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I knew Rico Constantino was older when he got his start and that his age apparently worked against him in the WWE, but I didn’t appreciate it how old he was when he debuted as Billy & Chuck’s stylist. He was 40. He’s older than Billy Gunn. Hell, he’s older than Shawn Michaels.
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LOVED Hakushi.
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Those rings had zero give. Everytime I watch stuff from that era I think of that. How are they not all crippled.
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They were incredibly stiff. First few times you get in one the next few days were hell...they were (and are) also huge. 5 steps to clear those cunts. Gotta hit the treadmill when youre working in a full sized. It makes a huge difference. To work at the pace they did in that match in a ring that size.. its impressive
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It would still be impressive in a 16 but in a 20 more so
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So apparently multiple sources are reporting the WWE tryouts in Nashville were such a disaster that they will be immediately going back to scouring the indy feds for talent. A bunch of people got injured. A lot of concussions. They've deemed it too risky to keep bringing in untrained people for further auditions.
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Kind of a good news/bad news thing there. Sucks a bunch of people got injured but it's great to hear they are going back to picking up people from the indies that at least have some idea of what they are actually doing.
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What the fuck are they even making these people do in the tryouts that there are multiple concussions? I would think a tryout would consist of cardio and strength tests. Maybe some flat back bumps.
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Yeah, I don’t know what is going on there. I don’t think going back to the indies is necessarily a good thing either. Standout talent, sure, there are lot of bad habits picked up there that kind of got carried into WWE proper.
I think they would be better off having numerous training camps and sending some talent abroad. They seem to be trialing that with Ben Buchanan & Josh Briggs, yeah? I have no clue why they haven’t worked out something with Tom Prichard’s school yet. Send talent to approved indies. |
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Rings will punch you in the back of the head for sure. i doubt anyone is doing anything with another person day 1. "It aint ballet" and all that
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Going back to the indies is about the worst thing they can do though. There's basically no talent left on the indy scene. Trying to teach people with star potential to work is a much better idea
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They’re signing up freakish athletes. Some of the NXT guys are already doing spectacular things, but they can also have the mindset of someone who has competed at high levels. Teach them the fundamentals and psychology of wrestling and they’ll wash out your average indy level worker. |
There's an issue thats unique to modern wrestling though in that there are two audiences. 1 hates the other and the other doesn't know the one that hates them exist. And they enjoy basically the opposite things. The die hard/smark VS the casual/non-fan/potential fan.
The problem is now you're searching for a Unicorn. Someone with credibility to pull eyeballs from a disinterested potential/non-viewer and who can cross the isle and get over with the die hard audience. And this gets even more difficult when that core base realizes the guy is over 10% of them will turn on him and spend every waking hour trying to turn other against him too. I genuinely dont know how to keep a guy over in this era and there's not enough bodies to refresh this cycle every 3 years. |
I think a mixture of both is the best way to go. So long as you're being selective. Pick experienced guys from outside WWE that aren't completely indyriffic and can actually work, like they did during the height of NXT.
Pick college athletes that actually take it seriously and aren't just looking at it as a stepping stone to be tv stars or whatever the fuck. I can't see a whole roster of green rookies improving very fast if they're only facing eachother. Mix them with some more experienced indy guys who don't use a Canadian Destroyer as a transitional move, and I think you'll get better results. |
Yeah, someone here said it before (and got ridiculed for it), take talent where you can get it.
If there’s guys on the indies that you see potential in, sign them. If there’s colleague prospects/crossover athletes that you see potential in, sign them. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive. I can see guys like Thatcher, Burch, etc being brought back in if only to work with the greener talent to get them where they need them to be. |
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We're trying to help someone get a blimphausen, that's why.
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Lol Oh yeah! That was the direct response after I first started calling Noid out. Monumental occasion. There’s a really weird running theme that developed at that point where after he or his underling get their bullshit exposed they jump to a different thread and try to start an odd nonsensical argument to “even the score” or something. I don’t know if it’s a tactic they’ve discussed or if it just happens to be a natural defense mechanism for their “kind”.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Puppet pulled a gun on Jeff Jarrett 20 years ago today. <a href="https://t.co/thBjArs2ql">pic.twitter.com/thBjArs2ql</a></p>— Garrett Kidney (@garrettkidney) <a href="https://twitter.com/garrettkidney/status/1553805442081587205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Lol so bad ass
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Meng was so badass.... the thing is, I remember him mostly losing. Just the way he was and the way the commentators talked about him I always took him as a "legit threat" and was always thinking this was gonna be a tough one for whatever babyface was fighting him
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Other random WCW memory that may or may not be real: I distinctly remember Lex Luger having endless matches with The Giant, and every match Luger would pick him up in the torture rack, and every match Schiavone would yell "He just picked up The Giant!!! No one has ever picked up The Giant before!!!!"
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The lame “projecting” fallback. Same one he tried when I pointed out him being a cringey brown-noser.
Excellent posts on this page by XL, BTW! :lol: |
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There's a difference between making it out to be impressive and literally saying it was the first time, every time.
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That had to hurt, right on sheiks face :eek: |
Oof.
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YES!
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MULKEYMANIA RUNNIN WILD HELL YEAH BORTHER
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