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Post by chrom on Sept 7, 2022 13:33:36 GMT -5
Flair famously changing the finish in the Dominican? The crowd was rabid, and he decided there was no damn way he was pinning the local hero, fearing a riot. He lost the NWA title. Got it back backstage and the local promotion gave the fans some story about how the local guy wouldn’t take a victory in a dubious manner. I think Piper was interfering? I’m really not sure of the details other than to know it happened. Wasn't Piper his second and he tripped the opponent up as interference and the security at ringside pulled a gun on him? |
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Post by chrom on Sept 7, 2022 13:34:23 GMT -5
Didn't Scott Hall lose to Jericho in WCW one time in a call he made during the match? Did the same for Hector Garza as well. |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 7, 2022 13:42:05 GMT -5
Flair famously changing the finish in the Dominican? The crowd was rabid, and he decided there was no damn way he was pinning the local hero, fearing a riot. He lost the NWA title. Got it back backstage and the local promotion gave the fans some story about how the local guy wouldn’t take a victory in a dubious manner. I think Piper was interfering? I’m really not sure of the details other than to know it happened. Wasn't Piper his second and he tripped the opponent up as interference and the security at ringside pulled a gun on him? Was this the match where Flair claims the promoter paid Piper with “a spittoon full of cocaine?” |
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Sept 7, 2022 14:07:23 GMT -5
There was an ECW event where Lance Storm and Spike Dudley were having a singles match. Storm was booked to win, but all the prior matches had been heel victories and the energy was going out of the crowd, so Storm changed the finish to Spike winning.
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Post by sdoyle7798 on Sept 7, 2022 15:06:43 GMT -5
The Usos against Nakamura and Rick Boogs finish was changed due to Boogs injuring his knee. Eddie Guerrero and Perry Saturn were booked to go over the New Age Outlaws in their Raw debut after the Radicalz debuted but when Eddie injured his shoulder doing the frog splash he told Road Dogg to pin him because he was in so much pain he couldn't do anything. Not knowing what the finish was supposed to be, I'd love to say I wish that they could have just had Eddie get the pin after the frog splash, but I imagine there was probably supposed to be a pin break up and other stuff. I wonder if he could have rolled out and alerted someone that he was hurt, but I can also see that dislocated elbow having him panic as well. That looked gruesome. |
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Sept 7, 2022 15:13:38 GMT -5
There was an ECW event where Lance Storm and Spike Dudley were having a singles match. Storm was booked to win, but all the prior matches had been heel victories and the energy was going out of the crowd, so Storm changed the finish to Spike winning. Not only was it the right call, I'm assuming this is when Lance was on the booking team |
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Sept 7, 2022 15:13:43 GMT -5
The Usos against Nakamura and Rick Boogs finish was changed due to Boogs injuring his knee. Eddie Guerrero and Perry Saturn were booked to go over the New Age Outlaws in their Raw debut after the Radicalz debuted but when Eddie injured his shoulder doing the frog splash he told Road Dogg to pin him because he was in so much pain he couldn't do anything. Not knowing what the finish was supposed to be, I'd love to say I wish that they could have just had Eddie get the pin after the frog splash, but I imagine there was probably supposed to be a pin break up and other stuff. I wonder if he could have rolled out and alerted someone that he was hurt, but I can also see that dislocated elbow having him panic as well. That looked gruesome. I don't get why Saturn couldn't have just did the pin instead. I know it would go against the legal man rule but it's like they gave a crap about that half the time anyways during that era. NAO winning also screwed up the whole narrative of the show as they were doing a best of three series between DX and the Radicalz. X-Pac beat Malenko then Guerrero/Saturn were supposed to beat the Outlaws which would've set up Benoit against Triple H in the rubber match with Hunter going over. However Outlaws winning made the final match between the two faction leaders pointless as they instead had to say Benoit was just wrestling out of pride. Also the Radicalz getting swept by DX right after their debut made them look like geeks right out of the gates. |
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Sept 7, 2022 16:41:23 GMT -5
Didn't Scott Hall lose to Jericho in WCW one time in a call he made during the match? I think Jericho said in his first book that Hall made the decision backstage, because Jericho had to teach him how to do a small package* *Jericho *claims* so, at least |
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