Bix Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Vladimir? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Has anyone ever noticed that black guy, with no hair, usually wearing a muscle shirt? You see him in the crowd at old WWF shows, current WWE shows, I've seen him at ROH and ECW back in the day too. He also wears glasses I think. lol or that Hulk Hogan look-a-like guy from WWF back in the early 90s? He was devasted at King of the Ring '93 when Hogan lost the belt because that camera blew up in Hulkster's face. I'm a big fan of the couple that wears neon track suits in the front row at a lot of current WWE stuff. The guy's a big bald dude with like flourecent yellow, and (I'm guessing) his wife is in pink. I know I've seen them at least 2 or 3 times on Raw in the last couple of years. One time was just a couple of weeks ago. I swear I've actually seen the Hogan guy at a show I was in attendance for. Can't remember when for the life of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruiserBrody Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 The Boss (Man he's big) Was this a real WCW announcer comment or is it an internet running gag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 The Boss (Man he's big) Was this a real WCW announcer comment or is it an internet running gag? A little of both. There was a time where WCW really thought they could bill Ray Traylor as "The Boss", which was just having him be the Big Bossman only wearing what looked like a rent-a-cop outfit instead of his old prison guard one. The WCW announcers would try to subtly try to make it seem he was doing the Bossman gimmick without ever saying the full name "Bossman". The Boss (Man he 's big) thing was I believe SKeith's witty retort of said episode. For a guy who never missed a chance to bash WWE for being repetitive, he did a good job of recycling his own material quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 Tony Schiavone said "That's a big boss, man" when he made his debut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Evil Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 Tony Schiavone said "That's a big boss, man" when he made his debut. I remember him saying someting like that. Shiavone I really enjoyed as an announcer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Crowds really seem to have soured on HHH in a big way since going public with the marriage to Stephanie on television. Interesting to see him get booed post-match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Well, outright advertising the sway he has over the booking probably doesn't help matters. Nor does the fact that he's a really shitty face. On top of that, as TomK has often pointed out, styles make matches. Not too many good stylistic match-ups for Trips in the ring, but there are a few more good ones in terms of drawing fan interest to some degree. Randy Orton isn't one of them. Guy poised as the heir to the throne of a family that they've spent the last decade teaching us to hate working as face defending their honor against a similarly slimy character who wants to bring that family down....there's no one to really be sympathetic for here. I mean, I've gone over the problems with the HHH/Cena feud a billion times now, but at least there was a market that HHH was appealing to there. Did it in a stupid, counter-productive way, but gave a group of fans a reason to care. You can't say that about this angle. Where are the fans who want to see the honor of the McMahons defended? Somebody needs to strap the WWE creative team and the entire extended McMahon family down and force them to watch the Perros/Capos feud Clockwork Orange style until they know how to effectively book a heel vs. heel feud at the top of the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 What doesn't help matters is Vince spending the week switching from heel (opposite Trump) to face briefly (opposite Orton when announcing 3 Stages of Hell) back to heel (opposite Teddy Long). Felt like Chyna in 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Yeah, this whole angle is just a mess from top to bottom. It's just that in the end, it seems to be HHH who is getting exposed the worst, and for once, it's not entirely his fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 HHH, Orton, and Batista have all interacted with each other so much that any combination of those three guys feuding, teaming, or being otherwise involved in the same storyline is very, very played out. I actually think putting the tag titles on Jericho and Edge, and thus making them main event belts, has now made them the defacto most important belts in the company. It looks like they're looking to Jericho and Edge to freshen up every show. Jericho and Edge have both feuded with every top star on RAW, and RAW is so bad that I don't know if there's anything they can do to save it, but I am intrigued by Jericho and Edge as top heels in ECW, especially with Christian as a babyface and both guys having big history with him. I think the bigger problem is that Cena really needs to be champ. He's been in secondary feuds for a long while now. HHH should be the one in that role. Also, kinda sad how Orton was the hottest guy in wrestling at the beginning of the year and the HHH feud has just killed any momentum he has, and not for the usual reasons of HHH burying his opponent, but because this feud has been so horribly booked with disappointing matches, lots of injuries, and no logic. Part of me thinks there might be more interest right now if they could get the belt on Cena and keep it there for a while. They still haven't really properly blown off Cena/Orton, but I think so much time has passed now that I'm not sure it would mean as much as it would have at one time. They really needed to put more into MVP and Miz than they have, because the main event scene on RAW is a mess. At least Morrison and Punk appear to be on the right track on Smackdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Why is it assumed that Jericho and Edge will be on all three shows? Something Meltzer said? