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Post by drifter on Mar 31, 2021 9:39:58 GMT -5
Man, what a down grade from the last belt. It was just like when WWE had the great streak of World title belts, and then along came the spinner.
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Post by drifter on Mar 28, 2021 20:52:39 GMT -5
Just something to get off my chest, to the piece of crap that has been hitting the northern part of the state, screw you. Beginning of the week at the East Windsor Walmart was a Stunning Steve, but someone bought the figure, stole the belt, and put a Stone Cold card in the package over where the belt would be, and returned it. Tonight, at the Enfield Target saw that the same dirt bag hit there too, doing the same thing with Alexa Bliss. Seeing stuff like that just aggravates me, because it's theft plain and simple. And the sad thing is, someone that might not know better would then buy that figure, not realizing a piece of it was stolen. Found the below in another thread, people are really after that belt... 3/25: Ellicott City Walmart Stunning find here! The belt swapper hits again. Second time I've found an elite here with a swapped belt over the past few months. Also was only figure here so my guess was returned here recently. Edit- until I can get the pic to load its the Stunning steve austin elite with a old wwe championship from 1985 instead of the wcw tv title. That's the problem with them rarely using the WCW belts. I know back when they released the Ron Simmons, I only ever saw him once, and the WCW Title was stolen right out of it. I'm just glad that I found out about this store spam, that's in the mall in Holyoke, Ma, that sells pops, some legos and action figures including WWE stuff. They're a few bucks above retail (usually the chase figures and certain others are a bit more than that), but thankfully because of that I was able to get Stunning Steve.
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Post by drifter on Mar 26, 2021 19:08:03 GMT -5
Just something to get off my chest, to the piece of crap that has been hitting the northern part of the state, screw you. Beginning of the week at the East Windsor Walmart was a Stunning Steve, but someone bought the figure, stole the belt, and put a Stone Cold card in the package over where the belt would be, and returned it. Tonight, at the Enfield Target saw that the same dirt bag hit there too, doing the same thing with Alexa Bliss. Seeing stuff like that just aggravates me, because it's theft plain and simple. And the sad thing is, someone that might not know better would then buy that figure, not realizing a piece of it was stolen.
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Post by drifter on Mar 24, 2021 11:40:55 GMT -5
According to this site it's George Steele. Muraco is second. Clearly the list is using houses but Goldust is on the list. I don't recall Goldust getting a televised title shot. Most Title Shots Never WonHe had at least one. April 27, 1998 Raw against Stone Cold with Gerald Brisco as guest ref and Vince as the time keeper.
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Post by drifter on Mar 18, 2021 1:05:39 GMT -5
Yeah Austin was above classification imo. But his alignment with McMahon was pure poison to everyone. Then they repeat the blunder @ Invasion 😳 I'm on the hating the Austin heel run with McMahon band wagon, but I do say there was a bright side during it, The Two Man Power Trip. If that's how his heel run was, the viciousness and then you still have the alliance with Vince, but it's straight up it's for his obsession to keep the belt at all costs then it could have worked. Take out the singing to Vince, the hugging and all and it could have worked. And to be fair, once they added in Angle with the comedy bits it was funny, but that's all the stuff that killed the Austin heel run.
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Post by drifter on Mar 17, 2021 17:28:55 GMT -5
That Deadpool looks great. I love what they're doing for the packaging for the movie figures for Deadpool. I hope in the future we could maybe get a Colossus and maybe even a Juggernaut.
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Post by drifter on Mar 16, 2021 19:03:51 GMT -5
Are they not releasing the whole Last Knight on Earth wave together? This week I finally saw it on the shelves at Target, and it was at 2 two different Targets with both only having two of Batman and two of Omega. D@mn it! That was the kiss of death! I go to the Palisades Center Target this morning and the had 13 Omega figures and nobody else from the set! Good god, that's a lot of Omega's, especially in just normal circumstances I can see him being the peg warmer of the four.
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Post by drifter on Mar 14, 2021 21:30:30 GMT -5
Are they not releasing the whole Last Knight on Earth wave together? This week I finally saw it on the shelves at Target, and it was at 2 two different Targets with both only having two of Batman and two of Omega.
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Post by drifter on Mar 11, 2021 1:39:59 GMT -5
I remember this promo when watching ECW many, many, many years ago. The fact Taz breaks character and you can see him smiling and laughing a bit is awesome. This was clearly the early stages of Big Poppa Pump's great interview skills! Ha ha ha It's interesting how in ECW, we saw the seeds planted for both Stone Cold Steve Austin and Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner.
