> Hi Scott
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> Just wonderering, was it true that you actually attended a Smackdown taping in June 2005? Where Kurt Angle fought Booker T & Sharmell in a disturbing handicap match? If so, was it embarrassing to watch this match in person?
Yeah and I was sitting right behind Michael Cole too. I don't even remember that match, but I do remember Taber Corn chants and Holly-Gunn v someone in a tag team 30 minute Iron Man match. Not a great show.
The only TV taping I have ever attended was in 1993, for Wrestling Challenge. It was not very notable except for the debut of one Bastion Booger. He sat on Owen Hart's face for the pin. Bobby Heenan would go on to call that move The Bat Cave, I believe. Poor Owen. It's a good thing his older brother Bret stuck up for him to get him that push, or else he would have been placed under a mask and saddled with Jeff Jarrett.
ReplyDeleteHey now, some wrestlers have been very successful wearing a mask. Really what's the worst that could have happened?
ReplyDeleteKurt Angle saying to Booker T, "I want to have sex with your wife." was one of the just out of nowhere weirdest storylines of that time.
ReplyDeleteWWE Smackdown! Tag Team Champions Johnny Nitro & Joey Mercury defeated Charlie Haas & Hardcroe Holly in a 15-minute Ironman matche, 2 falls to 1;
ReplyDeletefall #1: Mercury pinned Holly; 1-0
fall #2: Mercury pinned Haas; 2-0
fall #3: Haas pinned Mercury; 2-1
Kurt Angle defeated Booker T & Sharmell in a handicap match
John Heidenreich pinned Devon Nickelson
John Bradshaw Layfield pinned Nunzio
WWE World Champion John Cena & the Big Show defeated Carlito Caribbean Cool & Matt Morgan
Yikes
Holly and Billy gunn in a tag team iron man match... yikes
ReplyDeleteHoly shit that sounds like the worst smackdown ever. Carlito and matt Morgan in the main event???
ReplyDeleteI upvote you, sir, for your subtlety. "What's the worst that could have happened?". I have a VHS copy of the worst.
ReplyDeleteI went to a raw taping in 1993 and even as a little kid I remember being bored as fuck. The best part was seeing yokozuna beat the shit out some jobber. I was in complete awe of him but otherwise it was rough. I can't imagine how awful it must have been for my parents.
ReplyDeleteSmackdown 05' was brutal. My favorite moment was Big Show chokeslamming Kurt Angle off of a balcony onto concrete. Classic.
ReplyDeleteI have absolutely no recollection of that feud. I must have not been watching at that point.
ReplyDeleteNot just any kind of sex! But weird, perverted bestiality type sex!
ReplyDeleteSo awesome.. Never fails to get a *rise* out of me..
ReplyDeleteThat was 2004
ReplyDeleteWow, I forgot that was actually Carlito's name when they first brought him. What a stupid fucking name.
ReplyDeleteAngle's facial expressions during his promos sold it for me. He looked like he was ready to cum in his pants.
ReplyDeleteKnowing what we know about Angle now, this probably wasn't acting.
Yeah that was it. Holly and Haas I guess.
ReplyDeletewhat happened to qotd?
ReplyDeleteI was at the taping where Angle got fired as General Manager, but before that went on a huge power trip and fired all the Divas for being "useless."
ReplyDeleteThe best part, it was Philly and the fans cheered Angle for it.
I'm pretty sure it demanded more money and was fired. It was wished the best of luck in it's future endeavours!
ReplyDeleteI went to one of the infamous Challenge tapings back in 91, and it was brutal. About 50 matches in all, and just jobber after jobber. Although we did get an unaired Piper's Pit with Shawn Michaels and Sherri, where Piper lifted Sherri's skirt to show everyone her undies!!!
ReplyDeleteLol that was good stuff
ReplyDeleteI always dug him in a comedic role in WWE, but don't see it too much in TNA
Caliber lost to Randy Orton at a house show.
ReplyDeletestupid stupid stupid
ReplyDeleterehab is no laughing matter
ReplyDeletebut general huge erection's finisher is
Caliber left. Don't know why. Dougie push him over the edge?
ReplyDeleteMaybe his rap career is finally taking off.
ReplyDeleteA 15-minute Iron Man match?
ReplyDeleteSo I guess it got worse.
ReplyDeletelike deleted account left?
ReplyDeleteI don't think he deleted his account, but people in the RAW thread revealed he sent an e-mail saying he was leaving
ReplyDeleteI've been to one TV taping - an old school one in 1995 - I never thought it would end - at least four hours long!!
