Posts Tagged ‘Booker T’
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Here’s a really long and good article from reader, all about getting your push killed through no fault of your own.
Hey Scott, Bill Chase from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada here. Been a fan since I was 4, I'm now 27. Here's something I put together recently, I hope you enjoy.
Lugered, def:
(1) An invented wrestling term, where someone is hyped up so big for a major title win, and then it doesen't happen derailing momentum to epic amounts of failure.
(2) Derived from wrestler, Lex Luger.
(3) Triple H has "Lugered" more people than anyone.
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Tags: 1994, 2000, Batista, Booker T, Bret Hart, Canada, Chris Jericho, ECW, Edge, Elimination Chamber, Goldberg, HHH, Hulk Hogan, JBL, John Cena, Lex Luger, Lost, Macho Man, Matt Hardy, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, NWA, NWO, Politics, Randy Orton, RAW, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Rob Van Dam, Royal Rumble, RVD, Shane McMahon, Shawn Michaels, Smackdown, Starrcade, Steve Austin, Sting, Terry Funk, The Rock, TNA, Toronto, TV, Undertaker, WCW, Wrestlemania, WWE, WWF
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Back to regular roman numerals. First Wrestlemania of the brand extension. Last Rock-Austin encounter, HBK's Wrestlemania return. And it wasn't a bad event although it probably doesn't get the love it deserves since both guys in the main event match are no longer with the company.
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Tags: 2000, Booker T, Chris Jericho, HHH, Lost, Michael Cole, RAW, Shawn Michaels, Smackdown, Steve Austin, The Rock, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWE, WWF
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
The SmarK Retro Rant for WWE Royal Rumble 2006
- Live from Miami, FL.
- Your hosts are Joey & King & Tazz & Cole
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Tags: 24, Booker T, Carlito, Edge, HHH, House, Impact, JBL, Joey Styles, John Cena, Lita, Matt Hardy, Michael Cole, Mickie James, Nitro, Randy Orton, RAW, Retro Rant, Ric Flair, Rob Van Dam, Royal Rumble, RVD, Shawn Michaels, Shelton Benjamin, Smackdown, Sting, TNA, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWE
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
The SmarK Rant for WWE Royal Rumble 2005
- Live from Fresno, CA.
- Your hosts are JR, King, Cole and Tazz.
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Tags: 24, Batista, Booker T, DDP, Edge, Heroes, HHH, House, JBL, John Cena, Politics, Randy Orton, RAW, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, Shelton Benjamin, Smackdown, Steve Austin, Sting, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWE
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
The SmarK Rant for Royal Rumble 2004
- Live from Philly.
- Your hosts are JR, King, Coach, Cole & Tazz in various combinations.
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Tags: 24, Attitude, Batista, Booker T, Chris Jericho, DVD, Goldberg, HHH, House, John Cena, Locke, Matt Hardy, Miz, MMA, Philly, Randy Orton, RAW, Ric Flair, Royal Rumble, RVD, Shawn Michaels, Shelton Benjamin, Smackdown, Sting, TV, Undertaker, Wrestlemania
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
- Live from Boston, which rhymes with Austin. Is this a sign of his impending return? STAY TUNED!
- Your hosts are JR & King & Cole & Tazz.
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Tags: 24, Attitude, Batista, Booker T, Chris Jericho, Edge, HHH, House, Jeff Hardy, John Cena, Locke, Lost, Matt Hardy, MMA, Montreal, No Way Out, RAW, Royal Rumble, RVD, Sacrifice, Shelton Benjamin, Smackdown, Sting, Ultimate Warrior, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWE
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
The SmarK Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 2002
- Live from the Underwater City of Atlanta.
- Your hosts are JR & The King.
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Tags: 24, Booker T, Canada, Chris Jericho, DDP, Dusty Rhodes, Edge, HHH, I Quit, Intercontinental title, Lita, Locke, Matt Hardy, Nitro, RAW, Ric Flair, Royal Rumble, RVD, Smackdown, Steve Austin, The Rock, TV, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, WCW, WWF
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Something I would like your opinion on: Given that it's been revealed after the fact that Kevin Sullivan and company, were planning on Chris Benoit only having the WCW World Championship belt for a short time, due to Sullivan wanting to get the belt on Sid ASAP and have Sid basically beat everyone in WCW in order to build up Sid Vs Golberg once Golberg came back from his injury, why couldn't they have done the same with Benoit?
