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vince russo doesnt care about plot or characters the only thing he knows how to do is write stupid plot twists to try and shock the viewers and pole matches
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Wait, TK is actually, sincerely the OP of that thread??
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May 23, 2023 01:45
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May 23, 2023 01:46
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Russo never figured out that the Jerry Springer Show literally directed the audience on when to cheer and chant and whoop because he’s a loving idiot.
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May 23, 2023 01:48
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:vince russo doesnt care about plot or characters the only thing he knows how to do is write stupid plot twists to try and shock the viewers and pole matches "Bro, car crash TV, bro."
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May 23, 2023 01:54
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iamsosmrt posted:Wait, TK is actually, sincerely the OP of that thread?? The OP was a user named Coach Tony K and I've never seen it disproven, so maybe?
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May 23, 2023 01:57
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Integrated Houston posted:Russo never figured out that the Jerry Springer Show literally directed the audience on when to cheer and chant and whoop because he’s a loving idiot. 
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El Gallinero Gros posted:The OP was a user named Coach Tony K and I've never seen it disproven, so maybe? I believe it’s also known for a fact that he was a DVDR poster, and I seem to remember him bringing up the sleaze thread in an interview, but I might be hallucinating that.
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May 23, 2023 02:55
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iamsosmrt posted:Wait, TK is actually, sincerely the OP of that thread??
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May 23, 2023 14:53
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Listening to a baby doll interview and when asked who was the biggest partner st the bar she saidbit was Ric Flair who would close down any bar they went to unless he meet a women then he would go back to the hotel with her and be back in an hour or 2.
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May 23, 2023 14:58
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iamsosmrt posted:Wait, TK is actually, sincerely the OP of that thread?? Tim Kaine's got the dirt, brother
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May 23, 2023 15:03
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If he hadn't talked about DVDR multiple times already you'd be able to put the pieces together by how he booked CM Punk using Miseria Cantare for a special entrance the exact way everyone online fantasy booked it back in, like, 2010, and then he immediately followed it up by putting BREE WOO Jarrett on TV. It's such a funny bit of lore. AEW is made for an audience of two: people who were deep in the indies and wrestling in-jokes in, like, 2006-2012, and people who thought WCW kinda whipped rear end even when it sucked. And unfortunately I am exactly the demographic for it.
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May 23, 2023 15:22
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I don’t think he mentioned the sleaze thread explicitly but did reveal his username was Coach Tony K, and that’s the OP of the sleaze thread so it’s a Ryback-level brain teaser to connect the dots.
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May 23, 2023 15:26
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goldberg made the thread
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:goldberg made the thread My head cannon is this is referring to UFC announcer Mike Goldberg and not Bill.
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I hope the item about Norman Smiley knocking out Rick Steiner with one punch during a bar fight is true
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May 23, 2023 16:16
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All the Norman things are true, especially this one. he's the best. 441. After a show Juvi was banging some prostitue high as a kite with Norman Smiley in the bed next to his all while doing running commentary while watching his own match he was just in on TV.
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May 23, 2023 16:35
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There's a video where Raven goes through a chunk of the list with someone. I want to say HTM. And they discuss the veracity of the various claims.
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May 23, 2023 16:44
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Shawn Michaels really did get beat up at that bar in Syracuse, right?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:There's a video where Raven goes through a chunk of the list with someone. I want to say HTM. And they discuss the veracity of the various claims. some call it the most libelous podcast episode ever recorded
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haljordan posted:Shawn Michaels really did get beat up at that bar in Syracuse, right? Yes. Sometimes the story turns into Shawn fighting off a whole Marine squadron at one point and not one or two jarheads probably just sick of Shawn. The Behind the Bastards podcast, in the midst of its six part look at Vince McMahon, is funnier in hindsight as Vince himself loves to brag about how he in his small town with a Marine army base also used to beat up Marines for fun. (Like 90% of what Vince says, this turns out to be a lie.)
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Dawgstar posted:Yes. Sometimes the story turns into Shawn fighting off a whole Marine squadron at one point and not one or two jarheads probably just sick of Shawn. The Behind the Bastards podcast, in the midst of its six part look at Vince McMahon, is funnier in hindsight as Vince himself loves to brag about how he in his small town with a Marine army base also used to beat up Marines for fun. (Like 90% of what Vince says, this turns out to be a lie.) Vince also probably thinks the movie "Road House" was a documentary.
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haljordan posted:Vince also probably thinks the movie "Road House" was a documentary. it was
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History Comes Inside! posted:I don’t think he mentioned the sleaze thread explicitly but A while back Phil Schneider (who wrote for the DVDVR back in the day) had a podcast to accompany his book about the best bloody matches in wrestling history, Way of the Blade. Anyway, one of the episodes had Tony on to talk about DiBiase vs Flair from Mid-South and I think he does specifically mention starting the sleaze thread in that.
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The Crime in Sports podcast does a wrestler every few months and the last one they did was John "Berserker" Nord. There was some craziness, but the craziest thing to me was he made 100k the final year he was in WCW and wrestled maybe a dozen matches. Also it's sort of amazing how everywhere he showed up was either just before the company died or during a huge down period.
