Nosnorb
El Dandy
Nachos and Fraggle Rock are TIMELESS.
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Post by Nosnorb on Sept 15, 2018 12:15:23 GMT -5
D-X pulling up to the arena where Nitro was running like it was the moment that turned the tide for the Monday Night Wars. It was good and mildly entertaining but the bigger story that night was Steve Austin raising hell for McMahon. Didn't DX lose that night to the Harris Clowns? |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 15, 2018 12:26:56 GMT -5
Wrestlemania attendance figures in general. Particularly 3 and 32.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 15, 2018 12:28:11 GMT -5
The heights of cages
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ASYLUMHAUSEN
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Sept 15, 2018 14:08:36 GMT -5
Alberto Del Rio's $12.8 million dollar contract. Now, look, we all have it on good authority that WWE got a lot out of that $25.3 million dollar contact and I won’t hear anything to the contrary! |
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schma
El Dandy
Who are you to doubt me?
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Post by schma on Sept 15, 2018 14:14:09 GMT -5
One that goes both ways! The DX Tank! WWE claims it single-handedly destroyed WCW. This board tries to counter by dismissing it as just a run of the mill segment. It was an amusing segment that did very well in the ratings and got people into the new DX. Nothing epic and nothing to be dismissed out of hand. The idea was cool but the segments went too long and it quickly became really boring, especially once we realized that nothing was going to happen. I remember my friends and I who watched both shows were pretty disappointed and quickly forgot about it. |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Sept 15, 2018 14:17:19 GMT -5
The tank didn’t killed wcw, it wasn’t even a love tap.
Mick Foley killed wcw. Austin and Rock made sure it stayed dead.
DX was just a bunch of midcarders that eventually got disbanded because Road Dogg couldn’t stop freebasing.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 15, 2018 16:20:19 GMT -5
Orton shitting in a bag.
No, he put "a bunch of shit" in a bag.
Mostly lotion and random cosmetics
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Post by chronocross on Sept 15, 2018 17:10:44 GMT -5
D-X pulling up to the arena where Nitro was running like it was the moment that turned the tide for the Monday Night Wars. It was good and mildly entertaining but the bigger story that night was Steve Austin raising hell for McMahon. Didn't DX lose that night to the Harris Clowns? Yeah I forgot about that, they had a brief feud with them for pissing on the DOA bikes, so yeah DX had better nights. |
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Post by blissified on Sept 15, 2018 17:17:22 GMT -5
I don't believe Vince was close to bankruptcy before they started winning the war.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Sept 15, 2018 17:27:35 GMT -5
The Undertaker’s Mania streak. Impressive, sure, but a LOT of those were terrible matches against monster jobbers. And the third one was a DQ, for f***'s sake. I pointed this out to someone who claimed WWE would never give Taker a DQ win at Mania. Their response was that it was before the streak was noticed/acknowledged by management, so it didn't count. |
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 15, 2018 18:46:41 GMT -5
I don't believe Vince was close to bankruptcy before they started winning the war. They were running high school gyms. While McMahon may not personally have ever been in danger of the poor house the company itself was absolutely in trouble. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Sept 15, 2018 21:09:02 GMT -5
How completely out of touch Vince is with pop culture... yeah he's not current on every major pop culture thing ... but I'd be shocked if he's not more savvy than some people give him credit for. Dude is a grandfather so he's at least heard of things popular with kids even if he's never seen it himself, and again despite popular belief Vince is the one that told Birchill to be like Jack Sparrow by name according to multiple sources including Birchill himself. I don't believe Vince was close to bankruptcy before they started winning the war. They were running high school gyms. While McMahon may not personally have ever been in danger of the poor house the company itself was absolutely in trouble. I'll be honest with how damned obsessed he is... I fully believe Vince would have put literally everything he had into keeping the WWF afloat. |
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schma
El Dandy
Who are you to doubt me?