They could have had Benoit as the big heal champion, complete with dissolving the NWO and bringing back the Four Horsemen with Flair as Benoit's manager and Malenko/Guerrero/Saturn as the other members of the Horsemen. Flair as a manager could have negated the issue of Benoit needing someone to do his interviews for him and I'm pretty sure Benoit/Golberg could have made for a decent enough feud to keep the company going in 2000.
Have Hogan, Nash, Hall, Sid, Jarret lose to Benoit to get him over as champion and maybe even go the "retirement" angle of Benoit "crippling" them after he beats them, to get them off canvas in the event they threw a hissy fit after losing. Not to mention pushing Booker T and Rey Mysterio Jr. as challengers as well. And since Benoit and Golberg, IIRC, had never fought before, there would be some nice hype for that dream match of sorts.
Given everything that happened, Benoit as the company's top heel could have been gold. Same with the return of the Four Horsemen as uber-heels, as they would have had WAY more credibility than a third-rate retred of the New World Order. Granted, given how things were at the time when Benoit won the belt, you'd have to do some major league cosmic reset button pushing to move things into alignment, but it would have worked out quite well for them and kept WCW relevant.
The thing is, the damage was done. There was nothing they were going to be able to do that was going to undo what happened in 1999, and by the end of the year the company was dead no matter what anyway, so it’s all rather pointless to speculate about. Benoit in a promotion with Kevin Sullivan as booker was never going to get a fair chance as champion. Frankly at that point it wouldn’t have been fair to him to put that on his shoulders anyway.
Tags: 2000, Booker T, Four Horsemen, NWO, WCW
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
The Captain Hindsight Retro Review of WWF Invasion 2001
By red29 (redw29@gmail.com)
With the decade nearing a close and since I have been collecting wrestling DVDs at a pace like the movie 2012 is real and it is my job to archive professional wrestling for all of mankind, I wanted to take a look back and re-watch the pay-per-views of arguably the biggest storyline flop this decade– the Invasion. So I fired up the Amazon Marketplace and found new original copies of the Invasion (very easy actually), Summerslam, Unforgiven, No Mercy and Rebellion (hey, why not?) shows. I’m still shopping for Survivor Series 2001 and may have to settle for the future Anthology version much to my chagrin (the extras and non blurring may change my mind though).
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Tags: 24, Batman, Booker T, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Coalition, DDP, DVD, ECW, Edge, Gmail, Goldberg, Jeff Hardy, Lita, Michael Cole, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, Raven, RAW, Rob Van Dam, RVD, Shane McMahon, Smackdown, Steve Austin, Sting, TNA, TV, Undertaker, Vader, Vince McMahon, WCW, WCW Sucks, Wrestlemania, WWE, WWF
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Scott,
Did you check out the match list for WWE: History of the World Heavyweight Championship
?
There are some real winners here: Flair v. Magnum from the AWA Superclash, Rock & Jericho from no Mercy and Angle v. Undertaker from No Way Out a few years back... and some real stinkers like Luger v. Windham from Bash '91 (I hope they leave the original audio intact), Jeff Jarrett v. Booker T, and HHH v. RVD from Unforgiven '02. They also have some matches form the 60s and 70s, but I'm betting it'll just be clips or something.
Anyway, thoughts? I mean, Rock/Jericho on DVD is a MUST BUY, and so is Flair/Magnum.
Match quality looks pretty great and it’s interesting mix of stuff from a style standpoint, but what the FUCK are they doing with the lineage? The Smackdown title now represents the NWA World title, the WCW World title, the WWE version of the WCW World title from 2001, AND the current “World heavyweight title”? People still have trouble with the WCW-NWA split in 1991, this set is just going to needlessly confuse things even more.
Tags: 24, Booker T, DVD, Google, HHH, Jeff Jarrett, No Way Out, NWA, RVD, Smackdown, Sting, Undertaker, WCW, WWE
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