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It was me. I was the Glacier mark. I got hyped as hell for the Blood Runs Cold promos, waiting months for this dollar-store Sub-Zero to debut. I intently followed his undefeated streak. I used to keep my own written notes on WCW shows as if I was keeping score at a baseball game, and Glacier squashes always got five stars. When my brother and I wrestled, he'd be Sting, while I'd practice my Cryonic Kick. When Mortis pinned him at Bash at the Beach 1997, I rationalized it by saying it was a tag match. Ernest Miller let him down. When he lost his first singles match to Buff Bagwell, I was deflated. My blood ran cold, for all the wrong reasons. Sure, I liked DDP and Goldberg and Malenko and the luchadors too. But I was the Glacier mark. My question then, for all of you, is who are your most embarrassing favorite wrestlers? You can interpret this any way you'd like. Did you like someone no one else marked for? Did you have an embarrassing favorite when you were a kid that you grew out of? Is there someone you like now that you know sucks, but you just can't deny yourself the guilty pleasure? Confess, posters of EPA. Confess!
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I loving love Disco Inferno's work. Dude could do comedy, had a consistent gimmick, worked safe and didn't botch I love Mongo for the opposite reason, he was botchy as hell but you knew you'd always see something interesting whenever he was in the ring because when he hosed up a move he was strong enough to make sure nobody got hurt and drop them safely but it'd end up as some kinda strange poo poo you've never seen before, also dude just always seemed to be having a great time out there and he also had a cute dog I love Sycho Sid but that's not shameful because that's not a guy who had to have big workrate matches, he was a guy whos ring presence alone was enough to make him rule. He was this huge sweaty intense dude who just showed up and everything he did made you say "this fuckin rules"
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i had dave mysterio's autograph on my wall into my 20s, the brother of rey mysterio. he was very nice to me at an independent show i went to as a kid and promised to point to me before he did his finisher, the shooting star press, and he did. anytime kids in school would talk about how cool rey mysterio was i'd say, pff, you know who is cooler? his brother dave mysterio well you know what. dave mysterio wasnt rey mysterios brother. he wasnt even dave mysterio. i dont even think he was mexican. his name was dave webb and he basically only worked as dave mysterio for 3 months before wwf presumably told him to stop ----------------
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I'm not embarrassed by any of my favorite wrestlers. I'm proud of all of them. The 123 Kid, Giant Gonzales, Toru Yano, Scotty 2 Hotty... That's my Boys Stable right there.
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That DICK! posted:i had dave mysterio's autograph on my wall into my 20s, the brother of rey mysterio. he was very nice to me at an independent show i went to as a kid and promised to point to me before he did his finisher, the shooting star press, and he did. anytime kids in school would talk about how cool rey mysterio was i'd say, pff, you know who is cooler? his brother dave mysterio  Here is just a little info on the man known as Dave Webb: Name: David Guinup Date of Birth: April 13, 1977 Home Town: Kennett Square, PA Favorite Superhero: The Amazing Spiderman Idol: Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat Age: 25 Finishing Moves: The Webb Spinner (like the 619), The Arachnittack (like the Vantermanator) Theme Music: DMX- X gonna give it to ya Click to hear Dave Webb's Theme [Editor's note: dead link to techn9neabsolutepower.mp3] Favorite Food: Slim Jims Insperational Quote: Sometimes you just feel tired. You feel weak and when you feel weak you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that poo poo out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse. Crescent Wrench fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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Yeah, from the black and white thumbnail I did a small double take as well. I'm just imagining Rey unmasking and this guy seeing dollar signs.
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When I was a little kid my favourite was Virgil and I remember being disappointed he didn’t win the royal rumble
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That DICK! posted:i had dave mysterio's autograph on my wall into my 20s, the brother of rey mysterio. he was very nice to me at an independent show i went to as a kid and promised to point to me before he did his finisher, the shooting star press, and he did. anytime kids in school would talk about how cool rey mysterio was i'd say, pff, you know who is cooler? his brother dave mysterio Thats not embarassing that owns.
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 lash leroux but only when he looked like the above, before becoming a funny little joke military faction guy  he was allowed to get 3-4 moves in on scott hall  he started 1999 off strong then didn't win a match in march, april, may, june, or july  undefeated against Villanos IV and V
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jesus WEP posted:mine was d’lo and i was fully tilted when kurt angle called himself the first euro continental champion Were you really a wrestling fan in the late '90s if you didn't practice the D'Lo head bob in the mirror?
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Crescent Wrench posted:Were you really a wrestling fan in the late '90s if you didn't practice the D'Lo head bob in the mirror? 
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Hell yeah. Making an elaborate sign so you can cheer on D'Lo as he defends the European title against Mideon.
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Every power plant guy. Palumbo and O'Haire were the real stars of the invasion
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Kurrgan and I’m not embarrassed. From the Truth Commission to the Oddities, Kurrgan was the poo poo. Glad he’s as big as The Rock in Hollywood now
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Never thought much of Alex Wright growing up but looking back on some of his matches, the kid was probably just as good at 19 or 20 than most of the upper card guys WCW was pushing. There's probably an alternate reality where he continued his career in Japan after WCW folded and he wound up a superstar or something. I was a luchador mark though, Juventud and Psicosis were two of my favorites as a flippy kid. Also I was a Raven fan. I still don't know why.
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Alex Wright did everything so crisp that he didn’t have to be too flashy in the ring, big fan
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TheSwizzler posted:Alex Wright did everything so crisp that he didn’t have to be too flashy in the ring, big fan Yeah, he's one of those guys that could have done really really well in ROH or Japan if he hadn't been burned out by WCW politics, I was just too young at the time to appreciate good technical work, and by the time I came around to appreciating guys like Malenko, they'd relegated Alex to teaming with Disco Inferno. iirc he was only 18 or something when he got signed? Someone knew his dad and basically was like 'as good as his dad is, his kid's better' Rags to Liches fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Nov 16, 2023 |
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Rags to Liches posted:I was a luchador mark though, Juventud and Psicosis were two of my favorites as a flippy kid. It's totally acceptable to mark out for Juvi or Psychosis. However, if you ever find yourself able to recognize Lizmark Jr.s' entrance music, or start forming an opinion on your favorite Villano, you might have a problem.
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Crescent Wrench posted:It's totally acceptable to mark out for Juvi or Psychosis. However, if you ever find yourself able to recognize Lizmark Jr.s' entrance music, or start forming an opinion on your favorite Villano, you might have a problem. I don’t remember if I could tell the Villanos apart growing up or if I paid any attention to them but I thought Ciclope had the coolest mask. And I never doubted El Dandy.
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Just remembered I liked Ahmed Johnson.
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Stiev Awt posted:Just remembered I liked Ahmed Johnson. / 
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