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Didn’t Jericho debunk that as a planned spot recently?
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forkboy84 posted:Rising HAYATO...very pretty 
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Jericho's had several close calls with the Lionsault. I'm surprised he's still doing it in 2023 when he's mostly moved away from his junior heavyweight style.
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if i were an indy wrestler i would not be making the lionsault into one of my spots. Some of those ring ropes ive seen and touched yikes
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The Hayabusa injury alone would be enough to give me pause
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In my quest to catch up on important matches from wrestling that happened longer ago than this year I watched 1-2-3 Kid vs. Bret Hart and it left me wondering. Why don't guys rock the trunks over tights anymore. I see it occasionally with guys like The Outrunners (who do a deliberate throwback gimmick) and Super Sasadango Machine but it seems way less common than it used to. E. Also, has anyone ever worn trunks over a singlet? That sounds cursed. apophenium fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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apophenium posted:In my quest to catch up on important matches from wrestling that happened longer ago than this year I watched 1-2-3 Kid vs. Bret Hart and it left me wondering. Why don't guys rock the trunks over tights anymore. I see it occasionally with guys like The Outrunners (who do a deliberate throwback gimmick) and Super Sasadango Machine but it seems way less common than it used to. Same reason Superman doesn't wear them anymore, the kids think it's lame-o. (You do see some older lucha guys still rocking that look. And Darby Allin comes close with the skater shorts over long tights.)
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apophenium posted:In my quest to catch up on important matches from wrestling that happened longer ago than this year I watched 1-2-3 Kid vs. Bret Hart and it left me wondering. Why don't guys rock the trunks over tights anymore. I see it occasionally with guys like The Outrunners (who do a deliberate throwback gimmick) and Super Sasadango Machine but it seems way less common than it used to. From what I understand, part of why strongmen wore trunks over tights was that the tights are tight enough to show the genitals and the buttcrack, so looser trunks on top hide those kinds of details. Modern wrestlers apparently don't have that problem.
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has there ever been conjoined twin wrestlers?
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How about conjoined twins, but one is a wrestler and one is not?
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see, now you're usin your noodle. there's money to be made here. like maybe the non-wrestling one keeps interfering and their opponent is powerless to stop it cause they're not a wrestler. and if you accidentally hit that one you get dq'd. you could do great heel stuff
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That DICK! posted:see, now you're usin your noodle. there's money to be made here. like maybe the non-wrestling one keeps interfering and their opponent is powerless to stop it cause they're not a wrestler. and if you accidentally hit that one you get dq'd. you could do great heel stuff Now youre thinking like a territory promoter!
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The Mulkey brothers wearing the same singlet.
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Speaking of the Mulkeys: what was their deal? All I know about them is that they were jobbers among jobbers, never getting in any offense far less winning (except that one time). is there any story or lore behind him? Did they ever do anything outside of Mid-Atlantic that was a little more robust?
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ChrisBTY posted:Speaking of the Mulkeys: what was their deal? All I know about them is that they were jobbers among jobbers, never getting in any offense far less winning (except that one time). is there any story or lore behind him? Did they ever do anything outside of Mid-Atlantic that was a little more robust? Not really, they were just a brother tag team who were AMAZING at making anybody look like a million bucks because they had an almost gleeful disregard for their own bodily wellbeing. They'd just act like pinballs. They did have a title shot, sort of, against the Midnight Express for the latter's US tag champ belts and that was funny because it was in their hometown of Anderson, SC (no relation to Arn) which drew a huge house - for Anderson - and went 45 minutes and the Mulkeys did squash matches, not marathons so apparently they were pretty blown up by the end. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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Didn't someone gift them a win in a tournament as a way of saying thanks for all the great job work
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Didn't someone gift them a win in a tournament as a way of saying thanks for all the great job work Pro Wrestling Wiki says (with a grain of salt): quote:Eventually, the brothers' win-loss record was displayed when they wrestled, reaching 0-180 before they won a match against The Gladiators (Gladiator I & Gladiator II) in March of 1987 to qualify for the Crockett Cup. However, in the first round of the Crockett Cup, the Mulkeys were eliminated by Denny Brown and Todd Champion.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Didn't someone gift them a win in a tournament as a way of saying thanks for all the great job work Dusty, and they didn't know it until they were about to go out for the match: https://www.postandcourier.com/spor...dbbb75e40f.html (feel free to 12ft that)
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give me the bucks vs the mulkeys
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I did see that nasty Eaton outside of the ring suplex. God drat Randy Mulkey, the money you were making could have made doing that worth it. STONE COLD 64 posted:give me the bucks vs the mulkeys Featuring an old man Randy Mulkey Canadian Destroyer. No wait. Have them form an 8-man tag team. The Bulkies. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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any idea who the spiderpeople were in tonight's mystery wrestling? i'd love to know who the miles morales was, at least
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ChrisBTY posted:I did see that nasty Eaton outside of the ring suplex. They genuinely seemed to be the 'we're just happy we're here' types. As for why they never did go anywhere else, it might have been like Barry Horowitz saying that he could have been a champ in some dying territory (and was in Global) but being an enhancement guy in WWF just paid a lot better.
