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| Hello Mamushi | Posted on 01/18/08 at 03:20:28 *facepalm* I can't decide whether I think it's one of the more amusing things I've seen on TNA when they try and be funny or if I should be sad inside beacuse it's retarded and they should be spending their time producing a better product. :) |
| Azrael | Posted on 01/18/08 at 03:25:55 I'm so conflicted. A family of Shark Boys is the awesomest thing I've seen in a while. ...then the doctor started talking. |
| Azrael | Posted on 01/18/08 at 03:30:57 But here comes Dustin Rhodes so it's not even the most retarded thing this week. |
| Thnikkaman | Posted on 01/20/08 at 22:58:58 Shark Boy family was great ... "Stone Cold" Shark Boy sucked just when TNA gets something right, they remember they are TNA and it goes down hill from there |
| Hello Mamushi | Posted on 01/25/08 at 03:40:39 all of it makes me sad EXCEPT for the sharkboy skull on the back of the vest. that was amusing |
| Unright | Posted on 01/25/08 at 14:05:47 Damn.. Shark Boy is making me watch TNA, this is very similar to how La Parka was the only reason for watching WCW. |
| JeepGuy | Posted on 01/25/08 at 16:15:25 I have a question ... Why all the love for Shark Boy? While I've never seen him wrestle, I have seen him .. smallish guy in a mask with a fin on it. So, what's the deal? What makes him so "good". |
| Unright | Posted on 01/25/08 at 16:36:26On 01/25/08 at 16:15:25, JeepGuy wrote:I have a question ... Why all the love for Shark Boy? While I've never seen him wrestle, I have seen him .. smallish guy in a mask with a fin on it. So, what's the deal? What makes him so "good".He oozes charisma. |
| Rick Garrard | Posted on 01/25/08 at 16:56:18 and he was a WCW jobber for WCW WorldWide tapings. :) That's why he's "special"... TNA has found yet another way to push something that's even more ridiculous than the GobbledyGooker. Funny thing was SharkBoy used to get massive heat when he worked for IWA-MidSouth cause he was so bad. |
| JeepGuy | Posted on 01/25/08 at 17:03:46On 01/25/08 at 16:56:18, Rick Garrard wrote:and he was a WCW jobber for WCW WorldWide tapings. :) That's why he's "special"... TNA has found yet another way to push something that's even more ridiculous than the GobbledyGooker.I don't think anything could be more ridiculous than the GobbledyGooker. |
| Rick Garrard | Posted on 01/25/08 at 17:21:42 Ever see Vince McMahon dancing and singing "Stand Back" at the Slammy Awards in the 80s? ;) |
| JeepGuy | Posted on 01/25/08 at 17:28:05On 01/25/08 at 17:21:42, Rick Garrard wrote:Ever see Vince McMahon dancing and singing "Stand Back" at the Slammy Awards in the 80s? ;)Sure did but I still think the big chicken from an egg was worse ... unless it was for a promotion like Kaiju Big Battel or Incredibly Strange Wrestling. Then it might rock. |
| Rick Garrard | Posted on 01/25/08 at 17:30:39 he wasn't a chicken, he was a turkey and it was Thanksgiving night at the Survivor Series, back when on Thanksgiving and Christmas wrestling was the only form of "sports" that would grace your television. |
| JeepGuy | Posted on 01/25/08 at 17:59:57On 01/25/08 at 17:30:39, Rick Garrard wrote:he wasn't a chicken, he was a turkey and it was Thanksgiving night at the Survivor Series, back when on Thanksgiving and Christmas wrestling was the only form of "sports" that would grace your television.Chicken, turkey ... who cares? Still horrible! No football on your tv at Thanksgiving? No bowl game at Christmas? There was a period of time, from the late 80s through most of the 90s, I wasn't following wrestling ... especially the WWF. After years of wrestling from San Antonio, WCCW, UWF, Wrestling from Florida, NWA and other "Southern Wrestling" promotions, I couldn't handle the cartoony, gimmicky WWF. Post #200! WHOOHOO! |
