Merzbow Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 What a cushy job though, before that it was slicing themselves open night after night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted January 17, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/16/2022 at 1:33 PM, Tommy! said: Taka: Rumble 2000. It was the first rumble I'd watched and seeing him fly through the air and bounce off the mats on replays as Lawler pissed himself and ask to see it again really stuck with me. It also has the best rumble entrance with one of the MSP bouncing themselves off the bottom rope trying to slide in. For a third it has the best rumble tactics from Road Dogg of just gripping the bottom rope in the fetal position for as long as possible. +1 for all of the above. Enjoyed Funaki still continuing to interfere afterwards as part of the running gag, even though Taka was wiped out.  4 hours ago, wandshogun09 said: Getting caught on that bottom looks nasty, especially if you're of a more pleasantly plump outline. To that end, 'Taker probably gets off quite lightly here in comparison: Brilliant commentary and crowd reaction here. Mad that this is 20 years ago.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted January 17, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2022 Didn't they do a call back to that maven bit with undertaker the following year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted January 17, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2022 14 minutes ago, Tommy! said: Didn't they do a call back to that maven bit with undertaker the following year? They did - Maven dropkicked him and gave it the big one thinking he'd repeated the feat, then took a meaty chokeslam before getting chucked out. Good memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam O'Rourke Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 5 hours ago, wandshogun09 said: I can't tell you how much that made me laugh to see it in reality. You're a fucking star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 18, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 18, 2022 10 hours ago, Merzbow said: What a cushy job though, before that it was slicing themselves open night after night. Absolutely! I have all the time in the world for guys, then and now, who just see WWE as a cushy retirement package after years of doing the actual work elsewhere. Getting the big bucks for the minimum amount of effort is living the dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted January 18, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 18, 2022 Pete Gas failing miserably on a run-in in the 2000 Rumble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted January 18, 2022 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) This one always gets me. Massive pop, and HHH gives it the big one with multiple crotch chops, slapping his groin with the energy of a teenager that's just discovered porn, before collapsing into his corner (presumably post-orgasm). (Skips to elimination) Â Edited January 18, 2022 by Fatty Facesitter Wrong link. Idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Jerry Lawler’s was a funny one in 97, gets up from the announce desk with the immortal line ‘It takes a king…’, jumps over the ropes into two right hands from Bret back over the ropes and stumbles back to the desk to finish with ‘…to know a king’ then spends the rest of the match delirious and denying he was ever in the match despite what Vince and JR were telling him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEGIT Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I think because we've seen so much similar in the last 20-odd years we forget how original Shawn Michaels theatrics were in mid 90s Royal Rumbles. From his superb selling, flying around like a pinball and his famous going over the top rope and pulling himself up, I don't think there's been any one more influential in Royal Rumbles. I've said it lots but to me his performance in the 95 Rumble gets overlooked because of the cartoonish jobbers involved in the Rumble and it's short length. To me he put in as good a one man performance as we've ever seen, him and Bulldog starting and finishing the Rumble was fun and the (at the time) original ending was executed perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 The blueprint for any Shawn Michaels/Ziggler everyone hanging about is all influenced by Curt Hennig in the 1989 Rumble. Shawn is actually in that match and Perfect still outdoes everyone in that match. Hope he got more that Warlord in his pay packet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dart Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 On 1/17/2022 at 12:42 PM, jazzygeofferz said:  Was it a Rumble or a battle royal where Omos was ringside and kept catching AJ Styles whenever he went over the top? Think that was last year's Rumble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 19, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2022 26 minutes ago, LEGIT said: To me he put in as good a one man performance as we've ever seen, him and Bulldog starting and finishing the Rumble was fun and the (at the time) original ending was executed perfectly. I hated that ending, even at the time. I thought it made too many people look stupid. Even as a 12 year old, the bell not ringing to signal the end of the match was glaringly obvious to me, but the on screen characters had to not notice this. Bulldog, Vince on commentary, the guy that cued Davey’s music, all made to look dumb. The ref hasn’t told the timekeeper to ring the bell so… what the fuck are you all doing? I understand they were trying to fool us but it looked rubbish, even if you didn’t see Shawn still clutching the ropes and trying to get himself back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEGIT Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) 44 minutes ago, air_raid said: I hated that ending, even at the time. I thought it made too many people look stupid. Even as a 12 year old, the bell not ringing to signal the end of the match was glaringly obvious to me, but the on screen characters had to not notice this. Bulldog, Vince on commentary, the guy that cued Davey’s music, all made to look dumb. The ref hasn’t told the timekeeper to ring the bell so… what the fuck are you all doing? I understand they were trying to fool us but it looked rubbish, even if you didn’t see Shawn still clutching the ropes and trying to get himself back in. Fair enough but I strongly disagree. It was mid 90s WWF so simpler times, we all believed the ref bumps/ belt shots behind the refs back, run ins etc. despite how phony it generally was. The fact Bulldogs music played, then Michaels appears and hits him off the ropes, and the confusion, I loved it. When The Fink died, everyone was reminiscing over his best announcements, my favourite was here, "only one of Shawn Michaels feet hit the floor... therefore the winner of the 1995 Royal Rumble etc etc." The slowmo of Shawn dangling trying to regain his balance while the crowd egged him on was great. I thought it was a really fun and original finish for the time  Edited January 19, 2022 by LEGIT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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