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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 22:24:32 GMT -5
No, it's not made there, then brought here and rebranded. It's branded while still there. Reebok doesn't buy a bunch of plain shoes and slap a logo on the side.
There is a very large Chinese bootleg market that uses the same factories and workers making the authorized versions to make nonbranded versions as well, and then selling those on the cheap.
And that's about where this should probably stop.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 22:20:33 GMT -5
Coincidentally enough, there are vinyl figures of the Showbiz Pizza "Rock-afire Explosion" characters coming out right now: (I love that they included a second head to appeal to the FNAF crowd) Just keep it away from Rich Evans, though. I have no idea who that is.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 20:43:45 GMT -5
From the man himself:
This is from a thread over at the Wrestling Classics message board. I'd link it, but it's a thread mostly dealing with Cornette, so F that. You can find it in the first few posts right now.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 19:31:29 GMT -5
Has anyone ever heard of this promotion or the owner Houston Carson? Houston Carson is decent int he ring. He worked for Wildkat sports outta NOLA in their early years. Then him and hte head booker of WIldkat had a falling out. Last I had heard about him was 5 or so years ago when him and Barbi Hayden split. Who all has been on their shows? I might know some of them. Here's their site. A decent number of better-known workers have come through a time or two, it seems. lionsprideproductions.com/
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 19:24:06 GMT -5
Not familiar with either, honestly. Looking up their site, they have a guy named Stewy the Cannibal Clown? Only name I recognize from their 2020 results page is Nobe Bryant, who started out here in Dallas at PCW.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 16:08:44 GMT -5
He-Ro: Son of He-Man. A series bible exists. Mentioned it earlier in the thread, but yeah, there were actually two separate "Son of He-Man" shows that were pitched and got a little traction before making it too far.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 14:28:25 GMT -5
Tully didn't raise her so that's not much of a factor anyway. Nature over nurture. Nurture over nature. Checkmate? Stalemate? Let's not go down this road, folks. Her parents, biological or environmental, are not the topic at hand.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 14:21:49 GMT -5
Was II ever considered for the NWA Title or was that always Wrestling I? Neither. The NWA had strict rules on not allowing masked wrestlers to carry the title. This was so audiences wouldn't/couldn't get conned into attending a show promoting the NWA champ and it end up being someone else under the mask. Honestly, as great as both were, neither were NWA champ material anyway. II was better than I, but both were in more of the "Arn Anderson" territory than they were "Ric Flair/Harley Race"
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 13:14:49 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 13:07:46 GMT -5
And for that matter, a lot of us still call Impact "TNA"
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 12:41:26 GMT -5
The big one.... WWF not WWE. (I am used to the latter, but I'd be stunned if there weren't people who felt otherwise) Guilty. It's still tough for me to remember to go with WWE a lot of the time. I still insist on referring to it as the WWF when I'm discussing something from that time period.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 12:19:38 GMT -5
He was a very popular star in the 70's and into the 80's. There haven't been nearly as many American masked wrestlers come along since his heyday. What's amazing about that is that his best/biggest time in the business came after he had already retired. He originally started without a mask in 1955 and officially retired in 1964 after almost a decade in the business. About 3-4 years later, that turned into a semi-retirement as he started doing a few matches again here and there in the local area for the next five years. Only in '72, eight years after he retired did he take up the Wrestling 2 gimmick and had his big 12-year run.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 2:25:06 GMT -5
- Really odd to see Billy Jack do the singles match and the tag. Wonder if someone no-showed. - On that note, almost 40 minutes of Billy Jack Haynes in one night is a crime against humanity - I can't imagine the MSG crowd took to Outback Jack very well. Smart to keep that one short - The Shadows were Randy Culley (original Demolition Smash/Moondog Rex and a billion other gimmicks) and Jose Rivera (aka one of the Conquistadors) - Hogan/Race is something I need to see more matches of. - Very interesting card going on here. Siki, Colt and Sheik were all shot by 1987, but would have loved to see them on a card together. - Ricky Johnson is Rocky Johnson's brother, and Rock's uncle - Canadian Wildman is Dave McKigney. McKigney was most famous for adopting and training Terrible Ted, the wrestling bear. Later on, another bear Dave had escaped its cage and mauled McKigney's gf to death. Dave was also behind the wheel of the vehicle in the accident that took the lives of him, Adrian Adonis and Victor Arko. A tragic figure. - Eight of the wrestlers on this card are no longer with us and none died old. Sad. - This was after the Crockett buyout, so it's one of FOUR JCP cards this day. - The Sheepherders vs. the Mulkeys...ouch. - Tahitian Prince is Samu. - Arn Anderson having to carry 1987-era Kendall Windham prepped him for Erik Watts. - Fernandez/Petrov vs Garvin/Champion is so f'ing random - Lazertron = Gobbledy Gooker = Hector Guererro Results courtesy www.wrestlingdata.com
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 1:50:58 GMT -5
I have to give props to ROH for handling the pandemic much better than some of its contemporaries. Going through this so far, having to effectively close down for months and not releasing a single roster member is commendable on several fronts. I know there's been some rocky stuff in the past but you can only do better by going forward and, well, doing better.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 1:40:15 GMT -5
Well wishes on this special day for dragonbone! Hope you have a great birthday!
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 0:26:03 GMT -5
Wasn't there an Arnold Schwarzenegger cartoon that got pulled at the last moment because details of his affair came out? Yes, The Governator, produced by Stan Lee. Whole thing was scrapped a little less than two months after it got announced.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 13, 2020 23:05:19 GMT -5
Coincidentally enough, there are vinyl figures of the Showbiz Pizza "Rock-afire Explosion" characters coming out right now:
(I love that they included a second head to appeal to the FNAF crowd)
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 13, 2020 22:57:17 GMT -5
In '95, there was going to be a Youngblood cartoon and a Cyberforce cartoon produced by Roustabout Productions for Fox. Beyond one clip for YB, which was repurposed for action figure commercials, neither ever got made.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 13, 2020 21:56:59 GMT -5
I really hate the name "Big Show" and have only started using it in the last five years or so, sticking to Paul Wight mostly before that. Still hate it, but whatever.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 13, 2020 20:47:48 GMT -5
Watching WCW Uncensored 1996. Why would anyone care about a Chicago street fight in Tupelo, Mississippi? I thought the idea was "pick your city or something to do with the fans in attendance" street fight? The opposite, actually. What a Chicago Street Fight is selling (in theory) is the notion that people who have never seen a "Chicago street fight" what one looks like. People in Chicago would theoretically already be aware of what they're like.
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