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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 12, 2020 18:09:55 GMT -5
I spent years being certain that Maven had never been eliminated from the 2002 Rumble. Yeah, that's a big one... people remember Taker dragging him under the ropes and then just kinda put that he went to just beating the hell out of him until throwing him into the popcorn machine... as opposed to Taker throws him back into the ring and tosses him out and then does the popcorn machine.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 12, 2020 18:10:49 GMT -5
I spent years being certain that Maven had never been eliminated from the 2002 Rumble. Technically, he wasn't. Maven was eliminated by Undertaker after Taker was already eliminated, so it shouldn't have counted. the majority of the time people can be eliminated by people not even in the match let alone eliminated... I can only think of like once when that wasn't the case.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Apr 12, 2020 18:11:54 GMT -5
I spent years being certain that Maven had never been eliminated from the 2002 Rumble. Technically, he wasn't. Maven was eliminated by Undertaker after Taker was already eliminated, so it shouldn't have counted. They have been fast and loose on that Rule, just like a lot of Rumble rules, like you have to make it into the ring before the next competitor comes out
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 12, 2020 18:15:42 GMT -5
I was certain Warrior won back the IC title at a house show I was at. I was 6. Not sure what the finish was, probably a count out but Warrior left with the belt. By the time I saw a new episode of Superstars, Warrior was champ again.
That’s what happens when you’re 6 and the only wrestling fan in the house.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 13, 2020 16:10:13 GMT -5
Kind of a personal one for me, but that the Golden Girls had a wrestling episode (I am probably thinking of Mama's Family)
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Apr 13, 2020 18:46:39 GMT -5
I somehow believed that Gino Hernandez' murder was turned into a storyline, with someone taking credit for hiring a hitman. Turned out that didn't happen, though we did get the "two tragedies" announcement.
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Post by sungod2020 on Apr 13, 2020 19:03:46 GMT -5
I sometimes heard that the only reason The Rock got big was because "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was injured in 1999. Lets ignore the fact that when that happened, he was a three time WWF champion and his popularity even rivaled The Texas Rattlesnake.
Also, Butch Reed was originally scheduled to win the IC title from Ricky Steamboat, but it went to The Honky Tonk Man instead.
Courtesy of Wikipedia...
"In the weeks after WrestleMania, Reed targeted new Intercontinental champion Ricky Steamboat and faced him at house shows and on an episode of Wrestling Challenge. According to a persistent myth, Reed no-showed a set of TV tapings where he was booked to win the title, resulting in the championship instead being put on The Honky Tonk Man.[10] However, in a shoot interview, Reed has said this is untrue. In fact, when the Honky Tonk Man won the title from Steamboat in June 1987, Reed was shown celebrating with Honky and other heel wrestlers in the locker room although, in fairness, that was a taped segment. In a 2018 shoot interview with KayfabeCommentaries, Reed contradicted his earlier statements in past interviews and confirmed that he did lose the opportunity to become the champion because he had indeed no-showed a bunch of tapings out of burnout from never being home."
So even Butch Reed himself dosen't know wheather or not he was scheduled to win the title.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 13, 2020 19:14:15 GMT -5
For me:
Legion of Doom coming to ring riding motorcycles at Wrestlemania VIII.. Two things: 1: that happened at Summerslam 92. 2. LOD didn’t even have a match at WM8
TAKA’s elimination at the 2000 Royal Rumble. While he was thrown out and had that painful landing. He was not actually an entrant in the Rumble.. he and Funaki were doing a run in.
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Post by chronocross on Apr 13, 2020 19:15:39 GMT -5
Did I imagine Delirious on an episode of Smackdown going against Matt Morgan during his stuttering gimmick?
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Post by Spider2024 on Apr 13, 2020 19:19:41 GMT -5
Technically, he wasn't. Maven was eliminated by Undertaker after Taker was already eliminated, so it shouldn't have counted. the majority of the time people can be eliminated by people not even in the match let alone eliminated... I can only think of like once when that wasn't the case. For some reason, the '96 Rumble was the only one that didn't have that rule. Vader flipped out a bunch of people after his elimination, but those people were all allowed to go back in.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Apr 13, 2020 19:51:51 GMT -5
Vince Russo came up with Mae Young and the hand. Jimmy Snuka won the match where he splashed Muraco from the top of the cage. Think someone Mandelad him as holding the I-C title too. A darker one, but they kept Owen Hart's blood on the mat throughout Over the Edge. No, it came from a Brood bloodbath. I think some of the guys who wrestled after the accident claimed the blood was Owen's, leading to the story making the rounds. I could have sworn someone(either Foley or Road Dogg, I believe) claimed they landed right next to Owen's blood while taking a bump.
