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Post by Brad on Mar 24, 2017 10:31:30 GMT -5
At the very start of the 2009 Draft R-A-W, John and Wai can't figure out why they even picked this time period to review, Wai thinking it had to be for Shawn vs. Taker. But actually they had posed the question of what Mania to review on twitter back on February 8th. Just as a side note, I voted for WrestleMania 2.
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Post by Christian Small on Mar 25, 2017 3:16:06 GMT -5
After the Money Inc./Mega Maniacs match (on the Wrestlemania 9 edition of Review-a-Wai) Wai says "This is the first year Hogan hasn't main evented." and John replies "Is it?". John is correct on 2 counts although I believe he was only thinking of one. I believe John was referring to the fact Hogan would close 9 beating Yokozuna for the WWF title at the end of the show but he could have also been referring to Mania 4 were the main event was Savage vs. DiBiase for the vacant title. Regardless in both cases Hogan was not actually advertised as being part of the main event on either show but would force his way in as at 4 he would come out to help Savage win.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Apr 6, 2017 21:12:20 GMT -5
During the April 5th edition of Review-A-Smackdown, John recalls that Todd Phillips said that "warriors respect warriors" after AJ and Shane patched things up.
JBL was the one who said it. But don't take my word for it - jump to 2:35 of the clip:
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Post by Christian Small on Apr 12, 2017 8:58:32 GMT -5
During the Royal Rumble 1991 edition of Review-a-Wai Wai asks if Hulk Hogan has ever entered before the number 20 and John is not sure. Hogan was part of 4 rumble matches and the earliest number he'd enter at is 18, in 1989. He would enter at 25, 24 and 26 the next 3 years.
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Post by Christian Small on Apr 21, 2017 6:31:04 GMT -5
On the Starrcade 1988 edition of Review-a-Wai John talks about Bam Bam Bigelow appearing at both that years Wrestlemania & Starrcade also noting that Jeff Jarrett did the same in 99, he then jokily says "Someone else will let us know the others". Well don't worry John, I've got you. In terms of wrestlers who appeared at Wrestlemania and Starrcade of the same year: -Arn Anderson wrestled at Wrestlemania V and then appeared at the 89 Starrcade (he didn't compete) -John Tenta worked as Earthquake at X and as Avalanche at Starrcade 94 -Kevin Nash & Roddy Piper both worked 12 and Starrcade in 96, with Piper actually headlining the Starrcade -The Harris Brothers kind of fit this as the worked the pre-show battle royal at 15 but did get on the main card of Starrcade 99. They went from DOA to Creative Control -Someone who did actually work on both main shows in 99 was Goldust aka Dustin Rhodes
Another interesting list is guys who worked a Starrcade and then the next years wrestlemania, which I find more impressive as it meant WWE trusted these guys really early on. That list is: -Ricky Steamboat who worked Starrcade 84 and then the very first Mania -Big Show who put over DDP at Starrcade 98 and then was made to look like at idiot against Mankind at 15 (proving my trust point wrong) -The final 3 were the Radicals. Malenko, Saturn and Benoit worked Starrcade 99 and Wrestlemania 2000.
As an added fact Benoit is the only man who worked in title matches on both shows and leave as a champion on both shows. Jarrett would successfully defend the tag titles with Owen Hart at 15 and then lose a US title ladder match to Benoit. Bam Bam would have technically been contending for a title at Wrestlemania 4 as he was in the tournament to crown a new WWF champ and he did challenge Barry Windham for the US title on that show, failing in both.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on Apr 21, 2017 19:41:32 GMT -5
On the Starrcade 1988 edition of Review-a-Wai John talks about Bam Bam Bigelow appearing at both that years Wrestlemania & Starrcade also noting that Jeff Jarrett did the same in 99, he then jokily says "Someone else will let us know the others". Well don't worry John, I've got you. In terms of wrestlers who appeared at Wrestlemania and Starrcade of the same year: -Arn Anderson wrestled at Wrestlemania V and then appeared at the 89 Starrcade (he didn't compete) -John Tenta worked as Earthquake at X and as Avalanche at Starrcade 94 -Kevin Nash & Roddy Piper both worked 12 and Starrcade in 96, with Piper actually headlining the Starrcade -The Harris Brothers kind of fit this as the worked the pre-show battle royal at 15 but did get on the main card of Starrcade 99. They went from DOA to Creative Control -Someone who did actually work on both main shows in 99 was Goldust aka Dustin Rhodes Another interesting list is guys who worked a Starrcade and then the next years wrestlemania, which I find more impressive as it meant WWE trusted these guys really early on. That list is: -Ricky Steamboat who worked Starrcade 84 and then the very first Mania -Big Show who put over DDP at Starrcade 98 and then was made to look like at idiot against Mankind at 15 (proving my trust point wrong) -The final 3 were the Radicals. Malenko, Saturn and Benoit worked Starrcade 99 and Wrestlemania 2000. As an added fact Benoit is the only man who worked in title matches on both shows and leave as a champion on both shows. Jarrett would successfully defend the tag titles with Owen Hart at 15 and then lose a US title ladder match to Benoit. Bam Bam would have technically been contending for a title at Wrestlemania 4 as he was in the tournament to crown a new WWF champ and he did challenge Barry Windham for the US title on that show, failing in both. A fact-checking tour de force, Christian. Exceptional.
