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Cavauro posted:xpw closed down in 2003 It relaunched in 2021.
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Cavauro posted:xpw closed down in 2003 For some reason Rob Black relaunched it last year.
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i thought the stuff on that video was fake.
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He got the tie wrong on the brother love cosplay
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DDT's rookies continue to come ready right out of the gate https://twitter.com/nambasanreacts/status/1584013481124454400
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this is what happens when you are an indie dipshit and you listen to the old guys giving backstage advice about any reaction being a good reaction and it's not 1970's wrestling anymore
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Atlantisssssssssssssssssssss https://twitter.com/Atlantis_CMLL/status/1584225126597287936
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kinetic77 posted:https://twitter.com/chandrantheman/status/1583918651282886656?s=46&t=7dSmdHhwIJxa-4MqVm4LCw Gotta go with team Andre. Dude flipped a car once when annoyed
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kinetic77 posted:https://twitter.com/chandrantheman/status/1583918651282886656?s=46&t=7dSmdHhwIJxa-4MqVm4LCw The answer is always Haku
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can't remember who said it off the top of my head, but they said they'd only take on haku with a tank and a gun. the gun is there so if they fail to kill him with the tank then they could off themselves before he gets his hands on them.
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Joey McChrist posted:can't remember who said it off the top of my head, but they said they'd only take on haku with a tank and a gun. the gun is there so if they fail to kill him with the tank then they could off themselves before he gets his hands on them. That was Jake Roberts, I think. Edit: yup "If I had a gun and was sitting inside a tank with one shell left and Meng is 300 yards away, he's mine, right? Well the first thing I'm going to do is jump out of the tank and shoot myself because I don't want to wound that son of a bitch and have him pissed off at me."
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Granted Maeda destroying Andre happened when he was broken down but the general feeling I've gotten is that Andre's tough guy rep was more do to his size and not being actually a good fighter. The story of him backing down from Bad News Allen when he called him out on New Japan bus cause Andre was being racist kinda of backs this up
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fez_machine posted:A history of balcony dives in Korakuen Hall My takeaway from this thread: Nobody in Japan knew that you are supposed to gimmick tables until the late 00's. (That, or Homicide was cursed whenever table spots came up.)
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Shard posted:Is Bobby Lashley known to be a good fighter? 15-2 MMA record, though I know nothing about the quality of his opponents Barry Bluejeans fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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Shard posted:Is Bobby Lashley known to be a good fighter? He's not. He has a god awful gas tank and he's only beaten cans, and has gotten into trouble against cans a weight class beneath him. He could probably be a guy on undercards in the UFC since heavyweight is so bad but he's not good. His two MMA losses are to James Thompson (the greatest fighter in history and I miss his #1 fan) and Chad Griggs (a light heavyweight who isn't particularly good.) MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Granted Maeda destroying Andre happened when he was broken down but the general feeling I've gotten is that Andre's tough guy rep was more do to his size and not being actually a good fighter. The story of him backing down from Bad News Allen when he called him out on New Japan bus cause Andre was being racist kinda of backs this up Andre didn't train for shootfighting and didn't work out either, so yeah it was all about his size and strength, plus him being pretty nimble when he was young. Bad News even said in a shoot that he was really relieved when Andre didn't want to fight him and apologized instead.
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Lesner, Andre, and Shamrock is the most powerful trios team
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JethroMcB posted:My takeaway from this thread: Nobody in Japan knew that you are supposed to gimmick tables until the late 00's. (That, or Homicide was cursed whenever table spots came up.) Japanese tables are notoriously stiff workers to this day
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Suplex Liberace posted:Lesner, Andre, and Shamrock is the most powerful trios team Shamrock was legit as hell in his prime.
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MassRafTer posted:His two MMA losses are to James Thompson (the greatest fighter in history and I miss his #1 fan) and Chad Griggs (a light heavyweight who isn't particularly good.) Man, I miss the James Thompson who existed before the brain trauma caught up to him and turned into a hyper conservative lunatic. His old blog was good reading, and I know people who knew him in the 00s who said he was a completely different dude then.
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Shard posted:Gotta go with team Andre. Dude flipped a car once when annoyed Bobby Heenan said the only men Andre was afraid of were Harley Race and Haku. (and he was probably afraid of Race because he was always known to be carrying a gun)
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CombineThresher posted:Andre didn't train for shootfighting and didn't work out either, so yeah it was all about his size and strength, plus him being pretty nimble when he was young. Bad News even said in a shoot that he was really relieved when Andre didn't want to fight him and apologized instead. Another time, in the ‘70s, Andre was holding court at a beach-front bar in the Carolinas, boozing it up with fellow wrestlers Blackjack Mulligan, Dick Murdoch, and the inimitable Ric Flair. They’d been drinking with gusto for hours when Flair goaded Mulligan and Murdoch into some slap-boxing with Andre, who had poured over 60 beers down his gullet. One of the two “accidentally” sucker-punched Andre. The Giant became enraged, grabbed both Mulligan (6’5”, 250 lbs.) and Murdoch (6’3”, 240 lbs.) and dragged them into the ocean, one in each hand, where he proceeded to hold them under water. Flair intervened, and Andre released the men, assuring them he was only playing around. Murdoch and Mulligan, who had nearly drowned, weren’t so sure, but neither messed with Andre the Giant again. They also picked up the tab.
