EricHasNoPull
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Just curious...are these the same girl? (when she was younger)
The Rock says..
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brianjones
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dude.. what?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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He looks weird with the shaved head. Also, he look more jacked than he ever did before but may just be bad memory.
XiaNaphryz said:
They are starting to release Season DVD's, and they have other wrestler collections but they all suck ass.
DVD's that are entirely old matches and stuff are censored and dubbed over piles of crap. Cussing? Gone. Entrance music? Dubbed over with generic garbage so they don't have to pay a rights fee. etc.
Documentaries on the other hand are amazing. The behind the scenes stuff and one on one interviews are all magical.
I might watch the WWE again now that The Rock is back. Cena fans (any left?) should be happy this isn't a heel Rock taking him on. Face Rock is still gonna verbally pummel Cena but a heel Rocky would absolutely bury him.
I've been trying to figure out why the return. He doesn't need the money. Vince couldn't afford to pay him anything close to what he makes on movies. He doesn't really need the work either as he has plenty of movies. We can laugh at his Disney movies like The Tooth Fairy but that actually pulled in a decent amount worldwide. Maybe he really is coming back because he loves the WWE. Hogan and Austin might be ranked ahead of him overall, but in terms of embodying the whole package between wrestling and entertainment no one does it better. Rock is the perfect symbol for what WWE stands.
I haven't watched wrestling the last five years, and my main concern is there anyone who can even hang with him? Austin and Hogan are icons and heel Rock helped make both of them even more famous than what they were. The quality of the opponent really goes down when we look at Cena and then the rest of the WWE roster.
I've been trying to figure out why the return. He doesn't need the money. Vince couldn't afford to pay him anything close to what he makes on movies. He doesn't really need the work either as he has plenty of movies. We can laugh at his Disney movies like The Tooth Fairy but that actually pulled in a decent amount worldwide. Maybe he really is coming back because he loves the WWE. Hogan and Austin might be ranked ahead of him overall, but in terms of embodying the whole package between wrestling and entertainment no one does it better. Rock is the perfect symbol for what WWE stands.
I haven't watched wrestling the last five years, and my main concern is there anyone who can even hang with him? Austin and Hogan are icons and heel Rock helped make both of them even more famous than what they were. The quality of the opponent really goes down when we look at Cena and then the rest of the WWE roster.
Discotheque
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brianjones said:
He just wants an excuse to fap to the girl from race to witch mountain
yes it is the same girl....lol i'm joking i'm joking don't do anything funny
Baraka in the White House
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If my WWE watching days serve me well Austin make a quiet exit from the show after being out of action for long stretches of time due to knee surgeries, I think.
If true, that really doesn't bode well for his return.
If true, that really doesn't bode well for his return.
The Antitype
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Kak.efes said:
Cena is no longer a wannabe rapper. He's now a slightly updated version of Hulk Hogan, and just as bland. He started off as a wannabe rapper when he was heel. His raps were so funny that they started getting over. Eventually he turned face (because the crowd cheered so much), and dropped the rapping and over-the-top thug thing. He did keep some of the grittier references to hip hop culture in his promos and attitude though, and there was a time between 2005 and 2006 when he was actually legitimately popular and pretty entertaining.
Two problems. First of all, the WWE roster was pretty thin back then, so there weren't many bad guys that people really cared about to put against Cena. They saved HHH and Jericho for the big PPVs, but even they were almost on the cusp of being faces themselves at that point. The second problem was that WWE wanted to start skewing younger, and Cena, being the face of the company, had to go really kid friendly. No edgy promos, no overtly aggressive actions, nothing. Just basically 'I'll never quit' - that was his character, and he brought out a bunch of new, boring catchphrases.
Kids love him. Women love his body. Everybody else hates him. He is however, by all accounts, a really decent guy in person and somebody that loves the company and the business and will do whatever he can to help it.
The Miz calls himself that cause it's the first syllable in a last name that's absurdly difficult to pronounce. Miz is actually an interesting character, because he was on some reality tv show at one point, and then we went on the WWE's reality tv show Tough Enough.
So naturally people figured he was just some reality show whore trying to get as much out of the genre as he could before it fizzled out and people stopped caring. But it turns out, the guy was actually a huge wrestling fan, worked his ass off, and while he didn't win, he still got a contract.
His character is pretty funny, he's basically a delusional narcissist who thinks he's the greatest thing ever. His catch phrase is 'I'm the Miz, and I'm AWESOME' which is so ridiculously stupid that OBVIOUSLY the crowd ate it up.
As is usually the case, the champ is the guy that is getting most reaction of either type (positive or negative). Miz has been getting more and more heat every month he's been on television. He's kind of like Jericho in that he gets over even when he loses. So obviously he's being positioned to take on the biggest face in the company, Cena. Who kids and women love but pretty much everybody else hates.
That's a rough summary of the two.
Yousefb said:
I didn't even know Santino was a face now. Why the hell did they turn him face? He's like, the epitome of what a heel should be (foreign, talks kinda funny, hates America).
