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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on Jul 23, 2016 21:27:07 GMT -5
Move over Rock because there's a new great one in town and he's The Rock JR. I have lost count of how many times I've watched this video. I want to see more of the Rock JR! |
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Post by Jiren on Jul 23, 2016 21:33:20 GMT -5
The newest member of Riot Control?  Man Roman's really let himself go since his Wellness violation |
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Post by ltcproductions on Dec 4, 2016 8:33:30 GMT -5
Not really indy, but Kamala ripoff Uganda facing Spike Dudley on an episode of ECW on TNN.  |
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Dec 4, 2016 9:03:10 GMT -5
The Usos' cousin Lance Anoai.  Here's another famous "cousin" of a wrestling dynasty, also named Lance:  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2016 9:31:14 GMT -5
Not really indy, but Kamala ripoff Uganda facing Spike Dudley on an episode of ECW on TNN. To be fair, he did use that gimmick in Japan. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Dec 4, 2016 17:21:22 GMT -5
Move over Rock because there's a new great one in town and he's The Rock JR. I have lost count of how many times I've watched this video. I want to see more of the Rock JR! so you Feel what the Rock JR is bringin? |
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Post by Alucard on Dec 5, 2016 0:08:24 GMT -5
Not really indy, but Kamala ripoff Uganda facing Spike Dudley on an episode of ECW on TNN. Oh geez. I remember watching that when it aired! |
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Dec 6, 2016 12:21:01 GMT -5
Not really indy, but Kamala ripoff Uganda facing Spike Dudley on an episode of ECW on TNN. To be fair, he did use that gimmick in Japan. Wasn't he also the Botswana Beast? If so, he was doing the gimmick back in WCCW in the late 80s too. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 19:48:12 GMT -5
To be fair, he did use that gimmick in Japan. Wasn't he also the Botswana Beast? If so, he was doing the gimmick back in WCCW in the late 80s too. Profightdb says it's the same guy, so yeah. |
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 6, 2016 19:58:30 GMT -5
He just really liked that gimmick, it would seem.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Dec 6, 2016 20:32:45 GMT -5
There's a guy that wrestles in Midwest All Pro called "Cold Stone" Tim Boston. He definitely plays it up as a parody, but he's a pretty decent wrestler, and a nice guy to boot.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 25, 2016 21:40:48 GMT -5
Wanted to give this thread a little bumpy bump, because I found a tag team that certainly seems to be trying hard to rip off Matt Classic... www.cagematch.net/?id=28&nr=5892 |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jan 14, 2017 23:41:58 GMT -5
I went to one of those WWF tribute shows in Chesterfield when I was a kid. It was hilariously bad.
There was a fake Undertaker whose tattoos were painted on so they started smudging as he got sweaty. A fake Kane who may have been the same guy. A fake Mick Foley who wrestled a fake headbanger and a fake Rock who was short, chubby and who I remember botched a Rock Bottom.
Throughout the ring announcer sat at his little table and had the job of trying to start the chants for the kids. Like he'd sit there shouting "Chokeslam! Chokeslam!" into his microphone when Kane was wrestling and stuff. During the intermission it turned into a bit of a clusterf*** since they allowed kids to go into the ring for photographs and shit which of course turned to some of the kids trying to bust moves on each other. The ring announcer and Kane had the job of clearing everybody out.
They also sold (presumably) fake T-Shirts. My dad bought me a DX "suck it" T-Shirt.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Jan 16, 2017 17:32:50 GMT -5
The Usos' cousin Lance Anoai. Here's another famous "cousin" of a wrestling dynasty, also named Lance: I saw this very same Herb caned mercilessly by Abdullah the Butcher in Puerto Rico, allegedly collecting a bounty offered by Fritz Von Erich. Google: Abdullah Butcher vs. Fabulous Lance. Its not for the squeamish! |
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Jan 17, 2017 9:40:52 GMT -5
Here's another famous "cousin" of a wrestling dynasty, also named Lance: I saw this very same Herb caned mercilessly by Abdullah the Butcher in Puerto Rico, allegedly collecting a bounty offered by Fritz Von Erich. Google: Abdullah Butcher vs. Fabulous Lance. Its not for the squeamish! I read that Fritz practically laughed him out of the territory when he asked for a bigger cut of money. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 13:08:01 GMT -5
I'm going to post my experience for last night here, because about 90% of what I saw would fit under this category. Forgive the long-winded post.
