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Post by saneiac on Feb 15, 2022 23:42:54 GMT -5
Even when I wasn't watching/able to watch regularly in the 2000s and 2010s due to the travel requirements of my job, I still kept up with the product by reading online reports. Which meant that I didn't actually SEE any of the wrestlers. So there are a whole lot of short duration wrestlers that I can't identify by sight, especially on the women's side, and when they show up as surprise Royal Rumble entrances, I have no idea who they are. I've never seen Kaitlyn outside of her appearance on one of those nostalgia themed RAWs. I didn't see Eva Marie's first run. Aksana was rumored to be coming back for the 2022 Rumble. I don't know what she looks like. Same with Rosa Mendes and Emma. I've never seen Paige wrestle, but I did see her as GM. According to the announcers at this year's Rumble, Summer Rae apparently had a feud with Natalya. I have no memory of that, or anything else Summer Rae did outside of that cluster**** with Rusev, Lana, and Ziggler.
Male wrestlers seem to hang around longer or show up in other major companies, so I have an easier time with them, but I did completely miss the WWE runs of Lance Archer and Trent Barretta, among others.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Feb 16, 2022 9:48:20 GMT -5
I mean I was watching when it happened but Tatanka having another run in the mid-00s feels like a fever dream lol And also his second attempt at a heel turn and how it crashed and burned again to nobody’s shock. Ahh, yes, rallying against the white man, starting with....Bobby Lashley.
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Post by Big BosskMan on Feb 16, 2022 12:40:49 GMT -5
I totally misread the thread title as Weird Al Dimension.
One thing that comes to mind is Eric Young winning the impact title days after and nearly identical storyline symmetry to Daniel Bryan in WWE.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Feb 16, 2022 12:44:49 GMT -5
The thread about Jake Roberts getting back with Cheryl made me think, the idea that we're currently in the timeline were Jake DID turn his life around by being clean and sober, back on TV regularly looking healthy and back with his wife from the 80s, would have all seemed like a highly unlikely reality to most of us a few years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2022 13:20:10 GMT -5
I mean I was watching when it happened but Tatanka having another run in the mid-00s feels like a fever dream lol That bizarre singles run Road Warrior Animal had in that era where he didn't wear facepaint and was billed just as "Road Warrior" is an equally fever dreamy run from that era.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Feb 16, 2022 14:09:27 GMT -5
I totally misread the thread title as Weird Al Dimension. All The wrestlers you know but with long curly hair, Hawaiian shirts and accordions
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Feb 19, 2022 7:44:17 GMT -5
One of my only wrestling tapes when I was really young was Summerslam 1990 so I was very familiar with Demolition Crush, and when I was finally properly able to watch WWF on tv weekly it was 1996 when Crush came back with his jailbird gimmick. To then later find out he had been a colourful face in between was very hard to accept!
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Post by ianriccaboni on Feb 19, 2022 7:49:58 GMT -5
Ha! Interesting. Is there youtube of this? I listen to the OVP Podcast and this whole episode of Superstars is a fever dream. Half the matches have SNME banners up and its clearly the final things they're doing in post production voice-over with bad audio mixing from this taping. Vince and Jesse sound a combination of bored and exhausted and quality control is out the window. Quite an episode!
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