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I've always wanted to get into watching WCW from like 96-99. I was always pro WWF so I didn't get into the Monday Night Wars as much.

I'd love to write for a site where I could review old episodes of wrestling and give them grades in the same way that writers grade the shows we see now

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Originally Posted by Jordan X (Post 5201483)

Watched Slamboree 95 which I don't think I had ever seen (strange because I'm a huge WCW fan) last night. The Renegade boggles the mind. I then watched Great American Bash 95 afterwards with an AMAZING Ric Flair/Randy Savage WHC match. Really good.

I was just talking to Newstead about this last night. I want to go back and do a WCW Nitro/PPV watch from mid 95 until the end of the year. It's just so awful.

Hogan had plans to bring in the guy who bought the name rights to Gorgeous George in 95 so he could say he pinned Gorgeous George. Hogan was out of control that year.

I feel like Hogan was out of control from like 95-97. Maybe I'm wrong

At least once he started with the NWO it wasn't consistently cringe worthy like 1995. There's sooooo much there.

Watching the 2004 draft lottery.

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Originally Posted by Jordan X (Post 5201483)

Flair vs Savage in late 95 early 96 was pretty awesome

Don't know if you can call Nancy Sullivan a wrestler. Brie was actually part of the division.

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Originally Posted by Woken Anthony (Post 5201503)

Watching the 2004 draft lottery.

One of my favorite RAWs as a kid.

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Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5201508)

Don't know if you can call Nancy Sullivan a wrestler. Brie was actually part of the division.

Her in ring career was short, but she did wrestle.

Also, Nancy Sullivan is one of the most under appreciated hot broads in wrestling

Leading cause of her underappreciation as a hot braud is her not being hot

She was fucking hott as Robin Green during that angle with Rick Steiner

Like, if you’re judging her based on the Monday Night War period, then yeah. I don’t know if she was doing lots of drugs and it just caught up to her but she wasn’t nearly as hot by that time. Before though? She was a smoke show.

I wonder why Trish never did Playboy because she was probably the hottest woman back in the day.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201536)

I wonder why Trish never did Playboy because she was probably the hottest woman back in the day.

Class

As if kissing Vince really oozes class.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201536)

I wonder why Trish never did Playboy because she was probably the hottest woman back in the day.

I'm sure she said she was asked to once but declined because she wanted to be remembered for her wrestling and it turns out she was right to do so.

Also....

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Originally Posted by Destor (Post 5201543)

Class

She didn't have a problem with kissing someone on screen who's prolly older than her father but she did have an issue with dropping clothes for a magazine.

Franco, you strike me as a hate-filled individual. Explain why you're so angry all the time and why you love to shit on everyone.

Most of those don’t look bad at all. At worst they’re landing where they would for a German Suplex.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201548)

She didn't have a problem with kissing someone on screen who's prolly older than her father but she did have an issue with dropping clothes for a magazine.

She began her career as a fitness model and like many other women at the time, she had to make some compromises (the whole Vince ordeal) to further her career.

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I think almost all divas in that era had kissed Vince at least once on screen

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Originally Posted by Gerard (Post 5201557)

Great chokeslam. Vader was the best.

I heard that they have banned Curb Stomp again and I support this because half of the audience of WWE today is kids and you wouldn’t want them to do moves like Curb Stomp or piledrivees etc which could result in serious injuries or even death.

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Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 5201558)

Most of those don’t look bad at all. At worst they’re landing where they would for a German Suplex.

Look at the first one, he knees himself in the face he lands so awkwardly from it. Plus you're being driven down with more vertical force than you would be on a German suplex. The one at 45 seconds was a precursor to a powerbomb that damaged that guys back. Though considering how he landed it would surprise me if the chokeslam didn't already injure him, the powerbomb basically folds him in half.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201583)

If they were to ban all moves that could potentially cause serious injury there wouldn't be much left.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201583)

Kids are going to do moves regardless of what type of era of wrestling they watch. If they go back and watch Raw's from like 94-99, they are going to be doing pile drivers, bad looking Germans, VaderBombs from the top of roofs...etc.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201569)

I think almost all divas in that era had kissed Vince at least once on screen

The way Stephanie was booked at the time, especially during her tenure as the general manager of Smackdown, there's nothing off the table. Even a storyline where she's impregnated by either Vince or Shane.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201583)

I don't think it is banned. It was refreshing to see him with the Superplex / Falcon Arrow combo.

