sek69 Posted October 6, 2022 Report Share Posted October 6, 2022 She was married to Wesley Blake and had three kids too, just tragic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted October 7, 2022 Report Share Posted October 7, 2022 2 hours ago, sek69 said: She was married to Wesley Blake and had three kids too, just tragic. Cory (Wesley Blake) is puppy dog of a guy. Heath Slater-like. A "never had a bad day" type personality. Cory and Sara's photos were just big broad smiles especially when with the kids. Like with Brodie Lee sometimes life doesn't make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 7, 2022 Report Share Posted October 7, 2022 She really seemed to be one of those Bobby Eaton "everyone loved them" folks, based on the outpouring from Twitter and the list of people in the bz who've donated to the GoFundMe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard Posted October 7, 2022 Report Share Posted October 7, 2022 Terribly sad. Touching to see the outpouring of love and support especially considering her wrestling career was so short. They've raised over $50,000 in under 8 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted October 7, 2022 Report Share Posted October 7, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs Posted October 10, 2022 Report Share Posted October 10, 2022 On 10/7/2022 at 10:54 AM, flyonthewall2983 said: Exactly the sort of thing a guy who wants to run in a few years would say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 10, 2022 Report Share Posted October 10, 2022 IT'S TIME TO BO-LIEVE, WWE is bringing back Bo Dallas bubbas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs Posted October 10, 2022 Report Share Posted October 10, 2022 The Mox-Gage rematch ending in part with interference from W. Morrissey... certainly was a moment. I'm assuming TK wanted to protect Moxley (he did let him get pinned by Gage, since they'd booked it as title vs. career before Mox became AEW champ again), but it also feels like either being tone deaf or an FU to a piece of the fanbase. Feels like we're in a weird new era in that regard. (Either that or there's a hilarious amount to those photos of Lauderdale with Steph McMahon.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 10, 2022 Report Share Posted October 10, 2022 Top 10 all time, no questions about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted October 10, 2022 Report Share Posted October 10, 2022 Rey was considered to be on borrowed time in 1999, IIRC. EDIT: the one Twitter reply this got (so far) says exactly that as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brockobama Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 Was this why he didn't get picked up by WWF in 2001 along with that first batch of WCW guys? Was talking to a friend about this the other day, it's very odd to me that they didn't see the potential in him. Or was it that Rey wanted to go back to Mexico for a while? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 7 minutes ago, brockobama said: Was this why he didn't get picked up by WWF in 2001 along with that first batch of WCW guys? Was talking to a friend about this the other day, it's very odd to me that they didn't see the potential in him. Or was it that Rey wanted to go back to Mexico for a while? He was hurt and needed to heal up, and may have had one of those Turner contracts that was still paying off. JR has talked about it. He said he told Rey a job would be waiting for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMJ Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 Maybe its been asked in another thread or even on r/SC, but can anyone maybe rattle off a list of 5-10 other WWE/WCW superstars that were as blatant a rip-off of an existing IP as Dexter Lumis. My first thought is Jason The Terrible. I don't know much about the character or his career, but I presume he was just basically "Jason" from Friday the 13th? Impervious to pain, slow moving brawler? Any which way, as far as I know, he never made it to the WWE, WCW, or even ECW with that particular gimmick. Then I think of Magnum TA looking like Tom Selleck, but even then, it wasn't like Magnum TA's gimmick was that he was a private eye who resided in Hawaii. The Goon was sorta like one of those brothers from Slap Shot, but I could also him being based on Bob Probert. I know in Japan various wrestlers have been based on popular mangas and anime (?), but I'm thinking more in the US. So, I put it out to all you wrestling superfans, who else would you compare Dexter Lumis as a gimmick that is just so, so, so obviously based on an existing IP (Dexter Morgan from the Dexter books and TV series). I mean, they didn't even change his first name. I feel like I'm drawing a blank but there are a ton of examples I just can't think of... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 Jushin Liger was literally an anime that the wrestler was portraying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 I dunno, Dexter Lumis is not *just* that Dexter. He has some of that Michael Myers vibe to him (plus he's named after Dr. Loomis) Wasn't Art Barr's The Juicer character basically a low-rent version of Beetlejuice? Pretty sure Kevin Nash wrestled as Oz in the US, too. And while slasher icons such as Leatherface, Jason and even Freddy Krueger had their own wrestling versions, nothing beats legally unsafe luchadores. There are just so many Ninja Turtles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 How can one forget Arachnaman in WCW? It actually got them sued. Dexter Lumis is the most blatant one I can think of in the past like...15-20 years. I'm sure TNA has a gang of IP rip offs over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 39 minutes ago, sek69 said: Jushin Liger was literally an anime that the wrestler was portraying. He and Tiger Mask were licensed, as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 Razor Ramon was a ripoff of Tony Montana that Vince supposedly thought was a genius original creation of Scott Hall because he had never seen Scarface. In addition, you have have Sting ripping off The Crow and Waylon Mercy ripping off Max Cady from Cape Fear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 Dexter Lumis is basically the same thing as Samuel Shaw, which was basically Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. Angelina Love literally got her name from porn actress Angelina Love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Redman Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 Yeah I don't buy Dexter Lumis as a blatant IP rip off like that, when he doesn't have anything in common with Dexter Morgan beyond the first name and serial killer vibes. Lumis has much more in common with the silent stalker killers from the big slasher films like Michael Myers. They just did the WWE thing of "take two famous names from my character's general theme and that's my wrestling name". He could have easily been named Jason Myers or Damien Krueger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 Trish based her 2004 heel character off a Nicole Sullivan character from Mad TV. But no one really watched Mad TV so nobody noticed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav'oh Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 2 hours ago, DMJ said: The Goon was sorta like one of those brothers from Slap Shot, Weren't the Dudley Brothers originally based on the Hanson brothers, with the ultraviolence and taped-up spectacles? Edit: let's not forget Charlotte basically being a distaff Ric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 The first that comes to mind are all the wrestling characters - like Demolition & Lord Humongous - based off of the bad guy from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 Not to mention the Road Warriors themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 49 minutes ago, Dav'oh said: Weren't the Dudley Brothers originally based on the Hanson brothers, with the ultraviolence and taped-up spectacles? Yes, the very first incarnation of the Dudleys was basically them being hillbilly versions of the Hanson bothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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