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Rewatching WCW New Blood Rising to see if it's as bad as I remember (it is). In the Steiner vs Goldberg vs Nash match, Nash goes to give Goldberg a power bomb, but Goldberg sinply walks out of it. Nash has this look on his face which says "Bill, what you doing bro, you're supposed to go up for my powerbomb here". He looks sad. Goldberg walks up the ramp. Russo comes out and gets in big Bill's face (which looks stupid as Bill is a monster). Russo tells Goldberg to get back in the ring and Goldberg screams in his face "gently caress you" and walks off. Mark Madden on commentary: "Maybe Goldberg was supposed to do something that wouldn't make him look good". "I'm thinking Goldberg was supposed to go up for the jacknife" "Nash is a pro, he could have punched Goldberg out right there." It's mental stuff. Can you think of a special breed of dumb moment in wrestling to rival this?
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Samoa Joe diving through the air to land on his back on concrete steps for a TNA show always springs to mind, I still can't fathom what the hell he was thinking doing that.
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Jul 3, 2015 13:25
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Jul 3, 2015 13:32
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Natalya's whole farting thing comes to mind.
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Jul 3, 2015 13:35
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Dustin Rhodes as the new year baby. Good that was terrible. Or Hawk falling off the titantron. Sting trusting anyone after about 1994
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Jul 3, 2015 13:35
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Legitimately the dumbest thing I have ever seen is Stacy Kiebler having a worked miscarriage in a kiddy pool during a wrestling match.
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Jul 3, 2015 13:38
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It's always gonna be incomprehensible gimmick matches over angles to me - WCW's Doomsday Cage or the Junkyard Invitational or the Graveyard matches with Vampiro - but personally my favourite is probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r77868CA-DE TNA has it's share of dumb gimmick matches too, but WCW had the ofte-unlimited budget to take these dumb ideas and make them into high-concept disasters.
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Jul 3, 2015 13:41
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Eugene was a gimmick for multiple years on the TV of the biggest wrestling company in the world.
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Jul 3, 2015 14:06
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Jul 3, 2015 14:18
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I went to the first 2 and a half years of weekly NWA:TNA PPVs, I need to take some time to think. There were a few ICP performances, the first Ultimate X match when the belt fell off, I saw Dustin Diamond box a mentally disabled security guard, one time Johnny Fairplay from Survivor got tossed like a javelin, a midget beating off in a trash can, Vince Russo debut a stable called S.E.X. , and now I'm starting to have flashbacks.
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Jul 3, 2015 14:23
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Dixie Carter vs. Email Dixie Carter forcing the entire roster to sit and listen to a 'my way or the highway' speech. Dixie Carter re-hiring Vince Russo after SpikeTV explicitly forbade it. Dixie Carter allowing man-on-woman violence after SpikeTV explicitly forbade it. Dixie Carter goes through a table. Dixie Carter.
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Jul 3, 2015 14:27
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Katie Vick. The answer will always be Katie Vick. Even with all the worse poo poo TNA's done, they never did Katie Vick. Katie Vick.
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Jul 3, 2015 15:09
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Artist Formerly Known As Goldust.
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Davros1 posted:Katie Vick. The answer will always be Katie Vick. Even with all the worse poo poo TNA's done, they never did Katie Vick. TNA's done worse stuff involving real people rather than mannequins, and what's worse is that they did it for lower ratings than Katie Vick got. I guess you could argue that less people seeing TNA's shenanigans makes them worse than Katie Vick but Katie Vick literally made money for WWE in its roundabout way.
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Hornswoggle as McMahon's illegitimate son has to rank up there - or Hornswoggle as the Anonymous Raw GM. Both after months and months of buildup. I'd also include the disaster that was the HHH/Nash involvement with the mysterious text messages right as CM Punk got white hot. Punk just should've been kept off TV with the belt. ............. .......... where is that gif from?? Christ.
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Jul 3, 2015 15:36
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I started seriously watching wrestling last year so probably the dumbest thing I've gotten to personally witness was Bray Wyatt's ghost going over Dean Ambrose. Also seconding TNA not knowing how e-mail works.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3s-4e4AJsg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xIYVw3ZPJk e: oh dumb not illegal. disregard this
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Jul 3, 2015 15:44
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Not just the Gobbledy Gooker, but Roddy Piper on commentary trying to convince us that the crowd was loving it.
