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Never Scored said:
It feel like you don't see a lot of dudes like Horace in wrestling anymore. Just a big hoss that can't wrestle very good, but he's so big and ugly, a smaller face going over him means something. You get a scattered one now like Strowman, but it used to feel like the rosters of both WCW and WWF were filled with those guys. I wonder where they all went.

For reference Horace was the size of Oba Femi.
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You've still got guys like Lance Archer, Don Fale, Baron Corbin, Hikuleo, Oskar of KOB and there's a smattering in AJPW.

Part of it is that AEW wants spot monkeys not big hosses and WWE likely weeds out a lot of them in their development process because they want athletic guys, not big guys unless they're really freaking big, like billed around 7 foot big. And really freaking big is a very small segment of the population.

There's also the problem of where else can the big guys learn when the indies would rather have guys who can fake fight women?
 
Thiletonomics said:
2K revealed how the Battle Passes for WWE 2K26 will work.
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This is stupid.
Battle passes work for games that have years of support in store and are not expecting sequels any time soon.
Why should I grind for weeks on end for a game that is already planned to be obsolete by this time next year? If I really want X, why not just wait and see of he’s in the next game. And if they’re not- I’ll just buy a used game where they are available.

No wonder they’re using the Attitude! Era to introduce this bullshit. They know no one’s going to want this otherwise. But with the AE there’s some suckers who’ll take the bait.
 
BlueArmedDevil said:
Real American Beer is dropping Hogan from their marketing and going with a new can design
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I mean I do get it. At the end of the day you don't want to be looked at as nothing more than "Hulk Hogan's beer". If you want to compete in that market you have to stand on your own two feet at some point or another. Hopefully they don't just erase the man from existence though and every once in a while, maybe on Hulk's birthday or something, have a limited run of special cans or something of the sort.
 
I'm sure part of the benefit of having Hogan involved with the beer was that he was a marketing machine who shills whatever is making him money every chance he gets. Now that he's gone it's just a more limited nostalgia appeal.
 
Lurkin' 'n' Jerkin' said:
I'm sure part of the benefit of having Hogan involved with the beer was that he was a marketing machine who shills whatever is making him money every chance he gets. Now that he's gone it's just a more limited nostalgia appeal.
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Wooweiser and it's mostly sober spokesman is right there!
 
Well, well, well, it seems the AEW ref implied he waited to start the main event so the "fuck ICE" chants "could resonate."
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The Nothingness said:
Well, well, well, it seems the AEW ref implied he waited to start the main event so the "fuck ICE" chants "could resonate."
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That fucker, that fat slob Brody King, and Hangma'am Madam Page are all conspiring to bury My Jewish Friend. My Jewish Friend must get reparations via beating that fat slob like a fucking pinata. Bryce, Hangma'am, and the Young Cucks must endure buck breaking. Then lastly Tony Khan must lay off the coke and fund My Jewish Friend's hairplugs.
 
Late to the conversation. In my opinion, the biggest black wrestler, in terms of popularity, Sylvester Ritter, aka Junkyard Dog.

His feuds in the Midsouth West with the likes of the Fabulous Free Birds were insane. When Ritter had his first kid, they wrote it into the story line. The Freebirds had blinded him after a match. He would do interviews with the local papers, crying that he didn't get to witness the birth of his daughter. Bill Watts would send him out to malls and stuff and have him stumble around just to keep him in the papers.

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The heat was so insane that the Freebirds had to be regularly police escorted in and out of arenas due to death threats.

Michael Hayes talking about the crazy shit the fans were doing because they hated the Freebirds so much.


In Louisiana, he was more popular than Archie Manning. Michael Hayes and him did the Superdome with the payoff steel cage dog collar match. $183k house for the showdown. This was in 1980 so that is well over $700k in today's money.

The whole card was pretty epic. You had Andre the Giant beating Hulk Hogan as part of the card.

