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Gavok posted:The altered reality stuff was more fan speculation because they figured something big was about to happen at that big iPPV and weren't sure what. Otherwise, yeah, Ashes was pretty dumb. The real dumbest thing in wrestling is how proud Quack is of that awful suit he's started wearing since the Ashes premiere.
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Purple Monkey posted:I'd love to know the thought process behind making Mae Young's baby a hand.
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I went to an NWA New Jersey show back in 2001 which featured Chris Candido, Steve Corino, Lil Guido, a bunch of other former ECW guys and Virgil/Vince. Virgil had his table setup from just about as soon as the doors opened. The promoted had to go, drag him away from his table when the matches started. Then the main event became Corino Vs Candido. Just as they were about to start, the nWo music starts playing and Virgil comes out and says "you weren't going to have the main event without me!". Corino and Candido put on a great match, while every once and a while Virgil would go over to one of them, get punched, roll outside the ring and lay down for a while, rinse and repeat. The match lasted a good 15 minutes and Virgil did the absolute bare minimum. Virgil also spent intermission in the ring, largely being ignored by everyone as Candido and Corino had huge lines. Also everyone working on the show had those "Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated" NWA t-shirts, which I always found ridiculous.
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I just remembered one of the all-time dumbest things I've seen in wrestling: The WCW/MTV Ultimate Video Bash. Airing in the middle of the day on a weekend in 1998, the live event was a tournament where wrestlers represented music videos. They would come out and one of two things would happen. Either they would have a match to decide which video advanced or they would have the fans at home vote via 900 number. Unfortunately, it was outside and raining heavily. We would only get one wrestling match in the very beginning. High Voltage (representing "Gettin' Jiggy with It" by Will Smith) vs. Public Enemy (representing "Mama Said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J) Listen to that High Voltage promo. Listen to it. Sadly, the rest of the show isn't uploaded. With it deemed too dangerous to have wrestling matches in the rain, the three-hour special got chopped down to two and it was nothing but wrestlers coming out and talking up their pet music videos. You had Barry Darsow coming out to explain why the fans at home should call up and vote for Run DMC. That happened. The show ended with DDP vs. Raven, only Raven sent Kidman out to represent him. DDP proceeded to win and got in a brawl with Raven to send the fans home happy. DDP represented Van Halen's "Without You." So WCW and MTV's big tournament ended with motherfucking Gary Cherone Van Halen winning and that in itself is the dumbest thing.
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Purple Monkey posted:I'd love to know the thought process behind making Mae Young's baby a hand. There's a great quote from Mark Henry about this somewhere. He asked Vince what the deal was with the hand, and all Vince said was, "it's a hand!" before laughing hysterically and wandering off without answering the question.
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Vince McMahon is pretty amazing. Horrible human being, but amazing nonetheless.
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Delsaber posted:There's a great quote from Mark Henry about this somewhere. He asked Vince what the deal was with the hand, and all Vince said was, "it's a hand!" before laughing hysterically and wandering off without answering the question. That is delightful.
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Gavok posted:Vince McMahon is pretty amazing. Horrible human being, but amazing nonetheless. A lot of adjectives (shout out Kevin Nash) can some up Vince: crazy, beautiful, smart, thick... he is amazing indeed.
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Gavok posted:I just remembered one of the all-time dumbest things I've seen in wrestling: The WCW/MTV Ultimate Video Bash. I've had the Tuesday Nitro curator looking for it so I bet we find it soon.
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Disappointed no one posted the Big Show - Bossman feud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhSh35ryueA My favorite part is that they had to convince a cemetery to shoot this skit there.
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WWE and Girls Gone Wild co-promoting a PPV back in 2004 or whatever was pretty bad. Also Eugene Bischoff, although he did lead to that amazing Regal promo on HHH.
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Katie Vick was brought up on page 1, but I didn't see a video, and really, it bears watching. I still cannot believe they did this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlpSsklsq2s
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Katie Vick was brought up on page 1, but I didn't see a video, and really, it bears watching. I still cannot believe they did this. I showed my girlfriend this professional wrestling storyline corpse rape a while back, and she gradually went from  to cupping her hands over her mouth, staring wide-eyed and saying "NO!" every few seconds.
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MassRafTer posted:I've had the Tuesday Nitro curator looking for it so I bet we find it soon. Please let me know if you have any luck on that. That's my holy grail. Or at least it is after someone finally uploaded that weird "Roddy Piper steals a talkshow from Herve Villechaize and shows clips of upcoming Saturday morning cartoons" TV special.
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Where is this because that sounds amazing
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POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTS
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Genetic Toaster posted:Chavo Guerrero renouncing his hispanic heritage and renaming himself "Kerwin White". this is extremely wrong but they did have to tone it back after realizing he was talking like a white supremacist at first
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The funniest part of that is that Kerwin's 'white' accent was basically Chavo talking normally.
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oh my god how did I forget kerwin white, that was incredible
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Kerwin's theme music was pretty good.
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Gavok posted:I just remembered one of the all-time dumbest things I've seen in wrestling: The WCW/MTV Ultimate Video Bash. Holy poo poo I remember this. I recall young me being very disgruntled that Metallica was being represented by one of the jobber Armstrongs. I think it was Scott? Edit: No it was probably Brad.
