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Post by motormouf on Apr 22, 2009 22:04:17 GMT -5
What some of the strange facts / coincidences in the WWE or wreslting in genreal i guess?
1)Chavo uses the frog splash as his finisher, a move he too k from his late uncle and ex tag team partner Eddie Guererro. Eddie took that move from his friend and tag team partner the late Art Barr (i think thats it)
Chris Benoit was called the rabid wolverine. Rabies is a disease wwhich sents its victims in sane to the point where they will attack and kill anyone else even those familiar to them and it eventually causes death. And you can see the rest
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Post by Mantaurded on Apr 22, 2009 22:05:28 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan was a cartoon
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Post by Mr. Nice on Apr 22, 2009 22:06:43 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrero getting put in a coffin for a storyline in the latest video game that was released 10 days before his actual death.
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Post by El Kabongs Revenge on Apr 22, 2009 22:12:43 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrero getting put in a coffin for a storyline in the latest video game that was released 10 days before his actual death. I remember playing that like 2 days after his death. Not having heard about it, I was shocked. Just stared at the screen thinkin "No way".
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Apr 22, 2009 22:42:32 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrero getting put in a coffin for a storyline in the latest video game that was released 10 days before his actual death. I was never that creeped out by a video game before. Like the poster above me, I played the storyline a mere few days after Eddie's death, and it freaked me out.
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Post by George Harrison on Apr 23, 2009 5:31:42 GMT -5
What some of the strange facts / coincidences in the WWE or wreslting in genreal i guess? 1)Chavo uses the frog splash as his finisher, a move he too k from his late uncle and ex tag team partner Eddie Guererro. Eddie took that move from his friend and tag team partner the late Art Barr (i think thats it) Chris Benoit was called the rabid wolverine. Rabies is a disease wwhich sents its victims in sane to the point where they will attack and kill anyone else even those familiar to them and it eventually causes death. And you can see the rest The second one isn't really a coincidence, as the term rabid fit his character. It's around the same as saying Shawn Michaels was once a kid who had his heart broken. But the Eddie - Smackdown game ones were eerie, aswell as the promo WWE had for something, and it said something about "..& they will die..." just as Eddie comes on the screen. This was months before, but there was a thread here I think about it. Sad.
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Post by Paul E. Funk on Apr 23, 2009 5:41:13 GMT -5
When Raws shown live over here when it goes to break it shows the sponsor ad as a lead in to the break. They had the ad's for that game showing during the Eddie Tribute Raw and several times they showed the clip of the all new casket match on the game (I don't think it was Eddie in the casket) but I recall it still caused a few complaints as it could have easily been replaced for sensitivity reason.
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Post by RBD on Apr 23, 2009 5:47:13 GMT -5
It's not really a coincidence, but I'm sure I wasn't the only one who just had that feeling that a real-life death in the industry was really going coincide with the timing of the McMahon death angle. I thought that I had been unfortunately proven right and the worst had happened with the death of Sensational Sherri, but then it became even more ugly with you-know-what.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Apr 23, 2009 6:14:06 GMT -5
What some of the strange facts / coincidences in the WWE or wreslting in genreal i guess? 1)Chavo uses the frog splash as his finisher, a move he too k from his late uncle and ex tag team partner Eddie Guererro. Eddie took that move from his friend and tag team partner the late Art Barr (i think thats it) Chris Benoit was called the rabid wolverine. Rabies is a disease wwhich sents its victims in sane to the point where they will attack and kill anyone else even those familiar to them and it eventually causes death. And you can see the rest The second one isn't really a coincidence, as the term rabid fit his character. It's around the same as saying Shawn Michaels was once a kid who had his heart broken. Considering what Benoit did at the end of his life, I'd consider it an eerie coincidence.
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Post by Metalheadbanger Man on Apr 23, 2009 6:48:01 GMT -5
I dunno if its a coincidence, but now when I watch ONS 2005 and hear the "Its a shame he didn't succeed in taking his own life!" comment, it makes me kinda sad.
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Post by Flo360 on Apr 23, 2009 7:23:53 GMT -5
I dunno if its a coincidence, but now when I watch ONS 2005 and hear the "Its a shame he didn't succeed in taking his own life!" comment, it makes me kinda sad. Yeah I know what you mean. I always cringe when Joey says that. Unfortunatly this is also one of my favorite Mike Awesome matches ever.(Because it`s simply Awesome. ) So I have to hear the comment quite often. Also note to self: "If you get to become a Pro Wrestler NEVER EVER use the Frogsplash."
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 23, 2009 7:29:23 GMT -5
The World's Greatest Tag Team once lost to....The Bashams (The Worlds most Boring Tag Team).
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Post by whatamaneuver on Apr 23, 2009 8:07:12 GMT -5
There is something in Bret Hart's book about the 'Independence Day Curse' in wrestling, where people either died or got seriously injured for a few years straight on July 4..
