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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 27, 2020 2:47:14 GMT -5
Jeff Jarrett's promo when he returned to the WWF from WCW upset Steve Austin enough that Austin refused to work with him in any meaningful capacity.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 27, 2020 2:45:51 GMT -5
We all know the Yeti from WCW and we all know the deal with Rick Rubin insisting Smokey Mountain having a mummy, resulting in the debut of Prince Kharis. But they weren't the first. Pedro Martinez did a Mummy gimmick as far back as 1941, while Benji Ramirez had some success with the gimmick in the '60s. Even WCW jobber Roadblock did the gimmick for years in Mexico and the indies. There's been a ton of them in various lucha and Japanese promotions as well. But here's one I'd never seen footage of before - the Memphis version:
I've often believed Dr. Frank was the first Memphis wrestling monster, but the Mummy precedes him. Their first Mummy debuted in 1967 and was portrayed by future matchmaker Eddie Marlin. I have had no luck finding footage of this version of the gimmick. The territory's second Mummy - seen in the footage above - first appeared in 1970 (the same year Lawler debuted, so I wonder if that was a coincidence), but would disappear for a few years before showing back up around 1974, under the command of Sam Bass (Lawler's ex-manager). At the end of the feud, this Mummy was unmasked to reveal Ron Wright. A third Mummy would arrive the following year in 1975, played by Bob Alebi, aka Count Drummer. A fourth Mummy would show up a few years later for one show, helping Nick Bockwinkel retain his title in a match against Lawler before unmasking to reveal himself as Andy Kaufman (as seen in the footage below). I'm sure they had at least one or two since then as well.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 27, 2020 2:17:25 GMT -5
I'm surprised she could hold a gun, let alone look at one without breaking down over what happened. Guns are very, very ingrained in culture, and the ways people react to trauma can be pretty unpredictable. Like, Darby Allin can still drive despite one of the defining moments of his life being when his uncle crashed and died a car Darby was in, too, so it's hard to tell what triggers will be. I'm not entirely sure I can agree with that, very different circumstances.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 27, 2020 2:15:33 GMT -5
The only reason Hogan brought legal action regarding the Russo Bash At the Beach promo is because he called him bald. They had agreed on everything else in the promo.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 27, 2020 2:10:35 GMT -5
Look very, very closely at the line-ups for these two Memphis shows from the late 70s:
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 22:11:22 GMT -5
I have never seen a physical copy of Southern Discomfort under that title. I got it as "The Maim Event with Iron Sheik" one of the many re-titlings and re-releases Fred Olen Ray did of the film. I barely got hold of it. When I was still working at my old video store, we received a list of titles that our distributor Ingram was clearing out of their warehouse that were nearly out of stock (10 or less on their shelves). I got my boss to put in a special order for myself, including this, the 70s TV movie Gargoyles and a couple of others. Of them all, the only one they still had a copy of when they received our order about an hour later was Discomfort.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 21:36:33 GMT -5
I'm 100% okay with this. Congrats, David.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 14:38:50 GMT -5
Is this the place where the Blue Meanie showed up buff as hell out of nowhere that time? His second run with ECW is where he debuted with the slimmed body and started going by The Blue Boy instead of Meanie. Carried over to this promotion.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 5:26:33 GMT -5
Can we please get an update to the title of the NFL Thread to spell Tarvaris Jackson’s name correctly? Done Something I've been meaning to ask for years to be honest. Can you have a gif for a profile pic AND signature? I thought I read somewhere you couldn't but I did not remember the details and I might have remember wrong entirely. So long as they're within the size limits
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 3:43:58 GMT -5
Some of my favorite documentaries I own:
Wrestling Queen (1973 doc about womens wrestling, focusing on Vivian Vachon)
Southern Discomfort: Wrestling on the Indie Circuit
Lipstick & Dynamite
I Like to Hurt People (Not a true documentary, but almost one. The "mockumentary" stuff accounts for maybe half the run time, if even that)
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 2:10:51 GMT -5
Houston, TX Pasadena, TX Laverne, TN Onalaska, TX Hawkins, TX Chandler, TX Dallas, TX
I know I'm forgetting one or two briefer ones, but I'm tired.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 1:43:55 GMT -5
