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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 10:46:08 GMT -5
The Shotgun Saturday Night ring was barely big enough to lay down in.
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Post by DjZonk on Oct 20, 2014 13:17:57 GMT -5
Not enough Snickers logos on rings these days...
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Post by jmule on Oct 20, 2014 14:24:43 GMT -5
I hate those soft floppy ropes you see in the 70s-early 80s, made the ring look weak
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 16:04:07 GMT -5
I hate those soft floppy ropes you see in the 70s-early 80s, made the ring look weak The AWA ring was a lot like that, and it bounced like a mattress. |
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Oct 20, 2014 18:21:34 GMT -5
WCW ring killed Rick Martell's career.
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Post by sdoyle7798 on Oct 20, 2014 18:32:24 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 18:32:30 GMT -5
The Shotgun Saturday Night ring was barely big enough to lay down in. Mick Foley: Even Al Snow found it hard to lie down in that ring and that's how he feeds his kids! |
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Oct 20, 2014 21:19:38 GMT -5
The Shotgun Saturday Night ring was barely big enough to lay down in. Mick Foley: Even Al Snow found it hard to lie down in that ring and that's how he feeds his kids!  |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 25, 2014 3:44:47 GMT -5
I know but when talking about WCW rings I kinda was thinking about that era. Oh OK yeah I haven't heard anything about their stiffness. Although with it being a smaller ring, it would make sense for there to be less give. That's outside what I've heard tho Foley's fall through the Cell apparently made them change the ring. They had a softer ring, but when they started doing SMNE NBC thought it looked too bouncy, so they stiffened it up and it stayed that way until Foley's fall, which he then said was better to bump in, but harder to stand up in if you got a lot of guys in the ring, as it started bouncing too much then. |
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Post by kingoftheindies on Oct 25, 2014 7:34:24 GMT -5
I vaguely recall Lance Storm saying he liked the bigger ring. I dunno if he said that but in his shoot he said that after the Buff/Booker match bobedience the WCW guys had to go to Connecticut to tra in in bigger rings cause they were struggling with timing (especially the Power Plant guys) and Lance felt insulted he had to go train since he trained and worked most of his career in the bigger ring |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 8:27:59 GMT -5
I believe when the NWA/WCW had the smaller ring, it was to make their guys look bigger in retrospect. But sometimes it had its drawbacks. You'd have Barry Windham wrestling somebody 6' tall and the only way to do suplexes was corner to corner.
Kinda like playing NES' Tecmo World Wrestling. If you attempted a suplex on your opponent and you didn't have clearance, they'd do this stop-motion turnaround so you could succeed.
I also believe the first time the Eddie Guerrero backdrop spot (launched into the ropes) was first done, it was in a smaller ring. But, it got over to the point he did it regularly.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 13:08:28 GMT -5
I believe when the NWA/WCW had the smaller ring, it was to make their guys look bigger in retrospect. But sometimes it had its drawbacks. You'd have Barry Windham wrestling somebody 6' tall and the only way to do suplexes was corner to corner. Kinda like playing NES' Tecmo World Wrestling. If you attempted a suplex on your opponent and you didn't have clearance, they'd do this stop-motion turnaround so you could succeed. I also believe the first time the Eddie Guerrero backdrop spot (launched into the ropes) was first done, it was in a smaller ring. But, it got over to the point he did it regularly. I'm pretty sure that 16x16 was a more typical size wrestling ring for the time, so I don't really believe that it was calculated to make a wrestler look bigger. I'm not sure how a smaller ring would really make a wrestler look bigger anyway. That's like saying they made Barry Windham drive a Volkswagon bug so he would look huge. No one is going to say "Wow, that Barry Windham is huge... he barely fits in that car!" They're going to say, "Why is Barry Windham driving that tiny car?" |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 14:33:27 GMT -5
I never really understood how the WWE rings use regular ropes for their ring. If it's just standard rope, how do they get it to be so stretchy and springy? Normal rope doesn't seem like it would be so elastic-like. I remember reading a WWE Magazine article about the ring, and it is a special type of rope that they have imported. The rope is treated and soaked in some kind of oil in its production. f***in' hipsters |
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Post by mcstoklasa on Oct 27, 2014 11:32:28 GMT -5
Oh OK yeah I haven't heard anything about their stiffness. Although with it being a smaller ring, it would make sense for there to be less give. That's outside what I've heard tho Foley's fall through the Cell apparently made them change the ring. They had a softer ring, but when they started doing SMNE NBC thought it looked too bouncy, so they stiffened it up and it stayed that way until Foley's fall, which he then said was better to bump in, but harder to stand up in if you got a lot of guys in the ring, as it started bouncing too much then. He said the bounciness of the new ring didnt help his knees too |
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