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Disco pops up on one of the first Nitro episodes trying to hock his CD. Was this a real CD or was it just part of the act?
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The new Kayfabe Commentaries Timeline of WCW 1996 with Kevin Sullivan is pretty solid. Sullivan has a great memory and gives lots of insight into the booking, particularly with Hulk and his mindset in that time. Amusingly, he said that Hulk was "really, really content" after the Doomsday Cage match at Uncensored.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:11
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The American Dream posted:And he was so loving over you wouldn't believe. The WWF had a Elvis impersonater in the 1980's who was also over as gently caress. Out of date music guy is a great gimmick. 3MB would do a lot better if they made it clear that they were a 90's rock ballad band.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:31
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When the gently caress was Disco Inferno actually over? He was a one note joke and real bad at all things wrestling.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:40
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Hirams Bitch posted:When the gently caress was Disco Inferno actually over? He was a one note joke and real bad at all things wrestling. Late 90s pro wrestling was a wonderful time, when pretty much anybody at all could get over.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:41
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Disco Inferno and Lash Leroux were two guys whom I absolutely loved for no real reason.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:44
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coconono posted:Disco Inferno and Lash Leroux were two guys whom I absolutely loved for no real reason. It's the sideburns. The Ls.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:53
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Disco did this which is the only good thing to come out of WCW making us suffer through Konnan's music video 300 times http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4EPbNWxtXA
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Jun 26, 2013 21:00
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I forgot about Konnan's video but I could hear Disco's version as soon as you mentioned it.
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Jun 26, 2013 21:03
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Observer quotesquote:The 4/15 Nitro from Charleston, WV (8,040 fans; 6,381 paying $67,152 which are phenomenal numbers considering there was a tornado watch in town at the time of the show) had more controversy behind the scenes than in front. Coming off the 4/1 show where Hogan and Booty Man were booed out of Cleveland, the talk once again surfaced to turn him heel. Due to miscommunications, both Hogan and Booty then no-showed the 4/3 Birmingham WCW Saturday Night tapings. Hogan sent word that he had a movie deal that would take him out of action until August, and plans were made for him to do the serious injury angle on the 4/15 show and for him to be written out of all plans. There was also a lot of internal belief that using him every Monday night was a situation that would turn into diminishing or lack of returns and to use him on occasion as a special feature. Anyway, Hogan changed his mind at the 11th hour again and not decided against the injury angle, but instead not only won a handicap match, but popped up from the Giant's choke slam and slammed the Giant and ran him off as well. This only served to make Sting and Lex Luger look that much weaker since later in the show, they had to take the Giant's choke slam and lay there for several minutes. Hogan wanted to stick around since the movie deal isn't a sure thing. Anyway, Hogan beat Arn Anderson & Kevin Sullivan in a horrible handicap match in 4:18 when he legdropped Kevin. Hogan looked worse than a green independent wrestler with his horrible looking offense and his inability to do figure four spots both heels set up perfectly for him. After the match, where Hogan was to get 5:00 with the manager of his choosing, he first teased he was going to clean Woman's clock, then Liz (who is looking even more uncomfortable and out of place in her role by the week), and wound up throwing around Jimmy Hart, who at 55 years old, actually took better bumps than anyone on the show besides Flair. Giant showed up and choke-slammed Hogan, who popped up, did a foot to face and bodyslammed Giant. Gene Okerlund then snuck up behind Hogan as if he was going to turn heel, and Hogan picked him up for a slam and then saw who it was and let him go. (-**); quote:There is talk of Nitro going to two hours every Monday night. The idea behind it is that TNT would increase its weekly payment to WCW for the second hour which would make WCW even more profitable and with the added money they can acquire even more talent. It would also give them a one hour jump on Titan since the hour would be in place of "Thunder in Paradise." Even if two hours is overexposure from a wrestling standpoint, from a TNT standpoint, an hour of Nitro would do double the ratings of Thunder. quote:[Bischoff went on the radio and] ripped Kevin Nash, saying reports of a $700,000 three-year deal aren't true (Nash is actually telling everyone the three year deal is for $780,000 per) and said he had made no deal with Nash (Nash has a deal with WCW so why he said that is confusing) quote:Razor Ramon and Diesel both finish up on 5/19. I believe that after the PPV and TV tapings, both are only going to work the Baltimore, Philadelphia and MSG house show run 5/17 to 5/19 and that's it. There is no truth to any rumors that Ramon wanted to stay and was turned down. algebra testes fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Jun 27, 2013 |
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Jun 27, 2013 02:15
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How far are we from that stuff in the Weekly Nitros? I have no idea where we are but that looks like some fun stuff to watch in a trainwrecky way.
