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Do Unto Others...
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McMyths
For our podcast this week, we're going to be talking about WWE's revisionist version of history and stances on different wrestlers and events, and in particular the ones we disagree with, and want to get some feedback from you guys - what myth that WWE propagates do you disagree with the most, or in particular bothers you when they try to force it on the public? Whether it's something small on a DVD or documentary that strikes you as bullshit, or just a WWE/Vince trait that rattles your cage, what WWE company line annoys you the most, and most importantly, why?
As always we'll be reading the best nominations on the show (up next Friday) and crediting you accordingly, so what do you think? EDIT - The show discussing your nominations for McMyths is now online and available to listen to at the following link: http://squaredcirclegazette.podbean....ingMcMyths.mp3 ![]() ![]() Crazy Like A Fox - The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later **Featuring interviews with members of the Pillman family, Dave Meltzer, Kim Wood, Raven, Jim Cornette, Mark Madden, Shane Douglas, Mark Coleman, Alex Marvez, Les Thatcher and many more close friends and colleagues** Available on Amazon now: http://amzn.to/2h93SxL Last edited by hb2k; 08-09-2015 at 08:09 AM. |
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Best Poster
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The worst is Black Saturday. They never bring up how the fans HATED the change and wrote into the T.V stations.
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Grim Fandango
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Trying to pass off the whole mishandling of Daniel Bryan last year as their ingenious master plan from the very beginning.
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RIP SABU
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The fact that they basically capitalized on the whole Eddie Guerrero death situation by deciding to induct him into their HoF in 2006, when they damn well KNEW Vickie, Chavo, and I'm sure other members of his family were still trying to mourn and grieve over his loss always struck me as nothing short of despicable. Yes, he deserves to be in the HoF, but he should've been included in the 2007 class at earliest IMHO.
Also infuriating is them doing the same thing by having a 165 lb. friend of Eddie's, Rey Mysterio, win the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 22 against Angle and Orton as some sort of belated "tribute". |
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Re-Branded
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The myth that Luger never could have carried the company in '93, that he didn't have a connection with the fanbase. At Summerslam 1993 the fans were into Luger and would have bought in. Rather, as usual, Vince and co. shot themselves in the foot, and by the end of the year Luger was DOA. It could have worked but they didn't pull the trigger when it made the most sense. It wasn't on Luger, it was on the company, regardless of how they portray it today.
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Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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"Bret screwed Bret". Sure, it was one of the leading contributions to WWE's attitude era boom (along with events such as Austin 3:16), you know this was initially an attempt at damage control for Montreal. When Vince came off as an amoral douchebag instead of the hero defending his company, he rolled with it. |
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wekasauce
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I'm gonna take the low-hanging-fruit here and go with Benoit and to a much lesser extent hogan recently
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Celestia's Left Hand
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" WWE is committed to embracing and celebrating individuals from all backgrounds as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide."
As demonstrated by their years of stereotypes and sometimes outright racism not to mention things like mocking disabilities on more than one occasion including one where a BA Star poster is visible in the background during said mockery . |
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#9 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
Posts: 38,371
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Taller than Adam Cole
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The biggest lie of all: Vince Jr. taking wrestling out of the bingo halls and into big arenas. Watts regularly packed the Superdome. Lawler filled the 10,000 seat Mid South Colosseum more than Elvis did. The Sportatorium in Dallas held 4500 regularly.
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The fucking mom and pop gimmick they push anytime the Monday Night War is discussed. Trying to play the victim as some family company on the brink of extinction because big, mean old rich Ted Turner and his checkbook in the relentless hands of dirt bag Eric Bischoff.
Reality as they were getting comeuppance after putting damn near every territory out of business in the 80s,buying out high profile talent to exclusive contracts regularly to the point where there was only one big dog in the game until Turner paid for stars much like Vince did before him. |
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RIP SABU
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TBF, Turner TOTALLY paid for the moon to be colorized.
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Reigning Tipsters Champ!
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The WCW one would be top for me that Damien mentioned above. Was looking forward to Monday Night Ears but became unwatchable about 3 episodes in.
Ultimate Warrior thing also bothers me. He was so awful (in their eyes) that they put out a DVD tearing him and his time with the company apart, and now, he represents everything noble and great and true about the company. That's not even mentioning the fact that he said similar things to what Hogan said recently, in public forums and the difference in their treatment is vast. |
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Ted Turner biggest desire was trying to ruthlessly drive Vince/WWE out of business when in reality he barely cared about Vince/WWE. Cared a lot about wrestling since it played a big role in building his network empire but never had a real vendetta like Vince does with WCW. Only got involved in the whole WCW-WWE war after the Black Saturday incident to protect wrestling on his channel.
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boop/bop/beep
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Vince acts like he created Hulkamania. Sure, he put it on a bigger scale, but Hulkamania was running wild in the AWA before his run in the WWF. From what I could tell by the pops he was getting, he was clearly the biggest star in the country from his time in the AWA, Vince just jumped all over him after Verne Gagner shot himself in the foot and never pulled the trigger with Hogan.
