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Post by sdoyle7798 on Jul 6, 2015 17:26:24 GMT -5
-Paul Bearer's gimmick being a reference to his real life time as a mortician. According to Paul Bearer during his shoot with Cornette, they already had a mortician-type character in mind. They didn't know he was actually a licensed mortician. He said when he met with Vince, he kept looking at Pat Patterson and saying "Look! He's an actual mortician!" and then laughing his ass off. So, that one is just coincidence.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 17:38:04 GMT -5
-Paul Bearer's gimmick being a reference to his real life time as a mortician. According to Paul Bearer during his shoot with Cornette, they already had a mortician-type character in mind. They didn't know he was actually a licensed mortician. He said when he met with Vince, he kept looking at Pat Patterson and saying "Look! He's an actual mortician!" and then laughing his ass off. So, that one is just coincidence. To make the story even better Bearer had no idea he was in a meeting with Vince about being a mortician.
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Post by TGM on Jul 6, 2015 17:44:12 GMT -5
Convict Crush and Jim Ross referring to his real life gun smuggling.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jul 7, 2015 0:23:28 GMT -5
In Gary Hart's book, he mentioned that, after the plane crash that injured him, Austin Idol, and Buddy Colt, and took the life of Bobby Shane, he cut a promo during a feud with Idol in which he expressed the wish that he had let Idol drown. Not a worked shoot, since I'm sure Gary didn't really wish he had let Idol die that day, but it brought a shoot situation that normally might have been ignored into public view.
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Post by Danimal on Jul 7, 2015 2:17:11 GMT -5
Old school worked-shoots don't get any better than Lawler/Kaufman, IMO. Might be my choice for greatest ever. It transcended wrestling. Kaufman always blurred the line between reality and a show, so he was perfect for wrestling. It was also when Lawler was a complete badass. I still consider their confrontation the greatest moment in Letterman history. Ya Andy was just a natural. He actually did worked-shoots in his stand-up. He'd sit one of his buddies in the front and have him heckle Andy into what becomes a big confrontation. The guy also did the intergender wrestling champion bit with non-wrestling crowds and still got mad heat.
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