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Stallion Cabana posted:How far are we from that stuff in the Weekly Nitros? I have no idea where we are but that looks like some fun stuff to watch in a trainwrecky way.
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Jun 27, 2013 02:39
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Hirams Bitch posted:When the gently caress was Disco Inferno actually over? He was a one note joke and real bad at all things wrestling. We're not saying we wanted more then the 6 minute matches he got and he deserved more then a tv title run. But it worked for him and worked for us.
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Jun 27, 2013 03:19
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oatgan posted:We're a month and a half ahead of it actually. The last show we watched was the first 2 hour nitro
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Jun 27, 2013 06:50
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LividLiquid posted:Have you guys considered taking a little time off and then running the Tuesday before or after Dave posts that week's newsletter? That would be pretty cool. That was my original intention but one episode a week wasn't enough so we do two. Unless people get tired of two episodes a week we'll probably stick to that. It's possible but now that 20 people are sticking around to watch a TNA weekly after two Nitros I am not betting on it.
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Jun 27, 2013 07:07
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This is when WCW starting really turning up; the nWo feud was super hot obviously, but having the crusierweight title along with Rey really helped the undercards.
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Willninho posted:This is when WCW starting really turning up; the nWo feud was super hot obviously, but having the crusierweight title along with Rey really helped the undercards. Coming up soon is Rey's greatest match. Rey vs trailer.
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Jun 27, 2013 18:46
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bobkatt013 posted:Rey vs trailer. HARD TIMES
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Jun 27, 2013 18:50
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flashy_mcflash posted:HARD TIMES "When a lazy seven foot tall man throws you headfirst into a trailer and refers to you as the Human Dart, that's hard times, daddy!
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Jun 27, 2013 19:02
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El Gallinero Gros posted:"When a lazy seven foot tall man throws you headfirst into a trailer and refers to you as the Human Dart, that's hard times, daddy! Every time I see "daddy" in relation to pro-wrestling I immediately read it in Bill Alphonso's voice. It's never not hilarious.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:31
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Cromulent posted:The new Kayfabe Commentaries Timeline of WCW 1996 with Kevin Sullivan is pretty solid. Sullivan has a great memory and gives lots of insight into the booking, particularly with Hulk and his mindset in that time. Amusingly, he said that Hulk was "really, really content" after the Doomsday Cage match at Uncensored. I want to see this. I don't know why I'm so fascinated with anything Sullivan says. Maybe it's because he pretended to be Charles Manson but talked in Popeye the Sailor Man's voice.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:34
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The more old Nitro we watch old Nitros, the more I have come to love the team of Ice Train and Scott Norton. I love big fat yet agile men press slamming other large men and inexplicably doing dives from the apron.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:45
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I want there to have been a stable of Scott Steiner, Scott Hall, and Scott Norton, who only ever referred to each other as "Scott" and knew immediately every time who was being addressed.
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Jun 27, 2013 20:16
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Halloween Jack posted:I want to see this. I don't know why I'm so fascinated with anything Sullivan says. Maybe it's because he pretended to be Charles Manson but talked in Popeye the Sailor Man's voice.
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Jun 27, 2013 21:15
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The American Dream posted:We're not saying we wanted more then the 6 minute matches he got and he deserved more then a tv title run. But it worked for him and worked for us. The man had to pull out instructions on how to apply his finisher during matches. That's awesome no matter how you look at it. LvK posted:I want there to have been a stable of Scott Steiner, Scott Hall, and Scott Norton, who only ever referred to each other as "Scott" and knew immediately every time who was being addressed. Fantasy booking is stupid, but sometimes gold can be found. This is one of them.
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Jun 28, 2013 00:16
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Jesus, Miss Elizabeth just wasn't comfortable at all on camera. She's just switched from Savage to Flair in early 96. Mean Gene wants to know why so she starts to explain...then just stops and smiles. She literally stops mid sentence as she forgets her lines. Thankfully Flair is such a pro that he covers up and prompts her to go on but man...it was bad.
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Jun 28, 2013 09:46
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LvK posted:I want there to have been a stable of Scott Steiner, Scott Hall, and Scott Norton, who only ever referred to each other as "Scott" and knew immediately every time who was being addressed. They could have feuded with Raven and Bam Bam Bigelow.
