Board 8 > My Favorite Moments In Wrestling

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Quick Anecdote: I don't watch wrestling anymore. I tune in for Wrestlemania but that's all I can muster. Its just lost its luster for me. But me and wrestling had an amazing run and I'd like to share with you my favorite wrestling moments.

1.These are not in order. They're just here as I think of them

2.Feel free to post YOUR favorite moments. I expect an essay from Jakyl on Eddie Guerrero's title win at Wrestlemania.



The Most Important Promo In the History of Modern Wrestling:


Every wrestling fan already knows what this is before I post it. It's the moment the world changed, where wrestling's line between what to cheer for and what to boo became blurred. You can feel it when Vince McMahon wants to say something but can smell gold as Austin makes the crowd fall for him by sheer force of will. You can see he's building towards something, working everyone over slowly but surely. He's building this character up, been practicing it, waiting for this moment. And right when you think he's going to cast himself as another villain who finds his niche being our heroes exact opposite, he drops the line that changed wrestling forever

"You thump your bible and talk about your psalms, you talk about John 3:16...AUSTIN 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!"

Maybe it's the menacing inflection he added to the word "Austin". Maybe it was God-like balls it took to make fun of a religious man on television. The exact reason I may not ever know, but the crowd lost it. Not in a over-zealous pop, but in a smattering of cheers that were completely unfiltered and uncontrollable. Austin made people cheer him even though they didn't WANT to. Wrestling would never be the same.

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The Resurrection

Austin was a favorite of mine growing up just because he didn't give a damn and it really just showed. I like how he literally did start running through everyone, it was pretty great. For a five year period there Stone Cold was the most entertaining man in all of wrestling, and I really think the Rock is especially overrated in comparison!

Austin had way too much charisma to ever be a good villain, and that showed during the invasion angle where it took a lot to get anyone to boo him.

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2.Feel free to post YOUR favorite moments. I expect an essay from Jakyl on Eddie Guerrero's title win at Wrestlemania.

Eddie Guerrero never won a title at Wrestlemania

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oh crap Jakyl that was Chris Benoit I'm thinking of. Whoops. Was Guerrero's Summerslam?


As for the Rock/Austin thing, I truly believe it was a mortal tie. Most wrestling fans tend to be white so I am not offended that they relate to Austin's character more. I don't see it as racism or anything because these same people cheered their heads off for the Rock. But for me, a half black half white kid who related to both characters, I can NEVER pick a favorite between them. They both transitioned from heel to face to heel so effortlessly that they became the foundation for the modern anti-hero.

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From: TheConductorSix | #005

oh crap Jakyl that was Chris Benoit I'm thinking of. Whoops. Was Guerrero's Summerslam?


As for the Rock/Austin thing, I truly believe it was a mortal tie. Most wrestling fans tend to be white so I am not offended that they relate to Austin's character more. I don't see it as racism or anything because these same people cheered their heads off for the Rock. But for me, a half black half white kid who related to both characters, I can NEVER pick a favorite between them. They both transitioned from heel to face to heel so effortlessly that they became the foundation for the modern anti-hero.

NwO?

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Guerrero's was at No Way Out the month before WM, when he beat Brock Lesnar.

Then he defended at WM against Angle, and Benoit won his title from Triple H, and then they celebrated together their accomplishments against all odds and lived happily ever after. <__<;

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From: Jakyl25 | #007

Guerrero's was at No Way Out the month before WM, when he beat Brock Lesnar.

Then he defended at WM against Angle, and Benoit won his title from Triple H, and then they celebrated together their accomplishments against all odds and lived happily ever after. <__<;

Well, as long as both lived everything was fantastic!

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The Cult of Personality.

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oh crap Jakyl that was Chris Benoit I'm thinking of. Whoops. Was Guerrero's Summerslam?


As for the Rock/Austin thing, I truly believe it was a mortal tie. Most wrestling fans tend to be white so I am not offended that they relate to Austin's character more. I don't see it as racism or anything because these same people cheered their heads off for the Rock. But for me, a half black half white kid who related to both characters, I can NEVER pick a favorite between them. They both transitioned from heel to face to heel so effortlessly that they became the foundation for the modern anti-hero.


I don't think it has to do with race so much as it has to do with the class system in America and the general audience of professional wrestling.

