tlk23 Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 At 1:30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduardo Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 With all this petty talk, I'm trying to remember, what led to Triple H intentionally fucking up Jim Ross' eye in MSG in the early 2000's? I think it was 2004, and remember Meltzer covering it in the newsletter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 I also think HHH is exceptionally petty. Like, even by wrestling standards exceptionally petty.When did that happen? And what was the context? I must have missed it. One good example would be him bitching out the one contestant on Tough Enough, for basically being a Goldberg fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 Pettyness and wrestling go hand in hand. Tito never worked heel in any major promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 With all this petty talk, I'm trying to remember, what led to Triple H intentionally fucking up Jim Ross' eye in MSG in the early 2000's? I think it was 2004, and remember Meltzer covering it in the newsletter.Years earlier, he felt he had been lowballed on a payoff and Vince blamed Ross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 Simply Perry Saturn's Youshoot is the best of shoot of the year. Seek it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravJ1979 Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 Simply Perry Saturn's Youshoot is the best of shoot of the year. Seek it out. Really? Besides the rhino helmet stories (hilarity), I didn't find it all that interesting. He didn't really shit on anybody except Matt Hardy and didn't reveal anything that wasn't well known. It was cool how he owned up to the Mike Bell thing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduardo Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 With all this petty talk, I'm trying to remember, what led to Triple H intentionally fucking up Jim Ross' eye in MSG in the early 2000's? I think it was 2004, and remember Meltzer covering it in the newsletter.Years earlier, he felt he had been lowballed on a payoff and Vince blamed Ross. Ah yes, thanks Bix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 I also think HHH is exceptionally petty. Like, even by wrestling standards exceptionally petty.When did that happen? And what was the context? I must have missed it. One good example would be him bitching out the one contestant on Tough Enough, for basically being a Goldberg fan. Wasn't that Taz? I remember on the first TE, when the trainers were rousting the kids up at the crack of dawn for their run Taz saw that someone had a Goldberg poster on his wall and he tore it down saying, "Wrong fucking promotion, asshole!" or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 That happened too. On the DVD, Trips goes off on the guy who had the poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 That happened too. On the DVD, Trips goes off on the guy who had the poster. There was a DVD? Anyhoo, I don't see that as "petty", I see that as "what kind of dumb fuck goes on a WWF TV show with a Goldberg poster on his wall?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Watching some late 99 WCW and about the only thing Russo did right was the Tank Abbot push. Of course it would not really work. A guy winning his matches in a minute is not that impressive when the average match is running three minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 was there a reason ever given why the WWF edited out Undertaker tombstoning Rena Mero after a Superstars match with Marc in fall of 96? I've heard that it was debated internally whether to air it or not. Was it a PR type thing or "wouldn't fit the character" type thing? And why was it booked like that with all 3 being babyfaces at the time? (if I have my timeline right maybe Mero was on his way to turning heel before the knee injury) edit: watched the match. Aired in February 97. Mero attacks him with a chair after the match and Sable actually acts heelish Weird I remember the "Superstars" angle being mentioned in the WWF Magazine in 1996. They published photos of 'Taker grabbing Sable by the throat. It was described as "too intense for television" and I think was hinting at an Undertaker heel turn? As an aside it's amazing how much Rena Mero's appearance changed in less than a calendar year. Shes lying out her ass if she said she didn't have a nosejob/face lift. Plus 2 different boob jobs (by late 97/early 98 they're ridiculous), a fake tan and bleaching her hair to a more whitish blonde. I remember Meltzer saying she had a boob job sometime around the South Africa RAW and must have had another one when Mero was out with his injury and now I seem to recall that the Undertaker might have been the kayfabe reason she would be off TV to get the boob job but then they didn't air it and she just sorta wasn't there a couple weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Back in February 98 me, my dad and Grampa were watching Raw. When Sable came out my Grampa said "What is that a milk cow?' Which is what I think of whenever I see Sable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 