krozor
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Post by krozor on Jan 4, 2020 10:26:37 GMT -5
Okerlund was the best. Absolute commitment to the character that forced everyone around him to fall into place in promos with him. I wonder how many takes they had to do because of Gene corpsing. It's a safe bet all involved pissed themselves laughing many times. He get sooooo close at the end there, after he goes for the lip tremble. He's a second away from cracking and throws it to the graphic so he can pull back. |
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jan 4, 2020 19:39:21 GMT -5
1990 was a different time back then fat men brought fear and them sitting on you would make you contemplate your life choices.If that was me getting hit with a chair & sat on by Earthquake I’d want good friends like Tugboat & Mean Gene. Hahaha! Post of the new decade! |
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Post by paulbearer on Jan 4, 2020 21:04:45 GMT -5
Oh man! Gene was a company man through and through and would sell the hell out of the product - but yeah, this is pretty cheesy. The thing that got me is that while Hogan took multiple splashes, so did lots of jobbers and yet they’d still be on TV week after week. The way this played out you’d have thought Hogan was on life support! "Rugged" Ronnie Garvin did three televised stretcher jobs for Earthquake and yet he was back to work in no time after every one. Or even better yet Hercules took multiple splashes at WrestleMania VI and managed to make it to his feet without needing to be stretchered which nobody had done after getting Eartquaked (I know it was probably because the entrance way was so long they didn't want to bother going through the hassle of using a stretcher but still). Yet you didn't see those guys needing Tugboat to start get well campaigns or Mean Gene basically reading their eulogy on television. They toughed it out and continued to wrestle like real men. If I wasn't only a little over a year old and watching this I would have no sympy for the Hulkster. Jesse V , nice of you to join us  |
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Post by greyfmdan on Jan 5, 2020 3:04:12 GMT -5
I was 7 when this happened. It was serious business! I was overjoyed when Hogan came back. I knew it was mostly staged by this point, but I still thought the smaller guys were getting seriously injured when guys like Quake & Yoko would sit on them. |
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Post by johnnyk9 on Jan 5, 2020 7:27:11 GMT -5
Great selling point they sold Hogan’s injury to the moon
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jan 7, 2020 10:38:45 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=47&v=3eG8Z2HyGTc&feature=emb_titleI busted out laughing 5 seconds in with the *clears throat* "I concur with Tugboat" line. I mean they had to realize how ridiculous this sounded? Gene is acting like the Hulkster is on his death bed due to Earthquake hitting him with a chair and sitting on him a couple of times lol. As a little kid I bought this hook, line and sinker I was wondering why the police weren't sent after Quake |
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jan 7, 2020 10:57:53 GMT -5
Also LOL @ pro wrestling having us do desensitized that we look at it that Hogan was "only" smashed over the head with a steel chair and then had a 400 LBS man jump up and down on him
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I wonder how many takes they had to do because of Gene corpsing.
