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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,290 Views)
Scrooge McSuck
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WCW's incompetence definitely ruins the fact that WCW did things right and had decent storylines. Revisionist history doesn't show the countless dumbass angles and moments that embarrassed wrestling fans and never went anywhere throughout the "Attitude Era."


You never know how long YouTube channels stay active, but there's one that just uploaded a butt load of late 80's Continental Wrestling. I'm always looking for new stuff to watch and Continental isn't a promotion I've seen more than a handful of episodes of.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqPNCmgH5l...cejs-Aww/videos
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Mad Dog
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1998 crashes pretty hard after July. The first half of the year is pretty good especially with the TV and US Title scenes. Once you hit Road Wild is where they fall of a cliff. There's a good clip on YouTube with Kevin Nash explaining how you had to book Nitro and Thunder and it was absolutely ridiculous.

Mongo is an underrated worker. He came into it really late but you could lead him. He had some good matches with Hennig.
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Scrooge McSuck
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It's amazing how much of a difference there was between semi-motivated Hennig and "no longer gives a shit" Hennig (basically everything from Fall '98 until his dead). No, he wasn't going to be as good in the ring as he was at the height of his career, but damn, he made lazy Barry Windham look motivated.
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When Thunder was coming out, the concept of having TWO "Nitros" in one week was mind-blowing for a fan. But when it debuted, it quickly became clear they were spreading themselves too thin. You got people like Barry Darsow, Chris Adams and Pat Tanaka suddenly appearing on Thunder and/or Nitro. No offense to those guys, because they served a purpose... on "Saturday Night" or "WCW Pro".

I'd say Rick Martel was probably an unexpected surprise from their abundance of "veteran signings" in late 1997. They had guys like John Nord, Marty Jannetty, Greg Valentine and others, who were signed ....just because. Martel seemed like a throwaway, but had some decent matches on what you could call the "TV Title scene".
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Scrooge McSuck,May 8 2017
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WCW's incompetence definitely ruins the fact that WCW did things right and had decent storylines. Revisionist history doesn't show the countless dumbass angles and moments that embarrassed wrestling fans and never went anywhere throughout the "Attitude Era."


You never know how long YouTube channels stay active, but there's one that just uploaded a butt load of late 80's Continental Wrestling. I'm always looking for new stuff to watch and Continental isn't a promotion I've seen more than a handful of episodes of.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqPNCmgH5l...cejs-Aww/videos

I post on a different board with that guy so you're probably safe that his channel isn't going anywhere.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Without any specific reasoning, just watched SuperBrawl VIII on the WWE Network. Short comments!


- Rick Martel looked a heck of a lot more motivated here than he did for probably the last 4 years he was working in the WWF. Unfortunately, the injury bug bit him.


- Only in WCW could a Disco dancer fight a luchador dressed like a skeleton on PPV.


- Unadvertised matches rule? Well, here it did: Goldberg squashed Brad Armstrong (God, he hung around for this long!) like a bug.


- Mongo vs. Bulldog. At least it was short, and had a dumb finish (Mongo loses to an arm-lock without actually giving up).


- DDP retained the US Title over some guy. Crispin something or other.


- Scott turns on Rick 90-seconds into the match. Dibiase is a babyface manager and Dusty is with the Outsiders. Cats and Dogs living together!


- Jericho vs. Juventud had the best match on the show, and I'm shocked it had a clean finish. Juvy had to unmask as per the stipulation of the match.


- Savage and Luger sleepwalked through a match. No surprise.


- Sting vs. Hogan was so-so, with Nick Patrick shaking his stigma as heel referee in an angle that was started and dropped at least 76 times. Savage snuck in during an n.W.o. run-in bonanza and KO'd Hogan with a can of spraypaint to help Sting win. Still can't believe they fucked up the blowoff to this angle so bad.


Watchable show, but other than the Cruiserweight Title and Booker/Martel, nothing I'd say really stuck with me 10 minutes later.
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torturedsoulv1
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Martel and Saturn had good matches during Martels comeback

The problem with malenko as a horseman is he had zero personality.

Mongo was crap in the ring. But he had personality. Had the look. And was a very good football player so he had legitimacy

Armstrong was around to the end as Buzzkill
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torturedsoulv1,May 8 2017
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Armstrong was around to the end as Buzzkill

Don't forget "BA" of the No Limit Soldiers!

(yes, I will continue to rant about that crap stable for-evahhhhh...)

The Martel/Saturn/Booker/Benoit and then FINLAY TV Title scene was good stuff, I thought.
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Looks like Armstrong got injured backstage in 2000 and sat out the remainder of his contract due to injury.
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Useless tidbit but Cornette has gone in record saying he wanted to build SMW with Armstrong as his top baby face but couldn't get him at the time. Armstrong did later join SMW in the last couple months of the promotion.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Tracy Smothers turned out to be a decent alternative, especially after the first push with Brian Lee and the gap-filling stuff with Tim "Cousin Fucking, Chicken Fucking, Redneck Hillbilly Mud Show East Tennessee Outlaw Piece of Shit" Horner.
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Smothers was probably a significant upgrade. Way better talker and I would say he's better inring as well. More versatile I think.
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Armstrong was the better wrestler at least technical wrestling IMO

Smothers was the better talker. He also had martial arts skills

I'll put it this way. Armstrong had the better first half of their career. Smothers the better 2nd half
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Mad Dog,May 9 2017
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Looks like Armstrong got injured backstage in 2000 and sat out the remainder of his contract due to injury.

Didn't know that.
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