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    I don't remember it as a heel run as such ... there was something that happened in a lumberjack match between Ted Dibiase and Hulk Hogan, right after the twin ref angle (although the commentary didn't reflect that). The Killer Bees were wearing their masks as lumberjacks and kept attacking Hogan, and I think the commentary team speculated if DiBiase had paid them off. It was never confirmed that it was actually the Killer Bees, and I figured at the time it would be revealed DiBiase hired two masked guys to impersonate the Bees, but nothing ever came of it afterwards.
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    Why was that? Did PPV make it redundant?
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    The Ninja had been introduced by Steamboat a few weeks earlier ("This man in black ... this man of the martial arts ... this NINJA!") to watch Steamboat's back. My favorite part of the big " reveal" was Missy Hyatt's statement of the bloody obvious : "That was Paul E. Dangerously and he was wearing a ninja outfit!" Thanks, Missy, for narrating the scene for the benefit of the viewing impaired.
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    Specifically, it was the top rope kneedrop to the back of the head or neck.
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    Dawwwwwwnaw?
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    Fair enough, I guess it just shows how times have changed, that was a lot for the time but a few people have topped that since then.
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    I remember when Paul Orndorff was the gold standard for number of turns, but in retrospect it wasn't that many. Heel for much of his early career. Came into WWF as a heel. Turned babyface after WM1. Turned heel on Hogan some time after WM2. Turned back babyface between WM3 and Survivor Series. Stayed babyface up until he left WWF and his first retirement. Was pretty much a babyface from his comeback through his first WCW run. (Don't really count acting heelish during that one off match with Kerry Von Erich). Turned heel shortly after his arrival in SMW. Stayed heel for his SMW and second WCW runs up until his career ending injury. Don't really count appearances after that. Am I missing something? That's only 4 turns in his active career.
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    The Demos were more beefy than fat.
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    Who was the other guy with Sullivan, the one who wasn't the Night Stalker?
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    Anybody know what happened to "Hurricane" Robbie Walker, who was originally supposed to be Simmons' partner for this match? It's been commonly said that he was later "Hard Work" Bobby Walker in WCW, but I refuse to believe that. Robbie Walker was taller, leaner, had a longer neck, and quite frankly wasn't nearly as clumsy as Bobby Walker.
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    They also ran this match in Boston, Baltimore and a few other places. Sorry to run the discussion off track, but who were Double Trouble?
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    I am a huge fan of their 3 match series with the Brain Busters, particularly the story was told both within the individual matches and across the series. Granted, it has been quite some time since I have watched all of them.
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    I've mentioned this before, but I found it bizarre that Super Invader went out on a Clash main event wearing ring gear with so many holes in it, like he had mice in his locker.
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    There were hints of this before hand, with Pillman slapping Johnny B. Badd in an interview and the look of disgust he gave Zenk after their Wrestle War match. I wasn't entirely surprised when this happened, it seemed to me that Pillman had just had enough of keeping up a smiling front.
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    New babyface Andre the Giant. I definitely recall the return of Studd as being a big deal at the time, and they were clearly indicating a feud with Andre after WM V . It's a bit hard to imagine, given how out-of-shape Studd was at that time, but he was being given a fair sized push.
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    I was, too. Warrior was my first favorite wrestler, and I don't know what kind of joyless bastard you would have to be to hate Randy Savage, so I was happy neither of them sold out at the time. As an adult....Flair and Perfect went a very long way to accomplish something that they could have gotten from jumping Savage in the parking lot before his title defense against Flair. If the in-universe goal was to injure Savage's knee going into that match, this was kind of a needlessly elaborate plan that could've easily backfired on them. If the real life goal was to create added tension for the Savage/Warrior match, it's not like either of those guys need help being paranoid and insane. I was actually watching their tag against the Nasty Boys from the SummerSlam Spectacular just the other day. You totally buy that these guys would have dissension even without an outside heel party getting involved. So the storyline comes across as kinda pointless to me. I would guess they were hoping to make one of them snap and burn out at the PPV then pick up the scraps. When it became apparent that was not going to happen, they just fucked up Savage's knee. I would assume the main thing was for Warrior not to get the title. Divide and conquer. Attacking Savage in a parking lot just damages Savage and could mean Warrior gets the title. Using mind games to get them angry at each other means that they have a violent, mutually damaging match instead of a clean-cut, scientific match (I know, I know) between respectful athletes, and thus the match takes its toll on both men, hopefully leaving Savage injured for when Flair gets a shot at him and comprimises Warrior for any future challenges. Besides, villains love overly elaborate plans, it's one of the great traditions of villainy. Flair was probably operating under the rules of the Guild of Calamitous Intent.
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    Sadly, yes.
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    "Sports entertainment" being used seriously by anyone not actively employed by WWE.
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    Forget whear but Tracy Smothers did an interview once talking about how SMW actually did have a big # of fans who were in the KKK and how much he hated them but had to pretend that he didn't to keep up his gimmick. The story I remember (from Cornette) is that , shortly after they ran the "DWB burns the Stars & Bars" angle, Smothers was working the gimmick table and the local Klan rep came up, gave him his card, and said "If you don't get the job done tonight, we will."
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    I love the fact that the waiter addressed him as "Senor Razor".
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    What was the Puerto Rican team that the Steiners were slated to meet in the first round? Miguel Perez Jr. and somebody else?
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    Conspicuous in its absence from Watts' announcement : the off-the-top-rope ban. IMSMR it was included at the very tail end of a later Watts announcement. I remember it at the time as he wrapped up by saying, "Oh, and one last thing, moves off the top rope are now an automatic DQ, 'kay, bye!" And I was watching thinking, "Wait, what?" There has been some discussion, both pro and con, regarding the Watts Top Rope ban, but I thought it was very poorly introduced. First, it seemed a kind of cowardly way to roll out something that Watts has since claimed was trying to be something important that would restore the audience-impact of top rope moves, just to off-handedly throw it out there right at the end of an interview with no time for anyone to react. Secondly, it smacked of hypocrisy that the two new rules were introduced around the same time. "We're taking away the ringside mats because our wrestlers are so tough! And were banning moves off the top rope because we don't want our wrestlers getting hurt!"
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