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Whats crazy btw, going back to the SNME comment,
They were doing TENS and ELEVENS in 86-89...like just astronomical ratings....the show kept strength even in a WOAT tv timeslot like primetime saturday
They were doing TENS and ELEVENS in 86-89...like just astronomical ratings....the show kept strength even in a WOAT tv timeslot like primetime saturday
I get why they talk about the Attitude Era being the biggest era ever, because it's the closer and people from that period can still contribute to the show today if need be...but it ain't got shyt on the Golden Era. Like, 10-11 rating on a network in 1988 would have been a 20 rating on cable in 1998.
These brehs were running 3 different tours, with some groups doing multiple shows per day. People talk about the schedule today being insane, but guys were working like....a full 60-70 more dates back then, with a worse travel schedule, and the house shows for the C team headlined by dudes like Tito Santana and The Genius would outsell any house show today.
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Change is inevitable...
Sunny fell off SO HARD.
I mean yeah we know...we know the whole story now
But watching late 90's WWF...where it was like Sunny was damn near a centerpiece attraction of the show
To where she is now in 2016, quite literally popping pills and taking a dikk in her ass for crumbs
What a FALL OFF brehs
I mean yeah we know...we know the whole story now
But watching late 90's WWF...where it was like Sunny was damn near a centerpiece attraction of the show
To where she is now in 2016, quite literally popping pills and taking a dikk in her ass for crumbs
What a FALL OFF brehs
Wait
LOUIE SPICOLLI died like 2 weeks after his WCW DEBUT??? Thought he had been there longer
Thats pretty fukked up
LOUIE SPICOLLI died like 2 weeks after his WCW DEBUT??? Thought he had been there longer
Thats pretty fukked up
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Got yrself a spinHow good and funny heel lawler was on commentary
that running joke JR and Lawler had when Lawler pretended Brian Christopher wasnt his son and JR would call him out on it
How much more charisma owen had than bret
and speaking of owen, I was watching their matches during their feud and man Bret did not want to give a credible win to owen
not even tag matches did Owen get the W
the one win he did have came off as a fluke win
why you gotta be so selfish, Bret?
#factsonlyGot yrself a spin
Forgot that I actually had one of Tatanka's foam tomahawks
Bret's promos with Flair in WCW are some of my favorite everHe was so clearly drunk on air particularly in 1999, but also at every outdoor event he called. Brain even half assing it was still one of the best color guys around. Compare half in the bag Brain to squealing Jerry Lawler talking about t*ts non-stop, or Mike Tenay's neckbeard acting up as he threw out insider references to pop Observer readers.
I'll say that Bret's WCW run is actually underrated at this point, not from a match stand point, because he only had a handful of matches worth watching there, but his promos were fukking hilarious. It's crazy he spent most of the 90s as a beloved, straight laced hero, because he was such a smarmy a$$hole in WCW. And he did it SO WELL. Dude made the funniest faces.
His weekly shyt on whatever for no reason promos were always a highlight of Nitro in 1998. His cadence was also hilarious. He had a groin pull the likes of which you've never seen.
You know Vader was fukked when his first PPV match with Yoko had him as a chicken shyt heel who kept stalling and running out of the ring. His only offense would come from Corny running interference. Against 700 pound Yoko who he kept beating the shyt out of and was going to be taken off TV the next night or a week later anyway.
While the Attitude Era was, objectively speaking, meh/mediocre at best from an in-ring perspective ... in terms of building characters/storylines, etc. WWF in 1998 accomplished more in one week than WWE does now in a month's worth of programming sometimes. EVERYONE had something happening during that time frame.
Kane was underrated as hell. He deserved more than a 24-hour title reign. To be honest with you, that whole era was a rehash to where Austin was Hogan and there were about 3-6 LEGITIMATE title holders that never got to sniff the gold when they should have because they had to keep feeding the machine. Taker should have mollywhopped his ass at Summerslam 1998, but after that ... what happened at the ensuing Breakdown was the only plausible way for Austin to truly lose the title.
Jeff Jarrett was damn good in the ring. Nowhere near as important as he thought he was, but he was damn good.
Kane was underrated as hell. He deserved more than a 24-hour title reign. To be honest with you, that whole era was a rehash to where Austin was Hogan and there were about 3-6 LEGITIMATE title holders that never got to sniff the gold when they should have because they had to keep feeding the machine. Taker should have mollywhopped his ass at Summerslam 1998, but after that ... what happened at the ensuing Breakdown was the only plausible way for Austin to truly lose the title.
Jeff Jarrett was damn good in the ring. Nowhere near as important as he thought he was, but he was damn good.
The "everyone had something to do" argument is silly to me, since the vast majority of those things were terrible and killed dudes careers or took them many years to recover from. Be it WWE, WCW, or TNA. Russo's "give everyone a storyline" was more damaging than just throwing guys out there for random matches.
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This. So many guys had real character development that few guys get now. One thing I noticed going back is that even if the hottest match didn't have the title on the line, almost always the title match closes the show. Always helped put proper value on the title and gave people a chance to steal the show. Nowadays no new full time guys get to headline anything
Still goin through the 1993 Raw's
Even though he was still in good shape, I'm assuming since he probably wasn't juicing as hard as he had been, Hulk Hogan somehow looked
Rocking a plain red bandana during his promo made it look worse to me
Even though he was still in good shape, I'm assuming since he probably wasn't juicing as hard as he had been, Hulk Hogan somehow looked
Rocking a plain red bandana during his promo made it look worse to me
1-2-3 Kid's upset pin of Razor was extremely suspect
Yeah you're right1-2-3 Kid's upset pin of Razor was extremely suspect
clearly Razor could have easily kicked out of that pin. 
The sacrifices you make to put your friend over I guess