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8 hours ago, Cannibal Man said:

"...probably more around 9,000 gallons"

- WON, May 1987

Or 30,000 gallons of sake if it was a Japanese wrestling event.

47 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Fair point, they wouldn't pretend to hold a random draw back then. Everyone remembers the competitors in the first three Royal Rumbles came out in alphabetical order.

That's the Royal Rumble, this is Survivor Series, go back to bed and dream-book.

2 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Because that's how a random draw works, you fucking numpty.

Like they're going to do that in 1990, FURB.

2 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

That final match of survival at Survivor Series 1990 has always been weird for the fact it has 3 on one team and 5 on the other and no kayfabe reason for the heel vs. face dynamic. When I watch it now, I can't believe they didn't put Martel on the face team under the pretence of a random draw (as in the Wildcard match in 95) as he walked out anyway. If they'd had Tito out first and then had Martel walk out on Hogan and Warrior, it would have garnered tremendous heat.

"Hey Power and Glory and Warlord, thanks for teaming with me earlier in the night to be the first total team that survived, I'm gonna switch sides now, bye!"

This is why fan-booking is more like fan-wank.

4 hours ago, uklaw said:

Perhaps it’s too soon after the news breaking, I’m noticing a distinct lack of obvious posts from wrestlers and former colleagues on this or Brian Christopher as a person. They are probably out there but the usual sites have not posted links to them.

Which makes me think out of respect to The King, perhaps people are not saying anything if they can’t say anything nice. (though I hear that Sabu went in pretty hard on him, but then deleted his comments). 

Conjecture on my part so I’m happy to be corrected on any of the points I’ve made.

New Jack wrote some nasty things about Brian, as he's want to do, and Sabu didn't say much better. Tommy Dreamer used it as a chance to pimp his show.

2 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Millionaire or not, the guy is probably paying his exes a lot from that plus Tax. Look at Flair. He should be set for life with his paydays and his lifestyle out weighed his income. Just cos he should have it, doesn’t mean he does

If you own your own Batmobile, you're not struggling. Plus, I think he's only been married twice - the first wife, who he had Brian and Kevin with, and then Paula Lawler, the rest from Stacy to Renee and onward were just girlfriends.

23 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

I've been convinced he's got Aspergers for years, although I've never heard anything to confirm it. It would explain a lot about his personality.

Would make sense why he and Meltzer get on so well, birds of a feather...

I don't agree with Brian Last on everything, but he had it right when it comes to this guy - "Cunty" Lance Storm.

Gotta be the black trunks and chains for me, iconic look.

2 hours ago, PunkStep said:

The only ones I didn't get were the Bulldogs, both SD Jones figures Ted Arcidi and Hercules Hernandez (I went with Killer Khan, I don't remember him in that get-up). 

Look at Bundy and Andre. Why are the fatties glistening so much?

This is the look they were going for with Herc:

Yeah, Rick Rude is one of my all time favourites, but no way is he coming back in that state. Worse was when he was running interference for Curt Hennig and was really skinny.

I agree, but I also think there were times where he was just on the cusp of indisputable greatness and he got fired or walked. In '92 he had to trudge through the shit of the voodoo curse angle to get to the awesome Savage/Flair/Perfect angle around Summerslam. In '96 he was having to do the normal Ultimate Warrior stuff of squashing non-main event talent (then!) like Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Isaac Yankem, Goldust and Jerry Lawler before he would've gotten into far better programmes with Shawn and Vader and Owen and Bulldog. Beyond that he could've even moved onto Mankind and the Undertaker.

I think an update of his character would've been like what they did with Del Wilkes/the Patriot and Mankind and Goldust within a kayfabe scenario, saying while this guy portrays the Ultimate Warrior there's a much different person beneath the paint and Jim Ross could've interviewed him about his weird philosophy with him presenting himself with no face paint on and in normal clothes and talking normally.

And yes, Shawn would've got as good or better matches out of him as Rick Rude and Randy Savage did, and I could see the MSG fans getting behind him at Survivor Series '96 the way they did for Sid.

I've always had a theory that Warrior was getting the WWF championship in 1996/97 from either Shawn or Vader and there was going to be a forced update of his character, similar to how he had to go from cartoonish fighting Papa Shango in '92 with the pea soup and the curse to a serious guy in face paint against Savage and Flair.

Another unrelated theory I have is that before he got shitcanned in '91 that he was going to be the one that saved Randy and Liz at the wedding reception from Jake and the Undertaker and it was going to be a case of the guy who retired his opponent in the big match asks for his old enemy to be reinstated so they can fight their mutual enemies together.

Warrior told a story on his shoot interview about getting a contract offer the night before he was due to appear on Monday Nitro, which he obviously declined. Makes me wonder if he mixed up his timeline and it was actually this contract offer, possibly to counter the arrival of Bret Hart in WCW.

On 7/10/2018 at 10:51 AM, elisarcabrera said:

Here it is. I am in it too. It was uploaded many years ago when YT only short videos hence why it's split up. 

Part 1: On The Ropes Part 1 (FWA Wrestling documentary)
https://youtu.be/UgHvMFLcm4I 

Part 2: On The Ropes Part 2 (FWA Wrestling documentary)
https://youtu.be/cH8zOhVjBlA 

Part 3: On The Ropes Part 3 (FWA Wrestling documentary)
https://youtu.be/lpFaAYSQ2TA

Hi, can I ask what the take was on the inclusion of the bigger wrestlers, the Dominator and Flatliner, knocking the smaller wrestler? I don't think the knock was necessarily unwarranted, but always thought it was odd that it was included.

On that Lex Express video, at about an hour and eighteen minutes in, you can see a pre-ECW Francine and a friend getting a picture with Lex.

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6 hours ago, PowerButchi said:

Rik Waller's let himself go.

Good reply, but it looks like I still got down-voted twice... bastards! If I was a man like Dennis Flint I'd get Paul Sykes in to hit 'em right in the fucking ear hole!

Listening to YouTube clips here and there, because that's all I can stomach of the fat arsehole, I found myself constantly irritated my his pronunciation of "Chorna" (Chyna). Prichard I can manage, the money mark I can't.

22 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said:

See, you can't just go and post it so small that we can't read all the dirty details of what they got up to on the bearskin rug!

8 minutes ago, Lord-Mountevans said:

This is a great link if you like historical stuff.

The 5th photo down looks like a fan in the ring? I saw this show live on Cable TV & do not remember it happening? It must have been off camera or i am wrong. Does anyone else have any idea what is going on?

Doesn't a fan run in to hug Roddy Piper at the end of his match?