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Post by Jacy Derangement Syndrome on Jun 19, 2022 1:30:32 GMT -5
YES THIS IS WORTHY OF A THREAD
I'm watching an episode of Smackdown from August 03 rn and this is literally a thing that's happening. The Manster Brock Lesnar. The Manster. The MANSTER. BROCK LESNAR.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 19, 2022 1:36:47 GMT -5
Looking into this also reminded me of when they tried to get over calling Kane the One-Eyed Monster.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 19, 2022 1:42:08 GMT -5
Looking into this also reminded me of when they tried to get over calling Kane the One-Eyed Monster. Have you seen some of his tweets?? It’s a fitting nickname. |
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Post by Heartbreaker on Jun 19, 2022 1:44:20 GMT -5
I love that we both made this thread.
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Post by Jacy Derangement Syndrome on Jun 19, 2022 1:46:53 GMT -5
I love that we both made this thread. WWE can't suppress this any longer |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 19, 2022 1:53:15 GMT -5
Yeah, Tazz used to yell THE MANSTER! all the time... I guess they figured he got "Here comes the pain" over... they could get anything over, and they couldn't exactly continue calling Brock "The NEXT BIG THING" after he's demolished everyone.
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Post by Bad Moon on Jun 19, 2022 1:57:43 GMT -5
I wasn't on the internet during pre-UFC Brock, how was he percieved at the time? I vaguely remember liking him as a wrestler but not really thinking of him as a real star, just a big scary monster for heroes like Angle and Eddie to take down.
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Post by Chiral on Jun 19, 2022 2:03:06 GMT -5
I 100% remember this. It was all over WWE.com when he turned heel in 2003.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 19, 2022 2:53:35 GMT -5
Didn't they also call him the "Vanilla Gorilla" at least a few times? Either on his debut or the week after.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jun 19, 2022 8:35:40 GMT -5
I wasn't on the internet during pre-UFC Brock, how was he percieved at the time? I vaguely remember liking him as a wrestler but not really thinking of him as a real star, just a big scary monster for heroes like Angle and Eddie to take down. he got one of the biggest out-of-the-gate pushes of anyone I'd ever seen. it was like Goldberg if he could actually wrestle. dude was being positioned rather obviously as the next big star with Austin and The Rock and their way out. but then he f***ed off to play football and WWE spent the next few years pretending he never existed. |
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 19, 2022 8:37:27 GMT -5
It's never a good sign when your big scary wrestler nickname can lead people to infer he's half man, half hamster.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jun 19, 2022 10:36:50 GMT -5
Didn't they also call him the "Vanilla Gorilla" at least a few times? Either on his debut or the week after. Oh my god. |
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Post by FinalGwen on Jun 19, 2022 10:41:10 GMT -5
I wasn't on the internet during pre-UFC Brock, how was he percieved at the time? I vaguely remember liking him as a wrestler but not really thinking of him as a real star, just a big scary monster for heroes like Angle and Eddie to take down. I think the best way to put it in terms of them pushing him as a real star is that they used his catchphrase as the name of their franchise video game (with him as the cover star), something that had only previously been done for The Rock. |
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jun 19, 2022 10:53:39 GMT -5
Becky Lynch absolutely needs to hijack this nickname as she descends into madness.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jun 19, 2022 11:02:49 GMT -5
It's never a good sign when your big scary wrestler nickname can lead people to infer he's half man, half hamster. I've got man but I'm not a manster |
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jun 19, 2022 11:26:42 GMT -5
I assume this had to be a Jim Ross idea, since it had previously been the nickname of an old Dallas Cowboys player.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2022 12:17:26 GMT -5
Didn't they also call him the "Vanilla Gorilla" at least a few times? Either on his debut or the week after. Oh my god. You'll be shocked to hear this, but Undertaker used to call Lesnar that all the time according to his appearance on Rogans podcast. And yes, Taz said it on TV a few times too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2022 12:18:47 GMT -5
Remember when they tried to call Roman "The Juggernaut" and Finn was "The Extraordinary Man Who Can Do Extraordinary Things"
Thank god they eventually found fun little Red Barons for them. "The Tribal Chief" and "The Prince" are both nice and simple.
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Post by Chiral on Jun 19, 2022 12:26:24 GMT -5
Remember when they tried to call Roman "The Juggernaut" and Finn was "The Extraordinary Man Who Can Do Extraordinary Things" Thank god they eventually found fun little Red Barons for them. "The Tribal Chief" and "The Prince" are both nice and simple. And the way they said Finn's made it sound like "The Extraordinary Man Who Can Do Extra Ordinary Things" which sounds like an amazingly talented person who can do incredibly normal things. |
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Post by Jacy Derangement Syndrome on Jun 19, 2022 12:50:32 GMT -5
I assume this had to be a Jim Ross idea, since it had previously been the nickname of an old Dallas Cowboys player. Oh my god all the most cursed abandoned nicknames from this era can be traced back to him |
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