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By all accounts Stan is a kind, somewhat soft-spoken family man. According to some stories he was the one who kept Bad News Allen from killing Andre when Andre kept making jokes with racial epithets on a bus in Japan.
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The last thing you hear before you head pops right off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7C4vylhsmk
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my favorite Stan Hansen story from Japan is the fact that he would do his exercises running up and down the stairs at 5 am in whatever hotel they were staying at imagine you're a sleepy salary man leaving a hotel via the stairs and here comes loving Stan Hansen huffing and puffing past you his book is a decent read, you can tell he's not very comfortable breaking kayfabe so a lot of the little details missing - it does paint him as a nice guy who just went back to his hotel after matches and read books while the rest of the crew went out and drank
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Dr. Zoggle posted:his book is a decent read, you can tell he's not very comfortable breaking kayfabe so a lot of the little details missing - it does paint him as a nice guy who just went back to his hotel after matches and read books while the rest of the crew went out and drank In his first book Mick says Stan was the only reason he left his hotel room because otherwise that's what Mick would have done.
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Dr. Zoggle posted:
He also really likes to point out how great and safe Japan used to be, never mind that he was hanging out with a bunch of yakuza during that time period that might be why everything went smoothly.
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recently learned that while sting isnt very popular in japan because he rarely if ever toured over there the imposter sting known as NWO Sting was very over lol
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:recently learned that while sting isnt very popular in japan because he rarely if ever toured over there the imposter sting known as NWO Sting was very over lol I mean I dunno about very over. He was part of nWo Japan, which was huge, but he was down the pecking order behind Chono, Mutoh, Scott Norton, Hiroyoshi Tenzan. He did loads of tours from '97 to '02 but he was always just a guy in the stable. He only had 2 tag title shots in all that time At some point in 1999 he stopped being nWo Sting & joined Chono in Team2000 as Super J
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Almost to Great Amerucan bash 1990. I'm excited to see what kind of rug pull they do to let flair keep the belt.
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Mr Hootington posted:Almost to Great Amerucan bash 1990. I'm excited to see what kind of rug pull they do to let flair keep the belt. one of my favorite wcw ppvs though i know it hasnt aged great and does slog near the beginning.
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The wine: I've often wondered: Was the blood supposed to hit Big Sexy? Because it comes down with great velocity and there's quite a lot of it, that could definitely have injured Big Sexy. And I wouldn't put it past WCW to fail to consider that, so even if it had hit him directly, they still hosed up. I can also see Big Sexy using his backstage clout, friendship with top stars and management, and contractually guaranteed creative control to nix the idea of the bloodbath, but agreeing to have the blood land near him, which is also stupid and a perfect WCW-ism. Animal-Mother fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Honestly with late period WCW any scenario you can imagine is equally likely.
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from what i've heard the blood was supposed to hit him but the crew were in the wrong spot because wcw was falling apart and missed him but its equally likely nash didnt want to be covered in blood and just did it on purpose lol
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:from what i've heard the blood was supposed to hit him but the crew were in the wrong spot because wcw was falling apart and missed him but its equally likely nash didnt want to be covered in blood and just did it on purpose lol The place the blood does fall would be a really aesthetically displeasing place to intentionally drop the blood, so I'm sticking with the blood crew being out of position over Nash "accidentally" missing his mark.
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Was this an early Thunder? I remember Thunder real quickly becoming a B Show that none of the big names were willing to show up for.
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syzpid posted:Was this an early Thunder? I remember Thunder real quickly becoming a B Show that none of the big names were willing to show up for. No, Russo is in the clip, so it was clearly long after Thunder had settled in as the midcarder show. I remember one of the first weeks under Russo, before he was showing up on camera, he said, on an episode of Thunder, that Thunder sucks because none of the big stars are on it. Which, yes, this was true, but admitting that on the show was probably not going to help bring viewers back to the show. Nash definitely showed up on Thunder at least some of the time, but I don't know how much actual wrestling he did on the show vs. just coming out for a promo in the first hour.
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Lurks With Wolves posted:The place the blood does fall would be a really aesthetically displeasing place to intentionally drop the blood, so I'm sticking with the blood crew being out of position over Nash "accidentally" missing his mark. Yeah he was pretty much dead centre in the ring which is exactly where you’d want to drop poo poo on someone for the best visual. 100% a production fuckup.
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rujasu posted:Nash definitely showed up on Thunder at least some of the time, but I don't know how much actual wrestling he did on the show vs. just coming out for a promo in the first hour. He had a decent garbage match against Sandman once but I haven't seen that match in 20+ years so don't quote me on it.
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C. Everett Koop posted:He had a decent garbage match against Sandman once too late
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Dawgstar posted:He's one of Sting's greatest opponents but in a way that's not even special because Sting is a rare case of having had several greatest opponents. Today I realized that the official Sting WCW breakfast cereal is chocolate frosted, and the Nitro Grill's Sting Burger came with bacon. He's clearly the king of the WCW merchandising heap.
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lol remembered hogan tried really hard to get a win over piper in WCW because he was mad about never getting a clean win over him in the WWF
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Steve Borden trademarking Sting in 1995 was the smartest decision a wrestler could make. Maybe ever. 
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:lol remembered hogan tried really hard to get a win over piper in WCW because he was mad about never getting a clean win over him in the WWF Halloween Havoc 1996 is one of my favorite bad wrestling shows ever because it just nosedives off a hilarious cliff at some point and ends with Piper debuting and cutting a promo that goes so long the PPV ends mid-word
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in character sting is the dumbest man alive constantly falling for every trick but in real life he is very smart and into real estate
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Halloween Havoc 1996 is one of my favorite bad wrestling shows ever because it just nosedives off a hilarious cliff at some point and ends with Piper debuting and cutting a promo that goes so long the PPV ends mid-word lol
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Halloween Havoc 1996 is one of my favorite bad wrestling shows ever because it just nosedives off a hilarious cliff at some point and ends with Piper debuting and cutting a promo that goes so long the PPV ends mid-word When people say aew has hit wcw levels they show they just don't know the history
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that time WCW did a three hour PPV but forgot to tell the network so it cut off at 2 hours
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I had known the WWF had done this but I never saw the actual image  
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Miching Mallecho posted:I had known the WWF had done this but I never saw the actual image loling that people seriously think the Punk tape is too petty for wrestling when vince did this on a regular basis
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man who bought or ran out all of the other competition with shady practices throwing a tantrum because ted turner isnt playing fair ftw
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Miching Mallecho posted:I had known the WWF had done this but I never saw the actual image Looks like something a bird left on the hood of a car.
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Lmfao
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:recently learned that while sting isnt very popular in japan because he rarely if ever toured over there the imposter sting known as NWO Sting was very over lol wwe put a picture of fake NWO sting on the back of their sting career DVD
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Endorph posted:wwe put a picture of fake NWO sting on the back of their sting career DVD jeff farmer's a draw, brother
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I think the funniest part of that is the pictures it's sandwiched in between of https://x.com/wcwworldwide/status/514457809979592704?s=46
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That's a picture of Sting
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Ce n'est pas un Sting
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