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9/8/2008 2:24:14 PM

all of them....

9/8/2008 2:26:02 PM

9/8/2008 2:33:30 PM

9/8/2008 2:37:46 PM

Doink was really quite scary when he started...his entrance music was brilliant.

Not so brilliant was the Survivor Series match with Doink/Dink/Wink/Pink vs. Jerry Lawler/Queasy/Sleazy/Cheesy.

That PPV was really odd...Bob fucking Backlund won the WWF title in a submission match that had Owen Hart implore Helen Hart to recreate Backlund's towel-throwing incident on Bret's behalf, which was lame in and of itself and also a lame ending to the year-long feud that produced two fucking brilliant matches between Bret & Owen at Summerslam '94 and Wrestlemania X.

9/8/2008 2:43:43 PM

can't believe it took two pages for someone to post those

oh and doink the clown was the shit

I was always him in whatever game I had for snes

9/8/2008 2:44:30 PM

Shane McMahon

9/8/2008 2:47:11 PM

9/8/2008 3:23:46 PM

^ looks like his face was photoshopped on his neck

9/8/2008 5:08:18 PM

his daughter, lacey von erich, is smokin'

9/8/2008 5:10:12 PM

Quote :

"oh and doink the clown was the shit I was always him in whatever game I had for snes"

I love this thread so much.

9/8/2008 5:15:44 PM

Here is Virgil's career wrap-up


http://www.angelfire.com/on2/virgil/virgil1.html


This guy was terrible.

Quote :

"Virgil never did much as a bodyguard anyway. I can sum up his entire career in the WWF until 1991 pretty quick. WrestleMania 4, Hogan suplexed him in the aisle. Royal Rumble 1989, Big John Studd knocks him around a little after the match and throws him out of the ring as well. Survivor Seres 1989, Jake Roberts DDTs Virgil. That pretty much sums up everything until 1991. Other then those instances, Virgil stood around the ring and looked stupid. "

9/8/2008 6:38:12 PM

Then he went to WCW and they changed his name to Vincent ("Vince," get it? Ahyuck, ahycuk.), but Okerlund and Heenan (mostly Okerlund) would call him Virgil from time to time anyway.

9/8/2008 6:39:42 PM

wait, this thread confuses me.

if wrestling isn't real and everything is pre-planned, then wrestlers who never "made it" was/is also pre-planned, right?

9/8/2008 6:58:26 PM

the brooklyn brawler

9/8/2008 7:14:59 PM

Yes and no.

Wrestling is very political, and groups of influential people decide who gets a push toward the top and who doesn't. However, it's incumbent on the performer to make that push into something real and get over with the audience, and it takes another performer who is willing to do a job and make that pushee look good for the whole thing to come off.

Example: Jeff Hardy has been pushed as a singles main eventer by WWE a number of times, but his continuing drug problems (not steroids, recreational drugs) have kept him in the midcard.

9/8/2008 7:16:33 PM

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"if wrestling isn't real and everything is pre-planned, then wrestlers who never "made it" was/is also pre-planned, right?"

basically

9/8/2008 7:16:48 PM

Not quite. If the fans don't respond to the wrestler's persona then he gets written out pretty quick, no matter how the writers planned it.

9/8/2008 7:16:54 PM

^ See the aforementioned Lance Storm, who can work like a motherfucker but is incredibly boring as a character.

9/8/2008 7:18:07 PM

Quote :

"Not quite. If the fans don't respond to the wrestler's persona then he gets written out pretty quick, no matter how the writers planned it"

which is why i said basically and not absolutely

9/8/2008 7:19:14 PM

Except that I'd say it's closer to 50/50 that the audience responds in the way the writers intended.

See the transition to the Attitude Era at Wrestlemania 13, the Hart/Austin double turn.

9/8/2008 7:23:12 PM

Quote :

"Curtis, the guy who owns the Westover Barber Shop over by the fairgrounds, did some professional wrestling for a while. I don't know what circuit/organization he was on. he was also a machine gunner with the USMC in Desert Storm, filmed a pilot episode or something for a show on Comedy Central, and I think he worked as a Congressional aide or somethingorother. He's done all sorts of shit. His latest project is that he's gotten into curling...there is apparently going to be a reality TV show where the winning curling team gets an automatic bid into the National Curling Championship or whatever, and therefore a chance at being in the next Olympics. plus he's a good barber, and he went to NCSU (I THINK he lived on Brent Road back in the day when it was really a place to rage)."

he wrestled as Toad, mainly in Southern Championship wrestling, the same org that produced the Hardy boys, the hurricane shane helms, Joey Abs, and some others.
He made it to Nitro towards the end of Nitro.
I believe his main tag partner was Lodi.

and, yeah, he's a good barber.

9/8/2008 7:23:40 PM

you crazy ginger kid.

9/8/2008 7:25:18 PM

The Hardys were in OMEGA, not SCW.

9/8/2008 7:25:50 PM

i watched em wrestle SCW at the berkley cafe in the 90s
it may have been 2000 or 2001
but i'm pretty sure it was in teh 90s

[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 7:27 PM. Reason : fsadf]

9/8/2008 7:26:56 PM

Well, they did shows for tons of promotions because there are tons of promotions around here, but the word "produced" is a little misleading. WWE hired the Hardys out of OMEGA.

9/8/2008 7:30:19 PM

fair enough

9/8/2008 7:30:30 PM

Speaking of the Hardys and pushes though, looks like Jeff is going to get another real shot at the WWE belt...although with Triple H holding it, even if he wins Stephanie will probably give it back within a month.

9/8/2008 7:32:51 PM

I have the best tag team ever for this thread (and I am probably the only one who is old enough to remember this tag team )...
Randy & Bill, The Mulkey Brothers!

They were the 1980's NWA Jobbers...and everyone knew it...if you saw the Mulkeys come out you knew the other team was gonna win...and the Mulkey's were from my hometown of Anderson SC got to meet them a few times....cool guys who embraced their "jobber" status...
More info on them can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/5c7l2z

9/8/2008 7:40:11 PM

Now I'm waiting for Marty Garner to post "HIRE CHAM PAIN" on tww.

9/8/2008 7:45:12 PM

a picture of those gay pink pants he wrestled in would work nicely

9/8/2008 7:50:29 PM

I will have to put Ric Flair as an honorable mention, since his daugther and her boyfriend kicked the shit out of him on Friday

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9/8/2008 8:01:17 PM

Nothing says "never made it" like being repeatedly voted NWA champion in the territories era.

9/8/2008 8:03:07 PM

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9/8/2008 9:35:08 PM

Check out some of these guys collectibles.

http://www.georgescollectibles.com/wweclassic.htm

Notables on this site that I had forgotten about:
The Mounty
Ken Patera
Bad News Brown

9/9/2008 3:09:49 PM

Quote :

"Then he went to WCW and they changed his name to Vincent ("Vince," get it? Ahyuck, ahycuk.), but Okerlund and Heenan (mostly Okerlund) would call him Virgil from time to time anyway. "

Vincent because of Vince, but also because Virgil was making fun of the Dusty Rhodes WCW character at the time, Virgil Runnels.

9/9/2008 3:33:40 PM

Bad News Brown:


nothing can beat this one... Tiger Ali Singh, who the WWE signed to an outlandish contract, but released him based on him, eh, sucking.


and of course, the worlds strongest 10 year contract signing so that WCW couldnt have him:

9/9/2008 3:44:25 PM