therob
Hank Scorpio
Mcginley to Slim's O'neil
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Post by therob on Jan 15, 2007 0:19:08 GMT -5
Fan 1: What do all those big words mean
fan 2: Who cares just boo him
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Warwolf
Unicron
Fear the Wolf
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Post by Warwolf on Jan 15, 2007 1:00:47 GMT -5
That promo still gives me goosebumps. I loved that promo, and it has a special place in my heart cause I was THERE the day that Heyman cut that promo.  |
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Post by rrm15 on Jan 15, 2007 1:15:51 GMT -5
Ya know what I wish?? Heyman cut this promo again tommorow night on RAW and the crowd pops HUGE for it. I wonder how Vince would react.
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Post by WarriorWarrior on Jan 15, 2007 1:16:46 GMT -5
Vince let Heyman say all that? If that promo was now, the fans would pop bigger than anything Austin did in the Attitude era.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Jan 15, 2007 1:17:36 GMT -5
Brother had to do this for real backstage at ECW all the time. amazing promo
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Post by -Lithium- on Jan 15, 2007 1:19:20 GMT -5
"And when your father DIED!"
...damn he was intense in that promo...
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Post by Pierre the Renaissance Man on Jan 15, 2007 1:21:24 GMT -5
Easily one of the top promoms ever.
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Post by Larryhausen on Jan 15, 2007 7:51:30 GMT -5
A few thoughts on this promo.
First, no matter what was scripted, no matter what Vince allowed Heyman to say, you know for a FACT that this came from the heart. You can tell that Paul believed what he was saying was true.
Second, as an old school ECW fan, the crowd reaction pretty much killed that entire segment. I know that WWF were technically the "faces" in the whole angle, but you can believe that if that promo was cut in New York or Philly, the crowd would've been totally behind Heyman.
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salTy
El Dandy
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Post by salTy on Jan 15, 2007 9:59:23 GMT -5
This promo is why I'll always love Paul.
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Chainsaw
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A very BAD man.
It is what it is
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Post by Chainsaw on Jan 15, 2007 10:49:38 GMT -5
Fan 1: What do all those big words mean fan 2: Who cares just boo him At least he wasn't speaking Russian. Yeah, I agree with everything that's been said. Tazz choking out Heyman at the end was a dumb way to end it, Cole's a retard, although I understand why he'd say something like that in storyline, and Heyman was right. What really killed be was when they had him come out kowtowing trying to get his job back after Survivor Series, only for Vince to have him thrown out and we get the return of the King. Ranks right up there with Jericho crying and begging for his job as one fo my least-favorite and completely unwatchable moments in wrestling. |
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BHB
Hank Scorpio
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Post by BHB on Jan 15, 2007 10:50:18 GMT -5
Sadly, 6 years later, Heyman's words still ring true. Truer now than ever. |
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Post by JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK on Jan 15, 2007 10:59:43 GMT -5
Probally my second favorite promo ever.... the first being Hogan's heel turn nWo speech and the 3rd being Ric Flair's Flair for the Gold speech after he won the NWA title the second time.....
I also really like Joey Style's promo on RAW last year....
Damn promo's like this make you wish Vince would listen...
Also i agree they should have used this promo in Philly or New York!
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Post by odanobunaga on Jan 15, 2007 11:31:05 GMT -5
"Haven´t you watched the show lately? Vince MacMahon has lost his mind!"
By god, Paul was a fortune teller or something?
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Post by Skeleton Crew on Jan 15, 2007 11:43:06 GMT -5
"Haven´t you watched the show lately? Vince MacMahon has lost his mind!" By god, Paul was a fortune teller or something? The WWE as it is today is like the heavyweight Boxing scene: theres no real contenders on the horizon so why bother to put out a effort. |
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Eunös ✈
Dalek
Duck Feet Expert
Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jan 15, 2007 12:03:58 GMT -5
and here i was thinking this was going to a Rant on the "Voodoo Kin Mafia" Still... Awesome Promo. Though i dare say back than i would have been one of the People Booing him  It be awesome if he did this Today. |
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Jan 15, 2007 12:08:06 GMT -5
I remember that promo back then and I thought it was awesome.
It's frightening that Heyman's words actually apply far more today than they did back then. Because in 2001, the WWF/E wasn't actually that bad. It wasn't great (especially during the Alliance era when this promo took place), but it still had a lot of good things going for it.
Wrestling has become a dirty word in WWE. If it was a dirty word in 2001, it must now be worse than the F word here in 2007. I seriously hope that Heyman can somehow once again contribute to some promotion be it TNA or a new promotion altogether.
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Post by The Original Gooker on Jan 15, 2007 13:08:47 GMT -5
Great promo by Heyman, I guess the reason the promo sounds so real is because Vince McMahon really stole ECW concepts and called the edgier product WWF Attitude, and Paul Heyman just hates him for that.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 15, 2007 13:42:09 GMT -5
I remember I wasn't watching wrestling at this point, but I just so happened to turn SD on about just about the moment this promo started, and I was completely transfixed.
It's like so many of us standing there, screaming in Vince's face, almost pleading with him, "Why? Why do you book things just to spite us?", only for him to sic "Tazz" on us, collectively.
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