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CaligulaKangaroo posted:Part of me really hopes they'll start adding Thunders, but that's not super likely. They did just spend a good part of their Monday Night Wars special making GBS threads on Thunder as a concept. but but but but but how will i ever found out the resolution to that week's nitro???
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I need as much hilariously bad wrestling as possible. New Blood Rising 2000 can only be watched so often.
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Thunder was great because they'd be like "TONIGHT!!! Glacier and Jerry Flynn team up to take on Villlano V and Silver King!!!" Hardcore Hak, Norman Smiley and Bam Bam Bigelow have a 3 way dance for the Hardcore title! And in our main event, Van Hammer faces Perry Saturn!!! NEXT ON THUNDERRRRRRRRR" and you'd be like "My God, what is this?"
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Pretty much the same as Saturday night after nitro came around. And an epic battle that could decide the future of wcw as buff bagwell and big bubba take on Alex wright and Chaco Guerrero.
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Jan 20, 2016 10:02
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What's the Raw episode where Shawn cut his "lost my smile" promo?
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Jan 20, 2016 10:04
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That was on the Thursday Raw Thursday show. Sadly it isn't on the network. That episode along with 2 episodes of Friday night's main event are missing from 1997. I can see why they did not put the Friday night's main event shows up as they had a totally different name but the Thursday Raw is an odd omission. It also had Rock vs Triple H for the IC title and was the last Raw before the final four PPV.
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Glamorama26 posted:Thunder was great because they'd be like "TONIGHT!!! Glacier and Jerry Flynn team up to take on Villlano V and Silver King!!!" Hardcore Hak, Norman Smiley and Bam Bam Bigelow have a 3 way dance for the Hardcore title! And in our main event, Van Hammer faces Perry Saturn!!! NEXT ON THUNDERRRRRRRRR" and you'd be like "My God, what is this?" Thunder mate.
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Jesus Vince, if you knew Heenan was leaving you needed something better than 'Just throw a wrestler in every week to commentate with me'. We've had The Quebecers one episode and loving Crush the next.
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DrVenkman posted:Jesus Vince, if you knew Heenan was leaving you needed something better than 'Just throw a wrestler in every week to commentate with me'. We've had The Quebecers one episode and loving Crush the next. Yeah Vince was clearly adrift without Bobby. I think Rob Bartlett was clearly the plan until he actually got on the air and everyone realized their horrible mistake. (And still he was there for ~3 months). Almost as bad is replacing Mean Gene in the PPV hype segments with Todd Pettingil.
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I think a lot of that was just filling time and trying to find something that works until Jerry Lawler was back. Bobby left in late 93, in the middle of Lawler taking time off because of that rape allegation.
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I watched the first Raw again last night. I had a version of it off the best of Raw Dvd but that had a bunch of stuff cut out for various reasons and some redubbed commentary. So this was the first time I actually heard the Tyson impersonation. Holy poo poo.
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TL posted:I think a lot of that was just filling time and trying to find something that works until Jerry Lawler was back. Bobby left in late 93, in the middle of Lawler taking time off because of that rape allegation. Even then it was a while before Lawler was on commentary full time, no? In '94 he's still doing the King's Court and such.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah Vince was clearly adrift without Bobby. I think Rob Bartlett was clearly the plan until he actually got on the air and everyone realized their horrible mistake. (And still he was there for ~3 months). Johnny Polo replacing Heenan on All American for a few months was really fun. It's a shame stuff like that will probably never be on the network.
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Slick Ric literally ripping up $100 bills on the nitro after Starcade, one week before the finger poke of doom. It's the blue boxer promo, one of his best of the nitro era.
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Just noticed last night that they have every Raw (excluding Thursday and Friday episodes) right up until the end of 2001, which is incredible. I'm still working my way through mid-98 but it's cool to know I can just keep going for another few years and catch up on all the stuff I missed between PPVs. The shame about going through the 1998 stuff is having to sit through Brawl For All, which has me gripped out of curiosity. Also I think Dan Severn has lost a lot of mystique since seeing him cut that promo where he explained why he left the competition.
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The Jim Crocket Promotions shows are amazing. Squash matches and amazing promo's from everyone. More of this.
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The NWA shows are must-see just for the promos alone. You know you got something special when Superstar Billy Graham is like the fifth-best talker on your roster.
