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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2021 0:14:56 GMT
Also can't get over Owen being a thigh slapper.
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Post by RT on Aug 21, 2021 0:16:05 GMT
Show falling on Regal was incredible. Still mark for that to this day. I saw it live and laughed my ass off.
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Post by Baker on Aug 22, 2021 1:27:24 GMT
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Post by Ed on Aug 22, 2021 2:22:36 GMT
NOW THAT's TOTAL ELIMINATION!
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Post by Baker on Aug 22, 2021 4:07:54 GMT
Dino Bravo Didn't Suck: Volume 1?Dino had a great piledriver...   A killer back suplex...   Only his occasional partners Earthquake and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine dropped a better elbow...  He also had one of the best Inverted Atomic Drop and perhaps the happiest taunt you'll ever see from a heel. Maybe tomorrow?
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Post by 🤯 on Aug 22, 2021 13:41:55 GMT
Dino Bravo Didn't Suck: Volume 1?Dino had a great piledriver... A killer back suplex... Only his occasional partners Earthquake and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine dropped a better elbow... He also had one of the best Inverted Atomic Drop and perhaps the happiest taunt you'll ever see from a heel. Maybe tomorrow? I'm 100% in this Dino Bravo fan camp after my WrestleMania WatchThru and checking out the OG 88 RR. At least up until WM7, Dino was low key dope. Feel like his ability to go in the ring was underappeciated, and his ability to heel it up was too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2021 13:48:51 GMT
Good elbow drops are much appreciated.
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Post by Shootist on Aug 25, 2021 4:07:57 GMT
Been slacking off, more Steiner GIFs   This is just incredible  Rick gets in on the fun tossing Bigelow around 
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Post by Baker on Aug 26, 2021 3:17:37 GMT
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Post by Shootist on Aug 26, 2021 4:01:53 GMT
Another GIF flyby  Props to Dennis for taking this bump on a near nightly basis in late '86-early '87. No wonder he vanished not long after:  Bobby and Dennis had great teamwork too:  Bobby having a rough night with The Road Warriors 
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Post by Ed on Aug 30, 2021 23:56:38 GMT
Another GIF flyby Props to Dennis for taking this bump on a near nightly basis in late '86-early '87. No wonder he vanished not long after: Bobby and Dennis had great teamwork too: Bobby having a rough night with The Road Warriors Scaffolding matches are so useless.
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Post by Shootist on Aug 31, 2021 3:16:25 GMT
Wish Rick was up to do the flip, the crowd was still with them though:  and The Steiners return the favor:  Rick could take a clothesline as well as anyone  Animal getting tossed around: 
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Post by Baker on Sept 10, 2021 0:03:00 GMT
Haven't been in a mood to watch much wrestling of late, but I did revisit a (disappointing) Owen & Bulldog vs. Hakushi & Horowitz match the other day. Highlight was seeing one of my all time favorite taunts. Totally did this in real life with my cousin and friends Rick & Chuck featuring me in the "Owen" role because even way back in 1996 I was apparently already working on my 2000 Triple H/Kurt Angle mashup gimmick of being a Hero, Heartthrob, and of course Humble...  
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Post by Baker on Sept 12, 2021 1:28:19 GMT
Coolest thing Crush ever did was adopt the Heart Punch as his finisher when he came back with the "jailbird" gimmick in late 1996. Crush's Heart Punch got over huge with my friends and I even if Crush himself didn't. The beauty of the move was in the different ways the jobbers sold it. Who sold it best? Memphis native David Haskins?  This guy?  Freddie Joe Floyd with his "Rock takes a Stunner" sell?  Or our old friend Frank Stalletto of Marconi & Stalletto fame?   I'm going with Handsome Frank.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 12, 2021 2:12:00 GMT
I gotta go with no name guy. The way he drops dead like a sack of bricks really sells the punch the best IMO. Plus, that gif also features my favorite windup by Crush.
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Post by Emperor on Sept 12, 2021 10:22:03 GMT
I also vote for number 2, No Name Guy.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 12, 2021 13:14:23 GMT
New favorite heart punch sell job: 
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 13:58:46 GMT
So we gonna add these last gifs vs. Umaga for the dream match?
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 12, 2021 14:26:40 GMT
So we gonna add these last gifs vs. Umaga for the dream match? This does raise a good question... Better strike finisher: heart punch or throat spike?
