flyonthewall2983
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I've heard some speculation that went along with the "bald" picture that he's hung up his spurs and is done. Seeing him wheeled out of WM was pretty harsh to watch, and it certainly went through my mind I may have been watching his last one out. -
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This was the first WCW event I ever watched. We taped the replay of the show, and sadly it was cut during the heels entrance of this very match. I saw it for the first time recently on WWEClassics.com. I have to say it doesn't hold up with the rest of the excellent card, it felt like they were in a race with time to get the whole match on the show.
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Not to mention a HUGE drop-off in ticket sales. But maybe they'll just do controversial political angle, and move into a smaller building because of "terrorist threats".
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Best thing to come out of it is all the Super Dave references on Twitter.
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Well that was lame.
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I was thinking of something along the lines of a home invasion gone wrong. I wasn't aware of Chris' prior domestic abuse charge, so that's what made the most sense at the time.
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That happened too. On the DVD, Trips goes off on the guy who had the poster.
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I seem to remember hearing he was their neighbor.
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When did that happen? And what was the context? I must have missed it. One good example would be him bitching out the one contestant on Tough Enough, for basically being a Goldberg fan.
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That'd be a nice cross-over. Funny how people keep calling it the spinner belt when that particular function of it has been done away with for awhile.
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Because he thought it might have went down as it did isn't reflective of what everybody felt.
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Was that what the beginning of The Natural was based on?
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Could just be they changed their mind on turning them heels, and didn't air it because of that.
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Why was that "uber-creepy"? I thought it was a classic "heel marries/ dates authority figure/ powerful woman heel". I loved Eddie as much as the next fan, but the idea that his widow who's now an actress can't participate in storylines because of her "sainted real marriage" is silly. Would it be creepy if she actually remarried? Or would it only be creepy if she actually married someone in wrestling, separating her from the thousands of people who meet spouse number two at work? You bring up several good points, and I guess in hindsight it wasn't so bad but at the time it just felt wrong. It felt to me, like they were trying to erase Eddie from history. They made up for it when Vickie did the frog splash at WM last year, and when Cena mentioned him in that promo on Raw a few weeks back. And as for the prevailing theories, Bix, I'll go with number one. Number two seems pretty believable too, and I'd be lying if I said that possible angle wasn't floating around my head, however briefly. I'll say it again, the timing was what really made the show look as bad as it did to those who attacked it for being salacious. And given the timing, everyone must have been thrown into the first stage of grief, denial. As for it being a ratings ploy, again because of the timing I can't see it. My overwhelming feeling was this caught everybody in the headlights, and they just did what felt natural. If what felt natural included trying to boost ratings by talking about him, then so be it. Emptying the arena and showing clips from the DVD and entire previous matches was the only thing different, I'm sure done in part because of the criticism of the two other shows they did like this. Also, It wasn't really national news until the following day, ending up being a top story on all the cable networks by the end of the week. I'm not defending all they did to deflect the negative attention this story was bringing to bear, but I still feel the show was done with good intention.
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This quote is in relation to the controversial show aired the night everything was coming out. Part of me believes the blowback WWE received from this (not the actual incident itself) is karma for some things they did in the aftermath of Eddie's death. Specifically the night Orton trashed the car on Smackdown!. A good runner-up would be the uber-creepy angle where Edge and Vickie were "married". The timing of it all is the biggest give-away for my theory. This forced what was an otherwise canned show to think on it's feet, with hours to spare when the news started to break. But as for the actual show itself, I'll always give credit to them for doing the classy thing despite (and later to their peril) not being 100% certain of the facts. Vince opening the show in the ring of the empty arena was quite moving.
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That whole part of society is something I thankfully will never get. I would imagine there are a lot of horror stories the Divas past and present could tell. The last time I was fairly close to the ring at a house show, a whole line of pervs lined the front row with cameras to snap shots of the women. I think RAW came to shoot there next year, and a rather ugly middle-aged couple was quite obviously ogling the female ring announcer whose name I can't remember for the life of me.
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