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Post by Robert69 on Dec 14, 2012 8:37:59 GMT -5
Personally, I grew up with the NWO/Attitude Era. There was a good 5-7 years as a child, the early-mid 90s where I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling.
(Much older, much bigger kid came down, ruined my bday party, I may have power slammed him on the living room coffee table and frog splashed him from the back of the couch. Thus my pro wrestling privileges were suspended for a while.)
But anyways, as I watch the various matches on Netflix, noticeably Taker's right now. It really is impressive to see just how athletic some of these guys were. Namely Undertaker and Yokozuna. I pride myself on being athletic for my build, but these guys are just -- freaks.
I came back into wrestling shortly after Kane and Taker faced at WM. As I'm sitting here watching this match, a couple things stick out to me. #1, Taker is a beast. When he flew over that top rope, I can't think of many other spots, especially up to that point where people had seen someone of his size move so well. And #2, Kane really was pretty rough around the edges when he first came in. Idk if it was the mask, if he didn't have any experience or what but -- damn.
Anyways, yeah. Just something I was sitting here noticing and thought it might be a good topic of conversation.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 11:17:01 GMT -5
Zzz
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Post by Robert69 on Dec 14, 2012 11:33:17 GMT -5
Thanks for stopping by, be careful where you snore though, you may wake up with balls in your mouth. I'll make sure to have them extra vinegar-y for you. Now gtfo off my thread.
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Post by Brad on Dec 14, 2012 15:00:04 GMT -5
Personally, I grew up with the NWO/Attitude Era. There was a good 5-7 years as a child, the early-mid 90s where I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling. (Much older, much bigger kid came down, ruined my bday party, I may have power slammed him on the living room coffee table and frog splashed him from the back of the couch. Thus my pro wrestling privileges were suspended for a while.) But anyways, as I watch the various matches on Netflix, noticeably Taker's right now. It really is impressive to see just how athletic some of these guys were. Namely Undertaker and Yokozuna. I pride myself on being athletic for my build, but these guys are just -- freaks. I came back into wrestling shortly after Kane and Taker faced at WM. As I'm sitting here watching this match, a couple things stick out to me. #1, Taker is a beast. When he flew over that top rope, I can't think of many other spots, especially up to that point where people had seen someone of his size move so well. And #2, Kane really was pretty rough around the edges when he first came in. Idk if it was the mask, if he didn't have any experience or what but -- damn. Anyways, yeah. Just something I was sitting here noticing and thought it might be a good topic of conversation. Kane definitely had experience. He'd been around for a good while before taking on the Kane gimmick.
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Post by HHH316 on Dec 14, 2012 15:03:37 GMT -5
I know he was a small point in your post, but I agree Yokozuna was amazing. No man with that body build should of been able to perform like he did
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 16:37:09 GMT -5
I always found that Kane vs. Taker match at WM 14 to be... not that great. It really did seem like Kane had issues wrestling with a mask on (even though he wrestled with one as Doomsday in USWA) but something seemed off in that match.
I prefer the next ppv at Unforgiven in the Inferno match for Taker vs. Kane. I thought that match had a better flow to it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 16:56:36 GMT -5
Yeah I honestly think that his match with Kane at WM14 is very possibly his worst WM match ever.
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Post by Robert69 on Dec 14, 2012 22:50:04 GMT -5
I always found that Kane vs. Taker match at WM 14 to be... not that great. It really did seem like Kane had issues wrestling with a mask on (even though he wrestled with one as Doomsday in USWA) but something seemed off in that match. I prefer the next ppv at Unforgiven in the Inferno match for Taker vs. Kane. I thought that match had a better flow to it. It seemed like the mask just didn't sit well on his face, it gave him this like weird triple-chin look, he'd have to reach up and adjust it every once in a while, it was barely held on his chin. It just looked like a fairly uncomfortable mask too wear. It was just shocking how many punches he missed (that Taker sold) that didn't even remotely come close to making contact. ^Someone else said he had been around a while before that, didn't he have like a dentist gimmick or something? I'm assuming the mask had to be the reason for the lackluster performance then.
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Post by specterkev on Dec 14, 2012 22:54:16 GMT -5
issac yankem DDS eesh lol
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Post by Joe Delta on Dec 15, 2012 1:50:34 GMT -5
Sorry Robert, it's not about Punk, Cesaro, Sandow, or the shield, so it's boring to him. Oh and i forgot Rhodes and Ziggler.
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Post by Darkhawk on Dec 15, 2012 1:54:06 GMT -5
eh boring. Zzzz jk (:
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