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Post by The Barber on Jul 13, 2018 4:50:26 GMT -5
Was Lawler a face when he lost his?
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Post by The Barber on Jul 13, 2018 4:48:47 GMT -5
Dixie Carter.
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 19:38:54 GMT -5
Why? Paul was a notorious liar and frequently bounced checks. Why have loyalty to him when he didn't have it with you?
Are you telling this to Ric Flair in 1992, too?
Awesome could have said "Look Paul, you don't want your belt going vacant, but you can't pay me the rest of what you owe me. Pay me what you can and I'll drop the belt to Rhino before I head out." Like I said earlier, why should he? I'm not showing up to my job if they aren't paying me.
Flair actually got fired while he was the champion by some moron, and had some ownership of the physical Big Gold Belt. He was perfectly in the right to force WCW's hand to get his deposit back. Awesome could have said "Look Paul, you don't want your belt going vacant, but you can't pay me the rest of what you owe me. Pay me what you can and I'll drop the belt to Rhino before I head out." ECW was born out of a belt being vacant, Paul could figure something out pretty quick on how to proceed. Heyman would have already been working out ten different potential angles to go with to maximize the fallout. Paul didn't give a crap that the title lineage had some asterisks in it, he was a story man. The story mattered, not the statistics. The only people who hold to this as the reason to be angry at Awesome...are the fans. The only people that despise Mike Awesome because he disrespected the ECW title are the fans. Period. And Heyman knew that and Heyman, being the guerilla warfare guy he is, played on that. It helped his narrative, nothing more. Here's how this works out in the real world: *A Phone Rings* "Mister Johnson, it's Tom Dole. I just called to let you know I started a new job at the McDonald's down the road yesterday, so I'll be quitting here." "But why?" "Well, because they will actually pay me." "But I made you Employee of the Month!" "Yes, but you haven't paid me in months." "Okay, fine. Well, at least come in today so you can work a full shift, give the keys over and train the new hire on how to use the grill. You owe me that. You owe our customers that. You...hello? Hello?" Exactly. |
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 19:34:42 GMT -5
Haku/Andre?
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 7:27:57 GMT -5
Bowling.
When I was younger, I could bowl a game that would make Al Bundy and Roy Munson envious. Now, I'd make Mr. Burns look like Walter Sobchak.
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 7:15:56 GMT -5
Damn it! There’s a whole lot of jibber jabber going on in here, but still no one answered my question about Antarctic pancakes. Frozen waffles. |
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 6:56:46 GMT -5
The early, pre-Tacoma Raw reaction to WCW, with everything they were doing getting face pops and their wrestlers, from DDP on down, getting cheered. It’s still unfathomable to me how it all went wrong thanks to one hostile crowd in a market that wasn’t traditional WCW territory in the first place. I still think that WCW was sunk under the very first sign of failure. Vince's ego is too fragile to want WCW to succeed. |
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 6:48:03 GMT -5
If my checks kept bouncing and constantly being lied to, I'd go in the middle of the night, too. If I'm him I'm telling Heyman I'm going, then dropping the belt on my way out. Why? Paul was a notorious liar and frequently bounced checks. Why have loyalty to him when he didn't have it with you?
Are you telling this to Ric Flair in 1992, too?
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 6:45:35 GMT -5
WWE is seen as a valuable commodity to advertisers due to its large and stable fan Base. *pfft* Since when? |
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Post by The Barber on Jul 10, 2018 6:19:22 GMT -5
Hearing that he somehow betrayed the locker room by going to WCW is asinine. Imagine going someplace to earn money and not have to have it written into your contract a "bounced check" clause. Almost anybody else in ECW would have done the same thing, and I think most did. Ya, but compare the way Lance left, to the way Awesome left. Both left for the same reason, but one handled it way more professionally then the other. Lance went to Paul, said you breached my contract, I consider it null and void. I will continue to work for you, but I will be exploring my options to leave. Awesome showed up on Nitro, without telling anyone in advance. Dick move If my checks kept bouncing and constantly being lied to, I'd go in the middle of the night, too. |
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Post by The Barber on Jul 8, 2018 3:22:17 GMT -5
The fifth season was alright, but NOWHERE near as good as the first four. It had a decent remix of the theme.
But Hogan on the A-Team? Possibly, but I highly doubt it.
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Post by The Barber on Jul 8, 2018 3:06:55 GMT -5
Vince would continue to go all-in on Lesnar and Roman Reigns to spite the smark hecklers in the balcony. Statler: You know that Roman Vs Jinder match wasn't half bad! Waldorf: Really? Statler: Yeah, it was all bad! Both: Doh ho ho ho ho ho ho!  |
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 6:17:39 GMT -5
When they used to tape Smackdown in Florence, SC all the time, it was only referred to as South Carolina on TV all the time... I was in my state's geography bee in middle school (autographs are $20, line to the right please) and there's no way Florence is a real place in South Carolina *looks at autograph*
You misspelled my name...AND YOURS, TOO!
But seriously, this ain't new and I'm not shocked by this. I guess Vince doesn't want to seem 'small time'.
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 6:16:12 GMT -5
When watching the news, hearing about DDT and it's effects on insects really made me confused. 'How can you put the DDT on a bee?' I would ask myself.
