TGM
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Post by TGM on Mar 15, 2012 19:54:53 GMT -5
- seeing The Repo Man vs. Papa Shango as a boy. Heel vs. heel amazed me. - Asylum Match between Rick and Scott Steiner in WCW. Basically a cage where you have to make the other submit. Ended in a no contest. - Arnold Schwarzenegger appearing on RAW sometime in 1999. - Steve Austin: "If you put the letter 'S' in front of 'Hitman', you have my opinion of Bret Hart." - Al Snow as European Champion, playing a different stereotype each week. - Bob Holly and Big Show tag team. - Kevin Kelly saying Kai En Tai was a Japanese translation of DeGeneration X. - Kai En Tai being EVIL. - Tiger Ali Singh's manager Babu kidnapping Al Snow's Head. - Crush having a tattoo on his head. - Chris Master breaking Stevie Richard's nose. - Shawn Stasiak running into walls. - Garrison Cade and Mark Jindrak as a tag team.
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JDviant
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Post by JDviant on Mar 15, 2012 20:01:41 GMT -5
KURT ANGLE'S CHAMPIONSHIP POEM!
It was the night after this first ever WWF title win, and he comes down to the ring with Stephanie and there's pyro and ballyhoo. And he reads a poem. I only remember something like this:
Champions come in more then red white and blue They also come in gold, oh its true its true.
I asked the forum for help and got nadda.
My next two are midget related.
One is Regal suplexing a midget. Must be from 2000 or so. Funniest thing I've ever seen.
Second is when the juniors were around. They're already pretty forgotten, but there was one segment that killed me. Booker and Sharmell are freaked out by the little people being silly, when from off-screen you hear "MISTERRRRRRRRRR KENNEDDY!" Then Kennedy walks up to them and goes "KENNEDY!" It was just stupid and funny.
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Post by willywonka666 on Mar 15, 2012 21:09:11 GMT -5
The night Austin first stunned McMahon(I think it was MSG with cactus Jack making his debut as well) anyway it was right after the war games ppv where Henning turned on the Horseman and injured Flair and Schiavone walked off the set because he was so upset.
Anyway J.R. was explaining that McMahon got stunned and how the show would go on and they wouldn't sit and cry about it and mocked Schiavone with a "boo hoo" it was funny but i don't know if anyone else noticed it
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Lila
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Post by Lila on Mar 16, 2012 0:31:59 GMT -5
My avatar. Most wouldn't enjoy it without knowing how good friends Undertaker and Godfather are. Plus it doesn't help that according to Bearer, Undertaker was a heavy partier.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Mar 16, 2012 0:37:22 GMT -5
I remember a segment on Impact (in 2008, I think?) where Kurt Angle was talking with the Beautiful People. They were scheduled to be in a tag match later that night and Kurt was appalled that the girls were just putting makeup on instead of preparing for the match. Velvet's defense was that the Beautiful People had a reputation to uphold (you know, being beautiful and all). Kurt's response was, "I have a reputation too...I'M A BAD ASS! Now get your asses up and do some squats or something!" At the time, I thought it was hilarious.
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Post by Chainsaw on Mar 16, 2012 1:15:39 GMT -5
I remember a segment on Impact (in 2008, I think?) where Kurt Angle was talking with the Beautiful People. They were scheduled to be in a tag match later that night and Kurt was appalled that the girls were just putting makeup on instead of preparing for the match. Velvet's defense was that the Beautiful People had a reputation to uphold (you know, being beautiful and all). Kurt's response was, "I have a reputation too...I'M A BAD ASS! Now get your asses up and do some squats or something!" At the time, I thought it was hilarious. And also, "SCREW YOUR BOOBS!!"
