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    The Youtube Thread

    The Kilq Curtin call in full Never saw the whole thing before. The kid filming is captain douche though.
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    Best A-Train Matches

    As far as hosses go A-Train was decent, he wasn't really bad I guess just boring. Maybe not having to work the ball and chain WWE style is helping him I dunno.
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    Better Angle: NWO or Austin/McMahan

    I gotta go Austin/McMahon. The nWo were stale 7 months into their run. Sure it was great TV at first with all the chaos and stuff we'd never really seen before. The best part of it was WCW making yourself piss yourself with the anticipation of who would flip and join the group and it seemed like ANYBODY could join. The sense of paranoia in the WCW camp was electric and it really pulled you in, it was something completely fresh it was great. But Bischoff and company really just let it burn out of control and a few months into 1997 the whole thing really got redundant. Week after week nothing but run ins and total smooges EVERY SINGLE WEEK. The story really never devloped into anything after that and it seemed they were going to drag out the inevitable Hogan-Sting as long as they could and when it happend they fucked it up bighugetime. And after Sting takes the title away from Hogan what happens? The same old shit they did the whole previous year except by '98 the nWo was such a staple in WCW booking they couldn't just let it go away. They tried to recreate the magic of the first 6 months of the nWo angle when they split in half and had guys jumping ship from one side to the other week after week but no dice, by then fans had been beaten of the head with nWo this, nWo that, for almost 2 years. Fans wanted something new and fresh again so they turned to the WWF to see the latter mentioned angle in the tit of this thread. WCW was an asylum run the craziest of the inmates so politics prevailed over good taste and by the time they realized the nWo was no longer an option it was to late, WCW was already dead. McMahon vs. Austin on the other hand generated the same electricity of the early goings of the nWo angle. Until that point we only knew of Vince McMahon as a dorky, overselling announcer (unlike today where he's portrayed as a P-I-M-P and made God job in a tag team match to him). Seeing him in the ring mixing it up with not only a wrester but a MEAN AND NASTY wrestler like Stone Cold who was over as hell just by being the biggest prick imaginable. It built up slowly with Vince McMahon losing control of his wrestlers and just being plain disrespected by the people he employed. Particularly out of control was one Stone Cold Steve Austin. Vince desparately tried to get the people in his company behind him but as long as he was playing the straight and narrow but after getting hit with a stunner in MSG Vince knew it was time to sink to a new depth. While I don't think it was McMahon intent in real life, the Montreal incident played a pivitale role in his heel turn. By screwing and humiliating Bret Hart in front of millions, Vince McMahon showed his true colors backed up by the "Why Bret? Why?" segment he taped for Raw. A new Vince was born and it was one that wouldn't sit back and let the fans or the wrestlers bully him around. He left his role as announcer the focus on what he needed to do. Most of the wrestlers were willing to play ball with Vince, after all he was thier boss. The wrestler Vince focused on the most however was the one that made his life more of a living hell than anybody, Steve Austin. McMahon played it of as though he were neutral and not purposely trying to derail Austin but after Wrestlemania 14 Austin was the champion and to McMahon it was a total disgrace. He couldn't just fire Austin since 1) he was the champion 2) Austin popularity was McMahons meal ticket. Vince was forced to co-exist with Austin and Austin was forced to co-exist with Vince. Vince made one last attempt to get Austin to play his game, Austin chose the "Hard Way" and it was on like Donkey Kong from there. Unlike the nWo angle the Austin-McMahon angle never seemed to get old. The nWo dominated WCW 90% of the time. Either WCW won the big brawl at the end of the show or nWo did. Austin/McMahon was a much more creative battle of wits and wills. It was one-upsmanship each each week, Vince would do something to Austin and you couldn't wait to see how Austin responed the next week and once Austin would retaliate you wanted to see what Vince would do to top that. Vince getting into the ears of Mick Foley, Kane, The Undertaker, and The Rock meant that the matches were kept fresh. The blowoff was perfectly written at Wrestlemania 15, after all the Vince tried to do to break Austin it all failed. Austin was once again the champion and Vince had been defeated then moved on to the issue he was having with the Undertaker. The common reneck beat the powerful billionaire through determination and refusal to be broken. They fucked it up after that with the Greater Power angle, and since Vince is still drunk with power today I guess he learned nothing from the whole expierience. The McMahon vs. Austin angle had a superior story arc and better wrestling so it wins hands down. So in conclusion I pick the 2nd one.
  4. Just as long as it kills him a bullet would be just fine. The guy isn't even worth watching go through pain.
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    The Youtube Thread

    Another Idea Vince McMahon Stole
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    Movies you liked as a kid...

    Pee Wee's Big Adventure only for the Breafast Machine at the beginning.
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    The WWE Backlash '06 Thread...

    If anything it will give Shelton some much needed cred.
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    The Youtube Thread

    A defining moment in WWF history.
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    The Youtube Thread

    If only I had seen this when I was younger.
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    The Youtube Thread

    It's amazing how much Vince's on air character has changed in the last 10 years. Then he didn't even have the balls to stand up to Paul Heyman on his own show, now his runs around like a crazed asshole claiming that he is the prophet of his own religion. Something snapped in this man somehow along the way.
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    Jim Ross Returning To RAW Full Time

    Are they going to make it Styles/Ross/Lawler? If that's the case they might want turn Jerry heel then somehow.
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    Two teens beat another one to near death...

    Just because prosecutors are seeking a hate crime doesn't mean it's going to happen. DA's are going to always seek the harshest punishment for any crime, that's their job. But it's not up to them if this is a hate crime, it's up to 12 jurors and they might find that while there are some crimes that are racially motivated(lets not be stupid here) that this was not one of them. That's why EVERY case is tried individually and EVERYBODY has the right to a fair trial.
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    Commercials BX hates

    I always here these ads on the radio for NBC "Must see Thursday". It consists of a group of "ordinary people" sitting around and blowing the NBC lineup. They go on for like 5 minutes and there's always a "funny guy" in the group cracking lame ass jokes. It's just a poor attempt to get the world to think that we all sit around and just talk about NBC.
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    The Youtube Thread

    I don't put any money on me but I think it was another fake Sting angle. I'm not 100% sure but Sting turned heel at Fall Brawl and by that time Savage was done with the company.
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    The Youtube Thread

    Bret Hart goes crazy on MAD TV
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    The Youtube Thread

    Bobby Heenan tells the kids the truth about Santa Claus.
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    The FIVE best minutes in wrestling?

    Edge's title reign. -rimshot-
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    I hate humans. We are such evil bastards.

    You guys sound as ignorant as the idiots that are doing this to the animals. Way to be so classy, fellas! Seeing these people savagely laying waste to thousand of animals in the most inhumane way doesn't really make me all that conserned about their "civil rights", hence the name calling. Is it immature? I guess. But if you're more offened by the word "gook" or "chink" than you are about their treatment of other living, breathing creatures then I guess we really know who the ignorant one here is.
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    Can we officially end the "bump old threads" fad?

    BUMP MUHAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WIN!!!!!
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    I hate humans. We are such evil bastards.

    I didn't watch but if it's anything like that dolphin video awhile back I won't be able to sleep for days. I think that the chineese were doing that too. Fuckin' gooks.
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    The Youtube Thread

    I love Regal.
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    YTMND

    9-11 Never Forget
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    Why is it so expensive to go out?

    Kansas $2.65??!?! That can't be right.
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    The Youtube Thread

    Yeah but the first Flair clip looked really old school. Possibly from his short run in the WWWF in the 70's?
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    The Youtube Thread

    How did they get NWA footage for this? What NWA footage?
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