Flameingblack posted:

Best bet is to upload it to YouTube with a non-serchable name and hope that the WWE doesn't auto-detect something within it and block it.

Oatgan posted:

I can assure you from personal experience that you won't get flagged for any of those ppv

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Youtube content filtering can detect that loving logo on the canvas.

Phenix Rising posted:

I guess that's why some people flip the video? I guess mirroring the image helps to get past that filtering.

Jelq the Sanem posted:

How else will I know what Jeff Jarrett's shirt says? I CAN'T READ BACKWARDS

Jelq the Sanem posted:

How else will I know what Jeff Jarrett's shirt says? I CAN'T READ BACKWARDS

Jelq the Sanem posted:

How else will I know what Jeff Jarrett's shirt says? I CAN'T READ BACKWARDS

triplexpac posted:

oWn?!? What the hell is that?!

Oh right, the one warrior nation. Carry on

Perigryn posted:

I just imagined an alternate universe where WCW's big game changing angle was that and the nWo only lasted a month.

Lone Rogue posted:

This alternate universe where Warrior rapes every heel and makes them his slave while the crowd cheers in support is not so different from our own universe.

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WCW breathed a major sigh of relief because those in the company were scared its own house would be investigated and those within knew full well what even a small look at their steroid policy would reveal. Both Eric Bischoff and Vince McMahon had refused interviews for the piece. However, WCW officials were mad at their own internal screw-up which caused clips of almost nothing but Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage to be all over the piece. SI had asked for footage of Gilbert, and since the company had no economic incentive to send footage of Gilbert to Sports Illustrated, they wouldn't release the footage. Instead they sent nothing but clips of Hogan and Savage. By failing to put one-and-one together, the footage of Hogan wound up all over a story about steroids in wrestling. Alex Marvez' column in the Miami Herald included an unattributed quote to a WCW wrestler who said most of the performers in the company were using steroids.

MassRayPer posted:

From the 5/8/95 Observer.

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Hulk Hogan is opening a Pastamania restaurant at the Mall of America in Minneapolis on 6/15. This is supposed to be the initial in what they are trying to turn into a franchise. They are negotiating leases in Baltimore and Philadelphia and plan to open five restaurants this year and another 25 more in 1996. The company plans on introducing Hulk Hogan Pasta and sauces for supermarket distribution this summer. Now that's a product that sounds like a winner.

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An update on the Austin situation. A few weeks back when he left Center Stage where he was scheduled to do another job for Sting, it was because his daughter (not son as reported here) was legitimately quite ill and she was hospitalized for a few days. He definitely didn't make up an excuse that night.

Jack Krauser posted:

Love these back issues. Have the rumblings of Nitro started yet?

MassRayPer posted:

Bonus quotes: DAVE MELTZER IS SKEPTICAL!


And as we inch closer to the firing of the biggest draw in wrestling history...

Astro7x posted:

So what were the main television outlets for WCW before Nitro started? I'm guessing... Saturday Night, Worldwide and pro? Were the latter two still treated like job fests as they were later int he companies run?

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The Randy Savage heel turn is now scheduled for around the spring of 1996.

Jack Krauser posted:

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Amidst the phone messages from some long-time fans who vowed this show marked the end of their interest in wrestling, and/or WCW, the calls to wrestling radio shows over the weekend, and messages from those in the business who couldn't believe how unwatchable the entire Saturday night television show had become, was one by Jim Cornette who begged to be quoted regarding said skit.

"Three of the wrestlers who comprise the wrestling talent in that thing I have the highest respect for their work and think they're fantastic, but anybody that would take part in this thing for any price or for any contract is crazy. Anybody responsible for that f---ing abomination should not only be shot but be forced to watch that abomination over and over again until they puke up their toenails before being shot. And they wonder why they can't do any business? I think everyone involved should suffer the most horrible painful death possible because of the money they're taking out of all our pockets who are trying to preserve this business that is rapidly going down the tubes.”

The American Dream posted:

WCW World Tag Team Champions The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) fought The Miracle Violence Connection (Terry Gordy and Steve Williams) to a time-limit draw (30:00)

What the gently caress is this main event? The card from Beach Blast 1 also features Raven v Pillman for 17 minutes and a Steamboat v Rude 30 minute Iron Man match. Can anyone tell me how these 3 matches are?

This is also no the Beach Blast with the movie for anyone who cares.

Tato posted:

We focus a lot on the fun and idiocy of latter day WCW because it was such an impressive tailspin of suck, but let us not forget how bad WCW was in the early '90s as well. Here's a fun quote from Jim Cornette about the Beach Blash mini-movie (from the Observer):

The American Dream posted:

WCW World Tag Team Champions The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) fought The Miracle Violence Connection (Terry Gordy and Steve Williams) to a time-limit draw (30:00)

What the gently caress is this main event?

Tato posted:

We focus a lot on the fun and idiocy of latter day WCW because it was such an impressive tailspin of suck, but let us not forget how bad WCW was in the early '90s as well. Here's a fun quote from Jim Cornette about the Beach Blash mini-movie (from the Observer):

The American Dream posted:

WCW World Tag Team Champions The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) fought The Miracle Violence Connection (Terry Gordy and Steve Williams) to a time-limit draw (30:00)

What the gently caress is this main event? The card from Beach Blast 1 also features Raven v Pillman for 17 minutes and a Steamboat v Rude 30 minute Iron Man match. Can anyone tell me how these 3 matches are?

