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| Mad Dog | Jan 22 2012, 06:15 PM Post #106 |
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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The Dream Team was really a good pairing when you look back on it. Valentine did all of the inring work and Beefcake stood on the apron and got heat for the team. It really covered both men's flaws quite well. Bravo didn't work out because Bravo really doesn't have any charisma and is a pretty mediocre worker. |
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| Erick Von Erich | Jan 23 2012, 12:29 PM Post #107 |
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I'm Big E and I tell it like it is
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Classics OnDemand did something semi-cool this week: they dug up an episode of "(WWWF) Championship Wrestling" from April 14, 1977. It appears that they will be continuing on with these, in order. This episode features the debut of Peter Maivia. They tried to re-air TNT (again), but they seem to have shelved that idea. |
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| Mad Dog | Feb 4 2012, 05:34 PM Post #108 |
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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I've come into possession of the entire 1989 run of WCW Saturday Night. Looking forward to it. |
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| Scrooge McSuck | Feb 4 2012, 10:43 PM Post #109 |
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I'll get you next time, toilet!
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Nice. If I had to choose between a years run of any WWF programs from the squash era, and any show ever produced by JCP/WCW from the mid 80's through mid 90's, I laugh at the thought I would even consider any of the WWF shows. |
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| Mad Dog | Feb 5 2012, 06:23 AM Post #110 |
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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WWF squashes are just so fucking boring. Guys just sleep walking through a match with no passion and the matches go too long. NWA on the other hand. I could watch hours of squash matches and never get bored. Seeing the jobbers pinball for guys like Koloff is great. Plus, the WWF jobbers always seemed like any bum off the street that agreed to take $50 where as the NWA jobbers seemed like competent wrestlers. |
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| Infinite Devil Machine | Feb 5 2012, 01:35 PM Post #111 |
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A Very Cunning Linguist
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You know, everybody always talks about the WWF tag-team rennaisance of 2000-2001. Does anybody else remember WCW's tag-team resurgence from about 1999 through 2000? Raven/Saturn, Benoit/Malenko, and Rey Mysterio/Kidman were tearing down the house in every match and actually making the sinking ship known as WCW look good. And those matches never get praised as WCW's best. Even though, for latter day WCW, they really are. |
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| Mad Dog | Feb 5 2012, 03:59 PM Post #112 |
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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It died off a lot as they went into the No Limit Soldiers shit. They transitioned into the Jersey Triad which was good but then Harlem Heat reformed and that was bad. Then Russo came in and it fell off a cliff. Hennig/Windham were also in those 3 teams you mentioned and they were really good too. |
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| Mad Dog | Feb 6 2012, 07:01 PM Post #113 |
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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Recent gets: 1989 WCW Saturday Night 1992 WCW Saturday Night 1993 WCW Saturday Night 1995 WCW Monday Nitro Thinking about getting ahold of 2001 WCW Nitro and Thunder and seeing how the last 3 months of the company holds up. |
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| Erick Von Erich | Feb 6 2012, 07:04 PM Post #114 |
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I'm Big E and I tell it like it is
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3 Count, Jung Dragons and even Vampiro/Muta weren't all that bad, either. |
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| Mad Dog | Feb 6 2012, 07:18 PM Post #115 |
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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I remember it kind of hitting a certain stride and felt like the company was on a creative upswing before the end came. |
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| Erick Von Erich | Feb 6 2012, 10:30 PM Post #116 |
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I'm Big E and I tell it like it is
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The last Nitro on March 27 (or so) , 2001 may have been one of my favorite wrestling shows, ever. I wasn't all that crazy about how it ended with a Vince vs. Shane McMahon promo, but the matches on there were entertaining. I got a little suckered into the whole "oooh, now all this stuff will be continued in the WWF" concept they were selling. But we all know that didn't work out as planned. There was some awful stuff in early 2001, though. Like Road Warrior Animal as the "mystery partner"or Flair vs Dusty round 8,793. You had to give them credit for giving a push to guys like Mike Sanders, "Air Paris", "Jason Jett", Shane Helms and Chuck Palumbo. It's too bad Booker T got sidelined at the end of 2000 into 2001, because it was really his company from about July '00 to October '00. Booker vs. Lance Storm was their main program for awhile (around August to September), but I think injuries stalled it. |
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| Scrooge McSuck | Feb 6 2012, 10:40 PM Post #117 |
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I'll get you next time, toilet!
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I remember watching that show, and it was kind of depressing." Most of the matches were entertaining for television (except a stinker between Bam Bam and Stasiak, I think), and it ended with Sting/Flair, and the bastards in WWF cut-away right as they hugged after the match, like a big old "fuck you" to WCW and its fans. |
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| Erick Von Erich | Feb 7 2012, 08:11 AM Post #118 |
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I'm Big E and I tell it like it is
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Absolutely right. I remember Scott Hudson saying something like: "thank you Rick Fleihr. Thank you, Steve Borden, for what you've done for WCW... and our sport". Then, BOOM, here comes a Vince McMahon promo. I have this episode on VHS somewhere. The Stasiak/Bigelow match was short, so it wasn't all that bad. Rey/Kidman vs. Kid Romeo/Elix Skipper was decent. I also remember that Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire came off like monsters after beating Lance Storm and Mike Awesome ("Team Canada"). Heh...did some quick Wiki searches and I had forgotten than Disco Inferno was briefly going by the name "Disqo" in a reference to relevant-at-the-time rapper Sisqo. A lot of fans like to speculate "what if", but I think TNA from 2002 to 2006 was a pretty good representation of what an ongoing WCW would've been like. Flair, Sting, Luger, etc had all slowed down their appearances as 2001 rolled in. If I'm not mistaken, Stinger had been AWOL until that last Nitro. Before that, his last appearance on TV had been at Halloween Havoc 2000. |
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| Scrooge McSuck | Feb 7 2012, 02:29 PM Post #119 |
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I'll get you next time, toilet!
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I think that's right. They were doing a lot to put over Jeff Jarrett and Scott Steiner by the time they closed down, putting them over all the big names they could throw at him. That's not saying it was clean jobs, but jobs nontheless. |
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| Mad Dog | Feb 7 2012, 04:25 PM Post #120 |
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ho ho who the hell are you?
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It would've been a lot different from TNA talent wise. I'm going off very basic memory here but Joey Styles and Don Callis were going to be brought in as a new announce team for starters. Past that, the following guys were thought to be WCW bound: D'Lo Brown, Rob Van Dam, Super Crazy, Jerry Lynn, Kid Kash and a few other names I'm not remembering. It also would have been different in the fact that Sean O'Haire was going to get pushed huge as 2001 progressed. |
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