Unocal 76
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Post by Unocal 76 on Oct 17, 2013 19:19:07 GMT -5
Chyna won the Intercontinental title.
Can't imagine what the reaction must have been like for you guys back then. The IWC and other internet stuff probably was nuclear at the time.
Can't imagine what message boards and others were like back then- willing to bet Chyna was not a favorite among the internet dudes/smarks.
A lot of people in school I knew, OTOH, were into Chyna. Of course, this was back when her head was on straight and the surgeries had done their part- at this time, it was "Hey, Chyna's a lot better looking than she was a year ago."
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 17, 2013 19:21:05 GMT -5
Actually thought this was going to be about the tag team ladder match.
From what I recall the Chyna IC title win didn't provoke that much controversy online, as she had been built up as the equal to many of the men on the roster for some time.
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Post by RedDevil on Oct 17, 2013 19:26:22 GMT -5
I liked it at the time - as BorneAgain says, Chyna had been built very well and I thought it was a good move. Also I was pleased that when this milestone happened, it was with my favourite title.
I didn't however like her winning the Women's title after that - with the build she had, that seemed beneath her in terms of competition.
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Post by Paco on Oct 17, 2013 19:32:07 GMT -5
I don't remember a big fuss at all. In fact, we all knew it was coming (Jeff Jarrett was going to WCW).
The IWC did get pissed the following month though when she successfully defended it against Chris Jericho (clean too).
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Oct 17, 2013 19:43:58 GMT -5
I sorta wish they went with Chyna vs Triple H vs Austin at Summerslam 1999.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 19:45:55 GMT -5
I sorta wish they went with Chyna vs Triple H vs Austin at Summerslam 1999. Probably the route I'd have gone with, or at least a four-way with Mankind. Hell, could have had her be the one who won the title to end the show on and dropped it to Triple H the next night, I don't remember them having much to do with each other after that point anyway and it'd have made him look all the more sinister as he became the top heel.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Oct 17, 2013 19:57:06 GMT -5
And she's STILL "pinning" guys! What a fighting champion she is!
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Oct 17, 2013 20:03:59 GMT -5
Figures, someone sleeps with Hunter and they get a big push!
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Post by molson5 on Oct 17, 2013 21:41:43 GMT -5
In retrospect, Chyna was a really underrated worker. She was booked strongly, but she actually pulled it off. She was just a regular worker in the men's division, wrestling men regularly, and it really wasn't that ridiculous at the time.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 17, 2013 21:46:18 GMT -5
The way they'd built it her, it kinda worked, at least short-term. She really couldn't give you much of a match (though Chris would help with that in their feud); but she had been booked at that point to be able to hang with the guys, so it wasn't all that strange.
Though that very same booking made her stint as women's champ just as bad really.
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Post by Lila on Oct 17, 2013 21:48:18 GMT -5
In retrospect, Chyna was a really underrated worker. She was booked strongly, but she actually pulled it off. She was just a regular worker in the men's division, wrestling men regularly, and it really wasn't that ridiculous at the time. Yeah, but I still can't get over those horrid elbow/forearm thing she did for a punch.
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Post by molson5 on Oct 17, 2013 22:10:49 GMT -5
In retrospect, Chyna was a really underrated worker. She was booked strongly, but she actually pulled it off. She was just a regular worker in the men's division, wrestling men regularly, and it really wasn't that ridiculous at the time. Yeah, but I still can't get over those horrid elbow/forearm thing she did for a punch. Fair enough, and if you break down those matches, she was definitely limited. But in the attitude era, in the 90s, for whatever reason, we bought it, and I think she deserves more credit for that - she wasn't a great wrestler by any means, but she did know how to carry herself like a star who was on even footing with the men.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 22:19:31 GMT -5
Sexiest IC champ ever, outside of Cody Rhodes.
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Post by thegame415 on Oct 19, 2013 0:01:16 GMT -5
Chyna was over. Someone like her could never get a push like that now without getting boos and having everyone complain about work rate.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 19, 2013 1:23:06 GMT -5
And she's STILL "pinning" guys! What a fighting champion she is! If by pinning, you mean porn, she was jobbed out for the final time about a year ago. She's a schoolteacher in Japan now.
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Post by Germansuplex on Oct 19, 2013 2:19:40 GMT -5
And she's STILL "pinning" guys! What a fighting champion she is! If by pinning, you mean porn, she was jobbed out for the final time about a year ago. She's a schoolteacher in Japan now. But she never tapped out! Must be a screwjob.
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Post by BigBadZ on Oct 19, 2013 3:44:40 GMT -5
If by pinning, you mean porn, she was jobbed out for the final time about a year ago. She's a schoolteacher in Japan now. But she never tapped out! Must be a screwjob. They did a schmozz right under her nose!!
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 19, 2013 9:20:26 GMT -5
at the time she'd been built up pretty well and was pretty over. she didn't become an industry punchline until a few years later when she got fired and went crazy.
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Post by PKO on Oct 19, 2013 9:42:27 GMT -5
I still like Chyna's run, even if it is obvious looking back she got a lot of help from her opponents.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Oct 19, 2013 11:15:36 GMT -5
She was a novelty that lost her shine after she won the IC Title. No one wanted to see her beat Jericho at Survivor Series (she was booed there), people cheered Y2J when he broke her fingers with a hammer, and people popped like Austin won the title when Jericho tapped her out at Armageddon. Her appeal was getting into scuffles with dudes, and low-blowing people. Once she had to have one on one matches with guys who had to sell for her, it got ugly fast.
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