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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,385 Views)
Scrooge McSuck
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I never really paid attention, but after the brief house show program with Savage, Andre's quality of opponents really took a nose-dive...


1. Jake Roberts, as a babyface, was pretty hard to watch in the ring. Every match was: Get beat up, fail at going for the snake bag, get beat up more, grab snake, finish. It meant making sometimes inferior opponents having to carry the match because he never strayed from this formula. I could watch a tape of Roberts promos and consider his WM VI promo one of the best ever, but I just can't stand watching his matches.

2. Big John Studd. Show me one good studd match. Ever.

3. The Warrior. Short and sweet, the matches were either 30-second laughers, or ten-minute jokes. Warrior wasn't that good and Andre was unwilling to really make him look good.


After that, it was teaming with Haku, with Haku doing 90% of the work.
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Erick Von Erich,Nov 7 2011
05:22 PM
Been watching this movie called "Card Subject to Change" on Netflix. It's about independent wrestlers; primarily those who came through the "National Wrestling Superstars" promotion about four-to-five years ago.

It has interviews and footage of Kevin Sullivan, Sherri Martel, Kamala, Percy Pringle and others. I noticed Tatanka in there, at one point. It also features the late rent Acid and ends this portion by mentioning that the producers of the film simply "lost contact" with him in 2008. I had seen Acid's name mentioned on the Internets, but this was the first time I ever saw him. It looked and sounded like he wanted to emulate the Hardy Boyz, both in and out of the ring. Not a good career path.

A lot of time is spent with the promoter of "National Wrestling Superstars" (I forget his name, but look him up if you must). Nothing incredibly eye-opening so far...as he demonstrates how to tape-up flyers and other stuff.

Overall, it seems like the producers are trying to paint a picture of indy wrestlers as overlooked gems, while evoking thought of "The Wrestler". Something I'm not feeling, as the footage is nothing to be proud of and the shows look incredibly amateurish.

I watched this too, nothing really interesting in it
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Scrooge McSuck
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Over the years, watching more older rasslin', I've come to find new found appreciation for guys like Tito Santana, Greg Valentine, Adrian Adonis, and Bob Orton. I guess as a kid, I found Santana and Valentine too boring (it WAS the era of cartoon gimmicks) and the latter two I had seen so little of, I had no real opinion.


Now for two that I've done complete flip flops, one more extreme than the other. The first... Haku. I hated him as a kid, and even up through my teen years, but over the years, I've grown to like him and appreciate what he brought to the tabe. The other... Dino Bravo. Yes, throw the stones. He wasn't THAT bad, as long as it wasn't in the ring with lumps like...


Hercules. No one else has turned me sour more than Herc'. As a kid I liked him, and maintained my fondness for Power & Glory, but watching more and more of his stuff... Ew. Total garbage. Ass. Whatever you want to use to describe someone in a negative light. I would rather watch that Andre/JYD match from France than another Hercules match.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Watching some random stuff from 1998, and I LOVED the WWF's plan of trying to make the Legion of Doom a fresh act... giving them slightly different pattern tights, told them to grow in their hair, and give them Sunny, the Managerial Heat Sucking Machine, as their inspiration. I don't think I'm alone in saying that didn't work.
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Don't forget the Harris Brothers feud that would never end. And Droz... and drunkeness... and Droz pushing Hawk off the Titantron...
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Mad Dog,Oct 25 2011
06:20 PM
I believe they did a lot of vintages with Regal "educating" Eaton on the finer points of Blue Bloodery.

One I remember and liked was as the two walk into a fine dining establishment, the waiter (or maybe it was maitre'd) asked Regal if he wanted Eaton removed from the place

Then when Eaton was eating, he blew his nose on his fancy clothes

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Scrooge McSuck,Oct 26 2011
08:50 PM


Back on the subject of Bobby Eaton, never knew he formed a team with Steve Kiern right before the Blue Bloods period of his career. I only find this interesting because of Kiern's partnership with Stan Lane as The Fabulous Ones, and then Lane replaced Dennis Condrey to team with Eaton as the Midnight Express. I guess you can call them the Fabulous Express or Midnight Ones... or Bad Attitude? There's an original team name.

I remember them teaming as Bad Attitude for a few matches on Worldwide. They seemed to be getting a medium push and then they were dropped as a team. I don't remember how long after Eaton joined Regal to form the Blue Bloods
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Mad Dog,Nov 21 2011
05:04 PM
Don't forget the Harris Brothers feud that would never end. And Droz... and drunkeness... and Droz pushing Hawk off the Titantron...

They were terrrrrrrrrribbbbbbble.
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Scrooge McSuck,Nov 20 2011
10:53 PM
and give them Sunny, the Managerial Heat Sucking Machine, as their inspiration

Heat sucking machine?
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Scrooge McSuck
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Nothing that Sunny was paired up with got over/sustained being over during her entire run in the company except herself.
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In fairness to her, they fucked up the Bodydonnas.
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Mad Dog,Nov 22 2011
10:00 PM
In fairness to her, they fucked up the Bodydonnas.

By making them the Bodydonnas.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Was just thinking of the 1994 King of the Ring. Throughout the show, they were running a spot promoting the "New Generation", and then they ended the show with Lawler vs. Piper, which happend to get more hype and attention than the Champion vs. Champion match for the WWF Title. Did I miss something?
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I don't typically keep up with the wrestling news, but I guess Hogan's ex-wife is accusing him of, at one time, having a homosexual relationship with Brutus Beefcake. While I know I've made my fair share of jokes refering to Beefer as Hogan's lap dog and butt buddy, it was only in the context of how it seemed like wherever Hogan was, Beefcake was right behind him... no pun intended. It's kind of sucky for her to say that if it's untrue, and if it is, big deal.
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Scrooge McSuck,Dec 12 2011
12:26 PM
While I know I've made my fair share of jokes refering to Beefer as Hogan's lap dog and butt buddy, it was only in the context of how it seemed like wherever Hogan was, Beefcake was right behind him... no pun intended.

Oh, oh! I need to re-hash MINE: Remember in 1992 when Hogan (during the Sid/BOGUS angle) said Brutus was "my friend to the end"? There ya' go.

And it also makes those 1985 chants of "Brutus Fruitcake" seem relevant.
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