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DLC Inc posted:watching wwe from like 2005 to 2015, and then beyond that once NXT started cratering, was a lesson in masochism. there was good poo poo there but the bad was so much more prevalent. it was a company that actively hated and poo poo on the people who watched it at every turn, you had to watch Roman Reigns forced into the main event scene for like 7 years in a row. its crazy that we all used to watch 2 hours of poo poo in the hopes that maybe 20 minutes of it was at least ok
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DLC Inc posted:watching wwe from like 2005 to 2015, and then beyond that once NXT started cratering, was a lesson in masochism. there was good poo poo there but the bad was so much more prevalent. it was a company that actively hated and poo poo on the people who watched it at every turn, you had to watch Roman Reigns forced into the main event scene for like 7 years in a row. pretty much my exact experience.
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Ringo Roadagain posted:its crazy that we all used to watch 2 hours of poo poo in the hopes that maybe 20 minutes of it was at least ok This realization is what made me fully stop watching WWE. Towards the end I was only watching RAW and literally not looking at the tv because I was doing something else and still never really missed anything important.
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new japan, dragon gate, roh, and pwg were godsends
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Ringo Roadagain posted:its crazy that we all used to watch 2 hours of poo poo in the hopes that maybe 20 minutes of it was at least ok It is pretty nuts yeah. I started watching wrestling with Summerslam 2013. Managed to find the good stuff outside of WWE relatively quickly though. I think the last WWE show I saw in full was a house show in 2019.
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WWE killed my enthusiasm for wrestling for a long time, and AEW reignited it
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this is exactly what I thought of lol
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a dumb moron posted:As awful as that period was, WCW in 1999–2000 was far worse and did far more damage as a whole. I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. You are throwing around words like worse all willy nilly but the wcw undercard still had great acts putting on banger matches, Booker T and Goldberg and Steiner putting on at least interesting and fun matches, terry funk being insane… All’s I am saying is that for a fan watching the product, I can take late stage WCW mildly better than I can guest host era raw, where there is absolutely nothing on the show to make it be worth watching I hold this card up against any other for most boring and pointless show ever: quote:zz top raw, July 20 2009
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what tna was counterprogramming that week:quote:(20.07.2009) TNA iMPACT #265 - TV-Show @ Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, USA
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That time period of wrestling nearly killed me as a fan, holy poo poo was stuff dire Even ROH was pushing davey Richards and Austin Aries and tyler black and other dudes I never really got attached to, unlike Claudio and hero and danielson, who was about to leave roh
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TNA saved me from WWE in 2005. The indy's saved me from TNA in 2009. And then from 2014 to 2019 is kind of a blur but things got better in 2019 thanks to my friend Tony Khan. Thank you Tony Khan.
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Who the gently caress were Big Rocco and Sally Boy? I can’t remember if I was even still watching TNA at that point.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Who the gently caress were Big Rocco and Sally Boy? I can’t remember if I was even still watching TNA at that point. Big Rocco? you mean BLUE TILLY????
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Ganso Bomb posted:Who the gently caress were Big Rocco and Sally Boy? I can’t remember if I was even still watching TNA at that point. Cagematch says they were The Main Event Mafia Security
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Wrestlers all bloodied up with ripped up masks is the coolest visual in wrestling.
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rotinaj posted:You are throwing around words like worse all willy nilly but the wcw undercard still had great acts putting on banger matches, Booker T and Goldberg and Steiner putting on at least interesting and fun matches, terry funk being insane… Nitro July 24, 2000: Lance Storm d. Big Vito (3m32s clean win in a title vs. title match where Lance Storm wins the hardcore title in a non-hardcore match) Lt. Loco & Major Gunns d. David Flair & Miss Hancock (2m36s) Kronik n/c Jeff Jarrett (5m40s after Kronik decides to attack the referee) The Great Muta vs. Vampiro (no contest/no match because they all immediately turn on special ref Ernest the Cat Miller) Goldberg d. Booker T (3m03s after Stevie Ray maliciously throws in the towel for his brother) Buff & Judy Bagwell vs. Kanyon never happens because Kanyon was disguised as a cameraman and Kanyon-cuttered Buff before the match "The Fat Chick Thriller" Mike Awesome d. Shane Douglas (5m18s after Douglas and the referee are both distracted by a video playing of Douglas's girlfriend loving Billy Kidman so Mike Awesome hits him in the head with a dumbbell) General Rection & Corporal Cajun d. Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire & Rey Mysterio and Juventud Guerrera (9m40s, Caged Heat match won by the Misfits in Action after Huge G. Rection falls through the door) Booker T d. Goldberg (2m29s after Jarrett attacks Goldberg, and special referee Ernest Miller turns on Goldberg) I guess technically more stuff happens, but the "great acts putting on banger matches" thing was not really in evidence for most of those last two years or so. There were some entertaining/talented people on the show, but the same could be said for all of the dirt-worst Raws of the early 2010s.
