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September Wrasslin' |OT| Almost Brings a tear to my eye
- Thread starter Sibersk Esto
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bitesnintendog
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I felt bad for DDP when he just had a whole panel of guys telling him WCW sucked the whole time on the celebrity episode. You know they must still be salty that LT didn't workout for them like Rodman and Malone did for WCW.
That was the first eye opening to JR being a bit of a cunt.
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
No misogyny under my reign. This will be a progressive Wrasslin community
BronsonLee
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And he knew it too, so he cut JR off at the pass about it. And JR still wouldn't let that shit drop even after hearing the deetz. JR was a real dick on that panel
...The fuck you mean your reign, BOY *sits on space throne*
That powerbomb was BONKERS
That match made my dad a wrestling fan for like 10 minutes. And when Benoit hit that powerbomb, my mother stood next to my dad like:
Dark Ninja
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I want to see a legends of wrestling roundtable where Flair sits there alone with 6 empty chairs and just goes off for an hour.
BFIB
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I think the part I love the most about anything involving WCW in the late 90's is how WWE constantly reminds us of how terrible everything was ran, and how the company collapsed.
But watching these Nitros, it was way, way better than anything the WWF was doing at the time. Clearly the superior product. Even though WWE would never admit it.
But watching these Nitros, it was way, way better than anything the WWF was doing at the time. Clearly the superior product. Even though WWE would never admit it.
Carnby
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This week's topic: Things WWE actually did right in the past decade.
For sure. But WCW really fell off a cliff around mid 1998 and never recovered. By mid 1999 they were garbage and only got worse and worse until a brief kind of okay last 3 months.
BFIB
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To me, Halloween Havoc '98 is where it went off the cliff.
lovely ladies
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There should be a roundtable on who convinced Vince that it was a good idea to have guest hosts for Raw in '09/'10.
Which is hilarious as it's the only really great PPV main event during the entire boom period of WCW.
Road Wild 1998 is the real oh shit, they don't know what they are doing for me moment when I watched it as a youth.
Sibersk Esto
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lol sheetz:
Talk about manufacturing a story where this isn't one. How about he's a jobber and Rusev has been destroying jobbers for, oh, I dunno, 8 months now?
lol yeah since when is Ryder NOT a jobber. Meltzerz at it again
Serpentine
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Meltzerz is saying that Ryder was totally booked to win that match before he went off on Twitter
British Monsoon
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Lawler vs Kauffman? Had a better build, at least. And Kauffman took his fair share of bumps;
lol sheetz:
Talk about manufacturing a story where this isn't one. How about he's a jobber and Rusev has been destroying jobbers for, oh, I dunno, 8 months now?
I don't recall the last jobber match Rusev had. He's been in matches with Swagger and the like for a few months now.
All I got from that shoot was piper rambling about nothing and hogan trying to figure out how to sell piper's yapping.
Arrowgigantic
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Andy Kaufman is the gold standard, ten levels above anything a celebrity has ever done.
Dark Ninja
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Win by DQ probably. Ryder has been getting the message for years now nothing is changing. They are all essentially jobbers for Cena and Roman Reign (soon) anyways.
bitesnintendog
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lol sheetz:
Talk about manufacturing a story where this isn't one. How about he's a jobber and Rusev has been destroying jobbers for, oh, I dunno, 8 months now?
Ryder being on Raw even in a squash is a win for him so the story doesn't even make sense that way.
BronsonLee
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You can't fool me again, motherfucker!
Also this CHIKARA article on Vice is astoundingly terrible
Sibersk Esto
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Sandow isn't jobbing, he's just ahead of the curve
To me wcw went off a cliff when there were more factions than a fire pro wrestling game :/. You had ravens flock, nwo white, nwo wolfpack, lwo, wcw, no limit soldiers, the texas rednecks, etc. It was mind-boggling.
The one thing that kills me about wcw is the fact that they had a godtier roster in 1998 and fucked it up with that nwo shit. It reminds me of when wwe had that goat roster in 2002-2004 only for triple h to bury half of the roster and smackdown actually turning the leftovers into a world wide feast.
I enjoyed Mayweather/Show but yeah, Lawler/Kauffman is still the top dog for celebrity matches.
Advanced jobbing is still jobbing. They learned he could do comedy and he will never rise above it.
BronsonLee
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Mayweather and Kauffman are tied to me.
Kauffman's performance was longer and such, but Mayweather performed in front of a hell of a lot of people. Big time stuff.
Kauffman's performance was longer and such, but Mayweather performed in front of a hell of a lot of people. Big time stuff.
He's still had some jobber squashes here and there in between matches with Swagger.
