Combine movie titles into silly, dumb, insane names that conjure up an idea of possibly the best worst movie ever.
For example: Iron Man + Man On Fire = Iron Man on Fire
The 40 Year Old Virgin + The Virgin Suicides = The 40 Year Old Virgin Suicides
And so on. You can do it for music, games, TV shows, whatever. Bonus points if you come up with a silly plot involving BODers!
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ReplyDeleteI think it is finally time to send QOTD out for a walk on the highway.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bigger fan of 1995 WWE than 1994.
ReplyDeleteStar Wars: A New Hope Floats
ReplyDeleteAn Inconvenient Truth About Cats & Dogs
Apollo 13 Ghosts
Blair Witch 2: The Jungle Book of Shadows
Same here. It may be the Shawn and Diesel show, but that's a lot more interesting than every match being a jobber squash.
ReplyDeleteSince Cougar Town was mentioned, I will just say that Bobby Cobb is the best character in TV history. that is all.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.memegene.net/media/created/glhuq2.jpg
ReplyDeleteAnd that's okay with me. Plus Razor was still cool.
ReplyDeleteI was a Diesel fan as a kid, 1995 was awesome for me.
ReplyDeleteHe's the Golf Pro that lives on the boat right? He is incredible.
ReplyDeleteGoddammit Meekin + Meekin Doesn't Know What A Shoot Is=
ReplyDeleteGoddammit Meekin Doesn't Know What A Shoot Is
So saying "this is all uncomfortable can we talk about wrestling please" is bad, and only assholes do it. But making jokes about playing in traffic are okay?
ReplyDeleteJust want to make sure that I have the same opinion as anyone.
If the QOTD does "take a walk on the highway", let me be the first to say that I am stunned and shocked and will personally never forget it.
I think the undercard was worse in 94 but the Bret/Owen stuff rocked. And crazy Bob at the end of 94 was great too. 95 probably had better overall ring work (I know hard to believe with KOTR 95 and Summerslam 95) but the top of the card sucked and 94 had WM10.
ReplyDeleteDo The Right Thing From Outer Space
ReplyDeleteKindergarten Maniac Cop
That's when you get together a bunch of lighting, camera, and technical people and film actors saying lines from a script, right?
ReplyDeleteThat ones kind of clever.
ReplyDeleteWell played Meekin.
Hell yeah. He makes me wanna live on a boat in a stranded parking lot, while drinking beer.
ReplyDeleteMr. Meekin,Mr. Madison, what you've just said... Is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
ReplyDeleteThat's my favorite quote from The Bridges of Billy Madison County.
ReplyDeleteThank you. As a reward for your compliment, feel free to chastise this short film I wrote:
ReplyDeletehttp://vimeo.com/14599652
There's a Cactus jack joke in there!
No Country For Old Men Who Stare At Goats
ReplyDeleteFrom Russia With Love And Other Drugs
Full Metal Jackass
It's a wonderful life aquatic
ReplyDeleteThree Colours: Blues Brothers
Remains of the Day of the Jackal
Dirty Dave wins.
ReplyDeleteFahrenheit 911 Is A Joke (okay, mixed media there, and no hatred to Michael Moore implied)
ReplyDeleteFantastic Four Weddings and a Funeral
Reservoir Dogs In Space
Up In The Air Bud Spikes Back
The fact Air Bud Spikes Back is a real movie gives my heart glee.
ReplyDeleteOnce we get to September 95 Raws, is that when they start uploading nitros too?
ReplyDeleteToo soon.
ReplyDeleteNever said by Farva when he was offered a drink.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdtfcOlr0tk
ReplyDeleteReplace kid with frequent BOD poster.
A Walk Hard To Remember. A real classic.
ReplyDeleteAustin out of the main event picture, HHH comes in and takes over the main event scene, Hogan comes back in a month and gets main event pushes, Undertaker is dumped to the midcard and being eliminated by a jobber, Flair vs. Vince happened, Angle got sent back to the midcard. To me it was a point where I can say that WWE changed drastically.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds a lot like the Build-a-Title game that Doug Benson plays on Doug Loves Movies. Take a group of people, start with one title, and add to the first or last word of the title. If you get to a point where dinnertime can't add then they're out.
