Hog Wild/Road Wild PPV demonstrated how low budget WCW was
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Upping this thread due to rewatching nWo era WCW and watching Hog/Road Wild 96-99 as a result
My observations:
Everyone in the thread is 100% correct on their criticisms of Bischoff/WCW. In Bischoff's book, he discusses Road Wild and basically bashes the IWC/Dirt Sheets and praises himself for "doing something different that hasn't been seen/done in wrestling before" (in the book he does this anytime he discusses anything he has been widely criticized over. You notice a pattern by the time Starrcade 1997 rolls around in the book)
How Bisch kept his job I'll never know.
Harlem Heat at this event is heartbreaking to watch in that sea of rednecks
Why the fukk would you have matches like Dean Malenko facing himself knowing the bikers would boo a technical match such as that? All those bikers prob wanted to see was Outsiders/Hogan and was like
to everyone else
As stated earlier: the wrestlers and announcers hated Sturgis. The story about Heenan walking to the booth prior to the PPV is gold:
People were LIVID at Hogan going over Luger at Road Wild 97. The crowd was throwing rocks and other stuff at the nWo and you can see a clearly upset Waltman and nWo who wanted to get the fukk out of there but couldn't cause of Hogan
My observations:
Everyone in the thread is 100% correct on their criticisms of Bischoff/WCW. In Bischoff's book, he discusses Road Wild and basically bashes the IWC/Dirt Sheets and praises himself for "doing something different that hasn't been seen/done in wrestling before" (in the book he does this anytime he discusses anything he has been widely criticized over. You notice a pattern by the time Starrcade 1997 rolls around in the book)
How Bisch kept his job I'll never know.
Harlem Heat at this event is heartbreaking to watch in that sea of rednecks
Why the fukk would you have matches like Dean Malenko facing himself knowing the bikers would boo a technical match such as that? All those bikers prob wanted to see was Outsiders/Hogan and was like
to everyone elseAs stated earlier: the wrestlers and announcers hated Sturgis. The story about Heenan walking to the booth prior to the PPV is gold:
People were LIVID at Hogan going over Luger at Road Wild 97. The crowd was throwing rocks and other stuff at the nWo and you can see a clearly upset Waltman and nWo who wanted to get the fukk out of there but couldn't cause of Hogan
Thanks for uppin this. Got another classic dubya cee dubaya thread up
Watched Hog Wild 96 on the Network earlier and it’s STILL uncomfortable watching Harlem Heat in that sea of rednecks. I believe the Network edited out all the 
cac fukkery as it pertained to this match
WCW learned their lesson somewhat by making Harlem Heat curtain jerk Road Wild 97 so they could wrestle, clean up, and dart the fukk out of Sturgis. Same with Rey and Konnan being the second match
cac fukkery as it pertained to this matchWCW learned their lesson somewhat by making Harlem Heat curtain jerk Road Wild 97 so they could wrestle, clean up, and dart the fukk out of Sturgis. Same with Rey and Konnan being the second match
The concept of hog wild > vinces pathetic attempt at making tuesday ppv's a thingI mean in a shortsighted, ridiculous mindset kind of way in terms of low budget. Can you imagine say, HHH going to Vince and going, lets have a PPV for thousands of teens at bonnaro?
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complain about a company offering up an event that people could attend for free brehs.
OP had too much time on his hands when he made this thread.
the difference is, it wasn't bischoff's money.
of course, bischoff wasn't as frugal.
you can say that's all vince did as well.
he built the WWF off of big stars from other companies. Hogan, savage, you name em.
and hes been doing it again for the past 5 years now.
OP had too much time on his hands when he made this thread.
the difference is, it wasn't bischoff's money.
of course, bischoff wasn't as frugal.
you can say that's all vince did as well.
he built the WWF off of big stars from other companies. Hogan, savage, you name em.
and hes been doing it again for the past 5 years now.
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To be fair, you can make a case that's all Vince did when he went national
Every big star in the WWF in the 80s boom era were already huge established stars in other territories with the same gimmicks (Hogan, Savage, Piper, Junkyard Dog, Greg Valentine, The British Bulldogs, Butch Reed etc..) except for Ted Dibiase. All Vince did was give them national exposure.
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Wcw problem was that they didn't know how to properly handle new money. They had new money with a redneck mindset.
Taboo Tuesday was a good idea. Maybe it bit premature for it's time, but a good idea nonetheless.
Taboo Tuesday was a good idea. Maybe it bit premature for it's time, but a good idea nonetheless.
it looked like a damn carny event
yuck
yuck