WWE programming would be more interesting if performers were to win matches with their secondary finishers every once in a while.

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Classic AJPW/Early Noah was the way to go. 2 or 3 moves that could be match Enders but didn’t necessarily do so every time they land. Then have one move that is a one hit kill, but only gets brought out for the big matches.

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Originally Posted by Reverend David (Post 5201432)

He does have some quirks. I am fairly new to his podcast. What's your take on it, Noid?

I don't trust his take at all. It sounds very "worked." A lot of the stuff he says makes no sense, and he throws people who were telling the truth under the bus.

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Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5201440)

All wrestling podcasts are too long

I would listen to a wrestling podcast if it was like 5-10 minutes. It shouldn't take someone the length of RAW to explain why they disliked RAW. Just give me the scoops and thoughts as bullet points plz.

That's a fair take, but I honestly prefer listening to Bryan Alvarez lose his shit ranting each week than actually watching Raw. That says something about the product.

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Originally Posted by Jordan X (Post 5201444)

Bruce is entertaining in doses. Listing to multiple episodes burns me out on him. I actually enjoy Bischoff but he is so incorrect about a lot of things that burns me out as well. Tony is great but again, feeling burnt out since Starcast. I enjoy E&C, Austin and Jericho with a good guest and I listen to almost all the F4W Empire shows. Big fan of the new Pacific Rim podcast they have on there. The only recap shows I can listen to are from F4W or if Austin does a recap episode with Kellar, Metlzer or JR.

Bischoff is just a cunty liar. It's fair enough you enjoy those wrestling podcasts, but something about it just humanizes and gentrifies the personalities so much.

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Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 5201445)

Ahahaahahahaha

Watching Osamu Nishimura vs Minoru Suzuki now. They do the common early match spot where they go into the ropes in the lock up and one guy pats the guys chest after the clean break. But in this case after Osamu pats his chest Suzuki immediately bitch slaps him, and then spits on him.

Suzuki fucking rules.

Suzuki is the best thing in the world right now. One of the hardest things I have with puroresu, and this is just my personal take, is that they do these sort of routine things that play out as real cliches that kind of sacrifice fight psychology, which to me, is part of the big draw of Japanese wrestling.

For example: I hate that they always psyche up and do the forearm exchanges. I was just watching random New Japan matches and it happened in every single one of them. It would appeal to me more if it were just a few people whose gimmick it was to really love getting hit in the head -- whether it's to psyche their opponent out, or just prove how tough they are, whatever. Like, Ishii doing it, or Goto with the right opponent. But I don't need to see Tanahashi doing it with Ibushi, you know?

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Originally Posted by The Midnight Gertner (Post 5201462)

The weekly podcast that I always listen to (Between the Sheets) is between 5-8 hours long.

I also listen to Cornette's podcasts plus Stick to Wrestling and a bi weekly podcast. On a given week I listen to around 10-12 hours of podcasts a week.

I do listen to Cornette's pretty religiously now. I stopped for a while (no idea why), but he's such an amazing orator with some great takes. Still one of the sharpest minds in wrestling and the internet has no idea.

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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez (Post 5201583)

Or stomp them like Bryan does, or do a German suplex, or a Pedigree, or a Boston crab, or a DDT, or a headscissors, or a Coquina Clutch, or a Coupe de Grace...

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Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 5201519)

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Sure guy

Yeah, I would.

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Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5201610)

I like Ishii's think with Macabe and sometimes Goto, where they'd just clothesline each other. It reminds me of two rams headbutting each other. But Suzuki's version of that is so great. He takes the shot, sells, then pops straight up, even laughing at times. And his laugh is so disturbing. And it doesn't hurt (heh) that his forearms tend to have an extra snap on them that make them look that much more devastating.