ReplyDeleteSpider-man > Along Came A Spider-man > Along Came A Spider-man On Fire...
You can also use sound alikes,
Spider-man > Harriet The SPYder-man...
Indeed. It's mostly nostalgia for me, but nothing can touch the epicness of Hogan-Andre. And although Steamboat was looking for revenge, he wasn't that big of a star to me at the time, so his win over the almighty Macho Man was kinda an upset. III all the way.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of space dedicated to linking back to yourself is equal to the amount of space used for the article.
ReplyDeleteI meant Mania's only.
ReplyDeleteIf you were watching at the time, it's not. Piper vs. Adonis was supposedly Piper's retirement, and a hair match to boot. And there was heat in that six man, since the faces were looking for revenge on Danny Davis. The pop you hear when he's getting his ass kicked is awesome.
ReplyDeleteBad Santa with Muscles
ReplyDeleteReady to Rumble in the Bronx
"Brand Extension Era" is a more relevant name. People who obsessively refer to it as "Ruthless Aggression" are just clinging on to this motif that eras are christened in a promo (like Vince's 'Attitude' speech).
ReplyDelete"Brand Extension" reflects the different approach that was made to the business.
Yeah, it's just too many.
ReplyDeleteYeah I'm just blind sorry!
ReplyDeleteYep my mistake, sorry.
ReplyDeleteIt is very Caliber esque.
ReplyDeleteI would not choose 17 since its the mania that began an era of bankrupted creativity. All downhill after that night.
ReplyDeleteMy biological dad was a sack of crap, and I've never met the guy. The dad I grew up with, my brother's bio dad was absolutely no prize either, and far from someone I'd look up to. So, I'm here to celebrate other people's dads who I admire, and I try to pattern my life after.
ReplyDeleteArnold, of course, for a number of reasons. He's completely self-made, and busted his ass from the get go. He arrived here in America with $20 in his pocket when he was 19. By the time he was 30 he a 6-time Mr. Olympia [the highest honor in bodybuilding], as well as a millionaire due to his investments & start-up businesses. He's an awesome guy who stands by his friends, and is honest when called on his fuck-ups or bullshit.
Stallone for a lot of the same reasons. He toiled in Hollywood for years, taking bit-parts while being stereotyped. He created a script from whole cloth, and turned down offers as high as $250,000 for it, because he wanted to star in it, knowing how good the script was. Once he got his break, he went on to build two of the greatest film franchises in history with Rocky & Rambo. A good portion of people don't even know he's a writer & producer, as well as a director. He directed Rocky II, III, IV, Rocky Balboa, Rambo 4, The Expendables, and a few others. He's extremely kind, honest, hard-working, giving, and everything I want to be as a person, and what I want from my career.
Dexter, much like The Punisher, is a hero of mine because they do what I wish so badly someone would do. Dex & The Punisher are brilliant, tactical, and never make mistakes. There's never collateral damage, and no bullshit where an innocent dies because of lazy detective work. They're thorough & precise, and the people who die deserve to die. They make the world a better place, and I never tire of watching them kill rapists, human traffickers, murderers, child molesters, and people who scream at cashiers who say they can't use one of their 300 coupons because it's expired. Beyond that, Dexter is a great guy. He loves his family, he's kind & honest, and the kind of person any rational guy would want to be like.
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ReplyDeletecaliber
ReplyDeleteIt probably depends on Bryan's future. If he's out a long time and doesn't really stay a tippy-toppy guy, then no. If it's his true coronation in retrospect, I could see it somewhere in the Top 7 or so.
ReplyDeleteI think Austin got the title shot in the main event of the very next pay-per-view, but that would have been I think his last ever WWE title match.
ReplyDeleteAttitude ended imo when Russo and Ferrera left. Like them or not, their booking defined what we think of when we say attitude era.
ReplyDeleteThat's very early.
ReplyDelete4 is unwatchable. Not 3.
