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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 6:44:38 GMT -5
Diesel pretty much dropped a pipe bomb the night after Survivor Series 1995. As close to a shoot as you can get without going overboard. That the one where he pretty much stated "Those fans wearing the black gloves with their fists in the air are the fans I recognize," then pretty much saying everybody else can go to hell? That feud with Undertaker was Gold (Jerry) Gold! "I ain't afraid of the dark!"
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Post by mybraveface on Aug 11, 2013 4:34:18 GMT -5
Rick Rude's striptease at the 1987 Slammy Awards. And it aired on NBC no less! Certainly couldn't get away with that now.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 11, 2013 9:08:55 GMT -5
The whole Jake/Savage feud was attitude era stuff. As someone else mentioned, the Cobra biting Savage was pretty strong but for me the match they had at Tuesday in Texas was worse. Just for Jake slapping Elizabeth in the face and telling her "to save his ass". Man, the 91 version of heel Jake was just unsettlingly evil Made all the more effective by his completely evil theme music from that time ("Trust Me"). As said before, Jake took the idea of a heel needing to think he's in the right and just threw it aside to be complete, unmitigated evil. I guess in a way a heel like that still thinks he's justified in his actions, that he's entitled to do the vile things he does, but the character did them knowing full well that he was pure chaotic evil.
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Post by ICBM on Aug 11, 2013 10:59:40 GMT -5
Toddy Piper doing half blackface make up at WM when he fought bad news Allen.
Andre the Giant killing Damien
A lot of Jesse Ventura's commentary was shoot. Go back and listen
Flair showing his butt crack every week for two yrs
The stripped to underwear stipulation on the ladies battle royal Superclash III
Nancy Benoit exciting Rick Steiner sexually(alluded to not said straight out)
A lot of 80's Ric Flair promos(seriously listen to some)
Hogan spanking Sherri. He did that spot a dozen times
Sting's feud with Abdullah and Cactus Jack was advanced for the time. Nothing cartoonish at all.
The Freebirds whole shtick. They were badasses. It was sold as a gang. It changed a lot of wrestling presentation after it hit.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Aug 11, 2013 12:03:09 GMT -5
Man, the 91 version of heel Jake was just unsettlingly evil Made all the more effective by his completely evil theme music from that time ("Trust Me"). As said before, Jake took the idea of a heel needing to think he's in the right and just threw it aside to be complete, unmitigated evil. I guess in a way a heel like that still thinks he's justified in his actions, that he's entitled to do the vile things he does, but the character did them knowing full well that he was pure chaotic evil.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Aug 11, 2013 17:42:18 GMT -5
Andre the Giant killing Damien Earthquake, not Andre
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Post by funkycoldmadina on Aug 11, 2013 18:30:19 GMT -5
I have always thought the Flair-Savage angle heading into WrestleMania 8 was pretty racy for 1992. The whole "Elizabeth was mine, before she was yours" line, along with telling Randy that he couldn't follow Ric Flair in pleasuring Elizabeth was edgy stuff. Couple that with the gimmicked photos, answering machine calls, and threats to reveal a nude centerfold, it was soap opera level stuff. It showed Flair as a possible demented pervert, framing Elizabeth, Elizabeth with a possible checkered past with the Nature Boy after years of having a pure existence in WWF lore, and Savage as an insanely jealous man at the suggestion that his wife had ever been with Flair.
IIRC, Flair said he was uncomfortable with the angle because Savage and Liz were going through a divorce at the time considering that it had such suggestive undertones.
Did any of you think it was racy for the time period?
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Post by ICBM on Aug 11, 2013 20:11:16 GMT -5
Andre the Giant killing Damien Earthquake, not Andre Ah! Thanks. I got that feud confused. I never think of earthquake. I never really cared for him but he didn't really get heat from me either.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 11, 2013 21:01:21 GMT -5
Made all the more effective by his completely evil theme music from that time ("Trust Me"). As said before, Jake took the idea of a heel needing to think he's in the right and just threw it aside to be complete, unmitigated evil. I guess in a way a heel like that still thinks he's justified in his actions, that he's entitled to do the vile things he does, but the character did them knowing full well that he was pure chaotic evil. Ha, I was actually thinking about the Joker when I wrote that. It's funny, I made on thread on this part of the board awhile ago asking who in recent memory could've been, in comic book parlance, a "Darkseid style" heel, given that I compared Brock Lesnar to a pure destructive force of nature like Doomsday or the Hulk and now I'm thinking of Jake Roberts as a Joker-style (sans laughter, obviously) sociopathic heel. So many ways to craft villains.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Aug 14, 2013 8:22:01 GMT -5
Diesel pretty much dropped a pipe bomb the night after Survivor Series 1995. As close to a shoot as you can get without going overboard. That the one where he pretty much stated "Those fans wearing the black gloves with their fists in the air are the fans I recognize," then pretty much saying everybody else can go to hell? That feud with Undertaker was Gold (Jerry) Gold! "I ain't afraid of the dark!" Yeah and he ripped management for basically destroying the original Diesel character after he won the title by insisting he smile more and stuff. He did it in a kayfabe way, but it really was the most behind the scenes I ever remember happening back then.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 14, 2013 12:04:32 GMT -5
That the one where he pretty much stated "Those fans wearing the black gloves with their fists in the air are the fans I recognize," then pretty much saying everybody else can go to hell? That feud with Undertaker was Gold (Jerry) Gold! "I ain't afraid of the dark!" Yeah and he ripped management for basically destroying the original Diesel character after he won the title by insisting he smile more and stuff. He did it in a kayfabe way, but it really was the most behind the scenes I ever remember happening back then. That's the kind of shoot I like, where it works in Kayfabe.
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