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I'm honestly a big fan of Low Ki's Agent 47 Hitman ring gear. It's just a shame the look is being wasted on Low Ki.
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Apr 22, 2019 21:51
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Let's be honest though, that look is basically the Big Bubba Rogers/Mr Hughes look on a tiny wrestler.
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Apr 22, 2019 21:57
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Taintrunner posted:His major appeal was his scrappy, underdog demeanor. It did a lot to help sell that gimmick, especially with the straight edge Xs sharpie'd on them, making it a more personal and unique appearance. Compare that to say, Undertaker/Dreamer and the cheesy-rear end MMA gloves. I thought the x was supposed to be like the way they mark fighters' tape before a boxing /mma match once its been inspected.
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Sugar Blaster posted:I'm honestly a big fan of Low Ki's Agent 47 Hitman ring gear. It's just a shame the look is being wasted on Low Ki. He's gotta get his poo poo in, man.
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Davros1 posted:Let's be honest though, that look is basically the Big Bubba Rogers/Mr Hughes look on a tiny wrestler. speaking of, I liked Remy Marcel and Jack Manley's gear in OWE when they looked like greaseball 70s detectives
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I'm now thinking back on ECW ring gear of Mikey Whipwreck and Public Enemy. It was awful, but kinda worked in that environment.   Public Enemy's WCW gear had to be handmade. I think they wore some of the same gear in ECW, but what they had in WCW looked like a preschooler's Halloween costume. 
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Apr 23, 2019 01:27
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the reason it worked was because it made them look like 90s era Delco methheads and guess what
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Mikey Whipwreck's entire gimmick was being a D&D nerd who was way out of his league, and his gear worked with that.
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Endless Mike posted:Mikey Whipwreck's entire gimmick was being a D&D nerd who was way out of his league, and his gear worked with that. I knew a kid back in the day who no joke owned that same shirt
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How many wrestlers do cosplay-style gear with any regularity? I know Rey and Alexa have both done a number of superhero references in their ring gear. I can think of a few that just cribbed a look from someone (the aforementioned Low-Ki Hitman gear for instance) but who else varies it up? Do any wrestlers do tribute gear of other wrestlers? It's not strictly ring gear but overall appearance, I feel like Ember Moon has several good looks mashed together into something less than a sum of its parts. She's some kind of gladiator werewolf vampire, I guess? She could do any of those individually and look great, they all allow for sexy AND tough in ring gear - sexy tuff gladiator, sexy tuff werewolf, sexy tuff vampire. There's just too much going on there visually imo. Little girls are going to need to buy 3 halloween costumes to dress up as her. I'm surprised Naomi hasn't been mentioned, her ring gear alone is just above-average but her overall look with her entrance and gimmick and changing the title belt to fit her aesthetic are all great.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I knew a kid back in the day who no joke owned that same shirt Was he in your D&D group?
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Endless Mike posted:Was he in your D&D group? ... he was the DM
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dromal phrenia posted:How many wrestlers do cosplay-style gear with any regularity? I know Rey and Alexa have both done a number of superhero references in their ring gear. I can think of a few that just cribbed a look from someone (the aforementioned Low-Ki Hitman gear for instance) but who else varies it up? Do any wrestlers do tribute gear of other wrestlers? It's a one-off but Becky cosplayed Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn at Summerslam last year
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Apr 23, 2019 15:13
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Cedric and Ricochet both did Miles Morales Spider-Man gear. Rousey did White Power Ranger gear once. Sasha has that Wonder Woman gear. Seth has done a few cosplay gears, his GoT and Thanos gear come to mind. Gargano also often had comic inspired gear. I remember him having Iron Man and X-men inspired outfits. Dacap fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Apr 23, 2019 15:20
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Leo Onozaki has the best bad gear today.
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Dacap posted:Cedric and Ricochet both did Miles Morales Spider-Man gear. Rousey did White Power Ranger gear once. Sasha has that Wonder Woman gear. Nearly every TakeOver he's done, Gargano has different comicbook-inspired gear. 
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Apr 23, 2019 15:28
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The Punisher one looks like it’s puking.
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Dacap posted:Rousey did White Power Yeah I could see that.
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Apr 23, 2019 15:33
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 new day are always doing cosplay, like these saiyan entrance getups from wrestlemania
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Peanut President posted:
Also the FFXIV Bard (Woods), Samurai (E), and Red Mage (Kofi) gear from a different Wrestlemania: 
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dromal phrenia posted:How many wrestlers do cosplay-style gear with any regularity? I know Rey and Alexa have both done a number of superhero references in their ring gear. I can think of a few that just cribbed a look from someone (the aforementioned Low-Ki Hitman gear for instance) but who else varies it up? Do any wrestlers do tribute gear of other wrestlers? Way to forget Finn's entire demon character evolved out of him cosplaying a Venom tribute 
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Cabbit posted:Also the FFXIV Bard (Woods), Samurai (E), and Red Mage (Kofi) gear from a different Wrestlemania: It’s moogle and chocobo!!