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syzpid posted:The Crime in Sports podcast does a wrestler every few months and the last one they did was John "Berserker" Nord. There was some craziness, but the craziest thing to me was he made 100k the final year he was in WCW and wrestled maybe a dozen matches. Lanny Poffo got paid I think $150,000 to wrestle exactly zero matches for WCW haljordan fucked around with this message at 13:29 on May 24, 2023 |
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haljordan posted:Lanny Poffo got paid I think $150,000 to wrestle exactly zero matches for WCW Same for Iron Sheik, although technically it was the JCP I believe at that point. It was even better as they forgot he was under contract and when they remembered it was late enough they had to pay Sheiky Baby for another year.
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Lanny Poffo makes at least some sense to me, cause they planned to use him. Plus your already paying Randy multiple millions a year (I am assuming) so what's 150k to his brother. But yea, the Sheik contract was hilarious because they sent him home because of how out of shape he was and didn't remember to release him before his contract rolled over.
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nm that was TNA Jericho apparently wrestled for over a year without a contract, not due to any sort of dispute, but literally because he never bothered to sign the contract after they sent it to him and no one from WCW ever followed up on it haljordan fucked around with this message at 15:36 on May 24, 2023 |
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syzpid posted:Lanny Poffo makes at least some sense to me, cause they planned to use him. Plus your already paying Randy multiple millions a year (I am assuming) so what's 150k to his brother. I forget where I heard it but they didn't really have a plan for lanny. randy just asked to get him a job during negotiations when he was being signed and they said sure since lanny was well within the budget they were willing to spend on savage
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little munchkin posted:I forget where I heard it but they didn't really have a plan for lanny. randy just asked to get him a job during negotiations when he was being signed and they said sure since lanny was well within the budget they were willing to spend on savage Yeah that's what I was thinking as well: If WCW really wanted Randy they'd have to give his brother a (basically) no show job. haljordan fucked around with this message at 16:03 on May 24, 2023 |
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haljordan posted:nm that was TNA Didn't Jericho not exactly press the issue because he was hoping he could make the jump to WWE?
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Dawgstar posted:Didn't Jericho not exactly press the issue because he was hoping he could make the jump to WWE? Pretty much. I don't think he had any real desire to stay at WCW, especially after they offered him less than half of what Stevie Ray was earning at the time. You'd figure someone in the legal department would've eventually figured out they didn't have a valid contract on file though lol There's also another story about his fiancée buying a Jericho-Malenko doll set at a store and it rang up as a Hogan-Sting package on the receipt (which Jericho got no money for). Whether this was WCW purposefully screwing him over, or just incompetence by that toy store I'm not sure. haljordan fucked around with this message at 19:39 on May 24, 2023 |
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There's also the story of Hogan(?) pushing to get Jericho into the nWo and Jericho wisely saying no to that because by that time he realized that was how they were keeping people from moving up the card. Could be misrembering a lot of that, mind you.
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haljordan posted:Pretty much. I don't think he had any real desire to stay at WCW, especially after they offered him less than half of what Stevie Ray was earning st the time. You'd figure someone in the legal department would've eventually figured out they didn't have a valid contract on file though lol I do recall (yet another) thing that just killed Chris' interest in working for the company was the culmination of the Goldberg angle where there wasn't even a culmination and Bill had a PPV he was supposed to take off. Being able to take PPVs "off" was always a weird concept for me, especially when you're a big star and in angles. Angry_Ed posted:There's also the story of Hogan(?) pushing to get Jericho into the nWo and Jericho wisely saying no to that because by that time he realized that was how they were keeping people from moving up the card. That and he knew he'd have no time to shine or even wrestle very much. He wanted to do more than the occasional run-in with Scott Norton. The camera at that point literally couldn't have every NWO member in frame together unless it pulled way back or they were posing like it was picture day.
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Angry_Ed posted:There's also the story of Hogan(?) pushing to get Jericho into the nWo and Jericho wisely saying no to that because by that time he realized that was how they were keeping people from moving up the card. quote:''I remember back in '98, one of the suggestions was for me to be in nWo and I was like absolutely not. There's 15 guys in the nWo. They don't need me and I don't need them.'' So yeah he (correctly) assumed that it wouldn't help his career at all and he'd be relegated to putting over guys like Hogan and Nash. Everyone who wasn't one of those two guys would just be fighting over scraps.
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Remember when they originally wanted to have Goldberg arrested for raping Ms. Elizabeth during an episode of Nitro and he IMMEDIATELY told them "No loving way" so it got changed to "aggravated stalking" edit: sorry, doublepost
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I do. Was that the same Nitro where he almost didn't make it to the ring in time because of the arrest, when the police station was down the street from the venue?
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Halloween Jack posted:I do. Was that the same Nitro where he almost didn't make it to the ring in time because of the arrest, when the police station was down the street from the venue? It's even better than that, the police station was literally directly across the street from the arena looool
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haljordan posted:There's also another story about his fiancée buying a Jericho-Malenko doll set at a store and it rang up as a Hogan-Sting package on the receipt (which Jericho got no money for). Whether this was WCW purposefully screwing him over, or just incompetence by that toy store I'm not sure. It's been mentioned in the thread before, but Jerichos cut would have come from when the store chain bought the figures, not when they rung up on the register. The two sets probably went for the same price and whoever entered it probably just tied both UPCs to the same description/price.
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