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Anonymous Wed 21 Jan 2026 22:51:01 No.19730916 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>19730923 >>19732504 >>19732605 >>19732689 >>19732898 >>19733297 >>19734694 >>19735630 >>19736909

Why has he never publicly commented on him getting a clue in the mid 00s and becoming this incredible wrestler

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Anonymous Wed 21 Jan 2026 22:52:02 No.19730919 Report

Quoted By: >>19735907

I'm looking at the ugliest freak ever

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Jan 2026 22:53:00 No.19730923 Report

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>>19730916
It would be him admitting he was a shitter for 80% of his career. Prime Taker was ABA anyway don't (You) me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Jan 2026 22:55:37 No.19730936 Report

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Because his ex wife Sara was the one who whipped him into shape

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:18:08 No.19732504 Report

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>>19730916
base

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:26:34 No.19732569 Report

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Percy Pringle's spirit entered Mark's body via the urn and took over.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:29:50 No.19732605 Report

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>>19730916
He was always a pretty good wrestler. It's mainly the fact that he only performed good when he had a skilled opponent. Look at his matches with Shawn in 1997 and Angle in 2002-03

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:38:36 No.19732689 Report

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>>19730916
Because he started wrestling better wrestlers?? Go look at the shitters he was facing in the 90s and compared it to his late 2000s run.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:38:39 No.19732690 Report

Quoted By: >>19733483

Goldust would obliterate Taker in a shoot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:50:14 No.19732764 Report

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He was always good, which means that he understood he had to work a certain way to get the gimmick over by not ever doing some shit and being booked utterly dominant even if he "lost", he was never beaten
By the mid 2000s, he was so entrenched and over that he had more freedom to do moves that he wouldn't do when he still needed to get the gimmick over and not get the crowd tired of it by keeping it consistent and immersive
The gimmick had also been diluted a bit after the whole american badass thing
You can just see the difference in booking for Shawn v Taker hell in a cell in 97 where it's a wrestler going up against some actual supernatural force and getting mauled for it, and Shawn v Taker in the 2010s where it's much more two wrestlers, albeit legends, going at it
the matches aren't laid out the same at all

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 02:52:38 No.19732785 Report

Quoted By: >>19733310 >>19733395 >>19733421

watching this boomer larp as a real tough guy during his mma submisson era was some of the worst stuff ive ever seen

Pudrick !Z3D1x2sS7o

Pudrick !Z3D1x2sS7o Thu 22 Jan 2026 03:11:22 No.19732898 Report

Quoted By: >>19732914 >>19733285 >>19733365 >>19733981 >>19734571 >>19734681 >>19735755 >>19736972

>>19730916
Undertaker
Kane
Kurt Angle
Vince McMahon

My Mount Rushmore and if you were born between 1996-1999 its probably yours too

Pudrick !Z3D1x2sS7o

Pudrick !Z3D1x2sS7o Thu 22 Jan 2026 03:13:03 No.19732914 Report

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>>19732898
Actually most people my age would probably swap out Kane/McMahon for Michaels/HHH

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:15:09 No.19733285 Report

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>>19732898
Undertaker
Kane
Hogan
Stone Cold

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:17:18 No.19733297 Report

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>>19730916
Because he was better from like 96-99, 2000s onward was fuckin gay and cringe

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:21:22 No.19733310 Report

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>>19732785
He's a Gen Xer my nigga.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:23:12 No.19733321 Report

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someone told him:
>YOU'RE DONE IT NOW
>GONE AND MADE A BIG MISTAKE

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:24:11 No.19733323 Report

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>>19732605
Shawn and Angle could have a great match with a fuckin tree stump though

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:33:33 No.19733353 Report

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Taker is a goat. Kicks rocks if you disagree. End of story. Rest in peace

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:35:40 No.19733365 Report

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>>19732898
I’m 1993. Sometimes it trips me out that we share a board with shoot zoomers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:44:23 No.19733395 Report

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>>19732785
mmmm, pure strikes

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 04:51:22 No.19733421 Report

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>>19732785
Undertaker invented the omoplata bitch and was one of the earliest followers of MMA before it exploded now you gonna get pure striked

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 05:09:47 No.19733483 Report

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>>19732690
Sure, Dustin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 08:03:04 No.19733981 Report

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>>19732898
97 and for me it's
angle
carder
flair
HBK

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 12:39:57 No.19734571 Report

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>>19732898
‘93 here.
Taker
Jericho
Kurt
Punk

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 13:23:08 No.19734681 Report

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>>19732898
85 here.
Hogan
Austin
Vince
Rock

If you removed any of those from the wrestling industry then it would look very different. While I love Savage, Bret, HBK, Angle, etc as workers, they were just good workers. Cena carried the company but feel like you could have plugged anyone into that. HHH has had a huge impact on WWE but not across the whole industry.
Hogan and Vince basically invented modern professional wrestling as a TV product. Austin saved the biggest company, and Rock legitimised it to Hollywood and paved a way for more crossovers to the mainstream.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 13:26:31 No.19734693 Report

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>>19734681
>we have 40 year olds on /pw/
Fucking based

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 13:27:05 No.19734694 Report

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>>19730916
I've been rewatching Undertaker matches since they've been uploaded to YouTube and I have to say Undertaker is an amazing performer in pretty much every chapter of his career. It's very impressive to me how he can go from Purple Deadman era where he was extremely slow moving to his American Bad Ass persona only a few years later and move so fluidly with his opponents. I'm not sure you could pull of this switch today without house shows and guys being on the road together for months.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 16:11:12 No.19735310 Report

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bump

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 16:21:15 No.19735347 Report

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>>19734694
Post a pre-big evil match where he is carrying an inferior worker

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 16:22:19 No.19735351 Report

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>>19733297
This part.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 16:43:22 No.19735426 Report

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>>19735347
its not perfect as its still a 90s wwf big man match and taker needs to do his zombie stuff so that baggage is there, but taker vs diesel wrestlemania 12 is better than you'd think. nash knows he can do 5 things and mug to the crowd to get heat so its all on taker's bumps and selling to make the match entertaining.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 17:40:37 No.19735630 Report

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>>19730916
Based. Mr. McCool was badass during his Demon MMA run

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 18:18:39 No.19735755 Report

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>>19732898
Replace Vince with Hulk and Kurt (even though I love him) with Stone Cold and that's shoot mine

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 18:31:02 No.19735808 Report

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>>19732605
I am more impresser with his bangers with Batista. Michaels and Angle could had great matches with a lot of people, but nobody made such kino with Dave fucking Batista like Taker. Meltzer even proclaimed them his feud of the year 2007 in a age where he very rarely liked WWE content

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 18:50:08 No.19735907 Report

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>>19730919
Turn you monitor...
ON

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 22:50:48 No.19736909 Report

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>>19730916
holy basedola

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 22:59:03 No.19736961 Report

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>guy who never had a memorable promo
i could not give a shit about him and e-drones always put promos on a pedestal

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 23:00:53 No.19736972 Report

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>>19732898
Doink
Logan Paul
Ultimate Warrior
Vince McMahon

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Anonymous Thu 22 Jan 2026 23:13:58 No.19737039 Report

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he "got good" after it became the norm for big matches to be scripted move for move. you think he was the one responsible for structuring his 4+ star matches? lmao

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