Like most people in here, I haven't watched WWE in years. I think the last time I watched was when Jimmy Kimmel's Cousin Sal was going to wrestle Santino. The Rock coming back will definitely make me watch again, though.
TOM f'N CRUISE
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Bradshaw(APA) with his best Closeline from hell on Billy Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDY_c_r7vSw
Shane taking it outside the ring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzFPNDLdaI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDY_c_r7vSw
Shane taking it outside the ring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzFPNDLdaI&feature=related
I have no idea if this has been posted, but here's The Rock concert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mfFNyQRirY
What makes this video even funnier to me is Jerry Lawler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mfFNyQRirY
What makes this video even funnier to me is Jerry Lawler.
The Antitype
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Atlagev said:
That's one of the interesting things about pro wrestling - the writers only have so much control. If the fans love a performer or a character so much that they start cheering for him, then the writers can't keep putting him in a heel role, cause it will only hurt the face he's being put up against.
Santino was turned face on account of fans cheering the hell out of the guy cause he was so hilarious.
Same reason Randy Orton was turned face. Likewise for Edge (twice).
Unfortunately for the latter two, the elements that MADE those characters popular in the first place were quickly stripped out in accordance with WWE's unofficial 'babyfaces must be excellent role models' mandate. The only exception was for when Jericho needed to be written off the show...then Randy Orton was allowed to get his career-ending head-kicking mojo on in face mode.
The Rock needs to be a villain again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM9ttVpL3ZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM9ttVpL3ZI
XiaNaphryz
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Rewatching the clip from RAW last night, I don't think I've heard a pop that huge at a non-PPV since this Jericho/HHH match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Su_XnbpDM&hd=1#t=13m10s
ryutaro's mama
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RedSwirl said:
Best Wrestling game ever was WWF No Mercy for N64.
Not up for debate, as it it a fact.
The Antitype
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While we're on the topic of Rock memories, I still remember the moment that the 'Rocky sucks' chants that had been going on since 1996 changed to chants of simply, 'Rocky'.
SummerSlam 1998, MSG, ladder match with HHH.
Rocky was giving as good as he was getting, and doing it with the kind of swagger that stars are made of.
New York crowds are always a little ahead of the curve (it seems) when it comes to the next wave (they were the ones who booed Bret Hart and cheered Stone Cold at Survivor Series 2 years earlier), but in this case, I think they just happened to be in attendance for the moment when everybody figured out 'hey, this guy is pretty fucking awesome'.
SummerSlam 1998, MSG, ladder match with HHH.
Rocky was giving as good as he was getting, and doing it with the kind of swagger that stars are made of.
New York crowds are always a little ahead of the curve (it seems) when it comes to the next wave (they were the ones who booed Bret Hart and cheered Stone Cold at Survivor Series 2 years earlier), but in this case, I think they just happened to be in attendance for the moment when everybody figured out 'hey, this guy is pretty fucking awesome'.
brianjones
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ryutaro's mama said:
truth
i could never understand how wrestling games kept getting worse after that
TOM f'N CRUISE
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yeah
I stopped watching wrestling around 2001 because I lost interest in it, but The Rock was always one of my favorites. Just a highly entertaining dude. I still remember when he came in as blue-chipper Rocky Maivia.
The whole John Cena/Batista/whatever era is completely alien to me.
The whole John Cena/Batista/whatever era is completely alien to me.
Discotheque
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Lebron said:
Yeah, haha I know this is too much but I'm praying for some sort of revolution here. Once the people get another taste of the people's champ how will they be able to go back to this shit:
deVIZtator
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I just can't believe how many former fans Vince brought back with just one signing. This makes me think there is hope for the WWE now.
brianjones
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the miz lol
i remember that douche on the real world road rules challanges
i remember that douche on the real world road rules challanges
ryutaro's mama
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brianjones said:
Being as to play are the referee and do the fast count or slow count on your friends was fucking gold.
That shit (behind only Gauntlet notifying us of who exactly shot the food) was the biggest troll injection into gaming.
That had to have broken up friendships.
It had to.
deVIZtator
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I thought I heard talk of him just being backstage now. Nonetheless, everyone marked out.Jin34 said:
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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So The Miz is just a douche? That's, like, his character?
undrtakr900
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This is wrong but made me :lol
Tell me about it. Michaels was hands down the most charismatic and creative wrestler there has ever been. Sorry Rock fans. As much as I appreciated The Rock in the beginning, his act and one liners became so repetitive I could barely stand it when he came on screen anymore. One of my favorite matches in WWF history is Hogan vs. Rock at Wrestlemania, simply because his shtick had become so old at that point that after years of sounding like a broken record, the fans finally started to boo him.The Antitype said:
This gives me so many wonderful flashbacks of late 1997.
Young, obnoxious, over-sexed, under-disciplined HBK was so awesome. I'm sure he was a fucking nightmare to work with, but my god his subversive energy roared out of the television.
The Rock was really entertaining early on starting as a heel and during the first few months or so of him becoming a crowd favorite, but he just wasn't able to stay fresh and come up with new material.
ryutaro's mama
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thirty said:
I think you answered your own question.
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