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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Jan 31, 2017 5:27:05 GMT -5
The Louis Theroux documentary was a telling insight into what the Powerplant was and why it turned out so many flawed workers, he was flat out tortured with drills as the focus seemed to be on fitness rather than ring skills. So many guys came out of there looking like a million bucks, able to do moves with no idea how to string those moves together into a good match. This. Jimmy Yang said that they really didn't learn shit from sarge. I think Sean O'Haire and the other guys who joined the wwe pretty much had to be trained again from the beginning. Buddy Parker should've been fired from the power plant once they saw Goldberg couldn't do basic chain wrestling sequence in the Regal match. But I wouldn't put it past management that they didn't even care to learn how Parker was training the guys. I remember Sarge being brought up on one of Flair's podcasts and Flair buried him. Flair acted like Sarge was a joke. I'm guessing there wasn't much respect for him or his training methods there.
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Post by thetower52 on Jan 31, 2017 6:45:54 GMT -5
I mean, it was interesting, but he still didn't explain why he blocked me on Twitter. 4/10. Did you @ him with some wrestling related? Cause he blocked EVERYONE. Tony moved on and wanted NOTHING to do with wrestling. He even tweeted that AJ vs. Cena at the Rumble was the first match he's seen in 16 years! Also... Oddly I had mentioned tony in tweets about wrestling a few times and he replied to me and never blocked me.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 31, 2017 11:10:14 GMT -5
This. Jimmy Yang said that they really didn't learn shit from sarge. I think Sean O'Haire and the other guys who joined the wwe pretty much had to be trained again from the beginning. Buddy Parker should've been fired from the power plant once they saw Goldberg couldn't do basic chain wrestling sequence in the Regal match. But I wouldn't put it past management that they didn't even care to learn how Parker was training the guys. I remember Sarge being brought up on one of Flair's podcasts and Flair buried him. Flair acted like Sarge was a joke. I'm guessing there wasn't much respect for him or his training methods there. It takes a scrub to train scrubs. Little bully, Flair and the other stars laugh at him and his trainees.
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Post by StuntGranny® on Jan 31, 2017 12:07:11 GMT -5
I mean, it was interesting, but he still didn't explain why he blocked me on Twitter. 4/10. Did you @ him with some wrestling related? Cause he blocked EVERYONE. Tony moved on and wanted NOTHING to do with wrestling. He even tweeted that AJ vs. Cena at the Rumble was the first match he's seen in 16 years! Also... That's what drives me crazy, I don't "@" people I do know, much less people I don't. I damn sure don't "@" celebrities, no matter how small they are. Maybe someone retweeted something I said and he just blocked us both? I don't know. I just know it has bothered me way, WAY more than it should. I'm not sure if he realizes/cares that blocking everyone who knows him from the ONE thing he's famous for makes him look like a massive, bitter asshole. Which, I think he came across as that a couple of times on the show. Between Schiavone and JR, apparently that's just what old commentators do.
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 1, 2017 16:16:07 GMT -5
One of my only issues with this is how much does tony know? Was he in on booking meetings and such ?
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 1, 2017 16:59:20 GMT -5
One of my only issues with this is how much does tony know? Was he in on booking meetings and such ? In the later years yes, in the podcast he told a story about him trying to pitch Nash something but he rejected it. Also apparently the booking meetings were a huge cluster f*** and the f***ing show was rewritten minutes before they were going live.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Feb 1, 2017 17:53:43 GMT -5
Listen to it yesterday and it wasn't bad. Goldberg isn't my cup of tea so the subject didn't interest me as much as Schiavone talking about WCW. Hopefully more interesting subjects and/or Tony remembering more will make future ones better. I do thankfully have Silence Skip on my podcast app which cut 35:00 from the show for all the down time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 9:21:22 GMT -5
Might just be my Podcast Addict app doing this, but I'd listen to 5 minutes of show, them it would skip back 90 seconds.
Listened for 30 minutes, then shut it off. I wasn't really that engrossed in it, even without the skipping around.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Feb 2, 2017 14:30:10 GMT -5
Am I crazy or does Tony have a much more pronounced southern accent these days?
Or maybe that's his natural voice and he toned it down for TV. Or maybe I'm just imagining things.
