The Invisible Boy Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 The Hardcore Title Battle Royal at Wrestlemania 2000 was supposed to see Crash pin Tazz and then have Hardcore Holly pin Crash only for the time limit to be up as he got to two and the three count would not have been completed thus making Crash the winner. The end was mistimed however as the ref did his best to try and make it seem as though he only got to two when it was obvious it was a three count just before the bell rang. After the bell Crash quickly rolled out and grabbed the Title as he walked up the ramp, there was a little confusement and then Hardcore Holly was announced as the winner by the ring announcer. Pretty useless and I think a lot of people know about it but I had totally forgotten about it until I rewatched it a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted November 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 Bob Holly played the saxophone on Baker Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted November 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 The Hardcore Title Battle Royal at Wrestlemania 2000 was supposed to see Crash pin Tazz and then have Hardcore Holly pin Crash only for the time limit to be up as he got to two and the three count would not have been completed thus making Crash the winner. The end was mistimed however as the ref did his best to try and make it seem as though he only got to two when it was obvious it was a three count just before the bell rang. After the bell Crash quickly rolled out and grabbed the Title as he walked up the ramp, there was a little confusement and then Hardcore Holly was announced as the winner by the ring announcer. Pretty useless and I think a lot of people know about it but I had totally forgotten about it until I rewatched it a few weeks ago. Â I never understood why they didn't change the title during the post-game show they did on the PPV that year. Aside from the result not actually mattering that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 I'm almost positive the winner at WrestleMania had 24 hours immunity from the 24/7 rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 confusement Confusion and amusement at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members CuckedByMenry Posted November 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 Bob Holly played the saxophone on Baker Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivy Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Shawn Michaels every person he won the WWE tag titles with has also been a Wrestlemania opponent. Cena, Diesel, HHH and Austin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 Heyman pulled Hogan's leg before going for the leg drop on Brock, but there's no way that constitutes a fuck finish. I've seen squash matches with more cheating than that. By that law, Hogan probably never won a clean match in his life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted November 6, 2012 Moderators Share Posted November 6, 2012 Paul Heyman fucking stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Ronnie Posted November 6, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 6, 2012 True to form, I think I'll make a language-based contribution. Â The wrestling historian of the future looking back at the period between, say, 1995 and 2045 might be able to make reference to a generic "Vince Bishop" as his alpha male characterising the period, much as we do with John Bull when speaking of Merrie Olde England. Â The "Vince" element is easy - at the height of the 90s boom there was McMahon sitting atop the WWF empire and with Russo his chief writer spear-heading the charge, at the time lauded as the man responsible for turning around the WWF's fortunes. Russo then went to WCW as the man charged with repeating his earlier success and, the record will state, spent a decade leading the second-largest company in the industry in the opening decade of the twenty-first century. Â The "Bishop" element is not so evident, although some of you might work out part of it. Vince McMahon wasn't consistently the undisputed kingpin of the industry and lost his crown during the mid-90s when Eric Bischoff led the charge at WCW. It was Bischoff who changed the nature of wrestling programming from the slow-burn that we were used to into a fast-paced show that featured PPV-calibre match-ups on weekly television and one PPV per month. The consequence, of course, is that match-ups are rarely new nowadays but his model still stands. Â Bischoff is a mis-spelling of the original surname Bischof. It might have been written in its current guise for generations in that family, but it would originally have come to the United States via a German immigrant carrying the original surname, which in the native language translates as Bishop. Â Still, unless I think that Eric Bischoff (or his son) will return to lead TNA to dominance over the next three decades, then my comment about Vince Bishop being the caricature czar of the wrestling industry between 1995 and 2045 seems to be about thirty years too ambitious. Not so. Â When Vince McMahon shuffles off this mortal coil the reins to WWE will be handed to his daughter and her husband, Paul Levesque, pronounced more or less "l'vek". That surname is a strange one for sure, and you won't find it in any dictionaries. But there's a story behind it. Â French surnames, like ours, are often rooted in occupations. So the name Matthew LeTissier suggests to me that the original bearer of that surname in his family was a weaver (le tisser in modern French) and so the name means "Matthew the weaver". But what's that got to do with Triple H? There's no word "evesque" in French for me to argue that it's an occupational surname. (Note that I'm leaving the 'l' aside, since that's the bit that will translate as 'the'.) Â Language has a way of leaving the odd clue about etymology if you know how to look for it. One of these is that French words in which the letter 's' within it gradually stopped being pronounced and instead just lengthened the preceding vowel is that the 's' was often removed from the spelling and a circumflex (^) was added to the vowel. With that little bit of knowledge we can see clear links between French words and their English equivalents: h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted November 6, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 6, 2012 Ronnie is the fucking man. Consistently top quality output. Love that post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ShortOrderCook Posted November 6, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted November 6, 2012 Fascinating post Ronnie. Part of me wants you to start a language thread which I could see being as well received as Rule Ones belt thread, but then the rest of me likes you just popping up with these gems unexpectedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 8, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 8, 2012 Here's one ... Â WWE has been named WWE for a decade now. Which means those fans who got into wrestling liking John Cena and Rey Mysterio look at us in the same way we looked at people who watched the WWWF. Think about that for a second. Its a big mind fuck and incredibly depressing to think we live in a world where people actually ask confusingly "you mean it used to be called WWF?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killjoy_Gee Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Hulk Hogan has never defeated Jerry Lawler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Impact Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Vickie Guerrero has been on WWE TV longer than Eddie was, Vickie on-off 2005-Present Eddie 2000-2005 Â side note: next week it'll be 7years since Eddie died Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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