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  1. Dooley
    I don't know about him being a master of image preservation... there are the comments about Graziano blaming him for what happened, the suncream photos with Brooke, him dating a woman that looks like his daughter and probably a few others that I am forgetting. He'll be eventually back... Hogan is truly a master at redeeming himself time after time. Let's not forget all his failed business ventures (Pastamania, the Hulk Hogan Grill, Hogan's Beach, the "Hulk Hogan Museum" in Florida which bombed hard)......not to mention all his terrible Hollywood flops..... Hogan's smart enough to not use his own money in ventures like that. I don't doubt that he got paid strictly for using his likeness in those endeavours. And they're plenty of actors who have made careers of acting in flops, they just don't finance the pictures.
  2. Dooley
    Between his back injury and his painkiller addiction, Bulldog was an absolute mess at this point.
  3. Dooley
    They had tried to put forth "Warrior Wildness" since early '90 before he had the title. I remember them pushing it on the SNME where Hogan/Warrior took on Mr. Perfect/Genius. It just never caught on.
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    I thought this was really well done because it always bugged me when after a quick babyface turn, all the heel's ills were forgotten. Especially in this situation where Shawn's face turn didn't have anything to do with helping DX. DX feeds him to the lions, and rightfully so after Shawn fucking with them for the past couple of months.
  5. Dooley
    Wasn't he basically there to draw in Canada? I figured it was just because he was the exact type of musclehead that Vince couldn't wait to push in the 80s. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one.
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    This is something that can't be overstated enough.
  8. Dooley
    The most memorable part of this match was Ventura tossing Shane and saying "that was for your old man, you little bastard!" Very gubernatorial.
  9. Dooley
    "In the World Wrestling Federation, we have something known as credibility."
  10. Dooley
    My theory is that it was more of an attempted power play than accidentally CCing the wrong person. That's monumentally worse. One is a mistake. A colossally stupid mistake, but still a mistake. The other is a power play attempt missing the most crucial element of a power play attempt - power.
  11. Dooley
    Even money that Goldust gave birth to a hand.
  12. Dooley
    Would Nason get paid though? If not, that falls on the WON for not getting more capable people. If he's just doing it for fun, hard to place the "journalist" tag on him and hold him to a standard. That's basically a fan review.
  13. Dooley
    I'd be interested to hear it, but I'm not sure Sullivan's insight is worth the money.
  14. Dooley
    I think even Stallone mentioned at one point he was looking at wrestlers for the Drago part. KVE may have been name-checked, I can't recall off the top of my head. But the Kerry as Drago thing has been around for a long time. Besides Kerry being too fucked up to learn lines, Occam's Razor suggests that Stallone stopped searching when he found Dolph Lundgren because that guy had the absolute note-perfect look to play an ice-blooded Soviet killer.
  15. Dooley
    Yeah. No one in pro wrestling is going to kick Brock in the diverticulitis like Overeem did.
  16. Dooley
    Repo Man got mentioned, but pretty much anything Barry Darsow got stuck with. Blacktop Bully, Pain Stewart etc. Darsow just committed to the roles so much that you wound up laughing in spite of (or perhaps because of) the ridiculousness.
  17. Dooley
    I just discovered these. Great work Loss!
  18. Dooley
    I agree on the point that Steamer didn't have a *terrible* gimmick for the time (any worse than being introduced on his original run as a Bruce Lee type) but they did nothing with him. The more perplexing thing was implying they had no idea who he was, after being the no. 2 babyface on the company's self-professed biggest show of all time.
  19. Dooley
    I suppose that's a fair question. I encounter more and more people who say they would rather watch football/baseball/basketball/hockey on TV than attend live games. Perhaps wrestling fans are the opposite? Well wrestling is different from legit sports. It's more like going to a rock concert. If you're at the Stanley Cup of NBA finals, the drunk people around you or somewhat obstructing your view is a piss-off. You might miss a crucial goal/basket whatever. In wrestling/concerts, they're part of the atmosphere and you're not looking for the same experience anyway. The most fun I've ever had at a live wrestling event was WMX8 and you could almost literally sing along with the Hogan/Rock match. Sometimes people just want to hear the hits.
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    All of them?
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    It would have made no sense to have a 6 month build to Hogan debuting in WCW, winning the world title and then losing it a month later. If you're WCW, you have to go with the investment you made in the guy at that point. Not undercut him in his second match. Definitely this. I remember being a kid and being excited at how the brackets were lined up, figuring they *had* to do Savage-Steamboat 2. I mean, we've already bought the show, give us *something*. HHH at WM2000 is a biggie. I was at a "WM party" in college when that happened and I can't describe how flat the room went when they went that way. As for Austin-Taker in '97, it's worth noting that Taker was still in the afterglow of his WM title win and Austin's main issue was with the Harts, who interfered liberally in that match. Austin also got progressively more over as '97 went on, even with the injury. WM14 was the right time for him. Well ,'92 was actually *for* the title Studd was planned to do a big program with Andre, which Vince had high hopes for. It made sense to heat him up going into it. Unfortunately, neither guy could almost literally move anymore and it got scuttled quickly.
  22. Dooley
    And they still could have saved it if they had Luger go over at Starrcade. But didn't.
  23. Dooley
    I haven't watched [current] wrestling in 10+ years. But I love a place like this where I can walk down memory lane and reminisce.
  24. Dooley
    Well back in the 80's you could point to Flair vs Nikita, early Luger etc as him just walking guys through the usual spots. Modern day, I'm not sure if/what the equivalent is.
  25. Dooley
    I have a personal affinity for powder blue Vince. I love the over the top delivery and the back and forth with Jesse on SNME. His moral outrage whenever the heels did anything dastardly was terrific.
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