ReplyDeleteO...k
ReplyDeleteVince was awful after 92
ReplyDeleteIt's what he wrote on Father's Day
ReplyDeleteO....k
ReplyDeleteCaliber: " Can I write fitness articles here?"
ReplyDeleteRemind me to never let Hogan near a booking committee.
ReplyDeleteSteve Martian + Martian Short = Steve Martian Short.
ReplyDeleteI hate that term and how it's become so widespread in describing that time period. Seriously, it was a phrase that was uttered two times at most - once by Vince, and then Cena in his debut.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad when you see a guy do the moves he was later famous for before he got famous.
ReplyDeleteThe timing. WCW died the week before, changing wrestling as we knew it forever. Combine that with the face of the era abandoning his defining character and it's a pretty swift bookend.
ReplyDeleteI'm Gonna Git You Sucka + Dick = draw your own conclusion.
ReplyDeleteAh okay. McCoy my first Dr too. The first story I saw was Paradise Heights, as I think it was called. Terrible, but it scared the hell out of me as a little kid.
ReplyDeleteRemembrance Of The Daleks, Silver Nemesis and that one set during WWII are what made me a life-long fan however :)
This is a laugh out loud terrible post.
ReplyDeleteThis is a laugh out loud response to a post.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you would have filled that thread with hundreds of awful posts too.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it.
ReplyDeleteI found him a better set-up to Lawler's jokes than JR was, and I listen for the humour than the play-by-play. JR on his own I find better than him plus Lawler.
ReplyDeleteWe did with the Impact thread about a month ago.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely feel the same way about WrestleMania X.
ReplyDeleteno WrestleMania before or after had me in that special kind of anticipation like that one.
you never heard it?
ReplyDeleteyeah I was never a big Austin fan, but I've grown to enjoy it more in retrospect. I loved heel austin though. Not sure it was best for WWF (we've debated that over and over around here) financially but for me it was awesome creatively. didn't much care for "sheriff austin" or the other stuff he did as CO Gm to keep him on TV when he couldn't actualy work. I didn't like everyone cowering to him or him stunning guys that had to work night after night when he wasn't able to get in the ring.
ReplyDeleteNever got the love for Wrestlemania 19. Jericho/HBK was solid but Angle/Lesnar is just one of the most forgettable main events of all-time only remember because of Brock's botch.
ReplyDeleteIf they could have knocked Cena/JBL and Batista/HHH out of the park, WM 21 would be far and away the greatest WM ever. Funny thing is Cena/JBL had a great I Quit match the next month and Batista/HHH had a great HIAC match at Vengeance.
Internet annoyance Paul Meekin + the motion picture "Blow"
ReplyDeletePaul Meekin Blows.
I think that is true of that one point as a kid where it all comes together. I was insanely interested in Foley/HHH and that entire period of 2000/2001 but it still never compared to the wide-eyed fun of a 13 year old wanting to see Piper go over (no matter how politically incorrect it all was in retrospect) or rooting for Hogan to beat Andre, Steamboat (even though I dug Savage), etc.
ReplyDeleteGet outta here non-seeing person!!!
ReplyDeleteSorry Lax....
ReplyDeleteChris Walker Texas Ranger.
Excalibur Winfield.
ReplyDeleteYou can't kill a dead man!
ReplyDeleteImagine if it'd been Bret/Flair instead of Bret/Austin... Bret could've still kept the same general heel character where he was uncomfortable with the more sexual/violent direction the company was heading, yay Canada/boo USA, and lash out at Flair because of the lifestyle of debauchery he represents.
ReplyDeleteWMX is definitely one I used to watch all the time growing up, probably the most times overall.
ReplyDeleteOooo, I got one, My Favorite Martian Short
ReplyDeleteThere's no reason to encourage that.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest reason I can't agree that the Attitude Era stretched to WM19 is because 2002 was such a shit year, at least IMO. This isn't even considering the botched Invasion angle the year prior.
ReplyDelete19 may not have been the BEST card, but it was pretty solid overall. Matt Hardy/Rey Mysterio has always been one of my favorite 'Mania openers.
ReplyDelete21 was stellar until the title matches.