Nothing wrong with exchanges. Its over.

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Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 5201609)

Monday night raw during the 90’s did the his at times. Like even with outside interference, a wrestler would hit a random Russian leg sweep and get the 3. That’s why when Rollins hit the superplex/Falcon Arrow combo I was like WTF. More matches need to end that way

Strike exchanges are tied to the concept of "fighting spirit" which is a big part of Japanese culture.

I prefer strong style over everything (which is why Ishii, Goto, and Suzuki are my favorites from the current crop of NJPW) so I don't get tired of them.

What bothers me is them doing the "19 count" spot way too often.

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July 15, 2002 Continental Airlines Arena (is that a city?)

• Before the Raw opening (remember those?) we start with Paul Heyman talking to The Undertaker backstage where it's announced that the main event tonight is The Undertaker/Brock Lesnar vs Rob Van Dam/Ric Flair.

During this segment, Undertaker mentions how he makes people famous so I think that's where it all began (I remember the whole "I'll make you famous" thing).

• The Raw opening finishes and we see where we are and for some reason we're just shown the name of the arena and not the city and state like we usually are, although last week we were just shown the name of the city and no state.

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Maybe next week it'll be the name of the street?

• We start with the nWo's theme blasting out but Vince comes out instead.

SPOILER: show

It was actually weird seeing Vince come out with nWo's theme and entrance and I actually can't remember that from back in the day.

Anyway, Vince grabs a mic and announces that we've just heard the nWo theme for the last time and that the nWo are officially over (probably because Nash's quad exploded last week).

Vince says that the WWE have to move with the times and that's why he's going to announce new GM's for Raw and SmackDown, with Raw's GM being announced within the hour.

Vince's promo did leave me wondering what the original plan was with the nWo and Triple H, with the nWo trying to get Triple H to join them. Was Triple H going to join them? Was Triple H going to say no and be involved in an angle that pitted him on his own against all of the nWo?

We'll just never know.

Unless someone does know.

• The first match is a six-man elimination match (I love elimination matches, especially unexpected ones like this).

It's a shame this doesn't really happen these days. Both elimination matches and unexpected "special matches" on Raw.

It's Jeff Hardy/Bubba/Spike vs William Regal/Chris Benoit/Eddie Guerrero.

- Eddie eliminated Spike

- Bubba eliminated himself via DQ

- Jeff eliminated Regal

- Jeff eliminated Eddie

- Regal returns and hits Jeff with the brass knucks and Benoit eliminates Jeff via KO whilst applying the Crippler Crossface.

It was a fun match that I actually enjoyed. I would actually love to see more of that kind of stuff on Raw these days.

• Later backstage we see Tommy Dreamer talking to Rob Van Dam and then after RVD leaves, Steven Richards appears and challenges Dreamer to a Singapore Cane Match which Dreamer accepts (another unexpected "special match" happening on Raw, I might add).

We return from a break and Richards' music hits and the match is now.

At one point during the match, Richards hits Dreamer over the neck with a cane and the impact looks pretty brutal, along with the extremely loud "SNAP" noise the cane made when it came into contact with Dreamer's neck.

SPOILER: show

Later in the match I actually thought Richards had won after this:

SPOILER: show

But Dreamer kicked out.

Right after it, Dreamer smacked Richards over the head with a cane and the cane just exploded on impact and made a "SNAP" noise that was ten times louder than the "SNAP" noise I mentioned earlier.

SPOILER: show

Dreamer won and was left like this:

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It was actually a fun match to watch which Richards totally dominated. I think we're getting to the point where Richards debuts a new theme and that it'll be his last WWE theme, as backstage with Dreamer earlier and during the match, Richards kept saying "You'll see!".

At the moment, Richards is using Kronik's Theme that's a remake of "Love Dump" by Static-X, so I'm sure it won't be long before he's using Jim Johnston's remake of it.

• After the match we see Booker T and The Coach comes to ask him about his match tonight and by the end of the interview Booker makes The Coach do a "Coacharoonie".

