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Post by brooklynmets on Mar 9, 2014 19:14:45 GMT -5
I didn't notice it then but rewatching Royal Rumble 2000 with my son I learnt that JR doesn't know how to pronounce Rikishi. My son even said something about it.
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Post by amaron on Mar 9, 2014 19:17:17 GMT -5
I didn't notice it then but rewatching Royal Rumble 2000 with my son I learnt that JR doesn't know how to pronounce Rikishi. My son even said something about it. Yeah... he pronounces it Rah-kishi instead of Rih-kishi. I keep noticing it.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Mar 9, 2014 20:41:05 GMT -5
I didn't notice it then but rewatching Royal Rumble 2000 with my son I learnt that JR doesn't know how to pronounce Rikishi. My son even said something about it. THIS MAN IS BIGGER THAN RAH-KISHI
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Post by percymania on Mar 9, 2014 21:40:31 GMT -5
I know most of us are tired of Lawler, but he did say some funny stuff back in the day. This is true. I was just watching an Owen Hart/Steve Austin match and during the match Owen tried to run away. King said "Owen just opened up a can of haul ass." I audibly chuckled at that 17 year old joke.
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Post by amaron on Mar 9, 2014 21:51:02 GMT -5
I've come to realize that for me, the love for the 80's thru Attitude Era isn't just nostalgia for me.
I've been watching all the Royal Rumble matches and have noticed I've enjoyed each one less and less starting around 2003. The last four in particular have been noticeably bad to me. Especially heel Cole and his antics.
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Mar 9, 2014 22:28:56 GMT -5
I didn't notice it then but rewatching Royal Rumble 2000 with my son I learnt that JR doesn't know how to pronounce Rikishi. My son even said something about it. Hey, all my family seem to think he's called Rafiki
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Post by turkeysandwich on Mar 9, 2014 23:30:23 GMT -5
I know most of us are tired of Lawler, but he did say some funny stuff back in the day. This is true. I was just watching an Owen Hart/Steve Austin match and during the match Owen tried to run away. King said "Owen just opened up a can of haul ass." I audibly chuckled at that 17 year old joke. A while back I was watching WM10 and Lawler made me laugh a whole bunch of times, especially his ripping on Madusa.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 8:24:18 GMT -5
the hardcore title match at mania 17 is nowhere near as good as I remembered it as.
In my memories it was this wild chaotic brawl.
Watching it back now, it is a rather slow, over produced contrived series of pre planned spots.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Mar 10, 2014 11:04:26 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrerro, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit were insanely protected and pushed going back to before the nWo. I kind of knew that already, but then you go back and see Eddie feuding with Ric Flair, and Benoit and Malenko consistently getting huge pops it makes you wonder why people said they were misused for years.
Saturn was insanely over throughout 1998.
Raven was treated as a big deal upon his debut.
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Post by Chestnutrice on Mar 10, 2014 13:53:08 GMT -5
1995-97 had the incredible main events, and Bret Hart was hardcore.
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Post by Marty McFry on Mar 10, 2014 14:39:49 GMT -5
Watching the Robocop segment play out in real time while watching Capitol Combat 90 makes it seems even lamer than when it's viewed inn clip-show format. WHAT were WCW thinking.
That they can go to that from the product they were promoting up to just a year earlier has astounded me.
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Mar 12, 2014 14:19:07 GMT -5
Undertaker JUMPED doing the tombstone that retired HBK.
That can't have been healthy
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Post by BrianZane on Mar 12, 2014 14:20:09 GMT -5
The Countdown has the lowdown.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Mar 12, 2014 18:11:04 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrerro, Dean Malenko, and Chris Benoit were insanely protected and pushed going back to before the nWo. I kind of knew that already, but then you go back and see Eddie feuding with Ric Flair, and Benoit and Malenko consistently getting huge pops it makes you wonder why people said they were misused for years. Saturn was insanely over throughout 1998. Raven was treated as a big deal upon his debut. They were used as top midcard guys but they were ready for the main event but older guys didn't want to step down from their spots even though they weren't working all the live shows and busting their ass like some of the younger top midcard guys. Pretty much everyone in WCW or WWF had something to do. It isn't like now where midcard guys just don't do anything because Vince McMahon and his creative team suck when it comes to giving midcard guys storylines. Hell even Disco Inferno was always doing something and he was sort of like the heel Zack Ryder of WCW.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Mar 12, 2014 18:56:35 GMT -5
....watching old WCW ppv's....friggin Mancow is undefeated in the world of pro-wrestling....he beat Jimmy Hart twice
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 19:32:03 GMT -5
...that no matter how much I used to like Savio Vega, 4 matches on one PPV is far, far too many.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 22:47:41 GMT -5
The Kliq was truly on top in the mid-90s.
I've always known the Kliq were on top but I didn't realize they had EVERYTHING locked down. Damn near every match had one of them in it and if it didn't, it had one of their associates such as Road Dogg. No wonder they were notorious.
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Post by Henry Mark on Mar 14, 2014 1:14:20 GMT -5
Undertaker JUMPED doing the tombstone that retired HBK. That can't have been healthy I was at WM26 and remember my jaw dropping when he did that because that move is already dangerous as is, but for him to jump while doing it, at his age? Amazing finish!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2014 7:39:02 GMT -5
-Good guys and bad guys didn't really hate each other at the first WrestleMania. Mean Gene would interview one guy in front of the backdrop, then as soon as the guy barely left the shot, his opponent would walk into view and do his part.
-Hearing an early "Brutus Beefcake" being announced without his nickname "The Barber" just doesn't sound right.
-Killer Tim Brooks never aged; he was probably born looking like he was 43.
-Kevin Sullivan will no-sell an atom bomb dropped directly onto his head.
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Post by Chip on Mar 15, 2014 15:19:12 GMT -5
I never knew that WCW PPV's had closing credits. I smile every time I see Virgil Runnels in the list. That and if I was older and lived in America, I would have loved WCW in the early 90s, roster is stacked.
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