we all have some dumbass conspiracy theory.
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The American Dream posted:Pretty sure we all have some dumbass conspiracy theory. Uh no, we don't all have that. Also he apparently has a whole podcast about conspiracies, so yeah.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Stevie Richards once tweeted me a YouTube video about the HAARP weather station conspiracy. Ventura did an episode of his conspiracy show on that. He acted like they wouldn't allow him to see the facility. They give tours to the public.
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I don't know much about Stevie's conspiracy slant, but having seen his YouTube in recent years, he comes off as a humble and down to earth fitness guy focused on helping people get healthy. He's also a tech geek. He's already ahead of like 95% of his peers who are mostly caught up on rehashing their glory days of fast living, drugs, crowd pops and ring rats, while also looking sad and kind of creepy because they're broken down and bitter a-holes. Considering how much time Stevie spent with Raven and the ECW vets, it's a miracle he's even functional.
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iamsosmrt posted:Considering how much time Stevie spent with Raven and the ECW vets, it's a miracle he's even functional. I have bets on Sandman outliving everyone somehow.
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forkboy84 posted:The story about Stevie Richards I remember was one year a baseball video game was giving a prize for the first person to pitch a perfect game. $1 million. Anyway, Stevie Richards, that Stevie Richards, did it, but didn't win the prize because for some reason the competition didn't start for nearly a month after the game came out. Always stuck in my mind that. Never heard of this, but I assume they waited a month so they could sell a bunch of copies of the game in that month leading up to it. If they did it on release, they wouldn’t sell as many copies after somebody wins day one.
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NikkolasKing posted:I have bets on Sandman outliving everyone somehow. Well, things that are pickled last a long time.
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