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Coaaab posted:what tna was counterprogramming that week: How does a referee win the match they were refereeing? 
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“Douglas and the referee are both distracted by a video playing of Douglas's girlfriend loving Billy Kidman so Mike Awesome hits him in the head with a dumbbell” is the best sentence I’ve read all week
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I'll give them credit, Kanyon cuttering everyone was hilarious.
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late wcw owns. no one is ever going to make a retro podcast about wwe 2018 but there have been dozens about wcw 2000 you can go back and watch it and it only gets funnier
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JUNGLE BOY posted:late wcw owns. no one is ever going to make a retro podcast about wwe 2018 but there have been dozens about wcw 2000
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Edge & Christian posted:There were some entertaining/talented people on the show, but the same could be said for all of the dirt-worst Raws of the early 2010s. I could not disagree with the sentiment of the second half of your statement more, but that really is the sort of thing that will be a personal decision and not really a measurable statistic But seriously comparing those two shows, give me nitro every time
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JUNGLE BOY posted:late wcw owns. no one is ever going to make a retro podcast about wwe 2018 but there have been dozens about wcw 2000 Genuinely, I've come to realize through my wrestling channel that 2000 Thunder is the most rewatchable wrestling show possibly ever. Mid-to-late-00s ROH comes close for entirely different reasons but 00s WCW combined absolutely bonkers weirdo booking with spectacular atmosphere.
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CHaKKaWaKka posted:Wrestlers all bloodied up with ripped up masks is the coolest visual in wrestling. If I were a wrestler I would have had a mask just so I could do battle damage spider-man poo poo
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rotinaj posted:You are throwing around words like worse all willy nilly but the wcw undercard still had great acts putting on banger matches, Booker T and Goldberg and Steiner putting on at least interesting and fun matches, terry funk being insane… In 1999 and 2000 WCW's undercard was very rarely putting on banger matches. Booker T was having 3 star matches with Scott Steiner and Goldberg was barely around. The cruiserweights were getting decimated and things were very dire. That Raw card is about as good as most summer of 99 Nitros.
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MassRafTer posted:In 1999 and 2000 WCW's undercard was very rarely putting on banger matches. Booker T was having 3 star matches with Scott Steiner and Goldberg was barely around. The cruiserweights were getting decimated and things were very dire. That Raw card is about as good as most summer of 99 Nitros. rotinaj posted:I could not disagree with the sentiment of the
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I'll give them credit, Kanyon cuttering everyone was hilarious. https://youtu.be/64_Ne-k6WX0?si=L3x2nfly-Y9StQHB what even at the age restriction but this pops me EVERY. TIME.
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Either I blanked this out or just missed the segment with Cody and the Codymobile https://x.com/ryschramm/status/1780303660058042783?s=46
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Cody definitely tried to do some stone cold in a truck stuff a few times, but they never had the balls to run poo poo over or do anything other than drive an expensive car up. No hitting the ring, no running over other cars or barricades… The one that makes me giggle is the one where FTR drove one of (iirc)Shad’s classic cars up, and they were visibly being gentle with it so as to not slam the doors too hard or bump into anything
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rotinaj posted:Cody definitely tried to do some stone cold in a truck stuff a few times, but they never had the balls to run poo poo over or do anything other than drive an expensive car up. No hitting the ring, no running over other cars or barricades… It's too bad that Mox is returning this week as IWGP champion because if it was next week he could have returned to the show in his Ford GT.
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https://twitter.com/KrisPLettuce/status/1780369245500526947 We will not see Prentiss' like again.
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Majinfoose posted:WWE killed my enthusiasm for wrestling for a long time, and AEW reignited it to be fair NXT circa 2016, around the time Nakamura entered the promotion alongside Devitt/Joe and Sami Zayn/KO had been white hot, was what got me back into watching american wrestling again. The main product sucked poo poo still but NXT PPVs always whipped rear end. But around the time Aleister Black and Andrade were snatched from NXT and pushed into RAW/SD too soon + the neverending Adam Cole/DIY vortex masterpiece theater, I lost interest again and the PPVs for both that and the main WWE shows just kept jerking people around. There was some cool poo poo like the brief moment in time when Bray beat AJ and Cena in one night (only to lose the title 2 months later) and Danielson's 2nd resurgence, but after Kofi lost the belt to Brock in 20 seconds I think that's when I said gently caress this.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Genuinely, I've come to realize through my wrestling channel that 2000 Thunder is the most rewatchable wrestling show possibly ever. Mid-to-late-00s ROH comes close for entirely different reasons but 00s WCW combined absolutely bonkers weirdo booking with spectacular atmosphere. This is how I feel about WCW Saturday Night. They basically gave Jimmy Hart free reign to book all the geeks and midcard acts he wanted in various combinations and it ruled. Sometimes you got randomly awesome matches out of it, like Meng killing people left and right or Raven and Saturn wrestling the Armstrongs and Enos/Bloom.
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the c shows always have some sneaky good wrestling
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i gave cody $100 to gently caress off
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