Brad Piff
The Money & The Miles
big show fukkING SUCKS
i wish he'd leave and join tna so i wouldnt have to see his dumb ass ever again
Lets talk about that transition from Attitude to Ruthless Aggression...
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i wish he'd leave and join tna so i wouldnt have to see his dumb ass ever again
With Amando Alejandro Estrada, Umaga should have gotten that savage monster title run... would have been
On another note am I the only one that felt that Umaga's finisher should have been the Togan Death Grip? That thumb to the throat was
status.
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
With Amando Alejandro Estrada, Umaga should have gotten that savage monster title run... would have been
On another note am I the only one that felt that Umaga's finisher should have been the Togan Death Grip? That thumb to the throat was
I guess but realistically there were more deserving champs...the 'should have gotten that title run' is often neglecting that they were building dudes like cena and orton and mysterio at the times.
They made the right decision
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
I hear ya...I don't mind the guy that much though. Decent transitional champ and beating him makes ya look powerful.
These threads really define the IWC to a tee.
People talking all nostalgic and feel good-y about the ruthless agression era... I remember soooooo much complaining when it was actually taking place.
People were starting to turn on Cena during his first feud with Y2J after he got drafted to RAW in 2005.
Orton was a major flop as a face after beating ***** ******.
Ah well, I'm the same as the rest of the IWC rose tinted glasses motherfukkers
People talking all nostalgic and feel good-y about the ruthless agression era... I remember soooooo much complaining when it was actually taking place.
People were starting to turn on Cena during his first feud with Y2J after he got drafted to RAW in 2005.
Orton was a major flop as a face after beating ***** ******.
Ah well, I'm the same as the rest of the IWC rose tinted glasses motherfukkers
Nintendough
#Kliq
These threads really define the IWC to a tee.
People talking all nostalgic and feel good-y about the ruthless agression era... I remember soooooo much complaining when it was actually taking place.
People were starting to turn on Cena during his first feud with Y2J after he got drafted to RAW in 2005.
Orton was a major flop as a face after beating ***** ******.
Ah well, I'm the same as the rest of the IWC rose tinted glasses motherfukkers
Its simple, hindsight is always 20/20. You never know how good you had it until its gone.
*wonders in 10 years from now what we'll be praising about the PG era
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Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
These threads really define the IWC to a tee.
People talking all nostalgic and feel good-y about the ruthless agression era... I remember soooooo much complaining when it was actually taking place.
People were starting to turn on Cena during his first feud with Y2J after he got drafted to RAW in 2005.
Orton was a major flop as a face after beating ***** ******.
Ah well, I'm the same as the rest of the IWC rose tinted glasses motherfukkers
There was a lot of NOT WATCHING during this era, myself included.
I was in college during the entire era so if I saw it I saw it, if not
More people watched smackdown because HHH made raw awful during the era. It actually made the evolution storyline unwatchable which is why now we talk about how great it was
most people didn't even watch it then.Smackdown was easily the superior show during the entire run.
Alot of not watching went on during this Era.
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
Its simple, hindsight is always 20/20. You never know how good you had it until its gone.
*wonders in 10 years from now what we'll be praising about the PG era
I guarantee we talk about how spoiled we are in terms of workrate. There are a bunch of guys who can give you a LEGIT 5 star match, and there are way more Daniel Bryans/cm punks/dean ambrose/tyson kidd/y2j/ziggler/wade/etc guys than there are Khali's, Rybacks, big shows, and lumbering fools.
even the jobbers like Zach Ryder, Jack Swagger, Sandow, dibiase, Sin Cara, 3mb are reliable hands and can sell well.
This might be the best workrate era ever.
Its simple, hindsight is always 20/20. You never know how good you had it until its gone.
*wonders in 10 years from now what we'll be praising about the PG era
The answer to that question is simple: black excellence of Mark Henry, Based Punk, G.O.A.T. Dazzler Bryan, The Shield featuring Roman Reigns as Dum Dum Dugan, and FAAAAANNN-DAAAANNNN-GOOOOOO
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
back to back, dead on
Nintendough
#Kliq
That's why I nicknamed this the "I didn't watch era". This is when a lot of cats fell off. I didn't start college until 05' so I didn't fall off until around 2008. Now I feel like a dweeb that I watched the entire thing. 
Ed MOTHEREFFING G
Chances make champions
That's why I nicknamed this the "I didn't watch era". This is when a lot of cats fell off. I didn't start college until 05' so I didn't fall off until around 2008. Now I feel like a dweeb that I watched the entire thing.
Thats not why you're a dweeb....
Nintendough
#Kliq
The answer to that question is simple: black excellence of Mark Henry, Based Punk, G.O.A.T. Dazzler Bryan, The Shield featuring Roman Reigns as Dum Dum Dugan, and FAAAAANNN-DAAAANNNN-GOOOOOO
That "PG Era Appreciation Thread" is gonna do numbers...*reserves the rights to it for 2023* :smugcena:
I honestly think it is. Almost everybody on the roster can work, even the performers that I don't like. Might have to nickname this the "Workrate Era".
And why am I a dweeb? I was getting some ass back then. Not a lot but enough.
I got back into wrestling at this time after quitting in 99 a couple months after learning it was fake/WCW falling off. The era lasted from 02-05 imo, maybe 06 at the latest.
Smackdown was as good as any wrestling show imo for the first year and a half of the brand split. I stopped watching around WM20, but up until that point Raw was good also.
By the time Brock left the SD roster was raided and injured and it became a 2nd rate show again, although much of the internet has sworn it's great and "the wrestling show" for its whole existence because they give B and C grade talent more time for TV matches rather than ever run an interesting angle.
Cosign on the attitude era not lasting until 2002. The attitude era was 98-mid 99 imo. It was about unpredictability and pushing the envelope mainly, and by the time of HHH having his big title run the business wasn't that cool anymore. WWF's ratings were still high, but from mid 98-mid 99 the combined rating of WCW and WWF viewership was like a 10 or 11 on a monday night, rather than an 8.
Smackdown was as good as any wrestling show imo for the first year and a half of the brand split. I stopped watching around WM20, but up until that point Raw was good also.
By the time Brock left the SD roster was raided and injured and it became a 2nd rate show again, although much of the internet has sworn it's great and "the wrestling show" for its whole existence because they give B and C grade talent more time for TV matches rather than ever run an interesting angle.
Cosign on the attitude era not lasting until 2002. The attitude era was 98-mid 99 imo. It was about unpredictability and pushing the envelope mainly, and by the time of HHH having his big title run the business wasn't that cool anymore. WWF's ratings were still high, but from mid 98-mid 99 the combined rating of WCW and WWF viewership was like a 10 or 11 on a monday night, rather than an 8.