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Oh yeah, Liam -- Doug Basham. Fucking love that guy. Not as keen on Danny though. |
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04-19-2016, 12:02 AM | #42 |
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Oh, and Vito of course. Honestly probably wouldn't mark out at all if he returned now but for some reason I just started rooting for him as a kid and it stuck and so did different iterations of my user name. He also managed to make a fighting in a dress as a gimmick work for him for a longer period of time than I thought possible so good on him.
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04-19-2016, 12:02 AM | #43 |
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Does Becky Lynch count as a guilty pleasure? As in I'd feel guilty if I ever met her because of all the pleasure she has brought me?
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04-19-2016, 12:02 AM | #44 |
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Vince Russo. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Just kidding, guys.
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04-19-2016, 12:03 AM | #45 |
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Not hating Alberto Del Rio. The guy is really good in the ring and since I don't watch as regularly as I once did, I don't see him as much, and when I do he is usually pretty intense and everything he does looks beautiful.
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04-19-2016, 12:04 AM | #46 |
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Deuce, Domino, and Cherry were mine. I was so disappointed that they never amounted to anything. Also all the vampire wrestlers. Gangrel, everyone in the Brood, and even Kevin Thorn and the chick he had with him. Oh, and pirate Paul Burchil... Actually I've had a lot of these.
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04-19-2016, 12:04 AM | #47 |
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Brie Bella's theme music. For someone. Surely. Not me though.
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04-19-2016, 12:05 AM | #48 | |
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Pirate Paul Burchill is a good one, actually. And Katie Lea in general. She didn't really get a chance to do much, but she was smoking and her lingering potential made me want to see her achieve more. |
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04-19-2016, 12:06 AM | #49 |
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Psycho Victoria and Victoria-whipped Stevie Richards. But I think that was universally regarded as the best thing since Sliced Bread #2, wasn't it?
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04-19-2016, 12:06 AM | #50 |
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I found the Trish Stratus vs. Mickie James match at WrestleMania 22 to be the best thing on the show. Does that count as a guilty pleasure? I was just so down on everything else.
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04-19-2016, 12:09 AM | #51 |
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Superstars babyface run Chris Masters. He actually got pretty good in the ring and was starting to get a good rapport with audiences going. The WWE brought him up way too early. He was like 14 years old with -3 years experience in the business at the time. I remember reading once that Jim Cornette was high on him and saw big star potential in the same vein as John Cena, Randy Orton, Batista and Matt Morgan. Three out of five ain't bad, Jimmy. I know he has two Wellness policy violations against his name, but I'm really surprised the WWE hasn't tried to bring this guy back. Especially after they published that story about him saving his mother from a burning house with a fucking tree.
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04-19-2016, 12:09 AM | #52 |
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I might need to toss The Great Khali in here too. He was a fucking oaf and everybody knows it, but I could never totally get mad when WWE would push him because he was just so bad that it was hilarious. Helps that he's also apparently a super nice dude in real life and donated a shitload of his income to impoverished people in India.
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04-19-2016, 12:16 AM | #53 |
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Here's another one: I didn't hate the 2009 Raw Guests Hosts as much as most, especially early on. Yes some of them were total shit and clearly had no interest in being there other than to promote their upcoming movie/TV show/album/book etc. but the ones who actually seemed to put any effort into their performance were fun. Especially during that stretch where Jerishow would interact with every single guest host.
Also if you didn't like Bob Barker hosting you are not human. |
04-19-2016, 12:16 AM | #54 |
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Jimmy Wang Yang was one of my favorites around that time too. Lot of fun gimmicks during that "era."
On a more embarrassing note I was pretty big into the Great Khali during his Punjabi Playboy gimmick. Don't know why but I liked it at the time. In retrospect not so much though... |
04-19-2016, 12:16 AM | #55 |
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Fucking loved Deuce 'n' Domino. One of my favorite tag teams ever. Wish they had lasted longer. One of my favorite themes as well.
Come to think of it a lot of the stuff going on on Smackdown around that time could be considered a guilty pleasure for me. Jimmy Wang Yang included. |
04-19-2016, 12:17 AM | #56 |
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Really, Wishbone? The same minute? Really?
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04-19-2016, 12:19 AM | #57 |
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Remember when Jimmy Wang Yang had a cowgirl valet for like... a week or two.
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04-19-2016, 12:23 AM | #58 |
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Jimmy Wang Yang was so much fun.
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04-19-2016, 12:28 AM | #59 |
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Domino was so damn good. |
04-19-2016, 12:30 AM | #60 |
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Anything involving Ebessan/Kikutaro vs. Kuishinbo Kamen.
It is brilliant. |
04-19-2016, 12:49 AM | #61 |
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OK, might as well just get this out there...I enjoyed when Jesse got involved with Cryme Tyme and became a "wigger" called Slam Master J, and I also actually really enjoyed his almost universally panned theme, too.
