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Has anyone here ever been to a house show/TV Taping/PPV before? Any stories to tell?
 
CornetteFace said:
I'd like to know how the girl at NXT takeover got the "Face Fuck me Finn" sign in.
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Bring a sign with "CENA RULES" or something bland on one side, and nothing on the other.
Go to the bathroom to tactically recover that marker you hid.
Write something horrible on the blank side.
 
XYZpdq said:
Bring a sign with "CENA RULES" or something bland on one side, and nothing on the other.
Go to the bathroom to tactically recover that marker you hid.
Write something horrible on the blank side.
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That's my thought as well. But where's the fun in simple explanations? This is wrestling after all.
 
CornetteFace said:
That's my thought as well. But where's the fun in simple explanations? This is wrestling after all.
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It could be more complicated.

Didn't they ban signs that didn't have both sides covered to keep this exact kind of shit from happening?
 
MrJakeTerror said:
Has anyone here ever been to a house show/TV Taping/PPV before? Any stories to tell?
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Other than some no-name indy shows, I went to a ROH show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in 2009. I got to see Colt Cabana and Brian Danielson (Daniel Bryan, right after he was released by the WWE) in a tag match. The highlight was some confusing battle royal/six man tag match that was completely shit. I think the rule was you could not eliminate someone the same way the previous person was eliminated so if they were pinned you had to make them tap or knock them out?? So some dude would submit and the ref wouldn't eliminate them and the fans got pissed and started a "T-N-A" chant
 
Flowers For Sonichu said:
Other than some no-name indy shows, I went to a ROH show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in 2009. I got to see Colt Cabana and Brian Danielson (Daniel Bryan, right after he was released by the WWE) in a tag match. The highlight was some confusing battle royal/six man tag match that was completely shit. I think the rule was you could not eliminate someone the same way the previous person was eliminated so if they were pinned you had to make them tap or knock them out?? So some dude would submit and the ref wouldn't eliminate them and the fans got pissed and started a "T-N-A" chant
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You got to see ROH in those years? Poor thing.
 
MrJakeTerror said:
Has anyone here ever been to a house show/TV Taping/PPV before? Any stories to tell?
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I was at the Survivor Series in 1999 when Stone Cold got hit by the car. No one knew what the fuck was going on in the arena, watching it back now, it was much better explained on the PPV than to the crowd. No one thought much of him getting hit, and assumed he would be coming out for the main event. No... We got the big show. You want to talk about sucking the wind out of the sails of everyone. Replace Stone Cold Steve Austin with fucking Big Show. Who the hell doesn't think to prep people for that disappointment? Oh, and I saw tits at a RAW like a year later.
 
MrJakeTerror said:
Has anyone here ever been to a house show/TV Taping/PPV before? Any stories to tell?
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Oh what fun.

I went to a WCW Nitro taping in 2000, a house show in 2001 that ended with the Rock and Triple H doing a Dusty Finish, the Raw in April of 2002 where Vince did the ruthless aggression speech, and a SmackDown-branded house show in August of 2002.

The Nitro taping was interesting because two hillbillies got into a fight over a fat hillbilly woman with no teeth and a guy with a giant rainbow clown wig got his "David Arquette loves Cox" sign taken away by security. Also, Sting and Vampiro had a really retarded first blood match where no one bled, but several gallons of fake blood fell from the rafters onto Sting so I guess Vampiro won because lolRusso. This was in Buffalo NY (probably the last time WCW ever had a show there) but all the other events I attended were in Cleveland.

I remember a few things about the Smackdown house show. Horace Hogan was in a 6-man tag with John Cena. Rikishi and Kurt Angle wrestled the opening match and they completely fucked up the finish when Angle forgot to kick out of a Banzai drop so the referee shit himself and did nothing while everyone stumbled around like fools until I think Angle won with a sunset flip to awkward, confused silence from the crowd. Oh, and a couple of random people from the local UPN affiliate got into the ring at the start of the show to promote something and were booed mercilessly. Early brand-extension WWE was a strange time indeed.
 
I dunno how many of you people that keep up with Japanese wrestling (or care about it). But I just watched my personal match of the year so far.

From All Japan's latest Korakuen hall show on August 29 (final show of their Summer explosion tour). World tag team titles on the line as Go Shiozaki and Kento Miyahara (Xceed) defends against Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori (Wild Burning). What a masterpiece. Great pacing, physical, filled to the brim with hate as the old veterans take it to the new generation of All Japan stars. Brawling, throwing each other around, striking like mofos and just putting on a killer match. Akiyama at the age he is has achieved godhood. All hail the grumpy baby!