SPOILER: show

After it, Lawler asks if Coach is Caucasian and not long after that, Booker asks Coach "are you sure you're black, dawg?".

Booker is ending his promo in his usual way but stops as we see Eric Bischoff appear.

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• After the break we see Vince come out to no music who then introduces Eric Bischoff as the new Raw GM.

Bischoff comes out and we see a series of small memorable moments that together create a big historic moment that I'm sure we all remember so vividly.

SPOILER: show

- The Hug

- The Handshake

- Bischoff's Thumbs-Up

- Vince Raising Bischoff's Arm

JR's deadpan commentary during that was great though:

Lawler: I used to sit in the same broadcast booth every Monday night with Vince when he would wish death upon Eric Bischoff and now they're hugging each other, look at this!

JR: They're probably picking each other's pockets.

and

JR: I've got twenty-five years in the business and it comes down to where Eric Bischoff is my new boss. My God, am I lucky fat Oklahoman.

I do want to mention Bischoff's theme and that on the WWE Network, it's been dubbed.

I've seen clips of this moment on the internet and it's always shown Bischoff coming out to "Back in Black" by AC/DC, but I honestly can't remember Bischoff coming out to that theme when I first watched it back in 2002.

I remember him coming out to his "I'm Back" theme and for years I always wondered why I remembered him coming out to that theme when in fact, he came out to "Back in Black", as shown by the numerous amounts of videos of that moment that have appeared on the Internet since then.

Well, I've done some research and it turns out that I'm not going crazy or anything like that, as apparently, Bischoff coming out to "Back in Black" was only ever seen by North American audiences, as they watched it live.

Back in 2002, Raw was still being shown on Friday nights here in the UK and in the UK showing (and pretty much every other country), his theme was dubbed with his "I'm Back" theme.

It's taken me sixteen years to find that out.

I don't know what to do with my life now.

Anyway, bad attempts at comedy aside, it's back to Raw and Bischoff enters the ring and delivers his promo, a promo I remember mostly for the fact that Bischoff always had his back to the hard camera, so we got a cameraman in the ring instead and we saw the crowd behind the announce table for the longest time ever.

• Later in the show we're at ringside with JR and Lawler and JR announces the death of Jimmy (as JR called him) Miranda who was a WWE employee who recently passed away.

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I can't remember WWE employees who aren't wrestlers or other on-screen talent getting this kind of treatment when they've died but I actually think he's the only WWE employee to get this treatment, so I'm assuming that he was either very important within the company or his death was very tragic.

• Hardcore Championship match now and it's Bradshaw vs Chris Nowinski.

Bradshaw comes out with his new "Texas Hardcore Championship" (but it's not referenced as that on TV) and in reality, it's just a toy replica of the Smoking Skull Championship with a Texas flag sticker and bull horns on it.

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The match starts and it quickly ends up backstage (I always liked it when Hardcore Matches would go backstage).

Bradshaw then attempts to murder Nowinski by jamming his head in a crate, however, as that was happening, Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli appears from the world's most pointless door and whacks Bradshaw over the head with a plank of wood and pins Bradshaw to become the new Hardcore Champion.

SPOILER: show

When Stamboli appeared, JR said "Wait! There's that Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli!" and Lawler said "Who's that!?".

I also can't remember Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli having this funky techno number as his theme:

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We all know the WWE loves stereotypes, so it surprises me that Stamboli was given this theme as it sounds more "Stereotypical Australian" than "Stereotypical Italian (American)".

• After that we see Big Show enter Bischoff's room and he asks him to make a match at Vengeance between himself and Booker T and Bischoff does so and that is Bischoff's first WWE match that he made.

During the segment, Bischoff accidentally called Big Show "Giant".

A break happens and when we return we're still with Bischoff but he's talking to Stamboli who is trying to cut a promo but keeps struggling to deliver his lines.

Bradshaw then appears from nowhere and pretty much decapitates Stamboli and takes the Hardcore Championship back.

SPOILER: show

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July 18, 2002 - Wilkes-Barre, PA

• We start right from the opening pyro with Chris Jericho vs John Cena.

