Dave at the Movies
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 30, 2008 21:59:59 GMT -5
Does anyone remember this? Roddy Piper faced a lot of generic guys one after another to see if they were tough enough to join his team to face the nwo.
Does anyone know what match and ppv this was for and if you know where it is on youtube or somewhere else could you post it?
I believe Earthquake was one of the men who came out to wrestle him and got on the team but i'm not sure who the others were.
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Post by Jazzman on Dec 30, 2008 22:05:01 GMT -5
1997 Uncensored: Team Piper v. Team NWO v. Team WCW... it was awful
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Post by Mayonnaise on Dec 30, 2008 22:05:26 GMT -5
Goldberg was one of the jobbers Piper beat I believe.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 30, 2008 22:13:07 GMT -5
1997 Uncensored: Team Piper v. Team NWO v. Team WCW... it was awful Yeah that was the PPV but he ended up wrestling with Horesmen and not the three guys he had picked. Who were the three guys? I'm sure one was John Tenta but I have no clue who the others were.
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Post by Jazzman on Dec 30, 2008 22:17:34 GMT -5
wish I could tell ya
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Post by Square on Dec 30, 2008 22:28:46 GMT -5
off OWW: TRIANGLE ELIMINATION MATCH: Team nWo defeated Team WCW and Team Piper.. Team nWo = Hulk Hogan & Kevin Nash & Scott Hall & Randy Savage.. Team Piper = Roddy Piper & Chris Benoit & Steve McMichael & Jeff Jarrett.. Team WCW = Lex Luger & The Giant & Scott Steiner.. ~~~Hollywood Hogan was the sole survivor at the end of the match..
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 30, 2008 22:30:55 GMT -5
Goldberg was one of the jobbers Piper beat I believe. I think that's an urban legend
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Dave at the Movies
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 30, 2008 22:55:19 GMT -5
Goldberg was one of the jobbers Piper beat I believe. I think that's an urban legend this is why we need to find the footage of it and a list of all the guys who were in it.
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 30, 2008 23:04:18 GMT -5
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 30, 2008 23:26:08 GMT -5
;D Yayyy 100 points for lildude. Thanks
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Post by Mayonnaise on Dec 30, 2008 23:38:40 GMT -5
Goldberg was one of the jobbers Piper beat I believe. I think that's an urban legend So it appears to be.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 31, 2008 0:00:01 GMT -5
No Goldberg but "Horseshoe" Luther Reigns was in it!!!! And he lost to a sleeper!!!! LOL At first I thought the boxer guy was "Eugene" Nick Dinsmore but i'm pretty sure it wasn't. It looked like a no name. I recognized the guy after the boxer though. It is some martial arts guy that I have seen before but I don't know where. Notice how all the generic guys who didn't make it were wearing jeans. LOL
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Dec 31, 2008 0:41:18 GMT -5
I always wondered why Piper went through this song and dance when he was just going to ditch them a week later anyway when some better options showed up. Made no sense.
And the answer "It was WCW" won't cut it here.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 31, 2008 0:47:30 GMT -5
I always wondered why Piper went through this song and dance when he was just going to ditch them a week later anyway when some better options showed up. Made no sense. And the answer "It was WCW" won't cut it here. Actually it kind of does cut it. WCW thought it would be cool and I have to agree it was an interesting new idea but the fact is if you watch the video you can clearly see that the two guys that aren't the former Earthquake get booed to hell. Even Tenta didn't get a real big response which I'm guessing they thought he would for some strange reason. I think an angle like that would work in a indy promotion like ROH because the fans would be more into new guys they haven't seen before(or it would be guys they have seen before in other indy groups) but to do an angle like that in WCW or WWF at the time they should have known that no name guys would get booed out of the building.
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Dec 31, 2008 0:53:30 GMT -5
I always wondered why Piper went through this song and dance when he was just going to ditch them a week later anyway when some better options showed up. Made no sense. And the answer "It was WCW" won't cut it here. Actually it kind of does cut it. WCW thought it would be cool and I have to agree it was an interesting new idea but the fact is if you watch the video you can clearly see that the two guys that aren't the former Earthquake get booed to hell. Even Tenta didn't get a real big response which I'm guessing they thought he would for some strange reason. I think an angle like that would work in a indy promotion like ROH because the fans would be more into new guys they haven't seen before(or it would be guys they have seen before in other indy groups) but to do an angle like that in WCW or WWF at the time they should have known that no name guys would get booed out of the building. They tried it with Goldberg, and I don't remember a massive ovation when he beat Hugh Morris. That didn't happen until the WCW spin machine drilled into our heads 15 times every week. There was a very good chance that angle could have fallen on it's face. It didn't, but the possibility was always there. They could have done it with these guys but it would have been a pretty tough sell as these two no namers were pretty lousy and Quake, bless him, was on the downslide.
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Post by FrankGotch on Dec 31, 2008 1:01:56 GMT -5
For a guy who was supposedly a golden gloves champ, Piper sure boxes like a toughman reject.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 31, 2008 4:05:15 GMT -5
Does anyone know who the martial arts guy was? Or the boxer?
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Post by efarns on Dec 31, 2008 8:46:39 GMT -5
I read somewhere . . . I think it was the interview he gave for Wrestleline . . . his idea was to bring in a bunch of rough looking guys in kilts and bill them as the rest of the clan from the old country, but they changed the idea to what made it to TV. He figured he could make it work, and when it didn't, they just scrapped the idea entirely.
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Post by mrjl on Dec 31, 2008 10:49:36 GMT -5
I always wondered why Piper went through this song and dance when he was just going to ditch them a week later anyway when some better options showed up. Made no sense. And the answer "It was WCW" won't cut it here. I imagine the in story reason is because he didn't know the better options would show up
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Post by Dr. Marzvon Zombie M.D. on Dec 31, 2008 11:08:55 GMT -5
I like at the end how Piper pretty much named one of Vince's PPV's. "YOU KNOW WHAT NWO STANDS FOR HOGAN, NO, WAY,OUT!!!"
Kind of funny when you think about it.
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