Jeff Mangum PI
Hank Scorpio
11 herbs and spices for the rest of eternity; Is Number Two. Number Two!
The 2nd Coming
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Post by Jeff Mangum PI on Sept 26, 2014 20:11:52 GMT -5
I could never stand that one guy everyone loved. He would always come out and say his stupid catch-phrase and got everyone's love & attention because he knows how to use social media. I pretty much laughed at how that storyline with John Cena killed his career dead; now all he does is just whine like a bitch about his booking on Twitter and never shows up on RAW or SmackDown anymore. {Spoiler}I just described Ryback.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 26, 2014 20:31:02 GMT -5
This topic begins and ends with Shawn Michaels for me. I never got the appeal and I never will. I totally get it to a degree, but frankly, I think some of my disinterest in some of his work is how I feel like they're trying to sell me a skirt steak as filet mignon, and it just isn't. Shawn had a lot of good matches, but not many I feel the need to revisit. Shawn's a workhorse, and had talent out the wazoo, but he was also plugging it with his head at his physical peak. Basically, good talent, good wrestler, good matches, but I'm honestly not positive he'd be in my top ten champions in WWE history. He's sort of neck and neck with Bret in that capacity. BUT, I will say Mind Games with Mankind really does make me wish they had a feud. That would have actually worked well for me, as they were about as opposite as you could get and there would have been a lot of material to work with.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2014 11:17:17 GMT -5
This topic begins and ends with Shawn Michaels for me. I never got the appeal and I never will. I totally get it to a degree, but frankly, I think some of my disinterest in some of his work is how I feel like they're trying to sell me a skirt steak as filet mignon, and it just isn't. Shawn had a lot of good matches, but not many I feel the need to revisit. Shawn's a workhorse, and had talent out the wazoo, but he was also plugging it with his head at his physical peak. Basically, good talent, good wrestler, good matches, but I'm honestly not positive he'd be in my top ten champions in WWE history. He's sort of neck and neck with Bret in that capacity. BUT, I will say Mind Games with Mankind really does make me wish they had a feud. That would have actually worked well for me, as they were about as opposite as you could get and there would have been a lot of material to work with. I agree with this. Shawn's fans are a lot like Bret's. To them, he stands alone at the top. To everyone else, he may or may not crack their top 20. I can't argue that he had some great matches, but for the most part I think he's one of the most overrated workers of all time. Ladder match at WMX was a good match, but it never stood out to me as a historical milestone, or even the best match of that Mania. I voted against him about 98% of the time, got angry when he almost always went over a guy I liked a lot better, and generally made mid-late 90's WWE less watchable to me. Now to hear other legends in the business talk about him like he may be the greatest of all time makes me want to throw up.
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Post by jp49er80 on Sept 27, 2014 13:45:23 GMT -5
- Edge, outside of Edge and Christian.
- Chris Jericho. Ever.
- 'People Power' - awful, dull, boring.
- John Morrison
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Sept 27, 2014 16:44:54 GMT -5
I've gotta agree with the others who have said ECW.
Sure its legacy and and influence are undeniable but its pretty much a product of the 90s that largely hasn't aged well as time as exposed all the flaws that people were willing to overlook at the time.That and I can't help but think that the actual reason why it started to get a name for its self in the mid 90s had less to do with it being good but rather that the product coming out from both the WWE and WCW was so bad.
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Marty McFry
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"She was mine before she was yours.... Wooooo"
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Post by Marty McFry on Sept 28, 2014 10:52:52 GMT -5
Konnan in WCW. I used to watch he face pops he got and how over his promo's where and just feel annoyed that people liked this dude.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2014 13:07:20 GMT -5
Konnan in WCW. I used to watch he face pops he got and how over his promo's where and just feel annoyed that people liked this dude. Wasn't aware that so many people liked K-Dogg. He got decent pops at the time but almost everyone I knew couldn't stand him, and the prominent sentiment I read online is that most people feel the same way you do. To me, he was like WCW's answer to Sean Waltman, but twice as annoying.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2014 17:02:46 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan's comedy. I respect him as a manager, as that dude could draw some serious heat, but I often found his announcing to be just not funny most of the time.
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Bo Rida
Fry's dog Seymour
Pulled one over on everyone. Got away with it, this time.
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Post by Bo Rida on Sept 28, 2014 17:50:30 GMT -5
This topic begins and ends with Shawn Michaels for me. I never got the appeal and I never will. Basically, good talent, good wrestler, good matches, but I'm honestly not positive he'd be in my top ten champions in WWE history. He's sort of neck and neck with Bret in that capacity. HBK may be my favourite wrestler (this week) but even I'd say he wasn't much of a world champion*, great IC champion though. *Elimination chamber title win aside as that was great, yes that was better than the boyhood dream garbage.
