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Post by chazraps on Sept 11, 2023 14:36:18 GMT -5
TW: Death, Terrorism, Graphic Audio Descriptions So, I saw on IG Todd had written his annual 9/11 post, and the comments were flooded with people talking about how important his broadcast on 9/11 was to them. I knew he was a longtime morning radio guy in the NYC/NJ area for WPLJ 95.5, and I guess the thought never occurred to me that he would have been on-air on September 11th. So, I looked it up and he and morning partner Scott stayed on-air for 11 hours straight. The calm way he got information out and spoke with callers, pretty incredible. I know a lot of the 90s WWF fans razz him from time to time for his persona during the transitional New Generation era, but this excerpt below is pretty harrowing and incredible to be able to do. Taking in callers on the absolute worst day of their lives with no way to prepare for it. It's very sobering. The full thing is apparently in the Paley Center for Media archives - www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=all&p=466&item=R:24132https://www.instagram.com/p/CxDad5uLIAs
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Post by chazraps on Sept 11, 2023 12:49:21 GMT -5
NoDQ was like *the* premiere spot for respectable thoughtful nuanced journalism when it comes to coverage in the form of Realplayer clips of backyard wrestlers getting hurt.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 14:47:06 GMT -5
It's not, as long as its not interfering with security purposes. I assume you mean photos as well. All I'm gonna say is that if the rumor floating around is true, then Riddle's definitely out the door, especially this close to the merger being finalized. He might be a Triple H guy, but Nick Khan won't tolerate it. All I can say is I took photos in custom control and a swarm of military police descended on me and demanded I delete it. This was 2004 in San Fran though Customs is different as there's a lot of sensitive information going around. Rest of the airport, including standard airport security, it's significantly less strict.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 14:11:46 GMT -5
Saw this floating around among the Martin Short clips that have been trending today and this absolutely killed me -
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 13:32:27 GMT -5
As someone who fully believes that Enzo is a rapist, I personally find it challenging to go back and enjoy his work regardless of how fond of it I was at the time, and I'm not shedding any tears over him and Cass not winning the belts.
Side note, I think it's pretty amazing to look back at how massively, MASSIVELY over they were and within a few weeks of Cass' canning it was like they never existed. No fingerprint left in the product of footnotes in anyone else's history. For such as Earth-shaking popular as they were, it was almost immediately like they never happened.
I'm happy that Cass seems to be in a better plan now though and I've enjoyed his most recent work on-screen.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 13:19:52 GMT -5
He's never faced Juventud Guerrera, The Great Sasuke, 2 Cold Scorpio one-on-one, and his only singles match against Ultimo Dragon was an untaped dark match from 2004 - so let's break out the legends who can still go and give us some dream matches before he makes the call to part-timer.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 13:07:49 GMT -5
"Gamecock Media Group"
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 13:05:48 GMT -5
Glad to hear the surgery was successful.
To share another "Hacksaw is a great guy" story - there was a massive blizzard in the midwest on December 23rd going into Christmas Eve in the mid-to-late 80s (can't recall the exact year). It's a huge travel day anyway, so you can imagine how a blizzard impacted those sort of delays that kept families with small children on what should be a holiday stuck at a 80s airport (at a time before airports were basically malls like they are today) with nothing to do but get frustrated.
Hacksaw, at a time when wrestlers really didn't have days off and would have been totally understandable if he tried to just find a spot to relax by himself and wait it out, decided to entertain the kids by slipping right into character, marching into the waiting areas on each terminal and giving the children an extended friendly experience to give them a little joy on what was a rough day.
My cousin Joslyn was there and she still talks about it at Christmas. I'm certain she isn't the only one. Really speaks volumes to the type of great guy Duggan has always been.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 12:54:06 GMT -5
The always awful overprotected Riddle complaining about always awful overprotected NYPD?
To quote Triumph the Insult Comic Dog:
"That's like poop telling vomit it stinks."
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 1:24:40 GMT -5
WOW! WOOOOOW!