Don't get me wrong, wrestling is still and has always been a very racist-friendly industry, in the sense that exploiting an audience's racism to make a buck is not only allowed but encouraged. FOR THE MOST PART, Rock transcended all of that on sheer force-of-nature charisma. There has never been a professional wrestler more charismatic than The Rock, almost to a fault because he clowned everyone else so much that he made them look bad.

The difference between Austin and Rock and where the fanbases that prefer either lie is more based on class. Austin represents the lower class who fought and struggled for every dime, while Rock represents the privileged elite, born into the business based on bloodline and flaunting his style and to a small extent his opulence. I think for the most part, if you were doing okay financially (and in the late '90s this was more prevalent) you could identify more with Rock and look up to him, whereas if you were lower middle class you saw Austin as your idol. They both represented wish fulfillment to various people.

I mean, Rock was the first black man to win the WWF Championship and that is never celebrated. He transcended race that much.

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NWO were heels. Period. We cheered for them because they were the badasses everyone wanted to be but they were straight bad guys nonetheless. Speaking of this

"Whether you like it or you don't, it's the best thing going."


There will never be a Heel Turn like this because wrestling will never mean this much again. Hulk Hogan can't exist because people just don't get attached to heroes anymore. We're too educated, too jaded. We've seen it all and guys like CM Punk are the only thing we can hold onto.

Look at this reaction: People are legitimately upset. It isn't some staged reaction, it isn't scripted or planned. People are broken hearted, kids are crying, fans are PISSED. The reaction is visceral, the feelings tangible. Go watch the episodes of Nitro AFTER this event. Fans still threw stuff in the ring. We loved the NWO because they reminded you that you cared about this. They pissed you off because you loved it. They can throwing was a symbol of our affections. It let them know they were doing their jobs better than we could've imagined.

When John Cena turns Heel, and trust me, he will, I hope we can reach 1/5th of this reaction. I want to see little kids crying, I want fans rushing the ring in anger. I want it to feel like chaos has let loose and anything can happen.


1.Scott Hall's little ground stomp dance is the best thing ever and someone needs to bring it back.
2.Scott Hall's arms out pose is better than Orton Pose. Truth.

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And jeez, Rock is still the ONLY black man to win the WWE Championship (i.e. the "real one").

The only other black World Champions in WWE have been Booker T and Mark Henry and they gave both of them the SmackDown belt.

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Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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Jakyl25 posted...

they celebrated together their accomplishments against all odds and lived

XFD

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From: TheConductorSix | #010
They pissed you off because you loved it. They can throwing was a symbol of our affections. It let them know they were doing their jobs better than we could've imagined.

One of the things that bothers me most about modern wrestling fans (and this goes up and down the board from WWE to the smallest local feds) is their post-modern fan reactions. When they enjoy a heel's work, they CHEER now. It's so counter-productive to the product!

And trust me, I've had this debate with people that I consider very knowledgeable and intelligent wrestling fans and they still don't agree. When I'm at a show I NEVER cheer the heel. If I love their work I will boo my f***ing ass off at them.

EDIT: CHIKARA is excepted from that fan critique. Their fans "get it." And TNA's fans are mostly excepted as well because they're directed on who to cheer and who to jeer and behave accordingly.

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My instinct when I see Bryan being awesome is to laugh and cheer, though.

I know he's not really doing it. It's not pantomime, either. I just appreciate someone being that much of a douche. The only time I wouldn't be tempted to cheer him is when he screamed at AJ after WM and even then it was more "uncomfortable" to watch than boo-worthy.

This is, again, why Jericho was so amazing during the feud with Punk. He became so irredeemably awful that it'd be straight-up weird to cheer anything he did. Michael Cole can actually accomplish this when he's on the mic (rather than on commentary) as well. I remember a segment after Bryan lost that cage match with Henry for the WHC where he was being such a godless douche about the whole thing. It was really well done.

Basically, heels need to be less "awesome" (and this isn't a dig at the Miz) and more "despicable". Cody Rhodes doing an amazing impersonation of the Orton pose is "awesome". Dolph faking a suicide dive and stopping right at the end to flick his hair grease is "awesome". Daniel Bryan's self-promoting and cartoonish "question time with Daniel Bryan" sections are "awesome". It's funny, amusing, entertaining - but it doesn't make me want to see him get his ass kicked by a face.

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Wrestling needs more of this, I agree XIII


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So AJ is apparently big now? I remember playing Minute to Win It games with that girl when Trent brought her to my friend's house >_>

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The WWE Title basically revolves around her whims at the moment.

