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04-21-2009, 02:07 AM | #4561 | |
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He was really one of the first people to stand up to the nWo, though. They kept teasing the turn for months and months, slowly building towards it, and in the end he rejected them (until everyone was in one of the fifty nWo factions), turned face, feuded with Savage for what felt like years, and got super over as a lanky guy who had tons of charisma and kept taking beatings from heels. The slow burn had literally been going on for like six months at this point, in January '97:
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04-21-2009, 02:15 AM | #4562 |
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He was largely helped by his friendship with Bischoff, which led to him getting pushed. How he stayed over? I have no idea. Maybe it was the succinctness of his name and his finisher.
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04-21-2009, 02:55 AM | #4563 |
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I always wondered if his mullet and general white trash appeal helped him immensely in staying over...
Even I found myself enjoying DDP for awhile...and yes his finisher was very cool, still better than the RKO. |
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04-21-2009, 02:56 AM | #4564 |
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Blasphemy.
Orton gets 5 feet off the ground and has a lagging snap when he executes the move. DDP just kind of fell down with it. It was like a rear facelock into a collapse. Orton may not have invented the Ace Crusher, but he perfected it.
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04-21-2009, 03:00 AM | #4565 |
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Sure he jumps higher but what made DDP's cooler was the 8 million different ways he'd hit it. He literally put everything he had into really making that "you never saw it coming line" true.
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04-21-2009, 03:02 AM | #4566 | |
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It's not like Orton hasn't hit it from a series of chain wrestling moves, reversals, and counters.
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04-21-2009, 03:04 AM | #4567 |
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I watched some shoot with DDP where he said he told Orton on his way out "you're the future of the business you're looking for a finisher take my move"
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04-21-2009, 03:10 AM | #4568 | |
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Couple of other DDP notes: 1) I always wonder how he landed his wife when she was at her apex. 2) I loved the story about how Steiner whipped his ass 3) His wife's performance in the 40 Year Old Virgin was priceless.
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04-21-2009, 03:16 AM | #4570 |
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And this is probably the sweetest version of the move...
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04-21-2009, 03:22 AM | #4571 |
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That was a tight move.
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04-21-2009, 03:32 AM | #4572 |
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There's a pretty awesome one right around 3:10 in that video. |
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The DDP-Eddie stuff was pretty awesome. Just another example of WCW's ridiculously great undercard.
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I still can't believe Kimberly got her implants taken out. Because she wants to be taken more seriously as an actress or some such. Yeah. Good luck with all that. LEAVE THE MAMMARIES ALONE There are so many great DDP stories, one hardly knows where to start. Some of my favorites: - DDP had a habit for completely scripting out his matches and giving the script to his opponents so they could memorize it. Prior to the DDP/Raven/Benoit three-way in WCW, wrestlers started to realize that DDP was going to try giving Benoit a script. They wanted to watch it happen, figuring Benoit would tear into him for being a moron. On the day of the PPV, DDP goes up to Benoit backstage and gives him a move-by-move account of the match they're about to have. Wrestlers are grinning and laughing, just waiting for DDP to get embarrassed. Instead, Benoit seems overly cheerful, smiling and nodding as he glances through the script. They shake hands and DDP leaves. The second he turns around, Benoit crumples up the script, throws it over his shoulder, and walks away while the wrestlers crack up*. - Wacky "DDP in WWE" story #138,284: shortly after his debut, DDP invented something he called "Braveheart bumping", supposedly inspired by the movie, which basically involved not falling down and taking a normal bump. In other words, hardly selling anything. He went around the locker room telling everyone about his new invention, predicting that everyone would be copying him within a few months. He debuted it during a series of house show matches with Taker, and during the second match on the tour, Taker stopped everything and just stood there staring at him until he got the hint to stop doing it. - Currently lives with a black woman who looks like Shaq**. - Liked to watch the bigger, freaker wrestlers bang Kimberly, except no one would agree to do it while DDP was there watching. So they'd make tapes that Page would watch. Sex tapes of Kimberly with Big Show and Ice Train have specifically been mentioned in reference to this story**. (*story became somewhat less amusing as of June 2007) (**told by longtime DDP hater Mark Madden, so take with as much salt as you so choose) |
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BTW for even more evidence of how much of a joke TNA is, I present this.....
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