Then Shibata paralyzed half of his own body headbutting Kazuchika Okada, making Tanahashi sound right. Still, Shibata stuck his course, eventually got booked by New Japan again, and eventually got pushed by New Japan again in spite of Tanahashi's disapproval always being just beneath the surface at best. While Shibata would stall on the independent circuit (Big Mouth Loud), fail in kick-boxing (K-1), and only find middling success in mixed martial arts promotions (DREAM, DEEP, IGF, etc.), Tanahashi would return from CMLL a new man whose charisma was so strong it forced " The King Of Strong Style" himself to undergo a similar makeover and stress his own charisma. Even back in 1999, Hiroshi Tanahashi wasn't on board with Katsuyori Shibata's extreme dedication to "strong style" wrestling.He also advises all of them to enjoy it because "none of us are guaranteed to make it to WrestleMania 22." Whether he was talking about employment or not, the words sting knowing that this was Eddie Guerrero's final WrestleMania. An issue of Raw Magazine with an open letter from "Good Ol' JR" Jim Ross, about WrestleMania 21, tells how proud every wrestler should be of the work they accomplished getting to the event.It is extremely uncomfortable to hear, to say the least. During their match at No Way Out 2004, Brock Lesnar tells Eddie to "just die".It's rather uncomfortable to watch these days because of his death two years later. A promo for WrestleMania 19 had a voice-over talking about what wrestlers go through to make their mark on history and become immortals, and when it says "Someday, we will die", it focuses on Eddie Guerrero.Speaking of Warrior, he last appeared on Ap(The night after WrestleMania XXX, and one day before his death) talking about how one's spirit can become immortal.Examples include Ultimate Warrior in 1991, and Yokozuna in 1994. Any instance of The Undertaker locking his opponent in a casket or burying them can become uncomfortable viewing after that opponent dies.The opening graphics for the 1998 SummerSlam event that took place in New York City, which had many buildings, including the Twin Towers, being knocked over, became this after the Septemattacks.Now that Foley has talked about his memory issues due to his career, it's hard to laugh. Look up a Mick Foley match and you'll get the commentary team making several jokes about how many concussions Foley had gotten and how many brain cells of his are dead. ![]() However, this uncomfortably mirrored the Owen Hart tragedy that took place about a year and a half later. ![]() The video aired in late 1997 to build towards the Starrcade main event with Sting and Hulk Hogan. As the video ended, the Sting doll was placed into a casket. One of the paid advertisements that the New World Order ran on WCW Monday Nitro saw Sting's entrance parodied by having someone cut the wire and having an action figure fall into a toy ring. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |