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Sanguinia posted:I think right now my biggest Boy (or I guess Cailín) is Sonya Deville. I think she's tremendous, You and me both, friend. You and me both.  
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"Screamin' " Norman Smiley One of the few bright spots of late era WCW - from the big wiggle to his hardcore match with guys like Brian Knobbs while wearing full hockey gear.. nobody was a jobber quite like Norman Smiley. Was actually pretty good in the ring too the few times he was given a chance to show it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1bJd6y3W0
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Mooseontheloose posted:Tainted by VKM now, I was a big fan of The Hurricane and thought him and his gimmick were criminally underutilized.
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RealFoxy posted:The Rock went out of his way to put Hurricane over because he was legitimately funny and over. Triple H went out of his way to end that momentum because he's insecure and petty. Pretty much all there is to that. I remember when he was tagging with Rosey and HHH buried them both before a match by just squashing them. 2 on 1. I know its like reason 10023 on why HHH sucked but here we are.
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OFFICER LIGER posted:its me i was the sole justin credible fan during his ecw heyday I came here to post that I loving LOVED Aldo Montoya as a kid (and even got to meet him at a house show parking lot when I was like 12, and he was cool; so was Dink). Also was a big Repo Man mark (whoa, I just found out he was Smash). I know he's not a boy now, but I always loved Lance Storm; which leads me to my female pick, Major Gunns 
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I was very into Kid Kash right around the end of ECW because they pushed him like the next RVD or Jerry Lynn.
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I def wasn't the only one who liked him but even still, really loved Tajiri in WWE since it was my first time seeing a lot of that poo poo when I was watching wrestling (I hadn't seen the lucha stuff in WCW or his work in ECW) and I'm willing to bet a lot of WWF/E fans were getting their first taste of that, too. I went out of my way to watch one of his great matches with Psychosis in ECW---the one where they have the "gently caress you" spot--and I was forever a fan after that. It was great to see him briefly in one of the CWC tournaments.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:"Screamin' " Norman Smiley Who doesn't like Norman?? I'll beat their rear end.
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He's borderline here, but back when I watched WWE I was the only guy who liked him so he counts. https://twitter.com/wwesheamus/status/770430236211249152
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Tajiri countering a wheelbarrow attempt from Psicosis by just kneeing him in the sack is one of my favorite things ever in wrestling. Dude was the best wrestler in the world in 2000 and no argument for HHH will sway me.
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Tajiri holds a special place in my heart because he introduced me to HUSTLE which gave serious wrestling legend Toshiaki Kawada an excuse to dance around like a jackass. And of course kicking the poo poo out of young boy Taichi Ishikari whenever he got the chance hunnert car pileup posted:Dude was the best wrestler in the world in 2000 and no argument for HHH will sway me. Tajiri was incredible, but Kawada though
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Shelton Benjamin. (sobs while singing "aint no stopping me...nowwwww") 
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Also a big Jimmy Wang Yang mark. Someone at WWE headquarters accidentally gave the little asian dude the redneck gimmick. edit: look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY_V5yBCp0s&t=104s Peanut President fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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I did alot of career modes with Shelton Benjamin.
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I was more into WCW right before it died, especially the midcard, and Saturn and Kanyon were at the top of my list. Kanyon Kutter Outta Nowhere > RKO Outta Nowhere I also deeply enjoyed WCW Lance Storm.
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Peanut President posted:Also a big Jimmy Wang Yang mark. Someone at WWE headquarters accidentally gave the little asian dude the redneck gimmick. Hell yeah the only Yang Gang that matters
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The combination of Jimmy Wang Yang and late era WCW makes me think of my favourite late era WCW stable: Jung Dragons! They were managed by Kimona Wanalaya (as Leia Meow)! One of them went on to be Jamie Noble Boy! One of them went on to be Jimmy Wang Yang! One of them went on to be president of Wrestle-1 and crash it into the rocks! They had generally really good matches against 3-Count which nobody gave a poo poo about because this was late era WCW and nobody gave a poo poo about anything! Their gimmick was massively racist but also largely ignored!
