WCW or WWE?

[NBA Junkie]

WCW was good during the NWO era, but it became watered down after NWO Wolfpack was formed. Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash ruined it for me after Hogan sabotaged Brett Hart's career as he felt threatened by his presence and Nash became a match bookie and made himself the man who broke Goldberg's undefeated streak. Talk about a pair of massive ego's at work here!

That, and the excellent feud between Austin-McMahon and the rise of the Rock and Mick Foley made WWF the easy choice. That is, until Triple H started getting too much of the spotlight as he was Vince's future son-in-law at the time.

[whottt]

I like where ever Hogan isn't...guy ruined wrestling by being the worst wrestler in history. Fakest moves, weak ring work. Before Hogan you could never be certain it was scripted unless you knew otherwise, and even if you knew otherwise you still had to respect the physicality of what they did. And the guys put on good performances in the ring and they genuinely beat the out of each other, scripted or not...after Hogan, there was no doubt about it being scripted, and he was such a primadonna he wouldn't take any bumps, and it started a bad trend in the industry that really killed it for anyone other than Hogan. He made it popular, but he also made it a joke. He made it so-called sports entertainment instead of two guys beating the out of each other with a pre-determined winner.

[whottt]

In the early 80's anyone remember the local wrestling promotion Southwest Championship wrestling? That wrestling kicked ass.

It actually started in the 70's and was around in one form or another even before that.

I grew up with Ivan Putski and his kids...you remember him? He used to take me along with his kids whenever he would wrestle in Austin...

I got to meet all those guys from SWCW...Bruiser Brody, Tim Brooks, Tank Patton, Scott Casey, Chavo Gurerro, Terry Funk, Andre the Giant, Rocky(the Rock's Dad) Jonnson, Wahoo MacDaniel...Tully Blanchard. I got to go in and talk and hangout with them after the matches.

Remember what an Ahole Tully Blanchard was? Nicest guy ever in person.


But anyway, going backstage, that's when I learned that whatever it may have been...it wasn't fake.

The beatings they gave each other weren't fake even if the outcome was. After the matches when we went backstage those guys would be getting their faces s ched up, they'd have dislocated and broken fingers, fractured collar bones, concussions etc...Those dudes were so freaking tough man. I have no idea how they could do that to themselves 300+ nights a year.

Those UFC guys don't fight every night, those pro wrestlers back in the 70's would go and beat each other over the heads with chairs, and toss each other out of the ring for an hour every night.

I remember one time I thought I was gonna be a bad ass and get in one of those rings...just throwing yourself into the ropes hurts like a mofo, it took me about 30 seconds to realize I wasn't going to do that for my career.

[whottt]

I couldn't believe that Rick Flair is still wrestling. He's got to be well into his 60's by now.

Ric Flair doesn't have jack on Terry Funk...Funk debuted in 1965 and he is still wrestling, and he pioneered the Extreme style when he was in his late 40's. He was wrestling Mick Foley in Japanese Exploding Barbwire Death matches in his 50's. He was also the first champion in ECW history.

Dude is 62 years old now and he about to headline an ECW PPV next week. 62 years old and he's still doing Asai moonsaults out of the ring. And this WWE/ECW stuff he is about to do against Foley is going to be soft compared to the stuff he does on the indy circuits.

First time I saw this guy I was 6 years old it was in 1974 and he's still wrestling. This guy is complete insane and I am not entirely sure he is human. Flair is amazing for a mainstream guy, the stuff he puts his body through, but he hasn't been truly great since the late 80's, and he doesn't take anywhere near the bumps Funk does. Funk had also already been wrestling for 7 or 8 years when Flair made his debut.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Funk

[Texas_Ranger]

This sucks

[samikeyp]

IMO, the old WWF was the best.

[Spurs rock]

Stone Cold

[TDMVPDPOY]

98-2000 wwe > wcw

the era where there was DX, the black group whichi rocky was a nobody, corporate team, undertakers minsitry, they merge as corporate ministry, scu316, kane was a beast, now the storylines are d up