#36

sting actually invented the bcu (boneyard cinematic universe)

(liked both guys but this was shiiiiiiiiiiiit)

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#37

Just reading up on Stings career ending injury.
Piledrivers are a banned move in wwe?

#38

Yeah with few exceptions (Taker, Kane, HHH)

But you’re unlikely to see any of those 3 crack one out more than once or twice in their lifetime now tbf so it’s now truly banned.

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#39

Seth Rollins has a bit of previous, some people think he’s a little unsafe - injuring Sting caused them to very heavily limit powerbombs particularly into the corners, which wasn’t really a terrible thing because they were getting extremely overused.

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#40

I think he would have been a weird fit at that time, they were going in a more grounded direction - Taker being a normal guy, Kane unmasking, guys like Lesnar and Angle on top. Dunno how he would have made the character work.

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#41

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#42

Yeah after Owen broke Austin’s neck I think? There’s one in a Punk Cena match on raw in like 2012 which everyone lost their shit over

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#43

Remember when Sid and someone else had a tagteam called Masters of The Powerbomb?
How times change!

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#44

woah woah woah, sid is the someone else in that team pal

(it was with vader)

#45

Thats LORD Vader to you
Phone rings with angry Disney lawyer at other end
Er I mean Big Van Vader

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#46

just seemed deeply uncool to me

#47

wcw always seemed like the rubbish also-ran wrestling thing, their wrestlers seemed cheesier and all the videogames were worse

#48

Whilst I mostly agree with this WCW vs NWO World Tour (or whatever it was called) on the N64 was the start of the excellent N64 wrestling games.

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#49

didn’t have an N64 but really enjoyed the first few smackdown games on PS1

#50

Up there for me as the best wrestling games I’ve played. Although Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain was also very good.

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#51

decided to downgrade to a 4, While he was amazing between 89-93 (like Steiner) he never really fully re-captured that magic once Hogan turns up and stinks out WCW in '94. Sure, Crow Sting is one of the best gimmicks and looks of all time, and the build to that Hogan match is one of the best ever, but then the match itself happens. It’s not really Sting’s fault, but he didn’t actually have that many great matches on the look and gimmick he carried for the rest of his career.

#52

It was objectively shit but I have such fond memories of Backstage Assault , plsying that as a kid on Xmas day

Remember Mayhem having a stacked roster too, can’t remember anything of the game though

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#53

didn’t it have quite fun loading/select screens?

#54

relatedly, really enjoyed this crawlthrough all the major wrestling video game franchises by Matt McMuscles

#55

I’m not sure, I remember the entrances just being the video for a bit and the wrestler turning up to pose before you were then in a bathroom vs Vampiro or something

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