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AlmightyBob posted:they should have a licensed bane luchador Now that Christian Cage has had his balls thoroughly destroyed on live television, maybe the Patriarchy will fall apart and Killswitch (formerly Luchasaurus) can become Bane
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MrQwerty posted:Lol what wwe smackdown airs on fox and wwe does (did?) an extremely stupid "draft" where they had cleatus the football robot as a representative for fox in the war room
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AlmightyBob posted:watching call out 2020 and this just happened Jim Ross kept calling Stu Grayson "Dick Grayson" accidentally for a while, so he was calling himself out on that. That, and Tony Schiavone is also a massive Batman fan.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:batista tried to get HHH and Stephenie to promote Guardians of the Galaxy and they laughed in his face and said the movie would bomb To be fair, it wasn't like that thought was uncommon. Most everyone thought it was going to be Marvel's first big misstep. When it released and not only was it great, but one of the best parts, completely hidden from the trailers, being Batista's Drax, most everyone was amazed. Though, wasn't the original idea that Batista would win the title at WM 30 and hence be the champion to promote the film, but the sheer Daniel Bryan backlash completely derailed that? It wouldn't surprise me if Triple H and Stephanie's reaction was, in pure Vince fashion, tied to Batista's 'failure to follow the plan', never mind Batista had zero control over any of it. (Still doesn't explain Bluetista though)
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Cornwind Evil posted:(Still doesn't explain Bluetista though) he was putting colloidal silver over
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you hear all the stories about vince russo and you think a person like that cant be real and then you see him on dark side of the ring expressing his thought process for bash at the beach 2000 and you realize he's real
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sleepwalkers posted:wwe smackdown airs on fox and wwe does (did?) an extremely stupid "draft" where they had cleatus the football robot as a representative for fox in the war room I'm going to live my life choosing to believe I don't understand any of this
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batista hated the bluetista chants but, sorry big dave, that's one of the funniest things a wwe crowd has ever done. stupidity bordering on the sublime. I was telling my friends about his 2014 run and when I got to bluetista they were laughing so hard I don't think I even got around to finishing whatever I was going to say
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MrQwerty posted:I'm going to live my life choosing to believe I don't understand any of this WWE from 2018 until 2023 was the stupidest time for authority figures, primarily because there was a brand split but no authorities for either brand. When it came time to draft wrestlers to brands (itself a mostly pointless venture under current designs), there were no kayfabe GMs to make picks so WWE got various celebrities from Fox and USA to make the picks. Cleatus, the mascot for the NFL on Fox, was one of the celebrities once. Post-Vince, WWE has improved significantly simply because it would be impossible for it to be worse.
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be careful, you might will something into existence that makes t l hopper look subtle and clever
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one of vince's cronies is a man named kevin dunn he is one of the worst people to have ever been involved in the wrestling business and the moment he was fired the shows drastically improved because the camera wasnt cutting away to pointless bullshit every second
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I got generally positive opinions of Batista as a wrestler and actor Bluetista funny as hell
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batista went into wrestling to get money for his kids nothing but respect for the blue guy
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AlmightyBob posted:they should have a licensed bane luchador I'm so fuckin' mad they canceled this toyline.  16-bit Butt-Head posted:one of vince's cronies is a man named kevin dunn he is one of the worst people to have ever been involved in the wrestling business and the moment he was fired the shows drastically improved because the camera wasnt cutting away to pointless bullshit every second Whoa now, let's not overexaggerate. The camerawork is decently better, but let's not use words like 'drastically improved' and make people think poo poo's worth watching.
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Cubone posted:batista hated the bluetista chants but, sorry big dave, that's one of the funniest things a wwe crowd has ever done. stupidity bordering on the sublime. I was telling my friends about his 2014 run and when I got to bluetista they were laughing so hard I don't think I even got around to finishing whatever I was going to say Bluetista was hilarious due to how Triple H and Orton were wearing generic black outfits and it felt like, "drat it, Dave! We said we're not doing the blue thing!"
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Bluetista was actually after a few weeks of Bootista because everybody wanted Daniel Bryan instead.
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Gavok posted:Bluetista was hilarious due to how Triple H and Orton were wearing generic black outfits and it felt like, "drat it, Dave! We said we're not doing the blue thing!" 
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Vandar posted:I'm so fuckin' mad they canceled this toyline. youd think that but the wwe twitter stans are having their minds blown by simple camera angles
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All this talk about needing a Bane luchador like AEW doesn't already employ Brian Cage: https://twitter.com/briancagegmsi/status/1573799949468246016
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Check out this link and watch with bated breath as Nikolai Volkoff denounces communism and embraces capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf144AymLL0
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Germansimp posted:All this talk about needing a Bane luchador like AEW doesn't already employ Brian Cage: And he's got geek chops: all his finishers are named after Wolverine's special moves from the Marvel Vs games.