| Rick Garrard | Posted on 01/25/08 at 18:46:23 let me qualify that last statement.. there used to be two NFL games on Thanksgiving, and a couple hockey games, now it's just another sports day. And Christmas you'd usually have NBA doubleheader in the afternoon with hockey at night, now it too is just another sports day. Working the industry, I can tell you it's a pain in the ass to try to staff 1200 dependable people for an NFL building on EITHER of those days. It's the slickness of WWF's product that made it the recognized symbol of excellence and worldwide leader in sports entertainment. Sadly it's also what has more or less sterilized the talents to all look and work the same way. At least with the cartoon era, there were characters for the talent that people could get into, even if they were rather over the top. Now almost none of the talent in ANY wrestling company in the US, knows how to read a crowd and feed off of it to change a match's direction in the middle of the match. Now it's all about "scripting" matches and interviews, instead of working more of an improv style. I fully blame Randy Savage (it's part of why Vince McMahon refuses to acknowledge him to this day) as the guy responsible for scripting of matches ahead of time, and it all caught on all because of the match between Savage and Steamboat at Wrestlemania. |
| Scott | Posted on 01/25/08 at 20:31:09On 01/25/08 at 17:03:46, JeepGuy wrote:Well at least the Gobbledy Gooker never lasted long, and they never gave him a title belt, like WCW did with David Arquette. |
| Hello Mamushi | Posted on 01/25/08 at 21:35:49 Shark Boy is the kind of gimmick that's ALWAYS going to work better on the indies than on a large stage. He's one of those guys that's really tends to be considered one of the underrated indy work horses overall. |
| Unright | Posted on 01/26/08 at 03:07:13 TNA's Shark Boy is the same as WWE's Santino Marella. Every card needs a bit of comedy in the early to mid-part. If Shark Boy was in the Main Event, it would be wrestlecrap. |
| Rick Garrard | Posted on 01/26/08 at 04:05:42 did you not watch last week's TNA 2 hour show? Lance Storm summed it up best... they gave Shark Boy more time on the program than ANY other wrestler on the show... and more time than any match on the show as well. |
| Jake | Posted on 01/26/08 at 04:12:17On 01/26/08 at 04:05:42, Rick Garrard wrote:did you not watch last week's TNA 2 hour show? Lance Storm summed it up best... they gave Shark Boy more time on the program than ANY other wrestler on the show... and more time than any match on the show as well.Not too mention Borash and Eric Young managed to be at Shark Boy's house one moment, then in the TNA arena the next. AND ERIC WAS DRUNK AT THE ARENA AND SOBER AT SHARK BOY'S! |
| Unright | Posted on 01/26/08 at 14:25:59On 01/26/08 at 04:05:42, Rick Garrard wrote:did you not watch last week's TNA 2 hour show? Lance Storm summed it up best... they gave Shark Boy more time on the program than ANY other wrestler on the show... and more time than any match on the show as well.I didn't actually, I just read the reports.. ;D But the notion that they are doing something cool with Shark Boy means that I'm going to watch the next few TNAs and see if they can grab my attention. Than again, it is TNA, so they probably won't. |
| Jake | Posted on 01/26/08 at 14:50:03On 01/26/08 at 14:25:59, Unright wrote:Than again  |
| Rick Garrard | Posted on 01/26/08 at 15:07:24 That looks like Excedrin headache #37. :) (how I miss Gorilla Monsoon on commentary) |
| Unright | Posted on 01/26/08 at 15:26:15 Damn. Burned by Jake? Time to mail in my 'Man Card'. You'll get it in about 2 months. |
| psz | Posted on 01/26/08 at 22:00:16 I don't know what's worse... The fact someone MADE that image, or the fact I know most of those shows... |
| Jake | Posted on 01/26/08 at 22:43:41On 01/26/08 at 15:26:15, Unright wrote:You'll get it in about 2 months.What you just did there. I see it. |
| Hello Mamushi | Posted on 01/27/08 at 02:35:43 At least it didn't take you as long to get the joke as to get the game |
| psz | Posted on 01/27/08 at 06:44:20 So... I decided to catch a few bits o' TNA this week... Pretty much skipped most of the "Best of 2007" awards, as I just don't care. We have Shark Boy imitating Austin, Lethal continuing to imitate Savage (though less in character than previously), Abyss imitating Kane, AJ Styles looking even MORE like Brian Christopher's half-brother than he ever has, and Tomko imitating Evolution-era Batista... Gotta love being an alternative to WWE... Oh, and when did Tomko get pregnant? Lastly, the US needs more Tiger Mask. (Head Scissors that actually follow through! OMG!) Anyway, to sum it up: I haven't missed much :-P (My first Tiger Mask match: Tiger Mask II vs Bret Hart) |