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 The tag champs work all three shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Unified champs can defend on all 3 shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Edge and Jericho have the potential to be great as guys with the asshole-meter pegged to the max, but it seems that instead we're getting yet another version of that Russo staple "tag team partners who don't like each other". Also (and I really didn't expect it to be any other way) I was disheartened by the complete jobbing of the Miz at the ppv. They had a chance to build up a guy so maybe one day they don't have to have the same 4 people in every main event, but I guess it was more important to punish a guy for getting himself more over than he was supposed to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Tonight on RAW, though, Miz dominated Cena most of the match and was completely put over as being a tough guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Before losing decisively again and tapping out in the middle of the ring, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 It's a sad commentary on WWE booking when giving someone some offense before decisively beating them is considered an improvement. What bothers me about it, is this could have been Cena's chance to do what the Rock was known for and give a up and coming guy the rub. No to say Miz should have went over clean in the middle of the ring, but WWE seems to have completely forgotten how to use their top stars to get guys over without having the top guy do a clean job or make the up and coming guy look like a bitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Also (and I really didn't expect it to be any other way) I was disheartened by the complete jobbing of the Miz at the ppv. They had a chance to build up a guy so maybe one day they don't have to have the same 4 people in every main event, but I guess it was more important to punish a guy for getting himself more over than he was supposed to. I was disappointed even before that, when Miz could have eliminated both HHH and Cena in the Battleroyal on RAW and instead went over unceremoniously. It was the perfect opportunity to get some fresh blood in the main event. I was totally suckered by him hiding until it was down to three, too. Too bad. Wasted opportunity...not unfamiliar territory these days, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Man reading that interview on the Observer site and Tully Blanchard still can't get over doing those jobs to the Bushwackers around the horn in 89. Tully it was 20 years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Now, I'm usually someone who thinks the stuff about wrestlers having to tan so much is BS (and that it's a good thing that spray-on tans have improved so they don't have to worry about giving themselves skin cancer), but during his debut on ECW last night, Seamus actually looked unhealthily pale, almost completely white. Danielson didn't look close to this pale when he was on WWE TV and they told him that he'd get more TV job gigs if he got a tan (and a haircut) so it was also surprising to see someone who looked like that debuting on one of their shows as a regular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Now, I'm usually someone who thinks the stuff about wrestlers having to tan so much is BS (and that it's a good thing that spray-on tans have improved so they don't have to worry about giving themselves skin cancer), but during his debut on ECW last night, Seamus actually looked unhealthily pale, almost completely white. Danielson didn't look close to this pale when he was on WWE TV and they told him that he'd get more TV job gigs if he got a tan (and a haircut) so it was also surprising to see someone who looked like that debuting on one of their shows as a regular. Obviously Bix hasn't met too many Irish people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Now, I'm usually someone who thinks the stuff about wrestlers having to tan so much is BS (and that it's a good thing that spray-on tans have improved so they don't have to worry about giving themselves skin cancer), but during his debut on ECW last night, Seamus actually looked unhealthily pale, almost completely white. Danielson didn't look close to this pale when he was on WWE TV and they told him that he'd get more TV job gigs if he got a tan (and a haircut) so it was also surprising to see someone who looked like that debuting on one of their shows as a regular. Obviously Bix hasn't met too many Irish people It's not that, but one would think Johnny Ace or Vince or someone in developmental would force him to spray on a tan before he made TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Not when it's his gimmick to look like that. But yeah he looks almost like a Albino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Now, I'm usually someone who thinks the stuff about wrestlers having to tan so much is BS (and that it's a good thing that spray-on tans have improved so they don't have to worry about giving themselves skin cancer), but during his debut on ECW last night, Seamus actually looked unhealthily pale, almost completely white. Danielson didn't look close to this pale when he was on WWE TV and they told him that he'd get more TV job gigs if he got a tan (and a haircut) so it was also surprising to see someone who looked like that debuting on one of their shows as a regular. Bix, Sheamus: Is Irish Is Ginger Is paled skinned Has has a skin pigment condition on top of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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