WWE Match Graphics Thread II

[543Y2J]

Sept 14, 2013 15:30:02 GMT -5 Bootista said:

I wonder who was El Gran Luchadore

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{Spoiler}{Spoiler}El Gran Luchadore is the name of a masked Mexican professional wrestling character in World Wrestling Entertainment, seen on its SmackDown! brand in 2004. El Gran Luchadore (loosely translated from Spanish to "The Great Fighter/Wrestler," "Luchadore" is also an incorrect spelling, luchador is the correct spelling) was mainly used as a jobber gimmick to put over other wrestlers.

The first WWE superstar to wrestle as the El Gran Luchadore was Paul London on April 22, 2004 in a squash match against John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL), Paul Heyman convinced Bradshaw to accept a match with the "Mexican Heavyweight Champion" after hearing that El Gran Luchadore punked out Bradshaw at an airport.

Next up was Shannon Moore on July 8, 2004, billed as the "champion of Mexico", would face WWE Champion JBL in a champion vs. champion match (no titles on the line). A second squash match for JBL took an unexpected turn when El Gran Luchadore pulled a switcharoo with Eddie Guerrero (in El Gran's costume) who came back fighting. When JBL finally clued that it was Guerrero, he ran away from the ring getting counted out in the process, allowing El Gran Luchadore to pick up his first victory.

The next appearance of El Gran Luchadore was on July 15, 2004 edition of SmackDown!. During a Steel Cage match between Guerrero and JBL which saw both men sat on top of the Cage, exchanging punches until El Gran Luchadore ran down and climbed into the cage. This El Gran Luchadore held Eddie Guerrero's leg, allowing Bradshaw to climb down the side of the cage to win. After the match El Gran Luchadore tried to get out of the locked door, but then decided to climb out the way he came in. Eddie Guerrero got to his feet and climbed up the cage struggling to get him back into the cage. Luchadore was able to get away, but in the struggle Guerrero pulled the mask off of him, revealing him to be the supposedly injured Kurt Angle.

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i started giggling at work today because I recalled how much this graphic looks like Steph is holding a hot dog sausage like a cigar:

[Bootista]

Steph knows how to hold Weiners.

[CH Punk]

[Redneck Woman]

Sept 11, 2013 16:48:04 GMT -5 543Y2J said:

Anyone have the singles version of that HBK one from this?
For some reason, my Google-Fu is falling short and I love it.
And one day I'll figure out why he thought punching himself in the face was a good idea.

[TheDieselTrain]

Muppets I say!!!!!!!!

[543Y2J]

[CH Punk]

Also, the Battleground graphics, for this match anyway, have floating Triple Hs in the background of the other parts of the graphics.

[543Y2J]

[Dave the Dave]

[543Y2J]

[543Y2J]

Gotta love Christian's short lived Jamiroquai hat look

[DragonMasterP]

Sept 18, 2013 11:17:32 GMT -5 TheDieselTrain said:

Muppets I say!!!!!!!!

I can't stop looking at what appears to be a giant dent in Kane's forehead.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Sept 26, 2013 17:08:04 GMT -5 543Y2J said:

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong. I remember the Chavo/Kane thing, but Chavo really sticks out in that match.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Sept 11, 2013 16:48:04 GMT -5 543Y2J said:

Shelton really looks out of place compared to the other seven world champions in this graphic.

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Now I really remember why Rey Mysterio as "World Champion" sucked, because they took away the "Heavyweight" part both times (2006 & 2010). Here's a little comparison from his 2006 reign.




And, the following week, when King Booker, thankfully, won the title, it went back to the old one.



I'm also glad that, when Daniel Bryan held that belt, they didn't do any of this crap. Ironically, I would've tolerated a Rey Mysterio WWE Championship run a whole lot better because they wouldn't do this.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Oct 2, 2013 11:25:29 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Now I really remember why Rey Mysterio as "World Champion" sucked, because they took away the "Heavyweight" part both times (2006 & 2010). Here's a little comparison from his 2006 reign.




And, the following week, when King Booker, thankfully, won the title, it went back to the old one.



I'm also glad that, when Daniel Bryan held that belt, they didn't do any of this crap. Ironically, I would've tolerated a Rey Mysterio WWE Championship run a whole lot better because they wouldn't do this.

Bryan shouting "WORLD! CHAMPION! YES! YES! YES!" during his entrances just doesn't have the same oomph as "WORLD! HEAVYWEIGHT! CHAMPION! YES! YES! YES!"

[Mesousa287793]

Oct 2, 2013 11:25:29 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Now I really remember why Rey Mysterio as "World Champion" sucked, because they took away the "Heavyweight" part both times (2006 & 2010). Here's a little comparison from his 2006 reign.




And, the following week, when King Booker, thankfully, won the title, it went back to the old one.



I'm also glad that, when Daniel Bryan held that belt, they didn't do any of this crap. Ironically, I would've tolerated a Rey Mysterio WWE Championship run a whole lot better because they wouldn't do this.

So...Rey conquered the world once?

[Toates Madhackrviper]

Me and my old roommate had a debate once. I've always argued that the word "Heavyweight" in World Heavyweight Champion had become a misnomer in an age where lightweight wrestlers are more and more accepted as potential stars and that doing away with it would make this more the case than ever. Which since I like lightweight wrestlers would be good for me.

He argued that the word "World" was the problem. He pointed out how all supposed "World Championships" are mostly contested in their home country by wrestlers of their home nationality.

We were doing this because we were thinking about starting to write a wrestling be the booker type of thing online somewhere, but couldn't decide what to name our top title. I was gonna go with World Openweight Champion, and he wanted it to be (Company Name) Heavyweight Champion or something more creative and different if we could think of something. Personally I like the way "World" adds a sense of prestige to any wrestling title you put it on, but he couldn't get over the idea that a "World Championship" is mostly contested in America by American wrestlers. We were discussing a "world championship" tournament and he said that a world championship tournament would have only one wrestler from any specific country and that the world championship shouldnt even be the main title of the company. We never really got it settled, though if it was brought up again I'd just suggest [Company Name] Openweight Champion as a compromise.

But yeah in reality I guess both are sort of just conventions that in spite of technical inaccuracy kind of need to be accepted. Because they make the titles sound prestigious.

[Indiana Miz]