Was Cena's nickname at this time "The Rookie"?

I ask because ever since Cena debuted, Micheal Cole has always called him "The Rookie" or "This Rookie" but even though at this time Cena was a rookie and Cole is right by calling him so, it's just the amount of times Cole uses "Rookie" during Cena's matches is crazy.

It's almost constant.

During this match against Jericho, Cole used "Rookie" about three times in quick succession so I decided to count how many times he would say "Rookie" when referencing Cena and by the end of the match, Cole said "Rookie" ten times and it was a really short match as Jericho got himself DQ'd.

I might actually have a "Micheal Cole Rookie Count" or whatever during Cena's matches from now on.

• Anyways, after that we see Marc Lloyd outside waiting for the new SmackDown GM and a white limo pulls up and inside is Bischoff.

• The Hurricane vs Chavo Guerrero now and it's a short match which Chavo wins after making The Hurricane tap out to a STF (when was the last time someone won a match with a STF?) and after the match, Chavo grabs a mic and challenges Rey Mysterio Jr. to have his debut match in the WWE be against him.

• After that we see a black limo driving up backstage and Tazz says "Does anybody take a taxi anymore?".

Inside it's Vince and he tells Marc Lloyd that the new GM may already be inside the arena.

• A break finishes as we see Bischoff backstage talking to Rico.

Rico gives Bischoff his card and tells him that if he ever needs his services then not to hesitate to call him. After seeing that, my first thought was "so that's how 3-Minute Warning began".

Bischoff then leaves and he comes across Vince and the two talk but they don't say anything noteworthy.

• It's Billy & Chuck vs Hardcore Holly & The Big Valbowski and this match is basically a "Velocity Match" as the "mini-tron" was displaying the Velocity graphics and the arena lighting was changed to green.

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At first I thought it was a mistake with the "mini-tron" and Cole claiming that it was to advertise the "hot new show" that is Velocity was just a cover-up for the botch, as it was obvious by the sound of Cole's audio that his audio was recorded later.

Then I saw that the arena lighting was green too and I thought, "oh, maybe it wasn't a mistake after all and it is just one big advertisement for Velocity".

But then I realised that I'd been had when I saw this:

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Micheal Cole and Tazz aren't at the announce table, yet I'm hearing them call the match.

It turns out that this match is an actual match from Velocity that's being shown on SmackDown and being portrayed as being a "SmackDown Match".

What's going on?

I can only guess why Vince & Co. decided to edit in a Velocity match on SmackDown and pretend that it's happening on SmackDown and so many reasons are flying around my head that I can't really name them all, as I'd be typing forever.

Anyway, Hardcore Holly & The Big Valbowski won and after that, Valbowski's old "Val Venis Theme" played instead of the theme he had when he was "The Big Valbowski".

• We get another "Extreme Blast Of The Night" but this time those top notch 2002 graphics have changed slightly (they added the "Tower of Power" logo and some confetti).

SPOILER: show

The "Extreme Blast of the Night" was just Hogan & Edge saving Rikishi from Lance Storm, Christian and Test.

• Later backstage we see The Rock warming up in his locker room and Eric Bischoff comes in and tries to sign him to Raw but The Rock refuses.

The Rock says that when he becomes Undisputed Champion at Vengeance, he can go on any show he wants.

He can go on Raw, SmackDown, The Osbournes, The Sopranos and he then says he could even "go on Frasier and kick him right in the nuts if he wanted do".

That line got a big laugh from Cole & Tazz.

The Rock then does an impression of Frasier and also of himself kicking Frasier in the nuts.

SPOILER: show

• After a break, Vince McMahon comes out to announce Stephanie McMahon as the new SmackDown GM and out comes a very young looking Stephnaie.

SPOILER: show

It's crazy that she was only 25 at that time.

Stephanie takes the mic and she even sounds young.

It's actually quite jarring.

Listening to her talk, she actually sounds like a female. She has a very "feminine voice" whereas now, her voice is quite deep in comparison.

