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Hudson posted:I wonder whatever happened to that Women's Title that Madusa dropped in the trash. Probably got taken to a landfill sometime that week.
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Karmine posted:Probably got taken to a landfill sometime that week. I think some neck beard guy has it somewhere in the Southern US.
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Hudson posted:I wonder whatever happened to that Women's Title that Madusa dropped in the trash. The plan was for Jim Duggan to find it and defend it.
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Speaking of Medusa, I went looking into why Bigfoot fell off the major circuits and why that piece of poo poo Grave-digger had become the big hit today. I then learned Medusa ended up driving Bigfoot in 2006 for a year and a half. Odd.
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Not only that, she also had her massive implants removed.
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Jan 6, 2010 06:11
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I don't know if this is the right place but this needs to be shared. Credit to GH & Joe from like ten years ago or something. a tribute to the greatest commentator wcw ever had
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I miss GH and Joe, they are loving hilarious in Prodigy Chat and their recaps of Raw and Nitro were even funnier.
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:Not only that, she also had her massive implants removed.
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Dragging Iron Feet posted:I had totally forgotten about this until you mentioned it. That segment owned hard. Best bit was when they were The Dancing Fools and Tokyo Magnum kept trying to join them and would be out there dancing behind them without Disco and Alex noticing him. Then Public Enemy killed him in a tag team match at Road Wild.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:The plan was for Jim Duggan to find it and defend it. Haha, just picturing this cracks me up
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I also remember when the nWo did a live conversion of the WCW Nitro set to an nWo one and the ratings during that time just nose dived. It was like 20+ minutes of newly converted nWo stage workers busting their rear end.
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Hudson posted:I also remember when the nWo did a live conversion of the WCW Nitro set to an nWo one and the ratings during that time just nose dived. It was on 24/7 not too long ago and god drat I thought people were exaggerating but yup they spent 20+ minutes on primetime television striking a set.
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Karmine posted:It was on 24/7 not too long ago and god drat I thought people were exaggerating but yup they spent 20+ minutes on primetime television striking a set. Anyone got a youtube of this?
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blunt posted:Anyone got a youtube of this? I tried to find it but I couldn't. It has be somewhere though.
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blunt posted:Anyone got a youtube of this? One of the nitro uploaders on youtube is due to put this show up any day now. When he does I'll link it.
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I've got that entire Nitro. I'll see about uploading it.
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The whole set takeover thing has actually aged quite well if you ask me because watching it now is amusing and a little nostalgic. However doing something like this during the Monday Night War and in Prime time was just stupid as hell.
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Hudson posted:However doing something like this during the Monday Night War and in Prime time was just stupid as hell. Raw was a pretaped show that night as well. They actually knew exactly what they would be going head to head with when they made that decision. Oh and it was the go home show to STARCADE 97.
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Here's the videos of the nWo dismantling the set I promised earlier plus the immediate aftermath of a botched motorcycle gift and an awkward limo thing. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVKtq3ulaI Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFyzfSPSYtA (8:50 "Wrong one, goddamn") Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8GFWunRMlI Daniel Bryan fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jan 6, 2010 |
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Skinty McEdger posted:Raw was a pretaped show that night as well. They actually knew exactly what they would be going head to head with when they made that decision. Oh and it was the go home show to STARCADE 97. You know, I didn't watch Nitro or Raw at the time, but I can understand the rationale in the abstract. It was the NWO at their height adn they were showing what would happen if Hogan beat Sting, and the NWO took over and changed everything. Admitedly the execution was appalling but the idea was sound. I just would have had the set built beforehand, I suppose.
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Jack Krauser posted:Here's the videos of the nWo dismantling the set I promised earlier plus the immediate aftermath of a botched motorcycle gift and an awkward limo thing. A YOU WIF US OR NOT! PUT THIS ON! KEEP IT ON! 4LIFE!!!!
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Von Linus posted:You know, I didn't watch Nitro or Raw at the time, but I can understand the rationale in the abstract. It was the NWO at their height adn they were showing what would happen if Hogan beat Sting, and the NWO took over and changed everything. Admitedly the execution was appalling but the idea was sound. I just would have had the set built beforehand, I suppose. Could be wrong here but as I recall Eric pulled that stunt to gauge the reaction of a possible nWo Monday Nitro and keep Thunder as a regular WCW. Of course when the ratings nose dived during the set redesign the idea was scrapped. Yeah, building it before hand with some small shorter clips of the nWo taking over might have been a better idea.
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The biggest part about the Monday Night Wars is that it allowed you to pick what you wanted to watch. If Raw and Nitro were on at the very same time and you were watching Raw, if you didn't like a guy or a storyline or there was a commercial, you flipped to Nitro. And vice versa. This usually gave you a two hour wrestling show of what YOU wanted to see, no commercials. This is why pro wrestling, even when making millions of dollars, had trouble getting sponsors. These sponsors were not dumb. The moment Raw had a commercial, even in its glory days, people would flip to Nitro to see what was going on there. Fortunately for the WWF, it was usually dogshit. Being  , we got Raw on Monday Night and Nitro on Tuesday night. There wasn't really a war. It was moreso wrestling all week. Mondays were Raw. Tuesdays were Nitro. Wednesday's were Thunder. Thursdays were Smackdown!. Fridays you could rent a wrestling tape. Saturdays and Sundays were a big combination of Worldwide/Saturday Night/Heat/Jakked/Metal/Shotgun and Superstars. We didn't get to miss the commercials by flipping to the other show.I guess that's why I enjoyed last Monday so much. I got to feel what Americans got during the Monday Night War.
