Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 449: It Was Vader's Time. RIP

(+) Yeah! (+)

Off to the White Castle of Fear in the sky
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Vader is the third of the 22 WCW Champions to pass away, the first being Benoit, second being Savage.

I wonder who will be the last one?

Flair
Luger
Simmons
Sting
Hogan
Big Show
Goldberg
Nash
DDP
Bret Hart
Sid
Jarrett
Arquette
Booker T
Russo
Steiner
Angle
Rock
Jericho
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The Rock would make sense actually.
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RIP Man who squashed Inoki
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It probably says something about me that I can still easily recall the WCW World Title lineage but it took me a few minutes to remember that Randy Savage was dead
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The Rock has a crazy good diet and is the youngest one and has the least mileage other than Russo/Arquette, so chances are it will be him

But Vince outlasts all of them
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Macho Man will always live on through Skyrim mods and Spiderman.
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VeryInsane posted...

The Rock has a crazy good diet and is the youngest one and has the least mileage other than Russo/Arquette, so chances are it will be him

But Vince outlasts all of them

Goldberg has less mileage than Rock too
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Rip
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Jakyl25 posted...

Flair
Luger
Simmons
Sting
Hogan
Big Show
Goldberg
Nash
DDP
Bret Hart
Sid
Jarrett
Arquette
Booker T
Russo
Steiner
Angle
Rock
Jericho

Naturally, Goldberg's streak will prevail in the end.
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Flair to outlive that entire list + everyone in this topic
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On my birthday at that ;_;

RIP Vader. BRB, setting ALL my clocks to Vader Time
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It's always Vader Time on Rusev Day
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RIP Vader
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Does anyone remember, after Piper's death, Miz kind of broke kayfabe a bit and said, "Welcome to the second-most must-see talk show", giving a little promo about Piper? I wish we saw that more often for these major wrestling deaths. It really raised my opinion of Miz at that time.
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rip
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Vader no :(
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My money is still on Arquette

Not only because he only wrestled two total matches and to my knowledge hasnt ever been an addict but because I dont acknowledge the post-Booker T reigns on that belt.

(that is title changes that took place after the final Nitro)
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ZeroSignal620 posted...

On my birthday at that ;_;

RIP Vader. BRB, setting ALL my clocks to Vader Time

Correction, two days before my birthday apparently. Still sucks though ;_;
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I... how do you confuse your own birthday
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ScareChan posted...

I... how do you confuse your own birthday

Vader died two days ago, not today.
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ScareChan posted...

I... how do you confuse your own birthday

how do you possibly interpret the comment that way
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How did Vader confuse Zero's birthday?
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Hot take:

Both Hiromu vs Desperado matches have been better than both Hiromu vs Ospreay matches.

Hiromu/Despy just have ridiculous chemistry and their desire to completely fucking destroy one another makes it great.
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18 years ago tomorrow:

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Steiner posted...

ScareChan posted...

I... how do you confuse your own birthday

how do you possibly interpret the comment that way

I am obviously in a Vader time paradox
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ScareChan posted...

I am obviously in a Kushida time paradox

FTFY
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aw jeez

this topic made me realize he died on MY birthday
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are you sure about that
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Ugh now I have to ask the unfortunate question of when did Vader actually die?
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He died 4 ABY.
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Dunno why I bother with the first NXT after Takeover, it's just basically the standard Post-Mortem with a few squashes.
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Hardcore_Adult posted...

Dunno why I bother with the first NXT after Takeover, it's just basically the standard Post-Mortem with a few squashes.

I always forget about this. Its basically a clip show
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Sinclair Broadcasting is going to put their full legal might against WWE for getting ROHs MSG date canceled
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Oh jeez. I'm All In for this fight.
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Dave on Big Cass

McMahon fired him at a meeting in Toledo prior to Smackdown. The reasons given were the 5/1 incident [when he beat up the little person], as well as blowing off a rehearsal for a promo that Kevin Dunn has asked for and then going long on the live version of that promo. There was a lot of heat regarding the promo that Vince McMahon hated, and he fired the writer of it a few weeks ago. There was also an incident that happened on the European tour where he locked himself in the tour bus bathroom and then destroyed the bathroom and broke down the door when he couldnt get out, because the lock malfunctioned and he believed he was being pranked. Because the door was knocked down, it meant the other wrestlers could not use the bathroom the rest of the trip in privacy, not to mention the damages it caused. There were said to be other issues regarding his behavior on the European tour. He also had enemies from years back from vociferously defending Donald Trump while in an argument with Sami Zayn about treatment of Muslims that ruffled many peoples feathers, although had nothing to do with his being fired.

There was also negativity from other producers that dated back to the feeling that the Big Show vs. Big Cass feud, which took place before his knee injury, didnt go well and he took the brunt of the blame. There was also negativity of his work in the recent Bryan feud, but not performing up to par was also not the reason for someone to get fired in the manner that he did.

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And everyone thought Enzo was the bad one of the two.
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Sinclair is considering pre-empting SD when it moves to FOX on any FOX affiliates of theirs as retaliation

LOLLLL
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I would probably cheer for Sinclair's ballsiness if they weren't legitimately one of the biggest piece of shit companies in news media these days.

It's like watching Vince McMahon fight another version of Vince McMahon.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

ScareChan posted...

I... how do you confuse your own birthday

Vader died two days ago, not today.

This. Vader died on the 18th. My birthday was the 20th
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I can't begin to even think about which of the promos Cass did that Vince hated because they were all so horrible.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I can't begin to even think about which of the promos Cass did that Vince hated because they were all so horrible.

My guess is the one about how he's 7 feet tall and short people are stu... Oh wait
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Anyone ELSE find this whole situation HILARIOUSLY IRONIC as Vince clearly prefers BIG SWEATY MEN as opposed to so-called ''Manlets''? (with the exception of Shawn and a few others)
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I can't begin to even think about which of the promos Cass did that Vince hated because they were all so horrible.

I think it was the one with Renee on the stage, because that one was looong
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Also god, considering what Vince likes, think about how bad you have to be as a writer to get fired over one promo
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Also pro-tip, if your bosses want you to rehearse a promo, dont blow them off
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WWE has teamed up with NOAH in Japan for it to be its Japanese place ala their UK division or something to that effect. Itami is going there in August
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Uh oh. Ishimori's goal was to go to WWE.

And he left NOAH to do it.
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I thought it was the one where the little guy was an imitation DB?
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eaedwards6400 posted...

I thought it was the one where the little guy was an imitation DB?

That was the one where he went off script, but apparently this was not the rehearsal promo.
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