vikingsfan73 Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 What's the story behind Ernest Miller's 3 World Karate Championship victories? I am able to find information on his other credentials, but nothing specifically relating to the Karate tournaments. He has been the ISKA Kick Boxing Champ, and Atomic Freestyle Karate Champ. Miller has also won the Rhode Island Invitational and Bluegrass Nationals. Doing a quick google search- I haven't found anything. I can find Angle's, Cromier's, etc. Olympic matches. I can find Bubba Jenkins, Lesnar, and Koscheck's NCAA matches. Hell I can even find Alberto Del Rio's MMA matches and Mir/Nelson BJJ match. Is Miller's 3 World Karate Champion stuff a gimmick? Not sure about his credentials, but "Atomic Freestyle Karate Champ" is the coolest championship name ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack2k Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 Does anyone know if the new Best Of Great American Bash DVD / Blu-Ray that comes next week has all complete matches? Specifically the Flair / Nikita (85) and Andersons / RNR (86) Never seen either in full as they are both clipped up on the 85 and 86 Bash tapes....kind of a holy grail for me with Flair / Nikita in full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 I agree with SS for early 2000s, but he seems to have some idea of building a match slowly to a fever pitch by the end as the decade wears on, where KENTA starts at a million miles per hour and only slows down during heat segments. I will say that anytime Marufuji resorts to kicks I have to ignore the fact that every one of them looks like crap because he got in the habit of slapping his leg to make it seem loud and big. And one thing I noticed in my NOAH watchings is RIkio seems to really have weak strikes as the match wears on and he gets tired. He'll half-ass those and any kind of rope-running or running into a rail or corner. Morishima at the very least has the cardio to keep moving with speed throughout the match even if his clubberins look pretty weak. That's a really good point about Rikio as he becomes increasingly useless as a match goes on. Morishima is weird. He has a great lariat. His elbows are generally fine, but fuck those Vader forearms are awful. My biggest problem with Wild II vs Sterness was just how weak everything looked in context of how NOAH was worked and just how everyone was going through the motions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheapshot Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 An interesting view behind the curtain working for the WWE from a variety of employee's and ex-employees: http://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/World-Wrestling-Entertainment-Reviews-E5718.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 Triple H is the cover feature in this months Muscle and Fitness magazine. Interesting read, he goes into detail about contacting Joe DeFranco after realising that he needed to start training smart (read: a history of injuries and the inability to do things the way he once did). He at one stage mentioned "having to train like Floyd Mayweather" just to get in wrestling shape for one or two matches a year. Most interestingly though, DeFranco actually put together a specific training routine, solely for Triple H to be able to do the spot where he lifted Brock up and slammed him down whilst locked in the Kimrua. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpchicago23 Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 Forgive my random thought but what's with Irish Airbornes gimmick in CZW? Just looking at the roster page and one wears a mask? I'm lost on anything CZW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 Forgive my random thought but what's with Irish Airbornes gimmick in CZW? Just looking at the roster page and one wears a mask? I'm lost on anything CZW They go by the Oi4K (Ohio is 4 Killers) now. Dave's mask is only for entrance attire, I think it goes with the skull logo they use for the oi4k. Other than that, they still wrestle the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steenalized Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 They still get billed as Irish Airborne at AAW shows, though they also mention Oi4K so it's one big mouthful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tofu_chipmunk Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 They still get billed as Irish Airborne at AAW shows, though they also mention Oi4K so it's one big mouthful. How long before they change their name to MouseRat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steenalized Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 "MouseRat presents Jake and Dave Crist, the Irish Airborne, Ohio is for Killers" only adds two words, so any time now I hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpchicago23 Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 How is CZW these days? I've seen some Gulak but thats about it. Are there any major storylines or feuds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 oh yeah, re: the ernest miller question i thought i heard that 3-time line referred to point karate. not positive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 Anybody else notice that Dennis Knight strongly resembled Undertaker on occasion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 What do we know about Roop and Sullivan allegedly trying to steal Shire's territory in 77? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 In the random names you haven't thought about in a while department.....I ran into Sam Houston tonight!! His and Baby Doll's daughter was working the show, and he made the trip up with her. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 Hulk Hogan looks like a hotdog, wearing ketchup and mustard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Do the Briscoes still use "Gimme Back My Bullets" as entrance music ? Cause that always ruled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Anyone using Skynyrd as their entrance music rules, period. I think that goes for any of the old blues music I've heard as entrance music as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steenalized Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Do the Briscoes still use "Gimme Back My Bullets" as entrance music ? Cause that always ruled. No, they dropped that a long while ago unfortunately. That was such a bad ass theme song, but ROH tries to create/license their own themes now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 The more old territories you watch the more fun it gets to watch old territories. Right now I'm watching some old Southwest footage from 79 or 80 and Juan Reynosa is refereeing a match including a guy wrestling as The Mongol with the typical Mongol hair and now I know where he got his inspiration to later become Taurus Bulba the Mongol with the same hair style in Memphis in 1986 and become one of the many illustrious Southern Heavyweight Champions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpchicago23 Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Been watching a lot of mid to late 90s stuff in the past few months. Is there anyone as under rated as Psicosis in that period? Maybe Waltman? Scorpio? I think the latter two get more love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 Been watching a lot of mid to late 90s stuff in the past few months. Is there anyone as under rated as Psicosis in that period? Maybe Waltman? Scorpio? I think the latter two get more love I know it's a little early but I was blown away by how good Matt Borne was in 1993. I knew the heel Doink character was really awesome but I had him pegged as the 3rd or 4th best worker in the entire company during the year. I wasn't expecting that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpchicago23 Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 Yea Borne definitely qualifies for the early to mid 90s. I loved heel Doink and the character work on the Borne again stuff was very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 so Vince Russo is trying to "make peace" with Jim Cornette on Twitter and Corny is no selling it like he only can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpchicago23 Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 I wish he'd squash the shit with Russo so we could get more old school stories as opposed to the constant rants. Some of those rants are fun but after a while its ehh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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