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syzpid posted:I don't know, WWE did make him the first Undisputed Champ over The Rock & Austin. But then had no idea what to do with him and gave him Steph. I think giving him Steph was the worst aspect of that run. The only reason he was the first undisputed champ was because HHH was out injured. If HHH hadn't blown his quads, Jericho probably wouldn't have even been in the tournament
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I guess I’ll post it here since it’s WCW-related, but I found this on VHS today at a comic book store today and I’m pretty stoked about it: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2f8pg3
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Ganso Bomb posted:I guess I’ll post it here since it’s WCW-related, but I found this on VHS today at a comic book store today and I’m pretty stoked about it: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2f8pg3 The entire thing? Very jealous.
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Mr Hootington posted:The entire thing? Very jealous. Nah it’s like a 30 minute tape PWI put out but still neat nonetheless!
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Ganso Bomb posted:Nah it’s like a 30 minute tape PWI put out but still neat nonetheless! It is. Cool find.
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It's not a popular opinion amongst the "wrestling is serious business" crowd, but the Jericho I like, and indeed pledge my loyalty to is the WCW "It's a conspiracyyyyyy!" Jericho with Ralphus and The Jerichaholic Ninja. Also on Jericho GOAT talk: Can he be useful to a company in the midcard? - Yes Can he be a top face?- Yes Can he be a top heel? - Yes Can he be a creditable challenger to be fed to the company's top heel or face?- Yes Can he do serious work? - Yes Can he do comedy? - Yes Can he use the mic to get himself and/or others over? - Yes Has he done all of these things in multiple companies? - Yes Has he done all of these things in multiple countries? - Yes Can he be an entertaining guest/colour commentator? - Yes Are his matches good? - Yes Has he done all of this over a decades spanning career? - Yes What else must the man do? BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jul 29, 2023 |
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i still don't think he's as good as kobashi
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Can he do a 1080 poisonrana tope suicida
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BrigadierSensible posted:
Tell us where his wife was on January 6? 
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BrigadierSensible posted:What else must the man do? "YES!!!"
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The big knock against Jericho as the GOAT is that he doesn't have the amazing match profile other contenders have.
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Smoking Crow posted:i still don't think he's as good as kobashi I think this is a controversial opinion but you are right
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Ganso Bomb posted:Nah it’s like a 30 minute tape PWI put out but still neat nonetheless! If it helps I don't think the entire thing exists on tape.
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Dawgstar posted:If it helps I don't think the entire thing exists on tape. If it does its on an unmarked tape somewhere in all the unexplored boxes that WWE got when they bought WCW.
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ChrisBTY posted:The big knock against Jericho as the GOAT is that he doesn't have the amazing match profile other contenders have. It's this and also the fact that he doesn't have near the amount of feuds/program where you can point to as being the draw for a company like other GOAT candidates like a Kobashi/Tanahashi/Okada/Misawa/etc. Now this isn't quite fair cause WWE never gave him the chance but it does hold him back from being in that upper echelon
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Fair. Though also that would mean that pretty much any US wrestler post-2000 has a massive handicap in any GOAT contest. Since if you were in WWE you were getting hamstrung by the booking/being hamstrung in terms of putting on amazing matches/programs and if you weren't you weren't performing on a large enough stage to count. Or you're relying on AEW's to this point relatively small sample size. Unless you're John Cena I guess. It's a shame Chris Jericho never truly got his due until he was almost 50.
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WWE sure as hell makes any post GOAT discussion for US wrestlers hard yes, and it's gonna create havoc for the US WOR hall of fame too....But it's possible to break through. Bryan Danielson is a good example as even if ROH never was huge his stuff there absolutely felt like he was GOAT/Best wrestler in the world. And he managed to break through in WWE too despite them doing everything to kill that momentum
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I've been listening to some Flair interviews and podcasts about the old JCP days. I was wondering how much of it is contradicted?
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Smoking Crow posted:i still don't think he's as good as kobashi True, but few are. Misawa, prime Mutoh among his contemporaries, and out of the current group, Okada, Omega and Ospreay should be considered. Serious talk though, there is probably a legitimate argument to be made that Jericho should be in the conversation about GOAT status though. At least, a North American GOAT. The fact that he had a big part in AEW establishing itself as a viable alternative to the WWE as their inaugural champion and most people that have worked with Jericho in AEW have generally been better for it, edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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Jericho is one of the most entertaining wrestlers of all time. He's not the best in ring guy, or the best promo but he's great at both and has been for a long time. One might say he is the Greatest Sports Entertainer of All Time.