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 6:01:11 GMT -5
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 5:55:05 GMT -5
Jackson *to Cena*:
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 5:48:23 GMT -5
It's hard to believe due to how terribly mishandled the Invasion was but Vince McMahon legitimately wanted to recreate WCW in his own vision and he truly wanted it to succeed. He was ready to give the RAW timeslot to WCW programming and make Smackdown the WWE's flagship show. The Buff Bagwell debacle helped put an end to those plans but I do remember this episode of Smackdown that aired the same week as that match and both were pretty solid. I find it tough to believe that he truly wanted it to succeed when one bad match with a guy who wasn't known for being a great worker completely derailed all their plans. Yeah they didn't have many big names but really there were plenty of other solid hands that could have filled Bagwell's spot. Hell he could have asked any one of the Radicalz who was going to put on a good match. Then there's the bit that was mentioned above about them not waiting one week until they were in Atlanta, the home of WCW where even a mediocre match would likely be cheered. Seriously though, to write off an entire company off the back of Buff Bagwell? Vince couldn't have been that committed. I don't buy that story, either. It doesn't make sense. |
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 5:47:56 GMT -5
Wasn't there a rumor that the Jackass guys were gonna be apart of it?
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 5:40:55 GMT -5
Pfft. You amateurs don't know shit. Most people know that America got their independence when Hulk Hogan body slammed the 10,000 pound Andre The Giant into the Boston Harbor, creating a wave big enough to wash the crown off of the king's head. Realizing that the power of (the then unnamed) Hulkamania couldn't be stopped (an unstoppable force, if you will...oops, wrong person), the king admitted defeat and the rest is (revisionist) history, brother!
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Post by The Barber on Jul 6, 2018 5:27:20 GMT -5
George Reeves, the actor most famous for starring as Superman in the 1950’s television series ‘The Adventures of Superman,’ also tried his hand as a professional wrestler. He wrestled briefly between 1957 and 1958 and was said to not be very good.
Chavo Guerrero Jr. is the “fight coordinator” or the wrestling trainer for all the actors in the Netflix television series ‘GLOW.’ His uncle Mando Guerrero filled the same role as Chavo Jr back in the 1980’s for the original GLOW wrestling show that the Netflix series is based on.
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The World Wrestling Council is the oldest active wrestling promotion on the island of Puerto Rico having been established in 1973. It is run most notably by WWE Hall of Famer Carlos Colon. There was another WWE Hall of Famer who helped found the WWC. Gorilla Monsoon, along with Colon and Victor Jovica created Capitol Sports Promotions, which was later renamed the World Wrestling Council. Monsoon eventually sold off his shares of the Puerto Rican promotion to work for the WWF full time.
By winning New Japan’s IWGP Intercontinental title in June of 2018, Chris Jericho became the first and currently only wrestler to win both IWGP and WWE Intercontinental championships.
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Just six days after winning the WWF title in the infamous Montreal Screwjob….Shawn Michaels defended his newly won title against the Brooklyn Brawler at Madison Square Garden. The match lasted 15 minutes and HBK needed outside interference from both Chyna and Triple H to win.
Speaking of Shawn Michaels, his cousin wrestled tryouts for both WCW and the WWE and also wrestled for ECW, Ring of Honor and TNA. His name is Matt Bentley…better known as ‘Michael Shane’ from TNA.
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In 2009, WWE Magazine posted a letter from a fan named Dylan Miley who said his girlfriend broke up with him because he attended ECW’s One Night Stand pay per view in New York City in 2005 instead of being with her for her birthday. Dylan Miley would later become known as ‘Lars Sullivan’ in WWE’s NXT brand.
Good Ol’ Jim Ross is always associated with the great state of Oklahoma. The truth is, Ross was not originally from the Sooner state. Jim Ross was born in Fort Bragg, California and lived there mostly until he was in the fourth grade. It was then that JR and his family moved permanently to Westville, Oklahoma.
Beth Phoenix is the youngest inductee into the WWE’s Hall of Fame. She was inducted in 2017 at the age of 36.
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For instance, Shawn Stasiak was a former 15 time WWE Hardcore Champion. All of his 15 title reigns combined, do not even equal a full day as champion. To be more specific, Stasiak’s title reigns added up to less than one hour of total time.
Bret Hart’s first ever match was against Dennis Stamp.
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Legendary fitness guru Jack Lalanne was a professional wrestler in 1938 in the San Francisco territory. He wasn’t very good and eventually quit.
Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch once auctioned off her breast implants on ebay for $11,000. The person who won the auction never paid the money and they were never sold.
Trish Stratus received contract offers from both WCW and ECW…before making the decision to sign with WWE in 1999.
Ricky Morton of the Rock N Roll Express tag team has a tattoo of the WWE logo on his calf and reads ‘WWE Hall of Famer.’
The current oldest living pro wrestling personality in the United States is the former voice of World Class Championship Wrestling…Bill Mercer at 92 years old. Behind him, is wrestler ‘Cowboy’ Bob Ellis at 89 years of age. Ellis is also known as the innovator of the bulldog wrestling maneuver. Also, in case you were wondering who the oldest pro wrestler of all time was…it was Abe Coleman who lived until 101 years old.
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