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Post by Baker on Sept 12, 2021 16:17:42 GMT
Four more rarely seen maneuvers that blew my mind in the style of Marty's top rope powerbomb on Skip and Malenko's super DDT on Scotty... Bubba Ray with a picture perfect one man 3D on D-Von...  Top rope Juvy Driver on Blitzkrieg...  I was in the building when El Generico hit Jack Evans with this Super Brainbuster on the top turnbuckle...  This Slingshot Jackhammer on Taka in the GOAT Shotgun match is one reason why Christopher Daniels became a day one Baker Guy...  *Next Time: More Daniels/Taka, the original Romanian Bulldog, and more.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 12, 2021 19:18:55 GMT
Baker-man got me going down a brainbustaaaaahhhh rabbit hole, and I found this Trevor Murdoch lookalike hitting this variant I like even more than El Generico's:  Which then got me thinking about brainbusters vs. suplexes, and how many different kinds of suplexes there are, which got me thinking about the Steiners... Scott:  & Rick:  And how much I love the referee sell jobs, which can be so underrated but so awesome. And then, deep down the suplex gif rabbit hole, but also not nearly as deep as you'd think, I discovered something @ness, Lony, and others probably already knew well; i.e., that anime is littered with some of the most random af suplexes you've ever seen. Case and point, check out the greatest interspecies German ever dished out by someone other than Brock: 
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 19:32:34 GMT
Greatest brainbustah ever. Fact that Generico is hitting a soft cushion of a turnbuckle pad makes it less devastating. Also if you can't take a stray to suplex city you ain't got no BUSINESS trying to apply for a job with animal control. gregzilla thoughts?
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Post by gregzilla on Sept 12, 2021 19:39:57 GMT
Oh, yeah, no. Anime is filled with that stuff - even having not watched much except a loooooot of One Piece among others.
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Post by Baker on Sept 12, 2021 21:26:24 GMT
🤯 I came across the same botched brainbuster gif when looking for the Generico brainbuster I posted. Still can't decide whether or not that's Trevor Murdoch or just some lookalike. My friends and I actually did count all the different types of suplexes we knew :lol:  This would have been in 1996 after reading about "The Human Suplex Machine" Taz in the Apter Mags. We didn't get what the big deal was about a guy who did suplexes. Wanna say we only got to 17 and that was with being extremely liberal in differentiating the types of suplexes. Might give it another go later. I’m sure that number would double. Maybe even triple. Have to admit I was not expecting to see a cartoon deer get German Suplexed when I started this thread. You gotta love it. ================= About 30 seconds after Daniels hit that Slingshot Jackhammer he blew my mind once again with this elevated sitout Pedigree...  Give this man a contract! ================ Fatu hits the original Romanian Bulldog on Hunter Hearst Helmsley...  Yep, my friend Rick called this the Romanian Bulldog. Can't remember if we decided it was the real/official name of the move, with Diamond Cutter being a gimmick name, or whether the Diamond Cutter was a standing version while the Romanian Bulldog involved running.Many years later while reviewing matches right here on PW I would discover the name came from Rick mishearing "running bulldog" as they called it on commentary. Anyway, I thought the Romanian Bulldog name sounded cool, and couldn't stand DDP, so I tried very hard to make Romanian Bulldog a thing. And it worked! Until stupid DDP won BattleBowl and his Diamond Cutter became too big to deny. Meh. A part of me will always consider it a Romanian Bulldog
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A young Randall K. Orton must have been enthralled after seeing daddy Bob hit this RKO on former partner Don Muraco in 1987...
And now I really want to watch the Orton/Islanders vs. Muraco/Haynes/Patera match it was featured in on Prime Time Wrestling circa October '87. Alas, I cannot find it. Story of the day. A whole bunch of stuff I'm looking for cannot be found online. So I am stopping at 3.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 13, 2021 14:11:24 GMT
Baker-man got me going down a brainbustaaaaahhhh rabbit hole, and I found this Trevor Murdoch lookalike hitting this variant I like even more than El Generico's: Which then got me thinking about brainbusters vs. suplexes, and how many different kinds of suplexes there are, which got me thinking about the Steiners... Scott: & Rick: And how much I love the referee sell jobs, which can be so underrated but so awesome. And then, deep down the suplex gif rabbit hole, but also not nearly as deep as you'd think, I discovered something @ness, Lony, and others probably already knew well; i.e., that anime is littered with some of the most random af suplexes you've ever seen. Case and point, check out the greatest interspecies German ever dished out by someone other than Brock: I'm still down this rabbit hole. Tried to backtrack to actual suplexes, and came across these shoot beauties that make me miss actual wrestling from my youth:  &  It's crazy how in real life a decent body slam or belly-to-back in an actual wrestling match would pop us so much, but in pro wrestling contexts at the same age we were all meh on those spots. Then I ended up back in Japan, and forgot how much I dug the underrated sambo suplex in No Mercy (which sounds like the most unintentionally racist suplex name?):  Like a Rock Bottom, Book End, Uranage, etc. but that slight Exploder twist just makes it so much better. Then, because I was in Japan (even if only briefly) I of course got more anime weirdness. Strangely, I've never thought about what the first person POV would be for someone taking a bridging German suplex until now... Thanks anime weirdness!  And an intergender match to boot. So progressive!
