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March WrassleGAF |SHOW-T| Big Shoes Mean Big Appetites

Changed my avatar finally and made a bunch more from Rob Schamberger's Wrestling Champions series, if anyone wants one;

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Feel free to claim any of them.



Here's 7 matches in one playlist;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_P6XAB7gY8&list=PL41622D69A4100E07



Here's a couple of awesome matches from the last iPPV;

Kazuchika Okada vs Minoru Suzuki - (NJPW 02/10/13)

Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs Karl Anderson - (NJPW 02/10/13)

these are awesome. Will definitely use the Macho Man one in the future.
 
What the mid-card titles NEED is great wrestlers putting on great feuds - Bryan vs Cesaro for the title would not be a bad way to spend 3 months of programming and would only serve to elevate the title.

I don't know why they find it so hard to make the titles seem important when they've got so many talented guys.
 

strobogo

Banned
Good luck Strobogo, don't overdo it though - did you know for Stallone's physique in Rambo 2 (an amazing physique) - he was putting in over 8 hours a day in the gym, but knowing what he knows now, he could have achieved that in 1 and a half?

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In other news, I'm considering a wrestling video series about wrestling of yore, but I'm a bit worried about the content being pulled. Would this be a futile thing?


Last year when I was being all healthy, I was doing 3-4 hours of cardio a day. It was awful and way over doing it. It was stupid. This will probably stretch out the WCW reviews since I don't really want to be watching 4 shows and doing 6 hours on a bike a day.
 

Aiii

So not worth it
What the mid-card titles NEED is great wrestlers putting on great feuds - Bryan vs Cesaro for the title would not be a bad way to spend 3 months of programming and would only serve to elevate the title.

I don't know why they find it so hard to make the titles seem important when they've got so many talented guys.

Flashback to the WWE writing room, June 2012, one day after the No Way Out Pay-Per-View.

Whiteboard:
-JOHN CENA WINS MONEY IN THE BANK BRIEFCASE
-OTHER STUFF HAPPENS

-DIVAS BATTLE ROYAL FOR #1 CONTENDERSHIP

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jmdajr

Member
some more financial stuff

WWE released financial numbers for October-December 2012 this morning, along final numbers for the whole year of 2012. Here's what brought in the most revenue (total revenue for 2012 was $484,000,000)

1. TV Rights Fees - $139.5 million

2 Live .Events - $103.7 million

3. PPV Revenue - $83.6 million

4. Licensing - $46.3 million

5. WWE Home Video - $33.0 million

6. WWE.com - $19.7 million

7. Venue Merchandise - $18.8 million

8. WWE Shop - $14.8 million

9. WWE Studios - $7.9 million

10. WWF Magazines - $6.0 million

they should cut wwe studios and put that money toward the netowork. also 6 million from magazine sales isnt bad at all.
 

They should just fucking fire the entire creative team and put a proper freaking booker in charge of each show. DONE. The bookers make the matches, the road agents plan out the big spots, the wrestlers wrestle and we probably get a half decent show, produced by wrestling people who know how wrestling works, not some fucking college graduates who want a foot into media and movies, or some writer hacks with crappy network TV experience.

jmdajr said:
hmmmm. Someone is missing.

Yeah, he hasn't got round to painting Stan Hasnen yet :(
 
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Deleted member 47027

Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, he hasn't got round to painting Bobby Eaton yet :(

Fixed it for ya.

Thing is, WWE (Vince in particular) wants wrestling to be...well, I guess he wants it to be seen as something classier and more important than it IS.

And let's be realistic. We enjoy our carny sport, and no matter how many Hollywood writers you bring in, you're going to have a hard time making it work.
 

bangai-o

Banned
Fixed it for ya.

Thing is, WWE (Vince in particular) wants wrestling to be...well, I guess he wants it to be seen as something classier and more important than it IS.

And let's be realistic. We enjoy our carny sport, and no matter how many Hollywood writers you bring in, you're going to have a hard time making it work.

maybe he can convince NBC that Raw isnt a redneck only show.
 

Ridley1.1

Neo Member
Fixed it for ya.

Thing is, WWE (Vince in particular) wants wrestling to be...well, I guess he wants it to be seen as something classier and more important than it IS.

And let's be realistic. We enjoy our carny sport, and no matter how many Hollywood writers you bring in, you're going to have a hard time making it work.

Classier? I remember him pulling stuff out of JR's ass....
 
Thing is, WWE (Vince in particular) wants wrestling to be...well, I guess he wants it to be seen as something classier and more important than it IS.

And that's why he's a crazy, delusional old man, desperate to be seen as something other than the carny-ass wrestling promoter he is.

Just embrace it Vince. You're the biggest wrestling promoter in the world, yet probably the only one to be ashamed of being seen as just a wrestling promoter.
 
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Deleted member 47027

Unconfirmed Member
And that's why he's a crazy, delusional old man, desperate to be seen as something other than the carny-ass wrestling promoter he is.

Just embrace it Vince. You're the biggest wrestling promoter in the world, yet probably the only one to be ashamed of being seen as just a wrestling promoter.

