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Who was the Black Scorpion in Smoky Mountain Wrestling? He was a big guy on the 1st TV show but after brutalising jobber Paul Miller, he got rolled up for the pin and basically looked like a fool. I don't know if he ever appeared again after that.

 

Those first TV shows have a 1991 copyright on them so I'm guessing they were taped a few months before they aired (airdate I have for it is Feb 92) so I wondered if that was Cornette's way of trying to fool people into thinking Ric Flair was coming in, post-WCW or was it just Cornette having a dig?

 

Also, what did Vladimir Koloff do in the business? Who was he? I know he worked UWF a little bit but that's all I know.

I actually missed Top 50 games until it was near the end but it looked stellar. That said, draw a wrestler in MSPaint was the most fun I've ever had on this forum, ever. So that wins.

Home Alone - the sort of movie disliked by people without souls.

Pom Pom Girls - atrocious 1970s teen movie for teens rather than perverts nonsense that makes literally no sense.

 

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy - A mash up of deleted scenes and aborted plot lines coupled with a new narrative to try and have it all make sense. Enough laugh out loud moments but obviously not as good as Anchorman. Still, more Brick Tamland is a massive win.

 

Turtles Forever - What, you haven't seen this? Oh man, the fanboy's wet dream as the Turtles of 1987 wind up in the same dimension as the Turtles of 2003, much to the chagrin of the modern-day Raphael (of course) as the Shredder (the alien one from '03, not the bumbling '87 version - though he is there, along with Krang) discovers a multi-verse of Turtle dimensions and figures the only way to solve his problem is go after the original template known at Turtle Prime...leading to the arrival of the original 1984 Eastman and Laird black and white comic book foursome, as the twelve turtles band together in the hope of thwarting the erasure of the entire franchise.

 

In-jokes, parodies, cameos (Irma!), everyone being confused every time 1987 Raphael breaks the fourth wall and cracks a joke to the camera, 2003 Michaelangelo being enamoured with the '87 gang and Raphael (the 2003 one) falling in love with the bleakness of grimy, dark, black and white New York...all of it, wow. No James Avery or Cam Clarke though. Boo-urns.

Pillman would have been the biggest heel in history if Kim Wood hadn't chickened out of getting him in to the Superbowl. Naked Pillman handcuffed to the posts would have been big news EVERYWHERE.

 

I bet it wouldn't. In wrestling maybe, but it'd be more like "Local nut holds up football game" or "And finally...this naked man handcuffed himself to the goalpost! Ha ha ha!" Might have had *some* notoriety since he was a Bengal but realistically he only ever played for them three times.

Does anyone have a list of Kobashi's GHC title defences?

 

I've got a 4-disc DVD set of them all somewhere with the matches on, I'll report back if I can find it...All I can remember is he beat Misawa for it in 2003, defended at the Tokyo Dome twice (vs. Masa Chono in New Japan and Jun Akiyama in NOAH) and defended against Takeshi Rikio maybe twice and possibly Mike Awesome. There's plenty more than that too.

Terrorvision, Feeder, Raven, Gary Pallister, Matt Wilkinson, Tracy Smothers, Steve Pears, Alan Miller, Roderick Strong, some NOAH guys, Christian (jobber), Andy Kluz, some bloke who moved to Las Vegas to be a pro gambler then came back to England and became a scriptwriter on Hollyoaks, probably some others. Most aren't really 'famous' to any significant degree except maybe Gary Pallister and possibly Andy Kluz who's a sort of face-you-know-but-name-you-don't sort of bloke who does regional news, so if you're in the North East you probably see him on telly five nights a week. I met him at a Guisborough Town football game he was filming. Probably some others I've forgotten.

 

They were all pretty nice though Terrorvision seemed a bit disinterested until I engaged them a bit, Gary Pallister is sound as a pound, Steve Pears cracked a joke about my Ladbrokes pen (I was about 10 at the time) and Tracy Smothers is absolutely just the best. Christian...well, fuck Christian. Raven was miserable but I expected that. Ricky Marvin was a good laugh.

 

Fearne Cotton - stuck up fucking bitch who wouldn't make eye contact with anyone except her friend even though she knew people were recognising her, this was in a shop

 

I don't actually like Fearne Cotton but you think she's a stuck up fucking bitch because she didn't want to be bothered on a shopping trip with her friends? Cut the slag a break, eh? I mean, if she's doing a signing or somethign then alright but from the sounds of what you've written there, she was getting hassled by a few people while trying to go about her day.

Wikipedia has it.

HBK vs Flair WM24

Ric Flair Vs Shawn Michaels - Wrestlemania 24.

Ric Flair v HBK-WM24

People need to stop voting for this. It wasn't a good match.

 

We all have our different opinions.

Opinions can still be wrong.

