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Didn't want to drag up an old lookalikes thread and therefore subject the forum to yet more "Edge & the guy from Puddle of Mudd, Jerry Lynn & the guy from Nickelback" stuff, but noticed while listening to some classic rhythm & blues earlier that Dean Ambrose bears a strong resemblence to Eric Burdon of the Animals c.1965 (particularly bottom left)

 

Within the last year or so, Vintage Collection aired the Randy Savage "coronation" segment, at which The Genius acted as Master of Ceremonies. Seeing the two of them standing together, both with full beards at the time, I have no idea how even as a kid I didn't even have the slightest inkling they might be related.

As somebody said on the WrestlingClassics board about it. Stadium wasn't built to NOT have a roof. It's like having a house with no roof. Some amount of damage must be happening to the seats and floor there. Not good. I can see them just scrapping it.

 

I would think that's what they'll end up doing anyway, it's the American Way. A guy who I follow on Twitter who is a Chicago Cubs fan went on a rant the other day aghast at the fact that they would "waste" $300m refurbishing Wrigley Field (the Cubs' beloved home of nearly 100 years' standing, iconic for it's ivy-covered outfield walls & vintage hand-turned scoreboard) when they could just bulldoze it & build a brand new stadium on top for the same money.

You're spot-on, Butch. The early ones contain all the really funny stuff - now he's exhausted that and pumps them out with such frequency (although they don't seem quite so regular these days?) it's generally just "here's a dropkick from this week's Raw that didn't connect completely cleanly".

 

However, there is still the odd vein of quality where pleather-clad skinny blokes horribly botch dives in front of three men & a dog, so they're not completely without merit these days.

He led all the men at Teddy Long's wedding (except Patterson and Brisco - who Patterson had to hold back) off on the ho train.

 

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I don't know why this has surprised me so much, but considering that's only just over 5 years ago, you can pretty much count the number of talents from that SmackDown/ECW contingent in attendance still with the company on one hand.

One of my top pro wrestling pet hates (alongside the double-clothesline) is WWE's insistence in recent years on everyone referring to "The Royal Rumble event" and "The Royal Rumble match" in case we're not clever enough to work out that if a guy says he's going to defend his WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble, he doesn't mean during the actual battle royal, but on the PPV card.

 

During this week's Superstars opening match (The Miz vs Tensai - I bet WWE didn't envision that would be the spot in which that match would eventually take place...) Matt Striker constantly talks about "the Royal Rumble event", but is referring to the Royal Rumble match. Fucking moron.

Not quite sure what Barney did other than try and raise his hand

 

To me, it looked like Taylor's issue was that Barneveld kept hold of his hand in an awkward way and tried to pull him back after the handshake - I'm no lip reader, but it looked to me like what Taylor said as he was pushing him away was "don't pull my fucking hand you cunt" or similar.

 

Total overreaction, and yes he is a grade-A prick, but you can sort of understand it given the adrenaline and the importance of his hands to his profession.

Didn't Animal do the side of his leg in during the entrance to Summerslam 1992? Sure I heard that Hawk parked his bike a bit funny, which meant that Animal had to as well. Animal gets off his cycle and rips his leg, and his tights open, on something from Hawk's bike. Way Animal tells it, it was pretty serious.

 

Just went back to watch the entrances of this match to see if you can see anything of this (you can't), but my word Ted DiBiase looks swish in all-white trunks, kneepads and boots. I'm of the opinion wrestlers usually do look good in all-white, but Ted is on a whole other level.

Summed up excellently and succinctly there Arch. I just don't get all the "but...but...but he's insulting our intelligence with his poor application of the the STF... and he's so cheesy...". It was all hokey shit when I started watching wrestling in 1990, and it's hokey shit now.

On the contrary, I fucking love Leo Kruger, and despair as to why they've saddled him with the former Chris Hero.

 

I can't argue with Bray Wyatt love, but then I loved Husky Harris.

That's a Sting outfit in Kofi's warehouse pictures, isn't it? Presuming it's just something that Sting left behind that was picked up in the WCW purchase, as I don't recall WWE ever doing a Sting parody/humiliation segment?

For me, Saturn's legendary status is assured by that story of him saving that girl from being raped.

 

Just imagine being the sort of lowlife who does that kind of thing, and the fear that must have enveloped them as a crazy-looking motherfucker, wide as he is tall and with two parallel lines tattooed down the middle of his head comes storming out of the mists of the alleyway, you shoot him IN THE NECK with a pellet gun and it barely phases him, and he proceeds to beat the hell out of both you and your mate. It's like something from the darker spectrum of DC Comics.

