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#1 Posted on 23.12.02 1134.09
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Top Ten “Mark-Out” Moments in Professional Wrestling, the Past 20-Odd Years

10) Hulk Hogan pins Andre the Giant

9) Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat’s best-of-three-falls from Clash of the Champions

8) Steve Austin and Mike Tyson confront one another on Raw

7) The Ultimate Warrior cleanly defeats Hulk Hogan

6) Jimmy Snuka leaps from the top of Madison Square Garden

5) Vince McMahon appears on Nitro

4) Foley falls from the cage

3) The death of Owen Hart

2) Hulk Hogan turns; the formation of the nWo

1) The Screw-Job of Brett Hart

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#2 Posted on 23.12.02 1145.40
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How in the hell is Owen Hart dying a mark out moment?
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#3 Posted on 23.12.02 1148.56
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I'd have Magnum T.A. walking to ringside with a cane at Crockett Cup '87 six months after his car crash up there. And, for crowd reaction, Rock 'n Roll Express upsetting the Russians in July '85 for the NWA Tag Titles.
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#4 Posted on 23.12.02 1232.45
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    Originally posted by rv581
    6) Jimmy Snuka leaps from the top of Madison Square Garden


From the TOP OF THE GARDEN? Onto the street below?

My God, that would have to hurt...I don't care WHO you are. :)
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#5 Posted on 23.12.02 1314.03
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Owen Hart dying and the Bret Hart screwjob are not mark-out moments - those are things that really happened, one of which you'd have to be the sickest human being in the world to get "excited" over.
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#6 Posted on 23.12.02 1315.55
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This looks like a 12 year old wrote the list- first, the pin of Andre was not the mark-out moment, anyone who actually SAW it can tell you that it was the SLAM that was the mark-out moment.
The "Bret Screw-job?" A mark out moment??? #1???
This list should be renamed the top ten events prepubescent "IWC Smarks" cream their collective panties for... That is the only way it makes any sense...


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#7 Posted on 23.12.02 1331.11
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Here's a real mark-out moment...Wrestlemania VIII. Ultimate Warrior returns to assist Hulk Hogan from the dreaded double team of Sid Justice and Papa Shango. Now THAT was a moment.
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#8 Posted on 23.12.02 1416.49
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Here would be mine:

-The entire WMX ladder match.
-Not the appearance of Vince on Nitro, but the appearance of SHANE on Nitro.
-Jeff Jarrett puts Lillian Garcia in a figure four. (heh)
-The entire Shane/Kurt match.
-Y2J appears.
-The Radicals appear.
-Jeff Hardy jumps off the balcony through the table as MSG during the Royal Rumble.
-Paul Heyman replaces Jerry Lawler.
-Owen defeats Bret at WMX (It was mark-out in the true sense of the word. I was PISSED, because I loved Bret so much.)
-The first time I heard the ECW music during the Invasion.
-Most of the matches this year with the Smackdown Six, with Kurt/Benoit from Unforgiven topping the list.
-Brock beats Rock.
-Austin turns heel at WMX7.
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#9 Posted on 23.12.02 1443.13
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As pathetic as this may seem, I'll put my first mark-out moment here. I was watching an AWA title match between Larry Zybsyko and Greg Gagne and it looked like Gagne was going to take the title off Zybsyko (sp?). I actually got butterflies in my stomach.
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#10 Posted on 23.12.02 1512.06
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    Originally posted by Dexley's Midnight Jogger
    As pathetic as this may seem, I'll put my first mark-out moment here. I was watching an AWA title match between Larry Zybsyko and Greg Gagne and it looked like Gagne was going to take the title off Zybsyko (sp?). I actually got butterflies in my stomach.






It might not have been butterflies. It might have been sickness that Verne finally had snapped and put the belt on his boy Greg. Remember, Greg Gagne has been banned from the frozen food aisle of most supermarkets. He's such a heat machine, everything melts.
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#11 Posted on 23.12.02 1530.59
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My first mark out moment was after the I Quit Match between Flair and Funk, Paul Jones turned on Funk then Flair and then Sting helped Funk clean house on the J-Tex Corp.

Also, Austin's first Stunner on Vince in Madison Square Garden complete with Vince's old school convulsion selling.

Chris Jericho's WWF debut was so well done and it was a combination of marking out and just being happy for the guy that he got such a huge ovation.

SummerSlam 93 when Lawler faked the injury and brought in evil Doink to face Bret but then Tunney forced Lawler into the match. Lawler was such a great heel. What happened to you Jerry?

Ric Flair's Nitro return and Four Horsemen rebirth.

The most recent moment would have to be Brock tossing Show around the ring at Survivor Series then giving him a perfect F5.
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#12 Posted on 23.12.02 1848.42
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    Originally posted by fuelinjected
    My first mark out moment was after the I Quit Match between Flair and Funk, Paul Jones turned on Funk then Flair and then Sting helped Funk clean house on the J-Tex Corp.


