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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 16:42:30 GMT -5
Temporarily locking this until there is more actual information. There are to be no other threads on it until then.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 14:29:47 GMT -5
And allegedly at like 3:00 am right? I didn't see anything about a time. I just saw 2 screen shots a friend sent me. Yeah, it went down last night around 3am US time.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 13:53:28 GMT -5
I wonder why none of the "reports" have picked up on this? Any ethical journalist - and I know I'm using that term extremely loosely with some of those YT knobs - will wait for some sort of confirmation on the situation before publicly announcing a person as a child predator.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 13:31:43 GMT -5
Two things stand out to me
1. Publicly announcing his DMs are open, only to immediately start sending graphic material to those who take him up on that offer
2. I am by no means an expert on today's technology, but that voice clip sounds way too clean. No audio trail as he starts or stops talking, like it was lifted from something.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 13:05:26 GMT -5
Please stop tagging me in this.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 6:05:02 GMT -5
ONCE AGAIN
DO NOT POST THE MURDERER'S NAME OR VIDEOS NAMING HIM ON THIS BOARD. DOING SO OR EVEN PURPOSELY LINKING TO SUCH WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE BAN
I just let that slide once. I will not let it slide again, for ANYONE.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 1:34:25 GMT -5
Okay, sorry, but I'm just locking this one. Four pages of "he took a shit" is too much.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 1:24:29 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU66QA9FvXkBig Daddy is a bit of a "legend" so far as horrible wrestlers go. Real name Steve Blasio, this Big Daddy (no connection to the UK worker). Sadly, this clip is sans his yellow rubber duck, a prop he would carry with him to the ring. BD's time in the business was short - he started in April 1983 and his final match was in July of the following year. Blasio is notorious for being an immensely horrible worker. His career ended when he shattered his ankle performing a routine move and that was it for him (sources and accounts differ, but it appears he did it while being tossed from the ring in a battle royale). He would go on to sue Dusty Rhodes, the promotion and several others over it, a lawsuit that would only end in 1989 when the courts found in Rhodes' favor.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 24, 2020 0:14:22 GMT -5
I may be wrong but I think they asked the creator permission to use the likeness and he agreed. O'Barr was not aware, but he also didn't really care. According to O'Barr though, Dimension Films did make him change the make-up once the gimmick took off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDKSOegKQnUThanks for posting that, hadn't seen it before.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 23:17:15 GMT -5
I'm playing loose with bigger, but I'm surprised that Drake (Younger) Wuertz and Sarah Logan got on the WWE's radar. Drake being best known for his ultraviolet career, and is undersized for the time. Sarah was a Mad Man Pondo protege. And whereas I am a fan of Pondo...there's a reason him and his crew aren't bigger names in the business. Hell, I'm still surprised to this day they ever let Moxley/Ambrose through the door considering his previous career.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 23:13:28 GMT -5
For anyone curious: ![https://i.imgur.com/VVrnxzA.png](https://i.imgur.com/VVrnxzA.png) Dean's internal monologue at that exact moment: "I can take this SOB."
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 22:44:25 GMT -5
Malenko said he was 18-19 during all of this stuff? According to his Wiki he was born in 1960, so he would have been 25 or so. That is more of the age that makes sense for a ref, since I can't imagine the WWF throwing an 18 year old out there as a ref. I imagine it's more of a "it all blurs together after all this time" deal. Malenko got started in the business at 18-19, in 1979 as a referee. Outside of 9 matches he had for UWFi in 1985, he wouldn't actually start as a wrestler until 1988. His referee days are probably a big blob of a memory to him now. As for WWF throwing an 18 year old referee out there, they did just that with this guy, who started in 1988: ![](https://static1.thesportsterimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ShaneRef.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=740&h=416)
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 22:26:05 GMT -5
If Sting simply changed his face paint, I could see it as no big deal. But he took the whole look. All black clothing, similar hair, the trenchcoat. Even the motive of revenge. I'm guessing Dimension Films didn't see it as worth the effort to sue. Dimension doesn't and didn't own the Crow, James O'Barr does. Couldn't really go after him for the clothing or hair - Sting started the "crow" gimmick with shorter hair, and it just got longer as the angle went on. His make-up being a direct rip of the Crow was mostly during those early days and by the time he had the long hair, his make-up had evolved to be more stylized. The vulture deal was super-short lived. Basically, all of the elements that would make him an exact Crow knock-off were never all there at the exact same time. Can't really sue over trenchcoats, it was the late 90s, everyone was wearing them.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 22:08:21 GMT -5
They've not been rehired - WWE figured as they're still paying them for 90 days, they may as well use them as they're local. Proving my point though. If they were going to be paying them for the next three months anyway, if they'd kept them or fired them and let them sit home...then what was the point of firing them? They aren't saving any money, especially short-term, letting them go since they still have to pay them for 90 days.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 21:34:18 GMT -5
Sidenote - That SNME aired on 1/4, not 1/14. Taped on 12/19/85. Yes, my typo. Oh, sorry, figured it was WWE not getting their info correct; seems to happen on there a lot.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 21:13:52 GMT -5
That 's the same Savage-Steele match from the 1/14/86 SNME on the Network. Maybe they re-used it in syndication? Without having a copy of the original airing to verify, it's possible, absolutely. I'm using thehistoryofwwe.com on this, and they've got those two matches marked as airing on Championship Wrestling at later dates (Volkoff/Kirchner on the 1/18/86 episode and Savage/Steele on the 1/25/86 episode) with the other four matches from that night airing on the actual SNME broadcast. That said, that site's way of marking the shows for this sort of thing is confusing and lacking, so all six very well could have aired on SNME with those two picked to "headline" a couple of syndicated shows as well. Or, the Network just runs the whole thing the way they originally taped it and aren't worried keeping things "exactly as they aired". I personally can't recall an SNME that had that many matches on it, but we are talking about typical WWF 5-10 minute matches, so...who knows. Sidenote - That SNME aired on 1/4, not 1/14. Taped on 12/19/85.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 20:10:20 GMT -5
Curt Hennig put a padlock on the bridge of Nick Bockwinkel's glasses. Curt hated Nick Bockwinkle. Here’s another rib, Curt took a huge shit on a Bockwinkle poster and left it at the locker room’s bathroom so Nick would see it. Bockwinkel. And that's not a rib, just disgusting.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 19:52:00 GMT -5
In b4 someone says this is still better than one of WWE's current belts because it's most definitely not. Still better than WWE's current belts. Love that these were right next to each other. Some have to get their tired joke in where they can no matter what.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 17:22:02 GMT -5
As per the WWE conference call today.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 23, 2020 17:02:34 GMT -5
Okay, not where I can listen to the conference call still going on at the moment but can someone give me some context for this?
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