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Post by Savage Gambino on Jul 14, 2011 20:25:49 GMT -5
Well, if she IS serious about this, 1) I applaud her. Considering how easy it would be for her to just coast as another pretty face, to see her take a vested interest in wrestling is refreshing. And who knows, she could see the right matches and become a fan overnight (it happens). 2) She should definitely look towards her own brand: the WWE DVD collection. Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Edge, Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen, those DVDs
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Post by jerichoholic86 on Jul 14, 2011 21:11:26 GMT -5
Chris Benoit vs Kurt Angle at Royal Rumble '03.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jul 14, 2011 21:16:16 GMT -5
This would be a good little list for her:
Savage/Steamboat from Mania III Austin/Hart from Mania Mania 13 Lita/Trish from Raw Mickie James/Trish from Mania 22 Gail Kim/Kong from Final Resolution
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Post by Phil Parent on Jul 14, 2011 21:32:48 GMT -5
Kawada VS Misawa
Learn all those moves, girls.
And also...NOW, after all those weeks she's looking to watch matches?
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Post by FailedGimmick on Jul 15, 2011 0:50:17 GMT -5
Mickie James/Trish from Mania 22 I would have gone with the match from New Year's Revolution '06, myself.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jul 15, 2011 1:53:20 GMT -5
Mickie James/Trish from Mania 22 I would have gone with the match from New Year's Revolution '06, myself. If we see her doing a suggestive lick one day, we'll know which match she watched
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Post by Joe Galt on Jul 15, 2011 2:12:12 GMT -5
I would recommend any of their matches to anyone. The 1994 one specifically.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jul 15, 2011 2:14:01 GMT -5
When I saw the subject line that Ariane "needs help", my first thought was that she'd suffered a psychotic break and I envisioned her being carted away in a straightjacket, screaming "Divalicious! Divalicious!" over and over.
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That's, um, my only contribution to the conversation at hand. Carry on.
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Post by #RUDO Coco Del Rio on Jul 15, 2011 7:18:01 GMT -5
Trish vs. Stephanie, NWO 2001. I wouldn't recommend her technical match-ups just yet. It might be hard for a casual viewer to appreciate. Might as well give her an entertaining match involving two inexperienced women and then build it up from there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 7:45:55 GMT -5
It's just so backwards. It's like hiring someone to be your company's accountant, and when they get to the office their first day they google " What is accounting?"I read this in Aksana's voice. Thank you.
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Post by salz4life on Jul 15, 2011 8:24:04 GMT -5
Any of the Jumpin Jeff Farmer/Motley Cruz wars.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 9:52:03 GMT -5
I think she should go with a five star classic from the golden age of wrestling.. Reno Riggins vs Iron Mike Sharpe FTW! No, seriously now. Looking to the pre-Hogan era, you'd get a lot less distraction. If you were going to teach an absolute beginner the "athletic collegiate baby-face", who better than Bob Backlund? Who better as "effete heel" than Gorgeous George?
Granted, there'd be more to learn for a student of today's craft, but as Yogi Berra might have said, you gotta start at the beginning.
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Post by FailedGimmick on Jul 15, 2011 10:43:04 GMT -5
I would have gone with the match from New Year's Revolution '06, myself. If we see her doing a suggestive lick one day, we'll know which match she watched Wasn't that cut from the DVD?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 10:49:20 GMT -5
If we see her doing a suggestive lick one day, we'll know which match she watched Wasn't that cut from the DVD? I'll lend her my VHS right from the PPV.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jul 15, 2011 12:43:36 GMT -5
Chamber of Horrors 1991
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Post by Threadkiller [Classic] on Jul 16, 2011 3:29:47 GMT -5
She should watch both male and female matches to really learn the craft. The best of both genders. The problem is, I don't trust her to necessarily understand WHY a match like Savage-Steamboat is so good. In short, I don't expect she'll be able to appreciate the art of the timing and how they've got the crowd eating out of their hand. But hey, at least she's trying, so I'd recommend Austin/Hart from WM13, Austin/Rock from WM17, Flair/Savage from WM8, Savage/Steamboat from WM3, and Bret/Owen from WMX. I figured I'd give her five exemplary Mania matches so that not only is she learning the craft from some of the best possible examples of that craft, but she's also learning more about the history of the company, and some of the hallmarks of true greatness that have been held as examples of what WWE can do. Because she clearly wasn't a wrestling fan and likely had only a scarce, working knowledge of what WWE's history even comprises. I'd probably throw in Kurt Angle / Shawn Michaels. Speaking of, I should track down their Vengeance match sometime, not seen it. IMO, it can't touch their Mania match, nor can their 30-minute mini-Iron Man match from Raw Homecoming that year. But both matches are worth checking out, because they collectively form a trilogy of superb action.
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Post by s l i k on Jul 16, 2011 3:36:32 GMT -5
Stephanie McMahon vs Sable
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Post by Gummydavidson on Jul 16, 2011 13:33:42 GMT -5
Any of the Jumpin Jeff Farmer/Motley Cruz wars. YIP!
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