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all I know is she wasn't very good at picking up cheerios with her mouth using uncooked spaghetti

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Exactly. EXACTLY.

I am a Hogan Mark. I've ripped more Hulkamania T-Shirts than T-Shirts I currently own. I went as Hulk Hogan 5 Halloweens in a row which further crippled my racial association. I wanted to be a big blonde white guy who beat up bad guys and hung out with Rocky Balboa.

When he Heel Turned I lost it. I booed, and I booed, and I yelled at the TV. Even when Hogan's bad guy persona began appealing to young me, I still booed because he deserved it. He was entitled to my boos because he was a great bad guy.

And you have once again segued into my next moment:

Toronto is to Wrestling what New York is to Basketball and The Rock is Kobe.:


For those unaware of basketball traditions, Madison Square Garden is the holy mecca of the sport. Whenever great players come to MSG they put on a show: Kobe's 50 pointers, Lebron's triple doubles, Jordan's massacres. They do it because MSG appreciates it more than anyone else. It transcends sports and teams and jerseys..it's pure, it's REAL.


Toronto Fans make wrestling shows that good. If you've never been to a Toronto Wrestling show you need to. Those crowds make the event better than it is. They can turn a great show into a legendary one. So it's only fitting that The Rock, the man whose charisma made every show feel bigger than it was, torched Toronto like no crowd was ever torched before.

:47---FINALLY, the Rock HAS COME BACK To Toron...to RON....TO RUN HIS MOUTH ON ALL YOUR CANDY ASSES

The smile he throws after that was the signal that we were in for something legendary. The way the crowd reacts is exactly what he needed. He knew what he was going to do was only possible in a crowd like Toronto, a crowd that cared.

:1:54---yaaaaay! hooraaaayy! he said our name...SHUT UP!
:3:06-You mutha Canuckers. Jerry the King really sells this. Don't be a mutha Canucker, Jim.
:4:00--It doesn't MATTER what you people think
:4:15--You don't boo the Rock, Fatty. Rock gets more pie in a week than you do in a lifetime.
:5:50---and the rock means NOTHING *pause when the crowd uses his catchphrase*


But all this was a warm-up, a preface to what he had in store for the Toronto crowd. It's at 6 minutes that the Rock unleashes the greatest out of nowhere insult ever witnessed on television:

"It's the Gebroni beatin, pie eatin, trailblazin, eyebrow raisin, stronger than a bear, faster than a buck, the best thing to hit Canada cuz the Maple Leafs SUCK!"

And the crowd. Loses. Their. ****. A guy in a Maple Leaf jersey looks ready to dive the stage. The boos felt like they would never end. This is why Toronto is the mecca: They're smart enough to know what's going on but good enough fans to have the right reaction. The Rock and Toronto deserve each other.

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Watch the video when they pan to the stands, look at the fans booing but clapping at the same time. They're booing because he deserves it and clapping for the same reason. There's a 2 minute boo/chant section after that represents Toronto returning the Rock's greatness in kind. He deserved 2 minutes of boos and they gave it to him

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To add on to that, Jak, when I was a kid I hated heel Austin. In hindsight he did a great job with it, imo. Ironically I loved heel Y2J (to the point I almost wanted him to beat The Rock at Vengeance) and I hated people like the Right 2 Censor for being so constantly annoying. I don't know if it's just random taste or if there's a correlation but even now, looking back, I consider heel Y2J awesome. I love his promo after winning the Undisputed Title even today. But it wasn't despicable.

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There's a sentiment out there that, in a way, Cena already is the current biggest heel in wrestling, because he's pretty much the only guy right now people will buy a ticket to BOO.

Turning Cena heel is not a matter of an nWo sort of turn. When it does happen, whenever they feel comfortable enough that Sheamus or Punk or whoever is capable of carrying the merch load, they won't even have to change Cena's character. Just position the current character as being the overly-protected golden boy instead of as the paladin of morality and voila.

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Jakyl, you're not a Heel just because people boo you. Not in the modern Wrestling World. You are not a heel when I boo you as a person but when I boo you as a character. I never booed Rock as a person it was always his character.

When Cena turns Heel, he needs to do it in the most intense way possible. No subtlety. I want Bash at the Beach. I want a gigantic moment that doesn't give people a chance to think about what's happening and simply forces them to react. The WWE has the chance to turn John Cena into the biggest heel since Hogan in 96 and Cena is capable of doing it. Wanna know how I know?

