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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2021 22:45:04 GMT -5
Josh Matthews feuding with JBL and Orlando Jordan along with Booker T and even ending up on the winning side more than once (albeit Booker did the lions share of the work), just a few months before he was possessed by The Undertaker.
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Post by nickcave on Jan 5, 2021 1:04:52 GMT -5
The fact that WWE tried to turn Jonathan Coachman into a semi-regular wrestler in the mid 00s
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Post by mcstoklasa on Jan 5, 2021 1:41:33 GMT -5
Baby-face Raw GM Austin once wore his heel red knee braces on RAW in 2003
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Post by ToyfareMark on Jan 5, 2021 4:08:48 GMT -5
Hogan vs. Slaughter at WM 7 was actually a very good match. Yeah the angle sucked, yes its overshadowed and rightfully by Savage/Warrior, and yes it has the typical Hogan comeback at the end. But check it out sometime, you might just be surprised. And I have to say, technically everyone knows this match happened, but only the angle is ever talked about.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Jan 5, 2021 5:14:41 GMT -5
Two random spots from late '80s/early '90s (I believe) WWF matches:
One guy who's visibly sunburnt getting back raked. One guy berating his tag team partner for breaking up a pin fall, subjecting him to more offense by the superior tag team.
Obviously, I can't remember any of the people involved.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 5, 2021 5:38:08 GMT -5
On an episode of WCW Saturday Night in the late 90s early 2000s, Perfect Event bullied a production guy. Who the next week locked them in a tanning bed and they had a tag match against the production guy and an actual wrestler while the Perfect Event had bright red sunburns. They did this with Breezango a few years back, as well. They had to work a match with worked sunburn because of Goldust and R-Truth.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2021 8:40:06 GMT -5
Hogan vs. Slaughter at WM 7 was actually a very good match. Yeah the angle sucked, yes its overshadowed and rightfully by Savage/Warrior, and yes it has the typical Hogan comeback at the end. But check it out sometime, you might just be surprised. And I have to say, technically everyone knows this match happened, but only the angle is ever talked about. I recently re-watched this, and you're right. It's not a 5 star classic by any means, but it's a whole lot better than it should have been.
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Post by fw91 on Jan 5, 2021 9:59:55 GMT -5
“There was another door”
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jan 5, 2021 11:12:57 GMT -5
Well they're not very smart, are they?
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 5, 2021 11:15:23 GMT -5
Some random memories of mine: -Diesel promoting Street Fighter: The Movie and SummerSlam '95 in the same commercial That would have been quite a feat, considering that the Street Fighter movie came out in late 94. As for mine, I never saw this, only read about in an old Herb Kunze column, but apparently there was a Scotty Flamingo match where, after he took off his entrance garb, kept asking for a ringboy to pick it up, while Jim Ross pointed out that "we dont have ringboys here". This was around the time of the WWF ringboy scandal, and even Herb wondered if it was a reference to that. The movie was on DirecTV by '95. Could have been one of their commercials that Diesel was on. Normally what happened was a movie premiered in cinemas, moved to a drive-in theater in my state a month later, then became a paid movie on satellite and cable systems. After that, the movie appeared on channels like HBO, Cinemax, TNT, etc. as time went on.
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2021 12:09:55 GMT -5
Well they're not very smart, are they? Makes me laugh every damn time I see it
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Post by Paul on Jan 5, 2021 13:57:39 GMT -5
HBK taking someone's leg off in the crowd and hitting Diesel with it. As a kid, I couldn't understand how this was possible as I didn't know you could have a prosthetic leg lol. I was about 2 or 3. Moondog Vachon was the one with the prosthetic leg and in the crowd. It was at In Your House Good Friends Better Enemies. Heel Diesel took it off him but HBK somehow got it at smacked Diesel with it. I guess you could say he really got a leg up on him.
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Post by crowley1986 on Jan 5, 2021 15:01:00 GMT -5
A Luke Harper vignette that inferred he was a veteran, and bray found him and "put him back together" - it was after the first split where he "sets" him and Rowan free
Crash holly meets shaft to protect him when he was doing the 24/7....Also Crash as Shannon Moore's sidekick
More of a backstage news, Rhyno was to be rebranded under his name as Terry "Rhyno" Gerrin and he was to be the enforcer in Evolution
Batista's background of being in different foster home, just as he was aligining with Ric Flair in late 02 (and i think they did same for Ken SHamrock - the foster home bit)
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Post by karl100589 on Jan 5, 2021 15:03:11 GMT -5
Val Venis going by "The Big Valbowski" around 2002.
On a similar note, Ron Simmons going by his own name for a few weeks before becoming Faarooq again
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Post by crowley1986 on Jan 5, 2021 15:18:00 GMT -5
Val Venis going by "The Big Valbowski" around 2002. On a similar note, Ron Simmons going by his own name for a few weeks before becoming Faarooq again if i remember rightly they were trying to rebrand Val from the porn star to a ladies man/hitch style character I'm watching back around the early days of the original brand split and enjoying them actually trying new things with the characters, like planet stasiak/Ron Simmons/Godfather as the evil pimp/Dreamer doing Jackass style bits/Bradshaw's Stan Hansen tribute/Nowinksi etc
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 5, 2021 15:28:02 GMT -5
Big Bossman losing the "Big" in his name in 2001-02, and for a time dressing like Bubba Rogers.
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Post by romanstylesiii on Jan 5, 2021 15:35:19 GMT -5
Stacey Keibler was put on the line more times than any championship in 2002
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 5, 2021 15:43:36 GMT -5
The online reviewer who was obsessed with Rhyno's last couple of ECW promos and made sure to reference them anytime he appeared.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 15:49:59 GMT -5
Paul Orndorf - Child Predator?: I could be completely making this up so don't quote me on this, but I think I remember reading somewhere that during Paul Orndorff's face run, he asked a child(about 8 years old) to come to the ring and pose with him. If that's not odd enough, I believe(and again, I could be misremembering this) he either signalled him to talk his shirt off or Orndorff did it himself so they can continue posing together. Does anybody have info on? I'm about 99% sure you're misremembering the commercial for the Hulk Hogan Workout set. For some reason, it features Orndorff instead of Hogan, and the commercial ends with Orndorff asking the kid "are you in shape yet?" to which he responds by tearing his shirt off like Hogan. The whole thing does have a bit of an unsettling vibe, though I doubt that was Orndorff's doing. Commercial right here.
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Post by Matt on Jan 5, 2021 15:52:28 GMT -5
Some random memories of mine: -Diesel promoting Street Fighter: The Movie and SummerSlam '95 in the same commercial That would have been quite a feat, considering that the Street Fighter movie came out in late 94. As for mine, I never saw this, only read about in an old Herb Kunze column, but apparently there was a Scotty Flamingo match where, after he took off his entrance garb, kept asking for a ringboy to pick it up, while Jim Ross pointed out that "we dont have ringboys here". This was around the time of the WWF ringboy scandal, and even Herb wondered if it was a reference to that. I'm almost afraid to ask but..Ringboy scandal?
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