tafkaga
Don Corleone
the Dogfather
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Post by tafkaga on Aug 2, 2022 8:38:43 GMT -5
Lots of bad ones, but going from gloating top dog in the wrestling world to getting purchased by your chief rival, to having your new owner piss all over you via live simulcast on national television is a once in a lifetime kind of bad.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 2, 2022 9:45:09 GMT -5
UWF 1987. Their Champion successfully defends his title at Starrcade, but 2 months later they no longer exist. Their TV champ loses an extended squash more or less too. I don't think the tag champs (Sheepherders?) even made Starrcade at all, and I think their belts were the first to be silently discontinued. The TV title was taken the most seriously, as at least they bothered to put that up in a unification match. And now I wonder...would SC87 have been better if the main event was just Flair vs. Williams, title for title too? (and I am one who thinks Ron Garvin wasn't a bad worker by any means, maybe in different circumstances his world title reign could have been better, even) And of course UWF pretty much just becoming another JCP show with a few of their stars here and there now. As some people noted, it was the inVasion before the inVasion.
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Futureraven: Beelzebruv
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Ultimate Arbiter of Right And Wrong
Spent half my life here, God help me
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 2, 2022 9:50:45 GMT -5
There was a fed that started in Philly around the same time ROH did... I cannot remember the name but I want to say it was Pro Wrestling Impact? Their big angle was Quiet Storm kept calling out Low Ki while he was on tour with Zero 1 in Japan. They actually booked to run at the Philly Spectrum. I don't believe it was at the main arena but the owners hoped the show up hard put so much into it and... the show tanked. Doomed the promotion. Sucked more cause they were giving undercarriage guys from other indies a place to shine as main eventers. Maybe Pro Wrestling Iron? I remember that as one of the promotions in EWR around then.
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Post by Gremlin on Aug 2, 2022 11:09:47 GMT -5
IWA Mid-South. Did anyone even buy their broken hearted pizza oven?
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Hank Scorpio
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Post by Woo on Aug 8, 2022 8:21:18 GMT -5
Lucha Underground was probably the most painful of modern promotions in terms of how dragged out the death seemed, if you will, or at the very least, the uncertainty about whether or not the show was getting renewed or not. That abysmal fourth season was depressing. It wasn't until the very end of it that things were finally looking up again quality-wise. It was so bad. The only good parts were Johnny Mundo (the wedding was fantastic) and Marty the Moth's storylines. Ricky Mandell's too, though why they took soooo long to do anything with him after he saw the pictures of the dolls in Season 3 I have no idea.. As for Season 3, I thought that was incredible. I do agree that Ultima Lucha Dos was a very bad show, but the third season was a return to form.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 8, 2022 11:51:02 GMT -5
ECW. Paul Heyman sabotaging attempts to save the company and not telling talent when the company is dead, instead choosing to string everyone along while readying a parachute for him, and him only. Once that parachute was deployed, he'd go on to work to sabotage the careers of people who were loyal to him in ECW behind their backs in the WWF. I don't condone or endorse murder, but I Understand Tommy Dreamer wanting run up on Paul E at a show with a burner That impulse is understandable, but what made it creepy as hell was Dreamer saying he wanted to do it in front of a live crowd at Wrestlemania. Would have done unbelievable damage to the industry and screwed over all his co-workers much worse than Heyman ever did.
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Aug 8, 2022 12:03:23 GMT -5
And especially since the monsters, Kobald and JFDC, were given their power mostly because of loyalty to the boss and nothing else. Oh yeah, I completely forgot about him, I don't even remember his name but that he did something (looks up) HOO BOY YUP. He deserves to be forgotten.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Aug 8, 2022 13:35:14 GMT -5
To be honest, Southpaw Championship Wrestling ending with a taping inside a bar in front of 20 fans was a bit depressing, though it being Taco Tuesday night did seem to brighten up Lance Catamaran's spirits. Lance was so checked out he made Tony Schiavone in 2000 look enthusiastic by comparison.
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