Dooley Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Neidhart was using a cobra clutch he called the ANVILIZER Wasn't it a camel clutch or did he only use that in the WWF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I was just curious when the WON HOF case for Stephanie McMahon starts. She led the creative team that got John Cena over as a top star and did seven consecutive dome shows for Wrestlemania, most of them breaking existing buyrate records. She also has the Austin/Rock and Rock/Hogan shows to her credit. Critically acclaimed feuds like Eddy vs Rey and Michaels vs Jericho have happened under her watch. :) She and Vince got Trip over after he initially bombed at the top of the cards (to the point that they took the belt off him in a panic in favor of Show), then she & Mick carried Trip in the Trip vs Foley feud, and then she carried Trip in the Trip vs Rock feud. Then she kept Trip over because she was banging him. Trip is a HOFer because of her. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indikator Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I was just curious when the WON HOF case for Stephanie McMahon starts. She led the creative team that got John Cena over as a top star and did seven consecutive dome shows for Wrestlemania, most of them breaking existing buyrate records. She also has the Austin/Rock and Rock/Hogan shows to her credit. Critically acclaimed feuds like Eddy vs Rey and Michaels vs Jericho have happened under her watch. :) I know it's a joke post but if the Network is a success, TV ratings fees double or triple and in her new role she can somehow clean up the reputation that wrestling has got with major corporate sponsors, she could be credited as having reinvented the business and making it much larger than anyone else could ever do. That might be actually debatable. Weeks ago one of our independent wrestlers/managers was voted into parliament for the second biggest party and while I didn't look into the matter too much I didn't see a single derogatory mention of his background in any articles (maybe Robert S. or Jetlag were "lucky" enough to see one), and quite a number of media articles were published because of his wrestling gig. And this was in Germany, the possibly most anti-pro-wrestling country ever! So I began to think about this and maybe, just maybe has reality tv given us the first generation that might not look down at pro wrestling in the way we are used to. The bar has been lowered so much (*insert South Park James Cameron joke*) that the old sentiments against pro wrestling are outdated like early 20th century anti-sport sentiments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I was just curious when the WON HOF case for Stephanie McMahon starts. She led the creative team that got John Cena over as a top star and did seven consecutive dome shows for Wrestlemania, most of them breaking existing buyrate records. She also has the Austin/Rock and Rock/Hogan shows to her credit. Critically acclaimed feuds like Eddy vs Rey and Michaels vs Jericho have happened under her watch. :) She and Vince got Trip over after he initially bombed at the top of the cards (to the point that they took the belt off him in a panic in favor of Show), then she & Mick carried Trip in the Trip vs Foley feud, and then she carried Trip in the Trip vs Rock feud. Then she kept Trip over because she was banging him. Trip is a HOFer because of her. John In a carny business, surely using your feminine wiles to get control of the company over your older brother, who had been groomed for the position since birth, deserves some credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I was just curious when the WON HOF case for Stephanie McMahon starts. She led the creative team that got John Cena over as a top star and did seven consecutive dome shows for Wrestlemania, most of them breaking existing buyrate records. She also has the Austin/Rock and Rock/Hogan shows to her credit. Critically acclaimed feuds like Eddy vs Rey and Michaels vs Jericho have happened under her watch. :) She and Vince got Trip over after he initially bombed at the top of the cards (to the point that they took the belt off him in a panic in favor of Show), then she & Mick carried Trip in the Trip vs Foley feud, and then she carried Trip in the Trip vs Rock feud. Then she kept Trip over because she was banging him. Trip is a HOFer because of her. John In a carny business, surely using your feminine wiles to get control of the company over your older brother, who had been groomed for the position since birth, deserves some credit. Holly fuck... I forgot about that. Got control away from here groomed brother for herself and her husband. And made the environment that the Son-Heir left the company while she and her husband make millions a year. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Also, she has a Milk Commercial now. It's surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 There were some coworkers talking about wrestling yesterday, and one of them was surprised every time he heard a wrestler was alive, which says something fairly sad about the state of affairs in wrestling these days. "Really, Goldust is still alive? Wow!