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Getting all teary eyed here over Vader dying. RIP to the biggest unit of them all. Here, have some extremely good Vader matches I uploaded ages ago. Sting vs Vader - Great American Bash 1992 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1uack Sting vs Vader - Starrcade 92 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1umg4 Ric Flair vs Vader - Starrcade 93 Part 1 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1l6j3 Part 2 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1l7c5
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Jun 20, 2018 17:47
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Man, this sucks. I'm gonna miss that big fat piece of poo poo. 
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Jun 20, 2018 17:59
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Vader loving owned. RIP big man.
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By the 2000s Vader was beat to shreds but he'd left a trail of destruction so impressive that even Vince McMahon had to overcompensate for it. His first IWGP win against Hashimoto was scary. You had this fiercely nationalistic crowd pumping their hearts into Hashimoto. Vader just walked through it all. When the crowd went silent for his coronation, you could see them all quietly seething as Vader donned the strap. He was the #1 foreign heel for NJPW in the late 80s early 90s. Vader was a dude you didn't watch for crisp execution of moves but rather the sheer brutality of them. His Vader bomb attacks on Sting during the White Castle of Fear match looked and sounded like they could crush concrete. Those pawing strikes bowled many a smaller wrestler over, and in some cases knocking them so loopy they could barely stang. He's right up there with Bruiser Brody in the absolutely scary large men category. With the state of wrestling as it is nowadays, wrestlers aren't financially protected enough that they can be like this. He acted with complete impunity, even assaulting a reporter in Kuwait. People's personal interactions with him are split between adoration and destestment, largely dependent on if you got the wrathful or the chill Leon.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:07
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I always thought it was pretty cool that rival game companies Capcom and SNK each had their own Vader pastiche. Capcom's Saturday Night Slam Masters had Alexander the Grater, complete with mastodon helmet entrance, while SNK's Fatal Fury and King of Fighters had Raiden/Big Bear. The same guy only Raiden (with Vader's earlier masked look) was the heel persona while Big Bear (Vader's regular appearance minus mask) was him as a face.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:10
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Here’s a fun fact, Vader’s dad invented the pneumatic car lift
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Jun 20, 2018 18:26
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ooo I just remembered the time brought Vader back for a Cyber Sunday spot and he slipped off the ring and started cussing directly into the camera mic. Golddust, who looked like he just got off an international flight, was trying to console him on the way back.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:29
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Sockser posted:Here’s a fun fact, Vader’s dad invented the pneumatic car lift Well yeah, it was called being Vader's dad
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Jun 20, 2018 18:32
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Vader loving ruled, RIP 
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Jun 20, 2018 18:42
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Big thanks to everyone posting matches. I also want to put the tweet with the news in here, just because the picture that goes with it rules. Beast mode Vader rules. Chill Vader rules. https://twitter.com/itsvadertime/status/1009447703418408960
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Jun 20, 2018 18:46
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Usually I disagree with most of Mel's opinions, but he's right on the mark. Vader loving ruled. I only got to see him live once, but he was a hell of a worker.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:49
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Vader would probably have been ripped, but he loved beer...
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Jun 20, 2018 18:52
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Ditch posted:Vader would probably have been ripped, but he loved beer... He had his priorities straight. He didn't need to be ripped to be a loving monster of a man, and beer is good.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:55
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He was fat in the same way a grizzly bear is fat
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Jun 20, 2018 19:13
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Ditch posted:Vader would probably have been ripped, but he loved beer... Beer is good and he was still a strong strongman
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Jun 20, 2018 19:17
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wRestle In Peace, big guy.
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I remember when we got TBS on a free preview seeing Vader for the first time against Mick Foley and it was just amazing how he wrestled compared to the rest of what was going on in WWF/WCW at the time. Just amazing stuff compared to what I'd seen up to that point time. And than when I saw his Japan stuff later it was even on another level. No other monster has come close to having the mix of power, toughness and also being able to sell as well
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Jun 20, 2018 19:26
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it kicked rear end when he worked his way into a match with Ospreay then refused to do the match the day of unless he went over
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Jun 20, 2018 19:29
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One of my favourite things was when both Vader and Stan Hansen were in WCW in 1990-91, they just continued their feud from Japan. So in between all the regular late 80s style american wrestling you'd just have two huge dudes beating the poo poo out of each other for a while.
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Jun 20, 2018 19:35
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Bard Maddox posted:it kicked rear end when he worked his way into a match with Ospreay then refused to do the match the day of unless he went over I was there and it was great fun, despite Vader being obviously physically ruined. He still put on a good show and got the crowd behind him. I wish I had seen him when he could still hit that amazing Moonsault. Vader loving ruled, RIP BVV
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Jun 20, 2018 19:37
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RIP Vader, goddamn what a legend.
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Jun 20, 2018 19:55
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Scour away! He was supposed to win. HBK threw a fit and they changed it.
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Jun 20, 2018 19:58
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gently caress. Vader was one of my all time favorites 😞 RIP big man.
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Jun 20, 2018 20:08
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Vader protected the business in Kuwait even at his own peril. RIP to a true worker.
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Jun 20, 2018 20:32
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I was loving terrified of Vadar when I was 6
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Jun 20, 2018 20:32
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are people actually upset that Vader isn't in McMahon's Mickey Mouse hall of fame
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Low Desert Punk posted:are people actually upset that Vader isn't in McMahon's Mickey Mouse hall of fame it would be a whole fuckin' lot less Mickey Mouse if they gave people like Vader recognition
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Jun 20, 2018 21:06
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Mickey Mouse or no, Vader belongs in all halls.
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Jun 20, 2018 21:16
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It was his time Vader time. I wish they didn't book him terribly in the WWF. Could have had a lot better rivalries.
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Jun 20, 2018 21:22
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yeah if WWE wants to fly out Leon's entire family for WM week I'm not gonna complain. Maybe even give his son another go at the PC now that its not run by south florida scum.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:it would be a whole fuckin' lot less Mickey Mouse if they gave people like Vader recognition Oh, he'll go in now that he's dead, it looks better for Vince that way and they can also rewrite Vader's history in the WWF without him there to dispute it.
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Jun 20, 2018 21:39
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https://twitter.com/maffewgregg/status/1009500197225975826?s=21
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Jun 20, 2018 21:52
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Goddamn, don't ever piss off Vader. That was "Imma sandbag Brock Lesnar" levels of stupid.
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Jun 20, 2018 22:32
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"Vader loving ruled" is the most succinct way to sum up pretty much his entire career.
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Couple of years ago I paid Vader to record a birthday message for my brother, who was feeling depressed. I expected him to just say happy birthday and a few catchphrases but instead I got a several minutes long video where Vader offered my brother his sympathies and related stories from his own life and how he learned to cope with loss and other difficult situations. He was wearing the mask the whole time. As far as I'm concerned the man was a class act and I am sad he is gone. RIP.
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https://youtu.be/W7XhwNT7U5s
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RIP Vader. He posted his dick and hated Will Ospreay.
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The thing i remember about vader the most, due to recency bias, is that he kept on saying he was dying or near death very often. It sucked that he always had that on his mind and i hope his last few years were filled with a lot of good things to mitigate those sad messages to those of us online. he turned into a mastodon in that one wwf video game. it's Vader time
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