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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Aug 10, 2020 3:59:49 GMT -5
During Wrestlemania weekend 2019 I got into an argument with a co-host of a fairly well known wrestling podcast because he tried to convince me that Harlem Heat should be going in the WWE Hall of Fame before Demolition. I told him how in the hell are you goint to induct a team that's never even worked for you over the team that held the record for longest title reign in your own company up until a few years ago? Vince McMahon! The guy that never puts any creation from any company above his own let alone a WCW creation.
I grew up watching WWF 1st so to me Demolition weren't a knock off. When LOD showed up on WWF TV in the summer of 1990 my mind was blown! Who were these guys with even bigger spiked shoulder pads?! Why are they dressed like Demolition but with bigger spikes?! I thought all of them were awesome, even Crush, and I just wanted this huge matchup to happen between the 2 teams and it never really did. At least not in the way it should have.
Demolition for WWE HOF!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 11:05:25 GMT -5
Powers of Pain were clearly knockoffs.
Demolition might have started as an effort to capitalize on Road Warriors fame, but people who dismiss them as "knockoffs" are tiring, because Demolition not only came into their own but surpassed the Road Warriors in at least one very important category.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Aug 11, 2020 12:26:26 GMT -5
LOD, eat your heart out.
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Post by nate5054 on Aug 11, 2020 21:00:13 GMT -5
Greatest or not, they were my favorite tag team ever. And not that I agree with Bruce Prichard a lot, but I never found them to be LOD ripoffs either. |
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Post by camphor #BLM on Aug 11, 2020 22:00:13 GMT -5
...with all this talk of ripoffs, it seems like the right place to see if anyone's interested in some high-quality "BreakingStuff Bash and BreakingStuff Ask" merchandise:   Here comes the Bash And here comes the Asker The Breakinstuffers Breakin your stuffers |
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Post by SmashTV on Aug 12, 2020 15:32:38 GMT -5
I’ve said on here before that I felt Demolition were poorly treated in their last year as a team. While I think that they were definitely Vince’s answer to the LOD, they established their own identity and style to take away from the comparison. They dominated the tag division from WM IV to Summerslam 90 against all types of opponents - the Harts, Brain Busters, Strike Force, the Rockers - and deserved better to be instantly jobbed out to the LOD and the one night only Japanese wrestlers at WM VII. It still leaves a sour taste in my mouth even now.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 12, 2020 18:09:22 GMT -5
I don’t think you could have had any other team enter at 1&2 in the Rumble and have them believably fight. The Demos were gonna fight. Even each other.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Aug 12, 2020 20:44:04 GMT -5
Easily my favorite tag team ever....the look, the no nonsense attitude, and one of the greatest theme songs ever.
It’s a damn travesty Vince hasn’t put them in the WWE “Hall Of Fame.”
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Aug 12, 2020 22:58:04 GMT -5
Weird how LOD ripoffs stick to them, but stuff like Superstar Graham ripoff doesn't stick to Hogan.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 13, 2020 2:12:04 GMT -5
My favorite tag team of all time. It was all about them and Hogan when I was a kid.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 13, 2020 3:01:24 GMT -5
Powers of Pain were clearly knockoffs. Demolition might have started as an effort to capitalize on Road Warriors fame, but people who dismiss them as "knockoffs" are tiring, because Demolition not only came into their own but surpassed the Road Warriors in at least one very important category. The thing about Demolition is they were different to the other knockoffs so they could forge their identity. Powers of Pain, Blade Runners etc. you get 2 jacked dudes, give them facepaint, weird haircuts and that's it. Demolition were big guys, but more in a bar room brawler way than a bodybuilder, and that carried over into their ring work. They didn't dominate guys with power, they fought and just beat the crap out of you. They had their own, different promo style so the resemblance was more superficial. |
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Post by Session Moth is over on Aug 13, 2020 8:24:43 GMT -5