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boop/bop/beep
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Also loved how he was "The Incredible" Hulk Hogan.
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Quark is Less Impressed.
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Triple H coming down to The Game theme song when he was breaking up the Test/Steph wedding in clips over the years.
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OLD SCHOOL FAN
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them claiming their tv show beat out the local territories' tv ratings in the different markets.
not true at all. WCCW in the early 80's had just out of this world ratings. Their show aired on Saturday nights opposite of Saturday Night Live. World Class would get a 14 rating whereas SNL would get a 9 or 10 rating. the myth that WWE's tv did higher ratings in the different territories markets is laughable. Kevin Von Erich himself told me that World Class' tv show got higher ratings in New York than WWE's did. |
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OLD SCHOOL FAN
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Sgt Slaughter and WWE also like to claim that Wrestlemania was moved from the LA Coliseum to the Sports Arena due to a bomb threat.
it was because of ticket sales being so low not due to a bomb threat like they like to claim. |
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#20 |
Let me talk to ya
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Some crazy myths about Lita.
She pretty much slept with the entire OMEGA roster which included... Matt Hardy Jeff Hardy Joey Matthews Christian York Shane Helms Mike Maverick Cham Pain Shannon Moore Venom Otto Schwanz Sweet Dreams Caprice Coleman Steve Corino Black Skull - Got pissed on by Steve Corino and Danny Doring - Traded sexual favours for training in Mexico since she had no money. - Was the sex toy of El Dandy - Used to be a stripper (which she said in her book) - Matt Hardy may be bi and Lita definitely is bi. - While on an indie tour in Peru, Lita was sucking off an Indy guy I won't name, since none of you will have heard of him anyway. A quote from a source said..."I hadn't jacked it in like 3 weeks and I tried to smarten her up, but she wouldn't listen. I came like a ****ing geyser and she swallowed the WHOLE thing." - Lita was the local groupie of Richmond punk bands. |
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#21 |
shisen sucks all the cock
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Always pissed me off that they tried to get me to believe mike tenay was a real professor.
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Make the IWC Great Again
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Make the IWC Great Again
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Probably something to do with Vince being evil or something something. |
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Grim Fandango
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No, I mean how they caved in at the very last minute and changed all their plans for Mania 30 because the fan base was pissing all over their booking. They then pretended they were totally going to book that to happen the entire time and dumb shit like not putting him in the royal rumble, having him join the wyatts for a week, not even having him in a mania program until Punk quit, etc, was all part of the plan.
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Think CyNick is struggling with the idea that running a financially successful company and selling out areas or garnering great tv ratings are not necessarily done hand in hand. Wcw sold out tons of arenas and had great ratings even in the end and they were losing plenty of money.
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Make the IWC Great Again
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Dont get so caught up in the narrative the dirt sheet writers are trying to spin. WWE booked Daniel Bryan to be the underdog, there was a purpose to it, there was a payoff to it. Even if they didnt have everything laid out from the year prior, they clearly were booking him to at the very least get over on HHH in some manner. They ended up going all the way with him, and somehow that equates to WWE bad. I just dont get it. WWE gave you what you wanted, and then Bryan's neck gave way, and they had to move on. |
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Every dog has his day. |
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Grim Fandango
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Make the IWC Great Again
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WWE stomping out their competition and that competition drawing people in droves and filling up arenas while and or before Vince was doing it are two different things. Vince and co like to pretend they created these massive sell outs. It's not true. Regardless of the end results. That's the original point, which your latest string of posts suggest you're struggling to comprehend.
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The south and west coast drew terribly during Vince's expansion for a looooong time. They were putting guys like Andre and Patterson high on the card in L.A and they still weren't drawing more than 5000 people to large arenas in L.A.
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boop/bop/beep
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I may be beating a dead horse, but I don't know if anyone has flat out said this.... but being the #1 kind of gives the WWE the ability to re-write the history books. So while what CyNick is saying is true... it's also kind of circular. It's like yeah, they won, and they did the most important things better than the other guys, but that kind of gives them the power to tell a whole bunch of bullshit.
If I took over the world tomorrow, my biography would be similar to a North Korean Dictators. I'd have been able to fly at the age of five, and lost my virginity at 8 to fly Noobian Princess. And it doesn't matter if it's bullshit, because I rule the world so fuck the other guys version of the story. |
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Quark is Less Impressed.
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wekasauce
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Make the IWC Great Again
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LIMITLESS
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Best Poster
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He's gonna puke!
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The way they make out the first few 'Manias (particularly the first one) to be these magical, flawless events. Christ.
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shisen sucks all the cock
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boop/bop/beep
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in all fairness any SINGLE person in any kind of "know", is aware of how bad those manias are.
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