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The NWO actually took over the show 4 times in the year running upto the December 22nd show. Each time they got a small ratings boost from it. They had even had NWO Souled out, the PPV equivilent of it, starting with the NWO riding to the stadium on the back of garbage truck. So on paper I can see why it seemed a good idea. The execution just backfired. Souled out was a terrible show it must be said, but something so different that its worth a watch for the trainwreck.
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Skinty McEdger posted:The NWO actually took over the show 4 times in the year running upto the December 22nd show. Each time they got a small ratings boost from it. They had even had NWO Souled out, the PPV equivilent of it, starting with the NWO riding to the stadium on the back of garbage truck. So on paper I can see why it seemed a good idea. The execution just backfired. The announcer for that show was a creepy disembodied voice. What's not to love.
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Lone Rogue posted:The biggest part about the Monday Night Wars is that it allowed you to pick what you wanted to watch. If Raw and Nitro were on at the very same time and you were watching Raw, if you didn't like a guy or a storyline or there was a commercial, you flipped to Nitro. And vice versa. This usually gave you a two hour wrestling show of what YOU wanted to see, no commercials. TNT used to run Nitro right after Nitro would end, or like an hour later. I think they wedged an episode of Walker...Texas Ranger in the middle sometimes, but if something really amazing happened, you could just set ye olde vcr and watch it the next day. That's why despite being mainly a WWF fan for the monday night war era, I have an oddly extensive collection of NItro on tape
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On the best coast, erh, I mean west coast, Nitro was on at 5 and when it was over Raw started so I just watched both, BACK TO BACK TO BACK like a good little smark.
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Raeg posted:The announcer for that show was a creepy disembodied voice. What's not to love.
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FishBulb posted:On the best coast, erh, I mean west coast, Nitro was on at 5 and when it was over Raw started so I just watched both, BACK TO BACK TO BACK like a good little smark.
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Am I the only one that remembers the WWF doing the same thing for a while? Re-running Raw immediately after it finished.
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FishBulb posted:On the best coast, erh, I mean west coast, Nitro was on at 5 and when it was over Raw started so I just watched both, BACK TO BACK TO BACK like a good little smark. I use to be so excited for Monday nights because I could do the 5 hours of non-stop wrestling. Of course when they stopped airing Nitro live on the West Coast I stopped watching. Kind of bummed since I missed WCW2000.
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In 1999 I was working Monday nights, so I remember having to set up the VCR to tape the first hour of Nitro, then Raw (plus the overrun), then the last two hours of the Nitro replay, just to make sure I saw everything, and I wouldn't actually get to watch much of either show before Tuesday. If only I had all those Nitro-watching hours back...
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FishBulb posted:That's weird I don't remember them stopping I guess I must have taped one and watched the other.
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Does anyone else remember the horrifically embarrassing WCW/MTV live call-in special they did one year? I can honestly say it's the biggest trainwreck of WCW's entire existence. Even with stuff like Arquette as champ, I've never felt as bad for the company as this show. It was on a weekend where they were scheduled to do 3 hours of a tournament. From what I could tell, the tournament would be based on both actual matches and phone call votes. Because it was live and outside, there was a huge rain storm that made the ring completely unsafe. They got one tag match out of the way before putting the kibosh on any more. The three hour special was moved down to two hours. Now, the whole vote thing wasn't just for the wrestlers themselves. It was for the wrestlers matched with a music video. So instead of voting for DDP based on him being a happening dude and a popular wrestler, you'd be voting for him because he represents that Van Halen video with the chick in the ice cave from back when the dude from Extreme was lead singer. Really, an hour and fifty minutes is dedicated to two wrestlers (or three if a tag team is involved) walking to the ring and saying "Yeah, vote for me and my Madonna video SUCKAAAAA!" It ended with DDP vs. Raven (representing some Hole video) and a brawl between the two to at least give the live crowd something to go home with.
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The DDP/Raven angle was pretty awesome and I loved that whole storyline (and only saw highlights of the Mtv thing on Nitro) so I had no problems with any of that! WCW had some weird crossovers with Mtv though. That battle royal they had while Fear Factory played on a beach was... very weird. Why would Fear Factory play on a beach? To wrestling? With no point?
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Gavok posted:Does anyone else remember the horrifically embarrassing WCW/MTV live call-in special they did one year? I can honestly say it's the biggest trainwreck of WCW's entire existence. Even with stuff like Arquette as champ, I've never felt as bad for the company as this show. I do remember this 
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Never let it be forgotten that the reason for the start of the Raven DDP feud was that the flock crashed a Stuck Mojo video taping. Sure it was later retconned to be about their rivalry over being Jake Roberts favoured student, but to begin with it was because of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQB8JACkuI You have to remember that WCW treated this as being a legit invasion of a music video and not as being part of the 'videos script' which begs the question: what was the video going to be beforehand? 5 minutes of DDP standing half naked in a ring?
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I loved the promos that Macho Man used to cut with Sting and some of the other guys around 1995 in WCW. They were just awesome. Botchamania did a year of PPV Macho Man Promos on youtube but I can't find it anymore because I think youtube shut down his account.
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Can we talk about something that WCW did that I thought was great? I really thought the WCW All-Nighter specials were awesome from top to bottom. For those not aware, WCW ran a couple of marathons on TBS of old matches and it was hosted by Tony, Larry, Bobby & Gene hanging out in what appeared to be a hotel room like they were having a sleepover of sorts and they would talk about the matches and the angles before and after they showed them.
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