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard the "Brand Extension Era" alternative, but holy shit that's SOOO much better than "Ruthless Aggression." I think why that name has stuck for so long is because John Cena used it in his first promo.
ReplyDeleteMy Favorite Martian Salute Your Shorts
ReplyDeleteAll i remember was Stacy and the rumour that they were supposed to run in on the Vince/Shane match but that it got pulled at the last minute.
ReplyDeleteI hope he has this memorized word for word and recites it to each new person he meets as a means of thorough introduction.
ReplyDeleteNOT OK.
ReplyDeleteWe all knew Vince/Shane was going to be a sports entertainment train wreck of possibly the best kind. Why not have Vince, desperate to win, get some WWF guys interfere in the match, and Shane could have the WCW guys run out as his back up. Then you could still do the Trish/Steph brawl, Linda standing up and kicking Vince in the balls, and Mick's forearms in the corner leading to Shane's Van Terminator and victory.
ReplyDeleteBack then Shawn was all, "I'm sorry; I only like you as a friend."
ReplyDeleteOK.
ReplyDeletemeekin + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbaPQSoYbEw
ReplyDelete= Every question of the day ever.
The Lion King Ralph
ReplyDelete21 White Men Can't Jump Street
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang The Astronaut's Wife.
ReplyDeleteKiss Kiss Bang Bang The Preacher's Wife
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ReplyDeleteI thought Paul's favorite game to play was how much food can I fit into my mouth
ReplyDeleteHe would have lost all his money to Hooters north rather than south of the Mason-Dixon Line?
ReplyDeleteWhen Hugh Morrus was shown and the headline "WCW Wrestlers" was all the intro they got, you knew it was going to fall flat
ReplyDeleteWhat a time for the WCW invaders to attack and leave both McMahons dead in the middle of their street fight.
ReplyDeleteIt could use some tighter editing, but hell's yes this is absolutely required reading for anyone who enjoys a little schauden... shodden... freuden... enjoyment at the pain of others.
ReplyDeleteThey should bring Mooney and Lord Alfred back to do Raw.
ReplyDeleteWait...
ReplyDeleteHow the fuck you don't know what the term shoot means in wrestling?
Y'know what always pissed me off? The Hardy Boyz matches where Matt would wear that weird ribbed mesh shirt that had a tiny hole above the nipple on one pec. YOU'RE A WWE "SUPERSTAR," MATT. BUY A NEW SHIRT.
ReplyDeleteMajor League + Snatch = Major League Snatch.
ReplyDeleteSeann William Scott's option C from the Rundown? Because if that's the case, the Rock has told me that there is no option C.
ReplyDeleteperfect example of this, from dream theater
ReplyDeletesong itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZVDr0ZXBMQ
lyrics: (some of the references won't make sense unless you're familiar with other bands and/or some pop culture references, though)
Sailing on the seven seize the day tripper diem's ready
Jack the ripper Owens Wilson Phillips and my supper's ready
Lucy in the sky with diamond Dave's not here I come to save the
Day for nightmare cinema show me the way to get back home again
Running forward
Falling back
Spinning round and round
Looking outward
Reaching in
Scream without a sound
Leaning over
Crawling up
Stumbling all around
Losing my place
Only to find I've come full circle
Flying off the handle be careful with
That axe Eugene gene the dance machine
Messiah light my fire gabba gabba
Hey hey my my generation's home again
It was severely limping along by then resorting to hit shotting and shock value without the workers and creativity behind it.
ReplyDeletePenny can looks fun
ReplyDeletearen't they both dead?
ReplyDeleteHow?! He put warrior dead center. Gave him the stamp of approval and then took like some months off... before coming back for the earthquake deal.
ReplyDeleteNot his fault warrior bombed.
The fans still had gas in the tank for hogan
Warrior had no credible heels built for him.
Thats not hogans fault.
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ReplyDeleteAnd although I played along, this is pretty half assed. "This isn't even a question, buy I need people to see these 75 links! Plus, some people are back around for a few days...have to capitalize so people can see what awful taste I have in things!"
ReplyDeleteExactly.