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Post by rocketking on Apr 22, 2017 5:15:51 GMT -5
Great work on the list above. I have one true addition and one nit-picky one:
Lex Luger worked Wrestlemania XI (went over the Blu Brothers with Davey Boy Smith) and Starrcade 1995 (went over Masahiro Chono). And if you want to count Bret Hart's triumphant WCW debut as a special referee (which I don't), he was an "on-screen performer" at both Wrestlemania 13 and Starrcade 1997.
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Post by Christian Small on Apr 22, 2017 10:50:30 GMT -5
Great work on the list above. I have one true addition and one nit-picky one: Lex Luger worked Wrestlemania XI (went over the Blu Brothers with Davey Boy Smith) and Starrcade 1995 (went over Masahiro Chono). And if you want to count Bret Hart's triumphant WCW debut as a special referee (which I don't), he was an "on-screen performer" at both Wrestlemania 13 and Starrcade 1997. Thanks for the additions. I'd count Bret as well. I counted Arn for Starrcade 89 and he was just out with Flair during the Round Robin tournament. If anything Bret had a bigger role than Arn did in their situations.
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Post by Pollock's Nerd Rage on May 1, 2017 4:30:36 GMT -5
"Shibata has to have another surgery in a couple of weeks to have a portion of his brain put back in." - John Pollock (April 30, 2017 edition of Live Audio Wrestling)
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Post by jmtempleton on May 5, 2017 11:14:30 GMT -5
On the May the Fourth episode of whtsNXT, Jason describes his encounter with a possum. Jason almost certainly saw an opossum. Possum's are endemic to Australia, while Opossum's are native to North and South America. Opossums are are the only marsupials extant in the new world. So unless what Jason saw was a possum that escaped from a zoo, it was an opossum.
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Post by Christian Small on May 13, 2017 7:42:29 GMT -5
On the Wrestlemania 3 edition of Review-a-Wai, Wai asks if any wrestlers have ever "covered" the Steamboat/Savage match from that card and then talks about how he thinks it would be a fun idea to use. While it may not be Savage/Steamboat I came across this other infamous Savage match that was "covered" in ROH.
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Post by Hacksaw Jim Powers on May 13, 2017 16:29:12 GMT -5
During the WWE Judgment Day 2004 edition of Review-A-Wai, our heroes are discussing the alarming amount of blood in the main event. John mentions that wrestlers used to use Tylenol to thin their blood and make their bleeding more profuse and dramatic.
Aspirin is the over-the-counter blood-thinning medication that John was searching for, not Tylenol.
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Post by jmtempleton on May 15, 2017 11:16:12 GMT -5
This isn't a correction of John and Wai so much as it is a correction of Vince McMahon.
On the May 10 episode of Review-a-SmackDown, John and Wai mock Vince's directive to the commentators to use the word "abscond" instead of "steal". What makes this worse, is that the commentators use the word improperly. "Abscond" is an intransitive verb. You must use it with a preposition. Therefore you can't "abscond the title"; you would "abscond with the title".
So not only does Vince McMahon not understand basic mathematics (ie: how anniversaries work), he can't even speak English properly.
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Post by jmtempleton on May 15, 2017 11:25:12 GMT -5
On the May 12 episode of Keep it 2000, Brian states that on one season of Survivor, they split the cast up into two tribes -one black, one white- but had to change it up a few weeks in and mix up the tribes due to a public outcry.
This is not accurate. The autumn 2006 season, "Survivor: Cook Islands" began with four tribes organized by ethnicity: one black, one white, one Hispanic, and one East Asian. They did mix up the tribes a few weeks in, but this was taped months before it aired, so it wasn't a response to the public controversy the show generated.
And for the record, an East Asian man won. 2nd place was a Hispanic man, 3rd was an East Asian woman, and 4th was an African-American woman.
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Post by chux4w on May 18, 2017 20:08:16 GMT -5
This isn't a correction of John and Wai so much as it is a correction of Vince McMahon. On the May 10 episode of Review-a-SmackDown, John and Wai mock Vince's directive to the commentators to use the word "abscond" instead of "steal". What makes this worse, is that the commentators use the word improperly. "Abscond" is an intransitive verb. You must use it with a preposition. Therefore you can't "abscond the title"; you would "abscond with the title". So not only does Vince McMahon not understand basic mathematics (ie: how anniversaries work), he can't even speak English properly. Not to mention the fact that a title is a name, not a physical object that you can steal. Same for championship, that's the condition of being a champion, you can't steal a state of being. He didn't abscond the title, he stole the belt.
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