He's a Giant well I'm a Giant Whistle so go ahead and blow me:


I love John Cena. I love all iterations. Whether he's being the rapping white guy, the debuting tough guy of "Ruthless Aggression", or even is current face form. In fact, I think I like his face form the most. Being the Face of the WWE means carrying a massive weight at all times, especially in the modern wrestling world where Batman has replaced Superman as our champion. Cena gives you everything in every big match.

Against HBK and Angle, he steps up his in and out ring performance. Go watch those promos. He steps his mic game up and his wrestling output skyrockets. When he's forced to fight monsters like Umaga he plays the superhero well. When he's matched against the personality void of Randy Orton he carrys the mantle and makes things more entertaining that they should be.

I understand why people dislike him. I do. I'm just not one of them. I'm an old wrestling fan and I still appreciate a great face because they're such a rarity.

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Speaking of Canadian promos by great heels:

"Who's Your Daddy, Montreal!"
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In 2005, Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels agreed to have a feud together. Originally, Michaels proposed it as face vs. face, with a series of 3 matches, wherein they would split the first two and then have the rubber match at Wrestlemania with Hogan going over. Hogan agreed, initially.

Then Hogan got cold feet. Now, Shawn Michaels is certainly no slouch when it comes to backstage politics, but Hogan is the absolute king. First he demanded that Shawn turn heel because he wanted it "old-school" (translation: he didn't want to be out-cheered). Shawn agreed, kicking and screaming, and decided to take advantage of this to run one of the more scathing heel assaults on anyone.

And Hogan couldn't do anything about it, because prima donna Hogan only showed up once a month.

Shawn blasted Hogan left and right in segments on Raw (most notably the faux-Larry King interview). He put over how great he was and how hypocritical and impotent Hogan's beliefs were. He nailed Hogan for being the fraud that he is.

It all culminated in this promo, one of the grandest examples of a wrestler holding an audience captive against their will, able to do whatever he freaking wants. It's not a great promo on a technical level, but damn is it heated. And the moment in that promo, oh dear god the moment. Montreal is the one place on Earth that legitimately wanted Shawn Michaels's blood, and he squeezed every single ounce of animosity that night for all it was worth.

Post-script: Hogan was pissed and called off the series, only keeping Match #1 where Hogan wins. And we all know how that went...


And then the next night Hogan was gone, HBK put him over with tongue so firmly in cheek you'd need the jaws of life to speak again, and then turned face like none of this ever happened.

But it did, and here we have the final heel masterpiece of Shawn Michaels.

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From: TheConductorSix | #023
Jakyl, you're not a Heel just because people boo you. Not in the modern Wrestling World. You are not a heel when I boo you as a person but when I boo you as a character. I never booed Rock as a person it was always his character.

Right, but we're fast reaching a point where this is becoming harder and harder to actually accomplish. If John Cena suddenly "turned badass" and assaulted CM Punk and won the WWE Championship again, people would boo, to be sure.

But if the CURRENT John Cena character gets a match with CM Punk and wins the WWE Championship again, people would boo EVEN LOUDER.

There are ways to capitalize on those boos. That's why they sell Anti-Cena merch!

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Damn you for stealing my future

"Canada is to wrestling what New York is to basketball and HBK is Michael Jordan"

When he played the Hitman's music and then they flashed to Shawn's smile...I thought that was it. The collective of Montreal is going to murder Shawn Michaels tonight. There's not enough bullets to stop everyone.

"I SCREWED BRET. AND I'D SCREW HIM AGAIN"

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Forget Montreal, I wanted to murder Shawn Michaels that night!

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My favourite moments:


Nation of Domination doing Nation of Domination stuff

Ahmed Johnson telling people You're going down.

D'Lo shaking his head

Mark Henry covering up Mae Young and saving me eyes.

Booker T asking me if I can dig it.

Papa Shango at Wrestlemania

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And then 4 1/2 years later Bret finally did come back, and they buried the hatchet.


And I was finally able to forgive HBK.

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The Nation of Domination in White Face":

The. Single. Funniest. Moment. In wrestling history. You can't top the Owen Hart impersonation. I almost pissed myself the first time I saw it. The D-Lo Brown Impersonation elevates to untouchable heights.

THE FAKE PEOPLE'S ELBOW...God damn HHH was the man.

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Realo should watch Impact tonight and watch all his old heroes in action.

Like Hulk Hogan!