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I got to say: I loving love Brian Cage.
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absolutely dying at megabyte ronnie hitting the people's elbow on Brian Cage while eating a hotdog
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More wrestlers should eat while wrestling, or eat while coming to the ring, or eat during promos Before Jay Briscoe died, all the Briscoe Brothers promos were just them recording on their farm with Mark's phone and every single one was awesome Jay was doing his aggro thing and talking while Mark would stand in the back eating a snack and it was always something different Best poo poo ever
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You'll love Bastion Booger.
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Grendels Dad posted:I got to say: I loving love Brian Cage. I saw Cage at a Joey Ryan's "Bar Wrestling" show and told him "You're the loving man, bro." and he replied, seemingly intending to indicate that he had heard this many times already and was tiring of it, "Thank you, sir."
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Elephant Ambush posted:More wrestlers should eat while wrestling, or eat while coming to the ring, or eat during promos Or eat while wrestling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCmGqN_M1Gc
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Elephant Ambush posted:More wrestlers should eat while wrestling, or eat while coming to the ring, or eat during promos Does Hook still eat chips?
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Ahh, now I get why wrestling is the way it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUQD6JcKMu4 There are so many insights into Vince's drug-addled mind in here. And WCW's effort to compete. Fat Chick Thriller is my favorite.
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To contrast all those terrible gimmicks and seeing into Vince's broken, black mind, here's one of the most famous Wrestlemania matches ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJn-NVwSPY Yeah, there might be a Citizen Kane 'It's become so normalized that this seems unexceptional' effect, but even TODAY, the PACE is something. No rest holds, no dead spots, they kick off in full gear and never stop. There can be a benefit to matches planned out to a T.
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he was one of the few people to get a good match of warrior because he made him rehearse all the spots too
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reliving the war is up to savage's '99 run. he aged about 10 years and took all the steroids in the year he had out. sad to see he could barely wrestle any more so of course wcw put the title on him
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Calvin's dad's definition of a control freak came to mind recently, and it comes to mind again now. It's probably more of an upside of otherwise very bad qualities, but actually wanting to plan things out and make sure people follow the plan is very important when it comes to actually getting things done. Would also explain a lot that he's used to not being able to leave people alone for five minutes without them finding new and innovative ways to gently caress up.
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Killed a Girl in 96 posted:Ahh, now I get why wrestling is the way it is. Saw your username, saw the thread title, thought it was the title of a wrestling story and didn't even bat an eye
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Cornwind Evil posted:To contrast all those terrible gimmicks and seeing into Vince's broken, black mind, here's one of the most famous Wrestlemania matches ever. I vividly recall seeing Steamboat get this throat crushed as Savage jump down from the top rope and slam him into the steel railing. What was the real reason Steamboat went away for a while? And after WM3 I think he left for good?
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Bonzo posted:I vividly recall seeing Steamboat get this throat crushed as Savage jump down from the top rope and slam him into the steel railing. IIRC he & his wife had their first kid shortly after he won the IC title from Savage. Ricky wanted to take time off but Vince wanted him on the road defending, so that's when he dropped the belt to Honky Tonk & left for a while to be with family.
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Bonzo posted:I vividly recall seeing Steamboat get this throat crushed as Savage jump down from the top rope and slam him into the steel railing. IIRC my sour smark knowledge, first he wanted some time off so he could conceive a baby with his wife, and Vince gave him time off...like three months worth, and didn't pay him for them. To show he was the boss. Or something. Then when Steamboat did win the title and wanted to spend some time with his family, Vince basically went "Screw you, you're dropping the belt to Butch Reed, his black man with blonde hair gimmick is gonna be a big money draw." Then Butch Reed got fired, so along came Honky Tonk Man who talked Vince into giving him a quickie run, which ended up being the longest run with the IC title for decades until it was just recently broken by Walter "Gunther/WALTER" Hahn. I suspect the other usual reason was racism. "Bonny Blood", Rickie's wife at the time (based on the fact that Rickie's actual last name IS Blood), sounds like a real piece of work herself, with inklings of her being a giant control freak who tried to horn in on Ricky's career (see his "Family Man" WCW run, where Bonny was so obnoxious in her role as her husband's valet that the fans semi turned on the man), and when the marriage broke up, she ended up claiming the rights to his name in the divorce, or something to do with his wrestling persona. Then again, my primary memory of these accounts is Ric Flair in his autobiography, so who knows how accurate, inaccurate, or worst person you know made a great point he is on that. Cripes, while double checking, it seems like Steamboat, always consider a peer and yet a mirror to Flair, is a peer to Flair in real life in a most unexpected way: both have been married five times.
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his real name is richard blood... dick blood
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