 

It's a shame that in this case, it's your opinion that's wrong or you'd have a heck of an argument!

The Dudley's theme was dubbed on the DVD from the live version (pay-per-view used Powerman 5000 I think and the DVD has an in-house WWE Dudley's theme, neither being their ECW music).

and, why did the WWF downgrade "In Your House" to a tagline for the rest of their PPVs that had IYH in the title after IYH 16:Canadian Stampede?

Branding no doubt. If you think, we'd be up to about IYH 2349 or something by now. Doesn't look good on the poster.

 

Your maths is atrocious! Three more in 1997, 7 per year from 98-2002, 8 per year from 2003-2008 and generously adding about 15 to keep in line with all those extra shows they added the last couple of years and you'd still have only just about cracked 100 late last/earlier this year.

 

Also, I seem to remember the video cassettes and promotional posters keeping the In Your House logo (albiet tiny, squashed up in the corner and not really mentioned by the announcers or anyone) through to at least D-Generation-X or possibly as far as No Way Out Of Texas.

 

Last one to have the 'traditional' IYH logo.

 

Still kept the IYH name on the boxes from IYH 20, Feb 98.

 

Still doing it for IYH 26, Dec. 98.

 

Backlash in April 1999 had the IYH suffix on the posters but not the VHS. I think it was the last time they used it.

 

/GEEK.

They did a four-way tag team match at SummerSlam in August 1996 unless you're looking specifically for singles.

I've noticed the omission of Ventura from various WWE dvds over the last few years but he is heard on commentary throughout the Roddy Piper dvd.How did they manage that?

If I remember it right, at some point WWE and Ventura struck a deal (presumably just before the release of the WrestleMania Anthology box-set) in order to get Ventura's voice on the discs. There had been a lot of conceren from fans around the time that all those early shows (1 through 6) would be Ventura-less and all except 2 would feature Gorilla Monsoon talking to himself.As best I can tell, the deal has allowed them to put select matches with Jesse's announcing on other DVD releases such as Piper's and Hogan's but I don't believe the deal covered his entire body of work so his WCW announcing is still MIA.

They're not.

Kayfabe - he was battered by 12 heels, stuffed in a coffin, died and ascended to heaven.Real - time off to rest up and heal his injuries (apparently he was suffering from a really bad back and was wearing a brace).

Harts and Rockers also had a match at the Tokyo Dome in 1991 for Super World Sports.

What type of cameras are used to film wrestling in the WWE compared to the ones used in the Indy's?What are the differences in general specs of the filming as well?

Thats too broad to answer accurately since it essentially suggests every independent uses the same equipment. Some use cameras you can buy in supermarkets, some invest in TV industry standard top of the range equipment.

Where does the whole "surname said twice" thing come from? Obviously Kennedy Kennedy does it, and the guy announcing UFC 1 & 2 does it. But where does it come from?

I'm fairly certain that Kennedy used to call college sports games and on a whim, felt like announcing players in the old fashioned way ring announcers used to do - mentioning the name then repeating the surname so nobody missed it. One of his friends liked it so he kept doing it and took it into his pro wrestling where Paul Heyman fell in love with it and told him to keep doing it.

While we're on this theme, anyone know why TNA thought it would be a good idea to suddenly give all the new "knockouts" porno names?

Rights.

I think it's worth remembering it's always worth actually watching it before actually passing judgement.

this past week i've been copying some ecw tapes to dvd, however some of them has this guy in the front row who looks like vampiro. he has all the tats and some frizzy hair which reminds me off sideshow bob.

Shouldn't this be moved to The UKFF [Nearly-Official] Statements Thread?

Watching the WWE rendition of Starrcade 1997...........not so much as a peep of Michael Buffers sexy voice on the main-event introductions or post match speel. Anything sinister behind that or are they just frightened he's sue and/or they'd be liable to pay him for using his voice without prior permission ?

It's more likely to do with with re-dubbing the music. If you watch some WCW pay-per-views that air on 24/7 (particularly the earlier ones) some themes that WWE doesn't own the rights to are dubbed over, and as such the audio from the original is lost so in some cases (but not all depending on how the show was recorded), the commentators drop out, the crowd noise has to be dubbed in and a smarmy ring-announcer replaces Gary Michael Cappetta (how DARE they!), then on the same show where they have the original theme, GMC and all other sounds are left intact.

That's really interesting as Steve Davis might say considering the business is in a bit of a valley at the moment...I know the UK and Europe doesn't necessarily correlate with the USA though, is WWE doing better business in the UK with ratings and house show than recent years? Everyone seems to be so negative on it right now that I'm quite surprised that PS would be better off.

Can we assume thats related to the Chris Benoit incident or was there a peak in the first half of the year when Raw was red hot?

I'd like to know what any faggots thought of all this?