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Post by gazometer on Mar 16, 2012 6:16:04 GMT -5
Crash Holly defending the Hardcore belt 24/7.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2012 6:59:34 GMT -5
Does anybody remember the mid-90's AWF? It had a rounds system, and had a bunch of guys who were names in the WWF in the 80's (Tito Santana, who was the champ, Bob Orton Jr., Sgt. Slaughter, Greg Valentine, Nikolai Volkoff, Iron Sheik, and a bunch of jobbers). It was bad. Especially having a rounds system-when has that ever been a thing in the US?! Don't forget Missy Hyatt as a backstage announcer. From "The Walking Riot" in harlot gear getting beer dumped on her and licked off by the Sandman in ECW, to "Sgt. Slaughter is my hero" in the AWF. (Something about that didn't wash with me.) Tito Santana, the fighting-est World champion ever! They would tell us each and every week that Tito was on tour wrestling at all these exotic locations, like Japan, Singapore, the Middle East, Australia. (We all knew that was a load of BS.) Yes sir, I remember they even ran a few house shows. (Mainly in Minnesota, but one came here to Hammond for some odd reason. I didn't go because THEY DIDN'T ADVERTISE!) One week they had the tag team champions Greg Valentine & Bob Orton Jr. doing an interview with their fat rotund manager Rico Suave. (Think Jim Cornette with even worse fashion sense.) Greg and Bob both had their backs to the camera because "the fans didn't deserve to see their faces". (No, it was because Greg Valentine wasn't there and they inserted fat-ass Tommy Rich in his place.) They "feuded" with the Road Warriors. (Yes, THOSE Road Warriors. I put it in quotes because I don't think they ever had a match.) One time, Hawk cut a promo on Rico that went something like this: "Rico Suave, there's a rumor that you're so fat, you sat on a quarter and a booger came out of George Washington's nose." (CORRECTION: Bob never held the tag titles with Greg, it was Greg & Tommy. One week TOMMY wasn't there (probably drunk or in ECW) and they had somebody else stand in for him during the promo I mentioned. Oops.) Paul Alperstein was the owner. Funny thing was, he wasn't shooting for PPV like every other promotion. He actually thought a better idea was to sell discs to fans, so we can watch through our computers, because "syndicated TV" was a thing of the past. (And syndication was more expensive.) Not DVDs or CD-ROMs. Floppies. He expected us to pay $3 a week for a floppy disc of the week's program. And he was going to make money that way.
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Post by willywonka666 on Mar 16, 2012 8:32:56 GMT -5
Does anybody remember the mid-90's AWF? It had a rounds system, and had a bunch of guys who were names in the WWF in the 80's (Tito Santana, who was the champ, Bob Orton Jr., Sgt. Slaughter, Greg Valentine, Nikolai Volkoff, Iron Sheik, and a bunch of jobbers). It was bad. Especially having a rounds system-when has that ever been a thing in the US?! Don't forget Missy Hyatt as a backstage announcer. From "The Walking Riot" in harlot gear getting beer dumped on her and licked off by the Sandman in ECW, to "Sgt. Slaughter is my hero" in the AWF. (Something about that didn't wash with me.) Tito Santana, the fighting-est World champion ever! They would tell us each and every week that Tito was on tour wrestling at all these exotic locations, like Japan, Singapore, the Middle East, Australia. (We all knew that was a load of BS.) Yes sir, I remember they even ran a few house shows. (Mainly in Minnesota, but one came here to Hammond for some odd reason. I didn't go because THEY DIDN'T ADVERTISE!) One week they had the tag team champions Greg Valentine & Bob Orton Jr. doing an interview with their fat rotund manager Rico Suave. (Think Jim Cornette with even worse fashion sense.) Greg and Bob both had their backs to the camera because "the fans didn't deserve to see their faces". (No, it was because Greg Valentine wasn't there and they inserted fat-ass Tommy Rich in his place.) They "feuded" with the Road Warriors. (Yes, THOSE Road Warriors. I put it in quotes because I don't think they ever had a match.) One time, Hawk cut a promo on Rico that went something like this: "Rico Suave, there's a rumor that you're so fat, you sat on a quarter and a booger came out of George Washington's nose." Paul Alperstein was the owner. Funny thing was, he wasn't shooting for PPV like every other promotion. He actually thought a better idea was to sell discs to fans, so we can watch through our computers, because "syndicated TV" was a thing of the past. (And syndication was more expensive.) Not DVDs or CD-ROMs. Floppies. He expected us to pay $3 a week for a floppy disc of the week's program. And he was going to make money that way. WOW. I remember reading about the AWF in a magazine and thought it sounded so cool, but this is sad
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2012 9:30:16 GMT -5
Other AWF Memories:
Main-events were things like "Gentleman" Chris Adams vs. The Terrorist. (The Terrorist was like the Cuban Assassin. Jobber to the Stars. And wasn't as fun or cool as the Cuban. I guess any militia member in camoflage pants was supposed to be an American threat.) Or Charlie Norris & Konnan 2000 (Scott Putski) vs. two scrubs. Yes, they would actually promote stuff like this for NEXT WEEK! As in "Charlie Norris & Konnan 2000 will main event NEXT WEEK!" (Never told you who they were wrestling, just told you they were main-eventing.)
Nailz was there. Commissioner Jim Brunzell "fined" him once for not heeding the referee's 5-count and getting DQed.
Blacktop Bully (our good friend Barry Darsow) was there too. He had a valet that looked like Jimmy Valiant's "Big Mama". (Big hair, even bigger rack - looked like a truck stop waitress, dressed like a truck stop hooker.) Bully would scream at fans, "Don't Look At Mah Honey!" over and over again. His finisher was the Breaker 1-9 Armbar.
Koko B. Ware was a HUGE DEAL. They were only like 8 years behind. Tony Atlas, an upcoming superstar!
