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Post by AJ Smudgico on Jan 7, 2018 5:36:21 GMT -5
I'm watching the past Royal Rumbles ahead of this year's event, and in the title match between Undertaker and Yokozuna, we have one of the most ridiculous, cartoony and corny endings to a title match in history. It's impossible to suspend disbelief and there is no need to explain what happened with the urn, smoke, levitation etc.
However, with Taker needing time off to rest injuries, what would have been a better and more realistic way to write him out, without the supernatural nonsense, to sell his absence?
Did it need to be a casket match? Could Yokozuna have just been disqualified in a normal match due to a huge beatdown? What would you have done
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 7, 2018 5:41:16 GMT -5
I am fine with it, honestly. Like, the only other thing I could think of is something like if Yokozuna dropped a leg or senton onto a chair around Undertaker's leg or neck or something, and that is not something I would feel comfortable risking with quite his size. Stomping would be safer, but it'd need to be something really over the top for it. It's Taker.
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Post by hassanchop on Jan 7, 2018 6:22:06 GMT -5
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Jan 7, 2018 11:23:43 GMT -5
It kills of Taker's original character, he comes back even stronger that Summer, and got revenge on Yoko at Survivor Series, for a nice year long storyline
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 7, 2018 11:55:16 GMT -5
Who wants realistic? That shit was amazing.
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Post by Jiren on Jan 7, 2018 12:03:06 GMT -5
It fit Taker's character, It was fine
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Post by chronocross on Jan 7, 2018 12:17:59 GMT -5
I liked it a lot and remmember thinking Taker was going to be World Champ that night.
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Post by The Ichi on Jan 7, 2018 12:22:15 GMT -5
If you couldn't suspend your disbelief in the mid-90s, you were watching the wrong thing. That was the most cartoony period of all.
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Post by Aceorton on Jan 7, 2018 15:56:12 GMT -5
I thought the 10-man beatdown itself was a great storytelling piece. You have all these heels from the locker room who have had enough of Taker being seemingly unstoppable, so they all decide to just gang up on the MF'er and get rid of him. That would have been perfectly fine on its own.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Jan 7, 2018 16:03:38 GMT -5
It's a decent little brawl of a match with a terrible ending. But that was also mid-90's WWF, so...
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Post by thegame415 on Jan 7, 2018 18:53:11 GMT -5
Maybe Yoko could burn the casket, then eat it.
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Post by King Devitt: What Plants Crave on Jan 7, 2018 22:18:35 GMT -5
Who wants realistic? That shit was amazing. Right?? Adolescent me was flipping the f*** out at this. It was, and still is, amazing. |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Jan 7, 2018 22:30:38 GMT -5
It was awful then. It's still awful now.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 7, 2018 22:33:15 GMT -5
Absolute shit.
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Post by Kevin Dunn on Jan 8, 2018 0:21:35 GMT -5
Who wants realistic? That shit was amazing. its more fun when they do off the wall thing’s. Like the haunted houses match with Orton and that other dude, |
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Post by MC Blowfish on Jan 8, 2018 10:16:59 GMT -5
Way over the top, but it fits for the time period. I watched that match a few years ago and enjoyed the ending. Yeah it's completely unbelievable, but wrestling is unbelievable.
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Post by sfvega on Jan 8, 2018 10:44:50 GMT -5
It legit scared me as a 7 year old. But later, it was so bad it was good. The cartoony shit made it watchable. The only thing I criticize in retrospect is that they buried most of the heels on the roster by having this gang of bad guys who couldn't keep down Taker for 10 minutes, and at various points were getting their asses kicked. For as bad as people say DX/Spirit Squad was at times, it was 2 guys taking on 5, not 1 guy taking on 10.
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Post by The Gallus Mark on Jan 8, 2018 11:23:50 GMT -5
It was and still is amazing! So incredibly over the top and fit the cartoon aspect of the time perfectly.
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Post by The Gallus Mark on Jan 8, 2018 11:25:23 GMT -5
It legit scared me as a 7 year old. But later, it was so bad it was good. The cartoony shit made it watchable. The only thing I criticize in retrospect is that they buried most of the heels on the roster by having this gang of bad guys who couldn't keep down Taker for 10 minutes, and at various points were getting their asses kicked. For as bad as people say DX/Spirit Squad was at times, it was 2 guys taking on 5, not 1 guy taking on 10. But DX were 2 people, the Undertaker was an undead zombie at the time. Totally makes sense. |
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Post by auph10imitated on Jan 8, 2018 12:13:14 GMT -5
To be fair all they needed was the 10 guys (to protect him in his own speciality match) to help Yoko put Taker in the Casket and then maybe do a burial scenario and we literally do not hear from Undertaker again until June when the bells begin to toll during Yokozuna matches, build to Yoko being terrified by this presence and do all the hokey darkness and smoke before a big return promo and a rematch at Summerslam.
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