Paid Members Jazzy G Posted November 15, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 15, 2016 Rock never seemed to mind dropping shoulders because he probably knew he could bounce back from it off the back of his charisma. Â Am I misremembering, or did "Lord Tensai" get a couple of win over John Cena following his "debut" on Raw? And does the stuff between Curtis Axel & HHH count from that spell when he became a "Paul Heyman Guy" under the misguided belief that Paul E. could get people over the way they seemed to think he did for Lesnar & Punk, even though they were already <i>well</i> over with or without Heyman and he kept getting these countout wins and leaving Tripper injured and selling concussions etc? IT lasted about 2-3 weeks, then suddenly Cesaro and Axel weren't associated with Heyman anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ElCece Posted November 15, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 15, 2016 This actually could be extended to "shitarses beating stars", to include that time on Raw that Bossman pinned The Rock to set him up for Big Show What this actually happened? Rocky putting over Bossman clean in 99. Even Rock never had a problem putting people ovee thats almost unfathomable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Just got done watching Survivor Series 98 and there were a couple of details I had forgot happened, first was Shane refereeing the Sable/Jacqueline Women's title match just before he went on to turn heel on Austin, the second was Lawler taking a pot shot at WCW over the Halloween Havoc fiasco the month before and last was the post match stuff with Austin and Rock as I had assumed for years the PPV had gone off with The Mcmahons and Rock celebrating their collusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Just got done watching Survivor Series 98 and there were a couple of details I had forgot happened, first was Shane refereeing the Sable/Jacqueline Women's title match just before he went on to turn heel on Austin, the second was Lawler taking a pot shot at WCW over the Halloween Havoc fiasco the month before and last was the post match stuff with Austin and Rock as I had assumed for years the PPV had gone off with The Mcmahons and Rock celebrating their collusionAnd the giant New Age Outlaws sign that went across an entire block in the crowd and had Road Dogg's whole monologue on it. Â I assume considering how vital Austin was to every crowd and every segment back then and how neurotic the company were with this that every live Raw back then ended with a load of off camera stunners and beer baths to send them home happy. Putting it on PPV was certainly an odd choice though. Â I mean Rock and the McMahons standing tall is clearly your closing shot. I guess it's the one we've all remembered anyway so it probably matters squat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted November 15, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 15, 2016  This actually could be extended to "shitarses beating stars", to include that time on Raw that Bossman pinned The Rock to set him up for Big Show What this actually happened? Rocky putting over Bossman clean in 99. Even Rock never had a problem putting people ovee thats almost unfathomable   Didn’t The Rock do the job for Shane Helms of all people, too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ElCece Posted November 15, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 15, 2016 Wasnt clean though from my recollection. Someone ( Austin? ) caused a distraction and Hurricane snuck a roll up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digforvictory Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016  Just got done watching Survivor Series 98 and there were a couple of details I had forgot happened, first was Shane refereeing the Sable/Jacqueline Women's title match just before he went on to turn heel on Austin, the second was Lawler taking a pot shot at WCW over the Halloween Havoc fiasco the month before and last was the post match stuff with Austin and Rock as I had assumed for years the PPV had gone off with The Mcmahons and Rock celebrating their collusionAnd the giant New Age Outlaws sign that went across an entire block in the crowd and had Road Dogg's whole monologue on it. I assume considering how vital Austin was to every crowd and every segment back then and how neurotic the company were with this that every live Raw back then ended with a load of off camera stunners and beer baths to send them home happy. Putting it on PPV was certainly an odd choice though.  I mean Rock and the McMahons standing tall is clearly your closing shot. I guess it's the one we've all remembered anyway so it probably matters squat.   I've never understood why they did that. It's baffling. Did they assume there'd be riots or something so they planned for Austin to return to defuse any situation like that?  You've just turned the number 1b babyface heel in a genuinely shocking swerve, surely you leave people with that image.  Not Austin shuffling out and taking the attention. That sort of thing used to really annoy me about Austin back then although of course like you said it didn't really matter in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickin it wit the kliq Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Nature Boy Buddy Landell. Â Watched In Your House 5 the other day, and totally forgot about him, was it a dig at Flair or just Landell doing to Flair what Flair did to Buddy Rodgers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted November 15, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 15, 2016 That squash from Ahmed Johnson to set the feud with Jarrett up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members unfitfinlay Posted November 15, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 15, 2016   This actually could be extended to "shitarses beating stars", to include that time on Raw that Bossman pinned The Rock to set him up for Big Show What this actually happened? Rocky putting over Bossman clean in 99. Even Rock never had a problem putting people ovee thats almost unfathomable   Didn’t The Rock do the job for Shane Helms of all people, too?   Rock was awesome during that period. He seemed to be trying to put over as many people as possible on his way out of the company. Christian probably benefited the most out of it, actually. People tend to forget that it was his brief role as the "Rock's biggest fan", and subsequent attempt to be the new "People's Champion", that led to him becoming "Captain Charisma" and having the best run of his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamply Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 *The Smackdown Junior Division - complete with Lucha Underground's very own Mascarita Sagrada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqc45kgxnzQ  Smackdown was absolutely insane back in the 05-06 days, I loved it.  On that note...  * Heidenreich was a Road Warrior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmkVSxK-4c  * Palmer Cannon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVMYd7FBZzQ  * There were some bizarre tag teams, like The Dicks and Gymini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaJZus5Svac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-XlawdSuCE  * This is a bit later, but Jesse from Jesse and Festus was briefly rebranded Slam Master J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFAh88APwTs  * And I can't find any footage of this last one, but at one point in either later 02 or early 03, John Cena introduced "Redd Dogg" as his new tag team partner (Rodney Mack), only for him never to appear on Smackdown again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016  * And I can't find any footage of this last one, but at one point in either later 02 or early 03, John Cena introduced "Redd Dogg" as his new tag team partner (Rodney Mack), only for him never to appear on Smackdown again. He also had Bull Buchannan as a manager under the name B2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted November 16, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 16, 2016 The term they used for both Redd Dogg & B2 was "running buddy", as in "those two guys run [hang out, do things] together" but loads of people misheard it as "run-in buddy" and got all lathered up about the fact their were telegraphing that he was going to do run-ins on behalf of Cena, IIRC. Â "Slam Master J" was a return to a pre-WWE gimmick for Jesse. Before being a hillbilly, he'd morphed from Ray Gordy to "Ray Geezy", a white rapper gimmick - this was at the height of Eminem's fame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSF Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Rico once beat Ric Flair clean on Raw! Which from what I remember nothing ever came of. This was before his proper singles run too, which made it even more bizarre.  Also, Teddy Long managing the "Reflection of Perfection" Mark Jindrak on Smackdown in-between his runs with Rodney Mack & Mark Henry is one that had slipped my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamply Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016  Also, Teddy Long managing the "Reflection of Perfection" Mark Jindrak on Smackdown in-between his runs with Rodney Mack & Mark Henry is one that had slipped my mind.  If I'm remembering correctly this was actually after his runs managing Mack and Henry. Teddy was drafted to Smackdown and they did this whole thing where he was looking for a client. Spike Dudley wanted to be his client, and this culminated in a match between Teddy and Spike, in which Teddy's new client made himself known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY45md6_a3E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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