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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Sept 16, 2024 1:55:41 GMT -5
I don't think this was on TV, but I believe it was in a magazine. Shoutout to the can of Fruitopia. In less than two years all three of the men would be former world champions while Fruitopia sales would languish. I ask you where is the justice in this world?
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Sept 17, 2024 9:55:46 GMT -5
That happened a lot. In 1995, Action Zone on USA Network and Wrestling Challenge would share a lot of the same matches with Jim Ross on commentary both times but with different partners (Todd Pettengill on AZ, Gorilla Monsoon on WC). WCW also used to do this. WCW Worlwide in the UK was an edited together show of WCW matches from months earlier, with new commentary on top of it - Scott Hudson once when I was watching drew attention to his own self at the ringside commentary table getting pushed away by a wrestler. Theres also the Undertaker/Goon Match that aired in 1997. In the United States version, its Jim Ross and Jim Cornette on commentary. The match runs almost 10 minutes (with a commercial break in between) and features an actual back and forth with Goon and Taker culminating in a ref bump and Taker rallying back to win. After the match, Jim Cornette grabs a microphone and from the commentary booth calls out The Undertaker for being scared of Vader and saying, "Vader's gonna put you in a body bag, like the garbage that you are!" before the lights shut off and when they turn back on Taker appears behind Cornette dragging him in the ring before tombstoning him and putting him in the body bag. In Europe, however this same match is edited down to less than 5 minutes. The back and forth is cut out completely with an odd cut where suddenly the ref is down in spite of not showing what happened to him. The other major difference is instead of JR and Cornette its Kevin Kelly and Gorilla Monsoon. When the Cornette post match starts, Kevin Kelly refers to Cornette being at the broadcast table for the "domestic version of the show" before Taker drags Corny to the ring and drops him with a tombstone. I do believe that Kevin Kelly and Gorilla Monsoon were the commentary team for international broadcasts until Michael Cole took Kevin's place. Gorilla would be on commentary overseas until August 1999.
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Post by Hulk With A Mustache on Sept 17, 2024 12:04:03 GMT -5
Wait a minute! Hold on now! Let me see if I understand this correctly.
There was an Undertaker/Goon match!?
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 17, 2024 12:19:35 GMT -5
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Sept 20, 2024 23:11:45 GMT -5
Every time I hear/see something about Vic Venom, a part of me always wonders if Russo would have managed to get some of his weirder tendencies out of his system if they'd just let him be the Vic Venom character on TV for a bit.
And then I remember all the stuff he's said and done since WCW's closing, and I remember that Russo is just f***ed in the head, and no amount of leeway would have fixed that.
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