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Just got home, doing writeup now....I think this is a bit of a reach, but since I don't pick again until #33 and since it doesn't look like many people want to trade up, my hand is forced as I really want this guy.

i dont think hes gonna pick my guy, but prepare for my head to asplode

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11-16-2009 , 09:52 PM

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Etats360

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Doink the clown? Kevin Mchale? Grant Fuhr?

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11-16-2009 , 09:54 PM

#453

Russ M.

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Jay Leno ftw

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11-16-2009 , 09:54 PM

#454

MrOnizuka

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I think he's gonna go with this guy:

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11-16-2009 , 09:54 PM

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72off

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Originally Posted by Etats360

Doink the clown? Kevin Mchale? Grant Fuhr?

Bill Berg, ldo

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11-16-2009 , 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeyPatriot

HHH was never a top in-ring performer at any point in his career.

So? He's miles ahead of Hogan with regards to in-ring work, and it's not like the Rock was a technical marvel..I put a premium on entertainment value/charisma, I'll draft some cruiserweights in the late rounds for technical matchs

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11-16-2009 , 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by 72off

Bill Berg, ldo

not a good pick this early imo

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11-16-2009 , 09:55 PM

#458

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Originally Posted by ajohnson16

I'm holding out hope for Inigo Montoya.

FYP

I love the Bret Hart pick. Easily my favorite wrestler growing up, fond fond memories of him. I still preform The Sharpshooter today on my GF.

Angle pick is good. Standard, solid pick. Plays a great heel

I like the HHH pick. He can play a storyline well, and a lot of people have eh views on him due to him being out so long from injury.

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11-16-2009 , 09:56 PM

#459

AGx19

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look at me now
what the heck
i won a gold medal
with a broken freakin neck

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11-16-2009 , 09:57 PM

#460

EMc

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I had forgotten how nuts that moment was till that video.

They would never in a miliion years try that again. Or anything remotely close to it.

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11-16-2009 , 09:58 PM

#461

LurchySoprano

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Angle. If we stayed at 12 that's who I was hoping fell.

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11-16-2009 , 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SharkTank43

Someone made a comment along the lines of him being a top in-ring performer. Even if you just look at it against his main event peers, that's not the case.

He's not terrible or anything, but he doesn't do anything impressive as an in-ring worker.

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11-16-2009 , 10:11 PM

#463

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happy? u likkle bitch

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11-16-2009 , 10:13 PM

#464

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UNDRAFTED PLAYERS FFS

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11-16-2009 , 10:15 PM

#465

Assani Fisher

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Round 1 Pick 11

theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oauP_XcBHE

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Most great wrestlers are willing to completely sell out their bodies maybe once or twice per year, usually at a major PPV like Wrestlemania. Mick Foley was willing to completely sell out his body every motherf*cking night. He was suprisingly great on the mic toward the end of his career. He had great range and a number of characters. He was loved, he was feared, he was respected. He often got standing ovations after LOSING a match. Hes more than willing to put over other stars. He had solid longevity. In short, hes everything I want from my #1 pick. Sure he may not put on any 60+ minute matches full of great technical wrestling, but you can be damn sure that everyone will want to tune into my federation's shows to see him.

Two epic bumps against Undertaker in Hell in a Cell match

great match early in his career

mic skills

brutal chair shots

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Foley tried to repair a knee injury with "do it yourself" surgery and failed, leaving him unable to walk for eight months. As a result, in the rematch with Vader on April 23, the two executed a dangerous spot to sell a storyline injury. Vader removed the protective mats at ringside and powerbombed Cactus onto the exposed concrete floor, causing a legitimate concussion and causing Foley to temporarily lose sensation in his left foot and hand

