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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 30, 2021 22:14:18 GMT -5
I mean the biggest problem with that (And the Goldberg push in general) is... well at some point the guys gotta lose or you have to keep him from ever doing anything meaningful. and I think that was part of Ryback's problem was... past the aura he had... he really didn't have much else. (that SAID they still could have done way more with him... even if he would likely have petered off eventually anyway) Oh no, Ryback is not a guy you could build the company around, but you're given lightning in a bottle of that nature that just doesn't come around super often, I sorta feel like you should work with that. Yeah I think Ryback would've slotted very nicely into the upper midcard. He was indeed white hot and also had the advantage of being more naturally charismatic than Goldberg has ever been. Really coulda been something.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 28, 2021 17:10:18 GMT -5
Y'see...
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 25, 2021 14:54:12 GMT -5
He ends up being the Santa that Stone Cold stuns in December of 97.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 22, 2021 0:15:05 GMT -5
remember when James would post a video and then we'd all be like "haha wow that was a very funny video" and then we'd talk about the game or whatever
yeah me neither
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 4, 2021 13:42:14 GMT -5
The fallout from this show is amazing. Heyman gone, WWE completely abandoning any attempts to be like the old ECW, the end of single brand PPV’s a couple months later and ECW becoming NXT Beta. EDIT: When I say NXT Beta I mean their first attempt at televised developmental, not the contest thing it eventually became And thank god for that. WWECW sucked pretty bad when it was attempting to emulate the original ECW, but it ruled when it had its own identity. Honestly the best show WWE had at the time for quite awhile.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 3, 2021 22:37:41 GMT -5
WWF Magazine had a hilarious article about Earl Hebner just after the angle where Ted DiBiase hired Earl to cheat and allow Andre to pin Hogan. It talked about how from childhood Earl had always pretended to be Dave in order to get Dave in trouble, including treating Dave's girlfriend like crap so she would break up with him and intentionally failing Dave's college entrance exams. what the f*** Earl
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 2, 2021 8:54:48 GMT -5
Jack Swagger being a big happy goofball heel until he wins the World Title and suddenly he's SRS Jericho, even though he just beat SRS Jericho for said title. I had some non fans over for that Mania and out of all the wrestlers they didnt already know Swagger was the only one to catch their attention. His Kurt Angle esque goofy jock character worked. Then he won the title and lost all of that. Turning him serious really hit the brakes on his career right when he could've exploded. I've been defending Hager for YEARS and I felt insane when people thought he was bland at the time or whatever. You are absolutely right that his schtick worked, and he could've been way bigger than he's ended up being. Always gonna be mad about that one.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Nov 24, 2021 1:30:29 GMT -5
Don't think any can be worse than Savio.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Nov 15, 2021 18:04:30 GMT -5
I had no idea John Tesh was an Entertainment Tonight host.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Nov 8, 2021 23:59:43 GMT -5
HLA literally got me to stop watching for like, a whole year lol
and it happened like not long after i started getting back into wrestling after roughly a year of not watching it
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 30, 2021 0:19:36 GMT -5
1997, easily.
Is it the best? Not necessarily. But it was the first PPV I watched live. Not like, there. But a friend's dad ordered it and there was a whole watch party. It was a f***ing great night and an awesome PPV. Loved every second of it.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 26, 2021 12:29:46 GMT -5
Your ass better call somebody. I didn't know that. Your ass better call somebody.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 21, 2021 23:48:11 GMT -5
Imagine being a commentator in any other sport and constantly being at risk of physical violence and humiliation by the athletes, the managers and the league commissioner. Troy Aikman:"I'm getting real sick of this 'Tough-actin' Tinactin' crap." *Aikman beats up John Madden* "I GOT SOME BOOM FOR YA!!!"
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 17, 2021 21:40:55 GMT -5
Shark Boy Stone Cold Shark Boy Curry Man Willow the Wisp
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 15, 2021 23:08:05 GMT -5
Yeah I mean I definitely think Luger would've given a different vibe to the whole angle from the start, but considering the vindictiveness with which the angle was executed, I doubt it would've ended any differently.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 11, 2021 20:02:08 GMT -5
I don't think he'd be like a main eventer but I can see one of two things happening:
1) He becomes a regular upper midcarder that occasionally slots into the main event, basically the role Miz has been occupying for the last decade.
2) He slowly gets less and less focus and eventually is either sent back to developmental to retool his gimmick, or he just gets let go.
He'd deserve the first result, but considering how fickle WWE was during this era, I think the second one is more likely, but he may have been able to make an ROH (or other indie) stint work, dude was extremely talented, but never got to fully realize it.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 7, 2021 14:12:36 GMT -5
Dragon Quest was the first JRPG I ever played, way back in like 1990 or 91. The music is one of the most iconic things about it and I love a great deal of the music from the series, and it means a lot to me. JRPGs are my favorite genre and DQ is one of the best of the genre.
That said, Sugiyama was a far-right nationalist and war crime denier.
f*** him.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 5, 2021 21:12:03 GMT -5
In Raw 2, if you gave Big Show Stacy Keibler's entrance, his mouth would be completely wide open the whole time. I wish I had a copy of the game so I could recreate it because it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. It didn't happen with any other wrestler getting her entrance, I checked.
Also in Raw 2, long before a woman winning the WWE Championship could feasibly be a thing, my friends and I were playing multiplayer career mode, and my friend ended up getting booked in a triple threat ladder match for the WWE Championship and Lita won it and was actually crowned the champion. It was funny at the time but also neat that the game didn't care.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 5, 2021 20:51:19 GMT -5
I'm just waiting for him to bring back Itchweeed.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Oct 2, 2021 20:35:36 GMT -5
It was also The Rock's first finisher in the Rocky Maivia days. Shango and Norton did the inverted shoulderbreaker, though. That shit was awesome, like powerbombing a sucka on your knee. Norton's shoulder breaker looked like murder. I always marked for it when I was a kid. I genuinely wish someone would start using it as a finish again.
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