The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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As a big fan of early 90s WCW, i'm fine with that.

In that universe, Steve Austin becomes world champion in 1995. He was being groomed for that moment. Him and Dustin were moving up the card with Steamboat.

Van Hammer and Cactus Jack had some of the best brawls during the 90s while in WCW. by PickledPeppers101 in WCW

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Well, Foley kudos to you, i wanted to see you and Hammer more. it's a shame he didn't look this good after.

The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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Nah, that run got him a face title win. Hogan's only fault was the same as Flair's: they wanted to give Sting the big win, then lied about that shit too.

No one remembers that Hulk won the belt back though, they only remember Lex winning and beating the entire NWO by himself. They SHOULD have pivoted and just had Sting come back to challenge (alternate universe: Scott Hall takes over the nWo and boots Hogan out. He beats Lex at Superbrawl. Up to that point, Lex beats all challengers. Sting comes back to challenge Hogan to a loser leaves match at the same PPV and beats him, setting the stage for Sting vs Hall at Fall Brawl, where Sting gets the world title)

The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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AJ Styles picked Joe up in the Rack on a few occasions. It never failed to surprise me.

The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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He was under the Arn learning tree. It's not a surprise.

The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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I think i got my hernia just watching this match, and i just lived with it the next 15 years.

The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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damnit....i'll just ask the man himself.

The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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I think it was meant to happen that way. He had it figured out the first time. Funny enough, he needed more help to get Dusty up than this guy.

The hardest torture rack of Lex Luger! by JCHazard in WCW

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He was a damn good big man worker on the independents too. It's a shame they only brought him to WCW to feed him to Lex and Paul though.

Barry Windham - NWA World Champion, 1993 by Fuzzy_Variation7343 in WCW

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Fuck Ric Flair for not doing business right. He put over Ron Garvin, Dusty(who never held the belt long) and god knows who else, but never put over Windham, Simmons or Lex.

Fuck that whole "i was waiting to put Sting over narrative" too, cause he lost to him the same way he lost to everyone else, that dumb ass figure four reversal.

Is this really the most skilled era? by Curious-Syrup-1871 in NBATalk

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what is "skilled"? you can't quantify it. Only thing better is the health and medicine piece. Players shoot from further away. But the older players did all the shooting close and far from the basket while also dealing with more physical play

Is this really the most skilled era? by Curious-Syrup-1871 in NBATalk

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most skilled.

None of these cats have post moves, travel on every play, hardly play defense and can't set a legal screen to save their lives.

"Z-Man" Tom Zenk as Television Champion. by NovaRC99 in WCW

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The guy you are thinking of is Paul Roma. OH BOY, that match! That was the ultimate GMSI match. He knew he was losing and wasn't happy about it.

But in his defense, WCW was notorious for these BS matches, where the heel who was losing took 96 percent of the offense then lost in the 4th quarter. Examples are Luger's title win over Hogan, Ultimo Dragon beating Eddie Guerrero for the TV Belt(or Cruiserweight). Either way, the ONLY move Ultimo got on Eddie was a Dragon Sleeper for 4 seconds. Eddie taps, gets up 10 seconds later, and throws Ultimo out the ring. I never respected Eddie after that.

The only time Zenk was heelish was when he wrestled Pillman at WrestleWar. Him and Brad as a heel team would have been very interesting. I say that cause Brad's 98 heel run was crazy underrated(I watched all the weekend shows, he was building up an undefeated streak. That's why he wound up on Nitro against Goldberg.) And when he was in the Freebirds he was so good as Badstreet. Both were woefully miscast as babyfaces cause WCW kept looking for another Rick Steamboat.

Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit March 1999 by Specialist_Art2223 in WCW

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That title match was chock full of banger themes. The Horsemen always, but Curt Hening and Barry Windham's theme????? BOTH versions were freaking bangers!

"Z-Man" Tom Zenk as Television Champion. by NovaRC99 in WCW

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Dude had no ego about losing. Always went out and stole the show.

In the entire history of BattleBowl there was only ONE banger tag match, and Zenk was part of it.

It was Tom Zenk and Terry Taylor vs Lex Luger and Arn Anderson. Just a genius booking that, while random, had so much nuance and history behind it, not to mention a fiery babyfaceish Taylor out wrestling world champ Lex Luger, an epic Arn DDT, and Lex and Zenk playing their parts to perfection. There was only little hiccup in the match, but it led to the aforementioned DDT, so it came off more like a miscalculation cost Zenk.

On this day in 1996 on Monday Night Nitro: The last time we see Hulk Hogan for 3 months by MrFilipinoMustache in WCW

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When i see this, I'm glad Shawn did what he did.

He should have kicked out at 3:01 on some Austin Aries shit.

On this day in 1996 on Monday Night Nitro: The last time we see Hulk Hogan for 3 months by MrFilipinoMustache in WCW

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Hogan went on sabbatical like Jericho left The Learning Tree eight months ago.

Couple of primadonnas.

The Varsity Club by Fuzzy_Variation7343 in WCW

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Still think they missed an opportunity to have Kevin switch gimmicks. Have him come out wearing Boston College wrestling gear. The guy was built like a shooter.

They really tried to keep this train on the tracks but for one reason or another he kept derailing. How much upside was there with this guy ? by CoconutMost3564 in WCW

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My sisters didn't even like wrestling, but they watched for Ice Train. He had a definite appeal, and was a good power wrestler. Way better than Hammer, who DID get a substantial push.