Except Starship Pain should have been a nearfall spectacle rather than a finish.

 

REALLY? As far as I can see it was 100% the end every time, if he could guarantee to actually land properly on his opponent rather than just graze them. If they're kicking out of that, it's 630 Moonbomb time, isn't it?

 

That was the problem, though - all the times he did it, I could probably count on my fingers the number of times he looked like he really impacted on his opponent - most times it was a graze from a despairing stretch of the arm. The twisty-turny bit made it look less impactful, not more.

 

If Shelton Benjamin comes back, I may poke my own eyes out in boredom. Only ever good at running up a ladder.

Big Bossman is probably due another run soon.

 

I read he's pencilled in to be the leader of The Shield.

This, wasn't it?

 

 

That was a little later, when he turned heel because he thought the refs were shit and thus costing him matches. The paint was supposed to represent injustice, or something.

 

The version of Tatanka who returned after the adoption into the Lakota tribe vignettes looked just the same, he just won matches for a bit.

Who played Owen Hart in the 1998 DX interpretation?

A Canadian (I think) stand-up and impressionist, stage name Jason Sensation. Massive wrestling fan, wrestling impressions were a big part of his act, none of them near as good as his Owen IMO. He stuck around WWF for a few other bits at the time, including playing Commissioner HBK in the DX Corporation parody skit.

I missed him say it, but apparently JBL said at Survivor Series that someone winning would be a bigger upset than Norwich beating Man U.

 

He did, it was as Kaitlyn got a near fall on Eve, thus combining two of the great loves of my life.

 

David Otunga must have

Kaitlyn always looks hot.

 

It's a natural side effect of, y'know, being hot.

EDIT - is that meant to be Owen? Surely the braces didn't come until High Energy.

Didn't Owen and Neidhart wear the 'High Energy'-style outfits first as the New Foundation?

 

They did, in their Rumble match against the Orient Express, too. Anvil looked a right pillock.

 

 

Not with the checkerboard braces though, did they? Not here, for sure:

 

 

The Anvil Hasbro definitely didn't have braces either.

The four Doinks had masks on at Survivor Series 93.

 

I did think of that one, but discounted it as they're really wigs with facepaint. Can you call something a mask if it shows your whole face?

Slightly odd question, inspired by Raw - does anyone recall a WWF/E match which featured MORE than three masked wrestlers? I'm sure there is one, but damned if I can think of one. Any kind of match will do - Rumbles count.

The crowd did not react at all to him being introduced as Tensai's opponent. People around me were confused as to why "Two crap baddies are fighting eachother", but by the closing stages of their short match McG had showed enough babyface fire to get the crowd right behind him as the plucky underdog and a large pop greeted his win.

 

For a couple of weeks, McGillicutty looked to have taken one of those "just because" face turns on Superstars, a la Tyson Kidd etc., working as the good guy against a couple of opponents - I think Tensai may have actually been one of them, and possibly JTG. He seemed to be back to heel last week though, although I forgot who he wrestled. That was probably just down to convenience of who they had around and not booked on Raw/Smackdown/Main Event or whatever taping they did the match at, though, and if he's doing it on house shows they could well be looking to make a turn stick.

 

As for a new look, on Superstars last week he wore these hideous cargo pant things, not sure if that was intentional or just a luggage snafu. I'm not sure about a singlet, but he could get some trunks in the classic Mr. P colour-schemes (yellow & sky blue, blue & orange etc.) for a nice nod without looking like too much of a rip-off. Just about everyone looks better in white boots, too.

Intrigued by Enzo Amore, mostly because he has a very prison-looking tattoo featuring bullet imagery on his stomach. Can't see WWE going for that, and would imagine some kind of singlet would be in order if/when he gets called up.

Its probably too late anyway but he should wrestle in proper boots to support his ankles instead of trainers and kickpads which will offer no support.

Maybe they cant take the pressure from boots though?I dare say there is a reason if he is wrestling in trainers, as he wore boots for most of his career

I would wager "can't afford boots" could well be the reason for that.

Me and my friends would always joke that the sticker books had these logos that we never saw elsewhere. I'm surprised they haven't been bought back for the Kid-ittude era

They do still exist - check out the loading screens for the video games, they've all got them.Also, didn't they use those logos for the entrance way video wall back in the day?