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June Wrasslin' |OT| Break Out Naan And Do The Needful, It's Time For MaharaJEEEEEZUSS
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UrbanDandy
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What were Vince's big guy experiments failures?
excelsiorlef
Member
Almost all of them?
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Bastien Booger
Mantaur
El Gigante
Nathan Jones
Snitsky
Heidenreich
Matt Morgan
Baron Corbin
etc
etc
Mantaur
El Gigante
Nathan Jones
Snitsky
Heidenreich
Matt Morgan
Baron Corbin
etc
etc
UrbanDandy
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I guess for the exception of Brock.
excelsiorlef
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Brock is a medium monster not a giant.
Don't lump Baron Corbin in with those guys
Sir_Crocodile
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excelsiorlef
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UrbanDandy
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I'm surprised with the bolded.
Sir_Crocodile
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Look at all that lush hair
Everyone really thought he'd make it.
Remains a mystery why he didn't
Was this the last time he wrestled shirtless?
Sir_Crocodile
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I think so. People kept making fun of his gutface.
I refuse to provide .gif evidence, as I'm eating my dinner.
SallyIsNow
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*puts Menome in suggestive piledriver*
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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He made his debut on the roster shirtless for a few months, I think.
That's a bad movie that got a lot of the characters' likeness right.
As oppose to the sequel (technically a prequel) where it's a bad movie and none of the characters look like they do from the games.
OwensIsNow, I know who killed Wrestling. Yes, it can wait until morning.
Sir_Crocodile
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Ah. Also yeaaaaah putting a shirt on was a good call.
excelsiorlef
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Nah look at that hair, that was NXT Baron.
sf2fanatic
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Will WWE sign Magnus?
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
That guy from the Gladiators reboot that tried and failed to be the new generation wolfman?
sf2fanatic
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Looks better than Mitb winner Corbin
I'll see you again in 25 years.
FlammableD
Banned
How do you think indy wrestlers make money dude
Sir_Crocodile
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You do realise this ppv is called "Dive Hard" right
Sometimes, my legs bend backwards into a Figure-Four.
sf2fanatic
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TarpitCarnivore
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For those of you who watched 96-97 and Punk/Bryans rise in, I think 13-14?, would you call them comparable? I'm obviously on the nostalgia side by thinking 96-97 was the more well rounded show.
I like Punk and Bryan a lot, but they can't hold a candle to the all-time great period of wrassle.
FlammableD
Banned
I did not
SallyIsNow
Banned
>_>
Sir_Crocodile
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To deconstruct the joke:
>Dive controversy happens
>Ospreay commissions DIVE shirts
>Dive controversy ends, no one cares anymore
>Ospreay receives DIVE shirts
>No one buys DIVE shirts
>Ospreay puts DIVE shirts on sale
you gotta up your INDY KNOWLEDGE flammy
Low is better!
shaowebb
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Wow...that guy has some shit tier ink. May as well throw a tribal, a Taz, a Calvin pissing on a car logo and maybe even an angry Tweety bird in for good measure to collect and have the full load of bad tattoos. I hear his hairline is some prime ink real estate thats goin on the market these days lol.
What a shit big dude. I knew they'd shove him down our throats at Money in the Bank. The worst dude usually wins in WWE.
Baron Quality His naval grows wider as his time in the WWE grows shorter.
1996-1997 are far and away the best two years of US wrestling.
TarpitCarnivore
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My interpretation of that period and based on watching a mix of PPV from then was that Punk and Bryan were the only compelling things going on.
Contrast that with 96-97 and there was bottom to top compelling feuds and stories.
Top to bottom is a bit of an exaggeration. WWF only had so many people in those two years, and while WCW had pretty much everyone else they could only seemingly book well for their low and mid card guys after Hogan showed up (and most of the second half of 1996-early 1997 with the NWO) while the rest of the time they fucked up the main event. So if you jammed the first half of any given WCW show with the WWF main event you'd have the perfect show.
Sir_Crocodile
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yup
both shows had a lot of crap going on.
the key difference is wwf wasn't actively working against it's rising stars back then like they are these days. wcw wasn't as a company, but the top guys were working against the lighter guys being pushed.
wwf tag division back then was some of the worst in wwf history.