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Halloween Jack posted:Thinking on it some more, I can think of a few reasons. Meltzer never liked JYD's work, and JYD was one of the ones who got a smarmy nickname ("Junk Food Dog") back in the 80s. Not only that, but he was a territory guy transitioning to being a more "sports entertainment" guy in the WWF where he was acting more like a literal dog. Before the match they showed an "interview" with Spot where he didn't say anything and just tapped himself with a bone. Then JYD did the crawling headbutt spot in their match. I think Meltzer hates comedy headbutt spots on principle. Meltzer in the 80s was also way more immature and a huge NWA stan.
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Someone on Twitter awhile ago coined the 2008-now era as the Lost Generation, which seems apt. There was start-stop even steven stuff in 05-08, but they didn't start truly wasting their young talent until around 08-09 since they really didn't have any good young talent until then. Also "Reality Era" is probably a worse name than "Ruthless Aggression Era," something I couldn't have fathomed in 2003-05.
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Havoc904 posted:I was just watching the Rock/Austin match from WM15 and that got me thinking about if there was an early plan for WM16 if Austin hadn't been injured. Wade Barrett vs. Undertaker was built for WM27. Kane beat Undertaker in a Buried Alive match when Nexus beat down Undertaker. HHH vs. Undertaker 1 (2?) replaced it.
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Gavok posted:I'm thinking of writing a list article on the worst Wrestlemania moments ever. There are a lot of easy/big ones in there like Hogan winning the title at WM9, the Mr. T boxing match, 18 seconds, Goldberg/Lesnar, Brock landing on his head, Giant Gonzalez having a match, etc. The Miller Lite Girls at WM19 Saliva & Limp Bizkit performing Rey v Orton v Angle getting a ton of time cut off so they could run a lingerie pillow fight WM11's opening video going over the illustrious history of celebrities at WM and focusing most of the show around it (That said there understandably wasn't a draw on the card anyway) Roddy Piper and Morton Downey Jr.'s 3 hour segment SG Bamboo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x6XpVM5lBU This is really sick in the lens of 2016
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Cory Lidle posted:Found it! I should've started on YouTube, Google wasn't very helpful. I don't get how this is from like 2006-08 and looks like it was shot in 1992
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I don't think Regal knew, but he definitely had an inkling something was seriously wrong. Beyond "entire family dies of natural causes" wrong.
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Web Jew.0 posted:Benoit squashing Orlando Jordan was great, especially considering they had a long boring match at the Great American Bash a month prior. http://dai.ly/x26yojo Summerslam 05 was the best because it was the company going "poo poo, our bad" in response to GAB and the previous month in general. Pretty much every wrong was righted.
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Kennel posted:Are there any great lumberjack matches? The aforementioned American Wolves vs. Roderick Strong & Erick Stevens in a Lumberjack Strap Match from ROH Injustice 2 is a masterpiece
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Lord Hypnostache posted:Considering how much CM Punk gets chanted every time WWE is in Chicago, are there any other notable examples of wrestlers getting chants after their career is over and they are not present? Bret kinda got chants
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Gavok posted:For the record, here's what I had in the previous version of the list: This is from a few days ago, but one of my most hated Rumble moments is Rey in 06. Not because he won, but because he went bell to bell, but not reeeeeeally, because he was #2, and HHH was #1
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Davros1 posted:And it would have made more sense for Rey to come out first. Of course it would, but they didn't want Rey to be an official Bell to Bell winner because it was more important for HHH to be #1 and last until the end.
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Sandman McMahon posted:What's the difference? Nothing to most people, but there definitely was to WWE
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Tweak posted:Did Cena's rise to the top start the trend of the heel announcers opposing every face except for the top baby face? I seem to remember King hated Austin/Rock no matter who they were against, in contrast to JBL/Corey's, "you gotta respect the BIG DOG" while otherwise just defending whatever tactics the heel uses. It was really only to try and combat the rising tide of hate from male fans. Before that, Jesse Ventura would sometimes compliment babyfaces that could wrestle like Bret Hart
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Jack Swagger being made to be a Jericho clone was poor as well
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remusclaw posted:Quick question, has the Avalanche AA ever finished anybody off, because for the life of me, every time I have seen it, it gets a 2 count and he either wins with a regular one later or the other guy takes the match? Pretty sure he beat Lashley at GAB07 with it Which was super confusing until Lashley quit
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bessantj posted:Cool, thanks. Do you remember if the following Backlash was any good? WM23 is very good, although a lot of that is tied up in being blown away at how good UT-Batista was, since the consensus going in was that it would be a snoozer. Still good. Backlash 07 is fine if unspectacular.
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It was acceptable.
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Jimmy Rave is one that came to mind for me
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The topic of worst WM comes up a lot but I have thought about what the worst consecutive WMs are and it is hard not to think that (outside of Shawn vs Taker) 25-29 is a really dire collection of WMs when you take everything into consideration. Nothing gets as bad as 9*, but it's the most "treading water" period I can think of for that long. 9-13 has 10 in the middle, and they at least try to create new stars in Bret and Shawn. 25-29 is the doldrums of the Cena/Orton/Still HHH era as new talent isn't allowed to grow past upper midcard at best, and it infects every part of the company. I mean that's still kinda true today but at least it's in service of trying to make a wrestling star, as flawed as the plan is *27 comes close
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