Triple Kelly
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Post by Triple Kelly on Dec 3, 2009 8:04:08 GMT -5
Wasn't ECW the only company that acknowledged Spiccoli's death by having all the ECW crew stand in the ring and give Spicolli a moment of silence and a 10 bell salute. And in Death of WCW, they write that after Louie's death, the doctor that prescribed Louie all the pills he overdosed on was flown to San Francisco on the company dollar for the Superbrawl PPV.
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Post by Woooooolhouse! on Dec 3, 2009 13:36:07 GMT -5
In Bobby Heenan's book, he talked about The Missing Link asking him to skip Heenan's flight and hope for a spot on Link's, just so he could get Link's airplane ticket for him, because Link's gimmick is that he doesn't talk.
Of course, no one at the airport ticket counter or security would notice him without his face painted green... but still, in his mind, no one could see him speaking like a real human being. I don't remember how, but Heenan called him on it. And- as usual- it was funny.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2009 13:45:47 GMT -5
They usually walked the line between cringeworthy and awesome, but the kayfabe appearances of WWF's wrestlers on Arsenio Hall or Regis and Kathy Lee were always something to see.
I used to wonder what people who had no idea who they were must have thought.
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Franchise
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Post by Franchise on Dec 3, 2009 15:08:44 GMT -5
Not quite the same thing, but in the main event of SummerSlam 1996, Shawn Michaels went for his elbow drop on Vader. Vader was supposed to move, but didn't, as evidenced by Michaels yelling "MOVE!!" at him directly after this. This caused Michaels to land on his feet and simply kick Vader in the head.
Vince McMahon came up with some excuse like "Michaels wasn't going to get all of that elbow from there!" or something like that.
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Post by 01010010 01101001 01100011 on Dec 3, 2009 16:35:35 GMT -5
Wasn't ECW the only company that acknowledged Spiccoli's death by having all the ECW crew stand in the ring and give Spicolli a moment of silence and a 10 bell salute. I am pretty sure that WWE ran their usual "In memory of..." graphic before RAW.
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Post by ICBM on Dec 3, 2009 23:24:54 GMT -5
wcw did run the graphic "in memory of..." as well. Thank you goes out to TRIPLE Kelly for posting the ECW salute to Louie Spicolli. I think that was all class from a roster full of wrestlers who nobody thought had any. I hadn't seen that. Thank you for sharing it
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Post by toodarkmark on Dec 3, 2009 23:51:12 GMT -5
Right WCW, because the classy thing to do is to not mentioned it when one of your young employees dies. Another fine move. Yeah it was classy and a another fine move. When they did mention it. Because that's how I found out about it. When WCW mentioned it in their tribute graphic. Touching ECW tribute though. Weird to see Bam Bam Bigelow anc Chris Candido come out to pay tribute. RIP.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Dec 4, 2009 0:14:05 GMT -5
Isn't Low Ki in character all the time? Considering he looks like a constipated ape when he's trying to look mean this can't be good. You WILL respect Low Ki! yeah, Ki does not look like a constipated ape! (warning: language)
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Dec 4, 2009 14:08:22 GMT -5
When Pillman died. The night of his tribute, a loving family man. The previous night, he was keeping Marlena as his sex slave. Ah, Crash TV.
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Post by Larryhausen on Dec 8, 2009 11:58:44 GMT -5
Wasn't ECW the only company that acknowledged Spiccoli's death by having all the ECW crew stand in the ring and give Spicolli a moment of silence and a 10 bell salute. And in Death of WCW, they write that after Louie's death, the doctor that prescribed Louie all the pills he overdosed on was flown to San Francisco on the company dollar for the Superbrawl PPV. I was at that show, about 10 feet from the "Gotta respect the wrestling!" guy. Wow, that brings back memories. RIP, Louie
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Post by Dr. Mantis Toboggan on Dec 8, 2009 13:37:48 GMT -5
In Bobby Heenan's book, he talked about The Missing Link asking him to skip Heenan's flight and hope for a spot on Link's, just so he could get Link's airplane ticket for him, because Link's gimmick is that he doesn't talk. Of course, no one at the airport ticket counter or security would notice him without his face painted green... but still, in his mind, no one could see him speaking like a real human being. I don't remember how, but Heenan called him on it. And- as usual- it was funny. He also had green hair. Heenan replied,"It's New York,no one will notice."
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Post by dannyrctv on Dec 8, 2009 13:49:56 GMT -5
He didn't mention something, and that part was not edit out on WWE Classics On Demand. I don't know what WCW deal was? They were trying to half way it, they either should not mention Louie at all, or tried to act a little respectful. They did improve when Rick Rude died, since all his time at WCW he was a despecable heel, last time he was in WCW he was an NWO member. They acknowledge his death, but didn't say anthing nice nor negative about him. They didn't give him a In Memory dedecation at the beginning of their shows. They just casual mentioned it during the broadcast of Thunder, while the WWF did a whole feature on Rude.I don't know why WCW had such an issue with showing respect for deaths of heels, WCCW handled Gino Hernandez death better. They didn't completely break kayfabe, but they showed respect at best they could. I don't remember that. Does anybody have video footage of it? In WWE's tribute to Rick Rude,talk abour breaking Kayfabe they revealed even though his wrestling persona was that of a swinging ladies man he was in fact married with kids and a devoted family man. Crushed my image because I thought he really lived the character. oh well.
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Post by Mr T L Wolf on Dec 11, 2009 1:02:20 GMT -5
When Pillman died. The night of his tribute, a loving family man. The previous night, he was keeping Marlena as his sex slave. Ah, Crash TV. The one thing I hated about that was how they followed that up. You literally went from somber kayfabe-breaking Vince informing everyone of Pillman's death to midget wrestling. Terrible, terrible booking. For worst, I would say any time both wrestlers stop to kick a fan out of the ring. I wanna kick your ass...wait, who's this guy? Let's kick his ass together! Now where were we?
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Post by TripleMerc on Dec 11, 2009 2:53:58 GMT -5
For worst, I would say any time both wrestlers stop to kick a fan out of the ring. I wanna kick your ass...wait, who's this guy? Let's kick his ass together! Now where were we? That's not a big issue for me. If I was in any sort of fight and someone else came in, I'd try to get him out, because my beef is with the dude I'm fighting, not some random drunk idiot.
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Post by fg76 on Dec 11, 2009 4:46:57 GMT -5
Not quite what is refered to in the OP but, when Louis Spicolli died, Larry Z maintained kayfabe and, it was extremely poor. Yeah, but most people have said that Nabisco is a horse's a** in real life, and according to rumors at the time - rumors I never checked on - Larry Legend laughed backstage about the guy's death and went and played golf.
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