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June Wrasslin' |OT| Layin' the law, once again, prepare for war. C! Z! W!
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Nailed it. Fucking nailed it.
Who knew people that were teens in the 90s would have such affinity for gaming and wrestling, two of the most popular pop-culture things in said 90s.
I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Lambda Pie
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Dr Duncan Steel
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bean breath
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Least expensive entryway to gaming.
Lambda Pie
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Aii, would you say Matt Brown vs Erick Silva was a better sports entertainment bout than anything WWE has put out this year?
Honestly. I would not disagree with that statement.
Pillman had a hammer and sickle on his tights?
And damn it, the shipping to Canada on prowrestlingtees.com and barbershopwindow.com is ridiculous. Adds $15 to an order. So that's $35-40 for a t-shirt. Way too much.
Lambda Pie
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Steve Austin was better than Pillman at everything. Pillman was actually a pretty awkward wrestler even before the car wreck. Not that he was bad or anything, but he was most definitely a few steps behind Austin. I think his loose cannon stuff over shadows his actual in ring work, which wasn't as high as you'd expect due to his reputation.
He had a weird bumping style and his psychology was often pretty spotty when not in the ring with veterans.
He had a weird bumping style and his psychology was often pretty spotty when not in the ring with veterans.
Just ordered a copy of this from amazon:
Had a gift certificate, so it was free. Woo.
You're a piece of shit for buying anything with Michael Hayes' face on it that isn't a program for his funeral.
Going by a lot of the older guys, it sounds like Pillman probably had a better grasp on the business and booking than Austin. Sullivan thought Pillman had some real genius ideas, and he was able to make his gimmick legit by putting it over on the boys which was basically impossible.
TOM f'N CRUISE
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damn i want that one
Macho Madness
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I have started a blog for my dumb wrestling shit. Here's the first post, a recap of the July 27, 2000 episode of WWF SmackDown!
Jimmy King
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Sorry, man.
I'm not a fan of him either, but I just want to expand my historical wrestling knowledge.Stuff about Hayes that makes him a POS:
-called Mark Henry a nigger in 2008
-called a native-american wrestler a derogatory term in 2009
-offered alcohol to Rosa Mendes after she just got out of rehab
Oddly enough, Booker T doesn't think Hayes is a racist:
http://www.prowrestling.net/artman/publish/TNA/article1001638.shtml
Booker T was a late replacement for Kevin Nash in Spike TV and TNA's monthly conference call.
-Booker laughed when he was asked about Michael Hayes and racism late in the conference call. He said Hayes thinks he's black. "I don't look at Michael as a racist myself," he said. "I've heard him use the N-word before... He's one of the people who can use the word around me because I know there's no malice behind it."
gif me all you want but it doesn't make it any less true. Austin was really something else in the ring before his neck was broken.
I'm definitely not saying he was a bad wrestler by any stretch. He was good. I think his gimmick's reputation (which happened during a time when he wasn't really putting on the kind of matches he was in 1991-1993 anyway) has raised the reputation of his work as well. It seemed like for years online that he was the one thought of as the star and better half of the Hollywood Blonds. The only thing he could do better than Austin was do high flying stuff.
Austin was a better talker. Pillman's promos weren't really anything before the loose cannon stuff. Austin was a better technician. Austin was a better ring general. Austin was a better seller. Austin had a better aura and presence. It's amazing that Bischoff didn't see anything in him. It's even more amazing that Vince initially didn't see anything in him.
Good stuff, man. Enjoy!
Alright, DDP Yoga time for me, and then gonna watch some Samoa Joe ROH matches.
Lambda Pie
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how do you people even find this shit?
Jimmy King
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I was merely expressing my concern for Bryan in light of his recent neck surgery and the potential to parallel your Austin comment.
Sorry, friend. I realized that could be what you were going for after I posted it.
It probably won't turn out this way for D-Bry, at least I hope not. He seemingly doesn't have the tools Austin did when he flipped his career around.
If you haven't read Dutch's post about it and listened to his story about it on Austin's podcast, do that. I think of all the stories told, his is the most believable. Though I do like Manny Fernandez's story and how he used Brody's knee drop on the invader. It's graphic if you think it's a shoot but it's not if it's a work. Fake looking but the quality's so bad it's hard to tell.
plagiarize
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He can wrestle a mat based submission style *very* well. He'll be fine. It's not like he'll have to take the same bumps from his opponents offence that he used to have to in the indies either.
dream
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Mmm...I don't disagree, but I also don't think Pillman was that far behind Austin. Have you seen his match with Liger from uhhh...fuck...one of the early SuperBrawls?
Lambda Pie
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kinda hard to have a bad match with Liger in the early 90s.
Evening Musuko
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I don't understand why people bitch about wrestling being "fake" but have no problem with flops in sports.
"It's part of the game"
Ok.
¯_(ツ_/¯
"It's part of the game"
Ok.
¯_(ツ
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Oh my goodness gracious, welcome back Lambda!
PHOENIXZERO
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Sorry, man.
Stuff about Hayes that makes him a POS:
-called Mark Henry a nigger in 2008
-called a native-american wrestler a derogatory term in 2009
-offered alcohol to Rosa Mendes after she just got out of rehab
Oddly enough, Booker T doesn't think Hayes is a racist:
http://www.prowrestling.net/artman/publish/TNA/article1001638.shtml
Booker T was a late replacement for Kevin Nash in Spike TV and TNA's monthly conference call.
-Booker laughed when he was asked about Michael Hayes and racism late in the conference call. He said Hayes thinks he's black. "I don't look at Michael as a racist myself," he said. "I've heard him use the N-word before... He's one of the people who can use the word around me because I know there's no malice behind it."
He didn't call Mark that, he said he was more of one (with the "a" at the end, not "er") than Mark was.
The second one is about how I remember reading it as is the third.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
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Friend Lambda, welcome home.