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the biggest representation to me of how much video games have become normalized is that when I was a kid my little sister saw me playing FF3(6) and wanted a moogle like Mog for her birthday and of course no one was selling them so I bought a white teddy bear and attached bat wings and a little doodlie puff to the top and its like now a stuffed moogle is at Wrestlemania
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dromal phrenia posted:It’s moogle and chocobo!! This was great but Cole having to say Vegeta when they did the Dragon Ball costumes will always be funnier to me
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Apr 24, 2019 00:20
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Bam Bam Bigelow has the best ring gear.
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Dangerous Person posted:This was great but Cole having to say Vegeta when they did the Dragon Ball costumes will always be funnier to me Cole putting on his Serious Journalist glasses and googling 'How to pronounce Dragon Ball names".
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Mr. Perfect's Towel belongs in here. It was such good gear.
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Push El Burrito posted:Mr. Perfect's Towel belongs in here. It was such good gear. Mr Perfects gum is higher on the list than the towel
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Sockser posted:Mr Perfects gum is higher on the list than the towel broke: towel woke: gum bespoke: pencil
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Burt Buckle posted:Bam Bam Bigelow has the best ring gear. Can we discuss whether tattoos count as part of ring gear? Very few wrestlers are going to get a tattoo specifically for their gimmick, but sometimes their tattoos play a strong role in their appearance. Bam Bam's flame tattoos on his scalp are a good example  Randy Orton's stupid tribal bullshit fit very well for his old douchey persona, and the skulls, while still stupid, fit his newer violent persona. Also it got us the great clip where he explains his tattoos and it's just "This one's a skull.... that one's a skull..." Batista's belly button tattoo looked dumb as gently caress originally, and iirc it featured prominently on his titantron which is just bizarre to me. I sorta warmed to it when he had the spotlight gimmick though.
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dromal phrenia posted:How many wrestlers do cosplay-style gear with any regularity? I know Rey and Alexa have both done a number of superhero references in their ring gear. I can think of a few that just cribbed a look from someone (the aforementioned Low-Ki Hitman gear for instance) but who else varies it up? Do any wrestlers do tribute gear of other wrestlers? Kenny Omega has done, just in the last few years, Terminator, Overwatch, and absolutely everything about this in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTghh7_vV9U
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kenny should have cosplayed as that sweaty dinosaur nerd since that's his real analogue
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dromal phrenia posted:How many wrestlers do cosplay-style gear with any regularity? I know Rey and Alexa have both done a number of superhero references in their ring gear. I can think of a few that just cribbed a look from someone (the aforementioned Low-Ki Hitman gear for instance) but who else varies it up? Do any wrestlers do tribute gear of other wrestlers? Tommy Dreamer has polka dots in honour of Dusty. Beth’s hairstyle and headband at Wrestlemania was inspired by Chyna. Big Show’s singlet looks like Andre’s.
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Goldust had Darth Maul inspired faceprint. Hell, knock offs (The Rockers, Demolition, The Powers of Pain) be considered a form of cosplay.
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Web Jew.0 posted:Tommy Dreamer has polka dots in honour of Dusty. Beth’s hairstyle and headband at Wrestlemania was inspired by Chyna. Big Show’s singlet looks like Andre’s. Well, it used to. Now he just wears a regular singlet with rah-rah pro-military poo poo on it.
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Liquid Communism posted:Well, it used to. Now he just wears a regular singlet with rah-rah pro-military poo poo on it. The first one was a tribute to his dad. The second is a tribute to his mom, Major Gunns.
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If you ever wear an event shirt for the event you're wrestling on as entrance or ring attire, I'm never going to care about you again. Tommy Dreamer's gear is the most unforgivable in all of wrestling by a wide margin.
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flashy_mcflash posted:If you ever wear an event shirt for the event you're wrestling on as entrance or ring attire, I'm never going to care about you again. Tommy Dreamer's gear is the most unforgivable in all of wrestling by a wide margin. Him wearing the basic ECW shirt worked as far as him 'being' ECW went, but afterwards it was pretty bad, yeah.
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I think Tommy Dreamer got away with it back in the day since his whole gimmick was being an everyman schlub, which played well with ECW crowds who got behind him as an underdog. He uh, doesn't quite get away with it today now that he's supposed to be a grizzled legend here to Teach These Kids a Lesson (which apparently means still wearing the dumb polka dots when Dusty's been dead for like 4 years at this point).
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