It's mad.

Stephanie ends her promo by saying that she is going to throw Bischoff out of the arena and the camera follows her through the Gorilla Position and my how the Gorilla Position has changed.

SPOILER: show

Back then, it's so small and dimly lit that it actually resembles a crack den.

Jimmy Miranda as in the one mentioned by the Warrior in his Hall of Fame Speech. The Warrior Award stolen from him.

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From what I've read House Show attendance has dropped the last year. The average show seems to do around 1,500 - 2,000 people in attendance now, compared from 3,000 -- 5,000 in years past. #WWE #RAW #SDLive

Ticket prices too high or a reflection on the current product?

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Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 5201151)

Seems like there is "no point" to that move.... Does pushing him in the air do anything to make the "impact" of the move more "punishing"? Wouldn't it just have the same "impact" as if he just did his flip in the right spot?

I think it would hurt a bit less since landing at a perpendicular angle would have more force than a 45 degree angle

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Originally Posted by Gerard (Post 5201629)

Remember when they had Tamina splash the girls on the most recent season of tough enough and 80% of them COMPLETELY no sold it while the other divas tried to talk it up?

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Originally Posted by Big Vic (Post 5201932)

Remember when they had Tamina splash the girls on the most recent season of tough enough and 80% of them COMPLETELY no sold it while the other divas tried to talk it up?

Never seen it but in the above clip i posted apparently it was edited and it explains something that came out of nowhere and explains the "do not disrespect me in my ring" speech.

When Big Show slaps Nick apparently there was an edit where he body slammed him, Nick popped up and no sold it then got that slap and took another slam and this time sold it. They just edited in a way that made the slap look like it happened for no reason.

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Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5201933)

He looks dumb as fuck.

His body looks 20-something, but his face looks well over 50.

His finisher should be a Stunner so he can kill his opponents with his razor-sharp shoulders.

Who knew Zelina Vega and Aliester Black were married..weird

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Originally Posted by Droford (Post 5202524)

Who knew Zelina Vega and Aliester Black were married..weird

Who knew who the fuck they were?

Lots of people, to be fair. lol

Everyone who reads /r/SquaredCircle

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Originally Posted by Reverend David (Post 5202534)

Everyone who reads /r/SquaredCircle

They banned me for the whole Roman Leukemia thing

I did find the fun memes on r/wrasslin though

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Originally Posted by Droford (Post 5202539)

They banned me for the whole Roman Leukemia thing

Why? You posted you were happy he got leukemia?

I had no idea about Black and Vega. Last I'd known, Black was in a long-term relationship with Isla Dawn dating back to before he signed with WWE and Vega was engaged to Austin Aries for ages up until earlier this year.

Lol they were definitely fucking in NXT well before getting out of their respective relationships. Such is life with dating in wrassling.

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Originally Posted by SixxT9 (Post 5202542)

Why? You posted you were happy he got leukemia?

I said it was a shame it took Roman getting leukemia to get him over as a face.

I mean, you're not wrong

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Originally Posted by Damian Rey 2.0 (Post 5202559)

I mean, you're not wrong

As much as I hate to admit it, he is right.

Still, kind of a shitty thing to say.

Still, glad we exist somewhere that saying that isn't a bannable offense.

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Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 5202561)

Still, glad we exist somewhere that saying that isn't a bannable offense.

True.

TPWW is pretty wild.

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5201814)

https://i.postimg.cc/htXktN9F/Raw-Logo.gif

July 15, 2002 Continental Airlines Arena (is that a city?)

SPOILER: show

Later in the match I actually thought Richards had won after this:

SPOILER: show

https://i.postimg.cc/28XZW9KF/Smack-Down-Logo.gif

July 18, 2002 - Wilkes-Barre, PA

SPOILER: show

• After a break, Vince McMahon comes out to announce Stephanie McMahon as the new SmackDown GM and out comes a very young looking Stephnaie.

SPOILER: show

Back then, it's so small and dimly lit that it actually resembles a crack den.

Can't imagine ever being this bored.

Here's Eric Bischoff giving a TED Talk.

