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Kvlt! posted:Does anyone know where I can watch Scott Hall wrestling in Japan/at NJPW? There are clips on youtube but I was hoping to watch full matches/shows NJPW World has 1 match: with Chono & Nash vs Keiji Mutoh & the Steiners in 1997 Here's a Daily Motion link for Mutoh vs Hall for the All Japan Triple Crown, in a New Japan ring in 2001 And here is an earlier match with Hall & Punisher Dice Morgan (aka Mean Mark Callous/The Undertaker) vs Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto
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Those are exactly the type of stuff I was looking for, thank you!
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Prey of the Dead sounds like a concerted effort to name yourself the lowest possible form of life, like the opposite of an apex predator (oh, a "primary consumer," sounds so capitalist). I am kind of in love with that name now
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Prey of the Dead was the nadir of Romero's career.
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Your question made me have a squiz on NJPW World as well, and I discovered a category called "nWo Typhoon," which appears to be a match-type that I'm assuming nWo Japan used to do. However, all I can think about now is nWo Tugboat, so, uh, thanks, I guess.
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edogawa rando posted:Your question made me have a squiz on NJPW World as well, and I discovered a category called "nWo Typhoon," which appears to be a match-type that I'm assuming nWo Japan used to do. However, all I can think about now is nWo Tugboat, so, uh, thanks, I guess. nWo Typhoon was another name for nWo Japan, and I believe NJPW also used the name for a tour that a few of the US guys carne over for.
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Was Tugboat supposed to be a boat?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Was Tugboat supposed to be a boat? He was supposed to be a sailor. When he came in he was "Tugboat" Thomas, but the WWF dropped the "Thomas" and he just became "Tugboat". He was also not the only "Tugboat" in wrestling at the time. There was a "Tugboat" Taylor in Global too.
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To be fair, I wouldn't want to fight a tugboat
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I'll fight a tugboat, I'll suplex a canal barge, I don't give a poo poo any more
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I'd probably fight a tugboat if I foolishly lost my soul to the Devil via gambling and this was the only way to win it back.
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also, Scott Hall once fought Tanahashi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1YeYXBiB7g and lost
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Davros1 posted:He was supposed to be a sailor. When he came in he was "Tugboat" Thomas, but the WWF dropped the "Thomas" and he just became "Tugboat". Oh so Vince has been doing this one name thing forever is what I’m hearing.
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This was also around the point
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harperdc posted:Oh so Vince has been doing this one name thing forever is what I’m hearing.
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DeathChicken posted:This was also around the point Then Davey Boy Smith became simply "The British Bulldog", and Kerry Von Erich was simply "The Texas Tornado".
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DeathChicken posted:This was also around the point Steamboat was the biggest example to a young me, who grew up on JCP and not the year or two before saw Ricky be NWA world champ and here he was doing sideshow work as the opener spraying fire and his biggest match being a six man tag at Summerslam. I thought somebody should have a word with Jack Tunney.
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Lamuella posted:I'll fight a tugboat, I'll suplex a canal barge, I don't give a poo poo any more I'LL SLAP A TORNADO I'LL DRY UP A SEA, YEAH
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The late 1980s/early 1990s in WWE saw: The Model The British Bulldog Mister Perfect Texas Tornado Butch Magnificent The Genius Tugboat They weren't as lockstep with it as 2010s WWE, but even beyond full erasures there were points where they seemed to be pushing pretty hard to exclusively refer to wrestlers as "Macho King" or "The Rocket" or "Million Dollar Man" without the use of their real/established names. The weirdest one looking through old promotional material was the period where they decided he was just FUJI, not Mr. Fuji. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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In an alternate timeline, would Austin have eventually just been Chilly or would he have been McFreeze
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Lunatic Sledge posted:In an alternate timeline, would Austin have eventually just been Chilly or would he have been McFreeze Beautiful Steven, eventually shortened to Beautiful
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Ice. Just plain ol' Ice. Shortened from Ice Dagger of course.
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No no his name just keeps getting elongated with bits from the other suggested names. Baron Chilly von Ice Ruthless Dagger McFreeze
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Had there ever been grumbles between The wwf/wwe and Nintendo over the fact there’s a guy called “super macho man” in punch out?
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vince's grip on names like hulk and macho man was an extremely narrow band that applied to pro wrestling only. he took them from elsewhere too. i'd be interested to know if they sent a courtesy "pls stop  " too though
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Manwithastick posted:Had there ever been grumbles between
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Lunatic Sledge posted:In an alternate timeline, would Austin have eventually just been Chilly or would he have been McFreeze Didn't Chris Jericho say that WWF offered him the Goon gimmick and he turned it down?
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Elephant Ambush posted:Didn't Chris Jericho say that WWF offered him the Goon gimmick and he turned it down? I believe so. Cornette wanted him to be in that crop of 'themed job guys' for lack of a better term.
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Was it confirmed that they offered him that gimmick or did he just assume they would give it to him since the offer was around that time? I thought it was the latter but could be wrong.
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Tampa Bae posted:macho man was a term before Randy Savage got popular, the village people made a song about it also, Randy Savage started using the term in the mid-70s, so it wasn't even Vince's to begin with https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/05/29/randy-savage-interview posted:IGN Sports: Who gave you the Macho Man name?
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Venomous posted:also, Randy Savage started using the term in the mid-70s, so it wasn't even Vince's to begin with As if that would ever stop Vince from being petty about something
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Re: Jericho and the Goon gimmick. Did they supposedly just want to give it to him because Jericho's dad was a hockey player?
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I listened the first two google results (Jericho and Cornette) and Jericho says that WWF asked him to be a highlighted jobber, but he wasn't available at the time and later assumed that they were planning the goon role for him. Meanwhile Cornette seems to have no clue about it (despite being the one who offered Jericho that gig). However, he seems to be confused if the question is them wanting to make Jericho the Goon in 1999.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Re: Jericho and the Goon gimmick. Did they supposedly just want to give it to him because Jericho's dad was a hockey player? It probably wasn’t any deeper thought than him being Canadian
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How is Mongo doing? https://www.reddit.com/r/CHIBears/comments/vwvtg6/dan_hampton_visits_steve_mongo_mcmichael/ Not great but he's got friends and family visiting at least.
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Thank you, he always seemed like a nice person.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Has a referee ever caused a wrestler to significantly botch in a televised event? Being out of position or not getting out of the way in time or something. Kind of a general question I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOm_a8XcYsk
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