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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 14, 2012 5:24:20 GMT -5
During the Royal Rumble 1999 Review-A-Wai, Wai asks John how long Shane had been on WWF TV. John said that he'd been featured on WWF programming for about six months prior to the Rumble.
Shane debuted as a referee around 1990 for a brief period of time, and then appeared very sporadically and occasionally in backstage segments, like pull-apart brawls and such.
He became a regular on WWF TV during the Austin/McMahon feud. His first words on Raw took place on October 26, 1998:
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 14, 2012 7:32:14 GMT -5
During the 1988 Royal Rumble Review-A-Wai, John and Wai are discussing how Ricky Steamboat was tapping out to a submission applied by Rick Rude, but that tapouts did not result in a submission victory before Kurt Angle and the ankle lock submission. Tapout submissions first made their way into pro wrestling (in North America, at least) courtesy of ECW and Taz's Tazmission, as early as 1995. In the WWF, the first such instance was with Ken Shamrock's ankle lock submission hold in 1997. Here's a clip of Shawn Michaels tapping out to the ankle lock applied by Shamrock in December 1997 - while sucking on a lollipop the whole time. www.dailymotion.com/video/x68fs4_raw-12-01-97-14_sport
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 14, 2012 9:50:00 GMT -5
During the 1988 Royal Rumble edition of Review-A-Wai, recorded in January 2010, John predicts that Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan will have left TNA by May of that year.
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Post by Jay Hunter on Nov 14, 2012 10:53:34 GMT -5
Yep...If you listened to the shows following the 88 Rumble review, Pollock was inundated with people citing Shamrock and Taz. lol at the retroactive fact-checking.
You're picking John up on PREDICTIONS now? C'mon!
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 14, 2012 14:20:48 GMT -5
Fleshing out the thread. There's no malice, Jay. Relax.
EDIT: The Hogan/Bischoff thing isn't really a fact-check. I just thought it was funny that they're still around. That isn't clear in what I posted, so I apologize for that.
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Post by Jay Hunter on Nov 14, 2012 14:31:21 GMT -5
Ah yeah. I just think there should be a line drawn for non-facts in a fact-checking thread!
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 14, 2012 14:33:07 GMT -5
Understood. I couldn't help myself when there was an opening to bash Hogan and Bischoff's recent creative work.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 14, 2012 15:28:03 GMT -5
During the 1998 King of the Ring edition of Review-A-Wai, John is telling a hilarious story of how his Boy Scout group would squeeze mushrooms into their faces, and how it reminded him of Jurassic Park where Newman was hit in the face with velociraptor venom. The actual name for that freaky dinosaur with the frilled neck and projectile venom is the dilophosaurus.
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Post by bitetheasp on Nov 14, 2012 18:56:35 GMT -5
Is that what Jeff Hardy's title is supposed to look like? The "Here's Goop in Your Eye" Title?
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 15, 2012 14:02:47 GMT -5
In the Starrcade '90 edition of Review-A-Wai, John has a problem with Jim Ross saying that Masa/Mister Saito wrestled in the Tokyo Olympics, since the Tokyo Olympics don't exist, and Saito actually competed at the real Olympics, probably sometime in the 1970s.
In actuality, Masa Saito competed for Japan in freestyle wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 17, 2012 8:57:38 GMT -5
During the Bash At The Beach '96 edition of Review-A-Wai (featuring Agnew and Lovranski), there is some debate as to who was supposed to be the third Outsider before it ended up being Hulk Hogan.
Lovranski believes that Lex Luger was the original plan, while Agnew believes it was Sting, and Wai mentions the British Bulldog, Davey Boy Smith.
There have been several versions of the story. One popular version may have originated from the WWE Legends of Wrestling roundtable show, which identifies Luger as the original plan.
However, the primary authority on this has to be Eric Bischoff, and in his book (Controversy Creates Cash), he tells of how the original plan was for Sting to be the big surprise, but once Hogan heard about the plan, he proffered that if he did it, it would be an even bigger surprise, but he had to think about it.
At that point, it was Hogan's spot if he wanted it, but Sting would wait in the wings if Hogan decided against it. The weekend of the pay-per-view, Hogan decided he was willing to turn heel.
Since it took so long for a final decision to be made, it made it less likely for the news to leak before the event. Bischoff also didn't tell the announcers who it would be.
Luger being taken out early in the match perhaps teased that he might be the third man.
The British Bulldog was rumoured to be the proposed fourth member of the group, but that obviously never panned out.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 17, 2012 9:08:02 GMT -5
During the 1995 Fall Brawl Review-A-Wai, it is unknown as to who trained Marc Mero, AKA Johnny B. Badd.
He was trained by the Malenkos.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 17, 2012 11:55:48 GMT -5
During the 1995 Halloween Havoc Review-A-Wai, John and Wai get a kick out of some of DDP's moves, with such names as the Diamond Dream and the pancake.
Only thing is the pancake wasn't a DDP exclusive, but rather another (somewhat less common) name for a flapjack.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 17, 2012 11:57:08 GMT -5
During the Halloween Havoc '98 Review-A-Wai, the hosts mention how often they referred to Horace Hogan as Hollywood Hogan's "dead brother's nephew".
Horace is actually Hogan's nephew, since he is his late brother's son.
It should be noted that John does correctly refer to him as his "dead brother's son" late in the podcast.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Nov 17, 2012 13:13:18 GMT -5
It's only appropriate that my 100th post is about Judy Bagwell. During the Halloween Havoc '98 Review-A-Wai, the guys watch Rick Steiner win the tag titles essentially by himself, after Buff Bagwell turned on him during the championship match. John says that Judy Bagwell would become his partner and co-champion, which is....half-true? Kenny Kaos was officially Steiner's partner and the other half of the tag champs, but that night on Nitro where Judy Bagwell wore the tag belt over her sweater, Kaos was selling an injury after a beatdown by Scott Steiner and Buff Bagwell. The complete details are here: droptoehold.com/post/25871954973/bagwell-steinerWCW, man......
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