The entire show was good but the main event took the cake. It even had the debut of a guy who is working a "cookie" gimmick.
 
Okay, shit. I'm starting to remember more about the wrestling shows I attended 13-14 years ago.

At the 2002 Raw I went to, they were changing the sets from the Sunday Night Heat one to the Raw one, and my section of the crowd (we were kinda tucked back to one side of the titantron) saw a production guy pull a Shockmaster after he tripped over a cable. I mean, he really fucking biffed it. Immediately, we all started chanting "You fucked up! You fucked up!" and the guy just laughed and flipped us the bird.

The 2000 house show (which I incorrectly remembered in my last post as being in 2001) had some interesting moments too. Big Boss Man wrestled Steve Blackman and the finish was Blackman pump kicking Boss Man's nightstick back into his face. But something went terribly wrong, because after he was pinned and Blackman left the ring, Boss Man stood around for several minutes, not really selling the finish but looking dazed, pacing around aimlessly and holding his hand in front of his eye. I think Blackman's music looped twice before Boss Man finally left the ring. He was supposed to be the heel, but the crowd kinda gave him this concerned silence.

Oh and the 2000 house show really stressed the whole "card subject to change" line, because a handful of undercard guys no-showed for some reason. So a tables matches between the Dudleys and Lo Down (which was D'Lo and Headbanger Chaz IIRC) was turned into a tables match between one of the Dudleys and D'Lo, which was a disaster of a match, complete with a Japanese Table spot straight out of botchamania. The Dudleys tried to do a 3D through the table but the fucking thing didn't break and people were confused. They tried the spot again and the crowd laughed. Finally, they were able to break it with a really lame top rope splash and the crowd booed.
 
This was when Chazz was getting buried left right and center backstage right? So maybe he no showed because he had had his ass handed to him.
 
CornetteFace said:
This was when Chazz was getting buried left right and center backstage right? So maybe he no showed because he had had his ass handed to him.
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Was his burial from when he just flat out rage quit from doing the Beaver Cleavage character on live TV?
 
CornetteFace said:
This was when Chazz was getting buried left right and center backstage right? So maybe he no showed because he had had his ass handed to him.
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Or maybe he just thought Cleveland could go...

fuuuuck off
 
Frank Rizzo said:
Was his burial from when he just flat out rage quit from doing the Beaver Cleavage character on live TV?
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Him abusing his wife/girlfriend who played the mom in the Beaver Cleavage gimmick was the main reason for his burial among "the boys". They did not like it and beat the shit out of him for months for the smallest of things. It even leaked onto TV where you could see Chazz get jumped in the background by guys like the APA, Blackman, Shamrock and such ilk (sometimes he got jumped by guys who were feuding on screen, but who came together to kick his ass without caring about the cameras).

This was all worked into a gimmick/story. But apparently it was based in reality.
 
CornetteFace said:
Him abusing his wife/girlfriend who played the mom in the Beaver Cleavage gimmick was the main reason for his burial among "the boys". They did not like it and beat the shit out of him for months for the smallest of things. It even leaked onto TV where you could see Chazz get jumped in the background by guys like the APA, Blackman, Shamrock and such ilk (sometimes he got jumped by guys who were feuding on screen, but who came together to kick his ass without caring about the cameras).
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I'm beginning to remember that now. I did recall that he just flat out broke character and pulled a "No, I can't do this, I'm sorry..." on Raw during a Beaver Cleavage promo, but forgot about the shit that happened between him and his wife/girlfriend.
 
Frank Rizzo said:
I'm beginning to remember that now. I did recall that he just flat out broke character and pulled a "No, I can't do this, I'm sorry..." on Raw during a Beaver Cleavage promo, but forgot about the shit that happened between him and his wife/girlfriend.
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Dropping the gimmick was apparently planned. The whole wifebeater thing the jury is still out on. Granted who cares about the Headbangers these days apart from OG Jim Cornette?
 
CornetteFace said:
Dropping the gimmick was apparently planned. The whole wifebeater thing the jury is still out on. Granted who cares about the Headbangers these days apart from OG Jim Cornette?
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Yeah, the HeadBangers are one of those tag teams where when you mention them, wrestling fans are just like "Who? ....Oh yeah, those guys...."

But real talk: I had heard conflicting stories about the Beaver Cleavage gimmick dropping. Some say they planned on doing the live gimmick drop the whole time, some claim they had to improvise around Chazz rage quitting the gimmick.
 
Someone who looked eerily like Naruto-era Phil/ADF jumped the barricade & strutted to the ring with Seth Rollins on RAW tonight:

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Hi-rez GIF of it here
 
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