Everyone else here watching Dark Side of the Ring?
So good.
The Brawl for All one was a great watch. What a trainwreck. Bart Gunn was one of my fave wrestlers back then, too. Glad he had an awesome career in Japan after that.
Yeah and Cornette is making mileage over Russo's role in it. Gunn was lucky he wasn't brain damaged in that fight with Butterbean, I remember watching it live and cringing through it.
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It's amazing how much Butterbean, in that episode, was like... this really wasn't a good idea to fight me. Sounds like he was sympathetic to how much of a trainwreck this tournament was and didn't want to see Bart Gunn get hurt at all. But he still had a job to do. He basically put Gunn out of his misery with that last punch for mercy purposes.
#### WWE for burying Bart Gunn like that. Dude won that tournament fair and square, and wasn't even given a chance to start an angle with Austin as promised. How do you know what you have if you don't give them the ball to run with? That's classic WWE for you.
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It's amazing how much Butterbean, in that episode, was like... this really wasn't a good idea to fight me. Sounds like he was sympathetic to how much of a trainwreck this tournament was and didn't want to see Bart Gunn get hurt at all. But he still had a job to do. He basically put Gunn out of his misery with that last punch for mercy purposes.
#### WWE for burying Bart Gunn like that. Dude won that tournament fair and square, and wasn't even given a chance to start an angle with Austin as promised. How do you know what you have if you don't give them the ball to run with? That's classic WWE for you.
I don't think there was ever a real promise of a winner vs Austin program, the bottom line was Dr Death was being built for that program and it was expected that he would win the tournament because he was considered to be that tough. Instead all that happened is a bunch of Wrestlers got hurt.
Here's the fight between JBL and Gunn, you can see that Bart had a whole other level of punching power then anyone else in that stupid tournmanet, and JBL realized that after the first knock down, and he was clearly out cold in the second one
It was a stupid tournament and a typical Russo disaster. Wrestlers ain't fighters. Butterbean and we can make fun of a lot of things with him, legitimately was a trained fighter with a vicious knockout power punch, and yeah it was a mercy kill
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Well it didn't take long for Nia Jax to come back and hurt somebody. You can hear Sane screaming at her that she wasn't set, and Nia didn't care, that could have been far worse.
The only reason why she's still wrestling is that she's part of the Somoa clan, and that she'd whine to the Rock like she did a couple of years ago.
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I don't think there was ever a real promise of a winner vs Austin program, the bottom line was Dr Death was being built for that program and it was expected that he would win the tournament because he was considered to be that tough. Instead all that happened is a bunch of Wrestlers got hurt.
Here's the fight between JBL and Gunn, you can see that Bart had a whole other level of punching power then anyone else in that stupid tournmanet, and JBL realized that after the first knock down, and he was clearly out cold in the second one
It was a stupid tournament and a typical Russo disaster. Wrestlers ain't fighters. Butterbean and we can make fun of a lot of things with him, legitimately was a trained fighter with a vicious knockout power punch, and yeah it was a mercy kill
Watching those two clips almost made my physically ill. A fighter basically out on his feet, unable to defend himself and the fight continues in both cases.
JBL should have thrown in the towel after he was knocked down the first time, when you look at him staring at Gunn you could see him going "Oh shyte" He suddenly realized that it was for real.
I took boxing in my teen years and even though we had to wear the amateur head gear and all of that, I remember fighting a kid just a sparring match, but he had legit punching power, and the first time he tagged me, I went, nope not ready for this.
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Well it didn't take long for Nia Jax to come back and hurt somebody. You can hear Sane screaming at her that she wasn't set, and Nia didn't care, that could have been far worse.
The only reason why she's still wrestling is that she's part of the Somoa clan, and that she'd whine to the Rock like she did a couple of years ago.
Yikes... How could any professional organization let someone screw up this much and this often?
JBL should have thrown in the towel after he was knocked down the first time, when you look at him staring at Gunn you could see him going "Oh shyte" He suddenly realized that it was for real.
Yeah true enough, except that the story Russo told about him doing this and JBL being a backstage bully at the time was bullshyte. At that time JBL was still relatively junior in the business and hadn't gone to his bullying ways til much later.
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Its always scary when someone goes down like that and they convulse.
When you look at JBL after the first knockdown and the ref is asking if he was ok, JBL didn't answer and looked dazed, the Ref really should have stopped it right there.
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No WWE 2K21 this year which isn't really a bad thing with how much of a mess 2K20 ended up being.
I wish they would do what EA did with UFC and only release a new game every 2-3 years, have free roster updates, and only do paid DLC for legends and fantasy characters.
JBL should have thrown in the towel after he was knocked down the first time, when you look at him staring at Gunn you could see him going "Oh shyte" He suddenly realized that it was for real.
I took boxing in my teen years and even though we had to wear the amateur head gear and all of that, I remember fighting a kid just a sparring match, but he had legit punching power, and the first time he tagged me, I went, nope not ready for this.
This was actually me with amateur wrestling. I was actually pretty decent but I was short and fat, so I got tossed into a weight class I didn't belong in and got my head slammed into the mat a bunch.
Cap and others - if you haven't watched this match between Samoa Joe and Kenta Kobashi in 2005 in ROH, you're missing out. This has to be one of the best documented Hoss fights available, and one of the marked point in wrestling history that brought the new era of athletic strong style to North America to a new audience.
The crowd is wild hot all night, and some of the back story from this is that Kobashi was asking Joe before the match if he should do the "heel Japanese invader" thing and didn't think anyone would know who he was. Joe just chuckled and reminded him to do this thing, the crowd will know he is and let him know.
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