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DJExile posted:I SAID, DID YOU FORGET YOUR SCISSORS???
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2019 20:06 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 22:47 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:But how did he violate the contract? By calling Hogan bald? Nobody should have given him that contract, but he's not wrong to use it and management were entirely in the wrong to attempt to supersede it. Bischoff left over it too.
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# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 06:08 |
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Yinlock posted:he can write some good stories whenever he's not huffing a bag of his own farts, which is rarely
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2019 00:41 |
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What is this good story Vince Russo wrote?
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2019 03:14 |
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DeathChicken posted:"Bray Wyatt is in the ring. Lights go out. Lights come back on. Bray Wyatt is still in the ring." Couldn't even get through booking a show without getting bored.
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2019 21:58 |
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Call me when they get all the Saturday Nights and I still won't give the company money, but I'll be bummed I can't throw on the ol' 6:05 mothership whenever I'm bored.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2019 03:54 |
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MrBling posted:Spring Stampede 99 (the April ppv) was probably the best PPV they would have until the very end in 2001 when there was no real booking to care about. But I guess quality of show doesn't always correlate with buy rates.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2019 21:53 |
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ChrisBTY posted:Hogan vs Shawn was a situation where everybody got what they deserved. Hogan got clowned on, Shawn didn't get his way and ate a pin, Vince had a once in a lifetime match turned into a farce.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2019 00:53 |
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oldpainless posted:She also named the boat Alimony
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2019 07:16 |
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The superior 3 Stooges name was Hammond Egger.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2020 23:33 |
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It's loving wild that Juggalos and Furries were our mortal enemies and only when the fascist takeover of the U.S.'s government happened did we realize we were the assholes.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 04:47 |
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rare Magic card l00k posted:Mike Awesome is the dangerous worker people pretend Goldberg was. DeathChicken posted:Blitzkrieg was the single reason I was watching Nitro for awhile. He was that good I got to see him wrestle at Spring Stempede 99 and hell yeah, he was freakin' awesome.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 22:35 |
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You don't have to be blood related to be family.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2020 23:31 |
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remusclaw posted:Hogan isn't going to back a push of someone who has talent. His M.O. has always been to get his untalented friends jobs. Anybody who could threaten him though? No way Jack. Horace was safe, making money on the under-card, no fan was asking for a Horace Hogan push. Awesome on the other, Hogan would see him as a threat, he would either get him turned and squash him or, say, have him do a dumb Beefcake style gimmick that has a clear ceiling.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2020 01:11 |
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TheKingslayer posted:I appreciate this reference.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2020 05:52 |
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Hirez posted:The only thing about Bret Hart in WCW I remember was him wearing that plate of armor under his shirt when Goldberg speared him Then Kevin Nash went on The Tonight Show and said since Bret didn't work for WCW anymore, he couldn't wrestle him there, but he'd wrestle him on The Tonight Show. Another big bit of cross-promotion after their collaboration for Road Wild '98. But then Owen died and it all got scrapped. So they brought him back, he did the tribute match with Owen, and by the end of the year he was champ and nWo 2000 formed, but then Goldberg kicked him into retirement.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2020 01:48 |
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Why do we call him surfer Sting? When I think of surfers, I don't think of a body builder with a bleached flat-top wearing a Sgt. Pepper jacket.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2020 02:21 |
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Punch McLightning posted:He went to WWE when he was 45, which Vince thinks is ancient and not worth pushing.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 03:27 |
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ChrisBTY posted:DDP and Flair turned heel on the same night Nash and Hogan turned face for no good goddamn reason.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 04:25 |
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Q_res posted:It's really stupid because they should have remembered how much nobody gave a gently caress about DDP when he was a heel pre-NWO. He was basically an anonymous mid-card heel until he got the offer to join the NWO. I think that was the first time someone told the NWO to gently caress off and actually got one over on them. The fans ate it up and he rode that and a cool finish to being over as gently caress. Goldberg Vs. Austin, champion vs. champion, and also they kinda' look alike. Sting Vs. Undertaker, because they're both spooky and play theatrical mind games. and DDP vs. The Rock, People's Champion vs. People's Champion. That card would've done 2 million loving buys.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 05:39 |
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shiksa posted:mein gott
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 19:28 |
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Punch McLightning posted:Lash LeRoux was the last new thing I remember loving about WCW before I stopped watching wrestling for about eight years, and I can’t make myself go back and watch anything out of fear that he was Actually Bad. Lash LeRoux should've been an over-as-gently caress television champion contender at least.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2020 05:14 |
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I'd argue WCW did way more with Raven than WWE did. He had the run with the flock, which made Kidman, Kanyon, and Saturn into viable midcard acts, culminating in one of WCW's only actual blowoff angles of the era, where Saturn beat Raven to disband the Flock at Fall Brawl '98. He was kinda' directionless after, tagging with Kanyon and Saturn after his Ferris Beuller vignettes, but in WWE I don't think he was ever even part of his own angle.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 23:01 |
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TNA was so good during that post-FS1, Pre-Spike days right up to that moment they rehired Russo that I went full "it's just a little airborne! It's still good! It's still good!" for like eight years because I hated WWE so much.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 23:29 |
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I love that the birdshit logo was so bad that WCW magazine probably took one look at it, said "absolutely not," and had their graphic designer make a different one.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 21:43 |
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The Big Gold Belt was an upgrade in every way, but WWE owns that design now, and the NWA is primarily driven by nostalgia, so they won't ever change it.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 06:09 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:The AEW title is very clearly inspired by the Big Gold Belt (at least in the sense of being A) quite large and B) quite gold.)