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 I was just curious when the WON HOF case for Stephanie McMahon starts. She led the creative team that got John Cena over as a top star and did seven consecutive dome shows for Wrestlemania, most of them breaking existing buyrate records. She also has the Austin/Rock and Rock/Hogan shows to her credit. Critically acclaimed feuds like Eddy vs Rey and Michaels vs Jericho have happened under her watch. :) Also helped rebuild the Women's division from a plethora of Sable/Debra-esque bra and panties matches. Helped build the characters of their top Divas of the '00s, Lita and Trish in different ways (vs. Lita by not being afraid of being a heel, and vs. Trish through a brawl on the level of Tupelo Concession Stand). These things helped remove the stink of bra and panties matches being the main and only thing of the ladies. It only made Finlay's job that much easier. You can also compare Stephanie to Flair in a lot of ways. Whereas WCW called on Flair when things were going to shit, the WWE did the same thing when HHH-Jericho in 2002 (a tired feud by that point) was bombing. Bringing in Steph worked in a lot of ways (got HHH over in Hogan-like ways when he'd normally be better off as a heel, Jericho over as a heel when he's better as a babyface underdog to HHH, and, more importantly, got the feud over well enough that it closed WrestleMania). Finally, and this is a Gordy List-type category (someone should do one, someone better than me), but she made workers look better. When Austin did his "stun the McMahons" deal at Raw Homecoming, Steph sold like a champ...and better than the rest of her family members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Is Jeff Lynch still using the same e-mail address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Is the lucha set not being discussed at all at DVDVR? Or am I just not looking in the right place? I don't see an 80s folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 http://deathvalleydriver.com/forum/index.p...-1980s-project/ The level of difficulty in watching these matches is way higher than in the AWA set so there is discussion but it's slow going. I seriously need to get back to watching. I'm going to have to do a rewatch of pretty much everything if I want to do a ballot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Weird. It's hidden from view and I don't have permission to view the folder. I'll contact someone over there about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 New action figures!: I'm hoping there's two packs with villains from the old show for tag team action. Hell, make them unmask-able. "It turns out the Titan Tower Drug Mule was actually Funaki all along!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Something that has been lost in all the hype about the network is that Vince's pompadour is making a comeback. This is huge news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Something that has been lost in all the hype about the network is that Vince's pompadour is making a comeback. This is huge news! That came back over the summer when Vince got involved in the Bryan angle. Specifically it made its return during Bryan's gauntlet on that one RAW. I myself was shocked it wasn't discussed at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfman Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 On a completely separate subject, I'm shocked there doesn't seem to be a lot of Abby vs Dusty Rhodes footage out there since they seemed to battle all the time back in the 80's. I remember reading they were actually in a BBQ Fork Match one time (I believe in Florida). This match from Japan is all I can find.... http://youtu.be/le8ibq8juHA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 It isn't surprising considering Dusty was a guy who you rarely saw wrestle on TV. You had to buy a ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfman Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 It isn't surprising considering Dusty was a guy who you rarely saw wrestle on TV. You had to buy a ticket. True, but there'a lot of Dusty footage on youtube, etc. Not much against Abby though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 But Abby was much the same way. He was "too dangerous" to allow on television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 INDYZ: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 When will they ever learn.... when will they ever learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Good timing, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southofheavy Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 Incredible timing. But even if it lead to the dude being kayfabe dead or at least wheelchair bound, that's gotta be the goddamn dumbest thing I've ever seen in wrestling. Even worse than the Davey/Edwards superplex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 You just know there was like a ten-minute finishing stretch where the dude who took the piledriver kicked out of twelve finishers. Oh well. Shine on you crazy diamonds. To each their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted January 16, 2014 Report Share Posted January 16, 2014 From what I read, it was the finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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