Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted September 2, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted September 2, 2015 SummerSlam 2001. I'd quite forgotten how utterly shit Steve Austin's music was. Ear bleeding stuff. Which one is it? Is it the Disturbed version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slapnut Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I actually quite like it as a theme, but I have no idea what they were thinking giving it to Austin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted September 2, 2015 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 2, 2015 The Alliance got bummed so hard that night. Cena last year and Nexus five years ago didn't get squashed half that bad. Â The Rock's Sharpshooter in the main is absolutely the worst application of any submission hold I've ever seen. Â Shane McMahon is fantastic in that match though. And takes one of the best Clotheslines from hell ever. Â "Steph McJugs" is a great sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sir Steve Redgrave Posted September 2, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted September 2, 2015 Whenever I hear that show mentioned, all I can think of is all of DDP's remaining credibility coming in to the WWF being left in that steel cage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshC Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 My best friend from secondary school quit following wrestling cold turkey straight after that show. He'd been following it in minute detail for years. Says a lot about the content and moreover what it all meant. Though Austin vs Angle had good action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted September 2, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted September 2, 2015 Which one is it? Is it the Disturbed version? Â No, it's the really shit one he had between Disturbed and his turn back to babyface and reverting to pre-Disturbed the night after Survivors. Â The Alliance got bummed so hard that night. Â Indeed. I always think of the word "castrated". PS said at the time they might have called the show "The WWF Strikes Back." They twatted the WCW guys for three titles in one night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted September 2, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) Whenever I hear that show mentioned, all I can think of is all of DDP's remaining credibility coming in to the WWF being left in that steel cage. Â Yeah. The SummerSlam logo might as well have been DDP's shitty pleather pants he showed up in, because when I think of that show, I see DDP getting a good kicking off the Undertaker and Kane. DDP was as much to blame to be fair. I dont think anyone was so ill prepared to come into the WWF like he did. He's quite overbearing as well, so that must not have went down well with the locker room leader. Apparently Undertaker hated him because he'd take Fuji bumps for Undertaker's offense. Edited September 2, 2015 by IANdrewDiceClay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) Imagine being Undertaker, no doubt the most humourless bastard on the planet to start with, and this 70 year old bloke comes up to you acting like he's your best mate and giving you a script he's written for your match with him. And on top of that, he's from the terrible company that's gone bust and he's taken a massive pay cut to join the WWF because he's a big mark. Â DDP dug his own grave and filled it with shit before he jumped in. It's a shame as well, because he was really good at times in WCW. And even in the WWF, his self-help character was enjoyable. I'd love to see him back for a little feud (or at least a one-off bit) with Bo Dallas or New Day. Edited September 2, 2015 by King Pitcos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted September 2, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted September 2, 2015 He was great in the Royal Rumble as well. Looked better than he did in 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Yeah, I was just watching that. You'd think he could do at least a little singles match on a pay-per-view or Raw. One way to spice up the midcard who have all wrestled each other loads of times is to bring back old names for short runs like the Outlaws do now and again, and Dally would be up near the top of the list for me if he's up for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam O'Rourke Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 For sadistic reasons, watching them fuck up DDP's entrance at Summerslam has always been a moment of cruel humour for me. Like, absolutely nothing will go right for Page on this night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted September 2, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) According to Kanyon, he was willing to kill himself for that match to be great. He was coming up with all kinds of spots (like a fucking double chokeslam of the top of the cage!) and Undertaker said "no, just walk out and leave your partner." Its funny how the match was solely designed to kill DDP's career. Like nothing more than that. There was no where else to go back then, so if the WWF buried you, you were pretty much fucked. Its quite hilarious in a sad sort of way. Â Poor Dallas. With his notepad full of moves. "These are the moves you're going to do Glenn." Â EDIT: Even typing that makes me confused. How did he think he could work a program with the Undertaker and tell him what order his moves should be in? Just fucking madness. Edited September 2, 2015 by IANdrewDiceClay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted September 3, 2015 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 3, 2015 I do feel sorry for DDP. He does seem like such a decent guy for pro-wrestling. That Pitcos post from Taker's POV is hilarious and if it was anyone else, you'd imagine it was them thinking they were the big fucking star but with DDP you just feel that even though he was a reasonably big star - it was just utter naivety. He really wanted to work, he wanted shit to be good and he wanted to get everything over. Â Poor bastard walked into an environment where everyone thought he was a cunt before he started. Â Highlight of SummerSlam 2001 BTW is Stasiak trying to attack The Rock. Something else I'd forgotten was on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I like DDP, though admittedly I wasn't so fussed before I started doing DDP Yoga stretches every other day. That's the good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbacon85 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Just watched The Kliq Rules documentary and holy shit, what is up with Vinces face? His eyebrows...his...his eyebrows. What a bizarre looking fella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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