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06-27-2010, 09:07 AM
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"I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show." -Jerry Lawler (presumably after JR was moved from Raw to Smackdown)
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06-27-2010, 09:46 AM
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"I've been told point blank by someone who would be considered one of HHH's best friends in the company that he had it out for Jericho from day one." - Dave Meltzer, WrestlingClassics.com message boards, 2003
"Vince McMahon is responsible for the company's success and non-success. It all stops with him. But he is listening to the wrong people for direction, and HHH is one of those wrong people, because he buries the ability of people to be in a top position, and thus, Vince doesn't see them in the light where they can draw money. Even though, HHH's money drawing days appear to be over." - Dave Meltzer, WrestlingClassics.com message boards, 2003 "Bischoff did tell me one time he didn't know how to market me. That was a few months before I was fired. He told me, 'You know, we've gotta do something with you. You come out there in your black boots and your black trunks an we don't know what to do with you. We can't sell any dolls off that.'" - Steve Austin in a '95 Torch interview "Stunning Steve Austin is the next franchise wrestler in this industry. Make no mistake about it, he is, and nobody but nobody can take that away from him. It's good job security when you are going to be a major part of the next decade of this business and Steve Austin is going to be a major part of the next decade." - Paul Heyman, Pro Wrestling Torch Annual V interview, Summer 1992 "Go ahead, it's a nice looking ass." - Vince McMahon, encouraging William Regal to join the Kiss My Ass Club, Monday Night Raw, November 19 2001. "Look! My ass can do tricks!" - Vince McMahon, during the first induction of the Kiss My Ass Club, Monday Night Raw "Mr. Orton, it seems to me, I need to reintroduce your brain to your mouth, because your speakin' out your ass." - Jake Roberts to Randy Orton, March 14 2005 edition of Monday Night Raw "On this night 25 years ago, from the testicles of Vince McMahon himself came something so horrifying it sends chills up and down the bodies of men all over the world: tonight marks the birth of Stephanie McMahon." - The Rock, Monday Night Raw, September 24 2001 Last edited by Providence Peep; 06-27-2010 at 01:26 PM. |
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06-27-2010, 10:48 AM
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"Since you call yourself the Nature Boy, that (raises) a question I've always wanted to ask you: What exactly is a "nature boy"? Do you like nature? Do you like boys?" - Steve Austin to Ric Flair, Monday Night Raw, June 3 2002
"That canvas is not covered in BBQ sauce. It CAN'T taste good!" - Jim Ross, during Rockers/Resistance match, 3/14/05 edition of Monday Night Raw "You know why there were only 220 Mexicans at the Alamo? They only had one car." -Bobby Heenan "Do you know Koko B. Ware's mom's first name? Tupper." -Bobby Heenan "Isn't that Tito Santana's sister? Arriba McIntyre?" - Bobby Heenan on Reba McIntyre, WWE's choice to sing the national anthem at WrestleMania VIII "By the time The Iron Sheik gets to the ring, it'll be Wrestlemania 38." - Bobby Heenan on The Iron Sheik before the Gimmick Battle Royal at Wrestlemania X7, 2001 "I would take everyone who works for WCW, put them in a room, and throw them a hand grenade." - Bobby Heenan on Wrestling Observer Live, 2001, when asked about what he'd do to turn around WCW "You can't do much when you're managing the Missing Link. One time he asked me when my flight was. I said 9am. He said his was at 8:30am, and that I better be there at 8am. I asked why, and he said "My gimmick is that I don't talk, so you have to get me my tickets." I told him, "You better learn to talk by 8am or you're not getting any tickets. I'm only your manager 15 minutes a night." He said, "What are they going to think of my hair?" I said, "It's New York, they'll just think you have a bad hair day." - Bobby Heenan on Wrestling Observer Live, 2001, when asked who was his least favorite guy to manage "At the Cauliflower Club banquet, Mike Tenay and I were wearing suits and ties. We just stood there and let the people stare at us. I then said to Tenay, "Don't we look like the top of Pat Patterson's wedding cake?" - Bobby Heenan on Wrestling Observer Live, 2001 "It's like getting rid of Pam Anderson and putting Zsa Zsa on the beach." - Bobby Heenan on Wrestling Observer Live, 2001, talking about WCW replacing him with Mark Madden "They couldn't produce flatulence at a bean convention." - Bobby Heenan on Wrestling Observer Live, 2001, talking about WCW taking two make-up girls and making them TV producers of Nitro "I'll see you at Beach Brawl, Madusa!" - Missy Hyatt, WCW Main Event, 1992, promoting Beach BLAST, not Beach Brawl. Couldn't they do a second take? Of course not, this was WCW "He's not particularly ball-hairy."- Stephanie McMahon on HHH, when asked if he shaves his ball hair, the Howard Stern Show, 2002 "I've been world champion more times than you've had pieces of ass." - Ric Flair to Syxx, WCW Nitro, 1997 "The fate, the very fate, of WCW, is in my hands." -Vince McMahon, opening the last WCW Nitro "If you're asking if I would ever date a wrestler, certainly I would. However it wouldn't be good business for me to get romantically involved with anyone in any aspect of our business." - Stephanie McMahon, Off the Record, 1999 (before beginning the relationship with Triple Haitch) |
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06-27-2010, 01:23 PM
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In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have posted all those quotes.
