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    Well, look at the gimmicked ones Jarrett used all those years. It usually exploded on people's heads and made for a nice visual. This one takes a few shots before the back comes off.
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    I liked that in '97 WWE, at one point half the talent were stables. Hart Foundation, NOD, the Boriquas and the biker stable. Don't know if there was more, but that roster seemed pretty full of them at that point.
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    Didn't Jake have splinters of fiberglass in his skin as a result of that injury? Those are a bitch to deal with, and I can't imagine the kind of pain you'd get from that.
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    I guess they're finally realizing their over-reliance on NCIS reruns.
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    At the time, I liked that Nitro was 3 hours. I went to one of the first shows once they went up an hour, and it was a hot card. But the problem proved to be Thunder, an idea Bischoff was very opposed to from what I heard. A better idea probably would have been to ramp up the budget for the Saturday show on TBS. I have to be honest in that I'm very curious to how WWE will adjust their flagship show to three hours. It really could go either way, as long as they work more on what the show strong and not expose too much of their weaknesses. Or they could do what we all think they will, and we'll have a 3-segment Brodus Clay musical number to crow about.
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    I was completely blanking on that name lol
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    And that Rock was likely the last star to have had a start in Memphis, right as it was about to bite the dust.
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    Flair worked heel quite a bit in his Saturday Night match with Sting in August '93.
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    Turning them heel was good, I won't disagree with that. But I meant they should have just kept them apart and left the issue of a possible feud between the two on the back burner, possibly by putting LOD with another team like Power & Glory or HTM & Valentine.
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    I get that, too. It makes me hopeful if/when he has reigns on the creative direction, they scale back some of the sillier elements of today's product. And provided he knows to get out of the way and let someone else be The Game, but that's a pipe dream of epic proportions.
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    I'm sure it was a case of both of them being over him that got at him, and probably not a knock on Randy at all. It showed how little faith they had in the potential of WCW-grown talent had to carry the ball, and how infatuated Bischoff was with anybody who ever made money for Vince.
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    Their first mistake was letting Flair go heel, and putting them in a program against each other right off the bat. Putting him with Ric as friends/partners for awhile would probably have eased the more hardcore WCW audience into liking him. Eventually of course, Flair does the double cross and it gets them going in a hot angle. Savage coming back as a heel in that situation would have had it's own interesting trajectory, with Randy and Ric (maybe along with Arn and Vader as the new Horsemen) maybe going against Hogan and Sting primarily. It can't be said enough, how much Sting was screwed over by Hogan coming in. What Bret may have felt for those couple of months in '93 when Hulk came back and stole his spot, Sting had to have felt it for those first two years WCW was struggling to make Hogan their top good guy. All of which lent quite a bit of leverage to the character turn and angle he did in '96 and '97, re-inventing his character and becoming the top babyface opponent to the NWO
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    It could have well been that too, but it's also addressing the big elephant in the room. I watched the Barry Darsow shoot, and I agree that both teams could have had a bit more longevity if they didn't put the two of them right off the bat as they did in '90. It was probably done to ease Demolition out though, as it's been noted that Bill Eadie was having health problems. The comment I made about the outfits was along the lines that it was easy to think the Road Warriors were like these futuristic bikers, but quite a bit of Demolition's gear is easily identifiable with fetish gear, especially when they started wrestling in hoods for that brief period in Fall '90.
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    I'd like to think so, but I wouldn't be surprised if Bischoff canned him.
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    Pretty sure this was his first appearance.
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    I thought it was a bit darkly funny they gave Ed Leslie the Zodiac gimmick, considering that Brutus Beefcake's gimmick hometown was San Francisco.
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    I watched Cena/Lesnar last night for the first time, and I'm kind of mortified/depressed that the two young Cena marks weren't bawling their eyes out seeing John get destroyed.
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    It turned out to be a great run and team, but Demolition must have been an out-right spoof of the Road Warrior gimmick. Whoever came up with their wardrobe either had a pretty twisted sense of humor or looked in their own closets for inspiration.
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    I liked that aspect of the WCW/NWO feud, that it suddenly brought about these occasional moments of brand solidarity.
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    They weren't the only ones. WWE rode that wave too with Men On A Mission.
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    WWE suffered in a lot of ways in '94, but none more than in the spots left behind by Heenan and Okerlund.
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    Part of me kind of wishes it was a shoot, or that he'll quit before HHH can get his revenge on him.
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    He said that Russo gave all the undercard guys stuff to do, and because of that they were more known to the audience.
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    It really surprised me. And I agree, he doesn't seem like he was too tied down because like him or not he is a road dog for carrying that ball as long as he has.
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