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3-Count, Yung Dragons and Noble & Karagias could always be relied on to put on a match worth checking out during the shittiness of late-era WCW.
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I'm not sure I'll ever figure out how Shelton Benjamin and Shawn Michaels made that superkick work. Just a phenomenal spot. E: Shelton's debut match against HHH was a blast too.
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DJExile posted:I'm not sure I'll ever figure out how Shelton Benjamin and Shawn Michaels made that superkick work. Just a phenomenal spot. Oh poo poo, that's where Sammy got it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZ1S32I3Lg
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I spent the early-to-mid 90s without a cable subscription, so my dudes were: Hakushi was the gateway drug for me to try and look for a wrestler's other matches outside of WWF, which in turn led me to discover tape trading, which then opened my impressionable 16 yr old mind to puroresu.
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If we're talking real childhood boys, the two that stick out for me: 1) The Lightning Kid from GWF shows on ESPN, he was such a reedy little dork but also super athletic and a pure white meat babyface and it informed my dogged X-Pac fandom deep into the era of X-Pac heat. 2) THE BLACK DEMON, a jobber gimmick that apparently only existed briefly on WWF TV circa 1990-1991, and it was just a not-very-athletic lucha dude in essentially a ninja outfit with a lucha mask, but they'd always put him in jobber tags that were like "Duane Gill and THE BLACK DEMON", I had a friend who could not get over this and would just holler about THE BUSHWACKERS ARE WRESTLING A BLACK DEMON, A BLACK DEMON FROM HELL and so if THE BLACK DEMON FROM HELL wrestled on Superstars it was a very big deal on Monday.
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BTF posted:When I got into britwres, more specifically Progress, Chuck Mambo became my boy. A voice not cut out for promos at all, a goofy (time-traveling) surfer gimmick and clumsy high flying combined into an endearing package. He has improved consistently over the following years and I'm rooting for him to have a true break out year someday. Had a great match with ZSJ in Progress last year, then he did a dumb heel turn that killed all of his momentum. Good times. Mambo has done some incredibly fun work in RIPTIDE and his partnership with TK Cooper has been a joy to watch but... That accent, christ. I unabashedly adore Kurtis Chapman, aka Mad Kurt. he is exhausting. he dabs, he poo poo-talks constantly, and calls himself "the keyboard warrior". dude is loving GREAT. I dunno how other people feel about him, but I really see a bright future for Spike Trivet. everyone seems to hate him and I dunno if it's his character work or what, but he is such a slimy, lovely little heel and I love it. I feel like he gets lost in the shuffle with the other SCHADENFREUDE guys, but Mark "Dunkzilla" Davis could not have been injured at a worse time. hopefully he's back soon, because dude has a lot of skill in-ring but still needs to grow his character a bit. I'll stop with this last one, Daniel Makabe. dude has been putting in great work for years but I dunno if he'll ever break out. hopefully he will sooner than later (but that being said, I wish he''d stop wearing football kits in matches... but only because he has poo poo taste in teams)
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Peanut President posted:Also a big Jimmy Wang Yang mark. Someone at WWE headquarters accidentally gave the little asian dude the redneck gimmick. No, that's him for real. Everyone who has met him can confirm.
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I for real liked Prince Iaukeau which im sure i butchered the name of because i was a mark for bridging German suplexes... still am actually.
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Lid posted:I for real liked Prince Iaukeau which im sure i butchered the name of because i was a mark for bridging German suplexes... still am actually. He also had a really pretty jumping DDT.
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I'm glad you all seemed to enjoy the thread so far.  Watching old WWF shows I've accrued a few more non-favourites. At the top is probably Rick Martel: good-looking guy, a decent worker, gimmick that is pure '80s cheese, and a hilarious panto overact-er (see: the blindfold match). I think he might have already been mentioned a few times, and he was a world champion in AWA, but whatever, I'm having him anyway. I also remember him still being good for his brief WCW run in 1998 before he got injured, which stood out as most "old" guys at that point were either wrecked or lazy. He was also frighteningly massive at one point, holy poo poo.