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Post by schma on Sept 15, 2018 21:45:50 GMT -5
How completely out of touch Vince is with pop culture... yeah he's not current on every major pop culture thing ... but I'd be shocked if he's not more savvy than some people give him credit for. Dude is a grandfather so he's at least heard of things popular with kids even if he's never seen it himself, and again despite popular belief Vince is the one that told Birchill to be like Jack Sparrow by name according to multiple sources including Birchill himself. They were running high school gyms. While McMahon may not personally have ever been in danger of the poor house the company itself was absolutely in trouble. I'll be honest with how damned obsessed he is... I fully believe Vince would have put literally everything he had into keeping the WWF afloat. That's interesting, the stories I'd heard indicated that Burchill pitched the gimmick and it took a lot of convincing with Vince because he hadn't known about Pirates of the Caribbean and that was part of why the gimmick was eventually shelved. Seems I was wrong. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Sept 15, 2018 21:55:48 GMT -5
How completely out of touch Vince is with pop culture... yeah he's not current on every major pop culture thing ... but I'd be shocked if he's not more savvy than some people give him credit for. Dude is a grandfather so he's at least heard of things popular with kids even if he's never seen it himself, and again despite popular belief Vince is the one that told Birchill to be like Jack Sparrow by name according to multiple sources including Birchill himself. I'll be honest with how damned obsessed he is... I fully believe Vince would have put literally everything he had into keeping the WWF afloat. That's interesting, the stories I'd heard indicated that Burchill pitched the gimmick and it took a lot of convincing with Vince because he hadn't known about Pirates of the Caribbean and that was part of why the gimmick was eventually shelved. Seems I was wrong. That's the popular theory, but again Birchill said Vince told him Jack Sparrow by name. Supposedly, the writers are the one that hated it and that's why it was shelved... combined with Paul going out for a long time with a knee injury. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 15, 2018 22:31:27 GMT -5
John Cena was close to being fired until the rapper gimmick saved his career. Bruce Prichard has confirmed that prior to him finding out that he could rap Cena was in a "Creative has nothing for you" situation. Add to that this was back when WWE had no problem letting people go if there wasn't anything planned for them (unless your name was Bob Holly or Funaki), it's really not much of an exaggeration, if at all. |
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The Ichi
Patti Mayonnaise
AGGRESSIVE Executive Janitor of the Third Floor Manager's Bathroom
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 15, 2018 22:40:11 GMT -5
Joey Styles punching JBL. The way I've read or heard the story told you'd think he got the dude like Butterbean got Bart Gunn. A lot of "backstage fights" get altered to favour whoever people like more at the time. See also Jericho kicking the asses of Goldberg (when he just put him in a headlock for a few seconds before it got broken up) and Brock Lesnar (when he just shoved him and was likely a locker room away from getting decapitated). |
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The Ichi
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 15, 2018 22:45:45 GMT -5
Orton shitting in a bag. No, he put "a bunch of shit" in a bag. Mostly lotion and random cosmetics Eh, to me it still makes him a prick. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Sept 15, 2018 22:57:18 GMT -5
John Cena was close to being fired until the rapper gimmick saved his career. Bruce Prichard has confirmed that prior to him finding out that he could rap Cena was in a "Creative has nothing for you" situation. Add to that this was back when WWE had no problem letting people go if there wasn't anything planned for them (unless your name was Bob Holly or Funaki), it's really not much of an exaggeration, if at all. Yeah, I don't have much reason to doubt that since he lost to Angle, then beat Jericho... and then was on Velocity for months save for maybe showing up for Job duty a couple times and literally had no gimmick at that point. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 15, 2018 23:05:31 GMT -5
Bruce Prichard has confirmed that prior to him finding out that he could rap Cena was in a "Creative has nothing for you" situation. Add to that this was back when WWE had no problem letting people go if there wasn't anything planned for them (unless your name was Bob Holly or Funaki), it's really not much of an exaggeration, if at all. Yeah, I don't have much reason to doubt that since he lost to Angle, then beat Jericho... and then was on Velocity for months save for maybe showing up for Job duty a couple times and literally had no gimmick at that point. Even if he didn't get cut, without the rap gimmick there's no way Cena would've won even a single world title, much less become the face of the company for over a decade. It not only saved his job, it made his career. |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Sept 16, 2018 6:06:15 GMT -5
I don't believe Vince was close to bankruptcy before they started winning the war. He was heading there for sure. Working in the wwf during those years was awful. JJ Dillon left for wcw because he couldn’t support his family due to the pay cuts. Prichard and Mcdevitt said that the wwf couldnt even afford water coolers. Vince was so desperate that he apparently attended the cauliflower alley club to receive an award in honor of his father, keep in mind that after recovering, Vince never attended the ceremony again. The 605 superpodcast even made a great point, during that time Vince looked like he couldn’t even afford steroids. |
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