Thing is, also, Vince is at his best when he's playing it up and chewing the scenery - and he fights it so much. I wish he'd give in. Be insane. It's what you are.
 
Thing is, also, Vince is at his best when he's playing it up and chewing the scenery - and he fights it so much. I wish he'd give in. Be insane. It's what you are.

Totally agree, I can't STAND face Vince. He should be the conniving, back-stabbing son of a bitch we all know him to be, screwing over the faces and employing the heels to do his dirty work. If he's going to be on screen at all, it should be as a heel. Same goes for Hunter. I've spent too many years despising HHH to give a shit about him as a face now.
 

Omega

Banned
PPVs only bring in 84 million? That's terrible. Average would be 7 million per PPV. or is that for just that time period?
The four major ones probably bring in 10-15 each on their own. Why not just cut the deadweight? Have 6-7 PPVs. Especially with 3 hour Raw you don't need 12.
 

strobogo

Banned
WCW Monday Nitro 1/29/2001

Oh shit, they're in Baltimore. Omar run in!

Elix Skipper vs Krang vs Shannon Moore vs Jamie Knoble

I'm okay with this. I don't know who decided to have cruisers doing shit again, but I appreciate them. Jimmy Wang Yang and Jamie Knoble start it out. It's supposed to be tags, but that lasts all of 30 seconds. Shannon botches a move and Yang makes him pay for it.

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Dive sequence ends with Yang doing a corkscrew Asai moonsault. Jumping tombstone on the floor! Shannon wins with a top rope fameasser. It's a lot better to start a show out like this than with a half hour promo.

Ric Flair and Animal come to the ring. The Ravens won the Super Bowl the night before, so Flair heels all over them.

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First topic is The Cat. The commissionership is going to change hands soon. Second topic is Kevin Nash. He claims that Nash and DDP showed up to Thunder half in the bag.

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He uses footage of the after effects of DDP and Nash being attacked in the locker room last week. He's going to make Nash qualify again for his title match. Nash will have to defeat Totally Buffed in the main event tonight. Nash was watching this and was not happy. Then Flair was watching Nash watch Flair watch Nash watch Flair and it got too confusing. Flair will have a new person sign to his group tonight, then says he's going to fuck someone's mom. WHOOO.

Show run down. More of a response to what we just saw.

TO THE BACK.
Jeff wants DDP tonight. Some stage hand CLEARLY bumped into Midajah's tits, so Steiner breaks his leg.

The Cat vs Shawn Stasiak


Cat says that anyone who interferes will be suspended for 30 days. I guess this is actually for the commissionership. I think any match Cat match is. WCW Commissioner Meat. He says when he wins, the first match he'll book is a title match against Palumbo and O'Haire. This is about as good as you'd imagine it to be. Cat does a spinning head scissors. Seriously? Cat wins with the Feliner.

TO THE BACK. Flair and Animal react to Stasiak's loss. Wall is outside Chavo's locker room when the Joker starts laughing and a crate hits Wall. Hugh then throws Wall through Chavo's door.


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Crowbar is looking emo somewhere when Mike Sanders shows up saying Flair isn't very impressed with him lately. He's got him booked against a Canadian.

TO THE BOOK SIGNING. DDP is STILL doing book signings? That book came out a year ago. Two fans in line were getting loud and obnoxious. They were Air Paris and AJ Styles. I recognize that redneck voice anywhere. They get into kind of a scuffle. DDP gets up and Air Paris falls to the ground saying DDP punched him. DDP didn't touch him.

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TO THE BACK.
A black Hummer has arrived. BUT WHO IS LIMO?!!? Chavo freaks out to Totally Buffed now that he doesn't have a partner. They've got a new partner for him. Gene is with Double J. He's going to go to the ring and DDP can meet him if he's man enough. I can see where this is heading. DDP is going to be arrested when he comes out to the ring for punching Air Paris.

Filthy Animals vs Chavo Guerrero Jr./Animal

Tony says something about Guatemala, not Nicaragua being directly South of Mexico. That must have been a topical reference that makes no sense today. Otherwise that's a pretty random thing to say. Rey botches an attempted split leg moonsault, but recovers nicely and hits a lionsault. Rey's hair line is really weird on a person who looks so young and small. It's FAR back and there is a bald spot forming in the back. Animal comes in and just demolishes the cruisers. Batista Bomb! Chavo makes the pin on Rey. Animal's hair is pretty weird too, since he has his full mohawk still, but there is a gap for the bald spot.

TO THE BACK.
Flair walks to get his new guy. We see the Hummer door open.

Ric Flair comes to the ring. He brings out the newest member of his group, the legendary Dust.....in Rhodes. All I can think of is how they told him to show up to Starrcade, but didn't have anything for him to do for a month and a half later. Dustin asks Ric to do a spin so he can size him up. Dustin isn't going to sign with Ric Flair because he sucks. SWERVE! Ric will kill him if Dustin touches the boss. Another dead body in Baltimore. Who is going to worry about that? Ric has Animal come out. It is on! Dustin fights them off, but not for long. It's DUSTY RHODES! THE AMERICAN DREAM IS BACK BEBE! For real, Dusty's pop is the loudest pop I've heard in all of these shows. Leth theal thith with a kith! After Flair and Animal bail to the floor, Ric tries to throw a mic a Dusty and then roughs up Bill Apter. Dusty rambles and it's awesome. The fight resumes!

