tafkaga
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Post by tafkaga on Nov 19, 2022 21:30:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure I can overstate how much I've grown to hate Larry Zbyszko's commentary during my current Nitro rewatch. Dude just sounds so effing miserable, like he hates the product, hates all the wrestlers, veritable old man yelling at cloud for the first 40 minutes of every Nitro, selling nothing but his own gimmick. I've never known Bobby Heenan to have truly awful chemistry with anyone until he worked with Zbyszko for a series of 1 hour Nitros during the '97 NBA Playoffs. Now, I quite enjoyed Larry as a wrestler and as a wrestling promo, but as a commentator, dear god, he can f*** off.
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Post by chazraps on Nov 19, 2022 21:43:34 GMT -5
Did you mean depreciation thread?
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Nov 19, 2022 21:43:56 GMT -5
The fact that he coined and over-used “New World Odor” made me wanna reach thru the TV and strangle him.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 19, 2022 22:33:23 GMT -5
One of the worst to ever do it
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Post by The Blue Nova on Nov 19, 2022 23:08:28 GMT -5
I guess I am the only one who actually liked Larry as an announcer lol
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Nov 19, 2022 23:30:48 GMT -5
The fact that he coined and over-used “New World Odor” made me wanna reach thru the TV and strangle him. WCW was the home of weak insults and trash talk. you had Zybszko's "New World Odor", Eric Bischoff talking about the "World Whining Federation", and DDP going on about "Hollywood Scum Hogan". then there was Eddie Guerrero telling Bischoff "You can kiss my you-know-what!". the worst of all was when Randy Savage and Hogan were both in the nWo and feuding over the WCW title. Hogan talked about how was going to beat Savage for the belt then kick him out of the nWo, and Savage's big response was "That's exactly what's not going to happen!"
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Post by nakedmideon on Nov 19, 2022 23:32:15 GMT -5
The fact that he coined and over-used “New World Odor” made me wanna reach thru the TV and strangle him. Aaww this was the worst!!So childish and he used it at every opportunity!how someone didn't pull him up and say "quit that silly shit" i don't know
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 20, 2022 8:38:05 GMT -5
Even as a kid I never understood why he was cast as a good guy announcer when he was the most self absorbed and obnoxious guy in the booth. Like he had to be the smartest dude in the arena, it wasn’t like Heenan who even though he was “The Brain” he went out of his way to always say something wacky and stupid so the face announcer could react.
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Post by chronocross on Nov 20, 2022 9:55:59 GMT -5
I didn't mind his commentary and also enjoyed him as an unlikely foe against the nWo, more specifically Scott Hall. The crowd was into the pull-aparts with him and Hall almost every week.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Nov 20, 2022 11:51:14 GMT -5
...are we appreciating that he was awful??
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Nov 20, 2022 11:53:58 GMT -5
Sounds like you need a trip to Larry Land, so you can appreciate his glorious 40-year career.
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Post by XIII on Nov 20, 2022 11:55:39 GMT -5
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Nov 20, 2022 11:56:04 GMT -5
You know what no one has mentioned in a few posts:
"NEW WORLD ODOR"
That is all.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Nov 20, 2022 12:30:24 GMT -5
Also, my favorite Larry moment was him not helping Lee Marshall when he got knocked down during the brawl between the Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom
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Post by Push R Truth on Nov 20, 2022 12:35:43 GMT -5
I swear there was a moment when Larry said at least 15 words in a row that were incomprehensible and they cut to commercial midsentence to save our souls from whatever eldritch spell he was casting.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Nov 20, 2022 12:47:32 GMT -5
I clicked on this hoping to get a defense of Larry's commentary. But yeah he was pretty bad at it. Not only was their the dumb "new world odor" nickname he also always had to be right even when situations called for the announcers to be surprised at the end. Like when Ted Dibiase showed up on Nitro holding up four fingers. Everyone knew he was gonna end up in the NWO but Tony had to act as if he might be referencing the Four Horseman to set up the reveal at the end of the night and Larry just completely no sold it.
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DragonMasterP
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Post by DragonMasterP on Nov 20, 2022 14:17:16 GMT -5
"Back when men were men, and women didn't vote." -A completely real line from face (Supposedly) commentator Larry Zbyszko at Superbrawl 1998.
EDIT: Okay, it wasn't at Superbrawl, it was on a random Nitro. It happened right before Goldberg Vs. Brad Armstrong, which also happened at Superbrawl that year.
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BorneAgain
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Post by BorneAgain on Nov 20, 2022 14:30:32 GMT -5
Your shared disdain for Larry clearly comes from your collective failure to master the human game of chess.
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 20, 2022 15:35:13 GMT -5
"Back when men were men, and I hid in Bruno Sammartino's bushes.". fixed.
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Post by Hypnosis on Nov 20, 2022 18:32:39 GMT -5
The fact that he coined and over-used “New World Odor” made me wanna reach thru the TV and strangle him. WCW was the home of weak insults and trash talk. you had Zybszko's "New World Odor", Eric Bischoff talking about the "World Whining Federation", and DDP going on about "Hollywood Scum Hogan". then there was Eddie Guerrero telling Bischoff "You can kiss my you-know-what!". the worst of all was when Randy Savage and Hogan were both in the nWo and feuding over the WCW title. Hogan talked about how was going to beat Savage for the belt then kick him out of the nWo, and Savage's big response was "That's exactly what's not going to happen!" I have a weak insult of my own: Larry NABISCO!
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