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Heckler1 said:
Dude is one of a kind. I think RVD and Rhino are the only guys from the original ECW that still wrestle at all.
Guy is lucky he was just a weed guy throughout his career and never got hooked on the harder stuff.
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What are you talking about? Sandman can still swing a kendo stick and drink beer. That's all he was told to do when they found out he couldn't do shit all while sober.
 
CyrusHowler said:
TranquiloClub is such a mark that it’s reached levels of Markdom rarely seen before.
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For someone whose channel is so devoted to AEW, he could use a new name.

But for some actual NJPW talk, this year's G1 has been a big improvement over last year's. The format works a lot better with 32 than 28. Lot of people whining about not having 2 blocks but it's more interesting with 4 blocks.

Gabe Kidd has been the breakout guy for me of the tournament but the whole A block was outstanding. I also liked the 20 minute time limit. Added a new level of drama with the real possibility of draws.
 
Heckler1 said:
Dude is one of a kind. I think RVD and Rhino are the only guys from the original ECW that still wrestle at all.
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Isn't Tommy Dreamer still wrestling? Tajiri is still wrestling in Japan. Super Crazy is still going in Mexico. And as long as Terry Funk is still breathing there's still a chance he'll get in the ring again.

Plus there's that Jericho guy.
 
Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
Did anyone watch the Janetty Dark Side episode?
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Maybe I’m just desensitized to wild bullshit in the wrestling world, but it was nowhere near as shocking as they hyped up, mostly because Marty never shuts up and has told most of those stories already, and even then, can you really believe him?. I kind of only tuned in to see if they’d reveal some crazy information about Shawn or something and it was still more of the same.
 
Troon Me Loose said:
Isn't Tommy Dreamer still wrestling? Tajiri is still wrestling in Japan. Super Crazy is still going in Mexico. And as long as Terry Funk is still breathing there's still a chance he'll get in the ring again.

Plus there's that Jericho guy.
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Tommy Dreamer can't go like he used to. Tajiri can, but he doesn't wrestle as much as some people and he has taken long breaks between matches. It would take a miracle for the 79 year old Funk to get into another ring. He looks like he's 100. Jericho had only 20 matches or something in ECW and they didn't become "extreme" yet. He was close though. Before that they didn't have too many "extreme" matches I don't think. Just some of the feuds being that way. 1996 when Jericho left it got really bad.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Jericho had only 20 matches or something in ECW and they didn't become "extreme" yet. He was close though. Before that they didn't have too many "extreme" matches I don't think. Just some of the feuds being that way. 1996 when Jericho left it got really bad.
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They became extreme when Douglas threw down the NWA title. That was well before Jericho showed up. They were always a mix of different styles. But Heyman used "extreme" wrestling to get guys who couldn't work, or had some flaws, over. There was barbed wire matches, death matches and table matches long before Jericho.
 
Troon Me Loose said:
They became extreme when Douglas threw down the NWA title. That was well before Jericho showed up. They were always a mix of different styles. But Heyman used "extreme" wrestling to get guys who couldn't work, or had some flaws, over. There was barbed wire matches, death matches and table matches long before Jericho.
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yeah ecw's appeal; was that it had not just guys swinging furniture at each other but also a lot of really talented technical wrestlers and high flyers as well
 
Troon Me Loose said:
They became extreme when Douglas threw down the NWA title. That was well before Jericho showed up. They were always a mix of different styles. But Heyman used "extreme" wrestling to get guys who couldn't work, or had some flaws, over. There was barbed wire matches, death matches and table matches long before Jericho.
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Jericho was part of a group (himself, Benoit, and others who ended up bailing for WCW first chance they could in time for Nitro's launch) that were sort of the "workrate" set of early ECW. IE they had the snowflake matches and gave ECW "real wrestling" street cred along with the soap shit and hardcore stuff.
 
MirrorNoir said:
Jericho was part of a group (himself, Benoit, and others who ended up bailing for WCW first chance they could in time for Nitro's launch) that were sort of the "workrate" set of early ECW. IE they had the snowflake matches and gave ECW "real wrestling" street cred along with the soap shit and hardcore stuff.
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Jericho was not in a group with Benoit in ECW. They weren't even there at the same time. Jericho went to WCW a year after Benoit.

Don't try to educate me on ECW when I was following it as it happened and you're trying to pretend that you know shit.
 
I was being more nebulous in terms of "Group" not saying they were a stable but a pool of wrestlers in ECW during those early years that served the "real wrestling" quota in those early years which Bischoff poached.
 
Kaizer Ghidorah said:
yeah ecw's appeal; was that it had not just guys swinging furniture at each other but also a lot of really talented technical wrestlers and high flyers as well
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WCW had a few before then (high flyers), but Paul was the one to make them (luchadors) more famous in America. Best I remember WCW having around that time was Love Machine and he was in talks with ECW when Eddie was going to go there. Sucks that they're both dead. Love Machine had a decent frog splash that Eddie would start using after he died.
I think it was only four or five months after the Eddie and Love Machine vs. El Higo Del Santo and Octagon match in AAA that Love machine would die. That was in 1994? @XYZpdq Jr.
 
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