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Post by Main Eventer on Jun 23, 2018 23:16:34 GMT -5
And their weird ass hand signal: They... do realise there's five of them, right? That's not even the worse of it. At one point the Fourtune members were:
AJ Styles James Storm Robert Roode Kaz Douglas Williams Matt Morgan
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 23, 2018 23:32:24 GMT -5
They... do realise there's five of them, right? That's not even the worse of it. At one point the Fourtune members were: AJ Styles James Storm Robert Roode Kaz Douglas Williams Matt Morgan
and Flair not even realizing how many people were in his Four Horsemen inspired stable. I've got 6 or 7 guys here in Fourtune! (at the time it was spelled that way... and again the theme song was. FORTUNE FOUR!)
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jun 23, 2018 23:54:56 GMT -5
And wasn’t this after weeks of him trying to join “the band” and then they just let him in I think Scott Hall got shitcanned after that and he ended up in world elite which started him wearing the suits I could be wrong tho. Impact timelines are a cluster f*** Yeah, I think you’re reversed. He went serious with World Elite. World Elite has a loose alliance with MEM. Then the Band showed up, World Elite kinda dissolved, Eric Young teamed with Nash against Pac and Hall, Nash turned against Young and then Young joined the Band anyway. It was a mess. The problem was that Hogan came to Impact during the World Elite's run, and just decided to piss all over anything that was happening in TNA and jump straight to his vision of TNA without any sort of transition period. This meant that any ongoing storylines just ended without resolution, and most of the roster turned alignments in less than three months to make this happen. Which meant that World Elite just disappeared after the Steel Asylum match, and poor EY turned from diabolical heel to scrappy face to heel Band member and then back to being a face manchild in about a year.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jun 24, 2018 2:42:13 GMT -5
And wasn’t this after weeks of him trying to join “the band” and then they just let him in I think Scott Hall got shitcanned after that and he ended up in world elite which started him wearing the suits I could be wrong tho. Impact timelines are a cluster f*** Yeah, I think you’re reversed. He went serious with World Elite. World Elite has a loose alliance with MEM. Then the Band showed up, World Elite kinda dissolved, Eric Young teamed with Nash against Pac and Hall, Nash turned against Young and then Young joined the Band anyway. It was a mess. And to think before the Hogan regime they were actually putting on decent TV for the first time in a while
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 25, 2018 23:07:27 GMT -5
...They literally stole Team Canada from WCW's cold, dead body.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jun 25, 2018 23:26:53 GMT -5
...They literally stole Team Canada from WCW's cold, dead body. Ehhhh....was TNA's Team Canada really that similar to WCW's Team Canada? TNA's Team Canada was born out of the international X-Division team competitions and ended up being a legitimate stable of Canadian wrestlers that launched the mainstream careers of Bobby Roode, Petey Williams, and Eric Young. WCW's Team Canada was meant to be a vehicle just to get Lance Storm over, and ended up including such proud Canadians like Mike Awesome, Major Gunns, Elix Skipper, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 25, 2018 23:40:10 GMT -5
...They literally stole Team Canada from WCW's cold, dead body. Ehhhh....was TNA's Team Canada really that similar to WCW's Team Canada? TNA's Team Canada was born out of the international X-Division team competitions and ended up being a legitimate stable of Canadian wrestlers that launched the mainstream careers of Bobby Roode, Petey Williams, and Eric Young. WCW's Team Canada was meant to be a vehicle just to get Lance Storm over, and ended up including such proud Canadians like Mike Awesome, Major Gunns, Elix Skipper, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. They dressed a heel stable up in red and white and called them Team Canada, three or four years after another heel stable in red and white called Team Canada was on nationwide television. That's a rip-off. The rest is irrelevant. They could have called that team anything, and they went with Team Canada.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jun 25, 2018 23:59:44 GMT -5
Ehhhh....was TNA's Team Canada really that similar to WCW's Team Canada? TNA's Team Canada was born out of the international X-Division team competitions and ended up being a legitimate stable of Canadian wrestlers that launched the mainstream careers of Bobby Roode, Petey Williams, and Eric Young. WCW's Team Canada was meant to be a vehicle just to get Lance Storm over, and ended up including such proud Canadians like Mike Awesome, Major Gunns, Elix Skipper, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. They dressed a heel stable up in red and white and called them Team Canada, three or four years after another heel stable in red and white called Team Canada was on nationwide television. That's a rip-off. The rest is irrelevant. They could have called that team anything, and they went with Team Canada. But again, the name Team Canada does not come from WCW's Team Canada stable. It comes from the X Cup competitions, where they were competing against Team USA, Team Mexico, and Team Japan. After the X Cup was over, TNA kept Team Canada together as a faction instead of disbanding them like the other X Cup teams. Therefore, they really couldn't have called it anything else, unless they wanted to try to re-brand them after the X-Cup, which would make no sense, especially since they used Team Canada in more X Cup challenges after the original one. Besides, WCW's Team Canada was a complete ripoff of the 1997 Hart Foundation (which any anti-USA Canadian faction is going to be inspired from, TNA Team Canada included), right down to having guys like Pillman in the group that weren't actually from Canada.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 26, 2018 0:32:48 GMT -5