btw Sunny's comment at Survivor Series 96 about Mero's pyro melting Sable's implants always made me laugh. Because it was timed well, the irony of a woman with breast implants insulting another woman for having breast implants and Vince's flustered reaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 During the worst of the Sable-Sunny heat, Tammy went on Off The Record and said that the issue as far as the implants went was that she thought Sable looked ridiculous after so many surgeries and that she herself at least looked normal. IIRC she was trying to portray herself as the of the wholesome alternative to Sable so she was knocking the ridiculousness of the body image Sable was glorifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Watching some late 99 WCW and about the only thing Russo did right was the Tank Abbot push. Of course it would not really work. A guy winning his matches in a minute is not that impressive when the average match is running three minutes. I thought it was hilarious when Abbott became a Three Count fan in 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Watching some late 99 WCW and about the only thing Russo did right was the Tank Abbot push. Of course it would not really work. A guy winning his matches in a minute is not that impressive when the average match is running three minutes. I thought it was hilarious when Abbott became a Three Count fan in 2000. "Bear Twink Dance Club Scene" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 I kind of thought Abbott was underrated. I mean he was absolute shit in the ring but that's because he had minimal training. But he was believable and he had a weird kind of charisma. I think if WCW had tried to train him more and developed him into a more wildman kind of brawler, I think long term he could've been a solid upper mid-card kind of guy. I bring up the Three Count thing because it was funny and Abbott "got it" as far as his role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 I remember seeing Goldberg and Abbott brawling on the Nitro the night after New Blood Rising and thinking it actually looked pretty good and that a real match between them (not that 30 second thing they did for Goldberg's comeback) might not be so bad, assuming they didn't do anything but wild brawling. That was originally planned as the Starrcade 2000 main event, believe it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 With all this petty talk, I'm trying to remember, what led to Triple H intentionally fucking up Jim Ross' eye in MSG in the early 2000's? I think it was 2004, and remember Meltzer covering it in the newsletter.It was in early 2005. Batista interfered to give Ross the win. I still vividly remember watching that match, because it came during a period when I was trying to convince my non-wrestling-fan parents that being a play-by-play announcer might be a valid career path. And while I'm trying to tell this to my stepdad, this match airs. Kinda hard to sell my argument when the most respected of modern wrestling announcers is being shoot beaten into a bloody pulp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 From TomK's old Impact workrate reports: The actual story of DX and the James Gang is an amusing story. HHH and Vince when they restarted DX wanted to bring back the New Age Outlaws, but then they found out that the Outlaws had been talking all kinds of shit. No one minded that they were talking about Vince but when Helmsley found out that they were talking about him, his ego was bruised and he nixed bringing them back. I don't know that that would be abnormally petty for wrestling, but it is notable that when presented with the same situation, HHH was actually pettier than Vince. That's kinda impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Billy Gunn just recently gave an interview where he apologized for all the HHH-shit talking. Claiming that he (Billy) wasn't ready to accept responsibility for his own shit and that he just turned around and blamed Hunter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 All the Hunter bashers are going to change their tune in the next 12 months so they can get work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted July 31, 2011 Report Share Posted July 31, 2011 Holy shit just read this. Samuel Beckett bought some land in 1953 near a hamlet around forty miles northeast of Paris and built a cottage for himself with the help of some locals. One of the locals that helped him build the cottage was a Bulgarian-born farmer named Boris Rousimoff, who Beckett befriended and would sometimes play cards with. As you might’ve been able to guess, Rousimoff’s son was André the Giant, and when Beckett found out that Rousimoff was having trouble getting his son to school, Beckett offered to drive André to school in his truck — a vehicle that could fit André — to repay Rousimoff for helping to build Beckett’s cottage. Adorably, when André recounted the drives with Beckett, he revealed they rarely talked about anything other than cricket. Awesome meeting of two worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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