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Well we have a new challenger. I thought Crush was going to be the worst, but Vince had to do a show with Bastion Booger. Do you like 45 minutes of "You promised me food McMahon/You're fat" jokes, because have I got the show for you. In fact I'd be hesitant to call them jokes. This was in fact after we had an episode with Vince and JR, though hilariously someone has clearly told JR to smile on camera at all times and he looks so goofy doing it. Incredibly white teeth though. The 'Should Macho Man be allowed on TV' line that turned into 'Should Lex be allowed in the Rumble?' line has now turned into 'Who do you think won the Rumble?' line. Pentingill is getting a lot of money out of gullible kids.
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So is the WWE Network part of T-Mobile's Binge On now? It's not counting towards my data cap anymore.
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magnum_valentino posted:Also I think Dan Severn has lost a lot of mystique since seeing him cut that promo where he explained why he left the competition. Is it because of his stupid baby voice because that was what ruined it for me
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They added the episode of WCW Nitro that has absolutely no wrestling within the entire first hour http://network.wwe.com/video/v539775383 If you need a reminder http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/induction-the-nitro-with-no-wrestling-60-minutes-of-absolute-nothingness/
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I like that the description calls it an "exciting episode of Nitro"
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titties posted:Is it because of his stupid baby voice because that was what ruined it for me It is indeed
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DrVenkman posted:Do you like 45 minutes of "You promised me food McMahon/You're fat" jokes, because have I got the show for you. In fact I'd be hesitant to call them jokes. I like fat shaming, so this is OK with me. Of the early Raw's, I always found the current date news and entertainment references odd. Like the product was so bad they had to talk about random news tidbits to maintain attention. Also, the best phone in option has to be the one asking wrestling fans whether OJ was guilty or innocent of murder.
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Watching a pre-Summerslam show in 1998 last night I was amused by the Clinton impersonator being credited onscreen simply as "The President". But by nothing else he actually said or that was said to him.
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I like you can tell the moment in which Wahoo discovered he was dropping the National title to Nikita as the show when the match is announced he is an absolute dickhead to a jobber. He just stiffs the poo poo out of him, doesn't protect him on anything and acts more heelish than anyone on the card.
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magnum_valentino posted:Watching a pre-Summerslam show in 1998 last night I was amused by the Clinton impersonator being credited onscreen simply as "The President". Why the gently caress did they ever bother with pretending the President was in the audience? Did anyone ever fall for it?
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Vince thought it was hilarious. Also I think the impersonator was friends with Todd Pettengill which is how he got the gig. He got used like 4 or 5 times over the years.
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If you can stand to be with Todd, you should get some sort of perk.
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Skinty McEdger posted:Vince thought it was hilarious. Also I think the impersonator was friends with Todd Pettengill which is how he got the gig. He got used like 4 or 5 times over the years. He was even at Wrestlemania X!
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Xerzes posted:He was even at Wrestlemania X! Which I just watched last night. When they had him stand up it's like ok, I'm sure that at a distance it'll be enough to fool some people. But then later Petingill interviews him and I could probably do a better Clinton impression. And I'm Welsh. CoolCat posted:I like fat shaming, so this is OK with me. Recent mentions are someone potentially taking over a coaching position in Baseball. And two lottery winners. It's this weird peppering in of like Vince just giving you the news when there's a lull in the match.
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It was Vinces way of creating the illusion the shows were live and not tapped weeks before.
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MassRafTer posted:I'm laughing at everyone who is starting Nitro now instead of joining us in the glory of January '99. You run Nitros at times when I'm at the gym 
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When does Terry Funk start hitting people with chickens, that's when Nitro gets good
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1st AD posted:You run Nitros at times when I'm at the gym I re-arrange my work schedule for Nitro, the least you can do is re-schedule your work outs. Nitro demands sacrifices.
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MassRafTer posted:I re-arrange my work schedule for Nitro, the least you can do is re-schedule your work outs. Yeah, like watching it
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https://twitter.com/JoeyStyles/status/690892605912121344
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Sweet. I always wanted to see all of ECW from start to finish. Although I guess "start," would be Douglas' big throwing down on the NWA belt which won't be there.
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I want to watch a post attitude era royal rumble, what is one of the better ones?
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