WCW, tbh.
Outside of the wrestling, I loved how slimy the business practices became when Eric Bischoff started to read off who won what matches in the WWF events due to them being prerecorded
Which did you watch? WWF, WCW, both?
WCW, tbh.
Outside of the wrestling, I loved how slimy the business practices became when Eric Bischoff started to read off who won what matches in the WWF events due to them being prerecorded
Listen to this if you're a Piper fan, or curious about how the Hot Rod got started in wrestling:
http://goodtimeswithstevesimeone.lib...-steve-simeone
Entertainment value was gold in the 90's but the wrestling itself wasn't.
Both dude. The At ude Era was in' sick... but WCW/NWO was one of the craziest storylines ever.
Haha the Wolfpack was so dope.. Still remember when Sting first joined..
This may have been the craziest moment I've ever seen live though.
WCW for me. I even watched that mind-numbing TBS Saturday evening show which if I remembered correctly was held in Orlando. ing name is escaping me.
Remember watching the Mortal Kombat TV series that aired on TNT after Nitro?
Some nostalgic .
I watched both during the Monday Night Wars, but WWF since I was a kid. .ECW was where it was at though, by far my favorite fed of all time.
Lol, I think it was just called WCW Saturday Night..that was Norman Smiley's show basically..you would be lucky if nWo made an appearance..at one point the Saturday Night show was their main show lol.
I get where you're going with this but some worthless got is gonna post nobody cares about here most likely to be a ty list. That being said Russo killed the WCW but the email had some good back in the day
WCW was killed long before Russo came on board tbh. WCW killed themselves when they started giving creative control in contracts to people like Hogan, Nash, and DDP.
Russo's the genius that told scavonie to give away the ending of raw though
WWF, it was well scripted. Every Monday night was the same....they'd come out preface the 90 minutes coming up and then follow that script TO THE LETTER. And all the wrestlers would wrestle. They'd repeat the same stuff each week, but, it never grew old so it was okay. The Hart Foundation would come out, Brett would lean against the ropes and Jimmy Hart would take off his glasses the same exact way each time. IT NEVER GREW OLD.
It was a glorious time. That Piper's Pit....every time he'd sit there and lure some poor schnook to sit down with that Irish accent. "No, I'm not going to hit you. I promise. Come, sit down and we'll talk." LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He'd just beat the out of him. Or, Brother Love..........."I Love you."
Or, one wrestler beating another wrestler so badly that it actually would energize the beaten wrestler. C'mon, that is so ing beautiful in concept and execution. That's AmericaPERIOD
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Damn, since dj got straightened out in Houston he's as cute as a button.
& the intensity of the crowds would rule the action in and out of the ring. They'd push the crowd so far, but, they'd have the wisdom to end it before it would pass the point of no return. That's damn difficult and involves the production end of the night and the hearts and minds of the WWF planners and local venues. I give the McMahon family a lot of credit for the quality of their effort. They missed very little and gave us as much as we wanted. They denied us nothing, like they'll do in "Hollywood." "Hollywood" gives you what they want and that's all we're going to get. McMahon Family found out what we wanted and then they buried us in it. They didn't grudge it, or, rifle it out in bits & pieces,,,they unloaded it out of endless box cars.
It was coherent with a clarity that is very rare in America now.
I'll never forget it.
Giving away the results to Raw was a small piece of the WCW failure pie. It was funny that they tried to on Mick Foley's first world le, and the plan backfired on them.
The reason why they failed is with the "Millionaires Club" with creative rights in their contracts, WCW became stagnant with the same old, tired , and failed to develop any new stars to carry the torch. They ran the nWo gimmick into the ing ground with so many attempts at rehashing the same , and it couldn't keep up with the innovation on Raw.
Check this out:
Those were the best days for mainstream wrestling IMO. It is nearly unbearable to watch shortly after WCW went under and the compe ion vanished.
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Hogan doing it was fine at first but then it was really mastered by Shawn Michaels.. and now Cena's ruined it
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And now the crowds are mostly dead thanks to this pg crap the mcmahons decided to shove down our throat
The rock was my favorite wrestler when I was watching wwf as a kid. He became the man when stone cold left for awhile. I remember I went to raw as my first wwf/e event when it came in san antonio, which ended up being a day before 9/11. I was so star struck. But then he started becoming hollywood, and while he was still good and became a great heel, he left the wwe eventually. And my heart for wrestling fell when he left. But man, that at ude era. That was amazing.
I watched both. It was interesting to see how both companies rivaled each other and gave subtle jabs here and there.
The NWO is still the best thing that ever happened in entertainment. Goldberg's streak was damn impressive, too.
I remember that Monday Night Raw.
That Rock interview with Cole. Crazy what would happen the next day.
After 2004, I stopped following religiously.
Yep. I quit watching some years back because (it) ended. That's one thing for certain I've learned:::everything ends. So I am fortunate that my inner VCR has only the prime running thru it:::Mean Gene called Honkey Tonk Man "Honkey" with a matter-a-fact tone like it was real life.\\\Miss Elizabeth perfecting an act that was so precise that it is a wonderment upon the earth this many years later.\\\talking some human man into letting Savage take him to the top rope and suplex his ass all the way down.///the small package///the sunset flip///the gd sleeper hold where only the man who applied it---could remedy it...and then the sleepee would always ALWAYS come out of it with the biggest jolt of his entire body,,,every time...IT NEVER GREW OLD.///or, when the sleeper was applied and the ref would raise the sleepee's arm once, it would fall lifeless....twice, it would fall lifeless, third time it stayed up!!! EVERY ING TIME & you know what? Yep, it never grew old.
Guys, we witnessed all that. We saw that. We bore witness. And nobody, NOBODY can take that from us.
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the next day my mom was explaining the severity of what was going on, and as a kid, it scared the living out of me. But it made me feel better that i got to see the rock before i would presumably die in the fire of a nuke.
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