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Post by chazraps on Sept 10, 2023 1:24:03 GMT -5
LMAO. He f***ing bit a dude! And now he's using comic sans! Ace Steel: Comic Sans Dude Biter This is how you use it, Danhausen. He wasn't using this specific clip or moment in the sketch, I don't know why people keep saying Danhausen is using a clip where a guy says wrong is incorrect. Because the entire sketch is the guy who is clearly at fault saying he's not at fault. Hotdog Suit Guy, any moment from that sketch, that is the point of it.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 9, 2023 11:44:15 GMT -5
Jack Perry is just such a wild choice to make the "who looks most like a champion to a non-fan" argument, which is a shitty flawed argument to begin with. But, trying to make that with JACK PERRY?
He has the body, the traditionally handsome features, the hair, the toning, and (since we've seen him wrestle barefoot) the height.
He's the exact visual aesthetic you'd want from a marketable mid-20s wrestler.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 9, 2023 11:37:33 GMT -5
A person who is not a Wrestling fan looks at Roman Reigns and Jack Perry. Who will look more like a World Champion to that non-fan? They're both outstandingly handsome athletes in absolutely incredible shape. You basically just asked "a person who is not a Boxing fan looks at 1988 Mike Tyson and 2007 Floyd Mayweather. Who will look more like a World Champion to that non-fan?"
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Post by chazraps on Sept 9, 2023 3:42:20 GMT -5
Sunday Night Heat 3/23/03 - Molly Holly vs Jacqueline NO DQ - sometimes on Heat you'd get matches where the talent just absolutely wants to go all out. Probably the hardest hitting women's match in WWE since 95 when those handful of Aja Kong matches happened. f***ing fantastic match, Molly and Jacqueline always had great Heat matches, but this one is so f***ing next level awesome.
Since we're including tag matches now:
Mark Henry & D'Lo vs Kane and X-Pac opening Over the Edge '99 is a great match with as hot of a crowd that's ever watched wrestling reacting to every single thing. It's more than understandably overshadowed by the Owen tragedy right after, but if you want matching that nobody every talks about that are diamonds in the rough pleasant surprises, that's one.
July 11, 1993 – Wrestling Challenge: Bam Bam Bigelow and The Headshrinkers defeated The Smoking Gunns and Tatanka. I asked Billy Gunn last June if there was a match he was particularly proud of in his career that he wishes was more well known, and he said it was this one, particularly the interactions between the Gunns and the Headshrinkers. Billy said, his words, the first few years of the Gunns were "Green," but something about this particualr match made the stars align and everything just absolutely clicked.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 9, 2023 3:25:44 GMT -5
I think Punk needs a cooling down period where he’s not mad at the world. Kind of like warrior. He was super toxic for a while but then realized the world appreciated him he took it all in. Warrior never really stopped being toxic though, people just stopped listening. The last 12 months of his life he was still ripping off belt collectors by lying about which were "Ring used" when he would attempt to sell them. You can hear the toxicity in that Hall of Fame speech too. People pull the, admittedly touching, soundbytes of his words to his daughters and the desire for the "Warrior Award," but everything else is self-indulgent pass-the-blame I'm-actually-a-great-guy toxic horseshit.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 9, 2023 0:20:31 GMT -5
like Ace is Punk's Lady MacBeth or some shit. The Raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Punk an' Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend Immortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my Bloodline; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my Mickey for Gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night, And Paul Bearer thee in the Kevin Dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!’ 100 f***ing likes holy shit! Especially the "Mickey for Gall." Goddam. That's quality forum postin'!
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Post by chazraps on Sept 8, 2023 12:18:38 GMT -5
This world would be an incalculably better place had Conan remained the Tonight Show host.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 8, 2023 0:30:37 GMT -5
Otis could be an interesting choice as well. Great call.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 8, 2023 0:30:24 GMT -5
I wouldn't give Jey the IC because the title will take an immediate backseat to whatever the next step in the Bloodline drama is instead of being a catalyst for storylines and spotlight on a talent to progress.
If we have to give Jey some accolade, let him win a one night King of the Ring or something.
The story of Gable dethroning Gunther right now for his first singles title is too good. Then maybe we get Gable vs Cena by some way, and Gunther moves on to Rollins.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 8, 2023 0:26:49 GMT -5
Jericho & MJF breaking into song.
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