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lita should have been given 20ish mins. she was a real star and deserved a little time. but that 30 minute story about PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER was unnecessary and should have been scratched imo. wwe could have told lita weeks/days in advance she would have x amount of time.

event started at 9, she got off the mic around 9:50

mr. t was a celebrity gimmick. 5 minutes tops. seriously. thank hogan, vince, piper and maybe a few others then gtfo imo. if they didnt cut him off after 20ish minutes, he would have went another 30. he warned everyone before he started!

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04-06-2014 , 01:08 AM

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LKJ

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Well it's not just that Mr. T was boring. It's that he came on stage as a non-wrestler and then never at any point even alluded to his time working with the WWE. At a WWE Hall of Fame induction. It was incredibly bizarre. It would have been far more forgivable if he was at least talking wrestling while being long-winded. Instead he took what could have been a nice 60-90 second footnote about his mother and turned it into a whole damn off-topic speech.

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04-06-2014 , 01:12 AM

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Scherer716

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so absurd. but they'll learn from it.

at least wwen didnt have any connection problems. just that random 2 second rewind once in a while. hope its that good tomo night.

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04-06-2014 , 01:18 AM

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Dylan

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Yeah Mr. T was way worse than Lita. At least Lita talked about wrestling.

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04-06-2014 , 01:25 AM

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.isolated

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as somebody battling a pill addiction atm, i was moved to near tears at many moments during Jake's speech. very much admire him. i just finished the HoF and I'm off to watch a bunch of Jake matches starting with Tuesday in Texas.

Last edited by .isolated; 04-06-2014 at 01:26 AM. Reason: Warrior was way better than expected and Razor was awesome but way to short

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04-06-2014 , 01:27 AM

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LKJ

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Yeah I really wish Jake had gone later. That was GOATish and it should have led straight into Warrior.

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04-06-2014 , 01:33 AM

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.isolated

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Kane was also a bright spot on the night despite not being an inductee.....yet. His induction speech, not killing Mr. T

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04-06-2014 , 01:47 AM

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.isolated

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They edited the Jake/Macho match

. Ref is about to take a bump > cut to ref is already back up. wtf. Off to d/l the original.

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04-06-2014 , 02:27 AM

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PJo336

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It was very bizarre indeed. It was honestly like he didnt understand the concept and was treating it as if he had won some sort of lifetime achievement award. I dont really get how he devised that speech for this occasion at all.

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04-06-2014 , 02:32 AM

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teejayC

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Watching now. Does Lita's speech ever end?

edit - woah Manami Toyota namedrop!

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04-06-2014 , 02:55 AM

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.isolated

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cool pic from instagram

http://instagram.com/p/mbe5OhBEf4/

Also, it's hard to find good Jake matches. Only 4 ***+ matches in WWF and only 1 in WCW...

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04-06-2014 , 07:59 AM

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LKJ

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Yeah, Jake wasn't particularly good in the ring. He did have the psychology part down pat but his work overall was still meh. People point to Honky legit hurting him with that guitar attack and how he wasn't the same after that, which could be it I guess. I still have nightmares of having to watch him fight Rick Rude to a time-limit draw at WrestleMania IV; good God that match is awful.

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04-06-2014 , 08:15 AM

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rorrrr

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i had pretty much no exposure to jake even in the older stuff ive decided to watch. But holy hell that speech didn't even seem real, if that was an entirely scripted speech for a movie i would have believed it.

Of course it was all genuine though and it was powerful stuff. That's probably my favourite speech of any of the hall of fames, and it was from someone i had no previous connection too.

DDP seems like a gent too

edit: Just seen Hornswoggle v el torito segment. wow that makes me so angry.

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04-06-2014 , 09:16 AM

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OnTheSticks

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Yeah, Jake wasn't particularly good in the ring. He did have the psychology part down pat but his work overall was still meh. People point to Honky legit hurting him with that guitar attack and how he wasn't the same after that, which could be it I guess. I still have nightmares of having to watch him fight Rick Martel, in a double blindfold match at WrestleMania VII; good God that match is awful.

FYP

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04-06-2014 , 09:22 AM

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Bigdaddydvo

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Lol, I haven't seen the double blindfold match since I was a kid, but I enjoyed it at the time. Probably best not to go back and watch.

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04-06-2014 , 10:38 AM

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nice to see scott hall isn't looking like a corpse as i expected.

must have turned himself around at least sort of. (father dallas probs saved him too)

You can tell how legit a crowd is gonna be. by the level of pop Bad News Barrett gets.

Bad News Barrometer

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04-06-2014 , 10:53 AM

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blastoff

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it's pronounced thermometer

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04-06-2014 , 02:05 PM

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Scherer716

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jake's wrist-lock to clothesline was probably his best non-ddt move.

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04-06-2014 , 03:04 PM

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Jack Bando

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For those who have the network, how soon are RAW/SD/NXT available after airing?

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04-06-2014 , 03:31 PM

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LKJ

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For those who have the network, how soon are RAW/SD/NXT available after airing?

Raw and SD takes a month. NXT is instant.

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04-06-2014 , 03:36 PM

#1321

rorrrr

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the most recent raw on the network right now is from January 20th...The Animal Returns!!

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04-06-2014 , 03:37 PM

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LKJ

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Oh. They said it would be 30 days.

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04-06-2014 , 04:46 PM

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DonkOneMore

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Anyone else have problems at all with WWE Network when they signed up? Can't watch anything, just redirects me to buying it (again)...

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04-06-2014 , 04:53 PM

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beansroast01

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Are you using chrome or opera on a device that is touch screen enabled? If so, try firefox or IE

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04-06-2014 , 04:55 PM

#1325

master3004

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Everything looking great so far, been on for about an hour with no issues.

Interesting though, they had a "WM XX in 60 seconds" spot that showed a breakdown of every match on the card, but no mention of the main event.

I mean, ok, I get it, but why even run that spot? Its really weird

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