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CombineThresher posted:That reminds me that I also thought Papa Shango was cool. His Shoulder Breaker finisher was awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zJs4f7yO0 Also: https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1249389844784128000?s=20
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Dean Malenko was the best out of that short guy crew in WCW. Also Scotty 2 Hotty
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Joey Abs!
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My boy stable is made up of Meng, Scott Norton, Steve Blackman, Test and Wrath. Clearly I have a soft spot for hosses and in the case of Blackman completely charisma-less shootfighters. I considered Shelton Benjamin but he's too talented and arguably too successful to be a boy I think. Boys need to be slightly embarrassing to some degree. Maybe you could include Shelton but only with his momma.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I'm glad you all seemed to enjoy the thread so far. Rick Martel in AWA ruled. So did how every Rumble him & Tito would end up reigniting their feud. That ruled.
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Davros1 posted:His Shoulder Breaker finisher was awesome. Papa Shango in the Ministry or the Brood would have been sick. I liked Godfather because I was an idiot teenager but would have been over the moon to see Shango again.
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My first exposure to Japanese wrestling was ordering Toryumon (now Dragon Gate) tapes from Highspots.com and I fell in love with Genki Horiguchi. His gimmick at the time was that he was in denial about his thinning hair and people messing with his hair would always factor into the match. The tapes were in Japanese and Genki just had this great charisma where I completely bought into his character even though i didn't ever know what he was saying. I also really liked Jody Fleisch back when I was really into flippy poo poo. I think his finish at the time was a springboard 450 spike DDT thing that just blew my mind. WWE-wise, my guilty pleasures were probably Steve Blackman, Johnny Stamboli, and Charlie Haas. Was it Stamboli who got saddled with a "man in a dress" gimmick for no reason (and if i recall, kinda made it work)?
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mary had a little clam posted:Was it Stamboli who got saddled with a "man in a dress" gimmick for no reason (and if i recall, kinda made it work)? You're thinking of Big Vito on that one. The two of them were a tag team for a bit. I think Vito got saddled with the dress later on in a singles run, or maybe when he teamed with Nunzio. Stamboli later became RELLIK THAT'S KILLER SPELLED BACKWARDS in TNA
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Here is my question to you: is Chuck Taylor the Internet's boy?
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:No, that's him for real. Everyone who has met him can confirm. well that's even better
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mary had a little clam posted:My first exposure to Japanese wrestling was ordering Toryumon (now Dragon Gate) tapes from Highspots.com and I fell in love with Genki Horiguchi. His gimmick at the time was that he was in denial about his thinning hair and people messing with his hair would always factor into the match. The tapes were in Japanese and Genki just had this great charisma where I completely bought into his character even though i didn't ever know what he was saying. And now everyone chants "H-A-G-E" at him and he claps along, having fully embraced his lack of locks. (Side note but his name when in the DG stable Jimmyz is terrific, Genki Horiguchi H.A.Gee.Mee!! And everyone knows that The Jimmyz were the best DG stable.
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Does Kanemaru count as a boy, I definitely remember a time when people on this forum didn't like him but they seem to have come around on his divorced dad energy.
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the escape goat posted:Mambo has done some incredibly fun work in RIPTIDE and his partnership with TK Cooper has been a joy to watch but... That accent, christ. I'm here for all of these picks and I'm specifically going to highlight TK Cooper. Dude got hurt at EXACTLY the wrong time and has never really been able to regain that momentum, but christ he is still really good at pro wrestling. His timing, his character work, all of it is great. Basically, watch Riptide, it's real good. Also here for the overall appreciation of Goto. The first Japanese wrestling match I really got into was him versus Shibata at Wrestle Kingdom 8 and I still recommend that one to people that just want to watch two dudes beat the poo poo out of each other.
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