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The Mulkeys said in an interview that The Road Warriors would give them their $50 TV bonus whenever they had a match with them, because they appreciated the fact they would sell the hell out of everything. But yeah, they were just guys that were happy being in wrestling and happy being jobbers that made other people look good.
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I was looking through previous DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight champions (always a fun read if you have the time), and I noticed that several of the reigns in 2020 were also for the REW Pakistan 24/7 belt. If they had the same rules, how did they separate them? At first I thought the REW belt might have a humans-only rule, but the last mention of it in the records was when the Young Bucks autobiography won the belts from Britt Baker because she fell asleep holding it. But then Saki Akai's book wins the DDT one, and the REW one isn't mentioned after that.
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Bonk posted:I was looking through previous DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight champions (always a fun read if you have the time), and I noticed that several of the reigns in 2020 were also for the REW Pakistan 24/7 belt. The Pakistan belt is probably a Sammy Vlog thing but I can't tell you more than that.
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fez_machine posted:The Pakistan belt is probably a Sammy Vlog thing but I can't tell you more than that. as someone who watched the Sammy Vlog in 2020 i have no loving idea what the REW Pakistan 24/7 belt is lmao
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Lol it was a Joey Janella twitter unification https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/status/1294001810894618625 But yeah the Pakistan belt was a Sammy thing
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So it looks like the point of separation was that the copy of "The Young Bucks: Killing The Business" that held both titles and was sent to DDT was pinned by Saki Akai's photo book "Lip Hip Shake" for the Ironman Heavymetalweight title but not for the REW title. Presumably because the DDT ref was not a sanctioned REW official.
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So we clearly need to find that book and bring along a REW referee. That's your dream ticket to wrestling in Pakistan, folks wtf do you mean you don't want to wrestle in Pakistan
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Dean Malenko surely set a record there for fastest time winning two separate belts, good for him
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Small wrestling question I was thinking about the other day: why did WWF/E stick with Mark Henry for so long? I know he signed a super long deal when he came in and eventually figured it out and got good but he stank the place out for such a long time that I find it weird that they never just decided to cut their losses after the 14th repackaging/send down to learn how to wrestle/put with a manager etc. Like better guys got less time to figure it out and he was hanging around for nearly a decade until he discovered what worked for him Was there someone backstage who was just like 'mark is my guy and he's going nowhere' or was there a clause where he would have gotten a fat payout if they fired him so they tried to get him to quit and he just didn't. Or was he not getting paid much so just got paid to hang around on the off chance they figured out how to push the worlds strongest man
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We’ll, you’d need someone stronger than him to tell him he’s fired, and that’s impossible.
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He signed a 10 year deal for $250,000 a year (apparently), it was probably far cheaper to try and make him quit than fire him
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DeathChicken posted:He signed a 10 year deal for $250,000 a year (apparently), it was probably far cheaper to try and make him quit than fire him And I think when that contract was finally coming up, there were enough injuries on the SmackDown roster that they decided to just re-sign him.
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DeathChicken posted:He signed a 10 year deal for $250,000 a year (apparently), it was probably far cheaper to try and make him quit than fire him This is the theory Bryan and Vinny went with during their retro reviews. And they loved Mark for just smiling and taking his money no matter what Vince tried to do to him to make hi m quit.
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:We’ll, you’d need someone stronger than him to tell him he’s fired, and that’s impossible. It's not impossible, but Artie, The Strongest Man In The World doesn't work for just anyone
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Making a guy do embarrassing poo poo on TV instead of just cutting him and eating the money is very Attitude Era
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I just presume that someone on staff was clairvoyant and knew that if you kept him employed you would eventually get the salmon suit "a lot left in the tank" segment.
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DeathChicken posted:He signed a 10 year deal for $250,000 a year (apparently), it was probably far cheaper to try and make him quit than fire him Speaking of this... I just learned about the time they "ribbed" Henry be sending him out to the ring for a match with Sin Cara, only to not have Sin Cara come out. Henry eventually got pissed, left the ring and returned to the back only to find it completely deserted. How is this supposed to be funny? Your comment about trying to get him to quit makes sense here, was that the point of it?
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I remember reading Swoll had a $400k a year contract in WCW. Who has been the worst ROI?
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