They dressed a heel stable up in red and white and called them Team Canada, three or four years after another heel stable in red and white called Team Canada was on nationwide television. That's a rip-off. The rest is irrelevant. They could have called that team anything, and they went with Team Canada. But again, the name Team Canada does not come from WCW's Team Canada stable. It comes from the X Cup competitions, where they were competing against Team USA, Team Mexico, and Team Japan. After the X Cup was over, TNA kept Team Canada together as a faction instead of disbanding them like the other X Cup teams. Therefore, they really couldn't have called it anything else, unless they wanted to try to re-brand them after the X-Cup, which would make no sense, especially since they used Team Canada in more X Cup challenges after the original one. Besides, WCW's Team Canada was a complete ripoff of the 1997 Hart Foundation (which any anti-USA Canadian faction is going to be inspired from, TNA Team Canada included), right down to having guys like Pillman in the group that weren't actually from Canada. You're missing the point entirely.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 26, 2018 5:10:17 GMT -5
Team Canada was a straight up ripoff of the same concept in WCW done way better.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 26, 2018 19:08:53 GMT -5
Team Canada was a straight up ripoff of the same concept in WCW done way better. Let me repeat that for those who didn't catch on. WCW. In 2000. With Vince Russo. Did something way better than TNA.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jun 26, 2018 19:12:13 GMT -5
If we can go out of the realm of other wrestlers.....Robbie E = Pauly D?
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jun 29, 2018 9:24:22 GMT -5
Team Canada was a straight up ripoff of the same concept in WCW done way better. Let me repeat that for those who didn't catch on. WCW. In 2000. With Vince Russo. Did something way better than TNA. Even as a long-time Lance Storm, Mike Awesome and WCW Team Canada mark, I have to say that TNA's version of it made way more sense and was better.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jun 29, 2018 10:50:05 GMT -5
Remember when they had Daffney doing a Sarah Palin parody character named “The Governor”? Like even after they flat out acknowledged she wasn’t the real Palin, they still had her doing the character for a while. Yeah they had her keep doing it long after the 2008 election was over and Sarah Palin faded into irrelevance. My memory might be slightly off in terms of timeline, but I'm pretty sure she *started* doing the gimmick AFTER the election had already passed
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 29, 2018 15:32:03 GMT -5
Yeah they had her keep doing it long after the 2008 election was over and Sarah Palin faded into irrelevance. My memory might be slightly off in terms of timeline, but I'm pretty sure she *started* doing the gimmick AFTER the election had already passed You know What? I think you're right. That makes it so much worse hahaha
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 30, 2018 14:01:19 GMT -5
My memory might be slightly off in terms of timeline, but I'm pretty sure she *started* doing the gimmick AFTER the election had already passed You know What? I think you're right. That makes it so much worse hahaha Yep... she started doing it in December 2008...
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Post by Shark on Jun 30, 2018 21:14:33 GMT -5
You know What? I think you're right. That makes it so much worse hahaha Yep... she started doing it in December 2008... I don't think that was a situation where they'd taped months worth of TV in advance either like they do now. I think they taped every 2-3 weeks or so back then.
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Post by Sephiroth on Jun 30, 2018 21:30:23 GMT -5
Yep... she started doing it in December 2008... I don't think that was a situation where they'd taped months worth of TV in advance either like they do now. I think they taped every 2-3 weeks or so back then. Palin was still a hot topic at the time, so it made some sense to incorporate a current trend into a storyline. And if you will all pardon this venture into socio-politics, the character played to the image the country had of Palin at that time as a shallow, narcissistic bimbo, it was just played in a way to initially make The Beautiful People get their comeuppance in humiliating skits-and then get further heat on them when they turned on the character.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Jul 1, 2018 6:28:07 GMT -5
You know What? I think you're right. That makes it so much worse hahaha Yep... she started doing it in December 2008... I thought it was only a couple of months after the election, not literally a year afterwards.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Jul 1, 2018 12:25:21 GMT -5
Yep... she started doing it in December 2008... I thought it was only a couple of months after the election, not literally a year afterwards. It wasn't a year after. It was a month after. The election happened in November of that year.
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