Last night, our nearby high school had "ARW" live pro wrestling as a fundraiser so they can get new marching band uniforms. Since my two teens attend said-school, I decided to go and support. They went with me, although my son sat with his friends. That's fine. My daughter sat with me. There's concessions, there's two dorks selling WWE elite figures. They represent the comic book store a couple of towns over. I think they know nothing of wrestling pre-Attitude Era.
(These are the guys I told you all the story about how they always get in wrestlers coming through the area - Abyss every 2 months - to sign autographs and push their local show. They had Al Snow once, so I told them how he started by attending a tryout hosted by Gene Anderson. They looked at me like I was from another planet, they're like "Gene Anderson?!" They were shocked I knew more about wrestling than they did, but they are idiots and think they know everything, so I don't waste my time or money on them.)
Anyway, show starts. Out comes this group of 3 guys. They're called "The Family". The leader is about 5'4" and 120 pounds. He's the guy with the mic, and he cuts a promo like he's JC Ice after he took his medication for Tourettes. Another kid is with them who is the Colby Corino of the group. And there's a big bald biker guy with them. He calls out the guy wrestling for them, and he's roughly the same as the other big bald biker guy. (Picture Bastion Booger as a bad-ass biker gimmick, that's this guy.) His name is Ivan Manson, who was a big name in the old Windy City Wrestling era here. (Can't tell you if it's the same guy.)
Here's his opponent. Oh wait, here's the manager for the opponent. He looks like Silent Bob. He's got a baseball bat. He introduces Brutus. Brutus is a dead-ringer for Bane from the Batman movie; mask and everything.
Match #1 is kinda clunky. Ref (he looks like freakin' Jerry Jarrett, I wish I was kidding) gets distracted way too easily. Guy with baseball bat does nothing but bitch to the referee that the other guys are cheating. (YOU GOT A BASEBALL BAT! GO OVER THERE AND LAY WASTE TO THEM! IDIOT!) Ivan Manson wins when other big bald guy "sneaks in" and hits a spinebuster while the referee is distracted by Not-So-Silent Bob turns around just as the spinebuster is being done. And he counts the pin anyway. What a bunch of crap.
(My son texts me: "Why is Bubba Ray Dudley fighting Bane?" I text back: "Why is guy with baseball bat not using it?")
Match #2, a triple threat match. There's this dude called "The King Of Old Style", "Dancin' " Dick Davis. He's a mix of Alex Wright and Alex Riley. (King Of Old Style doesn't have a beer with him. Minus 5 stars. He just killed his gimmick.) Daughter is mortified to see a male stripper gimmick. "I didn't pay for this." Next comes out a local guy from Hammond. He looks like the Miz wearing a green Power Ranger outfit. (MAKE IT HAPPEN, WWE! THAT'S MONEY!) He looks like he might be good. Then the third guy is supposedly coming back to this little promotion after being in TNA and other indies. It's Diamond Steel Ryan Howe, who had stints on Tough Enough, TNA Gut Check and OVW...Tracey Smothers trained him. He comes out...looks like Randy the Ram doing a Van Hammer gimmick. He plays the guitar for 10 minutes, I shit you not. (Son texts me: "Someone must not be here yet.")
Another mess of a match, Kevin Graves (the Miz-looking Power Ranger) got a good chant going. This time the finish was Dick Davis winning with his feet on the ropes WHILE THE F****** REFEREE WATCHES HIM DOING IT! DAMN THESE REFEREES ARE AWFUL!
(Son texts me again, twice: "GO GO POWER RANGER", "Look, it's blonde [Heath] Slater.")
Match #3 about to start. Okay the "owner" of this promotion comes out. Damn this guy looks like Michael PS Hayes. But Michael wouldn't be caught dead wearing off the rack suits like this. And a straw cowboy hat. And he talks up the fundraiser. And has a cute girl with him, with one of those pom-poms the band uniforms wear on the hats. (Picture psycho Mickie James with open plaid-shirt, red cami-top, short denim shorts and blue fishnets. I tell my daughter next to me "Those are the new band uniforms? I overpaid.") Okay, so a kid in the band models the uniforms. They're pretty sharp. Money well spent. Michael BS Hayes keeps talking about some stuff. (Son texts: "Imma beat up this 4 year old behind me, i swear." I text back: "He's 7 rows behind you" He texts back "IKR".) Damn can this guy stop talking already? (I text son the picture of Michael Cole from NXT3 holding the sign "Stop the pain".)