Anyway, I thought the first episode was pretty decent. I like the format, too.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Feb 2, 2017 16:07:01 GMT -5
It almost read like Between the Sheets with Conrad and Tony, with Tony going with a lot of I don't remembers. I think he'll do better with earlier stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 16:24:30 GMT -5
Am I crazy or does Tony have a much more pronounced southern accent these days? Or maybe that's his natural voice and he toned it down for TV. Or maybe I'm just imagining things. I heard an interview with him a year or 2 ago, and he definitely had the accent. It made him sound happier, actually. Hiding an accent on TV is commonplace. He just managed to find a good voice rather than finding a really fake voice (many local newscasters do this across the country) - I'd guess WCW was less strict in that regard, but even still he didn't shed his TV voice much if at all.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 2, 2017 16:31:21 GMT -5
Am I crazy or does Tony have a much more pronounced southern accent these days? Or maybe that's his natural voice and he toned it down for TV. Or maybe I'm just imagining things. I heard an interview with him a year or 2 ago, and he definitely had the accent. It made him sound happier, actually. Hiding an accent on TV is commonplace. He just managed to find a good voice rather than finding a really fake voice (many local newscasters do this across the country) - I'd guess WCW was less strict in that regard, but even still he didn't shed his TV voice much if at all. Fun fact: in something to wrestle with, Bruce revealed that McMahon sent Tony to enunciation school lol
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Post by dreamer75 on Feb 2, 2017 22:15:54 GMT -5
I heard an interview with him a year or 2 ago, and he definitely had the accent. It made him sound happier, actually. Hiding an accent on TV is commonplace. He just managed to find a good voice rather than finding a really fake voice (many local newscasters do this across the country) - I'd guess WCW was less strict in that regard, but even still he didn't shed his TV voice much if at all. Fun fact: in something to wrestle with, Bruce revealed that McMahon sent Tony to enunciation school lol Need to Vince it up.... "Gad damn pal you need to go to enunciation school pal, you sound like a god damn hick"
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Feb 2, 2017 22:24:19 GMT -5
I just finished listing to the first episode on youtube and I'm loving this F bomb dropping,gives no f***s version of Tony Schiavone.
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Post by doinkmark on Feb 3, 2017 0:26:18 GMT -5
Wow. Why wasn't THIS Tony calling wrestling? Especially the Russo era of WCW. Would've made it sooo more entertaining.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 3, 2017 0:36:29 GMT -5
Wow. Why wasn't THIS Tony calling wrestling? Especially the Russo era of WCW. Would've made it sooo more entertaining. WCW would wring the life and passion out of guys. Even ones who were doing relatively well got worn out by the bureaucracy, politics, and poor professionalism. But yeah, I'd love if a company loosened up the leashes more.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 3, 2017 3:11:03 GMT -5
Man I really appreciate the chemistry and friendship between Conrad and Tony and Bruce, like they get that wrestling is not their entire life and they can take criticism without being bitter.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 3, 2017 3:13:35 GMT -5
Fun fact: in something to wrestle with, Bruce revealed that McMahon sent Tony to enunciation school lol Need to Vince it up.... "Gad damn pal you need to go to enunciation school pal, you sound like a god damn hick" The irony is that Vince was raised in a trailer park in North Carolina, in Cornette's podcast, Bruce pretty much admitted that McMahon is a self loathing redneck, who's ashamed of his upbringing.
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Post by dreamer75 on Feb 3, 2017 6:40:52 GMT -5
Need to Vince it up.... "Gad damn pal you need to go to enunciation school pal, you sound like a god damn hick" The irony is that Vince was raised in a trailer park in North Carolina, in Cornette's podcast, Bruce pretty much admitted that McMahon is a self loathing redneck, who's ashamed of his upbringing. My favorite part of Bruce's show is well you know all the impressions
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2017 7:20:28 GMT -5
I heard an interview with him a year or 2 ago, and he definitely had the accent. It made him sound happier, actually. Hiding an accent on TV is commonplace. He just managed to find a good voice rather than finding a really fake voice (many local newscasters do this across the country) - I'd guess WCW was less strict in that regard, but even still he didn't shed his TV voice much if at all. Fun fact: in something to wrestle with, Bruce revealed that McMahon sent Tony to enunciation school lol Almost every broadcaster and TV news reporter are sent there. That's why sports in general sounds so dull these days. The people cover it as a news story, not an event you can lose yourself in and actually get emotionally involved, because you're trained to be bipartisan.
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