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  1. flyonthewall2983
    On top of everything else that's been said, I give him major credit for walking away from it all and not sullying his legacy by working when it was clearly past his due date. Even in WCW, when WWF was easy to label him a has-been "Nacho Man", he could still turn it up to 11 inside the ring.
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    I've had this debate one time before with my brother; when was he more scary, when he first started or in '98-'99 when his gimmick took a Satanic slant?
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    Compared to what I've seen so far (Beyond The Mat and Wrestling With Shadows), I think it is. It has some dubious qualities to it, mostly in the production of it but I thought it was quite a startling look at the sad story of the Von Erichs
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    Not weird to me at all, it's a trump card for the face to use, especially in this case. It's saying to the heel "put up or shut up". I really thought Del Rio was going to win, starting that feud, so Miz and Riley could start their program.
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    That always makes me wonder if he did that when he worked with Andre. Speaking of which, are any Flair/Andre matches on tape or handheld?
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    The Sting & Luger/Steiners match is quite good, but I can't get over how it was voted PWI's MOTY over Bret/Perfect from that year's SummerSlam (which is my addition to this thread, for obvious reasons). It's awfully short, and the finish was just to set up Sting/Nikita.
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    I like how Rock kept his patriotic spiel concise and to the point, and how the show (other than the opening and the Cena clip later on) kept it at that. Now I gotta pull one of my favorite Family Guy exchanges Meg: "Chris, change the channel. I want to watch George Lopez." Chris: "That show just furthers the stereotype that George Lopez is funny."
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    In the crowd?
  9. flyonthewall2983
    Not really wrestling news but President Obama, at the White House Correspondent's Dinner last night, came out to do his bit to "Real American". Surely combined with Seth Meyers' speech, the Donald didn't have a pleasant Saturday night from the look of it.
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    Really random obscure ECW question I hope someone can answer for me here. Is it true one of their mid-carder performers used a song by Porcupine Tree called "Stranger By The Minute" as their entrance music? I read this somewhere a long time ago and can't remember the source, but it's been at me for awhile. The timeline of it would have to be towards the end of the company, considering the song came out in 1999.
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    I remember that being shown on sports highlight segments at the time because of how smooth and effortless it looked. I watched the video and agree that it did look effortless on Ahmed's part, but I more or less meant it wasn't as big a deal in '95 primarily because of Lex leaving, and now I think about it more to do with Yoko being reduced to a mid-carder by this point.
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    Reducing it to a 5-10 minute segment, rather than putting the show itself on television was the mistake. Doing it live would have been better, but I highly doubt if they had that kind of pull with USA at the time (bear in mind, they were still pre-empting for the dog show). Funny that two years later, after Luger made his famous defection, Ahmed Johnson slammed Yoko like it was nothing.
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    Jay Lethal has been fired.
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    I think the "torch passing" stuff has to do with Andre doing a straight job for someone, which hadn't (to my knowledge) happened before for obvious reasons. I also think it was a backstage move as much as anything else, because Andre had the respect of the boys that maybe Hogan didn't have. Silly or not as it sounds, that's my take on it.
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    Muchnick linked this on his blog today with the headline "Once Again and For the Record: TNA is worse than WWE", and considering the source that's quite the slap to them. It's quite infuriating, but hopefully as it suggests, the cat is really going to be out of the bag on them once and for all if these lawsuits being filed actually have all the merit we think they do. It's all the more proof that the pressure should be put on that clusterfuck to reorganize itself and become the true alternative to Vince's "Entertainment company".
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    The one thing that I liked about this at all; Randy Savage stating the obvious that this should be Bret Hart's match.
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    Heenan first started on PrimeTime because Jesse was shooting Predator, and the rest is history. I think for SummerSlam '89, Gorilla couldn't make it because of health problems. I know at an MSG show sometime before that, Vince filled in because Monsoon was recovering from a stroke.
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    I think the Genius also read a poem/MC'ed during the Macho King coronation on Superstars.
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    This makes me wonder if Vince ever tried to get Arnold to appear on WWE programming back when Predator and The Running Man came out.
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    I'd imagine if they were still married then, even suggesting Liz do some of the more risque stuff the women on the show were doing would probably bare not too well on whomever would have suggested it. I'm sure getting Randy to OK Liz taking off the dress to reveal the bikini at the first SummerSlam was akin to pulling teeth.
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    Do you have more on this or is that the extent of it? It's odd that someone who was strictly a non-ring performer left on bad terms.
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    It shows. Strangely enough I think his last big show, SummerSlam '97, was also the debut of Michael Cole.
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    It makes sense. BTW, a fellow by the name of Craig DeGeorge (real name Minervini) came before Sean, so I guess you could say they got it right the 2nd time. It certainly made Tony Schiavone's employment seem a bit redundant, unless they had some concern Sean couldn't pull off doing TV or PPV's. I'd say Josh Matthews is that guy right now, except for being way more youthful than Sean, Todd, and Michael combined.
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    Wouldn't be surprised if he left, actually. Last I heard, he was working with Fox Sports out of Phoenix. And for all the shit people throw at Michael Cole, Todd was way more deserving of it.
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    That's beside the point.
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