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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 16, 2010 22:16:04 GMT -5
Let me state for the record that La Parka was one of my favorite WCW jobbers. The guy had one of the best costumes I had ever seen, and he stood out amongst the luchadores-most of them were high flyers, and this guy was legit huge. I have delighted in once in a great while seeing him on the spanish channel here in my home area, usually on what appears to be a spanish language version of Family Feud.
With that said, this short lived angle in WCW kind of confused me. Being a luchadore, La Parka never spoke-probably because he legit did not speak good english. But for some reason WCW had him do a series of matches where he would get in the ring and cut promos, only the voice would be obviously dubbed over. The voice would insult the opponent of the night while La Parka acted panicked and would then inevitably get a beat down. The main reason I was confused because I got the impression WCW had something in mind with all this, and it just vanished one night, along with La Parka himself. Does anyone know more about it? And of course, if you loved the Bone Man, give this thread a hit!
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Post by AnActualBear on Sept 17, 2010 3:42:16 GMT -5
I think La Parka heard something he didn't like one time and refused to go along with it any more. At least that's what I read once. It was basically a rip off of the Kaientai gimmick WWF was doing at the time. Shame really, La Parka was awesome on so many levels.
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Post by Jim Stansel on Sept 17, 2010 6:26:18 GMT -5
i thought la parka was doing it first and kaientai ripped it off.
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Post by simongr81 on Sept 17, 2010 10:33:20 GMT -5
La Parka did do it first. I think it made little sense because why would he act scared when the voice over told off Tank Abbott? If he could understand it that well, then logic says he could speak English.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Sept 17, 2010 12:55:05 GMT -5
Not necessarily, he might know a few key words and that's it. While I was learning French to speak better with an ex, I could understand enough of her French, but couldn't speak it enough to make sense, so we'd have perfect conversations, her talking French, me talking English.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Sept 17, 2010 14:41:28 GMT -5
Just for the record, the La Parka you see in AAA these days is not the same guy who was La Parka in WCW. The WCW La Parka still uses the same gimmick, but now calls himself L.A. Park.
On the other hand, back in July, the two had a match on Galavision. I don't understand much spanish, so perhaps the match was for the rights to the name. La Parka vs L.A. Park stands out as one of the best matches on that particular tape.
Please, someone who knows more than I ring in on this.
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Post by Mister Yummy on Sept 17, 2010 14:43:40 GMT -5
Just for the record, the La Parka you see in AAA these days is not the same guy who was La Parka in WCW. The WCW La Parka still uses the same gimmick, but now calls himself L.A. Park.
On the other hand, back in July, the two had a match on Galavision. I don't understand much spanish, so perhaps the match was for the rights to the name. La Parka vs L.A. Park stands out as one of the best matches on that particular tape.
Please, someone who knows more than I ring in on this.
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 17, 2010 23:29:52 GMT -5
Seriously, who could not love a guy who has this for his entrance?
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Post by Psy on Sept 18, 2010 11:16:05 GMT -5
First off: Sorry. I couldn't help myself  Secondly.... Lap Kara rules! |
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 18, 2010 22:09:43 GMT -5
First off: Sorry. I couldn't help myself Secondly.... Lap Kara rules! Fixed. I had not noticed how badly I mispelled the threat title. Bare in mind I was drunk when I started this one. With that said, indeed he does rule (La Parak dance) |
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Post by Psy on Sept 18, 2010 23:59:07 GMT -5
I had thought to keep changing it, but I don't want to mess with your thread. Just rest assured that I knew who you meant and it was a minor typo but it made me laugh a hell of a lot. I just wish it was "Al Parka", that would have been even better  |
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Post by namso on Sept 19, 2010 1:39:03 GMT -5
Seriously, who could not love a guy who has this for his entrance? not the same guy |
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 19, 2010 19:08:58 GMT -5
I had thought to keep changing it, but I don't want to mess with your thread. Just rest assured that I knew who you meant and it was a minor typo but it made me laugh a hell of a lot. I just wish it was "Al Parka", that would have been even better Perhaps Al Parka was the one doing those voice overs, because lord knows the voice did not sound remotely spanish. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2010 16:56:08 GMT -5
Im sure you guys will enjoy this picture then  |
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Post by the5thhorseman on Oct 6, 2010 17:08:01 GMT -5
LA PARKA WAS NO JOBBER! He was the chairman of WCW!
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