Oh thank God here's a wrestler. Short Latino guy, looks like Albert/Tensai/Matt Bloom after a tumble in the dryer. And he's wearing pink...oh no he didn't. And he sways his hips. Daughter wants to leave. Here's another Latin guy looks just like the first one. Has an airbrushed singlet with MEXICO on it. Carries Mexican flag. (Nothing says "pride" like dragging the flag on the floor. Asshole.) I guess Matt Bloom and Hernandez had a tumble in the dryer on high heat. Apparently this is a former tag team that split up. This is "loser leaves ARW".
Match isn't awful (a first tonight). Pink guy has a chain in his trunks. Shows everyone, sticks it back in his crotch. Reveals it to the other side, puts chain in his mouth. (Yuk!) They fight some more. Something happens to the referee to where pink guy takes chain and sticks it in opponent's kneepad. Gets hit with back suplex. Ref counts 3. Ref senses something up, finds chain in kneepad. (HOW THE F*** DOES THE REF SEE THE CHAIN WHEN HE DIDN'T SEE IT BEING STUFFED IN KNEEPAD TO BEGIN WITH?! DAMN THIS IS PISSING ME OFF!) Michael BS Hayes says the ref's decision is final. I'm ready to just leave. (If this wasn't a school, I'd start a BULLSHIT chant. This is terrible.)
Match #4 another triple threat match. First guy is...well he's "Rough Crossing" from Montana. Looks like Justin Hawk Bradshaw if he was 200 pounds. We cheer him, he says he don't need our cheers. Good, I won't waste my time. Next guy has purple and pink tye-dye singlet. Looks like Rick Steiner when he had the crewcut. Nice look. Third guy announced "from Merrillville Indiana, representing the Scumbag Army". (I DON'T CARE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE, "SCUMBAG ARMY" SOUNDS LIKE MY KINDA PEOPLE.) He looks like Bray Wyatt if he was as tall as Luke Harper cosplaying as Bruiser Brody. (Oh shit, "not so silent Bob with the baseball bat" is with this guy. Go away.) This is the first guy who was getting ANY kinda pop from this crowd, and he "HUSS"ed all match. "Bruiser Bray Harper" is pretty good. Rough Crossing takes off his blanket parka and hat...dude wearing a biker vest and he looks like Baron Corbin, same hairline and everything. I start laughing. Match ends in a triple count out. (That's a first. never saw one of those before.)
Intermission. (Thank God for small miracles. I need a break. Daughter and I get a pop and a Gatorade. $3. Nice. Son ran to ringside for some reason. He might be main-eventing...I'd believe it. He got a selfie with Justin Baron Corbin/Rough Crossing. "It's always high noon somewhere." That's cool. Wrestlers are very approachable and nice, even the heels.)
Match #5 starts. Oh wow, they have a title match. Tag titles. Here's two guys called the New School. They're wearing hoodies and motorcross face masks. They look tough like that. Oh damn, one took off the mask and hoodie and is premature balding. (I didn't know Ole Anderson wrestled here.) Other guy is another Miz knock-off. Here are the champions. Johnny Showtime and Michael Portrait. They're known as..."The Picture Show" (LOL now that's cute.) Picture ECW's Public Enemy (as the hoodies) doing a version of the Tyler Breeze gimmick, you have these guys. Pretty good match. These 4 act like they've wrestled in front of people before. Nice heat on the champs. Heels steal a tag belt, hit a guy with it. (I wasn't watching if the ref watched him do it, but wouldn't put it past them at this rate.) New champions.
Oh hell, BS Hayes was right there. He calls for a restart, he's not letting what happened in the loser leaves match to happen again. Picture Show win in like 30 seconds. I stand and clap. Johnny acknowledges me and points.
Kids and I get the heck out of there. I can't take no more. Apparently they had 2 more matches but I just couldn't. These referees don't know their ass from a hole in the ground; takes me right out of the matches.
I'm glad the school got a lot of money. This wrestling group has its good and bad. Never saw Power Ranger Miz, he was the guy that impressed me most. I wanted to shake his hand. I'd probably watch another show like this. $10 for 2 hours of entertainment is okay.
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Post by fortknox on Aug 5, 2017 23:08:39 GMT -5
The WWC tag team of Thunder and Lightning.   |
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Post by fortknox on Aug 5, 2017 23:45:45 GMT -5
The Snakeman Mitch Toretta  |
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 6, 2017 0:40:19 GMT -5
It'd be cool if the snake was the wrestler and he lugged Mitch around in an ominous green bag.
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Post by Chainsaw on Aug 6, 2017 1:16:50 GMT -5
The WWC tag team of Thunder and Lightning. The first picture, all I can think of is that they're the team of Thunder and Laverne. |
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