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5202717)

100% spot on by Bischoff here.

TPWW Main page says Alexa Bliss is cleared to return to the ring!

RP guess the Hot Pant Suit Era is over

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5202717)

This aint about Turner at all.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5201814)

https://i.postimg.cc/htXktN9F/Raw-Logo.gif

July 15, 2002 Continental Airlines Arena (is that a city?)

SPOILER: show

I remember DDP saying "Make me famous" in 2001

I am guessing some aspects of it was used in the Faux DX reunion.

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5202678)

OK, cool.

Glad you can remember the 1st half of your forum name.

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Originally Posted by Black Widow (Post 5202940)

Glad you can remember the 1st half of your forum name.

Wow, this is one of the worst "comebacks" I've seen on tpww and that's saying quite a bit.

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5202717)

It's funny that I *just* saw this last night... I went down some sort of a rabbit hole with no discernible path to be calculated outside of YouTube algorithms and have no idea how it ended up on my screen. The vid before it was about music and the vid after was about an old episode of the Daily Show around when Stewart first took over from Kilborn. The whole "playlist" was just as random.

Black Widow is an irrelevant dumb shit.

remember when 'she' posted pictures of some other woman, said it was her, then said 'lol that was my friend i was playing a joke on her!'

i remember.

let's get to the next page, cause this loads forever

sixx what time is it in poland

finally sixx can live in peace

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Originally Posted by SixxT9 (Post 5202945)

Wow, this is one of the worst "comebacks" I've seen on tpww and that's saying quite a bit.

Y'all are nerds that discuss wrestling like it actually matters so y'all aren't worth giving a good comeback to.

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Originally Posted by Savio (Post 5202949)

Black Widow is an irrelevant dumb shit.

Thanks for getting off topic and making an irrelevant person part of the conversation.

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Originally Posted by Wehttam (Post 5203016)

remember when 'she' posted pictures of some other woman, said it was her, then said 'lol that was my friend i was playing a joke on her!'

i remember.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/a1...040d7f5118.gif

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Originally Posted by Black Widow (Post 5203032)

Thanks for getting off topic and making an irrelevant person part of the conversation.

............what?

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Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5203024)

sixx what time is it in poland

It's EST+6h.

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Originally Posted by Black Widow (Post 5202940)

Glad you can remember the 1st half of your forum name.

Thanks.

I always struggle with the last part though.

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Originally Posted by Wehttam (Post 5203016)

remember when 'she' posted pictures of some other woman, said it was her, then said 'lol that was my friend i was playing a joke on her!'

i remember.

https://i.postimg.cc/J0Qmb7PP/I-Still-Remember.gif

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Originally Posted by SixxT9 (Post 5203018)

let's get to the next page, cause this loads forever

I sorry. :(

I have been thinking about sorting my massive ramblings out, which will most likely start this Sunday when I watch Vengeance 2002.

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5203070)

I sorry. :(

I have been thinking about sorting my massive ramblings out, which will most likely start this Sunday when I watch Vengeance 2002.

It's cool. It was mostly the pics I guess.

I'm guessing it was the Bischoff ted talk being quoted 7 times.

Maybe this will bring back Poit.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Ultimate Warrior's no sell on Triple H's Pedigree will forever be funny! �� <a href="https://t.co/F8gaCCa0Ds">pic.twitter.com/F8gaCCa0Ds</a></p>— 90s WWE (@90sWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/90sWWE/status/1070450365013942272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5203214)

Please tell me he just went off-script. That would make it even funnier.

Look how Warrior's leg is twitching after he gets up. Pedigree just damaged his brain!!!

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Originally Posted by SixxT9 (Post 5203256)

Look how Warrior's leg is twitching after he gets up. Pedigree just damaged his brain!!!

Are you sure? This is Warrior we're talking about.

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Originally Posted by Vastardikai (Post 5203265)

Are you sure? This is Warrior we're talking about.

This was the turning point! This is when he went mental!

Ok. Ok. It was a combination of this and the years of taking cocaine to come up with his promos.