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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, and it would have been interesting dynamic considering that Scott Hall was bullying him early in his WCW run but fortunately Hall was apparently one of those movie bullies who really do back down when you stand up to them. Hall also put him over clean against management's wishes because he thought hid version would get better heat (Hall was right)
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Dawgstar posted:The funny part is there of course IS a Ciclope but there actually there was a wrestler there in the Cruiserweight Battle Royal who was put in to make people think that he was going to be the big reveal called El Grio (who was actually Ciclope under the hood), but surprise it was me, Dean-o. THATS...THATS NOT CICLOPE!
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iamsosmrt posted:To be fair, I think it's been good enough. He's had a really long career, much of which was upper mid card, albeit with a couple of questionable world title runs, but that puts him above the vast majority of wrestlers over the past couple of decades. Considering his height, it's a pretty big statement that he wasn't relegated to catering or purely joke status. Not only that, they didn't give up on him, which they've certainly done in the past
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CopywrightMMXI posted:What guys did WCW use better than WWE? Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham, 2 Cold Scorpio
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Zombie Lemur posted:I fell down a rabbit hole watching random episodes of WCW Saturday Night from the early 90's on youtube Zbyszko was in the midst of a really awkward face run after getting kicked out of the Dangerous Alliance, I think. It was because he broke someone 's hand by slamming it in a car door
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Dawgstar posted:Savage worked a southern style way better than Hogan did (who, to be fair, never really had to work it) and WCW fans responded to that better, I think. Savage spent the first part of his career in the south and when he was signed to the WWF he was working in Memphis. Also Hogan was just ridiculously shoved down the WCW fans' throats when he turned up, immediately becoming the Poochie. Hogan did work in Memphis, just not for anywhere as long as Savage
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BodyMassageMachine posted:OSW Review had a thing on one of their Wrestlemania recap videos (8?) chronicling how nearly all of Savage’s big title wins were eclipsed by Hogan’s grandstanding. I think WM8 is the only time Savage won the main title of a company without Hogan coming out during/after the match to hot-dog-about and make it about the Hulkster instead of, you know, the guy that just won your World Title. Even Savage's debut was colored by "will he shake Hogan’s hand or slap his face?"
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Heenan in WCW is really not worth a drat
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Important question from the dying years of WCW: I remember Mark Madden being confronted on air and it turning out he'd legit pissed off either Sid or Steiner with a remark on commentary, which was it?
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Dawgstar posted:Not only was the gimmick incredibly racist, Fuji couldn't even do anything. His back went to crap long before Bobby's so he couldn't do bumps, couldn't give good promos... I guess he was an example of Vince's weird bursts of loyalty? IIRC when Sr sold to Jr there was a list of people he was basically obligated to keep around/look after, one of which was Lou Albano. Perhaps Fuji was also on thst list.
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Halloween Jack posted:Might be totally wrong, but if I remember right, Fuji's real job was as a fixer. The guy you call when one of the boys does something stupid and you have to send someone to keep them out of prison. I've heard something like this as well, now that you mention it. He was also very fond of taking new guys bags and padlocking them to overhead pipes in the locker room.
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Ganso Bomb posted:So glad this ended with “padlocking them…” and not “taking a poo poo in them” I mean I wouldn't rule it out
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Jacques Rougeau tried to get Steen to sign one of those. And I'm pretty sure Kevin was a minor.
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As I recall Kevin was pulled from a dark match with WWE because he said no I believe mrt was being facetious, stab
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Vader also didn't know how to work less stiff and hard hitting for the US which 100% was gonna get him in trouble in WWE Sure, but they knew what they were getting.
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Dawgstar posted:That's a great example. I remember in his book Bret felt honored he actually got a clean pinfall (or submission, I forget) off the Hot Rod. Same finish as Bret vs Austin I, turned a sleeper into a pin (after Roddy realized using the ring bell wasn't right)
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DeathChicken posted:The other similar story was Warrior stiffing Rick Rude, so he told him "If you do that one more time I'm going to knock you out." Warrior did, Rude open hand slapped him into unconsciousness Supposedly Rude could KO someone in one slap on command and any time people gave him poo poo when he was a bouncer, he'd just KO them, problem solved.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:There was a terrifying one where a fan came into the ring and pushed over a ladder while Eddie Guerrero was on top of it. Eddie, no joke, initially thought it was Crash Holly
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Pope Corky the IX posted:The only thing problem I had with Hawk promos is that due to the timeslot and era, he couldn't go as far as he clearly wanted to. So you have him talking about killing someone and then comparing them to sweat socks instead of a pile of poo poo or something. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ng6kpHpcfdY&pp=ygUOSGF3ayByaWMgZmxhaXI%3D Hawk does not fear your censors.
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The story about Styles knocking Foghorn Leghorn Jr on his rear end is good, but the one where Blackman does it is even better because the longer version I heard consists of JBL apologizing and basically begging for his life while Ken Shamrock, I believe, is trying to talk Steve out of murdering his rear end
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Dawgstar posted:Vader was obviously a big dude and worked snug but was he ever regarded in the same breath as folks like Meng or Regal? He nearly lost his eye against Stan Hansen and kept on truckin' That said he also lost badly to Paul Orndorff in an actual fight El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Dec 24, 2023 |
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stab posted:I know a wrestler who was the worst at washing gear, so they ended up getting popular enough that they constantly had new gear made and would change when it started to smell Was it Franky
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What a weird thing to say
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Mr Hootington posted:I don't know who colonel Parker or Harlem heat is. I've only watched I think late 84-mid 1990. Parker is basically Foghorn Leghorn/Col. Tom (the guy who managed Elvis) as a wrestling character. The original idea for Harlem Heat, a pair of real life black brothers, was for them to either be chain gang guys being lead to the ring by Parker who I guess would be their warden/gang boss, or straight up plantation guys with Parker as their owner. Making it worse, half the team actually did time for armed robbery and probably didn't want to be reminded of that time of his life. Supposedly it was Sid's idea as part of his deal, as he demanded booking input and got it? I'm not sure about that part, but I've seen it claimed a couple times. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:it rules you can see a grain of truth in some hogan stories and then he says something insane like auditioning for metallica The wild aspect to me is that he has lead a life everyone in the wrestling industry would love to have, and a lot of people in general would. But he simply can't help himself and and he not only tells huge whoppers but easily disproven ones.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:he's been dropped on the head a lot, OP I mean sure but he's seemingly been full of poo poo his whole career according to his peers, I think it's a compulsion or something
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shiksa posted:91/92 wcw is unironically kind of my favorite wrestling to watch. like its not the BEST era by any means but boy is it charming. I'm in a similar boat. They give people time in the ring and a decent portion of people getting pushes are people I love to watch, like Rude and Steamboat
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