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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 13, 2006 15:10:16 GMT -5
That would be the irrepressable Hillbilly Jim.
Funny note - this hillbilly now leads the WWE home video division. Bigtime WWE corporate.
Cho, you know I am with you in regards to your whole final paragraph. As much as I do enjoy todays product, I get much more a kick out of my old-school tapes featuring exactly what you are citing. I miss that verion of the product sorely.
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Post by sancho231 on Oct 14, 2006 2:17:30 GMT -5
I agree. Vince fucked up Wrestling with his whole "we make movies" shit.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 16, 2006 10:29:12 GMT -5
Former WCW jobber Joey Maggs is dead. No further details at this time. He was a fixture on WCW Saturday Night through the 90s. I remember a recurring bit where Theodore R Long of all people was trying to help him take the next step by offering him tutelage.
RIP Joey "Maggs" Magliano.
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Post by Chris on Oct 17, 2006 15:16:12 GMT -5
The whole Super Bowl ring saga with Steve McMichael was one of the best storylines!!!
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Post by cactusjames on Oct 18, 2006 1:31:26 GMT -5
I can't comment on the in ring work, on any match, ever, but I always enjoyed the 3 rings next to each other. I want to say war games, I could be wrong, cause I also remember one time there was either one big cage or 3 cages, some malarky maybe my brain is fried. But I still loved those matches.Any suggestion on what some good years are to watch? I won't remember details, but I remember a nWo vs WCW and for some reason I remember a DDP turn. I might be wrong cause I know DDP wasn't a nWo guy for long anyway, but I tthink he turned and I'm also pretty sure it was a sloppy math, but I remember a memrobale turn at he end. maybe I'm a goose.
On a side note,. not that it means anything, but I never saw or experienced the real Horsemen, only bits and peices(Ric Flair DVD, still golden) but I started watching wrestling and the horsemen were Naitch, AA, Benoit and Pillman. Yeah nostalgia set in watching the Pillman dvd, but but that's pretty much the start of me watching wrestling. Only reason I bring it up cause with McMichael sucked ass. Sorry for the rant.
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Post by cactusjames on Oct 18, 2006 2:02:13 GMT -5
Also, I hate to double post, even though I'm not duplicating, I forgot to ask, mention or wonder if someone, anyone, could do me a huge favor. I wear it like a badge of honor being at the 97 Summerslam in NJ, not just cause of Austin but the main event with the blueprint being made up regarding DX/the first hell in a cell. Oh and also the 97 Suvivor series. I can check utube, but I'd be have no problem paying for a copy on VHS or DVD of the 97 Summerslam and Suvivor Series. Yeah I know Ebay, but call me nuts I trust the peole here more than the strangers from Ebay. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 19, 2006 9:04:48 GMT -5
I think I have both. I KNOW I have Survivor Series 97, cause I saw it in my rack this morning. Problem is, I dont have the means to tape tapes. Do you?
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Post by Chris on Oct 19, 2006 15:13:35 GMT -5
Was U.S. Olympic and collegiate wrestler Tab Thacker (who also appeared in the Goldie Hawn movie "Wildcats") actually Kamala The Ugandan Giant?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 19, 2006 15:16:53 GMT -5
No. Kamala still makes appearances, and actually sings soul music. Looks exactly the same and has wrestled since the early 80s, where he started in Jerry Lawlers Memphis promotion. I can get you his real name if needed.
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Post by Chris on Oct 19, 2006 15:41:46 GMT -5
Actually I'm more interested to learn whether or not Tab Thacker EVER wrestled professionally under any name.
I had heard he did, but all of my google searches bring up his NCAA records.
Speaking of...I was also a BIG fan of Rick Steiner wrestling in his Michigan singlet and headgear.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 19, 2006 15:43:01 GMT -5
Not listed on Obsessed with Wrestling, which is an encyclopedia of sorts, of having done so.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 1, 2006 19:07:57 GMT -5
Steve Austin's first movie, "The Condemned", is currently in post-production in preparation for an April 27, 2007 theatrical release date. WWE is expected to push the movie heavily alongside WrestleMania 23 with co-branded advertising during the spring season. The movie is being distributed by Lions Gate Films, which handled "See No Evil."
IMDB.com has a brief blurb on the story plot: "'The Condemned' tells the story of Joe Conrad (Stone Cold Steve Austin), who is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is 'purchased' by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor."
The cast includes former WWE wrestler Nathan Jones - as simply The Russian - and Vinnie Jones, who was Juggernaut in the recent X-Men movie. The movie is written and directed by Scott Wiper, who played Ripley in "Pearl Harbor" and has four other writing credits to his name.
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 5, 2006 13:41:40 GMT -5
Holy Running Man ripoff!