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He has a great mind for the business too if you watch the post event press conferences AEW does. He's going to be around in some capacity for a long time and I'm glad.
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Jericho is in the tier ilof GOAT with like Terry Funk for when they should've been hanging up their already established and enshrined Hall of Fame career that just kept on going and reinvented themselves to continue going and never losing respect for wrestling or by their peers. A true wrestlers wrestler that you'll see name dropped by those in the business as their personal heroes. The Funk analogy is that there were eras of Funk too and he was a Hall of Famer before he ever became a deathmatch legend. Seeing classic Funk is incredible and with his brother Dory its just mindblowing he never stopped.
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Lid posted:Jericho is in the tier ilof GOAT with like Terry Funk for when they should've been hanging up their already established and enshrined Hall of Fame career that just kept on going and reinvented themselves to continue going and never losing respect for wrestling or by their peers. A true wrestlers wrestler that you'll see name dropped by those in the business as their personal heroes. Also seeing Funk in Road House AND Over the Top. Legend.
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ralphus was funny when he was with jericho but jericho bringing him in meant i had to see ralphus's rear end when he was wrestling for the hardcore championship after jericho left. for this jericho can never be forgiven
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MassRafTer posted:Jericho is one of the most entertaining wrestlers of all time. He's not the best in ring guy, or the best promo but he's great at both and has been for a long time. Yeah I think that's probably the best description for Jericho. Not the best wrestler or GOAT top guy, nor the best pure promo guy but probably the best at combining Promo's/Skits/and wrestling in a complete package
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Lid posted:Jericho is in the tier ilof GOAT with like Terry Funk for when they should've been hanging up their already established and enshrined Hall of Fame career that just kept on going and reinvented themselves to continue going and never losing respect for wrestling or by their peers. A true wrestlers wrestler that you'll see name dropped by those in the business as their personal heroes. I get the comparison but Jericho's peak never really was on Terry Funk's peak in the 70's or in All Japan. Now on the other hand Jericho's later stuff is way better than Terry's ECW and Deathmatch stuff...
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Endorph posted:ralphus was funny when he was with jericho but jericho bringing him in meant i had to see ralphus's rear end when he was wrestling for the hardcore championship after jericho left. for this jericho can never be forgiven Did Ralphus really get fired for developing a giant ego?
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quote:Ralphus would get paid 500 dollars every night he made an appearance with Jericho. As the Ralphus character’s popularity grew….Riker smartened up and actually hired himself an attorney. John Riker’s lawyer was able to get him a very lucrative contract of about $80,000 a year, plus appearance fees. In some cases, Riker was making more money than some active wrestlers on the roster. Chris Jericho stated in his first book that Riker developed an ego and even had his own groupies at WCW shows. From https://ringthedamnbell.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/rikers-island-remembering-wcws-ralphus/
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Admiral Joeslop posted:From https://ringthedamnbell.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/rikers-island-remembering-wcws-ralphus/ one of the smartest men in wrestling
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:one of the smartest men in wrestling Wrestlers really are dumb as gently caress.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:one of the smartest men in wrestling lol I can't lie, I gotta give the guy credit.
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Imagine THAT'S NOT CICLOPE but it's Goldberg instead. That would have been awesome. Jericho is still my favourite wrestler ever, despite everything.
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It would’ve been better if it were the Giant.
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Mr Hootington posted:I've been listening to some Flair interviews and podcasts about the old JCP days. I was wondering how much of it is contrsdict?
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Halloween Jack posted:How big is contrsdict? Just a tiny one. 3 or 4
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Halloween Jack posted:How big is contrsdict? Not much, how big is contrsdict with you?
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Mongo took a turn for the worse  https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1687576552576290817
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Just saw that, poor guy. ALS is a motherfucker.
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Help a goon out: I need to find the WCW episode where Great Muta was on commentary randomly yelling ”VAMPIRO” on the mic.
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