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Post by Baker on Sept 14, 2021 0:58:58 GMT
^That Sambo Suplex is very cool. Victoria's Widow's Peak. And with that I think my 10 favorite finishers have all been covered in this thread...  Kurt Angle had some of my favorite sells. For example, nobody took the Stunner better than Angle's glassy eyed TIMBER...  Also never failed to get a kick out of Angle's chairshot backfires...  Eddie with a nifty Rock Bottom counter... 
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Post by Baker on Sept 14, 2021 4:24:05 GMT
Soon after joining PW almost nine years ago I made a half hearted attempt to get back into modern wrestling and catch up on the three and a half years I had missed. I started a Recommendations thread to aid in my journey. Dolph Ziggler was actually a highly recommended PW favorite at the time. But what really sold me on Dolph was not his fans, but this gif shared by an anti-Dolph poster...  To this day I have no idea how Dolph taking a great bump was supposed to be a turnoff. Was this poster a closet Ziggler fan using reverse psychology? If so, it worked. Also, how weird is Albert vs. Dolph? Talk about different eras colliding.
Anyway, this phase only lasted a few weeks before I got bored and went back to relive the glory days of the New Generation. Fwiw my guys during that short-lived catch up period were Dolph, Bully Ray, Ryback, and Damien Sandow/Rhodes Scholars. ==================== Mike Knox was another one of my latter day boys. He was ahead of the curve by sporting a wild and woolly beard a few years before it became overdone. There has to be an alternate universe where Knox ended up in Bray Wyatt's spot. Behold the glory of the Knox Body/Flying Bear...  Batista drills poor Elijah Burke with an all time great spear...  Mr. Perfect with the perfect Stinkface counter...  Rikishi/Perfect strikes me as even more "different worlds colliding" than Dolph/Albert. Next Time: More fun with cross body blocks. Then, I dunno, probably a bunch of Barry Windham.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 14, 2021 17:30:02 GMT
I'm starting to really like the weird twists and turns and ultimate destinations of these gif rabbit holes. Kilgore dubbing Ascension as the "Preliminators" and talking up their cool running Total Elimination got me hunting for gifs of my favorite Midnight Expresses (© Baker-man)... Powerplex will forever rate high on my own list, and seeing it always makes me wish Power & Glory were more of a thing. Perhaps even more so had they been Power Team USA (© Strobe).  Recall popping for this Evolution Midnight Express at WrestleMania XXX, which had me wishing Orton & Batista had had a proper run as a team before the stable fell apart:  The neckbreaker/modified RKO in that previous gif presumably caused the algorithms to pivot the rabbit hole toward stunners, cutters, etc. And I found this Rikishi cosplayer hitting the world's heaviest stunner:  From a kayfabe logic standpoint, this is the kind of wrestler who probably should be hitting a sit-down stunner (unlike Austin) as he's got the ass to absorb the shock to the coccyx. Speaking of asses, this rabbit hole ended at a gif clearly dedicated to @ness: 
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Post by Baker on Sept 14, 2021 17:37:52 GMT
Dustin Rhodes with a great bump off a missed crossbody...  John Morrison vs. Evan Bourne was the best WWE match of April 2009. Here is one of the highlights...  Which reminds me this thread needs more Flair/Steamboat...   *Pulled these from the Flair/Steamboat Final Countdown video. It still gets me pumped. Meaning it's still the GOAT wrestling hype video.
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Post by Baker on Sept 17, 2021 15:56:18 GMT
For several days now I've had this image in my head of Zamfir going around dishing out Romanian Bulldogs to pan flute haters. Next fanfic project? Turn of the Millennium Indie Highspot EditionCheetah Master showing why they called him "The Only Cheetah That Flies"...  Cheetah Master's Undertaker dive is so extreme the ECWA camera crew doesn't even know how to properly film it...  Check out the Serial Thrillaz (Shane Helms & Mike Maverick) cool finisher...  Our boy Beef Stew Lou makes Mike Quackenbush go splat...  Next Time: Young Hardys and footage from the GOAT dark match.
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