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The Greatest Villian in the History of Wrestling: Part 1




Vince McMahon is untouchable. UNTOUCHABLE. There will never be a greater bad guy. Untouchable. This guy has pushed the boundaries of what being a villian means to levels no one will ever reach.

Listen to the way he vehemently attacks the fans. I TRICKED ALL OF YOU. I PLAYED ALL OF YOU FOR FOOLS. I'M THE BOSS YOU HATE. I'M THE DAD YOU HATE. I'M BETTER THAN YOU AND I DO THIS BECAUSE I CAN. YOUR TEARS FULFILL ME. YOUR HATE INSPIRES ME. I AM YOUR SUPERIOR.


Vince Mcmahon will return. Often. Before this topic is over he'll get at least 4 more videos.

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Cena going heel wouldn't be for merchandising sales, it should be for wrestling. They should do it for the history, for the moment. Wrestling fans would remember where they were and how they felt. It would be the biggest moment in...how long? Years? a Decade?

They could even keep the Reality Era strong by turning Cena into this soulless human being who takes no joy in wrestling anymore. Vince's expectations got to him. The fans hate got to him. He just didn't care anymore. Not about titles, not about winning, he just wanted to make everything worse.

He would ruin matches, go on different shows and troll both faces/heels alike. Others would begin following him. He could develop this cult like following because people love evil stables. He could betray his own stable. Just become a complete and utter bad guy.

I'm sure you could script this better than I can but I'm just spitballing here.

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One of my all time favorite moments:

*THUMBS DOWN*


My favorite moment in the entire Evolution angle. Benoit defeated Triple H and Shawn at Mania and went on a near unstoppable run. Randy Orton wins a title shot and does the unthinkable: he succeeds where his mentor failed. Evolution was back on top... or so owe thought.

What followed was one of the most heart-wrenching betrayals ive seen and it put over Orton as a main event face INSTANTLY. Check out how brutal this looks and they way Triple H just looks like he wants to kill Orton. Like someone he KNOWS to be inferior to him is holding HIS belt. Its just, a thing of wrestling beauty.

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The one and only Underdog Millionaire and UCA CORPORATE Champion

In the interest of fairness, here's some love to a historically earth-shattering moment for a visionary company that in the end bit off a bit more than they could chew:

The Night the Line Was Crossed


Shane Douglas made a career out of this moment.

In 1994, the NWA was in shambles. They had left WCW, they had basically no affiliates left, they were starting from scratch, basically. So the NWA Board of Directors found a hot up-and-coming promotion in Philadelphia by the name of Eastern Championship Wrestling, and decided to begin again from there.

They held a tournament to crown a vacant NWA World Heavyweight Champion. That tournament was won by the reigning Eastern Championship Wrestling heavyweight champion, Shane Douglas. This is the point where, as far as the NWA Board of Directors knew, Shane was going to put over the title and proudly begin the era of NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling.

Needless to say, that didn't happen.

Shane Douglas and head booker Paul Heyman knew that this was bad business, that the NWA model no longer worked in the post-territorial '90s. So they concocted this swerve on the NWA representatives, to not only denounce them, but to build buzz for their own company.

And it worked. It worked more than anyone could have ever imagined.

This is the night Extreme was born.

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Speaking of ECW, here are some examples of Steve Austin going on television and demonstrating those same balls Realo alluded to earlier:



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Oh god I just clicked on the reaction to the DX-mocking-the-Nation segment.


King: "Can you do Owen's brother, Bret?"
Jason: <does Bret impression>
HBK: "Who the hell is that? Some midcarder?

LOL

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i had never seen that

thanks jakyl

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Oh.My.God.

XIII Thank you so damn much. I had totally forgotten about that moment. HBK is a top tier troll.

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One more quickie before I get ready to watch Impact:

Undertaker....I Can Beat You...


Basically the greatest video package WWE has ever put together from an artistic standpoint (qualifier there to avoid debate).

The End of Shawn Michaels is the only truly great story WWE has told from beginning to end since Evolution. There have been bigger moments. There have been better concepts. But somewhere along the way they always stumble.

Not this time.

This ain't Shakespeare.

But that doesn't mean it can't be Hemingway.

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Mick Foley is Good...At Putting Butts Into Seats

The two SICKEST pops I ever saw live.

1.When Austin showed up I swear to you I thought he was GOD. I thought he could do anything. The crowd felt the same way. People were jumping out of their seats just trying to get a look at him.

