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Post by Mister Yummy on Aug 11, 2009 1:59:29 GMT -5
World Wide Wrestling Federation
World Wrestling Federation Entertainment
Capitol Wrestling Corp.
WWFI
Any of those would be preferable to World Wrestling Entertainment. Of course, one possibility that would be leauges worse:
World Federation
i once read that Vince eventually wanted to purge the wrestling from his shows, and change the name of the company to that.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Aug 10, 2009 17:50:21 GMT -5
Instead of "getting the F out" they should have just put the third W back in. The website would have been great. www.f.com .
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Post by Mister Yummy on Aug 10, 2009 6:20:36 GMT -5
Bob Orton, Ricky Morton, and Scott Norton vs. George Welles, George Steele and George Kidd. Lord Alfred Hayes and Cathy Lee Crosby on commentary.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Aug 3, 2009 2:13:21 GMT -5
Well, yeah. Most any competent wrestling show is better than 1994 WWF.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 23:24:42 GMT -5
I don't care why the guys are WRESTLING. I just want to see them wrestle. Why does every match have to have an elaborate storyline behind it? Baseball works without constant angles and feuds, why shouldn't wrestling? Sure, have them now and again for variety, but it should mostly be athletes pretending to be competing in their sport.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 22:33:45 GMT -5
Well, it's a rule that was in place for the sdafety of the wrestlers. Back in the day, there was no padding on the floor, and a fall from that high up onto a concrete floor could hurt! It makes sense in kayfabe. Throw a guy from a dangerous height, and you're disqualified for intentionally trying to injure him. This also made Battle Royals seem more dangerous. No one ever speaks of Battle Royals being the most dangerous matches in wrestling these days.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 14:19:17 GMT -5
I always liked Bravo. Good power wrestler, and his Side Suplex was one of the day's best finishers. It pisses me off when people call it a "Sidewalk Slam". At least say Side Slam. It'll always be the Side Suplex to me.
I liked Muraco too. Their match at Wrestlemania 4 wasn't bad.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 14:13:08 GMT -5
In defense of WCCW, wild west and WCWA they look bad now because they are 20-25 year old tapes. Back then the production was slick for the time and Kayfabe was still the rule so fans loved the babyfaces and hated the heels. The Von erichs were the ultimate babyfaces for Texas and the perfect foil were these tough as hell Georgia boys who burned them after being friends. It was a great fued. Now trying to compare that with the production and plain old quality we are used to today and I don't think it stands a chance, but by that same token a 1990 WWF wrestling challange show vs a 2009 RAW is not even fair You're right. It just isn't fair to compare the crap we have to endure in 2009 with the awesomeness of the early 90's WWF.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 14:08:10 GMT -5
See Hart vs. Backlund, Bulldog vs. Warlord, and many many others.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 14:03:20 GMT -5
TNA reminds me of WCW in a lot of ways that I'm sure no one else sees. They use the steel able ropes like WCW, they have Mike Tenay on commentary, who was always my favorite WCW commentator(Heenan was always a WWF guy that went over to me). They have the Southern feel to them, even if they don't have the style much. They have a huge, very talented midcard, and several established, if past their prime, main eventers. They have very generic entrance themes. They have ties to the NWA, and used their title for a long time(this was what drew me to TNA origionally. I even stopped watching for a bit after the NWA World Title was taken away from them). There are lots of other, more obvious similarities, but those are the ones that stick out to me.
And, on something said in the opening post, the Over The Top Rope DQ thing was just oldschool. All the promotions, except the WWF, did it in the old days. NWA and AWA especially. WCW just had it as a vestige of tradition, until they abandoned it in '98. They never enforced it anymore by then anyways.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 13:54:46 GMT -5
Whan did this travesty happen? TNA seems to do this a lot, people fade from TV, and I never realise they aren't around anymore, mostly because so many of their guys are never on TV anyways.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 13:54:26 GMT -5
I've made this comparison from the beginning. The mEm is a poor man's nWo, with a bit of the millionaire's Club added in. I guess since it's a poor man's version, we should call it the Hundredaires Club instead.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 13:45:35 GMT -5
TNA Puts on a superb 1 hour wrestling show. The problem is, that they then spread it out over 2 hours.
Seriously, try taping Impact, but pause the recording whenever there's not a match going on. You end up with about an hour of awesome wrestling, no boring filler, and a great show.
If they got rid of 90% of the talking, comedy segments, and backstage bullshit, and instead doubled the amount of matches they had, the show would be great. They have so much talent, many of whom are almost never on TV.
It's annoying to watch AWA Classics after TNA Impact. AWA puts on twice as many matches in half as much time, and end up with a show that's 5x better. Maybe the TNA booking team should expant their Cable package to get ESPN Classic. They'd do better emulating that than what they see on USA, Sci-Fi, and WGN.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 13:31:17 GMT -5
TNA Signed Buddy Rose?!
That's actually the first thing that popped into my head when I read the title. Too much AWA Classic for me, I suppose.
Yeah, I know it's impossible. A shame he died a coluple of months back.
Hmmm...Traci Brooks is gonna be in Playboy? Not my first choice, but she shopuld do fine. No wonder they brought her back on TV.
Here's who I'd like to see do Playboy from TNA.
Velvet Sky. She's awesome. Shame she's got fake boobs though. Roxxi Leveau, or however you spell her last name. She's hot, and she shaves down below. ODB. I don't care what anyone says, she's hot. Her frequent panty flashes get me going =P~ Cheerleader Melissa...err Alyssa... And Raisha Saieed while we're at it.
That's it, really.
Then, there are a few who should NEVER be seen naked by anyone.
Angelina Love. Playboy already has enough whorebags as it is. Awesome Kong. OK, maybe she'd bring in the same people who bought the Chyna issue.
That's my 2¢
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 13:15:47 GMT -5
The WWE Should bring in Matt Stryker for a cup of coffee, and a quick feud over the name. That match would be gold.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 13:13:24 GMT -5
How is the Style's Clash not dangerous? Have you seen what happens when you drop slightly wrong doing the move, or forget to tuck your head taking it? There's a botchmania video, I don't remember which one, with lots of botched Styles Clashes. Watch it, and you'll never think of the move as safe again.
On that note, yeah, lots of other wrestlers use piledrivers. Is Jerry Lynn still around? Foley, as the above poster mentioned, uses that pulling piledriver frequently. DDT's are a type of piledriver.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 13:00:05 GMT -5
Wasn't Adrian punished for getting so fat? Then, he used that to his advantage in the AWA, where he was booked as a big man.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 30, 2009 12:32:50 GMT -5
Piledrivers aren't banned. Tenay said it was an "Unwritten rule" Unwritten rules are unwritten for a reason, so guys with Asperger's Syndrome, like EY, can not know about them.
His heel turn will be gold, just so long as he's still scared into falling by his pyro. Otherwise, I just can't take Eric Young seriously.
Also, how stupid is it that wrestlers have a professional agreement with each other not to use piledrivers, but that much more dangerous moves like the horribly stupid Styles Clash are fine and dandy?
Here's hoping what Tenay said was an offhand comment, and won't be mentioned again.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 23, 2009 1:07:54 GMT -5
Matt Srtiker is SOOO much better utilised as a commentator. He's a mediocre wrestler at best, but on Commentarty, he's an absolute genius. Moving him there was a great move on the WWE's part.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Jul 14, 2009 22:37:33 GMT -5
The Big Show was a rip on Ted Turner and WCW. T.B.S. Jericho was going to be The New Talent for the same reason, but they dropped that.
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