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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 2, 2014 16:16:10 GMT -5
Definitely Bison Smith, and I seem to remember the Warlord developing one by the early 1990s in his WWF run.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jul 26, 2014 13:17:19 GMT -5
Goldberg is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Goldberg actually debuted as Bill Gold, but changed to Goldberg pretty early on.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jul 15, 2014 6:40:07 GMT -5
I haven't bought a copy of Power Slam in probably seven or eight years, but it was a key part of my wrestling education in the late 1990s when I was first getting fully interested in wrestling. Power Slam gave me my first exposure to ECW and puroresu, so I will be eternally grateful to the magazine for that.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jul 13, 2014 4:29:38 GMT -5
Ted DiBiase was involved in the title match at WrestleMania IV, but at WrestleMania V found himself going to a double count-out with Brutus Beefcake in the third match of the night.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jun 1, 2014 19:18:19 GMT -5
Bobby Eaton was said to be "a night off" because of how light he worked whilst still making his matches look good.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Mar 3, 2014 5:41:43 GMT -5
"We're going to rock down to, E-LEC-TRIC Avenue, and then we'll take it higher." Eddy Grant was actually a pretty successful recording artist in the UK during the 1980s, and had a more successful single than "Electric Avenue" there, and had been a member of the Equals of "Baby, Come Back" fame. Also, one of his songs became something of an anthem for the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Feb 6, 2014 19:48:05 GMT -5
I always thought that the pink room happened because the AWA coldn't fill an arena That's what I thought. That they used the big pink room 'cos Verne was going broke. Wasn't that the problem, Verne? That you were going broke? Verne? Verne? Hey, Verne. Oh, you're thinking about all the money you blew aren't you? What was it? Fifty, sixty thousand dollars? Maybe it would help if we went over all the mistakes you made from the beginning. Verne? Verne? Let me get a pad.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jan 25, 2014 19:21:40 GMT -5
If they had an aging Barry Windham and bland Dan Severn, it would've been terrible. This is pretty much exactly what the problem would be. By the time ECW was in its heyday, the NWA had become an irrelevance, and a lot of its former stars were retired, employed elsewhere, or just broken down. So it would've been between bringing in broken down ex-Crockett stars, or an invasion consisting of completely uninteresting wrestlers who nobody in their right minds would have been interested in seeing. That's not to say that the concept itself is bad, because it isn't. Like the poster above said, Lawler got heat, as did Steve Corino with his "King of Old School" gimmick. The problem would be using the NWA specifically, just because it had fallen so much by that point that the people involved just wouldn't have been interesting.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jan 7, 2014 21:44:14 GMT -5
In chile we had a promotion called titanes del ring which also had a mommy as a top heel lol Don't know why here in sudamerica are so obsessed with titans and mummies lol I'm sure I've seen some clips of this floating around online, there was a woman who sang the wrestlers' entrance music and a match between a pharaoh and a mummy, one of whom inexplicably had "Rasputin" by Boney M as his theme. To say it's one of the greatest things I've ever seen in wrestling would be an understatement.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jan 4, 2014 10:38:23 GMT -5
That Owen Hart was on the verge of a main event push in 1999 and was going to be "The Game" in place of Triple H.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jan 3, 2014 9:10:15 GMT -5
doesn't he have a famous wrestling dad? The Assassin.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Dec 14, 2013 18:08:33 GMT -5
I can't remember now who said it, but I remember someone telling a story about Rick Rude in the gym some time in the '80s, doing a workout that had other people stopping to watch and chain smoking the entire time. There's a story in Sex, Lies and Headlocks that refers to Rick Rude smoking. The Dynamite Kid is/was also a smoker and makes frequent references to it in his book.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Dec 12, 2013 15:51:07 GMT -5
While none of Rey Mysterio's tattoos are awful on their own per se, altogether they look like a complete mess. I'd argue that even individually, they look terrible. But all together they do indeed look a mess, like when you went on create-a-wrestler mode as a kid and gave your wrestler as many tattoos as you could. My nomination is the Sandman's badly-done portrait of himself on the inside of his bicep.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Dec 3, 2013 21:39:48 GMT -5
Kerry Von Erich made his first few appearances as "The Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich, before dropping his name and just becoming the Texas Tornado. The Ultimate Warrior also appeared on a few house shows as the Dingo Warrior.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Nov 17, 2013 11:22:36 GMT -5
I seem to remember him getting a huge reaction at the 2000 Royal Rumble, right after the whole angle at Armageddon, and even as a kid it confused me as to why he never really had a real programme with Triple H, just a couple of encounters in tag team matches. Like a good few other people here, I liked the guy at the time and remember him being compared favourably with Kevin Nash. In hindsight, his mic skills weren't particularly good but he always seemed far more capable in the ring than a lot of other generic big men.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 26, 2013 17:55:51 GMT -5
I realise you're sore because you did exactly what I was referring to in my post, but if you want to discuss it maybe you could explain what you found so amusing instead of being smug and annoying. Dude, your vibe is way too harsh for something so minor. And I think the poster in question is being needlessly condescending and snide. If someone wants to have a disagreement I'd rather have an actual discussion about it.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 26, 2013 17:22:20 GMT -5
Sorry, what's your point? I find it unbelievably annoying that someone has to post "newz" in response pretty much every single news article posted here. Is that alright with you? Unintentional comedy's always alright with me. I realise you're sore because you did exactly what I was referring to in my post, but if you want to discuss it maybe you could explain what you found so amusing instead of being smug and annoying.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 26, 2013 13:41:58 GMT -5
Frankly, I hope this is true, just to make the people wailing "NEWZ!!!!" in that obnoxious, self-congratulatory, "look at how perceptive I am" way look silly. Lol, the irony in this post. Sorry, what's your point? I find it unbelievably annoying that someone has to post "newz" in response pretty much every single news article posted here. Is that alright with you?
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 25, 2013 18:59:47 GMT -5
Frankly, I hope this is true, just to make the people wailing "NEWZ!!!!" in that obnoxious, self-congratulatory, "look at how perceptive I am" way look silly.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 24, 2013 10:20:40 GMT -5
For me, as a fan of both the WWF and WCW, the demise of the latter kind of killed wrestling for me. A lot of my favourite WCW people had disappeared from TV, and the dreadful Invasion angle and the subsequent monopoly the WWF had on TV stopped it being exciting, there was no spark anymore. For me, the end of WCW was the worst thing to happen to pro wrestling and all but destroyed my interest in it until years later.
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