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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,361 Views)
Scrooge McSuck
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I would buy you a drink if I could.
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Erick Von Erich
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That is the Greatest Troll in the History of Twitter. Call your friends, now!

I can maybe understand why he'd block you, though. Wrestling fans (especially 90's fans) are ubiquitous across the Internets and he's probably gotten a similar message countless times. Tony has been the butt of a LOT of jokes over the years (I'm guilty of it), so it gets old after awhile. Like Tim Tebow jokes. I'd guess about 75% of Tony's Twitter messages are about WCW, with very few about the Gwinnett Braves (or whoever it is he does play-by-play for). Twitter is used for marketing, so it really does him no good to respond about a job he last did 12 years ago.

Same for Jonathan Coachman at ESPN, Craig DeGeorge/Minervini (if he still does Marlins games) and Mike Adamle (if he's still around).

Whereas guys like "Mean" Gene, who still work with WWE in some regard, would probably not mind being poked fun at for their wrestling background. Back when we had MySpace, I sent a message to DJ Ran asking if he ever identified where the "loudest section in the building is; make some noise". Can't remember exactly what he said, but he wrote back with a friendly response, had a laugh and took it all in stride. He even sent a YouTube link that showed him in ECW in 1995-- whoa, who knew?
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Mad Dog
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I have a lot of early 90s WWF television sitting on my computer that I need to build the motivation to watch.
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Mad Dog
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Championship Wrestling 1985:

Blackjack Mulligan d. R.T. Reynolds
Brutus Beefcake d. Jim Powers
Junkyard Dog d. Rusty Brooks
The Spoiler d. Salvatore Bellomo
Big John Studd and Ken Patera d. Jim Young and Paul Roma
Hulk Hogan d. Johnny Rodz

What amazes me is just how short the Piper's Pit segments are. They're literally maybe 2-3 minutes every week and super memorable.
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Some more comments.

Hogan/Rodz had a really fun television match. There was some good energy and Hogan really gave a lot to Rodz during the match. This was 1985 so the Hogan formula wasn't quite there yet. I'm guessing there was veteran respect here and that's why he put on a good show here.

Mean Gene outs himself as a chubby chaser during an interview with Don Muraco.
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Mad Dog,Jun 3 2013
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What amazes me is just how short the Piper's Pit segments are. They're literally maybe 2-3 minutes every week and super memorable.

This is what I loved about those segments, and about promos back then. Just long enough for you to want to listen, and then want to see what was going to happen.

Of course, now you get segments and promos so long you don't care what happens, and you decide to change the channel and watch reality tv instead.
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Mad Dog
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I a;ways skip the opening segments when I watch the show. If I watch, I always lose interest and watch something else or forget what the point of the opening segment was.
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Mad Dog,Jun 3 2013
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Mean Gene outs himself as a chubby chaser during an interview with Don Muraco.

Looking back on his stuff now, I enjoy and appreciate Mean Gene much more as an adult than I did as kid or teenager. I always thought he was just a hollow hype guy, but listening to his introductions and little comments it's funny to see that he was always a Dirty Old Man. He was great as the host of TNT.
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Mad Dog
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Mean Gene has good chemistry with so many guys too.
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Scrooge McSuck
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I splurged and bought the WM VI DVD re-release for about $7 online (I promise not to bitch about the music edits). This might be the first time I've seen the show in as complete form as possible since the original broadcast. For the longest time, I've only had access to the Coliseum Video version, which cuts things from shy of 4 hours to 2 hrs. 30 min (that's excluding the 10 minutes of adds for other videos, the action figures, and the catalog).

I never thought about it, but damn was there very little decisive blowoffs or finishes to the top caliber matches:

Jake vs. Dibiase for the Million $ Title ended in a lame count-out.
Dusty Rhodes and Savage did a mixed tag where neither was involved in the fall.
Piper and Bad News went to a lame double count-out.
On a much lesser note, why protect the Rockers against the Orient Express? the Rockers were never getting any kind of a push.


Steve Allen also has to be the most unappreciated WrestleMania celebrity ever. He got genuine laughs out of me with his antics with the Bolsheviks, Rhythm and Blues, and on commentary during the Snuka/Rude match.
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Mad Dog
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It seemed like they always would monkey with the undercard if something big was happening at the top of the card. That show did have the Warrior beating Hogan and Demolition beating the CC for belts. If you go back to WMIII the undercard had really questionable booking with a shit ton of heels going over because of Steamboat and Hogan winning.
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Scrooge McSuck
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WrestleMania has been the "blowoff" show for so long, it's easy to forget that from the first 10 shows, almost all of them featured some poor booking to the undercards. Hell, WrestleMania 9 gets shit on a lot for all excessive non-finishes, but if we really think about it...


WM 1 - hardly a star-studded show, it was all main event and nothing else. Valentine/Santana, the hottest angle otherwise, isn't even featured on the card.

WM 2 - WM was still looking for it's identity, and a lot of the undercard was thrown together, but NY definitely got the shaft with the DQ finish to the main event (justifiably) and a non-finish for the opener between two uppercard acts.

WM 3 - As you mentioned, Bulldogs/Tito screwed over, Haynes/Herc non-finish, JYD loses to Harley Race and acts like a total dick despite a clean loss. Hogan, Steamboat, and Piper going over makes up for the difference, I'd say.

WM 4 - Shit finish for Andre/Hulk, shit finish for Rude/Roberts, shit finish for the IC title Match, a manager pinned a full-time worker, lame DQ to protect the One Man Gang after his lame count-out win over Bam Bam.

WM 5 - Mr. Fuji does the job in a Title Match, Duggan/Brown non-finish, Beefcake/Dibiase non-finish, Roberts/Andre lame DQ finish.

WM 7 - Free Pass. There's a 50/50 here, but the blowoff to Warrior/Savage and Roberts/Martel makes up for continuing the terrible Hogan/Slaughter angle and the non-finish for Bossman/Perfect.

WM 8 - Main Event (#2) ends in a lame DQ, Tag Title Match crap finish. Savage winning the title, Undertaker destroying Roberts, Bret taking the IC Title from Piper makes up the difference.

WM 9- IC Title Match shit finish, Tag Titles shit finish, Main Event shit finish, Taker/Gonzales shit finish, Perfect jobs indecisively, two Doinks KO Crush... yeah, bad card for finishes.


Out the bunch, it looks like WM 3, 7 and 8 had some solid blowoffs to the bigger angles heading into the show, especially 3 and 8.
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Mad Dog
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I still don't understand why they didn't have the Bossman win the IC belt at VII. The crowd was hot for him.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Bossman from the Fall of 1990 throughout 1991 was hella' over and probably at his peak as a worker. He also got in phenominal shape for a man who, when he first debuted, was legit in the 350-400 lb. range. You'd think he would be rewarded for his efforts, but it was a different time. I much would've preferred Perfect never dropping the title to Von Erich and running a 16 month long reign until dropping it to Bret.
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Mad Dog
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And he drew well against Hogan in the late 80s. It always seems weird that he never got a title reign of any kind in that 89-91 time frame.
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