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Pope Corky the IX posted:Ahahahahahaha, what?! And why isn't this his new gimmick? He also caused an anthrax scare after he left cocaine when he was working as an MBTA agent. (The Boston subway company it isn't some weird rear end Midwestern wrestling promotion)
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ayn rand hand job posted:He also caused an anthrax scare after he left cocaine when he was working as an MBTA agent. (The Boston subway company it isn't some weird rear end Midwestern wrestling promotion) He also got kicked out of Toronto City Hall for selling sandwiches.
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Holy poo poo, and here I thought 1979-1999 was the most interesting part of his life. Please, keep going.
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Great White Hope posted:He also got kicked out of Toronto City Hall for selling sandwiches.
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Jan 29, 2016 20:26
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Ed Leslie is like a Coen Bros. movie character who exists in the real world.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Ed Leslie is like a Coen Bros. movie character who exists in the real world. I think that's actually Vincent
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Yeah, Ed Leslie is clearly an escapee from an old episode of Twin Peaks.
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Halloween Jack posted:Hogan has outlived Andre, Savage, Yokozuna, Warrior, Earthquake...if you asked me "which wrestler is going to die next," I wouldn't bet on the Hulkster, brother. Wood did a lot of roids and probably coke and booze, but just as an example, Sheik is a decade older and did crack and pills. On the other hand, we lost Lemmy, David Bowie, and Abe Vigoda in the span of a month and a half.
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't think they're friends after Beefcake burglarized Hogan's house and stole his jewelry. http://www.sescoops.com/hulk-hogan-calls-out-brutus-beefcake-for-selling-unauthorized-signed-photos-of-him/
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Is there a reason Ed Leslie didn't keep up with the Disciple gimmick for longer? I mean at the very least he had a much better look as The Disciple than he did as Brutus.
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1st AD posted:Is there a reason Ed Leslie didn't keep up with the Disciple gimmick for longer? I mean at the very least he had a much better look as The Disciple than he did as Brutus. Because once you semi-retire as a wrestler and you keep the lights on by doing occasional indie dates you stick with the gimmick that the most people will recognize. No one gives a gently caress who the Disciple is but if some guy who hasn't watched wresting in years sees a flier for a local show that has Brutus Beefcake in it, that's a guy he remembers and might go pay the five bucks to see just because he never got to see him live when he was a kid or whatever. Also the disciple was extremely unmemorable and WCW also worked semi-hard at trying to make it seem like he wasn't Leslie and was a totally different character. Beefer was all about the money though, so I'm sure he would have shown up as the Disciple if some indie promoter really wanted the Disciple, but guys like the Rodman Down Under people want guys like him billed as whatever they were at their peak, it's one of the reasons those dudes fight so hard to hold on to their wrestler names (Example: Leslie ended up being Brute Force on the indies because of WWE having the copyright to the barber gimmick).
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1st AD posted:Is there a reason Ed Leslie didn't keep up with the Disciple gimmick for longer? I mean at the very least he had a much better look as The Disciple than he did as Brutus. Other than Warrior leaving and Hogan "retiring"?
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Because once you semi-retire as a wrestler and you keep the lights on by doing occasional indie dates you stick with the gimmick that the most people will recognize. No one gives a gently caress who the Disciple is but if some guy who hasn't watched wresting in years sees a flier for a local show that has Brutus Beefcake in it, that's a guy he remembers and might go pay the five bucks to see just because he never got to see him live when he was a kid or whatever. Also the disciple was extremely unmemorable and WCW also worked semi-hard at trying to make it seem like he wasn't Leslie and was a totally different character. Beefer was all about the money though, so I'm sure he would have shown up as the Disciple if some indie promoter really wanted the Disciple, but guys like the Rodman Down Under people want guys like him billed as whatever they were at their peak, it's one of the reasons those dudes fight so hard to hold on to their wrestler names (Example: Leslie ended up being Brute Force on the indies because of WWE having the copyright to the barber gimmick). The Disciple was my third favorite member of the original Black and White Express after Big Wood and Flapjack.
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Smoking Crow posted:I want to see Ed Leslie work as the Zodiac one more time I know at a few random indie dates he wore the trunks but I think that was more out of extreme laziness than anything else.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I love that Hogan is so utterly inseparable from wrestling, as a business, that we've been able to keep a thread almost solely about Hogan afloat for almost four hundred pages. And yet the Hulk Hogan Raft is still lost to the mists of time.
