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Halloween Jack posted:nothing dutch was sent by god Have a little faith, Arthur! edit: What an awful snipe. I love this thread though and wish that I could contribute more. My recollection of late 90's into early aughts wrestling is extremely fuzzy. My most vivid memory of WCW from that time is the Chucky promo, so it's been awesome deep diving into this thread. Thanks, goons! Hub Dirt fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Dutch is full of poo poo and does NOT have a plan!
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Shard posted:Dutch is full of poo poo and does NOT have a plan! The plan is, if it bleeds we can kill it.
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https://twitter.com/AndyConwaaaay/status/1716967355094351926 Important anniversary.
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Hub Dirt posted:Have a little faith, Arthur! lol
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Germansimp posted:God, that poo poo was so loving awesome: A+++ compilation right here.
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Germansimp posted:God, that poo poo was so loving awesome:  So drat fun. Who Betta.
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Germansimp posted:God, that poo poo was so loving awesome: I will always love this montage solely for the fact that it has the one inexplicably in the middle of a Scott Steiner and Mike Tenay interview where the outside of the arena is shown and then you see him running off after hitting the cutter and the pose. Also, I always remember Jarrett shouting "KNOCK THAT CRAP OFF, KANYON!" at him after the one on the guy backstage and it always gets a chuckle out of me.
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Vader had that really funny moment where Ken Shamrock kept potato punching him. "Stop." *punch* "Stop that." *punch* And Vader decked Shamrock with one punch
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DeathChicken posted:Vader had that really funny moment where Ken Shamrock kept potato punching him. "Stop." *punch* "Stop that." *punch* And Vader decked Shamrock with one punch One-Punch Van
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SatoshiMiwa posted:It's even more horrible when you find out that ECW was months behind on pay and he left cause he wanted the reasonable thing of actually being paid One of the reasons why I really resent the rose-tinted hagiography of the EcW fAnS and their stupid loving "YoU sOlD oUt" chants. Hmm yes, how dare a wrestler want to be *checks notes* get paid well enough to look after their family, pay their bills and maybe be compensated for the flips onto concrete and poo poo that they were expected to do.
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Oct 25, 2023 19:02
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Grendels Dad posted:The plan is, if it bleeds we can kill it. Doesn't seem to be true in the case of Ric Flair.
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Animal-Mother posted:Doesn't seem to be true in the case of Ric Flair. Ric Flair's secret is that he died in that accident, but is compelled to wrestle on by the power of WOOOOOOO (i.e. getting divorced)
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edogawa rando posted:One of the reasons why I really resent the rose-tinted hagiography of the EcW fAnS and their stupid loving "YoU sOlD oUt" chants. Hmm yes, how dare a wrestler want to be *checks notes* get paid well enough to look after their family, pay their bills and maybe be compensated for the flips onto concrete and poo poo that they were expected to do. A wrestlers finances aren't forward facing and are therefore easily ignored.
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ChrisBTY posted:A wrestlers finances aren't forward facing and are therefore easily ignored. You've heard of Girl Math, please enjoy: Wrestler Math (non-Scott Steiner edition)
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I’m watching Mike Awesome vs Masato Tanaka right now and I just wanted to post somewhere and say it’s probably the best match ever. We don’t have an ECW thread so I figured this would be the most appropriate place to say this, due to The Alliance and all.
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I long for the days when ECW was run by a creative genius. Let's hear it... for Stephanie McMahon!!
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edogawa rando posted:One of the reasons why I really resent the rose-tinted hagiography of the EcW fAnS and their stupid loving "YoU sOlD oUt" chants. Hmm yes, how dare a wrestler want to be *checks notes* get paid well enough to look after their family, pay their bills and maybe be compensated for the flips onto concrete and poo poo that they were expected to do. Well, one of the main reasons to like WWE these days is that sports entertainers are getting paid a lot of money there. Though I doubt anyone is checking how much money they actually earn, or cares that much of the harmful lifestyle of old is still intact with the self-organized/paid travel and insane schedule and whatnot.
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Grendels Dad posted:Well, one of the main reasons to like WWE these days is that sports entertainers are getting paid a lot of money there. Though I doubt anyone is checking how much money they actually earn, or cares that much of the harmful lifestyle of old is still intact with the self-organized/paid travel and insane schedule and whatnot. Well, I don't resent anyone for taking the WWE money at the end of the day, specifically for those reasons. It's just that I won't get to see them wrestle for a while.
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But alas even in WWE wrestlers arn't paid their fair share.
