Everything posted by returner82
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Dave Meltzer stuff
Alvarez: "The only thing you two have in common is that you're both muscular!" Ladies and gentlemen, the Narcissist Dave Meltzer!
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"He's ambitiously stupid" - Why Scott Keith's new book is scary bad
Dave Newman, I've reviewed animation on there when there was some interest for it, but I've handed the keys back on it.
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"He's ambitiously stupid" - Why Scott Keith's new book is scary bad
Sadly so. I went from being dead set against guys on there like Hart Killer and wnyxmcneal and then turning completely around on them because at least they have brains in their heads, whereas others just seem to be totally plugged into messaging there every few minutes, then making out that you're the sad one and not part of their gang. It really does make you think they weigh several hundred pounds and do nothing else all day.
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"He's ambitiously stupid" - Why Scott Keith's new book is scary bad
I have potentially alluded to this before, but I've written reviews on his site of wrestling and other stuff. That's greatly declined due to having a busy career plus general loss of love for it due to getting irritated with the bully boy posters in the comments section. PeteF3 is one of the preeminent posters on there, which I have praised him for before, but there are some really nasty types in the comments section. I'll be honest, two or three years ago I was just as guilty of having both guns blazing and when I look back on some of those comments now I get pretty embarrassed, but it was probably a case of having too much time on my hands and other issues, long since resolved, that was the cause of that. The obnoxious posters have gotten worse in that time, not better, though.
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Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4
You're probably the best poster on there, mate.
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Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4
Didn't BW try a surgery involving cadaver parts? Pretty sure he talked about it in his original RF Video shoot interview, he was off for a year between losing the belt to Flair and then coming back and everything turning to mulch in his comeback as the 6'7", blonde, 300 lb former world champion for Colonel Parker.
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WWE Hidden Gems
Only thing was that if, say, Demolition hit someone with Mr. Fuji's cane, they would splice in a 2004 crowd shot of some dude with pierced ears, which was really incongruous.
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Worst wrestler/manager combination ever?
Nope! Never aired.
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Worst wrestler/manager combination ever?
Except you NEVER saw it - they recorded it but never put it on TV.
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WWE Hidden Gems
Pretty sure that was already up.
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Holy Grails
Pretty sure Herman the German is Ulf Herman.
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Holy Grails
Probably Colt Cabana or Punk with a cushion stuffed up their shirts.
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Lesser known or remembered wrestling matches that turned into shoots
I'm surprised that Gary Hart went along with that instead of siding with the other guys.
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WWE Hidden Gems
ZOINKS! BLOODBATH! "Where are we wrestling fans? You got it, Comiskey Park. And what's the year? Yeah, you're right again! 1974! And who's that wrestling? That's Pretty Boy Heenan and the Sheik! The Sheik of Araby! Da-da-da da-da-da! You gave your love to me! I remember that song and so did the Sheik, he loved that song!"
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WWE Hidden Gems
To accommodate his braids, the mask looks more like a jockstrap than Aldo Montoya's.
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WWE Hidden Gems
Would've been funny if he came out to the Diamond Studd music, seeing as that's just a piece of stock music, same as Lex Luger's 1995 WCW entrance music being used on WWF commercials and bumpers around the same time.
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WWE Hidden Gems
Long purple tights, Three Faces of Fear music, 263 lbs from ORLANDO, Florida.
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WWE Network... It's Here
Haven't they edited some of that out on the Network? Seem to recall him and Brian talking about it on the Drive-Thru a while back. Wasn't he cracking jokes about someone making a fortune off selling towels to them?
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Dave Meltzer stuff
Stick that face is some dough and make some gorilla cookies!
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WWE Hidden Gems
Yeah, you're right, I can't believe everyone thinks it's Marc Laurinaitis.
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U.K. promoters lifting names from U.S. stars - any go the opposite direction?
I don't know if the first elbow lands on his head, but there's certainly that moment where Riggs jumps into his arms from the top rope and he catches and drops him straight away and then falls on top of his legs. A guy like that, getting ill or not, just wasn't someone who would necessarily be strong. It's like Andre after the back surgery and how little he could do compared to even a few years prior.
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WWE Hidden Gems
Yeah, he was the referee on a lot of international tours. You can tell him by the moustache.
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83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
Yeah, Raven, as funny as he can be on shoot interviews before he'd run through all of his material, is the classic example of "buy him for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth".
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Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4
I like the lemon and lime description, and in fact the yellow/gold razors on the trunks did look good and "popped", but it's the piss yellow boots that let it down. I think even if he'd had green and yellow boots, like Dennis Condrey had in Mid-South, it would've been better, but basically all green bar yellow boots always looked dreadful to me. Even though he had generally solid colour schemes (all black, all purple, all red, etc.), I didn't mind a bit of mix and matching for Razor - I think he went with red boots and yellow trunks in '95 and I actually didn't mind the black trunks and yellow boots look he had in his Vader swan song, but green and yellow was a big no. Flair had the green and yellow look at the Clash X show in '90 and this Nitro match against the Giant, which I believe marked the Giant's first face turn, which lasted exactly one week: Flair liked the yellow boots a lot between 1994 and 1996, whether with an all yellow look or the Starrcade '95 bronze look with the bronze robe, black trunks, red knee protectors and yellow boots. He was wearing odd boots at times, though, because one boot had red initials on it and the other had white initials on it.
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Dave Meltzer stuff
Any time you've done a blade job so bad that you need a blood transfusion after it's gone too far.