2.When Mick Foley won...life was better than it has ever been. It was so sweet, so perfect. We didn't care that the ending wasn't clean. Mick Foley was the champion of the world. Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy was the greatest champion in the world. We could have all died happy that night.


Well, wrestling historians would later mark this day as the beginning of the end for WCW. In an attempt to put their show over because they were live and WWE was taped, Tony Shciavone announced the ending of the match and said "that'll put some butts into seats".

Everyone switched over to watch it and boom, the WWF would never look back.

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This angle showed how Vince was always in touch with the times.

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I expect an essay from Jakyl on Eddie Guerrero's title win at Wrestlemania.

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eddie guerrero never won a title at wres-

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2.Feel free to post YOUR favorite moments. I expect an essay from Jakyl on Eddie Guerrero's title win at Wrestlemania.

Eddie Guerrero never won a title at Wrestlemania

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Mick Foley is Good...At Putting Butts Into Seats

The two SICKEST pops I ever saw live.

1.When Austin showed up I swear to you I thought he was GOD. I thought he could do anything. The crowd felt the same way. People were jumping out of their seats just trying to get a look at him.

2.When Mick Foley won...life was better than it has ever been. It was so sweet, so perfect. We didn't care that the ending wasn't clean. Mick Foley was the champion of the world. Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy was the greatest champion in the world. We could have all died happy that night.


Well, wrestling historians would later mark this day as the beginning of the end for WCW. In an attempt to put their show over because they were live and WWE was taped, Tony Shciavone announced the ending of the match and said "that'll put some butts into seats".

Everyone switched over to watch it and boom, the WWF would never look back.

Let's not forget what WCW countered with that night!

For hours, they advertised a Starrcade rematch, Nash defending against Goldberg!

Then they baited and switched that with an "Elizabeth frames Goldberg for stalking her" angle and replacing him with Hogan.

Then Nash vs. Hogan ends in a SWERVE~! via the fingerpoke of doom to reform a united nWo.

WWF gave everyone what they wanted that night.

WCW gave everyone...nothing they wanted that night.

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Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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Oh, and one of mine:



Loudest pop of all time.

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The Cult of Personality.

I'm not sure whether I should do my HBK videos spread out or if I should give them to you guys all at once. Shawn Michaels is the only wrestling DVD I own. I've seen it so many times that I can tell you what happens at every point in every match. He's the Michael Jordan of wrestling; the guy who made everyone around him better and was ALWAYS bigger when things mattered. That package was indeed perfect.

I'm sorry...I love you:

"You should not be sad. You should rejoice that I have had the greatest career in the history of professional wrestling".


5 years prior this, we had another Wrestlemania match featuring an old legend vs. a modern one. Both younger men carried the matches while the old men put on a clinic in showmanship and charisma.

The difference? Shawn Michaels loved Ric Flair. WE loved Ric Flair. We loved Ric Flair differently than we loved everyone else. He was It, the guy young wrestlers wanted to be like. He was charismatic, great on the mic, loved the business, wrestled in the feds, traveled the country and wrestled 2-3 times a night. The man who might as well have invented to 5 star match seeing as he owns about half of them. He gave us everything he had every night.

Shawn Michaels gave him everything he had this night. Shawn summersault into the table said everything words couldn't: I almost lost my career doing stuff like this but for you...for you Ric...I'd do anything.

I remember coming onto the Board after that match and we all felt the same way. It wasn't the best match ever but we would never forget it. We would alwaysremember how we felt. How Shawn's parting words reminded ALL OF US why we've spent so much time following these men. Why it means so much and why we can't explain it.

This is when I stopped watching wrestling because I had the cold realization things would never be this good again. Shawn would never be the same. Ric would inevitably come back somehow and ruin it. I didn't want this match tainted. I watched it last night and it still holds up. I still tear up.

Thank you, Ric. Thank you, Shawn.

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Realo won gold at the Sex Olympics with a BROKEN FRIGGIN NECK.-Voltch

sorry Chris, can't let you steal that one! that's one of my top 3 best moments ever on Raw!

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Realo won gold at the Sex Olympics with a BROKEN FRIGGIN NECK.-Voltch

Too bad, it has been STOLEN.

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The Cult of Personality.

it took goldberg so long to get back from that police station across the street from the arena

i actually watched wcw live that night and remember a lot of it (i was around 10 i guess?) but not the butts in seats line for some reason. i mean obviously i've heard of it, but i can't remember it from that night

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