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Lumbermouth posted:That was Jake Roberts, I think. Yep. My wife is from Hawaii, and for as much as she jokes about her homeland, she gets very serious when the topic of Samoans comes up. "NO ONE jokes about Samoans in Hawaii. No one." She said that she heard the sounds of a fight outside once, and she peeked out...saw a huge muscular dude with a pipe running for his life, being chased by a bloodied Samoan guy screaming "TODAY IS THE DAY YOU DIE!"
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I kinda love that Meng never really had any big aspirations. He seemed totally fine being a mid card brute.
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his destiny in sumo was stolen from him, so he became a merc. or his destiny was made when his dream was stolen. not sure what wa sstolen
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whatever happened to the james thompson trains with me poster was he the same one that gave us the infamous sexual market value rant or am I mixing two weirdos
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It’s time to bring back Brock vs Meng shoot fight discourse.
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Please enjoy 30 seconds of Kurt Angle throwing Rey Mysterio around like a sandbag. https://twitter.com/vintagepuro/status/1584166289207341056
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Orange Carlisle posted:whatever happened to the james thompson trains with me poster The SMV poster was some no name who appeared utterly randomly in a GDT to complain about women fighters with tattoos, then proceeded to dig himself deeper when everyone said yes tattoos in MMA so what, and then went full psycho and never posted again.
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We Got Us A Bread posted:Yep. My wife is from Hawaii, and for as much as she jokes about her homeland, she gets very serious when the topic of Samoans comes up. "NO ONE jokes about Samoans in Hawaii. No one." She said that she heard the sounds of a fight outside once, and she peeked out...saw a huge muscular dude with a pipe running for his life, being chased by a bloodied Samoan guy screaming "TODAY IS THE DAY YOU DIE!" My college recruited football players heavily from Samoan communities, which was pretty rude when they'd all end up in the shittiest dorm in the middle of a Montana winter, which had its fire alarms pulled at least once a weekend for most of the school year. Those of us who were used to the cold started grabbing an extra blanket as we were being evacuated, because inevitably one or two of the Samoan dudes would show up under dressed, and we'd have to keep them comfortable until the fire department cleared the building for re-entry. Also saw one of them show up for a lecture class, realize he was too big for the desks, and grab both a right handed and left handed desk, which he Tetris'd onto either side of him so he had something almost big enough. I hope those dudes are doing okay now.
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We Got Us A Bread posted:Yep. My wife is from Hawaii, and for as much as she jokes about her homeland, she gets very serious when the topic of Samoans comes up. "NO ONE jokes about Samoans in Hawaii. No one." She said that she heard the sounds of a fight outside once, and she peeked out...saw a huge muscular dude with a pipe running for his life, being chased by a bloodied Samoan guy screaming "TODAY IS THE DAY YOU DIE!" Apparently there's enough of a Samoan community in Oceanside, CA for my brother to have witnessed something similar and come to the same conclusion: never pick a fight with a Samoan. Lid posted:Andre story in which he schools Blackjack Mulligan and Dick Murdoch I never said Andre was a wimp, he just wasn't a shooter in the traditional sense and didn't make an effort to stay in shape as he got older.
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We Got Us A Bread posted:Yep. My wife is from Hawaii, and for as much as she jokes about her homeland, she gets very serious when the topic of Samoans comes up. "NO ONE jokes about Samoans in Hawaii. No one." She said that she heard the sounds of a fight outside once, and she peeked out...saw a huge muscular dude with a pipe running for his life, being chased by a bloodied Samoan guy screaming "TODAY IS THE DAY YOU DIE!" Meng is Tongan so you will need to ask her again.
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Throw Harley Race in there just being an ornery son-of-a-bitch and this'll be a fun a fight.
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Orange Carlisle posted:whatever happened to the james thompson trains with me poster The James Thompson poster was willie_dee, he still crops up here and there but doesn't hang out quite as much I assume half because he's less into the sport and half because he started eating occasional probes for being weird about trans people, victims of police violence and the Romani.
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MassRafTer posted:Meng is Tongan so you will need to ask her again. Speaking of Tongan wrestlers, I always wondered how Barbarian managed to avoid the requisite savage islander stereotype gimmick during his first WWF run, but not his second. After Powers of Pain he was a medieval Germanic gimmick, then he left for a while and came back as a Headshrinker. Was the latter some kind of punishment for going back to WCW?
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CombineThresher posted:I never said Andre was a wimp, he just wasn't a shooter in the traditional sense and didn't make an effort to stay in shape as he got older. That's why the question is peak Andre. It's this guy fighting. My money is on Brock, Shamrock and the loving giant.
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