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fez_machine posted:MJF is pretty good as is Colt Cabana MJF discusses his football career in a shoot video with RSP and Ethan Page and it’s the funniest loving thing if you don’t mind ruining the gimmick for yourself. He scored his recruitment highlight reel with Real American
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Manwithastick posted:Has the WWE ever actually done a positive LBGT+ angle that has actually succeeded? I remember Stephanie said they would try one one day Nope. The closest they got after she said that was some very minor teases between Sonya and Mandy Rose that were dropped almost immediately
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this reminds me that WWE straight up lied to a GLAAD representative after the climax of the Billy and Chuck angle had been taped, telling him that their wedding had gone off without a hitch
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you settin me up barry?
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I would never, Cav, you're my favorite  https://www.outsports.com/2013/3/4/4064614/glaad-we-were-lied-to
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Barry Bluejeans posted:this reminds me that WWE straight up lied to a GLAAD representative after the climax of the Billy and Chuck angle had been taped, telling him that their wedding had gone off without a hitch I mean, where's the lie? Nobody got hitched
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barry you were settin me up to say what rujasu said. but i didn't fall for it
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Was Zack Gowan really hired because they contacted the wrong one legged wrestler or is that a myth?
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Manwithastick posted:Was Zack Gowan really hired because they contacted the wrong one legged wrestler or is that a myth? The story is that he was the right one legged wrestler, while trying to hire him they reached out to another guy who was the wrong one legged wrestler and had to backtrack when they realised it wasn’t him.
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Zack Gowen may be the most perfect example of Vince having absolutely no idea how to book an underdog, or even how sympathy works. loving everyone, including Vince, beat the poo poo out of him on a regular basis. I don’t think he was ever allowed to go over anyone or even at least get his heat back. And didn’t his last appearance include JBL waving his prosthetic leg around the ring?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Zack Gowen may be the most perfect example of Vince having absolutely no idea how to book an underdog, or even how sympathy works. loving everyone, including Vince, beat the poo poo out of him on a regular basis. I don’t think he was ever allowed to go over anyone or even at least get his heat back. And didn’t his last appearance include JBL waving his prosthetic leg around the ring? He beat Big Show so he won a match at least.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Zack Gowen may be the most perfect example of Vince having absolutely no idea how to book an underdog, or even how sympathy works. loving everyone, including Vince, beat the poo poo out of him on a regular basis. I don’t think he was ever allowed to go over anyone or even at least get his heat back. And didn’t his last appearance include JBL waving his prosthetic leg around the ring?
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Kosmo Gallion posted:He beat Big Show so he won a match at least. to be fair Gowen had the Orchestrator of the Women's Revolution Stephanie McMahon on his side
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Kosmo Gallion posted:He beat Big Show so he won a match at least. He also beat Matt Hardy when Matt had a midcard push
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Gaz-L posted:Nope. The closest they got after she said that was some very minor teases between Sonya and Mandy Rose that were dropped almost immediately How quickly we forget the "Dawn Marie banging Al Wilson as means to bang Torrie Wilson" angle. There was also Liv Morgan objecting to Lana's marriage to Bobby Lashley because she and Lana were lovers, but other than the wedding angle, I don't recall this being followed up on at all beyond a week, maybe.
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Braun squashed that local jobber who liked big sweaty men
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History Comes Inside! posted:The story is that he was the right one legged wrestler, while trying to hire him they reached out to another guy who was the wrong one legged wrestler and had to backtrack when they realised it wasn’t him.
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edogawa rando posted:There was also Liv Morgan objecting to Lana's marriage to Bobby Lashley because she and Lana were lovers, but other than the wedding angle, I don't recall this being followed up on at all beyond a week, maybe. thanks for reminding me of this
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Halloween Jack posted:It's not surprising that Vince and his hangers-on don't understand that most people don't think it's funny to pick on disabled people. They're the kind of old guys who think the world is going to hell because there isn't enough hazing to toughen kids up See also how they'd have Zach try to go heel but as soon as we get to the comeback it was right back to 'wait I don't want to see the one-legged guy get beat up that's just mean.'
