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Post by chazraps on Mar 11, 2019 16:19:11 GMT -5
Revisiting some 2013 Mania weekend indys, and I forgot how much fun the Star Man character was. Tried Googling to see if the performer was still active, only to find IT WAS JOEY JANELA?!
Is this common knowledge? I just remember (and this may be NY bias) people loving this gimmick and how well he was portrayed. Like, he got so much mileage out of what might have been a one-note joke.
Was there ever a story of him being unmasked and transforming, or did Star Man just disappear one day?
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Post by Display Name on Mar 11, 2019 17:46:18 GMT -5
I only learned it was him a couple of days ago, when Joey posted a pic of Star Man and Liger(The day he announced his retirement date)on his IG story.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Mar 11, 2019 18:06:02 GMT -5
I knew it!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 18:07:59 GMT -5
Was this the guy based on the NES Pro Wrestling Starman?
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His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Mar 11, 2019 22:36:34 GMT -5
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Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Mar 11, 2019 23:10:41 GMT -5
Egads! The one day I miss |
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Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Mar 11, 2019 23:11:59 GMT -5
Was this the guy based on the NES Pro Wrestling Starman? Yes, and it was absolutely perfect. He came out to a fleshed out midi recording of the NES Pro Wrestling theme, did the moves the from the game, just really committed to the character. Definitely worth going out of your way to see. |
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Mar 13, 2019 10:01:49 GMT -5
It was common knowledge from his debut as far as I knew. I thought it was brilliant that he brought the character to life. I was hoping other characters from the Pro Wrestling game would eventually appear as his opponents but I guess that wasn’t part of whatever plans there were for it.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Mar 15, 2019 11:33:22 GMT -5
Yes, we all knew from the time he debuted at PWS. It was also a ripoff of Player One in Chikara, with pauses, slow mo, etc.
Wanna real trip? HERE is where Janela really started from, though he probably won't talk about it (not many people mention NWS though a lot of indy "stars" were first heard of from there..)
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Post by chazraps on Mar 15, 2019 23:54:02 GMT -5
Yes, we all knew from the time he debuted at PWS. It was also a ripoff of Player One in Chikara, with pauses, slow mo, etc.Was it? Like, they share a few video game troupes, and I'm a fan of Super Smash Brothers/Evil Uno's work, but it seemed Janela did enough uniquely NES stuff from the matches I've seen to really make it its own entity. Did he catch a lot of flack for it? Edit: WOOOOOOOOW at that Jumpin' Joey Janela clip. Like, big time wowie zowie. |
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