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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Apr 5, 2019 20:42:25 GMT -5
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 6, 2019 0:46:57 GMT -5
I've read about this previously, and it just feels weird that Patterson would flip out and accuse four women of going behind the WWF's back and making up their own booking before he'd entertain, even for a moment, that Moolah had done something shitty. Feels like he and others in the office were in on it.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 6, 2019 1:15:53 GMT -5
I've read about this previously, and it just feels weird that Patterson would flip out and accuse four women of going behind the WWF's back and making up their own booking before he'd entertain, even for a moment, that Moolah had done something shitty. Feels like he and others in the office were in on it. Moolah got blamed as much as the two teams did and she was gone soon after as well. |
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 6, 2019 12:18:14 GMT -5
I've read about this previously, and it just feels weird that Patterson would flip out and accuse four women of going behind the WWF's back and making up their own booking before he'd entertain, even for a moment, that Moolah had done something shitty. Feels like he and others in the office were in on it. Moolah got blamed as much as the two teams did and she was gone soon after as well. Hmm. Maybe the office thought the women were all in on it together. If not, that's a lot of people screwed for following what they thought were the directions. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 6, 2019 12:26:16 GMT -5
Moolah got blamed as much as the two teams did and she was gone soon after as well. Hmm. Maybe the office thought the women were all in on it together. If not, that's a lot of people screwed for following what they thought were the directions. Nobody saw it as some sort of mass conspiracy between everyone involved. Lot simpler than that. WWF/WWE was pissed that Moolah got involved and they were pissed the others listened to her instead of doing what they had already been told or, at least, double-checking with the office to verify Moolah. |
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 6, 2019 12:29:05 GMT -5
Hmm. Maybe the office thought the women were all in on it together. If not, that's a lot of people screwed for following what they thought were the directions. Nobody saw it as some sort of mass conspiracy between everyone involved. Lot simpler than that. WWF/WWE was pissed that Moolah got involved and they were pissed the others listened to her instead of doing what they had already been told or, at least, double-checking with the office to verify Moolah. That makes more sense. |
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Post by johnnyk9 on Apr 7, 2019 16:44:53 GMT -5
The Glamour girls were awesome
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Apr 7, 2019 21:54:41 GMT -5
The Glamour girls were awesome As were the Jumping Bomb Angels. |
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Post by J. Hova on Apr 8, 2019 0:10:01 GMT -5
Nothing surprises me with Moolah. I heard this story before after Moolah died and all the chickens came home to roost on how aggressively shitty of a human being she was.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Apr 8, 2019 0:53:06 GMT -5
I've read about this previously, and it just feels weird that Patterson would flip out and accuse four women of going behind the WWF's back and making up their own booking before he'd entertain, even for a moment, that Moolah had done something shitty. Feels like he and others in the office were in on it. Moolah got blamed as much as the two teams did and she was gone soon after as well. It seems she disappeared around this time, but wasn't she one of the people who had a lifetime deal from Vince Sr.'s requirements? |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 8, 2019 2:24:38 GMT -5
Moolah got blamed as much as the two teams did and she was gone soon after as well. It seems she disappeared around this time, but wasn't she one of the people who had a lifetime deal from Vince Sr.'s requirements? Nah. Moolah wasn't even officially part of the company until Vince K brought her in. She worked for the company but wasn't actually part of it; instead they would book her and her independent troop to fill whatever card slots they needed them for. |
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Post by jason1980s on Apr 8, 2019 7:23:12 GMT -5
I'm sure Moolah had it in her mind that she could become tag champs with one of her buddies.
I've heard the story on the article before but the timing seems very strange. I know storylines lasted a long time and were planned well in advance but to go from Angels winning at royal rumble to a match at WrestleMania V over a year later seems off.
Moolah was also in the second Hall of Fame class (not counting Andre individually) so that obviously shows how much she meant to Vince McMahon at the time but I guess all the going into business for yourself stuff was too much when he was on top of the world in the 1980s.
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Post by The Heenan Family on Apr 8, 2019 19:14:24 GMT -5
I'm sure Moolah had it in her mind that she could become tag champs with one of her buddies. I've heard the story on the article before but the timing seems very strange. I know storylines lasted a long time and were planned well in advance but to go from Angels winning at royal rumble to a match at WrestleMania V over a year later seems off. Moolah was also in the second Hall of Fame class (not counting Andre individually) so that obviously shows how much she meant to Vince McMahon at the time but I guess all the going into business for yourself stuff was too much when he was on top of the world in the 1980s. The timing has always bothered me as well. It's way too long term for that division. Another thing that seems off is Vince and company being so angry about a screwy finish in Japan. Is there really no way to work around the evil Glamour Girls stealing the belts back? If you're going to throw the entire title away, it doesn't sound like you really cared much about it to begin with. The women's tag division was only given some spotlight when WWE was in need of filler. Thus why the Glamour Girls originally held the belts for so long to begin with. At Survivor Series 87, WWE put their top stars in three other matches and needed something else to kill time. Thus the women were added. The Royal Rumble event that the Bomb Angels won the tag belts was put together at the eleventh hour and had WWE dump most of their talent that night in the Rumble match. Had the other half of the roster that was touring Nova Scotia been there that night, the women's tag match probably wouldn't have taken place. See Mania 4. It also doesn't sound like a safe plan to "invite" your tag champs back one day. If they're not often available, maybe it is best to get the belts off of them. |
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 8, 2019 19:48:59 GMT -5
It's possible this article might have WrestleMania V as an error. I've seen the story told as SummerSlam '88 in other places, which makes more sense timing-wise.
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Post by The Heenan Family on Apr 8, 2019 23:49:08 GMT -5
It's possible this article might have WrestleMania V as an error. I've seen the story told as SummerSlam '88 in other places, which makes more sense timing-wise. In her shoot video, Leilani Kai just says WrestleMania. So because the Japanese tour happened after Mania 4, people interpreted it to mean Mania 5 instead of calling into question her memory of the situation. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 9, 2019 0:15:47 GMT -5
I'm sure Moolah had it in her mind that she could become tag champs with one of her buddies. I've heard the story on the article before but the timing seems very strange. I know storylines lasted a long time and were planned well in advance but to go from Angels winning at royal rumble to a match at WrestleMania V over a year later seems off. Moolah was also in the second Hall of Fame class (not counting Andre individually) so that obviously shows how much she meant to Vince McMahon at the time but I guess all the going into business for yourself stuff was too much when he was on top of the world in the 1980s. Moolah's vindictive streak toward any of her former "girls" who struck out on their own without her and almost pathologically forced to try to sabotage them. She also felt her 3-decade control of womens wrestling breathing its last gasp and she was freaking out. From Vince's end, the women and their title weren't really worth the time or effort. Just shut the whole thing down, be done with it-type thinking. Regarding Moolah, I feel it was more of a "I love ya, but I don't want to see your face around here for a long time" type things. |
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