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NikkolasKing posted:Another retro wrestling comment/question... There was a match in 2000 WCW with heel Sting vs face Flair. It was a multiman match but when they were in the ring they just rehashed the spots they did 10 years ago, which involved Sting playing hero and Flair begging off. It was probably just lol WCW but Bruno might have a point.
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Well yeah, Sting and Flair always had the same match. It’s a drat good match though.
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NikkolasKing posted:So what is the deal with Lanny Poffo? All I know about him is he is Macho Man's brother, collected money from WCW for years without ever appearing once, and I think Vinny or Bryan implied he's a bit of bullshitter or toots his own horn a bit much. https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1116247323590348802?s=20&t=DpEZz6Px7-iu4PUfKrNZag
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Seams posted:https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1116247323590348802?s=20&t=DpEZz6Px7-iu4PUfKrNZag This is the ideal make bedroom. You don't have to like it but this is what peak batin' performance looks like.
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GDQ did a run of the Thunder in Paradise game. Before that, I never knew it existed! The runner also was wearing a PastaMania shirt for maximum 1995 vibes!
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Endless Mike posted:This is the ideal make bedroom. You don't have to like it but this is what peak batin' performance looks like. Well I’m convinced
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Erainor posted:GDQ did a run of the Thunder in Paradise game. Before that, I never knew it existed! The runner also was wearing a PastaMania shirt for maximum 1995 vibes! I wonder what they had to pay Hogan to film the scenes for the game
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TheKingslayer posted:I wonder what they had to pay Hogan to film the scenes for the game Search your heart, you know it to be true.
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NikkolasKing posted:So what is the deal with Lanny Poffo? All I know about him is he is Macho Man's brother, collected money from WCW for years without ever appearing once, and I think Vinny or Bryan implied he's a bit of bullshitter or toots his own horn a bit much. On Between the Sheets they told the story a while back on how Lanny might have had a chance to be a much bigger name, where he was having good matches and was given the chance to go be a hot newcomer in another promotion (Portland maybe?) away from his dad's (the Poffos ran ICW, an "outlaw" promotion which means they were not affiliated with NWA) but his dad needed him to stay and wrestle at home because Poffo senior was going head to head with Memphis and needed all the help he could get. It didn't help and I don't think Lanny was ever given a chance like that again.
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It has got to be really difficult to get over with a name like leaping lanny tbh
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Grandpa Space Ghost knew who Leapin' Lanny was, so he's a big star in my book
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOk1uFtBoYs This rules. I've always heard the drops in the early Retro songs but never heard the full thing till now.
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Dawgstar posted:On Between the Sheets they told the story a while back on how Lanny might have had a chance to be a much bigger name, where he was having good matches and was given the chance to go be a hot newcomer in another promotion (Portland maybe?) away from his dad's (the Poffos ran ICW, an "outlaw" promotion which means they were not affiliated with NWA) but his dad needed him to stay and wrestle at home because Poffo senior was going head to head with Memphis and needed all the help he could get. It didn't help and I don't think Lanny was ever given a chance like that again. And Poffo himself once confessed that he was only mediocre when he wasn't being elevated by superior talent.
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I remember being at a friend’s house watching this and he was for some reason in the other room so I marked out alone in his bedroom, and scraped my knuckles on his ceiling from jumping. Later his dad said obviously Goldberg would win, they hired Michael Buffer! If only I could have said WELL ACTUALLY WCW had him on all the time. It still pains me to this day
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TheKingslayer posted:I wonder what they had to pay Hogan to film the scenes for the game I thought they just used footage from an episode?
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Elephant Ambush posted:I remember this pretty vividly. I was like "there is no way in hell Goldberg is winning on free TV. WCW would never do that" and then it happened and I marked out super hard. And that was probably the last really good decision WCW ever made Not only winning on free TV, winning on free TV with absolutely no build. The fact that it happened was amazing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JANhB2R-ek This was a great little retrospective on Duggan.
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Got up to the "Bark like a dog" segment on Raw from 2001 which is now somehow even more uncomfortable.
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https://twitter.com/WCWNitroBook/status/1547950812181061632 This is going to be so bad. The Nitro book is an interesting resource but the author clearly gets carried away by access and writes fan fiction type stuff in certain chapters, like the first big chapter about DDP. This is going to be Hogan memoir level distortion.
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PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO ME I'M EVER SO IMPORTANT gently caress off, Eric.
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These are the shoes I wore when I beat Vince McMahon on PPV, the ratings died the next day.
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MassRafTer posted:This is going to be so bad. If you listen to Bischoff's podcast, and I'm not saying you should, it's clear he remembers very little about what went on so it's automatically not super interesting unlike Bret and his obsessive notetaking.
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Dawgstar posted:If you listen to Bischoff's podcast, and I'm not saying you should, it's clear he remembers very little about what went on so it's automatically not super interesting unlike Bret and his obsessive notetaking. Which is what makes the whole Montreal Thing so tiresome, we have literally recorded conversations between parties documenting what people said and did, but people are still like "It's a work, brother."
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"I keep giving them more nWo but the ratings just keep going down..."
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Admiral Joeslop posted:If it was a work, Hebner would've blabbed by now. He'd almost certainly blab on his deathbed. It wasn't a work, but it could have been a work without him knowing.
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The true worst thing about the Screw Job is how many times it felt like WWE tried to copy and reference it after.
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TheKingslayer posted:The true worst thing about the Screw Job is how many times it felt like WWE tried to copy and reference it after. It's even worse when a different company does it. TNA seemed to try it at least once a year.
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WCW did it like 4 times in a very short amount of time because Vince Russo is a loving hack.
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Speaking of, isn't it just so gross how Hogan's bullshit sabotaged Bret's debut and Sting's victory at 'Cade 97? I know some people give Hogan a benefit of a doubt for whatever reason but that behavior is nothing new. It's one of those things that will always bug me about WCW.
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