They'll probably never be read because some of you here have the attention span of a flea. |
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06-27-2010, 06:32 PM
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So fucking sexy.
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"We don't need a crazy man driving a forklift!" -- Jim Ross, WrestleMania 14
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06-28-2010, 08:32 AM
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That's Not My Name
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Power Slam Magazine: Did you often clash with other members of WWF management?
Jim Cornette: Constantly with some people, but not with others. Jim Ross and I have always got along. He's helped me a lot: he's taught me a lot about announcing and the wrestling business in general. Gerry Brisco, Jack Lanza: guys like that. Great. I love (working with them). But guys like Kevin Dunn, who's the biggest enemy professional wrestling fans have, and the non-wrestling people who are taught from day one that WWE isn't wrestling: it's sports entertainment, and it's got to be hokey or whatever. No. It's not really their fault because that's what they're taught by WWE. But, at the same time, they're so obnoxious about it (laughs). Kevin Dunn hates wrestling! He refuses to allow you to call it professional wrestling while you're in the room with him. He will argue with you about it! He makes a million dollars a year as the executive producer of a show that he doesn't even like! PSM: Dunn, WWE's Executive Vice President of Television Production, dislikes what he does for a living? JC: No. He likes what he does; he just doesn't like wrestling. WWE has succeeded in fulfilling the prophecy: they always said they weren't wrestling. Now, they aren't. But the problem is, they've killed the business for the rest of us who want to be. When (the WWF/WWE) was wrestling, Kevin Dunn would fight and argue with you. He would say: "We're not wrestling! No, we're not, God damn it!" Finally, he's right: WWE is not. But it's still frustrating when you're trying to work for the success of a company, and people won't even admit what they're doing. Vince McMahon created sports entertainment as a way to fool the fucking advertisers into thinking they weren't buying time on good, old-fashioned wrestling. That's it. There's no such thing, really, as sports entertainment. Have you ever heard a fan say. "Did you see the sports entertainment last night?" Have you ever heard anyone say, "Did you get your sports entertainment tickets?" Have you ever heard anyone ask, "Have you ordered the sports entertainment pay-per-view?" PSM: I don't think so. JC: No! Don't disrespect me when you hire me to be a part of your company and tell me that I don't know what we're doing. At one time, the WWF/WWE was describing Raw as an "action adventure programme". They're delusional! Kevin Dunn wants to win an Emmy one day for being a real TV guy. All the rest of them owe everything they have to wrestling, and the last thing they want to admit is they're in wrestling! I'm proud of being in professional wrestling all these years and of what I accomplished in it. Instead of being a crummy flop at anything else in the real world, I was the best at what I did in this world. WWE would rather be crummy flops as football promoters, bodybuilding federation promoters or fucking restaurant owners than admit they do wrestling. So, to answer your question: Yes, I clashed constantly with some people because they would fight with me about the business we were working in. All I wanted was the respect from them that I knew what was going on. PSM: All that conflict sounds like such a waste of time and effort - time and effort that could have been devoted to something constructive. JC: It was a constant waste of time. We would spend 30 minutes in production meetings, talking about ways Sable would wear a T-shirt. Who gives a shit? It was frustrating. Being around that atmosphere was the most frustrating period of my life. I'm not good at regular compromise. But their compromise was, "Say whatever you think Vince will like to hear". Compromise in the WWF was: agree with Vince. |
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06-28-2010, 08:49 AM
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yeah nah good mate
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In hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have posted all those quotes.