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Hulk Hogan's meat shoes however shall never be forgotten https://twitter.com/WWE_Network_Bot/status/693322452965933056 Man, it's been a hell of a great birthday week for me.
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I vaguely remember wondering whose disciple The Disciple was whenever I saw him back then, did they ever clear that up? Or was he just generally discipling?
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Grendels Dad posted:I vaguely remember wondering whose disciple The Disciple was whenever I saw him back then, did they ever clear that up? Or was he just generally discipling?
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Dario the Wop posted:Hogan's, then Warrior's. Thanks. I kinda remember him switching sides but always wondered whether there would be some sort of follow-up on that. I think I just didn't "get" WCW back then.
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Grendels Dad posted:Thanks. I kinda remember him switching sides but always wondered whether there would be some sort of follow-up on that. I think I just didn't "get" WCW back then. He started out as Hogan's disciple and hung around with nWo Hollywood, got abducted by Warrior and turned into the second member of one Warrior nation (oWn), during the Hogan-Warrior feud. Because the feud was panned, it was ended early. Warrior left, Hogan "retired" to run for President. Disciple made an appearance as a jobber in the World War III match, and that was about the end of his full time wrestling career.
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I remember after disciple left the nWo he came out on, I think, Saturday night and stood in ring and told the fans he was back to being a good guy and he knew he could make it to the top if the fans just believed in him Then he lost the match
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Also, the Disciple was a tall bodybuilder with long hair and a beard who dressed vaguely like a biker, and WCW had about three dozen wrestlers doing that look. Watching Tuesday Nitro, even when I knew he was involved in a segment my eyes had trouble focusing on him, he just faded into the scenery so well.
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Lady Naga posted:This thread's only nominally been about Hogan. I like this thread because I'm never actually able to watch the PSP Nitro streams, and it's just fun as a general reminiscence. I wonder how many people in this thread are following along with the Bryan & Vinny shows, because we're about to get into the hottest angle in company history ... followed by the biggest wet fart in company history. Everybody knows the end, but I'm fascinated to follow the journey in real time.
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oldpainless posted:I remember after disciple left the nWo he came out on, I think, Saturday night and stood in ring and told the fans he was back to being a good guy and he knew he could make it to the top if the fans just believed in him Well to be fair, I seriously doubt the fans believed in him
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oldpainless posted:I remember after disciple left the nWo he came out on, I think, Saturday night and stood in ring and told the fans he was back to being a good guy and he knew he could make it to the top if the fans just believed in him Can't believe you didn't believe in him after all that 
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I love that Hogan is so utterly inseparable from wrestling, as a business, that we've been able to keep a thread almost solely about Hogan afloat for almost four hundred pages. This is the WCW was the best promotion ever thread, Hogan being the greatest wrestler ever just makes for a ton of crossover.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:(Example: Leslie ended up being Brute Force on the indies because of WWE having the copyright to the barber gimmick). Should have changed it to Max Force and worked a NARC gimmick.
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oldpainless posted:I remember after disciple left the nWo he came out on, I think, Saturday night and stood in ring and told the fans he was back to being a good guy and he knew he could make it to the top if the fans just believed in him
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Skinty McEdger posted:Did Disco ever get the chartbuster back after they gave it to Disciple? He got a better one The Book, it was so powerful it finished an entire company.
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Smoking Crow posted:I want to see Ed Leslie work as the Zodiac one more time Some fed should do a
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I wonder what Ted DiBiase thinks of his time in WCW?quote:I don't know I could even give you a favorite story because it was the worst three years of my life. I wasn't unhappy with the WWF, but Vince decided to put me back on the road and the road for me was a danger zone. I'd been through this big change in my life confronted with my infidelity to my wife, and I refound my christian routes. I just felt like being on the road was danger. When I went back as manager I wasn't on the road very much, and the rest of the time I was at home, but then Vince wanted me back on the road. Oh.
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Smoking Crow posted:Did anyone actually enjoy their time in WCW Lanny poffo
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Smoking Crow posted:Did anyone actually enjoy their time in WCW probably hogan tbf
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corn in the bible posted:probably hogan tbf He filed a defamation suit against the company.
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