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Pinstripe Hourglass posted:Where is this because that sounds amazing All-Star Rock 'n' Wrestling Saturday Spectacular. Pro-click. Back in the day, networks would occasionally do an hour-long special based on hyping up the upcoming fall Saturday morning cartoon lineup. In 1985, back when Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling was about to hit the scene, they did a special where Herve Villechaize was supposed to host a talk show, but Roddy Piper stole it away from him and locked him out of the studio or something. The announcer is Gary Owens (the original Space Ghost) and the guests include Patti LaBelle, Pee-Wee Herman, New Edition and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, while Captain Lou and Cyndi Lauper also show up. So if you're interested in seeing heel Piper play off Pee-Wee, this is for you. The whole thing is a trip.
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CoolCat posted:Rewatching WCW New Blood Rising to see if it's as bad as I remember (it is). That show had a great gimmicky match between Mike Awesome and Lance Storm for the edit: The dumbest thing I've seen in wrestling was when Vince wanted to do an incest angle with his daughter and almost went through with it. 
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Animal-Mother posted:That show had a great gimmicky match between Mike Awesome and Lance Storm for the Except the show was in Canada, and the 'special secret rules' gimmick is a heel move. Basically, WCW booked a match specifically to not get over.
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Animal-Mother posted:
 Well Vince, you know, there are a lot of guys out there that like incest. There's incest porn sites.Listening to Review a Wai and Sid Vicious vs The Night Stalker (Brian Clark) is worth loading up Clash of the Champions XIII on the network, it's a loving awful match.
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There's a lot worse way to dealing with childhood issues than writing a wrestling angle.
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Gaz-L posted:Except the show was in Canada, and the 'special secret rules' gimmick is a heel move. Basically, WCW booked a match specifically to not get over. In point of fact the Canadian crowd loved it whenever Rougeau restarted the match even though Storm lost clean in the middle of the ring 4 times. And then Bret Hart came out and hugged them both, approving of Lance's dishonesty and lack of wrestling skill. The nationalism was frankly disgusting; if Dr. Charlie Manson von Haterape was Canadian and ate a baby in the ring, he'd get a giant face pop in Canada. I'd say Russo intentionally booked the match so the crowd would make fools of themselves cheering the heel for perpetrating a massive screwjob, but I think that was utterly incidental and Vince had no clue this would happen.
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It may not be THE dumbest thing, but Little People's Court was in the top ten.
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DynamiteKidd posted:In point of fact the Canadian crowd loved it whenever Rougeau restarted the match even though Storm lost clean in the middle of the ring 4 times. And then Bret Hart came out and hugged them both, approving of Lance's dishonesty and lack of wrestling skill. The nationalism was frankly disgusting; if Dr. Charlie Manson von Haterape was Canadian and ate a baby in the ring, he'd get a giant face pop in Canada. What's the alternative, though? Cheer the anti-Canada babyface? "YAY, HE'S RIGHT, WE DO SUCK!". They're not going to cheer Awesome, and not going to boo Storm. The best result you can hope for is the heel gets pops.
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Maybe poo poo on the match for booking Lance Storm to look as bad as possible?
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Gaz-L posted:What's the alternative, though? Cheer the anti-Canada babyface? "YAY, HE'S RIGHT, WE DO SUCK!". Maybe not book the match.
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This
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You're right, though, it was silly of me to say "Why not go dead for the stupid match that makes Lance Storm look like poo poo?" Of course he gets giant babyface hero pops for losing and heeling, he's from the same country as the other people in the crowd (and not even the same province, just the same country in general)
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goc posted:This STRONGLY disagree
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Hoss Corncave posted:That wasn't the end of it. The Attitude Era Podcast guys covered it. Literally everything about this owns.
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Gavok posted:All-Star Rock 'n' Wrestling Saturday Spectacular. Pro-click. This is insane. I guess it's a testament to the characters in 80s wrestling that they are so cartoonish they are making the actual saturday morning cartoons look restrained and subtle by comparison. E: Also WWE needs to get off it's rear end and upload the rest of the Rock'n Wrestling episodes to the Network Sushi in Yiddish fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jul 19, 2015 |
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Everything in this thread is stupid. The MOST stupid, and in fact the angriest I'll ever get at a wrestling angle, was the Secret Raw GM. It lasted more than a year, from June 21, 2010 to July 18, 2011, and was called back July 9, 2012. For MONTHS, there was a secret tweener GM. Months and months, with Cole interrupting matches to announce matches, rematches, etc etc etc. People got jumped; Bret Hart was fired; Hornswoggle was attacked; the Nexus was supported and thwarted. Edge feuded with it and smashed a laptop to turn face (leading to his final WHC run with the company). No resolution, for months. Until a random RAW, when they say they were going to unmask the Anonymous GM. Santino comes to the ring... [and realize that the mystery has gone on for TWO loving YEARS. More than 100 episodes of Raw.] and announces... it's Hornswoggle. Now, wrestling may have been dumb in a segment, but this dumb in more than a hundred segments.
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