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Endorph posted:My wrestling question is how the gently caress does that work Please tell me that's for Jeff Hardy, because I like to believe after his house burned down and he rebuilt, his first thought was "I need a giant fuckin' fire-spewing volcano in my yard!"
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bobkatt013 posted:Did he also get Shane high and that lead to when Raven returned to WWE Vince screaming Who the gently caress hired Raven? Yep, but according to Raven in the various shoots he's done he was winning him over towards the end of his run and they considered hiring him for creative after he pitched them his Seven deadly sins storyline to which Stephanie responded "It's great, but I don't know what we'd do with you after it finished" ( Which probably translates to "We'd do it, just not with you") After much debating and twisting of arms the WWE allowed Raven to do a neutered version of the story on heat. After a few weeks the ratings for Heat went up and when Raven excitedly asked if that meant he could move the plot onto RAW they said no and told Raven that the reason the ratings went up for Heat was because Lita started doing the announcing for the show. Raven and the WWE split ways soon after.
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Burrito posted:Please tell me that's for Jeff Hardy, because I like to believe after his house burned down and he rebuilt, his first thought was "I need a giant fuckin' fire-spewing volcano in my yard!"
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Endorph posted:It is, but can you blame him? If you had the opportunity to put a giant volcano for you to race on in your front yard, you would too. Not if my last house burned down and killed my dog! Unless... he hated that dog...
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Burrito posted:Not if my last house burned down and killed my dog! 
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Burrito posted:Not if my last house burned down and killed my dog! I don't know about his dog, but there was definitely a lot of stuff in that house he wanted to burn. 
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When Shawn's back went out in 98, HBK had a match against one of his students, or maybe a pro who changed his name, who was that against? The fed was TWA I believe but everything I look for leads to the academy only.
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CortezFantastic posted:When Shawn's back went out in 98, HBK had a match against one of his students, or maybe a pro who changed his name, who was that against? The fed was TWA I believe but everything I look for leads to the academy only. It was Paul Diamond who also had a hand in running the acadaemy with HBK and worked as Kato and Max Moon in the WWF
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LightsGameraAction posted:Shane is his son who was practically murdered in a match because he let him wrestle. If anyone doubts that Vince McMahon is a good father, they need to remember that he murdered Dracula for his son.
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TL posted:If anyone doubts that Vince McMahon is a good father, they need to remember that he murdered Dracula for his son. "What is a McMahon?! A miserable little pile of secrets!"
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TL posted:If anyone doubts that Vince McMahon is a good father, they need to remember that he murdered Dracula for his son. Yeah this story is seriously the most "awww.." thing I've ever read.
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LightsGameraAction posted:Shane is his son who was practically murdered in a match because he let him wrestle.
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CVagts posted:Honestly this doesn't surprise me that much because I'm sure Triple H loves the business a hell of a lot more than Steph, so business-wise it makes sense for Vince to keep him around. I'm sure he probably loves his wife who he had kids with quite a bit!
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Okay, let me rephrase the question: What if Hunter started his own promotion? I can't shake the feeling that it would actually be really really good.
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DannoMack posted:Okay, let me rephrase the question: What if Hunter started his own promotion? I can't shake the feeling that it would actually be really really good. If he's not wrestling in it, I would agree with you. Otherwise, here comes the shovel!
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Saw some questions without good answers, so figured I'd chime in.LividLiquid posted:Vince got rid of Raven in the 90's, far before Steph had kids. The last time Raven left he quit. He may have even quit the first time. I don't know. But the Shane/Drugs thing happened during the Johnny Polo days when Raven was working in the Stamford offices in the archives. It's in one of his RF shoots. Raven quit in the 90s, he wasn't fired. He wanted to do the Raven gimmick but they didn't see him as a main event guy (or even a wrestler, only had a handful of matches there). His full-time gig was as a producer and, according to Raven, Shane expected that he would get the company in a few years and they both would run it in a Vince/Patterson relationship. Raven wanted to wrestle, so he quit and put out contacts to Jim Cornette (Smokey Mountain Wrestling) and Paul Heyman (ECW). Heyman was the first to set him up with bookings so he went to ECW. Vince wasn't happy with the decision and couldn't understand why he wanted to quit the producer job to wrestle. He didn't like Raven and Shane partying, but Shane partied with the wrestlers anyway so it was kind of a wash. Shane and Raven never kept contact and weren't friends after. Vince's "who hired Raven" was more because of how Raven left the company and not seeing him as a star or having drawn anywhere. Raven's said he doesn't think Vince even realized he was in WCW and thought he wrestled in the ECW Arena for five years straight. MassRayPer posted:Vince has been quoted as saying he would hate it if they got divorced since he'd really miss Stephanie. No, he hasn't. That's a joke that either Bryan Alvarez or Scott Keith made and caught on. CVagts posted:Was flipping through Terry Funk's autobio last night, and he paints Lou Thesz in a pretty negative light as a world champion, saying that if Lou had to face a guy in a territory that he didn't like or think was a legit talent, he'd stiff them in the ring (which he could do with his skills) and basically kill off that guy's drawing power. It's one of those things that has to be looked at while taking account his time period. The NWA champion had to be able to defend his title in a shoot and draw, in that order. Thesz didn't like guys who couldn't shoot and would sometimes go out of his way to embarrass them. However, the promoters were fine with it because they didn't have to worry about another promoter screwing Thesz out of the title.
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DannoMack posted:Okay, let me rephrase the question: What if Hunter started his own promotion? I can't shake the feeling that it would actually be really really good. My theory is that HHH is a lot like Dusty Rhodes; he's a good booker as long as he's not also an active wrestler.
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Seeing a Ghana World Cup game made me think of this. Name some wrestlers that got over with an ethnic gimmick, without being that ethnicity. I can think of Kofi and Yokozuna, but any more?
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jscolon2.0 posted:Seeing a Ghana World Cup game made me think of this. Name some wrestlers that got over with an ethnic gimmick, without being that ethnicity. I can think of Kofi and Yokozuna, but any more? Akeem the African Dream and Muhammad Hassan come immediately to mind.
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Santino?
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Roddy Piper.
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Razor Ramon. Nikolai Volkoff. Krusher Kruschev. Davros1 fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jun 23, 2010 |
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Muhammad Hassan is the one that springs to mind. I'm a dumbass who didn't notice DM Punk's post. Welp. Skinty McEdger fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jun 23, 2010 |
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Endorph posted:Santino?
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Well that must be all of them because were getting repeats already...
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LividLiquid posted:I'm curious. Does Santino count? Well his gimmick is full blown Italian, but not Canadian-Italian. Same can be said for Roddy Piper.
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Kwang was over for a while. He was the secret character in the Genesis version of RAW.
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Elix Skipper in Team Canada.
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Skinty McEdger posted:Muhammad Hassan is the one that springs to mind. I sure hope you mean Karmine 
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ADRIEN GRODYS FIFE posted:I sure hope you mean Karmine Dear lord. Sorry Karmine.
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How about the Iron Sheik?
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Undertaker isn't from Death Valley, but rather from Houston, Texas. And The Ultimate Warrior is from Parts Known, specifically Crawfordsville, Indiana.
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I'd imagine a ton of old school wrestlers would fall under this. Fritz Von Erich being at the top of the list.
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