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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Now that Edge and Christian Cage are both in AEW I wonder if Tony Khan can be convinced to bring Gangrel back for more than a couple token appearances to go peak stupid 90s and reunite The Brood. They do owe him https://www.thesportster.com/news/edges-wwe-brood-entrance-ruined-gangrel-aew-return/
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Now that Edge and Christian Cage are both in AEW I wonder if Tony Khan can be convinced to bring Gangrel back for more than a couple token appearances to go peak stupid 90s and reunite The Brood. hopefully he let's him keep the modern version of his theme, because the VAMPIRE RAP he added over the brood theme is loving awful in the best way
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3 A.M. Radio posted:Did Punk ever work for Impact when it was TNA? Also, I hear it's going back to being called TNA next year. Quite a bit, until TNA severed ties with ROH and he decided to stay with ROH. This was at time when he was feuding with Raven and TNA brilliantly thought "Hey, you know how Punk and Raven are literally trying to kill each other in every single Indy fed they meet? Let's make them stable partners here".
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:they gave him his own show where he could ban people he didnt like from attending lol Made IK of his own thread, yet still melted down and autobanned? Tragic.
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AlmightyBob posted:reminds me of how tna completely hosed up booking kazuchika okada so bad that I'm pretty sure he's still mad about it Not just Okada himself, but all of New Japan. During that time they had Tanahashi too, after he'd already been IWGP champion, and the most use he got was a random tag team with Volador and some meaningless X-division multi-man matches.
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AlmightyBob posted:reminds me of how tna completely hosed up booking kazuchika okada so bad that I'm pretty sure he's still mad about it The series of events that led from "let's take this New Japan rookie and give him a loving Kato gimmick" to "Bryan Danielson vs Okada at Forbidden Door 2023" would make for an amazing documentary one day. Okada and the Bucks bond in TNA, Okada realizes he needs a character to get over with American audiences and creates The Rainmaker persona, Bucks get booked in NJPW off their friendship with Okada, eventually form the Elite, which eventually leads to AEW forming.
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AlmightyBob posted:reminds me of how tna completely hosed up booking kazuchika okada so bad that I'm pretty sure he's still mad about it He is. Someone asked him about TNA earlier this year and he pretty much buried them lol
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my favorite one of those, and maybe I've mentioned this in here before I don't remember, is that in the mid 90s the wcw got Playstation sponsorships, they'd have ads at shows and stuff, and the wwf, who were at the time being completely destroyed in the ratings, were sponsored by the sega saturn
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I miss when they would do poo poo like "THE LUGZ BOOT OF THE WEEK" and show a clip of someone getting kicked in the face.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Here's some early 2000s product placement that was randomly shown to me by ~the algorithm ~ lmao jesus, FFX-2 and gushing about Benoit in the same video
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We got the Something Awful Wrestling PPV in progress: https://twitch.tv/tha_swizzler Bout to get to the title matches, and as always all goons are welcome to join (including Elephant Ambush) Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4036635
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A Fancy Hat posted:The series of events that led from "let's take this New Japan rookie and give him a loving Kato gimmick" to "Bryan Danielson vs Okada at Forbidden Door 2023" would make for an amazing documentary one day. There's an old myth that Okada was sent to TNA to humble him and keep him in Japan
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Okuteru posted:There's an old myth that Okada was sent to TNA to humble him and keep him in Japan it worked
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So several weeks back, WWE did that thing where they overstuffed NXT to offset AEW being on Tuesday for one week. After losing the ratings, Tony Khan did not take it well and did some amazing coke-fueled tweets, including calling out Vince McMahon for being a rapist. It was equal parts cringe and awesome. Sting announced that he was going to be retiring in a few months and having his final match at one of the AEW PPVs. It was announced that Tony Khan had a special gift for Sting and that turned out to be Ric Flair. Flair who came out and cut a promo with Sting. Which... ugh... fine, I guess. Then Flair suggested that he would be hanging out with Sting for the next several months until Sting's retirement. Not as fine. Then it was announced that Flair had signed a multi-year contract with AEW. This has everyone wondering what the gently caress because Tony was supposed to be better than this, especially considering his Vince tweets. But WWE can't keep the negative spotlight off themselves for too long. They did another one of their Saudi Arabia PPVs today. Logan Paul is the US Champion now.
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Gavok posted:So several weeks back, WWE did that thing where they overstuffed NXT to offset AEW being on Tuesday for one week. After losing the ratings, Tony Khan did not take it well and did some amazing coke-fueled tweets, including calling out Vince McMahon for being a rapist. It was equal parts cringe and awesome. Thanks for the update, I had heard that Flair was involved with AEW now in some way, but didn't check. This, is bad. Like, what the gently caress. How do you have Ric Flair on your program in 2023? How the gently caress does that happen? WWE doing yet another blood money show is kinda banal by now, I can't even be assed to capitalize "blood money" anymore. But Ric Flair, on your show? loving hell.
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Meat Wagon posted:singing ric flair He's singing "Blurred Lines."
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Gavok posted:He's singing "Blurred Lines." WHoooooo. ya know like a ghost
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Signing Ric Flair is insane and I don't mean that in a good way what does he even add to the AEW roster, anyhow, besides heart-stopping new heights of financial liability? Even Jeff Jarrett's signing was a more explicable decision
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SatansOnion posted:besides heart-stopping new heights of financial liability? Tony Khan's gotta get off on feeling something
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Gavok continues making this the best wrestling thread on the forums doin a shameless plug but we're working on trying to increase activity in the Enclosed Pool Area: https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=681 basically the idea is that we want people who have a passing interest in wrestling, or some basic enjoyment of wrestling to start posting here without worrying about knowing less than other people, or knowing all the background info on everyone, people who are fans of old wrestling but fell off and enjoy the nostalgic poo poo, and just enjoying things for what they are without pretense. It's also the home of Something Awful Wrestling, which has been a lot of fun for everyone involved.
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Should've given a contract to the nature boy number 1 buddy rogers and not the crooked. yella. teeth. of ric flair
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When Ric Flair made his AEW debut, and started getting worked up during his promo against Christian, that Taz felt compelled to say "Keep ya clothes on Ric"
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Literally A Person posted:Something about Ric's heart monitor watch going off during promos kind of ruins the whole thing. That's his alimony watch, just ignore it the same way he does.
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im saint germain posted:He probably thinks the only sort of glory he'll be able to retain now is dying on the job, what a pro, what a guy, can't say nuthin bad about him, no thanks I've got my own flight scheduled That ship has sailed/flight has taken off about 11 years ago when he wrestled Foley on IPMACT
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spaceblancmange posted:it owns how loving stupid you have to be to run a wrestling promotion
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