Looking around on the net I can't see much evidence but I'm sure there was like 5 successive years where something tragic happened. Adrian Adonis, Moondog Nathan and Joey Marella all definitely died on that day.
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Post by Woooooolhouse! on Apr 23, 2009 9:08:57 GMT -5
There is something in Bret Hart's book about the 'Independence Day Curse' in wrestling, where people either died or got seriously injured for a few years straight on July 4.. Looking around on the net I can't see much evidence but I'm sure there was like 5 successive years where something tragic happened. Adrian Adonis, Moondog Nathan and Joey Marella all definitely died on that day. He also mentions the Brutus Beefcake parasailing accident that ended his career (more or less) that also occurred on July 4th. And I heard that the Undertaker was once attacked by a Middle-Eastern-looking Italian and some other "terrorists" on the same day something like that really happened in London . . .
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Post by Jay Carroll on Apr 23, 2009 10:03:59 GMT -5
There is something in Bret Hart's book about the 'Independence Day Curse' in wrestling, where people either died or got seriously injured for a few years straight on July 4.. Looking around on the net I can't see much evidence but I'm sure there was like 5 successive years where something tragic happened. Adrian Adonis, Moondog Nathan and Joey Marella all definitely died on that day. He also mentions the Brutus Beefcake parasailing accident that ended his career (more or less) that also occurred on July 4th. And I heard that the Undertaker was once attacked by a Middle-Eastern-looking Italian and some other "terrorists" on the same day something like that really happened in London . . . Well to be fair to the WWE, they did shoot the angle 2 days before the London Underground bombings, and the angle would have raised considerable eyebrows regardless due to the imagery of persons dressed in Islamic clothing assaulting someone in a post 9/11 world. So its basically an example of how the WWE's attempt to push the envelope would have failed irregardless, the London Underground bombings just added to it.
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Post by George Harrison on Apr 23, 2009 10:06:01 GMT -5
There is something in Bret Hart's book about the 'Independence Day Curse' in wrestling, where people either died or got seriously injured for a few years straight on July 4.. Looking around on the net I can't see much evidence but I'm sure there was like 5 successive years where something tragic happened. Adrian Adonis, Moondog Nathan and Joey Marella all definitely died on that day. He also mentions the Brutus Beefcake parasailing accident that ended his career (more or less) that also occurred on July 4th. And I heard that the Undertaker was once attacked by a Middle-Eastern-looking Italian and some other "terrorists" on the same day something like that really happened in London . . . this was the 7-7 bombings of 05, not the 4th.
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Post by George Harrison on Apr 23, 2009 10:07:20 GMT -5
The second one isn't really a coincidence, as the term rabid fit his character. It's around the same as saying Shawn Michaels was once a kid who had his heart broken. Considering what Benoit did at the end of his life, I'd consider it an eerie coincidence. I really wouldnt. It just happened that way, Im sure someone said that during a dive out the ring he must have almost killed himself, does that make it a coincidence that he actually did? It's too loose to associate.
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Post by Woooooolhouse! on Apr 23, 2009 10:07:39 GMT -5
It was included as an additional coincidence, not an additional July 4th coincidence. Anyway, it is disqualified from the running, as in this case the WWE filmed first and the world caused the coincidence, not the other way around.
Woolhouse apologizes for the error.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2009 10:18:21 GMT -5
There is something in Bret Hart's book about the 'Independence Day Curse' in wrestling, where people either died or got seriously injured for a few years straight on July 4.. Looking around on the net I can't see much evidence but I'm sure there was like 5 successive years where something tragic happened. Adrian Adonis, Moondog Nathan and Joey Marella all definitely died on that day. And Davey Boy Smith was seriously injured in an auto accident on that same day. Same type of accident as the one that claimed Adonis; a van traveling in the Canadian backwoods rolled over to avoid hitting a moose. One strange occurrence that happened after Owen had his fatal plunge: to fill time, they replayed the angles in which Vince was carried out on a stretcher and the Rock bashed in a casket with a baseball bat. There was a huge uproar in the IWC over that lapse in judgment.
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Post by George Harrison on Apr 23, 2009 10:28:41 GMT -5
There is something in Bret Hart's book about the 'Independence Day Curse' in wrestling, where people either died or got seriously injured for a few years straight on July 4.. Looking around on the net I can't see much evidence but I'm sure there was like 5 successive years where something tragic happened. Adrian Adonis, Moondog Nathan and Joey Marella all definitely died on that day. And Davey Boy Smith was seriously injured in an auto accident on that same day. Same type of accident as the one that claimed Adonis; a van traveling in the Canadian backwoods rolled over to avoid hitting a moose. One strange occurrence that happened after Owen had his fatal plunge: to fill time, they replayed the angles in which Vince was carried out on a stretcher and the Rock bashed in a casket with a baseball bat. There was a huge uproar in the IWC over that lapse in judgment. Was the IWC so big in 1998?
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