British Monsoon
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I knew you'd love it. So much cringe.
Incidentally, anyone else kinda underwhelmed by the King of Trios line-up? What an awful team for Kimber Lee to be in.
Austin, Rock, Jericho, Angle, Edge, and Cena all did plenty of comedy.
Sibersk Esto
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Diet "Lanny 'The Genius" Poffo" was funnier to me than diet Charlie Hass
BronsonLee
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The ultimate goddamn cringe. They've gone off the deep end, and bad. Their original narrative got fucked, so now here's their attempts to shape it again.
RE: Your question;
Dark Ninja
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I guess being an assist character is better than going out there and jobbing every day
Anything involving Big Show after 2003 or so sucks.
Sibersk Esto
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Post return Big Show hasn't done anything to top it yet except maybe Jerishow.
Although he loses points for that ugly ass goatee he had during that era
That was probably my favorite wrestlemania 24 match next to flair/hbk. Mayweather gets shit on daily but no denying he entertains those that want to see his ass get kicked.
BFIB
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That '98 roster was stacked for sure in WCW. Its a shame that background politics and no one person in charge could right the ship. I was always a WWF guy, even through the shitty 94-late 96 end, but upon reflection, WCW had a tremendous run.
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British Monsoon
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UGH. So bad.
Lol, fuckin' Vince Russo getting exasperated at having to repeatedly tell wrestling nerds that "matches don't draw". Maybe your opinion is met with such incredulity, Vince, because the people you're talking to DO tune in for the actual fucking wrestling?
I'm seriously struggling to maintain any interest in the promotion, which is weird, because it wasn't too many years ago that I was in this very goddamn thread writing up the history of the whole Eye of Tyr shit and genuinely enjoying the product and the storyline. I think the main difference between now and then is that, back then, you could go months without the Eye of Tyr being mentioned and the storyline, such as it was, seemed more for the hardcore fan who followed every show. Now, it seems the storyline stuff pervades everything, which makes sense given the scale of current events with this super faction 'The Flood', but it's doing absolutely nothing for me.
Also, evidently some people are enjoying it, lots of people going in HARD at Voices of Wrestling on my twitter timeline currently because they dared insinuate that CHIKARA's business is down after the 'shut down' and the product's pretty hard to stomach outside of a live setting. Apparently they (and many CHIKARA dissenters) have 'an agenda' against CHIKARA, lol.
Lol, fuckin' Vince Russo getting exasperated at having to repeatedly tell wrestling nerds that "matches don't draw". Maybe your opinion is met with such incredulity, Vince, because the people you're talking to DO tune in for the actual fucking wrestling?
I'm seriously struggling to maintain any interest in the promotion, which is weird, because it wasn't too many years ago that I was in this very goddamn thread writing up the history of the whole Eye of Tyr shit and genuinely enjoying the product and the storyline. I think the main difference between now and then is that, back then, you could go months without the Eye of Tyr being mentioned and the storyline, such as it was, seemed more for the hardcore fan who followed every show. Now, it seems the storyline stuff pervades everything, which makes sense given the scale of current events with this super faction 'The Flood', but it's doing absolutely nothing for me.
Also, evidently some people are enjoying it, lots of people going in HARD at Voices of Wrestling on my twitter timeline currently because they dared insinuate that CHIKARA's business is down after the 'shut down' and the product's pretty hard to stomach outside of a live setting. Apparently they (and many CHIKARA dissenters) have 'an agenda' against CHIKARA, lol.
British Monsoon
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TNA's popularity, represented by Google Trends;
LOL! That Hogan/Bischoff effect (they debuted January 2010).
LOL! That Hogan/Bischoff effect (they debuted January 2010).
slightconfuse
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Young bucks need to comeback
We might give Hogan shit about a lot of things but it's impossible to exaggerate just what an icon he really is.
Hell the WWE went to Japan recently on that signing tour and the only one they truly popped for was the Hulkster. In limited roles he is still useful.
Hell the whole TNA/Spike feud that eventually lead to this whole situation was Spike being pissed that TNA got rid of Hogan and to a lesser extent Sting.
Hell the WWE went to Japan recently on that signing tour and the only one they truly popped for was the Hulkster. In limited roles he is still useful.
Hell the whole TNA/Spike feud that eventually lead to this whole situation was Spike being pissed that TNA got rid of Hogan and to a lesser extent Sting.
They did comedy when they were already over tho.
UberTag
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Why did you bother putting soon in brackets for Reigns?
Dude's been protected as fuck since he got called up.
They've always been jobbing to him.
If CM Punk and Daniel Bryan were still around they'd have lost clean to him in singles matches by now.
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