Before Vince asked McDevitt to take a massive blow to his credibility, they used to show Wrestling Challenge on Sky Sports and they showed a lot of Demolition squash matches and to my 13 year old self, they seemed like the coolest damn dudes. Came in, wrecked shit and left. I can appreciate the Road Warriors and how important they were to the industry and they were blatantly a rip off in SO many ways but man, Demolition were badass. They replaced it with WCW Power Hour post lawsuit and they showed a lot of Doom matches. Doom were freaking cool, man. What lawsuit was that? I remember first seeing Demolition back around 2001/02 I think when Sky Sports used to show old 80's shows for awhile. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 13, 2020 8:27:32 GMT -5
Before Vince asked McDevitt to take a massive blow to his credibility, they used to show Wrestling Challenge on Sky Sports and they showed a lot of Demolition squash matches and to my 13 year old self, they seemed like the coolest damn dudes. Came in, wrecked shit and left. I can appreciate the Road Warriors and how important they were to the industry and they were blatantly a rip off in SO many ways but man, Demolition were badass. They replaced it with WCW Power Hour post lawsuit and they showed a lot of Doom matches. Doom were freaking cool, man. What lawsuit was that? I remember first seeing Demolition back around 2001/02 I think when Sky Sports used to show old 80's shows for awhile. The one with the World Wildlife Fund. Literally the day after that happened, the classics show changed from Wrestling Challenge to Power Hour. |
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Post by MrElijah on Aug 13, 2020 9:40:37 GMT -5
What lawsuit was that? I remember first seeing Demolition back around 2001/02 I think when Sky Sports used to show old 80's shows for awhile. The one with the World Wildlife Fund. Literally the day after that happened, the classics show changed from Wrestling Challenge to Power Hour. How much of Early 90s WCW you saw? |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 13, 2020 9:42:03 GMT -5
The one with the World Wildlife Fund. Literally the day after that happened, the classics show changed from Wrestling Challenge to Power Hour. How much of Early 90s WCW you saw? Honestly, not as much as I would have liked. I only really remember Doom and Bischoff on commentary. |
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Post by MrElijah on Aug 13, 2020 10:00:10 GMT -5
How much of Early 90s WCW you saw? Honestly, not as much as I would have liked. I only really remember Doom and Bischoff on commentary. So that sounds like, 90-Early 91. To bad they didn't give you the Dangerous Alliance era, very fun TV Wrestling. |
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Post by cjh on Aug 13, 2020 10:09:07 GMT -5
Before Vince asked McDevitt to take a massive blow to his credibility, they used to show Wrestling Challenge on Sky Sports and they showed a lot of Demolition squash matches and to my 13 year old self, they seemed like the coolest damn dudes. Came in, wrecked shit and left. I can appreciate the Road Warriors and how important they were to the industry and they were blatantly a rip off in SO many ways but man, Demolition were badass. They replaced it with WCW Power Hour post lawsuit and they showed a lot of Doom matches. Doom were freaking cool, man. What lawsuit was that? I remember first seeing Demolition back around 2001/02 I think when Sky Sports used to show old 80's shows for awhile. Several months after the WWF became WWE in 2002, they weren't allowed to use the WWF name anymore. As a result, the classic show on Sky Sports changed from Wrestling Challenge to WCW Worldwide. A lot of the 1991 Worldwide footage on YouTube comes from those airings. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 13, 2020 10:10:43 GMT -5
Honestly, not as much as I would have liked. I only really remember Doom and Bischoff on commentary. So that sounds like, 90-Early 91. To bad they didn't give you the Dangerous Alliance era, very fun TV Wrestling. Goddamnit. Would have loved to have seen that stuff. |
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Aug 13, 2020 10:26:24 GMT -5
Something I think is important to the "Are they a ripoff of LoD?" discussion is that they didn't rip off LoD per se, but rather went back to the original source of that look. The Road Warriors modeled their look on Wez from Road Warrior, but Demolition's look is Lord Humungus from the same movie. That's the sort of small detail that can make a big difference - like the difference between a Spider-Man adaptation that only uses the movies as source material (the disastrous bomb known as Turn Off the Dark) vs. one that goes back to the 60's comics and finds what was actually good all along about them (the utterly excellent but short-lived Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, or the majorly successful Ultimate Spider-Man comic).
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Post by MrElijah on Aug 13, 2020 10:27:39 GMT -5
So that sounds like, 90-Early 91. To bad they didn't give you the Dangerous Alliance era, very fun TV Wrestling. Goddamnit. Would have loved to have seen that stuff. Their run is short, but damn are the matches great. My god, that War Games match. |
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