ReplyDeleteHaha there was a QOTD a while back where I made the unfortunate choice to talk about wrestling.
ReplyDeleteLong story short I made the point that all botches are shoots, but not all shoots are botches. So if a wrestler does something wrong or something weird happens - like when the ring ropes broke on Jericho at...Summerslam I think, I'd refer to that as a "shoot" because it wasn't supposed to happen within the context of the match.
It was a semantic argument, and not wanting to be viewed as Anti-semantic I just rolled with it.
Ha! Poor lord died back in 03 or 04 I believe.
ReplyDeleteThere are several DDP Yoga articles I've written that many people have read and commented on and hated that tell you otherwise.
ReplyDeleteIn my defense the ones of these I full-ass tend to get the most shit, so, here we are.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree. Next to WM 17, the second best is WM X.
ReplyDeleteTonight:
ReplyDeletehttp://lds.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/champ_0.jpg
My body is ready.
No... not buddy rogers relate. Vince was being Vince. He wanted him called "the real work champion" because Vince is a Control freak. Always had to tweak something
ReplyDeleteStoryline wise it had been building in matches. But you are mostly correct
ReplyDeleteLol horseman = Vince acknowledging wcw. Never was happening.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's less that, more just sadness at how a company that had ingredients to be good blew it time and again due to their obsession with becoming WWE right now rather than build it up.
ReplyDeleteThat's fair, but still dude...pick one thing and shill it.
ReplyDeleteYeah by the time he was Sheriff he had gone from a favourite of mind to a reason to change the channel.
ReplyDeleteLike you I'm not a fan of someone dishing out punishment unless there are consequences. It's stupid and counter productive whether it's Austin or Dusty dropping bionic elbows. If you can't work, don't half-work. Just stop.
Oh for sure. I mean I'd be the first to admit that it wasn't as good after WM17. That was the end of the Golden Age of the Attitude Era. Or something.
ReplyDeleteYou can't fault a show for what happened after it. WMX7 was on point and the last hurrah of the Attitude Era.
ReplyDeleteWatched the AWA doc last night. A shame that Verne was so lost once Vince showed up as he was ahead of his time with TV and promoting big cities. I saw some parallels with 80s Verne and modern Vince as well.
ReplyDeleteI'd watch this if it was about the speech Jim Bouton got from his minor league manager before a big game:
ReplyDelete""Every one of you guys is this close (holding index finger and thumb a centimeter apart) to big league pussy!"
I think a lot of fans hated that era, which is why they stuck with the shitty name- I think Vince also wanted to push the phrase endlessly, judging by his one big promo. Didn't Benoit have a shirt design called "Toothless Aggression" as well? I'm sure they used it more often.
ReplyDeleteEndless loop of Arnold yelling at the kids to SHUT UP!
ReplyDeleteOh, how I hope so. Nothing would make me happier than seeing the Heat go out with a whimper.
ReplyDeleteIntroducing the man that will take pro-wrestling to the next level:
ReplyDeleteTHE ROCK... and Roll" Buck Zumhofe.
I agree it wasn't strong. My hatred of Hogan and UT pretty much soured me on wrestling in 2002, although I still watched fairly regularly until 2005 or 2006 (around the time Eddie died). But it was no longer appointment TV, I stopped worrying about catching SD also, didn't order a single ppv after Summerslam 2002. But it seemed like a lot of the major players were still around in 2002 doing things, it was still fairly edgy, still tried to swerve us and suprise us, etc. And Rock/Austin serves as a nice bookend also. Nothing is a perfect "end" but that works as well as any other for me
ReplyDeleteBecause as someone who is a self professed "writer", Meekin couldn't be bothered to do the basic research to find out what it is.
ReplyDeleteLive Free or Die Hard Day's Night in Heaven Can Wait Til Your Father Gets Home Alone in the Dark Knight's Tale of Winter Break Point of No Return to Paradise Hotel 13 Ghosts in the Machine Gun Preacher's Wife's Murder By Death Becomes Her Master's Voice Over The Top Gun Crazy, Stupid, Love & Basketball Diary of a Wimpy Kid With A Bike Ride Along Came a Spider-Man of Steel Magnolias.