ReplyDeleteWWF @ St. Louis, MO - Kiel Center - July 26, 1995 (10,500)
WWF Wrestling Challenge taping (the final taping):
Lex Luger & Davey Boy Smith defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Owen Hart & Yokozuna via disqualification when Yoko made the save and dropped a leg on Smith when his partner was about to be pinned
Fantasio pinned Rad Radford with a roll up
Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Tatanka in a strap match by touching all four corners
The Undertaker defeated Kama in a casket match
WWF IC Champion Shawn Michaels & Bret Hart defeated Jerry Lawler & Hakushi when Hakushi submitted to Hart's Sharpshooter
WWF World Champion Diesel defeated WWF Tag Team Champion Yokozuna (sub. for Psycho Sid) in a steel cage match by escaping over the top; at one point, Yoko tried climbing the cage
7/30/95 - included highlights from the Bret Hart / Hakushi match from Raw:
The Smoking Gunns defeated Victor Lewis & Lanny Scott Turner
Tatanka pinned David Haskins with the Samoan Drop
Aldo Montoya pinned Tony Williams with a bulldog off the top
Adam Bomb defeated Tony Devito
King Kong Bundy pinned Buck Quartermaine with a splash
8/6/95 - included footage from the Razor Ramon & Savio Vega / Yokozuna & Owen Hart match from Raw:
Waylon Mercy defeated Troy Hasty via submission with the sleeper
The 1-2-3 Kid pinned Nick Barberry with a spin wheel kick
Bob Holly defeated Reginald Walker
Henry Godwinn defeated Brickhouse Brown
Bam Bam Bigelow pinned Bill Payne with the diving headbutt
8/13/95 - included footage of the Diesel / Sir Mo non-title match from Raw; featured footage from WWF Superstars of the Barry Horowitz / Skip 10-minute challenge match:
Lex Luger & Davey Boy Smith defeated AC Conner & Bob Cook
Jean Pierre Lafitte pinned Jerry Faith with the Cannonball
Fatu pinned Mike Bell with a superkick
Hunter Hearst Helmsley pinned Scott Taylor with the Pedigree
SummerSlam 2005 at Verizon is probably my favorite show I've ever attended. Been to numerous RAW tapings, like Dolph and AJ getting shat on, Marty Jannetty almost having to join the Kiss My Ass Club. One was a RAW/Smackdown taping where Angle/Undertaker had a really good match, it was right after their No Way Out Match. Last taping I went to was the go home show for WM, all the big stars were there, and we sat through hours of Main Event, Smackdown and I think even Saturday Morning Slam.
ReplyDeleteI think so. He was pressuring me to ban Dougie for being an ass in his movie thread and I didn't really want to.
ReplyDeleteI think we'll be OK without him.
He Cracked under the pressure.
ReplyDeleteHow do you lose a loser leaves town match to Dougie?
ReplyDeleteWe lost Caliber to keep Dougie?
ReplyDeleteWow, what a great main event. lol
ReplyDeleteWe had a couple of house shows around here that went over well, so they did a tv taping - which I wasn't aware was a tv taping. My Dad certainly wasn't aware it was tv taping. Adam Bomb may have made his debut here aside from that and at least 4 Shawn Michaels matches that's all I can remember. I don't even think we got a proper dark match main event they just sort of called it a night.
ReplyDeleteWhen he gets out of rehab he should go back to the goofy happy Kurt Angle.
ReplyDeleteOne of the worst, for sure. And his theme song was stupid, how it had the random second pause for the same catchphrase as the start of it. Totally killed the flow of the song
ReplyDeleteYea, he didn't seem happy about the Dougie stuff, but it sounds like Dougie was just being an ass. He really needs thicker skin.
ReplyDeletePeople were being much nicer to him too, if anyone was going to crack (ed?) it'd be Chris.
please to be explaining
ReplyDeletei saw some reference to it in the die hard review thread, but have no clue the specifics
That thread is still amazing.
ReplyDeleteAlso, as someone who has mostly just lurked on this blog for a long time, I'd much rather read Dougie's trolling then Caliber's buffoonery.
I actually thought that Calibur had found a home with the QOTD stuff after a wickedly bad start here.
ReplyDeleteThat he metled down surprises me a bit, I thought that he was tougher than that.
Agreed. I liked the QOTD, even if some of his answers were a little batty and/or The Expendables. Just seems random
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be replaced with a new column called "Bicep of the Day", where one BoDer a day is going to take a selfie of their bicep, and the rest of us are going to determine if we can see the face of Jesus in it. Or just fucking mock it.
ReplyDeleteI see what you did there...
ReplyDeleteOnly old school taping I attended was for Smoky Mountain back in the early 90's, not sure the year. I hated it cause you couldn't tell what was going on. Random guys would wrestle and they would tape interview segments that the crowd couldn't hear. They may as well just used cardboard cut-outs for the crowd.
ReplyDeleteI went to a LOT of those early "Raw" tapings. You can actually see me during, like, five different segments on that "Raw: The Beginning" DVD set.
ReplyDeleteBeing about ten-years old at the time, they weren't bad.
The fuck does Dougie have on you anyway? I already asked you to name your price, and you no-sold it.
ReplyDeleteTell me we couldn't meet a "Ban Dougie" Kickstarter goal....
Whatever happened to Michael Bradley anyway?
ReplyDeleteHa, what a wank.
ReplyDeleteOf course he did.
ReplyDeleteThat's hot. I'd upvote it.
ReplyDeleteAnd now we know the full story.
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