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04-19-2016, 12:51 AM | #62 |
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Thats not a guilty pleasure. Those guys are great.
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04-19-2016, 12:52 AM | #63 |
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God damn it damninator, now everyone is going to think I love cryme tyme.
You've ruined fucking everything. |
04-19-2016, 12:54 AM | #64 |
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04-19-2016, 06:53 AM | #66 | |
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Jimmy Wang Yang was great, by the way. Even when he was Akio, his Velocity series with Paul London was fucking amazing. |
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04-19-2016, 07:23 AM | #67 |
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I forgot just how young Jimmy Wang Yang was when he first started on TV. The guy was a weekly fixture in the cruiserweight division in the final couple of years in WCW yet he's only 34 right now. Hard to believe.
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04-19-2016, 07:33 AM | #68 |
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Disco Inferno.
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04-19-2016, 08:52 AM | #69 |
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04-19-2016, 09:01 AM | #71 |
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The more I think of it I wonder if damn near the entire "brand extension" era is sort of a guilty pleasure for me until they started to basically ignore the split and merge everything. Not just the obviously good stuff like the SmackDown Six era but even the down periods. I would sooner watch some obscure SmackDown from like 2005 than I would watch a current Raw.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the days where I was younger and actually felt the desire to watch both shows (and WWECW while it was there). Probably part of the reason I'd be all in on a roster split return. |
04-19-2016, 10:30 AM | #72 |
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It's a bit of a mixed bag with people's opinions on JBL, never get a sense of universal praise or scorn on the other forums. Some people hate him with a passion, others think his character work was awesome and is underrated to this day. Nobody really blows the horn for him as a wrestler, but that's not the be all end all with him anyway, it's character and promos.
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04-19-2016, 11:00 AM | #73 |
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04-19-2016, 11:07 AM | #74 |
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Carlito's alleged poor backstage attitude. The more I try and learn about the wrestling business, the more respect I actually have for him as a guy who was trying to stand up for his character and have the confidence to not try and fall into the bullshit you see ruin guys today, where they basically say "Yessir, thank you, sir" and eat Triple H or Vince cum and pretend they like the taste.
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04-19-2016, 11:14 AM | #75 |
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JBL's sudden push annoyed me. It made no sense why this guy who was half of a tag team that didn't really have much kayfabe success when you really think about it (although they were projected as tough guys) could suddenly be the WWE Champion. It cut the balls off SmackDown a lot. The guy can talk, but his matches were fucking dog shit. It never felt like he was being built up as a credible champion, it always felt like he was placeholding for the big face to take it off him -- something which made no contextual sense given the safeguards he had built up.
Why didn't The Cabinet run out and attack Cena at WrestleMania 21? JBL just got his ass handed to him in a 9-minute match because. I know this isn't a popular theory, but if Cena has been screwed out of the title at Mania 21 (but still won), the heat on JBL would have been tremendous, and Cena could have gotten his own moment headlining a PPV like Judgment Day instead of beating JBL in what was essentially a mid-card match. The whole JBL reign and Cena win were actually precursors for a lot of Cena hate, in my honest opinion, despite a lot of critics pinpointing it later. The Jericho feud definitely galvanized it all, but it started with the shoe-horning of 2004/2005 SmackDown. JBL would have been absolutely phenomenal as a mid-card US Champion heel gimmick at first. He could have decked himself out in the gear he would eventually use during his actual US Title run, and he could have beat Cena for the belt, freeing him up for an organic chase, and JBL could have lost the US Title and challenged Cena later reminding he was the guy who beat him for his US Title, so he'd do it again for the WWE Title. Carlito could have come in against JBL, they could have brought up the immigrant stuff, and he could have beaten JBL as a babyface that actually mattered. Get those layers going. |
04-19-2016, 11:42 AM | #76 |
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To be fair, they probably figured they didn't have to pay attention until the 15 minute mark, it was a WrestleMania title match after all.
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04-19-2016, 02:24 PM | #77 | |
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Yeah, the first episode was fucking shit, but I honestly loved and marked out like a bitch when my hometown boy was presented with the ECW belt to go with his WWE title. If only that could have lasted a bit longer...oh, and then they open the wrestling action on the first episode with The Zombie v. The Sandman...so awful. |
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04-19-2016, 04:34 PM | #78 |
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The Taker vs Yoko Casket Match and aftermath at RR94. Fucking loved the whole deal with the heels beating down Taker, opening the urn, the resurrection, and Marty Jannetty levitating out of the big screen. Loved all that supernatural shit. Watched it recently, still love it.
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04-19-2016, 06:35 PM | #79 |
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World War 3 in WCW. Always loved seeing that many guys in a match at once. It just felt like a big deal.
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I'VE HAD PEAS B'FORE! |
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