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Sandman McMahon posted:I’m watching Mike Awesome vs Masato Tanaka right now and I just wanted to post somewhere and say it’s probably the best match ever. All the Awesome/Tanaka matches are amazing. I love that WWE was pissed at them for going all out at One Night Stand.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:wrestlers arent known for spending their money wisely That's one of the impressive things about Sting. He actually didn't go nuts with ATM Eric's money and he's doing all this stuff now just because he wants to. Boss Man and John Tenta are two others I've heard made sure that their families were taken care of, which unfortunately proved wise after their passing. Then there's Ric. Like even if you've heard 'Ric is bad with money' it's far worse than you can imagine. His autobiography is mostly "I spent too much and made my wife leave me and brother I felt bad but whooo I did it again."
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I wonder how many checks Paul E. bounced during his time running ECW.
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One of the first wrestling DVDs I ever bought when I was first getting into it was a two-pack of Rise & Fall of ECW and ONS05 that I found in the bargain bin. I knew about ECW because of WWECW and also Mick Foley's books, which helped kickstart my love of it all, and watching those two DVDs back to back blew my mind. I ripped ONS 05 to my PSP and for a while it was the only thing I had to watch during a really difficult time in my life, so I'll always love the show, but I was especially intrigued with Awesome vs. Tanaka because they were both totally new to me and the match was so absolutely loving crazy and unlike anything I had seen before even on that very show. Their matches were so great. God bless them for going so hard and being part of that secret sauce that made me fall in love with this weird little artform.
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haljordan posted:I wonder how many checks Paul E. bounced during his time running ECW. And think of all the poor wrestlers' dead relatives that let them fly bereavement.
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syzpid posted:All the Awesome/Tanaka matches are amazing. I love that WWE was pissed at them for going all out at One Night Stand. I never heard that. What was WWE pissed off about exactly?
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Shard posted:I never heard that. What was WWE pissed off about exactly? They put on a banger ECW style match that made all the WWE wrestlers look bad
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Grendels Dad posted:Ric Flair's secret is that he died in that accident, but is compelled to wrestle on by the power of WOOOOOOO (i.e. getting divorced) Only a legend like the Nature Boy could put up the same NWA title belt as collateral for TWO different loans and default on both.
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Ric Flair is simultaneously the Greatest Pro Wrestler of All Time and the Most Divorced Dad of All Time, and these two forces are eternally in tension.
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Elephant Ambush posted:They put on a banger ECW style match that made all the WWE wrestlers look bad Any trawl through the bad takes thread will tell you the one thing WWE and its fans hates is wrestling.
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Sandman McMahon posted:I’m watching Mike Awesome vs Masato Tanaka right now and I just wanted to post somewhere and say it’s probably the best match ever. The Fat Chick Thriller, That 70's Guy, The Canadian Career Killer, Cousin of Horace Hogan, Mike Awesome. Rest in peace. syzpid posted:All the Awesome/Tanaka matches are amazing. I love that WWE was pissed at them for going all out at One Night Stand. I hadn't heard that before but it's completely unsurprising. Vince's secret philosophy seems to be "How dare these guys get over." Animal-Mother fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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Shard posted:I never heard that. What was WWE pissed off about exactly? Elephant Ambush posted:They put on a banger ECW style match that made all the WWE wrestlers look bad Pretty much this, it was supposed to be a sub 10 minute match to keep the crowd warm heading into the main event. Instead they put out an absolute banger of a match which was the match of the night. The Cena/RVD match was great, but a lot of that was the crowd absolutely loathing Cena. Awesome is great in FMW too, I remember watching him fly around like a lightweight and wondering why no one had signed him. Then he showed up in ECW a few months later.
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Halloween Jack posted:Ric Flair is simultaneously the Greatest Pro Wrestler of All Time and the Most Divorced Dad of All Time, and these two forces are eternally in tension. Ric Flair is cool
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syzpid posted:Pretty much this, it was supposed to be a sub 10 minute match to keep the crowd warm heading into the main event. Instead they put out an absolute banger of a match which was the match of the night. The Cena/RVD match was great, but a lot of that was the crowd absolutely loathing Cena. e: at ONS 2006, Tanaka had a match with Balls Mahoney. Presumably, WWE liked that one better because it wasn't very good. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Ric Flair is simultaneously the Greatest Pro Wrestler of All Time and the Most Divorced Dad of All Time, and these two forces are eternally in tension. yeah, "in tension"
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I like to re-read this article every few months and wonder how much more in debt Flair is now: https://grantland.com/features/the-wrestler-real-life/ haljordan fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:numbers dont go as high as ric flairs debt To be the best you must have the best.
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