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Race won the match for Vader by using a cattle prod on Cactus, knocking him out for over ten seconds. The level of violence involved in this feud caused WCW to refuse to ever again book Cactus Jack against Vader on a pay-per-view. On March 16, 1994, during a WCW European tour, Foley and Vader had one of the most infamous matches in wrestling history in Munich, Germany. Foley began a hangman, a spot where a wrestler's head is tangled between the top two ring ropes, which is usually painful but safe (though more dangerous in WCW since the ring ropes were not ropes but steel cables in rubber casing). Unbeknownst to Foley, however, 2 Cold Scorpio had earlier complained that the ropes were too loose, resulting in the ring staff tightening the ropes to the maximum. As Foley struggled to pull himself out, he tore off two-thirds of his ear and underwent surgery later that day to reattach the cartilage from the ear to his head, so that a total reconstruction would be possible in the future. Later that year, Cactus Jack and Kevin Sullivan were scheduled to win the tag team titles at Slamboree in 1994. Foley had to choose between reattaching his ear or wrestling in the pay-per-view and winning the titles. Foley chose to wrestle and won his only championship in WCW.

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Funk returned to team up with Sandman, and during a particularly violent spot, the pair hit Cactus with a Singapore cane forty-six times.

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After the match, both men were ravaged by the wire, and burned by the C4 explosions. Foley later said that he only received $300 for the entire night

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The ECW fans, who knew that this was Foley's last match, finally returned his affection. They cheered him throughout the match and chanted, "Please don't go!"

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"Sure, at 280 pounds I still looked like hell, but after a brutal cardiovascular training regimen, I was able to go full-tilt for twenty-seven minutes with a smaller, quicker, better athlete than me."

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Foley fell through and hit the ring hard. A chair that had been atop the cage also slammed Foley's head and knocked out a tooth as he hit the canvas. He was also knocked unconscious for a few moments from the impact, but he finished the match after waking up

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Critics charge that the falls in the match were so extreme and they set the bar for further bumps so high that the inevitable attempts to equal or surpass them would be unsafe for the wrestlers involved

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Foley, still somewhat dazed from the concussion he sustained, turned to the Undertaker and asked "Did I use the thumbtacks?", a staple of some of Foley's early matches. The Undertaker looked at him and rather sternly replied "Look at your arm, Mick!", at which point Foley discovered a significant number of thumbtacks still lodged in his arm.

- 3 time WWF/WWE Champion
- 8 time WWF/WWE Tag Champion
- First ever WWF/WWE Hardcore Champion
- WCW Tag Champion
- TNA World Champion
- Won the Wrestling Observer's "Best Brawler" award for 10 straight years from 1991-2000
- Won Wrestling Observer's Feud of the Year(along with HHH) in 2000
- Won Wrestling Observer's "Best on Interviews" 3 times(1995, 2004, 2006)
- Won PWI's "Match of the Year" in both 1998(vs Undertaker) and 1999(vs Rock)
- Won PWI's "Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year" in 1993
- Best selling author
- Along with the Rock, he was a part of the single highest rated segment in the history of the Monday Night Wars

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11-16-2009 , 10:16 PM

#466

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sick

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11-16-2009 , 10:16 PM

#467

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I was hoping he'd drop.

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11-16-2009 , 10:16 PM

#468

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BANG BANG!
mankind's theme rules though

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11-16-2009 , 10:17 PM

#469

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God so happy when people do the music on the outside. The anticipation while its loading is amazing. A+++++ thread.

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11-16-2009 , 10:17 PM

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WaterWalker

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LOL love it! (Mankind>>>>Dude Love)

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11-16-2009 , 10:18 PM

#471

iggymcfly

runs good at HORSE

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Originally Posted by MikeyPatriot

You're wrong. He was regularly putting on 4 star+ matches in 2000/2001. He was pretty much considered an equal to guys like Benoit and Jericho in the ring at the time. Then when he came back from the quad tear, he changed things up and wasn't the same at all.

I still think his match with HBK at Summerslam though (HBK's return match) is one of the greatest matches of all-time if not the greatest even though no one really agrees with me.

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11-16-2009 , 10:18 PM

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I'm partial to Cactus' WWF theme out of all of theme, but Mankind's original theme was pretty damn good too. Not too much of a fan re: Dude Love theme. Nice pick.