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Post by fortknox on Apr 13, 2020 19:54:27 GMT -5
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Apr 13, 2020 19:54:28 GMT -5
Shawn Michaels superkicking Jannetty through the window has to be the top one. DX having a tank. Angle supposedly not being over as a face in 2001. Rick Martel IC champion. To this day, I still sometimes believe Martel won the title lol
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Apr 13, 2020 20:03:54 GMT -5
"IT WAS ME, AUSTIN!"
Nope. Vince said, "IT'S ME, AUSTIN!" He does go on to say, "It was me all along", but he never says, "It was me, Austin!"
Also, Vince revealed himself to Austin the prior week on Raw, though the audience could not see it, so Austin already knew by the time Vince revealed it to the rest of us.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 13, 2020 20:07:57 GMT -5
"IT WAS ME, AUSTIN!" Nope. Vince said, "IT'S ME, AUSTIN!" He does go on to say, "It was me all along", but he never says, "It was me, Austin!" Also, Vince revealed himself to Austin the prior week on Raw, though the audience could not see it, so Austin already knew by the time Vince revealed it to the rest of us. Yeah, Austin knew... so I don't know why he flat out singled out Austin in the first place Though because he knew that's why Stephanie and Linda got in touch and signed all the paperwork over to have Austin be half owner >_> The IT'S ME AUSTIN! Morphing with the second line is not terribly surprising... sorta like how Luke, I am your father! is never said... I AM YOUR FATHER! doesn't exactly immediately bring to mind what you are talking about without adding a Luke there >_>
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Apr 13, 2020 20:18:30 GMT -5
I may need a fact-checker for this one, but I recently watched WrestleMania 6 on the Network, which is sometimes a little different from the original broadcast. Anyway, I remembered the famous/infamous Warrior promo where he talks about crashing a plane as having been on the Mania event itself, but this is not the promo that Warrior delivers on the show. The promo I'm referring to has Warrior talking about opening up the cockpit door and crashing the plane. Christian gave a word-for-word impression of the promo on The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. Anyway, when I tried to look for the promo, I found that it was one they shot to air weeks before Mania on the syndicated shows during the PPV rundowns. It didn't air on Mania itself.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Apr 13, 2020 20:30:41 GMT -5
I spent years being certain that Maven had never been eliminated from the 2002 Rumble. A lot of people think that, but Undertaker reentered the ring and threw him over the top rope. Then, he beat the crap out of Maven throughout the arena.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Apr 13, 2020 20:32:28 GMT -5
WWF Magazine hinting at Disco Inferno coming in to be managed by Honky Tonk Man in 1997 instead of Billy Gunn is one. That actually didn't happen until a few months into the Rockabilly/HTM partnership. According to HTM, the guy that was actually considered for the role before Gunn was Savio Vega. I thought this was due to the Magazine being printed 2-3 months before it was released and Russo being Russo and pushing Glenn Gilberti even when he wasn't under contract
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Apr 13, 2020 20:35:00 GMT -5
I spent years being certain that Maven had never been eliminated from the 2002 Rumble. Technically, he wasn't. Maven was eliminated by Undertaker after Taker was already eliminated, so it shouldn't have counted. That happens all the time in the Rumble. Sometimes they count it: 12 years earlier, Bad News Brown eliminated Roddy Piper after Piper had already eliminated him. Sometimes they don't: in 1996, Vader threw everyone out of the ring after he was eliminated, but they let all those wrestlers get back into the match.
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Post by cjh on Apr 13, 2020 20:46:23 GMT -5
WWF Magazine hinting at Disco Inferno coming in to be managed by Honky Tonk Man in 1997 instead of Billy Gunn is one. That actually didn't happen until a few months into the Rockabilly/HTM partnership. According to HTM, the guy that was actually considered for the role before Gunn was Savio Vega. I thought this was due to the Magazine being printed 2-3 months before it was released and Russo being Russo and pushing Glenn Gilberti even when he wasn't under contract The magazine was two months behind, but the hinting at Disco coming to the WWF happened later than people remember. It happened in the summer when Rockabilly debuted in April. The article with the silhouette hinting at Disco had pictures of Rockabilly appearing on Raw.
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