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Post by grover on Nov 5, 2006 14:17:17 GMT -5
Yeah, really. Why didn't they try to make this while Austin was at his peak popularity wise?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 14, 2006 16:36:31 GMT -5
With Edge's win of the tag team title last night, he set the all-time WWE record with 11 tag team title runs, breaking the record of 10 he had shared with the legendary Billy Gunn.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 29, 2006 13:54:34 GMT -5
John Cena and Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle filmed new commercials this week, which will begin airing nationally at the beginning of December. WWE.com has a story on the premise of the commercial shot, with Fogle fighting with Cena over possession of the WWE Title belt credit James Caldwell (pwtorch)
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 29, 2006 19:12:34 GMT -5
Trish Stratus has begun training to be a reserve police officer in Muncie, Ind. for a CBS reality TV series. It includes Jack Osbourne, Wee Man, and La Toya Jackson. The cast had been kept secret until it made its first public appearance this past Sunday morning.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Nov 29, 2006 20:44:01 GMT -5
Sounds like a star studded cast....lol
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 30, 2006 7:45:41 GMT -5
What's the reality show? Celebrity cops?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 30, 2006 9:04:28 GMT -5
Something to that effect. These jokers train and join the force. Sounds beyond stupid. I'll be sure to miss it.
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 30, 2006 9:46:23 GMT -5
Someone should put some drugs in their balls so Trish can find them.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 1, 2006 16:48:49 GMT -5
For what is being billed as the first time in history, two members of legendary teams, one of which was a copy of the other, headline a show in Shelton Benjamin's home town of Orangeburg, SC. Road Warrior Animal and Demolition Ax face Greg Valentine & Timber the Lumberjack this Saturday night at Southern Methodist College.
Watch one of them turn on the other.
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 1, 2006 19:31:14 GMT -5
That reminds me of when the Road Warriors were wrestling at the show where Hawk threw Capone out. Before that happened, I yelled, "way to steal Demolition's gimmick!" They rolled their eyes in disgust and I was pleased.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 13, 2006 12:31:18 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan's movie, "Santa With Muscles," opened Nov. 8, 1996, on 98 screens. It grossed $120,932, a per theatre average of $1,234, and was the 36th highest grossing film of the weekend. The number one film, "Ransom," debuted on 2,676 screens and made $34,216,088 for a per theatre average of $12,786.
Here is a snippet of some of the absolutely dreadful reviews. Anyone ever see it?
Lon Grahnke of the Chicago Sun-Times reviewed it Nov. 12. "A Santa movie with pro wrestler Hulk Hogan in a red suit has the appeal of a spoiled holiday ham in tomato sauce... There's plenty of dead weight in "Santa With Muscles," the embarrassing result of a collective brain cramp. Moe, Larry, and Curly could have improvised a funnier story than the woeful attempt that passes as the "Santa" screenplay. The director should be filming bowling tournaments... Hogan's shameless, senseless "Santa" makes his "Suburban Commando" flick seem like a sophisticated comedy... The opening night of this holiday-season turkey attracted two grade-school boys, one adult male, and one glutton-for-punishment reviewer to Friday's 8:10 show at the Lake movie theater in Oak Park... The ultimate good guy has become the reigning hate object among wrestling fans. So casting Hogan as a Santa wannabe makes no sense. Would Americans accept Saddam Hussein as Abraham Lincoln? Pro wrestling theatrics are based on deception, exaggeration, and lies. "Santa With Muscles" is a stupid show-biz sham on a much smaller scale." Variety's review was even harsher, if that's possible, as Joe Leydon called it a "98-pound weakling of a comedy. Even small children won't find much here to ho-ho-ho about. It is written, acted, and directed in the style of a second-rate Saturday morning kids' show from the 1970s. Hogan evidences little of the charisma he has displayed in previous big screen outings - most notably, Suburban Commando - and gives a performance that seldom rises above the level of a good try. Working from an irredeemably bland screenplay, John Kurlowski directs with all the enthusiasm of someone going through the motions to pay off a debt. Michael Cfelner's cinematography is bland, and other tech credits are equally unremarkable. Call it the movie equivalent of a coal in a Christmas stocking and you won't be far off the mark."
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Post by grover on Dec 13, 2006 13:52:07 GMT -5
I want to see all of Hogan's movies. They all look so bad, yet AWESOME at the same time.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 17, 2006 13:12:02 GMT -5
This wont mean a Hell of a lot to most of you, but this man will be remembered by those of us who flipped through wrestling magazines as a wee lad. Some, like myself, may have seen him in an old match here and there. Modern day fans may thank him as the guy who helped train the Undertaker, and "walked the ropes" before he did. RIP "Spoiler!" Bob Ryder is reporting that wrestling legend Don "The Spoiler" Jardine, "The Master of the Iron Claw" has lost his battle against leukemia. Jardine, who helped to train The Undertaker, passed away last night. GERWECK.NET sends our condolences to the friends and family of "The Spoiler."
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Post by 4dogg on Dec 17, 2006 16:36:35 GMT -5
i remember this guy....when he fought in the wwwf back in the early '70's,he didnt don the mask,which at the time ,were banned by the NY state athletic commission....when he used the claw,they used to put an "X" over the screen...thats when the matches aired on ch. 47
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Post by globix on Dec 18, 2006 0:29:05 GMT -5
Just for the record...Is Cena/Batista vs. King Booker/Finlay the worst PPV main event of all time?
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Post by MSBNYY on Dec 18, 2006 8:38:26 GMT -5
I guess his death spoiled his weekend.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Dec 18, 2006 9:06:37 GMT -5
They have been doing versions of that tag team main event on WWE TV for months now. The only selling point is Cena and Batista together, and the teased prospect that they will end up locking horns someday.
I heard the match was ok, but nothing special.
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