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funkystudent said:
WWE should bring back Tazz on commentary.


Not sure if his sucking in TNA is due to TNA or him... still he would be a ok replacement for King
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I think Tazz gets more apathetic as the years go by, by the end of his run on Smackdown commentary he was just ass.
 
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Sunflower said:
Well the first Rumble is on the schedule, 1989 - Hacksaw won it. Unless you're referring to an earlier version that wasn't PPV-ized.
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Apparently there have been a few house shows where they tested out the Royal Rumble concept before it's official debut. Examples I could find were one in St. Louis in 1986 that was won by the Junkyard Dog, one in St. Louis in 1987 that was won by the One Man Gang (the winner would get a WWF Title shot but during intermission they announced Gang's title match for the next show anyway) and even one going back to 1976 that was won by Stan Hansen.

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I remember watching Battle Royales as a kid at the armory before the Royal Rumble started. Remember, the first ladder match was in Calgary with Bret Hart vs Bad News Brown (Allen) in the mid 80's.
 
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Nocturnowl said:
The 2006 rumble is probably the weakest of the last decade, i'm struggling to remember any memorable moments, Tatanka return? yeah that pretty much sums things up
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Was this the year where they had the Raw/Smackdown stand-off?

I actually think 2009 with Orton winning is the weakest in recent memory.
 
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Nocturnowl said:
The 2006 rumble is probably the weakest of the last decade, i'm struggling to remember any memorable moments, Tatanka return? yeah that pretty much sums things up
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Eddie's ghost winning the rumble is pretty memorable.

I do agree though, this rumble kind of sucks.

Penguin said:
I actually think 2009 with Orton winning is the weakest in recent memory.
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Ehh, I really liked the Orton/Triple H dynamic in that one. I can see why that would be an unpopular opinion though. :p
 
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I had totally forgotten that Psicosis had wrestled unmasked

as a side note, when Kane first debuted at HIAC '97, I thought he looked like a giant Psicosis
 
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http://www.wwe.com/superstars/wherearetheynow/where-are-they-now-glacier

Where Are They Now? Glacier
By: Ryan Murphy January 12, 2012

The awkward teenagers at Marietta, Georgia’s Lassiter High didn’t know what to make of Ray Lloyd when he showed up at their school in 2001. A year prior, the kids who watched wrestling — WWE’s Cody Rhodes among them — had seen their new teacher throwing karate kicks as a ninja named Glacier on WCW’s Nitro. Now, all of a sudden, he was standing in front of them in gym shorts, stressing the importance of stretching before a workout.

“I knew Ray Lloyd from WCW when my dad used to bring me around there,” Rhodes told WWE.com. “But I was quite surprised when I found out he was going to be the health and lacrosse coach at my high school.”

The five years leading up to this moment had been the most thrilling, frustrating and surreal of Lloyd’s life. A journeyman wrestler since the late ’80s, the Georgia native received what was perhaps the most heavily hyped debut in sports-entertainment history when he emerged in WCW in 1996 as Glacier — a coldblooded kung-fu master from Japan’s Shorinji Temple. Arriving with an entrance so elaborate that it featured lasers and fake snow, he went on to brawl with Goldberg, appear in video games and see his mug plastered across toy cars and T-shirts.

So how did he end up in a PE class in Marietta?

“After my run in WCW, I was at the point where I wanted to go back to a normal life,” Ray Lloyd told WWE.com during a phone conversation in December. “I knew for the first few months of being a teacher I was going to have to constantly answer questions like, ‘You’re Glacier. Why are you teaching school?’ But I prepared myself for that.”

In truth, it wasn’t Lloyd’s first time dealing with a classroom full of kids. He had earned a master’s degree in education at Valdosta State University in Georgia before he ever slipped into a pair of trunks. After that, Lloyd taught health and physical education while pursuing professional wrestling on weekends and in the summertime. Competing under his real name, he was the type of nondescript local competitor you’d see getting kicked around by The Freebirds or The Varsity Club on “NWA World Championship Wrestling.”

“I came in at the tail end of the territories and I got a chance to work with some of those real old-school veterans,” he recalled.

For nearly a decade, Lloyd's Monday mornings consisted of limping into class battered and bruised from that weekend's matches before a conversation with Diamond Dallas Page changed his career. Over pizza, Lloyd told his friend about his idea to mix martial arts and professional wrestling. He had been a state champion in karate as a teenager and figured it was something that hadn’t really been seen in the ring. Knowing WCW President Eric Bischoff practiced Tae Kwon Do, Page pitched him the idea, and the executive flipped for it. From there, things quickly got out of hand.

“Eric’s initial idea was that he wanted a video game come to life,” Lloyd remembered.

Inspired by the “Mortal Kombat” franchise, Bischoff envisioned a group of arcade-ready personas that could battle in a style right out of a Sega game. Lloyd — a straightforward Southern guy who cites Lou Thesz as a mentor — became the Sub Zero-inspired Glacier. The late Chris Kanyon donned a fright mask and a robe of skulls to become Mortis. Bryan Clark — the man once known as Adam Bomb in WWE — was turned into an intimidating monster named Wrath. It was all very fun in a hokey, B-movie kind of way, but that wasn’t how WCW intended it. In their eyes, this was serious business.

“The hand we were dealt was, ‘Okay, you’re going to take these types of characters and let’s try to find a way where it’s taken seriously,’” Lloyd said. “It was really hard.”
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I work at and go to the school he earned his master's at.
 
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Penguin said:
Was this the year where they had the Raw/Smackdown stand-off?

I actually think 2009 with Orton winning is the weakest in recent memory.
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There was one of those stand offs in the 2005 rumble so i'm thinking 2006 still doesn't have much to show for itself.
And 2009 is a good runner up, a lot of nothing with the ring getting clogged up that eventually leads to a painfully obvious finale with a final four that nobody really wanted to see win.

Biggest-Geek-Ever said:
Eddie's ghost winning the rumble is pretty memorable.

I do agree though, this rumble kind of sucks.
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What was it they kept saying about the whole Rey/Eddie thing at the time, Divine intervention? horrible way to build up Rey.
 
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bwahhhhh said:
I had totally forgotten that Psicosis had wrestled unmasked

as a side note, when Kane first debuted at HIAC '97, I thought he looked like a giant Psicosis
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I sure Psicosis won the Cruiserweight title without the mask. I don't remember who, or how, he lost to but he was one of the luchadors without a mask during the end of WCW.
 
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