If they didn’t dress her like that intentionally, the coincidence is incredible. Still hilarious. Stephanie was born in 1976, the Buddy dolls didn't come out until 1985. I don't know if she's 9 or 10 in that photo. Could just be a wild coincidence. If she was 9 or 10 in that photo, that would be around...1985/86. Yeah, she's wearing a My Buddy costume.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 0:53:24 GMT -5
Gordon Solie was the only co-host who was able to get through the mooing without cracking up laughing at some point. Gordon was both very drunk and very used to Dusty by this point.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 0:04:13 GMT -5
Taker pretty much got alone with everyone. I don't think he had many issues with people outside of late 90s HBK which is who didn't. Kane who every in general had an issue with Kane? Can't think of anyone. UT isn't - or least wasn't - terribly fond of Jeff Jarrett due to the hardships he went through in Jeff's dad's promotion. Austin was the same way and infamously refused to work with him.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 26, 2020 0:02:05 GMT -5
Wonder if he ever wrestled Steve Strong. Not seeing anything with him working either Steve Strong (the late 70s-mid 80s one that looked like Hulk Hogan or the one from Stampede aka Steve DiSalvo/Minotaur)
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 25, 2020 23:36:52 GMT -5
Armor Wars? Operation Galactic Storm? The Crossing? ...Tony's kind of an asshole. Whats wrong with Armor Wars (which is actually titled Stark Wars in the issues itself)? The original Armor Wars from the '80s, where he found out somebody (he didn't know who yet) stole his tech, and he proceeded to go around the world destroying the armors of everyone he could find, hero or villain, just in case their armor had his tech in it, leading to the death of one such hero (Gremlin of the Soviet Super Soldiers).
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 25, 2020 23:33:10 GMT -5
Both those guys have great looks for 1983. It's too bad it was 1988. Mike Golden was the top heel of the first promotion I started attending live (Texas All-Star in 1986). Well, one of the top heels, he shared that honor with Sheepherder Jonathan Boyd and Al Madril. Anyway, yeah, even in 1986, he was the least interesting of the three because he just felt like a lower-rent version of Flair, Landel and a number of other guys I'd already seen on bigger platforms. Good worker, though, but just had nothing to really set him apart.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 25, 2020 22:08:00 GMT -5
An unpopular comic book movie opinion, if I may: I find Endgame to be pretty dull. I mean, I get that they earned the right to be a bit self-indulgent but that middle act just drags at the expense of a first act that seems to breeze by a lot of interesting concepts and a third act that turns the most-anticipated battle scene in blockbusterdom into a pretty generic CGI romper. I wouldn't call it a bad movie, but it's definitely in the bottom half of my MCU ranking. Endgame has some great moments and great lines. As a movie, it's a poorly thought-out mess. Losing 50% of the population would not have caused complete cities to go desolate and empty. The U.S. losing half its population would have resulted in 1956-era level of population, and that wasn't exactly an empty world. It would have also caused undoubted upheaval in the structure of the political world climate as well as religion. Both would have had enormous shifts due to the aftermath. Treating everything like everyone disappeared and the world just stood there collecting dust for five years is stupid. The "bring everybody back" thing is stupid, no matter how you try to No-Prize it. Things would and could not have gone "back to normal" by even the remotest circumstance for decades. Suddenly having that many people to feed, house and employ again after five years of letting your world rot would have been a disaster. And can't even get into the smaller parts of that, like people who were in planes when they disappeared suddenly reappearing, etc. And the whole thing with the "evolution" of the Hulk, making him completely unrecognizable from all the previous films (and some of the other characters are guilty of this to lesser extent) and then not paying off his story arc that started in Infinity War was moronic.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 25, 2020 21:29:11 GMT -5
Pretty sure posting that got him put on, like, 45 different lists.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 25, 2020 15:21:11 GMT -5
Also I do not like Tony Stark as a character. Even ignoring That Event That Shalt Not Be Named. I just find the modern interpretation to be a giant holier-than-thou elitist hypocrite for refusing to build weapons for others, while literally walking and flying around in a super advanced weapon he built for himself. Civil War? Secret Invasion? Fear Itself? Axis? Civil War II? Secret Empire? Armor Wars? Operation Galactic Storm? The Crossing? ...Tony's kind of an asshole.
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