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Post by drifter on Mar 11, 2021 1:35:50 GMT -5
Good for Molly well deserved. For those that didn't see it, here is her finding out... I liked that, having Helms announcing it. Just seeing how much it meant for him to just get to tell her was really nice. Also, add me to the group that is happy that this Hall of Fame won't have fans. I hated when they started making it like a wrestling show, filling it up with fans. The best was when you just had the tables set up on stage, with each having a place for the inductee and their inductor. And the crowd was just family and friends of the inductees and the talent. It should have just stayed like that, and have the fans get their say, at Mania when they bring out that years class. But yeah, I get the reason why, you fill it with fans, that's more tickets they can sell.
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Post by drifter on Mar 9, 2021 0:18:39 GMT -5
Besides the Hurt Business,Riddle is easily my favorite part of Raw and its not even close. The guy is great at the funny moments and great in ring. Drew/Sheamus was good,hopefully they finish this up soon so Drew can get back to chasing after Lashley. Lashley's new entrance was incredible,this guy has become the most dominant person on the roster. As much as I like Drew I don't think he should lose the title anytime some.I agree. I think at the very least, Lashley should have the belt until Summer Slam.
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Post by drifter on Mar 2, 2021 0:12:38 GMT -5
An interesting plot twist here is developing....music has several streaming services, and some music is being restricted to specific services ala Jay-z and Tidal, or the new K-Pop debacle that removed a ton of artists from Spotify to be launched on a new platform in Asia. This is a nice reminder to buy physical media in your preferred form and keep it old school; in that you can always trust it will be there, and you can buy from where you like and not be locked in to a commitment. VPV That's a main reason when it comes to movies, music and games, I prefer physical media. Plus having that actual disc in your hand actually makes it feel like you bought something.
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Post by drifter on Feb 27, 2021 20:41:17 GMT -5
I loved when they went back to it on Table For 3 with Simmons, Henry and Godfather:
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Post by drifter on Feb 26, 2021 0:29:01 GMT -5
Kinda hoping around right now, between Assassin's Creed 3, which I never finished when it came out originally, Borderlands 3, which I just beat the other day finally after putting it down a while back, starting the DLC now, and today trying the Outriders demo that was released.
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Post by drifter on Feb 25, 2021 21:36:11 GMT -5
Virgil turning on DiBiase at the 1991 Royal Rumble. I know a lot of people might not agree, especially with the way Virgil is looked at now, but, when he turned on DiBiase he got a huge ovation - the crowd went nuts. Then he went on to have a pretty good 1991. I'd agree, the whole finally turning on DiBiase culminating with him winning the Million Dollar belt at Summer Slam that year was really well done. Just look at the reaction he got when he beat DiBiase too, they really got the fans behind him. Basically from the Rumble to Summer Slam in 91 was the height of Virgil's career.
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Post by drifter on Feb 21, 2021 14:24:33 GMT -5
Ok hear me out. It involves Bobby Lashley and WWECW but hear me out. Bobby Lashley jumping through the steel cage onto Umaga was badass. I could agree with that. It was one of the better cage break moments the company has done. There have been mean where it was a weak action that caused the cage to break, but this one, Lashley launched himself full force into the side of the cage, and Umaga was in the perfect spot where he was safe, but it looked like he got killed.
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Post by drifter on Feb 20, 2021 21:21:44 GMT -5
Just thought about this today, looking through clips online, and thought it could be an interesting topic. Any moments or matches from the past that you guys thing deserve a bit more love.
The first one I'll add is the one that made me think of this, the WrestleMania 17 Gimmick Battle Royal. Now I don't pick this because of the match itself, but because I believe his work on commentary in this match, was the last thing Bobby Heenan did before his cancer and it's treatment started to affect his voice. He had many moments after this where he was in "The Brain" mode like his Hall of Fame speech, but this was I believe the last time it was 100% Heenan with his voice and wit. Plus I loved as he was making his way to the ring, Paul Heyman referred to him as the Johnny Carson of the wrestling world.
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Post by drifter on Feb 20, 2021 21:16:22 GMT -5
Maybe not a classic, but I think it could have been if it stuck. I think this would have been a better face theme for Finlay instead of just having him use Hornswoggle's. I don't know why they only used it the once. I completely forgot about that. Decent theme and definitely better than what they went with. To me, just having him use Hornswoggle's theme was part of what ruined his face run. His first theme was great, and I hated to see it go, but if they had just kept this one for Finlay, it would have been better. The Swoggle one just did not fit him at all.
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Post by drifter on Feb 20, 2021 21:02:44 GMT -5
I remember trying to download the Hillbilly Jim theme way back in the days of dialup. Best use of 3 days ever. It was great when the song got new life in the 90s, when he became the manager for the Godwins during their face run. Speaking of the Godwins, I loved their theme music when they were Tex Slazenger & Shanghai Pierce. I wish I could find it to post, but I can only find matches with it, not the song on it's own.
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Post by drifter on Feb 20, 2021 16:51:31 GMT -5
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