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Lance Storm vs Crowbar

Lance's music had a great bass line. Like really good. It's a shame you can rarely hear it on any tapes, but it's groovy as fuck. The guitar over it doesn't do it justice. Team Canada pledges their full support to Ric Flair. Crowbar ambushes during the anthem. Awesome and Elix hold Crowbar for a super kick and then are ejected. This got heated in the opening moments and settled down. Awkward tombstone reversal spot that ended in a lay out reverse DDT from Crowbar. Lance had trouble with that spot with Rey, too. Daffney is overboard annoying for this. Fuck. Multiple pinning suplex trading, but none of them get the win. Lance countered a super frankensteiner into the Maple Leaf. Lance must have been poked in the eye at some point during the match.

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TO THE BACK.
Ric and Totally Buffed talk with Lance. Ric wants Lance vs Cat for the commissionership at Superbrawl. Jeff blows by and says he's going to call out DDP no matter what.

A few WCW guys will be guests on Charmed soon.

Jeff Jarrett comes to the ring. He calls out DDP, who obliges. Police arrest him before he can make it to the ring. SWERVE! McNulty, you son of a bitch, you're arresting DDP! Jeff technically wins via count out.

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MOMENTS AGO. Ric and Jeff celebrate DDP being arrested and taunt him while he's in the cop car.

Shane Douglas vs Rick Steiner


Strange. Rick is wearing a shirt under his singlet. Rick is stiff as FUCK. I mean, the Steiner's were always stiff, but he was at a different level in the last two years of WCW. Shane did a standing lucha style drop kick. In 2001? How bizarre. That might be more shocking than Cat doing a spinning head scissors. They botch something. I don't know what it was supposed to be. Some kind of hip toss/judo throw.

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Rick kicks out of the Plunge. Shane kicked out of the Steiner bulldog. I don't think I've ever seen someone kick out of that even in a tag match. Shane did not kick out of a DVD. I would hate to work with Rick Steiner. I think he was actually more dangerous and stiff than Scott, he just wasn't as crazy.

Totally Buffed vs Kevin Nash


They came out wearing Ravens jerseys, but then say they Ravens are actually Cleavland's team. Then they talk about Ray Lewis's legal troubles. Holy shit, using a pretty recent murder charge as cheap heat? That's actually pretty fucking awesome. Nash hits the jackknife on Lex, but Buff hits a double arm DDT on the ref at the same time. Alex Wright in a ref shirt and back brace hits the ring. Jackknife to Buff, but there still is no ref. The Cat comes out in a ref shirt, but Alex pulls him out of the ring before the three. Cat kicks him, slides back in, and makes the count. Nash again qualifies for his title match at Superbrawl. This was short, so it didn't really have time to get bad. Nash calls out Steiner. He comes out, but we're outta time!

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Fuck it, this show was awesome. It was paced so well. Very little backstage stuff and it was all short and to the point. None of the matches were too long or too short. Only one big promo segment that people were hot for because the American Dweem. It's like a completely different group of people booked this how.
 

somedevil

Member
Totally agree, I can't STAND face Vince. He should be the conniving, back-stabbing son of a bitch we all know him to be, screwing over the faces and employing the heels to do his dirty work. If he's going to be on screen at all, it should be as a heel. Same goes for Hunter. I've spent too many years despising HHH to give a shit about him as a face now.

Basically fans love Hunter now because he doesn't appear alot. He and Jericho are in the same boat. It would take alot now to make the crowd hate them. Thats why Jericho didn't turn heel and it seems they dumped his feud with Ryback and now going towards him facing Mark Henry.
 
Speaking of wrestlemania 17. How great would it be if Vince comes out and screws rock out of the title and we get corporate cena who would do anything to beat the rock
 
Basically fans love Hunter now because he doesn't appear alot.

Pretty much. I think that also shows how much of today's audience just weren't around during the McMahon-Helmsley era.

Speaking of wrestlemania 17. How great would it be if Vince comes out and screws rock out of the title and we get corporate cena who would do anything to beat the rock

Never going to happen, which is a great shame as a heel turn is simply the only thing that could make me give a shit about John Cena.
 

Ithil

Member
Totally agree, I can't STAND face Vince. He should be the conniving, back-stabbing son of a bitch we all know him to be, screwing over the faces and employing the heels to do his dirty work. If he's going to be on screen at all, it should be as a heel. Same goes for Hunter. I've spent too many years despising HHH to give a shit about him as a face now.

Vince's face character is...a conniving, back-stabbing son of a bitch, screwing over the heels and employing the faces to do his dirty work.

...yay?
 

Johnz

Neo Member
Vince's face character is...a conniving, back-stabbing son of a bitch, screwing over the heels and employing the faces to do his dirty work.

...yay?

I mean if the heels are faces and faces are heels in the wwe, this totally makes sense..in that nothing has changed.
 
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