This is also no the Beach Blast with the movie for anyone who cares.

BAN DICKEYE posted:

i miss the days tag teams were a draw

BAN DICKEYE posted:

i miss the days tag teams were a draw

LividLiquid posted:

Beer Money/MCMG was only like a year ago. That was nice.

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Behind the scenes the biggest story involved a four-day long soap opera involving Steve Austin (Steve Williams) and The Renegade (Rick Williams). Before the tapings, WCW received a cease and desist order from Titan Sports claiming the character Renegade was a trademark infringement on their own developed character of the Ultimate Warrior. While that's an open-and-shut case, the timing of it was curious since the same case could be made about Hunter Hearst Helmsley being nearly completely lifted from the WCW character of Lord Steven Regal just a few weeks later. Can you imagine if this actually went to court? Titan's attorneys would argue that they developed the intellectual character of a no-talent steroid freak who can't work a lick, paints his face, blows up in 30 seconds, runs around like he's spastic, shakes the ropes and does unintelligible interviews and by gosh, judge, they're copying our ideas and we want damages. The judge would probably rule in favor of Titan and say the damages are worth 50 cents. Next thing you know Vader and Bam Bam Bigelow will go to court against each other claiming they're stealing each others' fat man moves and gimmick.

Renegade was told by WCW that he couldn't shake the ropes any longer and they did away with the tassels around his arms and made some minor clothing adjustments. Then they wanted him to pin Austin in about 10:00. That's where the problem came in.

It started on Wednesday. Austin refused to do the job for Renegade. When the dust settled, it appeared to have been a dead issue. Austin became something of a hero at least to some, if not many in the dressing room, particularly those around for any length of time. Many are tired of newcomers, some of whom had no talent, that are either ex-WWF characters past their prime or copies of such, beating and burying those who had been around for years but had been shoved aside just as they were entering their wrestling prime. The argument was wrestlers like Austin, Brian Pillman, Johnny B. Badd, Steve Regal and others represented a system that failed and had been around too long to do much with them. It was frustrating on both ends. The first three are all making $200,000+ annually on guaranteed contracts but aren't even in a significant position. With the exception of Regal, who has been put in a tag team program with Bobby Eaton, the other three, who were supposed to be the future of the company three years ago, are making a lot of money and getting no push.

Austin was branded as colorless. Badd was told to tone down his ring entrances. Pillman was going to be the star of the cruiserweight division that never seems to get off the ground. Blame was placed in many circles on the older wrestlers who were in power for holding back the newcomers so they could keep the top spots for themselves or their friends. Nobody could even figure out who wanted Austin to do a job for Renegade since the buck was being passed and people were told that the booker, Ric Flair, was incommunicado because his hotel in North Korea was being bugged, forgetting that many could read a calendar and realized Flair had left North Korea several days earlier.

Finally, after returning from the Fukuoka Dome show, Flair arrived in Disney on Saturday, and he and Anderson spent a long time attempting to convince Austin to do the job. Austin refused and wound up walking out. Supposedly Anderson told him that what Austin had to do wasn't that bad because Anderson himself at the June PPV was going to do a job for Renegade in 30 seconds, I suspect for the TV title although that wasn't made definite to me (similar to the Ultimate Warrior-Honkytonk Man gimmick in the IC title match several years ago since Renegade is supposed to be Ultimate Warrior). Flair naturally brought up all the jobs he's done during his career for guys just as bad. Well, maybe almost as bad. Austin had made up his mind and Tex Slazenger wound up taking his place in the match which was called totally unairable and worse than the Sid Vicious-Night Stalker Clash match in 1990 or any other match in company history, which covers significant ground. Supposedly by the two minute mark, several of the vets, frustrated themselves, were on the floor laughing as Renegade threw limp looking punches and somehow brought Slazenger down to his level. At press time nobody knew exactly what Austin's future was with the company although he had not quit nor been fired and met with Eric Bischoff on Monday and seemed to end up with everything cleared up. There was a surprising amount of sentiment backing him as compared with most wrestlers who won't do a job and the general consensus is that he won't lose his job over it.

Earlier in the week at Disney, Renegade had been heavily tutored by Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart and Randy Savage to get through highly choreographed 30 second matches squashes which were passable, although apparently the attempt to have him do an interview building up to the TV title match with Arn Anderson in June with Hart as his manager took something like two dozen takes with his lines reduced from three sentences to a few grunts of "I want the belt."

MassRayPer posted:

Matches that drew zero money.

LividLiquid posted:

TNA's biggest revenue source is television, and their matches were pretty highly rated, so I'm pretty sure that in modern terms, yes it did draw. It drew viewers, anyway.

But nobody's a draw but Sammartino anyway.

LividLiquid posted:

TNA's biggest revenue source is television, and their matches were pretty highly rated, so I'm pretty sure that in modern terms, yes it did draw. It drew viewers, anyway.

But nobody's a draw but Sammartino anyway.

LividLiquid posted:

But nobody's a draw but Sammartino anyway.

MassRayPer posted:

I'm not even going to pretend that I remember what the ratings for their matches are, but given the nature of TNA's TV ratings... yeah. TV ratings don't directly correlate with money for TNA so let's not even pretend this is the case. If either company could make tag teams a draw we'd see way more tag team wrestling in high places on the card instead of half hearted pushes or claims that tag team wrestling matters.