July 4, 200718 yr comment_5418867 It would appear that the 7/4 update didn't take place for us here. I'll have to check when I get back on Friday if it was due to the holiday or due to WWE request.
July 4, 200718 yr comment_5418870 Updated here. Wrestlemania 23 is back, without Chris Benoit/MVP. The Bunkhouse Stampede is surprisingly good.
July 4, 200718 yr comment_5418892 Ironic that the match that put MVP over the top in a lot of people's eyes is now effectively erased from history. If one day MVP ends up a star and the inevitable career retrospective DVD comes out, WWE will have it that one day he just magically became viewed as a A level player.
July 4, 200718 yr comment_5418899 Nah, they'll say it was his epic series of cult favorite matches with Kane that put 'im over the top.
July 4, 200718 yr comment_5418901 WWE in 2007 running the promos where Foley tries to get Dreamer to give up the hardcore style so he can live a long, healthy life is really bizarre.
July 5, 200718 yr comment_5418919 WWE in 2007 running the promos where Foley tries to get Dreamer to give up the hardcore style so he can live a long, healthy life is really bizarre.Ironically Dreamer was right all along. If he had jumped to WCW, he'd be out of the business. Staying with ECW allowed him to eventually land his WWE gig that he currently holds.
July 8, 200718 yr comment_5419015 Nice little surprise on Primetime this week as the Crush Gals make an appearance.
July 12, 200718 yr comment_5419219 Survivor Series 93 is just hilarious to watch. Shawn's mullet is out of control and threatens to take over his interview segment. Also it's funny to notice that the 3 guys who are still active wrestlers in 2007 are HBK, Taker, and Mable/Viscera/Big Daddy V.
July 25, 200718 yr comment_5419749 Holy shit, the 4/21/76 episode of CWF that just came up is the greatest thing ever. Funky 70s theme music, Gordon in a pink 70s jacket, Dusty with a paralyzed face looking and sounding eerily like current Jim Ross, Andre, Frank "Not Brody Yet" Goodish.......just wow............ *edit* If that wasn't enough, Goodish is teaming with KING CURTIS~! (with hair~!)
July 26, 200718 yr comment_5419809 More WWE editing hilarity: The Freebirds' entrance is clipped completely from GAB 90, they didn't even get the dubbed over generic music treatment. What makes it great is that I have to assume the Birds were using Badstreet USA or some other song made by current member of the WWE inner circle Michael Hayes, and they couldn't even secure the rights to his music either.
July 26, 200718 yr comment_5419810 Hmm, is Badstreet USA intact in the WM Anthology during Hayes's entrance at WM17?
July 26, 200718 yr comment_5419812 More WWE editing hilarity: The Freebirds' entrance is clipped completely from GAB 90, they didn't even get the dubbed over generic music treatment. What makes it great is that I have to assume the Birds were using Badstreet USA or some other song made by current member of the WWE inner circle Michael Hayes, and they couldn't even secure the rights to his music either.Maybe they actually used Freebird that night?
July 26, 200718 yr comment_5419813 More WWE editing hilarity: The Freebirds' entrance is clipped completely from GAB 90, they didn't even get the dubbed over generic music treatment. What makes it great is that I have to assume the Birds were using Badstreet USA or some other song made by current member of the WWE inner circle Michael Hayes, and they couldn't even secure the rights to his music either.Maybe they actually used Freebird that night? Consisidering they were deep in the sequins and makeup phase at this point, I doubt it.
July 26, 200718 yr Author comment_5419837 They were definitely using "Badstreet USA" at this point. This was at the height of their fake rock stars gimmick.
July 27, 200718 yr comment_5419884 Call me crazy, but is that Joyce Farhat in the Uncle Elmer wedding?
July 27, 200718 yr comment_5419892 They were definitely using "Badstreet USA" at this point. This was at the height of their fake rock stars gimmick. Makes me wonder why WWE can't secure the rights to it then, it's not like Hayes is ever going to use it again and the video is a "Shorties" segment if there ever was one. Then again, WWE doesn't seem to have the rights to half the songs on the albums they made themselves either.
July 27, 200718 yr Author comment_5419897 I wonder if maybe even Hayes doesn't even own the rights to that song.
July 28, 200718 yr comment_5419952 I wonder if maybe even Hayes doesn't even own the rights to that song. I'm pretty sure he wrote it so he should at least own the publishing rights unless he was really bad at negotiating when the deal was made.
August 2, 200718 yr comment_5420114 Watching RAW from 1997, I just realized how Sunny completely copied Rick Rude's "fat, out of shape" heat routine. I guess I was distracted by something when I was watching this as an 18 year old........ *edit* TELL ME A LIE VIDEO! GREATEST RAW EVER!
August 2, 200718 yr Author comment_5420118 Rick Rude was so awesome, and he does get some credit, but I still think he's underrated. Especially in terms of the influence on later gimmicks.
August 2, 200718 yr comment_5420129 They were definitely using "Badstreet USA" at this point. This was at the height of their fake rock stars gimmick. Were they possibly using that godawful "because I'm a Freebird and what was your excuse" song (the one they used and entered the ring with a horrible lip sync act at one of the Clashes) by this point? Or did they start that affront to humanity right around the time they were hooked up with Big Daddy Dink and Bradstreet?
August 2, 200718 yr comment_5420130 I was watching the THE version of Bash '90 and they were using "Badstreet" at that time. I believe their performance of that other song you mentioned at the Clash in January '92 was the first time they ever came down to it.
August 2, 200718 yr Author comment_5420131 They were definitely using "Badstreet USA" at this point. This was at the height of their fake rock stars gimmick. Were they possibly using that godawful "because I'm a Freebird and what was your excuse" song (the one they used and entered the ring with a horrible lip sync act at one of the Clashes) by this point? Or did they start that affront to humanity right around the time they were hooked up with Big Daddy Dink and Bradstreet? They started using that during the Kip Frey era, I think debuting it at Clash XVIII in Topeka, KS, a couple of years after this. Frey apparently loved Hayes and Garvin enough to take them off the road for a few months to get them over as something special and also give them $50,000 raises.
August 3, 200718 yr comment_5420143 Rick Rude was so awesome, and he does get some credit, but I still think he's underrated. Especially in terms of the influence on later gimmicks.The kiss he'd give at the cameraman when coming down the aisle in WCW was particularly great. Such a simple little touch, but it didn't come off "gay" or "ladies man". It was more like a kiss of death considering how pissed off he looked.Damn, I forgot how awesome it was when the Road Warriors were the surprise on this RAW.
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