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I'm fairly certain they hired him specifically because Vince thought it would be hilarious to have commentary lean into the "one-legged man in an rear end kicking contest" joke a million times.
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edogawa rando posted:There was also Liv Morgan objecting to Lana's marriage to Bobby Lashley because she and Lana were lovers, but other than the wedding angle, I don't recall this being followed up on at all beyond a week, maybe. What was the resolution to this?
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it's a women's angle in wwe, it went nowhere
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Defenestrategy posted:What was the resolution to this? Vince had a wank and promptly forgot about it, I assume.
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Zach Gowen's three televised victories in WWE: 1) July 2003 - Zach Gowen & Stephanie McMahon d. Big Show (after both Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar run in to hit their finishers on Big Show and throw Gowan on top) 2) August 2003 - Zach Gowen d. Brock Lesnar via DQ when Lesnar gets bored powerbombing him and nails him with an extremely unprotected chairshot, then continues to beat him bloody until he gets stretchered out in front of his mom 3) October 2003 - Zach Gowen d. Matt Hardy Version 1.0 clean with a moonsault on PPV In between he lost squash-ish matches against Vince McMahon, Shannon Moore, Nunzio, pre-push John Cena, Shannon Moore again, and then the week after the Hardy win, got squashed by Tajiri. That was his last match on WWE TV and he got released a few months later.
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I was 13 when that match with Lesnar happened and even then I remember feeling really uncomfortable.
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Didn't Lesnar throw him down some stairs at one point during their feud? Or was that Shannon Moore that Lesnar did it too? That reminded me, I loved that period where Lesnar just kept destroying Shannon Moore.  Just found it in a highlights package, it was Zach being thrown down the stairs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS8yjr87xCU Custard Undies fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Sep 22, 2022 |
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According to Gowen the original plan was to f5 him off the giant Smackdown fist but they couldn't figure out a safe way to do it
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i was trolled with some false information and had shared it. i will be removing the "second-hand troll" as it were.
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Do serving US military personnel get into WWE events for free? I recall they made a big deal about this for Great American Bash but did this extend to all WWE shows?
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Related, there was a story recently that they just started giving employees off for Veteran's Day. Seems like that would have been a thing already in such a pro-military company.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Related, there was a story recently that they just started giving employees off for Veteran's Day. Seems like that would have been a thing already in such a pro-military company. Which is weird, because Vince grew up near a military base and claimed he started fights with Marines
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Vince was just as good at fighting Marines as HBK
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Let's actually look at their records versus Marines: Vince McMahon vs John Cena 1-1 vs Ted Dibiase Jr. 1-0 vs. The Miz 0-0 vs. Shawn Michaels 3-2 Shawn Michaels vs. John Cena 3-7-1 vs. Ted Dibiase Jr. 6-1 vs. The Miz 6-2 vs. Shawn Michaels ??? On the whole Michaels fares better against Marines, but struggles against THE Marine
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Edge & Christian posted:Let's actually look at their records versus Marines: What about Marines Randall Keith Orton and Road Dogg Pretty sure neither ever worked with Slaughter
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Shark Boy and Bobby Fish should count as marine wrestlers imo
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HBK owned himself pretty hard in the late 90s.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:HBK owned himself pretty hard in the late 90s. Serious question: On TV, they said he was jumped by 12 guys in Syracuse, right? They never mentioned Marines. Or were they incredibly vague?
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They surely wouldn't have mentioned them being marines. The only person I can recall who was there and has gone on the record about it is Sean Waltman, who said a group of guys who we were military, dragged a pilled up and unconscious Shawn out of the passenger seat of a woman's car and beat the absolute paste out of him. Davey Boy and Waltman were the ones that fought them off.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:They surely wouldn't have mentioned them being marines. The only person I can recall who was there and has gone on the record about it is Sean Waltman, who said a group of guys who we were military, dragged a pilled up and unconscious Shawn out of the passenger seat of a woman's car and beat the absolute paste out of him. I always thought it was kinda interesting Davey Boy helped out, in hindsight
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I used to know a Heartbreak Kid, he had a dozen girls. One of them found out about it and her Marine friends beat him up so bad he ended up in a hospital on Guerrero Street. Haha, what a story, marks.
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