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Post by Mr. Old School™ on Feb 17, 2014 20:00:08 GMT -5
Hey guys,
I've heard about this new footage of the Hogan/Andre WrestleMania 3 match in which the entire match was shown using the hard camera. I've never seen the footage and would very much like to. I've searched and searched on YouTube, but cannot seem to track it down.
The reasoning behind the hard cam footage is to not show ring announcer Mel Phillips from what I've heard. If you haven't heard what he did in the past, just do a Google search and I'm sure you'll find out.
Anyway, if someone can please post the match involving the footage I am looking for, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Post by Nivro™ on Feb 17, 2014 20:09:56 GMT -5
Its on the History of WWE BluRay. Ive got the BluRay but dont have a bluray player on my computer nor do I know how to load it up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2014 13:54:46 GMT -5
What did the announcer do?
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Post by dixol on Feb 18, 2014 16:39:19 GMT -5
What did the announcer do? If you haven't heard what he did in the past, just do a Google search and I'm sure you'll find out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2014 18:06:09 GMT -5
For ones not willing to post it.... As reported recently, WWE's newly released History of WWE DVD and Blu-ray features a peculiar edit as the historic WrestleMania III match pitting Hulk Hogan against Andre the Giant is strictly shown from a singular camera angle (there is also no commentary present in the match). According to WrestlingDVDNews.com, there is a "major reason" for this oddity. The website, which receives firsthand and leaked news from sources within WWE concerning video releases, is claiming that according to a "reliable source," the bout is being shown from the "hard cam" point of view due to the presence of former ring announcer and behind-the-scenes worker Mel Phillips in the background.
For those unaware, Phillips was exposed as a pedophile who frequently took advantage of underage males he supervised setting up rings at live events, who came from broken homes and troubled backgrounds. Tom Cole, who worked for WWE as a ring attendant in the 1980s and 1990s when he was underage through young adulthood, hurled charges against his former employer that resulted in the resignation of three longtime employees and helped fuel a sex scandal that plagued the company for years. He went public in 1992 with claims that wrestler-turned-front-office employee Terry Garvin attempted to seduce him two years earlier when he was nineteen and that he had been sexually harassed at the age of thirteen by Phillips. WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart claimed in his 2007 autobiography, Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling, that both Garvin and Phillips, as well as Pat Patterson, resigned in March of that year, "as a result of the allegations of sexual conduct." Only Patterson was ever re-hired.
Stating the following as a rumor, the website is claiming that one alleged victim of Phillips continues to watch WWE programming today and says he suffers "flashbacks" when seeing his face again in old footage. It is said that this individual has threatened a lawsuit against WWE if Phillips isn't removed from future presentations of old footage. Phillips, who appeared as a ring attendant at WrestleMania III, sat ringside during the Hogan vs. Andre match and can been seen on camera during the original airing. It was suggested to the website that WWE opted to feature the match from the "hard cam" so that Philips is not visible.
Cole addressed his past as recently as 2011 in an interview with Mike Mooneyham of The Post and Courier, where he recalled Phillips having an unhealthy fascination with his feet.
"When you're twelve or thirteen-years-old and you think this guy is wrestling with you, and then he grabs your foot, maybe part of you doesn't want to believe it or part of you wants to block it out," Cole said. "I just didn't have an answer for it. Who would have told you at that age that some guy wants to play with your feet?"
Cole also noted of Phillips in this interview with Wrestling Perspective, "When you started getting older, he started calling less. Once that happened, he started calling less, but I still went to the shows at [Madison Square Garden]. I'd just show up. But he was like trying to get rid of you. He liked the younger kids who couldn't give him a problem about it or didn't realize that there was something wrong with it."
In the interview with Mooneyham, Cole also discussed declining Garvin's sexual advances, as he recalled spending a night freezing in a van after doing so. "Listen Terry, I came from nothing and I can go back to having nothing," Cole recalled telling Garvin. "If this is what this job entails, then I don't necessarily need the job. And I didn't have the job after that."
Garvin died in 1998, while the whereabouts of Phillips are currently publicly unknown. Phillips was in the news as recently as 2008 as it was reported on some websites that Hulk Hogan's former WWF Championship belt, which Mr. Perfect destroyed on a 1989 episode of Saturday's Night Main Event, was being auctioned off on eBay due to a Phillips estate sale.
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Post by HuskerTornado on Feb 18, 2014 19:29:51 GMT -5
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Post by Self-Savior on Feb 18, 2014 19:31:44 GMT -5
What a ing scumbag.
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Post by Nivro™ on Feb 18, 2014 22:24:24 GMT -5
1) Phil Donahue is a jackass
2) Dave Meltzer's jeri curl is hilarious
3) Barry Orton was sexually harassed, and now we know why Randy is still being pushed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 7:32:35 GMT -5
Wow... Just wow.
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Post by HuskerTornado on Feb 19, 2014 17:34:57 GMT -5
1) Phil Donahue is a jackass 2) Dave Meltzer's jeri curl is hilarious 3) Barry Orton was sexually harassed, and now we know why Randy is still being pushed. McMahon's face at 1:50-59 is as if he's thinking "Phil, I'm going to have you killed and your body shipped in pieces to parts unknown."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 18:49:33 GMT -5
Thank God Sammartino was there, because Graham came off as a complete idiot. Scott Steiner really did model himself after Superstar.
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Post by TheHotshot on Feb 21, 2014 14:27:04 GMT -5
I started reading into all that sex scandal crap but I didn't fully get it. It's pretty sickening how the guy had a foot fetish (for the same gender).
If it's true about Barry O I'm surprised at why Randy's parents even allowed him into the WWE in the first place. [If] I had been sexually abused I sure as hell wouldn't allow my nephew/sons anywhere near the guys that abused me (in fear that they'd do it to them).
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Feb 25, 2014 11:47:17 GMT -5
I thought it was because Ventura. The fact they have to pay him a lot for using his commentary and likeness on dvds.
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Post by Kollecting King on Feb 25, 2014 14:59:52 GMT -5
Honestly I think it has to do with that match being released a ton of times and this is a different take on it kind of like sitting in the seats as opposed to the same match thats been released a ton of times.
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Post by MattelsRule on Feb 26, 2014 21:14:39 GMT -5
Well I found this clip. He forgets JYDs name. Lol!
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