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Jun 28, 2013 17:41
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Don't forget Scotty 2 Hotty
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Jun 28, 2013 18:26
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LvK posted:I want there to have been a stable of Scott Steiner, Scott Hall, and Scott Norton, who only ever referred to each other as "Scott" and knew immediately every time who was being addressed. They were all in nWo black and white in 1998.
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Jun 28, 2013 18:43
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One of the smaller differences between WWE and WCW was the wrestler entrances. WCW wrestlers had a much longer walk to the ring and would often look directly at the camera and trash talk it all the way to the ring. Now the only superstar who gets to do that is John Cena when he first comes out 
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21 Hoot Salute posted:WCW wrestlers had a much longer walk to the ring and would often look directly at the camera and trash talk it all the way to the ring. So many of my childhood wrestling memories consist of luchadores swearing in Spanish at the camera as they entered 
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Jun 29, 2013 18:06
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21 Hoot Salute posted:One of the smaller differences between WWE and WCW was the wrestler entrances. WCW wrestlers had a much longer walk to the ring and would often look directly at the camera and trash talk it all the way to the ring. I hate how the WWE never gets the camera close enough to pick up what the hell any wrestler is saying during their entrance, they just look like they're rambling to themselves.
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21 Hoot Salute posted:One of the smaller differences between WWE and WCW was the wrestler entrances. WCW wrestlers had a much longer walk to the ring and would often look directly at the camera and trash talk it all the way to the ring. My big problem with this is that I could never hear what they were saying over the crowd noise, the music and the commentators, which gave the whole thing a really bush league feel to me.
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MassRafTer posted:That was my original intention but one episode a week wasn't enough so we do two. Unless people get tired of two episodes a week we'll probably stick to that. It's possible but now that 20 people are sticking around to watch a TNA weekly after two Nitros I am not betting on it. we're gonna be hitting the 2 hour shows pretty soon so maybe we can go back to one a week at that point.
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Jun 30, 2013 05:49
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John Cena posted:we're gonna be hitting the 2 hour shows pretty soon so maybe we can go back to one a week at that point. We hit 2 hour episodes this week, everyone wanted to keep doing two.
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Jerusalem posted:My big problem with this is that I could never hear what they were saying over the crowd noise, the music and the commentators, which gave the whole thing a really bush league feel to me. It really looked like the left hand wasn't talking to the right. On the other hand, that did make things feel more real somewhat.
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Jun 30, 2013 08:00
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I seem to recall at least one match starting without a referee in the ring. At this point I'd believe that someone forgot to assign a referee to the match (one ran in about 30 seconds after the bell rung).
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Picked up the war games DVD today. Even with poo poo camera work and poor lighting the old war games are so much better than from hogans era onward its disgusting.
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Nitro is coming up at 8 PM, a little less than half an hour! http://www.psp-tv.com/r/greatestnitroinhistoryofoursport
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New back issue up which features the aftermath of the Pillman accident.Observer posted:Brian Pillman was released from University Hospital in Cincinnati on 4/19 after rolling him humvee (open-air military vehicle) four nights earlier and suffering numerous injuries, the most serious of which was a crushed ankle. So Dave was being worked here, yes? Doctors really told him that he should never wrestle again right? Observer posted:It appears Hulk Hogan won't be around until August as he's taking time off to do a movie. There's a lot of sentiment that Hogan brought the company to a new level that they couldn't have reached without him, but that it's better for all concerned if Hogan only appeared on a few guest shots a year rather than dominated every Nitro and PPV show. Tentative plan is for Hogan to return on the August PPV against either Scott Hall or Kevin Nash in their new role, although that will change 50 times between now and then. In fact, if Monday ratings drop, and they probably will even though there is no head-to-head due to the earlier time combined with it being light outside at 7 p.m., it could cause a panic and from that standpoint, Hogan's timing of leaving couldn't have been better. The weekend television ratings started their seasonal decline this week because the weather started improving so when that takes place it should be nothing for anyone to panic over but again, the timing will look great in hindsight for Hogan. Supposedly Hogan's contract with WCW expires after the PPV match with Savage which now will also be a Monster Trucks match as well. The logic of Hogan destroying everyone in sight and in particular, popping up from The Giant's finisher, when Giant laid out Sting and Luger with it when Giant and Sting are the ones the company is going to be built around all summer when he wasn't even going to be back for months shows just how much power he truly has and just how much he cares about doing the right thing for the company. So that was when this was going to debut - 
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