ReplyDeleteAre we done yet?
Because Paul is an awful write
ReplyDeleteWM X17 had five classic matches.
ReplyDelete1.HHH vs Taker
2.Vince vs Shane (classic in the sense that its the greatest "sportz entertainment" match ever, not in traditional workrate.)
3.Benoit vs Jericho
4.TLC 2
5. Austin vs Rock
WM 3 only has 1 classic match (and another with the greatest historical signifigance of all time though. Its not even close.
Are you trying to recycle my old gimmick?
ReplyDeleteWhat, no love for WM23? Cena/Michaels, UT/Batista, MVP's coming out party, a fantastic MITB ladder match (maybe the best ever), and the spectacle of the Battle of the Billionaires. Fantastic Mania.
ReplyDeleteGod how I hated that show
ReplyDeleteOn Facebook?
ReplyDeleteThey both have all their hopes riding on the guy that married their daughter?
ReplyDeleteYea but he could have called them the 5 Horsemen to show that the WWF's version is better.
ReplyDeleteI always kind of preferred 14 to 3. And I think 12 doesn't get enough love.
ReplyDeleteI liked HBK/Jericho and Austin/Rock, but I really didn't care about either Angle/Brock or Vince/Hogan, which were the big ones.
ReplyDelete14's under-rated. Pretty much everything on the card had been built up for months beforehand.
ReplyDeleteYes, but no one gives you any shit at all about the ones you don't post. Maybe you should work towards that
ReplyDelete*Begins slow clap*
ReplyDeleteanyone else picking up ea sports ufc on Tuesday? Got mine already preordered from best buy since I had a coupon.
ReplyDeleteHow the hell do you not know what a shoot is in 2014?
WM III had superior tag wrestling for sure. Solid opener; fun, quick Killer Bees v. Volkoff/Sheik; terrific six man with the Bulldogs and Hart Foundation. The Dream Team v. Rougeaus match was good too, and it built a major new character.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Antilles wearing makeup?
ReplyDeleteThis whole thing is offensive
I also think the Angle/Benoit match suffers in comparison to what they'd produce later. Savage/Steamboat is far and away the best match on either of those cards.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's 3, 10, and 17, in no particular order. All the Manias after 20 blur together (for me, anyway).
ReplyDeleteThat's what we're assuming, because it would be logical, but they've never released a schedule or anything.
ReplyDeleteHopefully were getting a live thread for that. If the game goes how I want it to go, ill stay up for all of it.
ReplyDelete7 is pretty underrated IMO.
ReplyDeleteSo in Caliber world every guy wants to be a vigilante serial killer. A psychiatrist's wet dream, this one.
ReplyDeleteMooney is apparently working as a news anchor for an NBC affiliate, KVOA 4 in Tucson, AZ. http://www1.kvoa.com/news/anchor-sean-mooney/
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't consider those first three classics.
ReplyDeleteWas it always known that Clash VI was clipped horribly on the Network? They cut three matches! One of the ones they cut was the Varsity Club/Road Warriors title match where Teddy Long makes the fastest three count in history, too.
ReplyDeleteVery late in his run (i.e., when it was too late) Flair did start to morph back into the Flair of old. They brought the "Nature Boy" nickname back (though Savage messed up and said it at WM8) and he got to wear suits more often when cutting promos, as opposed to wearing his robe and wrestling gear all the time (another Vince thing, it seems--never show a wrestler in street clothes if at all possible).
ReplyDeleteThe guy who just got indicted for decades of molesting a family member?
ReplyDeleteThis place is a ghost town today.
ReplyDeleteSlap Shot in the Dark
ReplyDeleteSe7en Samurai
Red Dawn of the Dead Poets Society
Dirty Harry Potter
The Girl with the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Tattoo
South Pacific Rim
Aguirre, the Wrath of Godzilla
Yeah what's their drummer's name? Mike Portnoy? I once started a full on fight by innocently asking two guys I just met "so who is better, him or the guy from Rush?" as an ice breaker. Crazy.
ReplyDelete-food +cock
ReplyDeleteNot that there's anything wrong with that.
