Cox
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I'd have been scared as a lad watching this strange man with the skull head staff walking around looking menacing.
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"Hey, are you an utter simpleton who wants to hear other dudes talk about wrestling? Call the wrestling hotline!"
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This feels really out of place for me airing after the Lawler/Snowman stuff. This is too pro wrestling and the Snowman stuff is too shooty for these two things to air back to back and work for me.
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Lawler coming out and clarifying that The Snowman did not, in fact, actually beat his brains out reminds me of something jdw might say. These ladies have some serious 80's hair. Good promo by Lawler to keep this hot issue going.
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Holy shit, this was amazing. I guarantee every fan in that building bought this as a real fight.
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Hey, Warrior gibberish. I did not miss this at all during my yearbook exile.
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Great backdrop for a cologne ad: the side of a WWF production truck.
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Proof that Rude means business: he's going to stop making out with chicks on TV until he wins the WWF championship. Well, I'm sure his wife was thrilled, anyway.
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I think this was a pretty big deal to the WWF fans of the time. Volkoff had been around forever, and was a heel the entire time he was there, so him finally going babyface and embracing the USA meant a lot to the longtime fans. Even if the days of Nikolai getting house show main events against a Hogan were long over, he still meant something. Then again, I'm biased, as much like Nikolai, I'm Lithuanian. Anyway, as an angle to set up a bunch of low card house show matches, this was fine.
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Why would Kerry agree to a match with Percy on top of a swing above the cage? Wouldn't a normal cage match be about 50 times more likely to keep him from interfering? I love how even in storyline, Kerry is a bit of a dope. Anyway, I think the issue with this is, Kerry doesn't have a lot in his repertoire on offense at this stage, and since he takes like 80% of the match, we get a whole lot of discus punches. Borne works hard and bleeds like a motherfucker, but there is only so much he can do. It works in some ways, with Kerry finally getting some revenge on Borne by pinning him, but also keeps the Kerry/Percy issue alive as he doesn't get his hands on him. As story advancement goes, this was really good. As a match? Eh.
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Hey, I'm back! I got a little burned out in the spring going through this stuff (in particular, I fell asleep watching Dandy/Azteca like 3 nights in a row before I finally watched it, although DVD problems also didn't help) but I have a free DVR and free time, so time to get back into these. This is more angle than match, but it's a hot angle. What airs in ring is a fine, but by the numbers Lawler/Dundee match. Tatum is bound and determined to kidnap poor Tessa, but Dundee and later Jarrett and Adams fortunately prevent that from happening. I mean, I know Tatum got punched by them a bunch, but he really ought to thank them as I'm pretty sure kidnapping Tessa on live (or was this taped? Point still applies) television is illegal and he likely would have been immediately arrested.
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[1991-03-18-WWF-Primetime Wrestling] Roddy Piper and Ted DiBiase
Cox replied to Loss's topic in March 1991
Piper had just had his first hip surgery, and the motorcycle accident was a cover story, since hip surgery is commonly associated with the elderly. -
Man, there is no way that ended well for young Mr. Watts.
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Even if they had offered Rob a job for the same money, but in Connecticut, it would have been a paycut, between the higher cost of living and the difference in state income tax (Florida does not have a state income tax, Connecticut does) they were essentially offering him a paycut, so it sure sounds like somebody didn't want him around anymore.
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If I recall correctly, I think Brian Lee was supposed to be in Big Dick Dudley's spot here but supposedly had a neck injury and couldn't take the bump, so he was turned babyface instead and they put Dudley in his spot.
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[1997-02-22-ECWA-Super 8] Ace Darling vs Cheetah Master
Cox replied to Loss's topic in February 1997
Weird trivia: Ace Darling went to the same college as I (Monmouth University) and I'd see him on campus from time to time, usually at the Student Center. -
I think the New Japan games had a good reputation. I remember having my PlayStation modified specifically to play the New Japan game as a lad since they had a good reputation online at the time.
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They did have Cornette, which couldn't have been an easy get since he hasn't exactly been on great terms with WWE for the past ten years. Really, he's the most important guy to have, everybody else is gravy. It's not as complete as it could be (obviously) but for what they were trying to do in the space they had, it was fine.
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The players : Lance Storm, Chris Jericho, D-Lo Brown, Jerry Lawler, Road Dogg ? I mean, seriously ? Road Dogg was around for quite a bit. He worked under a mask for much of 1993 as the Dark Secret. He actually wore Brad's old Badstreet gear, which was kind of cool.
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Bill Watts was allegedly fired from WCW for an interview he did in the Torch, albeit a year after it came out.
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Doing a shoot interview immediately after being released will not help him get resigned. I think you have a dated conception of shoot interviews: They are very, very rarely bridge burning exercises these days. Everyone does them. The voodoo factor of them is gone. They are just video versions of podcast interviews. Plenty others have been rehired after doing them. In Hero's case he said nothing that would make you think he would get into trouble for saying it and openly states he wants to be hired back. Any criticisms of him offered by people of him in developmental he either took it on the chin or agreed with them. Chris technically dodged answering directly about Bill DeMott's training practices as the interviewer just asked Hero about Kevin Matthew's hate campaign where allegations with merit were undercut by how Matthews made them and lumped them together with other more dubious claims about DeMott. The only person he anything negative to say about was someone outside of developmental - Eddie Kingston a former friend who was criticised for just being a fuck up which by all accounts he is. He missed a CHIKARA booking as their Champion this year as he punched a mirror drunk apparently. It's not that I expect Hero to say anything that will get him in trouble with WWE, more that I think at least part of Hero's problem is that he comes off as "too indy" for WWE, and doing a shoot interview approximately .3 seconds after getting fired with RF Video will not help that perception at all. I would think anybody at this point who does a shoot interview who hopes to one day work with WWE would be smart enough not to say anything to bury themselves with the company.
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Doing a shoot interview immediately after being released will not help him get resigned.
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Yes. Rage Against The Machine entrance music. I'm pretty sure every indy guy has used "Bulls on Parade" as their entrance music at least once.
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This will always go down as one of my favorite Raws of all time, as I had managed to secure front row tickets behind the announcer's table, by far the best seats I've ever had at a wrestling show. I can't remember what happened at the last ten Ring of Honor shows, but I remember almost everything that happened on this Raw, including Taker's gnarly blade job off of that sick chair shot. Good times. Like most idiot wrestling fans of the time, I brought a bunch of stupid signs. One was a plug for RF Video which we got on camera and was later confiscated. RF offered ten free tapes for getting a plug on WWF TV at the time, but I think I only collected on three of those. And I got Dave Prazak (a friend at the time) a lot of heat by getting a "Dave Prazak 12 & Under" sign on camera, about Dave's preference for younger ladies. In retrospect, kind of a dick thing to do. Overall, I remember this being a great wrestling summer. ECW ran often in Philly and New Jersey, WWF ran a few Raws locally and SummerSlam was local, indies were running all over. It was a great summer to be 18.
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Funny story about this. You may notice Goldust waving a rather large bra at ringside? Well... Me, my sister, and two friends took a trip out to Bethlehem (insert Three Wise Men joke here) with the hope that one of my friends (who had previously toured with Sherri and knew a bunch of WWF people) could get comps. This bent the days before cell phones, we went to the show on blind faith that she could conjure something up. Unfortunately, the show was completely sold out. But while talking with, I think Mike Chioda, Dustin approaches her and asks for her bra. She tries to trade the bra for comps, but no dice. But being a good egg, she gives The Natural her bra, and we all pile back in the car and head home, ticket-less.