They'll probably never be read because some of you here have the attention span of a flea. Or because some of them are shit. Post #41 from this thread: I read the first four and was actually about to post saying those were awesome, then I read the rest which was complete crap. |
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06-30-2010, 09:29 AM
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However, stating an opinion as though it's a fact still doesn't make it anything more than an opinion. |
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06-30-2010, 11:33 AM
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"We're not going anywhere, you can't hold us in your hands! And predict our life! We're WCW, we've bled and we've sweat; when was the last time you wrestled for an hour, cut yourself five times, bled for forty-five minutes, WHEN... WERE... YOU... THERE?!? You weren't! You weren't! You were never in the dressing room, on the road, forty days and forty nights, bleeding, sweating, going to the next town. You can't hold people's lives in your hand. We're the greatest wrestling company of all time; I want to say it again, you can't control us or our future." - Ric Flair to Vince McMahon, when McMahon bought WCW
"Well The Rock knows damn well the history of the WCW Title. The Rock knows that the title traces back to Frank Gotch, Lou Thesz, Ricky Steamboat, and WOOOOOOOO, Ric Flair! The Rock also knows damn well that in recent years the WCW Title has come to... Diamond Dallas Page? Booker T? The guy from Scream 2, the dog from Married With Children, the maid from The Jeffersons! Shane McMahon, this title is just like your sister - everybody gets a turn!" - The Rock |
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06-30-2010, 11:38 AM
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Diabetes Coming To Getcha
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"In my time, I've wrestled alot of countries..." - Scott Steiner.
"Load the spaceship with the rocket fuel. LOAD IT WITH THE WARRIORS!" - Ultimate Warrior. |
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06-30-2010, 11:44 AM
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"I hope the US loses the war in Iraq. And while I'm at it, I think the greatest country in the world is France, what do you think? And you know, truth be told, I'm not a very big fan of the black people. And if I could go back in time, the one person in history I'd like to make tap out would have to be... Jesus."
- Kurt Angle "You are, so help me God, the most disgusting, vile, son of a bitch I've ever seen in my life. You took Hulk Hogan's blood and you built Titan Towers. You stole Bret Hart's dream and with that money, bought yourself an airplane with 'WWF' all over it. You did that, and you know it, you son of a bitch. You stole Shawn Michaels' smile, took your company public, and made yourself a billionaire. But not a self-made billionaire, like you like to tell everyone you are, oh no. See, you're a billionaire on other people's hard work. Your father - your father, Vince McMahon - your father went around the country and shook the hand of every... You know I'm telling the truth don't you? You know in your heart I'm telling you the truth... that your father shook the hand of every promoter in this country and swore to them that he would never compete against them, that his son would never compete against them. And when your father DIED, you competed. And with your ruthless, merciless, take-no-prisoners attitude, you drove everybody out of business, didn't you, Vince? You ran all the competition into the ground and you stole all their ideas, and you made yourself a billionaire out of it. And you know whose ideas you stole the most, Vince? You stole mine. You see, I don't give a damn about Don Owen and Sam Muchnick and Jim Crockett; I care about what you did to me and my family. How you stole my dreams! How you stole my legacy! How you stole everything that ECW represented. Because while Doink the Clown had green hair and a rubber nose, 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin was drinking his first beer in ECW, damn you. While Bobby Heenan and Gene Okerlund were dancing around, singing 'Tutti Frutti,' ECW was producing the edgy TV that you named 'Attitude'. 'Oh, we got Attitude...' You got nothing, man. What you got is my ideas and you stole MY LIFE, MY MONEY, MY LEGACY!!! Screw you. Screw you and your family." - Paul Heyman to Vince McMahon |
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