I'd take Austin-Rock and the TLC match over that.
ReplyDeleteHe would have been complaining about being misused in the WWF instead of WCW.
ReplyDeleteShilling is one thing... I have done it myself at times... having more lines of shilling than content is something that someone who wants to be a writer should be ashamed of.
ReplyDeleteI agree that TNA killed Aries for good. I'm just saying that now, modern day, it is what it is.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. It's probably just age and all the matches that have come sense, but for me personally the Savage-Steamboat match doesn't hold up after all these years. I get the magic of the match if you were a fan of the time, but for me it's more or less just there.
ReplyDeleteExactly. You couple that with that crowd and mania 3 goes above 17. Now I will say without the historical significance and imagery the opinion might be different.
ReplyDeletePeople that didn't grow up at the time may not be able to appreciate just how big of a deal wrestlemania 3 was.
Plus Vince's introduction of Aretha Franklin is gold.
Agreed on 12. Great show. The 3 hours fly.
ReplyDeleteI think 17 is better pretty easily. Up and down the card, 3 comes up short, for me anyway.
ReplyDeleteSo that happens is Austin deciding to side with Vince now about his love for his company and needing to do what was best?
ReplyDeleteI just want to get to the game already. Fuuuuuuck.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, you're judging it on match quality alone. Atmosphere, stars appearing, commentary, moments, entrances, x-factors, and nostalgic attachment all can play into judging a show for some folks too.
ReplyDeleteCan Am vs Muraco and Orton tops my list of most underrated mania matches ever.
ReplyDeleteIt's a running joke from like 2001 when Rogue Leader came out and everyone kept spelling it Rouge leader because in-browser spell check wasn't a thing at the time.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting to hear back from the PR rep person so i can review it / possibly secure a give away for the blog since its in our wheel house.
ReplyDeleteI'm just following the Stone Cold Steve Austin Podcast's methods.
ReplyDeleteThere's a part of me that feels it ended when the radicalz came in.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right. That undercard was a near ideal mix of wrestling, stars, moments, and segments. To this day I disagree with not making Cena-JBL a wild, weapon/run-in filled brawl. Of course it'd still have HHH blowing it in yet another WM main event.
ReplyDeleteBut every match was at least watchable. Even if you argue it's a two match show, it's two matches with HUGE historical significance. Hogan slamming Andre. Savage vs Steamboat was seen at the time by many as the greatest match ever plus it has and still has one of the most remembered finishes ever. Plus again that crowd.
ReplyDeleteI think Piper had intended for it to be his final match but I may be wrong. He certainly seemed like it was.
ReplyDeleteThought it was touching when he kissed Fink on the head.
It was planned, but cut due to time constraints.
ReplyDeleteIs he also incapable of adjusting when given constructive criticism?
ReplyDeleteIf we're talking underrated mania's 8 definitely has to be in the discussion.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just because I really loved Piper vs Hart. I was always surprised Bret's victory wasn't seen as a big thing given Piper never jobbed.
New Generation 2?
ReplyDeleteWhat about the "E"era? Just that one small change symbolized a lot of larger ones.
ReplyDeleteDuring dark times such as these, it's nice to see some things never change. Like Meekin being obliviously terrible. It's oddly comforting, in a way.
ReplyDeleteR.I.P., Farva.
Real quick... how about sine QOTD is never going away... how about there's a six month run (meekin look up run as it refers to wrestling) and then pass it to someone else?
ReplyDeleteScott regularly posts plugs for people, just don't click on Meekin's links if it bothers you. Frankly it sounds like he had a totally different QOTD wrote and scrapped it.
ReplyDeleteHHH vs Taker is a highly underrated brawl. Easily Taker's best match from this period (until Lesnar in HIAC at least). Benoit vs Angle was simple a great technical match. They had better matches later, but I thought this one was a solid ****. I cannot think of a better "sportz entertainment" match than vince vs shane. It is absolutely a classic because of that, and was the perfect payoff to months of storyline. I will admit that the final 2 are much better than the first three I listed. They are both ***** in my eyes. However, the first three are still around **** are still classics.
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