You mean Gary Hart, right?

It's scary to think of either:

a) Paul Jones managing Terry Funk and Mutoh

b) Terry Funk as part of a stable with Shaska Whatley and the Barbarian.

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#13 Posted on 23.12.02 1849.10
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I couldn't pass this thread up without listing at least one mark out moment (or two):

- January 1989-- NWA World Champion Ric Flair and US Champion Barry Windham are taking on Eddie Gilbert and a mystery partner. The smug looks on Flair's, Windham's. and J.J. Dillon's faces are completely effaced when who should walk out but none other than RICKY THE DRAGON STEAMBOAT!!!
My brother and I both had seizures of mark-out joy! Only the shrill noise of a fire engine had a higher tone, volume and pitch than our shouting (we were 10 at the time)!

- Summer 1993-- In a WCW World TV Title match pitting Paul Orndorff against Dustin Rhodes at a Clash event, The Masked Assassin interferes and posts young Duhthtunn, only to have the American Dream DUSTY RHODES himself plant a trifecta of Bionic Elbows on the Assassin! When my bro and I watched that on TV, once again we went into mega mark-out ultra boogie-woogie happy-action-funtime mode! (That's the only way I can describe it, and wrestling's the only game in town that can do that to people!) The Dusty "barks" or "ooh!"s, if you will, ranked up there with the best of 'em, amongst others, Dusty/Sting vs. AA/Tully, Clash II, when Dusty starts bustin' Bionic Elbows on Tully, and the quantum "ooh!"s Hogan was getting in Boston this past summer on SD!!

Ahh. Marking Out Good. It Very Good.
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#14 Posted on 23.12.02 1949.02
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Ric Flair defeats Eric Bischoff to win control of WCW.

After the nWo bullshit, and Eric Bischoff screwing him at EVERY turn, it was a refreshing and flat out WONDERFUL moment to see someone stand up to the nWo and REALLY take them out. The fact the Horsemen and Randy Savage were enough to hold off the whole nWo from hitting that ring still makes me smile.

I'm easy to please. Seeing babyfaces take out unstoppable heels does it everytime.
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#15 Posted on 23.12.02 1950.21
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    Originally posted by odessasteps

      Originally posted by fuelinjected
      My first mark out moment was after the I Quit Match between Flair and Funk, Paul Jones turned on Funk then Flair and then Sting helped Funk clean house on the J-Tex Corp.


    You mean Gary Hart, right?

    It's scary to think of either:

    a) Paul Jones managing Terry Funk and Mutoh

    b) Terry Funk as part of a stable with Shaska Whatley and the Barbarian.







But remember, Paul Jones and Gary Hart bothed managed Abdullah the Butcher.
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#16 Posted on 23.12.02 2025.10
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My super-sized jumbo mark-out moments:

- Hulk Hogan bodyslams Andre the Giant
- The Radicalz invade the WWF (RAW)
- Chris Benoit, WWF Champion (both times)
- ECW Returns (July 9th RAW)
- The Undertaker Returns (Royal Rumble 1994?)
- "Tyson/Austin! Tyson/Austin!" (RAW)
- Formation of the nWo
- Montreal
- Mick Foley, WWF Champion (January 1999)
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#17 Posted on 23.12.02 2028.30
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Yeah, Gary Hart. I must have had Paul Jones on the brain for some reason.
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#18 Posted on 24.12.02 1224.43
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I have to tell you, when Sting tore up his knee in '89 -- and thereby cancelling his title match with Flair -- I was totally crushed.

All the work to set up the sting/flair match was out the window. They were friendly rivals, then ole/arn/ric turned and kicked Sting out of the horsemen in one of the most intense promos I'd ever witnessed. Totally bought into it. When Ole told Sting "You have one hour to tear up the contract, or wherever you are in this building, or in the city of San Antonio, we'll find you!" -- in some part of my mark-out brain I actually thought they WOULD kill him.

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#19 Posted on 24.12.02 1227.47
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    Originally posted by shea
    I have to tell you, when Sting tore up his knee in '89 -- and thereby cancelling his title match with Flair -- I was totally crushed.

    All the work to set up the sting/flair match was out the window. They were friendly rivals, then ole/arn/ric turned and kicked Sting out of the horsemen in one of the most intense promos I'd ever witnessed. Totally bought into it. When Ole told Sting "You have one hour to tear up the contract, or wherever you are in this building, or in the city of San Antonio, we'll find you!" -- in some part of my mark-out brain I actually thought they WOULD kill him.








Sting won Starrcade at the end of '89. He blew out his knee at the Clash of Champions in February '90.
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