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flashy_mcflash posted:TNA's done worse stuff involving real people rather than mannequins, and what's worse is that they did it for lower ratings than Katie Vick got. I guess you could argue that less people seeing TNA's shenanigans makes them worse than Katie Vick but Katie Vick literally made money for WWE in its roundabout way. I don't know, it's hard for me to think of anything that made me more embarrassed to be watching wrestling than the Katie Vick coffin scene. Not even in a "someone might know I watch this" way, just in a generalized burning sense of awkward horror at the whole thing. StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Jul 3, 2015 16:34
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Abyss. He's got Kane-level storytelling, except he's also torn his body to shreds and lost his teeth, and he's not even the slightest bit more over or made a single extra dollar for it.
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Jul 3, 2015 16:35
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Johnny Stamboli tearing his dick off by giving Terry Funk a springboard leg drop to the floor on top of a steel chair.
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Jul 3, 2015 16:36
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Zandig, a chain, and some meat hooks. that wasnt wrestling it was...dont know what it was but it made feel queasy as hell.
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Jul 3, 2015 16:41
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HHH/Steiner at RR 2003 going for as long as it did.
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Jul 3, 2015 16:43
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What the hell is this? Surely he had a bad injury after that?
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Jul 3, 2015 16:45
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I heard something about back in WCW there was a backstage segment where it showed two wrestlers discussing their match. The conversation was something like "Ok so I pin you 1-2-3" and the other wrestler responds with "that's the finish I got." Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
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Jul 3, 2015 16:48
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Ty1990 posted:I heard something about back in WCW there was a backstage segment where it showed two wrestlers discussing their match. The conversation was something like "Ok so I pin you 1-2-3" and the other wrestler responds with "that's the finish I got." Yes, I think it was Scotty Riggs and Buff Bagwell. Then after the match Buff looked into the camera and went "Hey, did I do a good job?"
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Jul 3, 2015 16:59
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Savage using his finishing move to revive Hulk Hogan has got to be up there.
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Jul 3, 2015 17:03
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I just remembered Beaver Cleavage, a short lived WWE gimmick in an obvious "Leave It To Beaver" style gag. The whole gimmick was built around the implication that he was having sex with his mother, who was also his manager. They had to kill it real quick since they were reportedly losing advertisers, because no one other than Vince thought a gimmick based totally on incest was cool. They killed it by doing a worked shoot where Beaver said "I can't do this anymore" and walked out in the middle of a promo. He then became Chaz and revealed that his "mother" was actually just his girlfriend. Not quite Katie Vick level, but the concept was really dumb and poorly thought out.
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Dixie Carter.
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Jul 3, 2015 17:24
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Everything with the Dungeon of Doom.
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Jul 3, 2015 17:24
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CoolCat posted:Goldberg shenanigans This was dumb as hell, but even dumber was how they promoted it for Nitro. "Last night, Goldberg went OFF THE SCRIPT!" Also, that time when an aging Sable and Ernest 'The Cat' Miller made Vince McMahon dance in the ring but instead he did this weird dinosaur strut. The whole segment was literally to waste time because it had no setup and led to nothing after. Also, Eric Bischoff presents Hot Lesbian Action.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:21
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Great White Hope posted:Yes, I think it was Scotty Riggs and Buff Bagwell. I thought the finish to that was that Buff got the pin instead as a "shoot" and gloated about how he pulled one over.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:32
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Jeff Hardy's interior monologue in TNA Jeff Hardy being too high to wrestle Sting, but being sent out to main event that PPV anyhow Jeff Hardy's ridiculous face belt Jeff Hardy's 'eyes painted on his eyelids' Jeff Hardy being the biggest draw in TNA but being unable to travel to the UK, the one place on the planet where people care(d) about TNA. Every single thing about Jeff Hardy as Willow the sentient tree, but especially his debut
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Jul 3, 2015 18:36
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"Did I do a good enough job for ya Russo" was after a loss to La Parka where Buff made him look like rear end and refused to sell and was followed by this:Mercury Crusader posted:I thought the finish to that was that Buff got the pin instead as a "shoot" and gloated about how he pulled one over. I believe after this he was laid out by Creative Control
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