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Post by Slapcrunk on May 31, 2014 18:08:31 GMT -5
Lance Storm said something about him preferring to take 100 piledrivers from a reliably safe wrestler than 1 snapmare from a less professional one.
I heard Hogan was particularly safe to work with. (Richard Belzer though...)
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on May 31, 2014 18:11:00 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it was Lance Storm that said that Hogan was so safe that he would let him punch his children.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on May 31, 2014 18:11:29 GMT -5
You can't mention stiff with out mentioning Bob Holly, JBL or Davey Richards
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 18:11:42 GMT -5
I love RVD, but no way would I want to deal with his kicks for 15 minutes a night.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 31, 2014 18:13:57 GMT -5
Obviously, this is all basically going to be assumptions or anecdotes, since as Storm said when someone asked him how stiff the clothesline from hell was, "Who says it's stiff at all?"
Albert/A-Train/Bernard/Tensai/Sweet T is apparently very safe, very strong. Storm said he trusted him the most of any big man worker he's ever worked with, and that includes Undertaker, another guy who is very safe generally.
Jerry Lynn is said to be very good to work with, very professional.
Stiff, Koji Kitao is the stiffest he worked and kind of a dickhead from the sounds of things.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 31, 2014 18:15:24 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it was Lance Storm that said that Hogan was so safe that he would let him punch his children. Same goes for Steve Williams before his passing, to where his punches looked so good, the guys in the back thought he was taking advantage of Storm and were getting pissed until Storm told them how he never felt a thing. He was just that good. I think he put over Terry Funk similarly. |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 18:26:23 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it was Lance Storm that said that Hogan was so safe that he would let him punch his children. Same goes for Steve Williams before his passing, to where his punches looked so good, the guys in the back thought he was taking advantage of Storm and were getting pissed until Storm told them how he never felt a thing. He was just that good. I think he put over Terry Funk similarly. That's weird, Foley said that the Funker was just laying into guys to make it look real. Maybe he just liked punching Foley in the head. |
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Post by Sir Woodrow on May 31, 2014 18:27:05 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it was Lance Storm that said that Hogan was so safe that he would let him punch his children. Either that or Lance Storm f***ing hates his kids |
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Post by Mozenrath on May 31, 2014 18:29:04 GMT -5
Same goes for Steve Williams before his passing, to where his punches looked so good, the guys in the back thought he was taking advantage of Storm and were getting pissed until Storm told them how he never felt a thing. He was just that good. I think he put over Terry Funk similarly. That's weird, Foley said that the Funker was just laying into guys to make it look real. Maybe he just liked punching Foley in the head. It's possible I am remembering wrong, then, though Foley worked with Funk significantly before Lance did, so it's also a possibility he just slowed it down some as he got older. |
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on May 31, 2014 18:40:43 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it was Lance Storm that said that Hogan was so safe that he would let him punch his children. "I would let Hulk Hogan punch my 4 year old in the face" is one of my all-time favorite wrestling quotes. And for all the grief he gets politically, I've never heard of an instance where anyone complained about Hogan injuring someone or working stiff. Never heard that about Triple H, either. They save the rough stuff for the creative end, I guess. |
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Post by Digital Witness on May 31, 2014 18:47:28 GMT -5
Considering the business man that Hogan's typically been, I've always been of the impression that wanting to work stiff and possibly ruin his own business or someone else's seems like the last thing Hogan would ever be interested in. I'd think you'd have had to piss him off particularly bad for him to really want to lay into you.
As far as stiff workers go, I think Stan Hansen would probably rank up there, though I think his lariat was brutal more or less due to the fact that he couldn't see worth a damn.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on May 31, 2014 23:31:48 GMT -5
Has anybody said anything about Samoa Joe? His stuff looks stiff but I never recall anybody saying he was. Was he that good at making it come off that way or way he?
I know Low Ki was stiff and took what he did extremely seriously.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on May 31, 2014 23:33:24 GMT -5
Has anybody said anything about Samoa Joe? His stuff looks stiff but I never recall anybody saying he was. Was he that good at making it come off that way or way he? I know Low Ki was stiff and took what he did extremely seriously. Joe is pretty damn stiff when he wants to be. Kevin Steen asked him to give him his best shots and not hold back in a match they had. Steen called it one of the worst beatings of his entire career. |
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Post by wwefan71080 on May 31, 2014 23:59:03 GMT -5
adding Yokozuna to the safe list if all stories about him being gentle in the ring are true
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Post by Bear Skin Rug on Jun 1, 2014 0:09:56 GMT -5
As far as hard-hitting indie guys go, Chris Hero's strikes always look smooth enough to seem real, but safe enough so that you don't feel guilty watching them. Low Ki's stiffness is dangerous and pathetic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFW2z8B9ZM |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jun 1, 2014 0:21:05 GMT -5
Really? No one has made the "joke" yet? Ok, I'll do it then....
Rene Dupree.
HA f***ing HA.
Serious answer, I've heard several people mention how safe Curt Hennig was, most notably Bret Hart.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jun 1, 2014 0:21:11 GMT -5
Vader was obviously stiff with strikes, but I believe it was Flair who said that everything else, he never felt.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jun 1, 2014 0:29:10 GMT -5
I've heard the Steiners had phases where they worked pretty stiff. I believe Rick Steiner in particular developed a reputation for working stiff later in his WCW career. I believe I've heard they were rough on jobbers at times.
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Post by 67 more on Jun 1, 2014 3:18:00 GMT -5
Bossman was meant to be very pleasant to work with.
Finlay likes to work "safely stiff" in the sense of do whatever you want to the chest, just don't f*** with a guy's head.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 1, 2014 6:13:03 GMT -5
Jericho mentions he worked pretty stiff in a match with Foley and Foley told him he didn't care, but other guys would, which Jericho took to me he needed to lighten up.
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