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Post by Smiley Smile on Nov 5, 2012 12:40:59 GMT -5
Also, watch him against Great Antonio if you ever want to see what happens when you no-sell the guy who signs your checks. That fat bastard brought it on himself This. It struck me as not being about the Great Antonio no-selling, more that he had clubbed Inoki hard in the back of the head and neck several times with some very stiff strikes shortly beforehand, and Inoki had justifiably given him a good kicking. There are a couple of Inoki matches from the early 1970s floating around the net that are pretty great examples of excellent mat wrestling and chain wrestling; the first against the Destroyer during the dying years of the old JWA, and the other against Karl Gotch from the first NJPW card in 1972. They're both interesting snapshots of a particular era of puroresu, and I personally enjoyed them both.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Nov 4, 2012 17:33:12 GMT -5
I strongly disagree with Lawler and this "Heyman is an evil internet darling" thing. That is all. This. As far as the drugs thing goes, of course Heyman was at fault. But as someone else pointed out, it's an industry-wide problem and it's as ridiculous to single him out because he's a perceived "internet darling" and therefore absolved of any responsibility as it is to single Vince McMahon out as the only promoter responsible for it.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 25, 2012 10:57:13 GMT -5
How about AAA When Worlds Collide? It's quite an enjoyable and accessible lucha libre show to watch, and the El Hijo del Santo and Octagon vs. La Pareja del Terror match is a lot of fun.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Aug 27, 2012 7:39:06 GMT -5
As far as I remember, he was rather successful in Mexico, winning the CMLL World Heavyweight championship at one point in the '90s.
As for main eventing in the United States, as talented as he was I don't think he ever would've been able to be a legitimate, long-term main eventer for reasons already detailed. Having said that, I think he certainly could've been more than a comic relief hardcore wrestler, with the ability to have become a very very solid midcard worker.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Aug 15, 2012 8:59:29 GMT -5
England and Scotland are both countries, with the United Kingdom as the sovereign state.
As someone said a few posts back, it wasn't exclusively a WCW thing; he was billed as the Loch Ness Monster in Stampede Wrestling in the 1970s, supposedly to avoid confusion with Haystacks Calhoun.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Aug 9, 2012 19:36:26 GMT -5
Honestly, I always thought Chris Benoit was half decent on the stick. He was never going to rattle off catchphrases or cut a genuinely great promo, but he showed on a few occasions that he was more than capable of holding his own, yet he's on the receiving end of a huge amount of criticism for his supposed lack of charisma and talking ability.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Aug 3, 2012 6:47:30 GMT -5
I don't think Pat Patterson ever had a particularly bad physique, his was pretty typical of wrestlers from that era.
I think Mabel/Viscera/Big Daddy V is a good call. During his big push on ECW those manboobs were positively Abdullah-esque and his ring gear really didn't flatter him. Also, how about Road Dogg? The guy was pretty over at one time in the late 1990s and got a decent push, but looked as if he'd never even driven past a gym let alone set foot in one.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jun 26, 2012 21:36:22 GMT -5
Owen Hart had, by all accounts, done it as a way of making a lot of money so he could retire at thirty-five and be with his family.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jun 26, 2012 17:47:07 GMT -5
Triple H in either HCTP or the first Smackdown vs. Raw was a pretty persistent thorn in my side, that guy was absolutely unbeatable. I also remember playing Fire Pro Returns and being extremely pleased with myself when I finally beat Mitsuharu Misawa.
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Post by Smiley Smile on May 27, 2012 12:48:53 GMT -5
There was a match wrestled on an island once. This was back in the 80's and was reported in Pro Wrestling Illustrated I think There were two "Ganryūjima Island death matches" promoted by New Japan, the first between Antonio Inoki and Masa Saito in 1988 and the second between Hiroshi Hase and Tiger Jeet Singh in 1992. Tiger Jeet Singh also participated in a "Jungle death match" against Atsushi Onita in FMW at some point in the mid 1990s.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Nov 20, 2011 15:58:07 GMT -5
This wasn't limited to house shows, I don't think. I remember this being the case at the first two WrestleManias, for instance.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Aug 10, 2011 12:18:13 GMT -5
There was a South Korean promotion that popped up a few years ago, New Korea Pro Wrestling, which I remember had a show featuring a few Japanese and American talents, Osamu Nishmura and Kurt Angle were both in the main event. There's also apparently a couple of other promotions in South Korea, a World Wrestling Association and one called Professional Live Action.
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Post by Smiley Smile on May 22, 2011 11:50:08 GMT -5
Make tedious, overdone threads about them where you congratulate yourself for not being one even though you are.
It annoys me, at least.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Mar 30, 2011 8:12:53 GMT -5
He made a handful of appearances in New Japan before signing with the WWF as Punisher Dice Morgan. There's a match on DailyMotion where he tags with Scott Hall against Shinya Hashimoto and Masa Saito.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Mar 27, 2011 8:21:23 GMT -5
It's incredible how this thread descended into tedious smark-bashing so quickly. You're all smarks, get over yourselves.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Jan 9, 2011 11:06:19 GMT -5
Genichiro Tenryu was knocked out by Jumbo Tsuruta during one of their many matches in All Japan in the late 1980s, as a result of a fairly nasty powerbomb botch.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 12, 2010 8:41:05 GMT -5
The second Kamala (Kamala II/the Botswana Beast/Uganda) was also a regular in All Japan during the 1990s, I think.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Oct 6, 2010 9:57:12 GMT -5
Clearly you've never heard of the Rochester Road Block. Still, nobody can be worse than Punk. There's no wrestler out there's who has put me in so much pain that I literally had to throw up. There's no wrestler who has made me so angry. How many people here can say that they've actually Speared their TV while Raw was still going on? Yea, that's what I did right after CM Punk cashed in for the first time. I had to take my even bigger TV downstairs to replace it. Really, I highly doubt Seth Rollins (He doesn't deserve the name "Seth") will ever be as bad as Punk, but he's up there. He's definitely in my top 5 worst wrestlers ever with Punk being dead first. For Christ's sake, let it go. It's enough that you make list threads so you can put CM Punk at the bottom of yours, or mention how much you hate the guy whenever you can, but having to work it into threads that AREN'T EVEN ABOUT HIM just takes the piss.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Aug 23, 2010 11:35:48 GMT -5
I had read that he was involved in order to "run Japanese operations", but I'm not sure where I saw this exactly.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Aug 7, 2010 12:06:49 GMT -5
To the op two things: A: Perhaps a less condescending title next time B: You "proved" the Internet wrong by quoting something else you found........on the Internet I'm so glad someone else felt that way. The title struck me as unnecessarily smug and rubbed me the wrong way a bit, as does the relentless criticism of insider reporters who are arguably far more clued up about what goes on backstage than any of the people who seem to have this ridiculous superiority complex about insider news.
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