Junkyard Dog beat Michael Hayes- Steel Cage Dog Collar Match
Dusty Rhodes & Buck Robley beat Fabulous Freebirds (Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts)- Bullrope match
Ted DiBiase beat Mr. Wrestling II (Johnny Walker)
Andre the Giant beat Hulk Hogan
Paul Orndorff beat Ken Mantell
Grappler (Len Denton) beat Wahoo McDaniel DQ
Ray Candy beat Killer Khan
Assassin (Jody Hamilton) beat Steven Little Bear
Terry Orndorff & Mike Miller beat Johnny Mantell & Ron Cheatham
King Cobra beat Frank Dusek
Terry Latham beat Tommy Wright


He wasn't a great wrestler, in terms of ability and he never got really anywhere in the WWF, but my God, that man was huge in Midsouth West. Bill Watts was a genius the way he built up the character and protected Ritter in his development.
 
Would said:
This is stupid.
Battle passes work for games that have years of support in store and are not expecting sequels any time soon.
Why should I grind for weeks on end for a game that is already planned to be obsolete by this time next year? If I really want X, why not just wait and see of he’s in the next game. And if they’re not- I’ll just buy a used game where they are available.

No wonder they’re using the Attitude! Era to introduce this bullshit. They know no one’s going to want this otherwise. But with the AE there’s some suckers who’ll take the bait.
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2K has already had Battle Passes in the NBA 2K games for years, and even PGA 2K has Battle Passes, so sadly it was inevitable that WWE 2K would also get them. Whether people spend money on that shit and 2K makes it worse in future games, or if it flops like how Ultimate Team flopped for UFC 3, is yet to be seen.
 
Would said:
This is stupid.
Battle passes work for games that have years of support in store and are not expecting sequels any time soon.
Why should I grind for weeks on end for a game that is already planned to be obsolete by this time next year? If I really want X, why not just wait and see of he’s in the next game. And if they’re not- I’ll just buy a used game where they are available.

No wonder they’re using the Attitude! Era to introduce this bullshit. They know no one’s going to want this otherwise. But with the AE there’s some suckers who’ll take the bait.
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Or you could just play wwe 13
 
JustStopDude said:
Michael Hayes talking about the crazy shit the fans were doing because they hated the Freebirds so much.
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Favorite story from this was they'd have JYD sit in the crowd with the blind guy glasses and cane. One night Freebirds are in the ring a fan comes up, pulls a pistol, and uses JYD's shoulder to stabalize his aim all the while Dog is freaking out because if he stops this guy he blows the angle.
 
ChampFantana said:
RVD deserved better than what he got in the WWE.
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He deserved exactly what he got. He had a run with the title and it was cut short because dumb fuck got pulled over with drugs, pot and schedule 2 pills without a prescription I believe.
If you are the top fucking guy of the #1 wrestling promotion on Earth, don't jeopardize your spot by doing stupid illegal shit.
The Nothingness said:
Well, well, well, it seems the AEW ref implied he waited to start the main event so the "fuck ICE" chants "could resonate."
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Cringe. Last time I saw a cunt that gay it was headed towards Ava's mouth.
 
BlueArmedDevil said:
Real American Beer is dropping Hogan from their marketing and going with a new can design
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the only thing that shit has going for it is "lol hogan beer"
it's godawful swill even by shit american can beer standards
I got a twelvepack, you can pretty easily enjoy it for about a can and a half carried by "lol hogan beer"
it's no Rap Snacks
 
Lip Glossary said:
He deserved exactly what he got. He had a run with the title and it was cut short because dumb fuck got pulled over with drugs, pot and schedule 2 pills without a prescription I believe.
If you are the top fucking guy of the #1 wrestling promotion on Earth, don't jeopardize your spot by doing stupid illegal shit.
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Unless I'm severely misinformed, pretty much ALL of the guys were pill heads and lots more were also on dope. RVD just got caught.

NOBODY deserved Triple Nose's Reign of Terror bullshit though.
 
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