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bytor
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Post by bytor on Sept 29, 2014 1:45:34 GMT -5
Finlay & WWE Regal- I'll never understand how these two bores are supposedly 'great wrestlers.' (loved WCW Regal though)
Mark Henry- I'm convinced he had dirt on Vince. Nothing else explains his 18 year employment.
Chikara- Everything I hate about pro wrestling wrapped up into one obnoxious nutshell.
1999-2001 Chris Jericho- Possibly the biggest try hard in wrestling history. I cringed every time he grabbed a microphone.
Hulk Hogan & Ultimate Warrior- Couldn't stand either guy even as a kid.
Chris Hero- Almost makes Finlay & Regal look entertaining. Almost.....
DX- Didn't find them funny outside of a two skits. Always rooted against them.
Steve Austin- Always rooted against him during his prime. (now I think he's one of the all time greats)
NWO- I quit watching WCW one month after their formation. I was beyond tired of The Huckster and had no time for those 'sellouts' Hall & Nash.
Eddie Guerrero- Never cared about him until the 2nd half of 2002. Thought he was awesome for about six months. Then I tired of his schtick and found him incredibly annoying.
Roided Scott Steiner awful. Terrible in the ring. Even worse on the mic.
Brock Lesnar never did much for me. Hated his super push and he was lacking in charisma/mic skills.
I had zero interest in Goldberg during when he was active. (now I think he was pretty great at what he did)
Hate(d) CM Punk since 2002 (though it was in the good 'pay money to see him lose' kind of way at times)
I've always been indifferent towards Daniel Bryan. Good wrestler. Just not a guy who ever appealed to me beyond that.
The only time I ever liked Randy Orton was during the RNN stuff. Aside from that, he's the very definition of a guy who is 'just there.'
Douchebag crowd chants are the worst thing ever.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Sept 29, 2014 6:23:15 GMT -5
The World Bodybuilding Federation
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 8:28:59 GMT -5
Arn Anderson. I don't dislike Arn, but to me he's mostly a "just there" type of wrestler. Arn was so hit or miss in the ring. He could go out and have a brilliant match, but then he'd look terrible in the next one. Relied too heavily on 'comedy' spots like Flair did. His promos were always so dead serious but the stuff he was saying made me chuckle.
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Post by therainmaker on Sept 29, 2014 9:36:03 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan - Good wrestler but just doesn't appeal to me at all.
John Cena - Obvious reasons
AJ Lee - Completely overrated in every aspect
The Bellas - I don't get the hype.
The Miz - Garbage wrestler. How anyone thought him ME Wrestlemania 27 was a good idea is beyond me.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 29, 2014 12:22:19 GMT -5
Scott Steiner promos. If I want to hear someone yell like an idiot who thinks he's the baddest man on the planet and God's gift to women, I can go to a local bar.
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Post by tms on Sept 29, 2014 18:20:00 GMT -5
Scott Steiner promos. If I want to hear someone yell like an idiot who thinks he's the baddest man on the planet and God's gift to women, I can go to a local bar. I definitely think with Steiner it's more of an ironic, "this guy's such a dumbass he doesn't realize how bad he's making himself look" type of "fandom." It's like Sid and his all the comments people make about his "strange charisma." Back in the day he was intolerable, but damn if the "I'm doin' him an egg!" segment doesn't make me laugh.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Sept 29, 2014 18:27:08 GMT -5
The World Bodybuilding Federation People liked that?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 18:50:48 GMT -5
Scott Steiner promos. If I want to hear someone yell like an idiot who thinks he's the baddest man on the planet and God's gift to women, I can go to a local bar. I definitely think with Steiner it's more of an ironic, "this guy's such a dumbass he doesn't realize how bad he's making himself look" type of "fandom." It's like Sid and his all the comments people make about his "strange charisma." Back in the day he was intolerable, but damn if the "I'm doin' him an egg!" segment doesn't make me laugh. Scott is an idiot. His promos from when he was a mullet-wearing Steiner brother would be just as terrible, if only for the fact that he wasn't presenting himself as the second coming of Superstar Graham yet (who is also an idiot btw, but still made it work). I remember when Scott debuted in WCW while Rick was playing his "mentally handicapped" gimmick, and I was thinking that they needed to swap gimmicks because for as hard as he tried, Rick could not out-stupid his "smarter" brother.
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