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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 13:54:10 No.9475768 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>9475771 >>9475835 >>9476010 >>9476123 >>9476296 >>9476361 >>9476504 >>9476647 >>9476656 >>9476680 >>9476757

Explain why making David Arquette World Champion was a bad idea without sounding like a obese gatekeeping faggot

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 13:54:38 No.9475771 Report

Quoted By: >>9475931

>>9475768
It negatively impacted business

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:02:54 No.9475835 Report

Quoted By: >>9475930

>>9475768
Non-meme answer: all autistic numbers aside it reeked of desperation for publicity. Nothing against thinking outside the box and doing outlandish shit for ratings; but this incident just made WCW look pathetic

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:15:08 No.9475922 Report

Quoted By: >>9476838

Nobody cared about him.
Nobody wanted to see him wrestle.
Nobody thought it would lead to anything good, and it didn't.

It was done solely to get people who don't watch wrestling to tune in and it failed miserably in doing so.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:16:17 No.9475930 Report

Quoted By: >>9476102 >>9476748

>>9475835
How is it any different to WWE working with Logan Paul? Brings in attention from other fanbases

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:16:28 No.9475931 Report

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>>9475771
>the business
lose chins

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:16:52 No.9475934 Report

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The execution was much worse than the idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:23:57 No.9475985 Report

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If an actor is going to win a wrestling belt, at least have them be athletic/built. Like Logan Paul is athletic enough to get a brief midcard title or if in the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger won a title it would be believable, but this was ridiculous

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:26:38 No.9476010 Report

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>>9475768
No one gave a fuck about this dude back then. He was the least popular person named Arquette.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:38:22 No.9476102 Report

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>>9475930
Logan Paul is an actual star and he can wrestle. He also hasn’t won the belt yet. David Arquette was b-list at best.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:41:41 No.9476123 Report

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>>9475768
If you're gonna put your world title on an actor, pick a better one than david arquette. If Sean Connery or Mel Gibson had briefly took the WCW belt, that would have been another story.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 14:49:52 No.9476186 Report

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David Arquette was starring in the WCW movie. That's where his career was at that point. It's not like they put the belt on Tom Cruise

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:05:13 No.9476296 Report

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>>9475768
Ready 2 Rumble had already flopped in theaters by the time the title had happened.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:13:35 No.9476361 Report

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>>9475768
Well, the big gold lost all of his value after that and the Bash at the Beach dissaster.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:27:35 No.9476459 Report

Quoted By: >>9476590

I feel that sometimes, celebrities and pro-wrestling don't really mesh.

Celebrities are entering a world that many people take seriously, especially the performers. I'm confident that people still think pro-wrestling isn't a serious business. But the performers work hard in and out the ring.

When you bring in celebrities, you could be seen as trying to legitimize the business and bring in an audience that normally doesn't watch wrestling.

No offense to the celebrities that have appeared in pro-wrestling shows, but I feel like these celebrities aren't currently in the spotlight. They don't have a high star status.

Some celebrities don't really do well in their appearance. I believe there was a guest commentator who was annoying during a Wrestlemania.

Not all celebrity appearances are bad. When they putnin the work (Knoxville, Bad Bunny) and entertain THE WRESTLING CROWD, you're doing it right.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:29:48 No.9476477 Report

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they put the belt on Arquette to promote the movie. The movie was supposed to promote WCW. it was a dumb plan to begin with because the movie sucked and bombed.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:33:28 No.9476504 Report

Quoted By: >>9476573

>>9475768
>without sounding like a obese gatekeeping faggot
Obvious bate but I'll take it cause I'm bored.
They threw plans out the water cause they wanted to capitalize on this shitty movie that no one except neckbeards remember anymore.This bullshit derailed so much booking

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:44:47 No.9476573 Report

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>>9476504
>Obvious bate

seethe fatty

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:46:52 No.9476590 Report

Quoted By: >>9477288

>>9476459
You seriously think anyone is gonna read all that? I practically skimmed through it and didn't care one bit about what you ha e to say

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:53:55 No.9476647 Report

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>>9475768
Years of prestige partly sacrificed for short term publicity. Imagine Pete Davidson showing up and beating Roman Reigns.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:55:00 No.9476656 Report

Quoted By: >>9476815

>>9475768
It was based but it was to promote a movie that was kind of shit and had already come out. He was a lowtier celebrity too, so there's no real benefit to it. If it was done as part of a logical idea - like if a heel was the number one contender challenging the next week and the screwed the champion so arquette would win so they had an easy opponent - that would have been fine. It's not nearly as horrible a decision as people pretend it was, and there are worse decisions on weekly TV now - like QTV.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 15:57:34 No.9476680 Report

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>>9475768
No fucking one wasn't able to defend that shit in 23 years and now was it an acceptable thing because somebody says muh smarks didn't like that? Fuck off

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 16:04:30 No.9476748 Report

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>>9475930
Logan fight 2 times before getting a title shot, and in that shot he lost in an almost 30 minutes fight
Arquette is the same as 80% of the Russo ideas, pretty good on paper but a dogshit execution, that's why outside WWF and maybe 2004 impact he didn't do shit in the industry or hollywood.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 16:05:19 No.9476757 Report

Quoted By: >>9476829

>>9475768
It's easy. All the product is based in tough guys trained to fight in a tournament. You can't just lose all your credibility given the championship credit to a guy who is not a fighter.
Respect the business. Simple asf.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 16:10:18 No.9476804 Report

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Zoomers wouldn’t get it.
He wasn’t famous. If they were being forced to do it there’s a million better ways to have done it.
If they needed an excuse to talk about their bad movie for a month they could have put the cruiserweight title on him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 16:11:25 No.9476815 Report

Quoted By: >>9476828

>>9476656
Ready to Rumble is a brilliant movie, if it bombed it must have been down to marketing or some shit. I’m a bong so I didn’t get to see it till it came out on tape. But it’s the perfect encapsulation of what it was to be young in the late 90s

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 16:12:51 No.9476828 Report

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>>9476815
Compared to the nowadays Hollywood crap that movie looked like a diamond

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 16:12:56 No.9476829 Report

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>>9476757
It was literally soap opera back then, and the product was better for it.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 16:14:00 No.9476838 Report

Quoted By:

>>9475922
these
also:
it was like the 14th title change that year alone
OP is a russo retard

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Anonymous Sun 26 Mar 2023 17:09:37 No.9477288 Report

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>>9476590
>ha e to say
Sheesh. Maybe brushing up on your reading and writing skills wouldn't be that bad of an idea.

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