(I made a correction about the tag champions in my previous post.)
It was so AWA in a way. Mick Karch on commentary. Ken Resnick in interviews. Terry Taylor (then a heelish Lord Alfred Hayes) on commentary.
It was so bad...yet I enjoyed it.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Mar 16, 2012 10:33:20 GMT -5
I remember a lot of stuff not many talk about because it happened in Memphis:
-Fake Razor Ramon and Fake Diesel actually feuded in the USWA while still teaming in the WWF. -There was a New Rock n' Roll Express at one time with Robert teaming with his nephew Jason Gibson. -Memphis did multiple invasion angles over the years with Texas, GWF, WWF, SMW, and ECW. -Screech from Saved by the Bell feuded with Jerry Lawler over The Kat in one of the later incarnations of Memphis Wrestling.
-Oh and the current World Heavyweight Champion spent his early days in Memphis and filmed this weird vignette:
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Post by baronmordo on Mar 16, 2012 10:42:19 GMT -5
I remember Dragon's Memphis match with Regal back then; I watched it when it first aired. I thought, "Man, this guy's got potential! He's hanging with Regal, and he's a rookie!" I didn't know how right I would be.
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Post by Pipe_Bomb2k13 on Mar 16, 2012 10:47:09 GMT -5
Anyway, THIS is the thing that I'm surprised nobody ever talks about. At the end of the show, Austin and Triple H were still brawling backstage when Austin threw HHH into a room with a rattlesnake in it. HHH showed up on Smackdown with his face all screwed up looking (implying that the snake bit his face) but later he beat down Austin and ripped off some sort of mask to reveal that he was never hurt. It was really bizarre. I've seen that on Youtube loads of times and it still never gets old in terms of being a heel, also in the lead up to No Mercy 99 that. ;D Surprised no one has mentioned Jake Roberts heel theme music "Trust Me" now thats epic.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2012 10:51:13 GMT -5
-On the last night SMW held a card, the show ended with the entire roster beating up Jim Cornette in the ring.
It doesn't get much weirder than that.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Mar 16, 2012 12:16:01 GMT -5
-There was a New Rock n' Roll Express at one time with Robert teaming with his nephew Jason Gibson. I believe there was also a New Rock n Roll Express of Ricky Morton and a young Kid Kash. That may have been an indie exclusive though. I know Kash told a story about following Ricky to a show one night when he got pulled over for speeding. He tried to talk his way out of a ticket by saying he was heading to the wrestling show that night and he was Ricky Morton's tag team partner. The cop just smiled at him and said, "Robert Gibson is Ricky Morton's tag team partner." Kash agreed that was typically the case and was trying to explain the situation when Morton, who had doubled back, pulled in. The cop was apparently a big fan. Ricky explains that, yes, he is teaming with Kash that night. He and the cop walk back to the cruiser, Ricky signs some autographs, and Kash figures he's getting out of the ticket. Soon after, the cop and Morton return, Ricky hands Kash the ticket and says something like, "Slow your ass down on these roads. What's the matter with you?" before shaking hands with the cop and leaving.
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Post by Cieto on Mar 16, 2012 18:58:19 GMT -5
A few weird things i never hear brought up these days...
*A backstage segment involving christian, jericho, the dudleys and a sportsbag containing a tub of A** Cream?? (im sure it featured in their later match also.
*Undertakers snake-skin pants. I think he wore these's at a survivor series title match? where kurt's bro interfered?
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Mar 16, 2012 20:13:48 GMT -5
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Post by chunkylover53 on Mar 16, 2012 20:28:17 GMT -5
I never hear anybody talk about the weird alliance of Taka Michinoku and Bradshaw.
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Post by Acclaim Entertainment on Mar 16, 2012 20:32:30 GMT -5
I never hear anybody talk about the weird alliance of Taka Michinoku and Bradshaw. If I remember right, Bradshaw tried to teach Taka how to drive and how to speak English (on TV of course). It was bizarre.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2012 20:49:42 GMT -5
The Sandman as Raven's wacky neighbor "Jim" during the whole Raven is really a spoiled rich guy angle(which I never understood at all)
Scott Steiner returning from one of his many WCW suspensions for shooting on Flair on live TV with a piece of duck tape over his mouth with "Censored" written on it.
Hall randomly in the nuthouse with Flair.
Meng hitting Knobbs with a cardboard cutout of Goldberg during a hardcore match and Knobbs sells it.
Al Green becomes Knobbs pet Dog(which is seriously one of my favorite bad angles of all time. So stupid)
In 2000 or so WCW they started hyping up this huge bodybuilder type guy from the Netherlands or somewhere(I think) and then he never debuts.
Vamprio reporting to Satan/Christopher Daniels in regards to either Sting or the KISS Demon(I can't remember)
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