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2020 04:25 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:The design of the AEW title is far better than that TNA nonsense but Big Gold will always be the best
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2020 04:34 |
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MassRafTer posted:The TNA title is so worthless Sting once basically gave up in a match so AJ Styles could get a shot at it.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2020 23:16 |
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rujasu posted:I know Russo is an easy target but he really did take an already-declining product and immediately make it unwatchable. Pre-Russo WCW was uneven but worthwhile overall. Russo's WCW was some of the worst TV I have ever watched.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 23:57 |
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Sullivan booked WCW during its best period, but he wasn't alone. And that period in 2000 between Russo's first and second runs was abysmal. Al Greene was a literal dog. A dog in the body of a man, wrestling matches. Holy poo poo was that era ever terrible.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2020 22:46 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:Halloween Havoc 98 at least has a good main (that a lot of people didn't see because of the PPV screwup.)
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 04:29 |
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DJExile posted:This was seriously the most absurd thing. They went through the time and expense of running a third hour and did less than nothing with it. Eric was so loving obsessed with winning the head-to-head ratings that he never bothered to put an entire unopposed hour in prime time to use. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what we're talking about.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2020 02:52 |
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STAC Goat posted:The fact that WCW used to have a different set of announcers for the first hour certainly didn't help dissuade the "preshow" idea. Tato posted:It could not be more obvious by mid 98 that Bischoff is checked out and trying to move to Hollywood with his Jason Hervey contacts and letting the whole thing go to poo poo. But no one in Turner understands what’s up, the ratings are okay, just let it roll. But the damage being done in that period is catastrophic.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2020 03:55 |
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Tato posted:Yes. Several Observers from the second half of 1998 go into detail about how Bischoff isn't there, how he's in Hollywood trying to make contacts, how he's left Nash in charge of booking and starts not even showing up to tapings some weeks. You could say that maybe he saw the sinking ship on the horizon and was starting to bail once the ratings war got hard, but he was definitely putting a foot out the door. He was obviously hoping to catapult the WCW success into moving upwards in Turner or to another production company, but it didn't work out. By the time he checked back in, stuff was truly hosed. I don't think he would have let Nash destroy things so much if he intended to come back. Better Than You posted:The thing that annoyed me the most about the cruiserweight matches back when Nitro was kicking RAW's rear end in the ratings every week was that the announcers would literally spend about 85% of the time talking about the NWO rather than the match itself. I'd rather have the matches.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2020 21:52 |
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Steiner Brothers should've been a bigger deal as a tag team and Scott Steiner should've ended Goldberg's streak.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 02:50 |
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Bill Busch was a bigger part of this than anybody ever talks about.
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# ¿ May 3, 2020 03:26 |
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Hirez posted:https://twitter.com/RickRudeSells/status/1257326075442536448
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 00:04 |
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MassRafTer posted:Fun ratings fact, in the minute by minute ratings the Nitro Girls were a huge draw.
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# ¿ May 25, 2020 23:37 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 22:47 |
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jesus WEP posted:hey sock good to see you round Flight Bisque posted:Ciclope Though I do feel a little bad for Ciclope that his biggest moment in US wrestling took place without him even being present.
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