Spider2024
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I believe in Joe Hendry.
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Post by Spider2024 on Jul 27, 2023 9:49:01 GMT -5
"Ninety-three thousand, one hundred and seventy-three!" I will always and forever believe that number to be accurate. The Pontiac Silverdome seated roughly 80,000, and WrestleMania III was probably able to squeeze another 10,000 onto the floor. Did they reach 93,173 on the nose? Maybe, maybe not. But I believe that's a much more accurate picture than the 78,000 reported by Dave Meltzer, which would require huge swaths of the seating bowl to be empty. ![https://i.imgur.com/H8rPsMF.gif](https://i.imgur.com/H8rPsMF.gif)
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 27, 2023 10:01:00 GMT -5
“You just gotta reach for that brass ring”
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 27, 2023 11:07:55 GMT -5
Shawn Michaels threw Marty Jannetty through the window. Had nothing to do with Marty's cowardice, nope nope nope.
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jul 27, 2023 11:13:06 GMT -5
Shawn Michaels threw Marty Jannetty through the window. Had nothing to do with Marty's cowardice, nope nope nope.
Will you stop?!
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Post by Hit Girl on Jul 27, 2023 12:04:11 GMT -5
Listen Arsenio brotha, I do not take steroids, brotha!
Cut to that clip in Coming to America of Arsenio spitting out his drink.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jul 27, 2023 12:07:26 GMT -5
"Ninety-three thousand, one hundred and seventy-three!" I will always and forever believe that number to be accurate. The Pontiac Silverdome seated roughly 80,000, and WrestleMania III was probably able to squeeze another 10,000 onto the floor. Did they reach 93,173 on the nose? Maybe, maybe not. But I believe that's a much more accurate picture than the 78,000 reported by Dave Meltzer, which would require huge swaths of the seating bowl to be empty. I've long had the same thought about WMIII, and Summerslam '92 too. I could buy that it was 78,000 paid with several thousand freebies given out, and/or that the full official attendance wasn't really known and they just pulled a vague number out of the air.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jul 27, 2023 12:19:55 GMT -5
I literally just read an article in which Hogan claimed he and Vince had an opportunity to buy UFC “back before the refs stopped fights and you could kick a guy when he was on the mat. It was really violent and we passed on it. That was a mistake, brother.”
The article went on to say that Hogan claimed years ago that he had been asked to compete at an early UFC event, which was promptly denied by UFC (at that time) brass.
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Johnny B. Decent
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 27, 2023 12:29:17 GMT -5
I literally just read an article in which Hogan claimed he and Vince had an opportunity to buy UFC “back before the refs stopped fights and you could kick a guy when he was on the mat. It was really violent and we passed on it. That was a mistake, brother.” The article went on to say that Hogan claimed years ago that he had been asked to compete at an early UFC event, which was promptly denied by UFC (at that time) brass. I honestly think Hogan can not go without lying. Like, maybe he doesn't even want to, he just lies out of instinct, like a second nature.
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XIII
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by XIII on Jul 27, 2023 13:52:45 GMT -5
Paul Heyman telling the ECW roster that he was in Hollywood negotiating a new tv deal when in fact he was about to show up in the WWE has got to be up there.
Honestly surprised that no one whooped Paul’s ass in the 90s/00s.
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Post by simplydurhamcalling on Jul 28, 2023 0:54:36 GMT -5
Paul Heyman telling the ECW roster that he was in Hollywood negotiating a new tv deal when in fact he was about to show up in the WWE has got to be up there. Honestly surprised that no one whooped Paul’s ass in the 90s/00s. Well Dreamer did want to shoot him live on PPV at Mania 17 as a result of that specific lie.
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 28, 2023 8:14:29 GMT -5
“My muscles are all natural” No direct source. Too many examples to put in one post.
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cjh
Hank Scorpio
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Post by cjh on Jul 28, 2023 8:22:58 GMT -5
I literally just read an article in which Hogan claimed he and Vince had an opportunity to buy UFC “back before the refs stopped fights and you could kick a guy when he was on the mat. It was really violent and we passed on it. That was a mistake, brother.” The article went on to say that Hogan claimed years ago that he had been asked to compete at an early UFC event, which was promptly denied by UFC (at that time) brass. Hogan's lying about his part in that, but I do remember hearing Shane McMahon was trying to sell Vince on buying the UFC during that 1999-2000 era when the UFC looked to be danger of folding before the Fertittas bought it.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 28, 2023 8:29:53 GMT -5
I literally just read an article in which Hogan claimed he and Vince had an opportunity to buy UFC “back before the refs stopped fights and you could kick a guy when he was on the mat. It was really violent and we passed on it. That was a mistake, brother.” The article went on to say that Hogan claimed years ago that he had been asked to compete at an early UFC event, which was promptly denied by UFC (at that time) brass. Hogan's lying about his part in that, but I do remember hearing Shane McMahon was trying to sell Vince on buying the UFC during that 1999-2000 era when the UFC looked to be danger of folding before the Fertittas bought it. That much I believe did happen, and pre-XFL, they probably could have made a serious bid. I doubt they'd have had anywhere near the same success because WWE so much as touching it would have probably hurt its credibility, but we'll never know what direction it'd have gone.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jul 28, 2023 10:03:11 GMT -5
“My muscles are all natural” No direct source. Too many examples to put in one post. On the flip side is the story Jim Cornette told about doing a promo with Hercules Hernandez in Mid South where at point Her hit a double biceps pose and said, “That’s 10 Dianobol a day!”
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jul 28, 2023 10:09:49 GMT -5
Heyman claiming ECW was worth ten million dollars.
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fg
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Post by fg on Jul 28, 2023 11:57:39 GMT -5
Heyman claiming ECW was worth ten million dollars. HAHAHAHAHA!
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 29, 2023 0:09:24 GMT -5
“My muscles are all natural” No direct source. Too many examples to put in one post. On the flip side is the story Jim Cornette told about doing a promo with Hercules Hernandez in Mid South where at point Her hit a double biceps pose and said, “That’s 10 Dianobol a day!” Also makes me think of someone, maybe Jerry Jarrett?, saying to the boys in Memphis that they'd better not be on the gas, and someone replying that with what he paid them, they were lucky they were on food. May be apocryphal, particularly since I have my doubts he'd care that much about performance enhancement, though I guess even in the '80s, there was some controversy around steroids and already talk of "roid rage" incidents with athletes.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Jul 29, 2023 5:45:06 GMT -5
Has Manny Fernandez ever said something that wasn't complete and utter bullshit.
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 29, 2023 5:50:41 GMT -5
“People say like losing to the ultimate warrior bothered me. It didn’t.” Triple H
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Post by The Barber on Jul 29, 2023 6:16:51 GMT -5
Honestly surprised that no one whooped Paul’s ass in the 90s/00s. I think...I could be wrong...but I think it was known that he had some kind of hookup with the WWF, so that's why they didn't. On the flip side is the story Jim Cornette told about doing a promo with Hercules Hernandez in Mid South where at point Her hit a double biceps pose and said, “That’s 10 Dianobol a day!” Also makes me think of someone, maybe Jerry Jarrett?, saying to the boys in Memphis that they'd better not be on the gas, and someone replying that with what he paid them, they were lucky they were on food. 'Dirty' Dutch Mandell is the guy you are thinking of.
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