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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:On that note, I have another question about Sting. Did he wrestle at house shows during 1997? Absolutely not. If you got DDP or Scott Hall showing up it was considered a big big deal. http://www.ddtdigest.com/updates/home1997.htm for details. I guess you had some awesome talent showing up but if you followed WCW booking you wouldn't give a gently caress about Finlay or Eddie or Benoit. Nerds loved the house shows but if you were a kid coming to see your favorite wrestler you'd better hope his name was Dave Taylor. Minges fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 28, 2009 |
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Supreme Allah posted:There was also that Don Morraco guy but he was a bit of a poseur Don Muraco, known as "The Rock", used the Tombstone Piledriver as a finisher, and managed by a bald headed, goatee wearing "Superstar" Billy Graham. If one of them wore a leather mask it'd be like the entire Attitude era main eventers rolled into a gigantic package.
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:On that note, I have another question about Sting. Did he wrestle at house shows during 1997? Like others have said, aside from the Outsiders, no big names ever made towns. Even the Outsiders didn't make them often.
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All this WCW talk is reminding me of the story where WCW wanted to build the return of Rick Steiner on TV (forgive me if I'm thinking someone else, but I think it was Rick), and the day of the show the people in charge forgot to tell Rick to be there.
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Aug 28, 2009 08:01
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:All this WCW talk is reminding me of the story where WCW wanted to build the return of Rick Steiner on TV (forgive me if I'm thinking someone else, but I think it was Rick), and the day of the show the people in charge forgot to tell Rick to be there. The funny thing is, they'd fly in shitloads of undercarders they never used on television every single week. They wasted sooooooo much money.
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grody but still def posted:someone post that list of Meltzer notes during the dying days of wcw Are you asking for the Observer quotes about WCW? With facts about the show?
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HulkaMatt posted:Are you asking for the Observer quotes about WCW? With facts about the show? yeah that big list of dates, with such gems as [August, 1999] *Sid powerbombed La Parka on a bag of popcorn
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It's been in the Rules Thread: http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=294
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HulkaMatt posted:It's been in the Rules Thread like anyone reads that
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HulkaMatt posted:It's been in the Rules Thread: I started reading this and eventually came across this little gem: quote:Quote #109 I'm not gonna read even one more of those quotes because it can't possibly get any better than that.
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quote:Kevin Nash then came out with a black girl, I guess to show that he is cool. I dont even know why but this one made me laugh real hard
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quote:"WCW.com ran a contest involving Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair. I'm actually not sure what the contest was for. Anyway, we got numerous reports from people who said that if you vote for Flair, the total number for Hogan automatically increases by five." I totally remember the promo that this led up to. It involved Flair knee dropping a copy of WCW magazine.
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quote:Quote #192
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Quote #229 "Hall and Nash wore Villanos masks and tried to speak Spanish" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: September 25, 1999 This sounds oddly amazing.
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quote:Quote #9  "Don't run over the driver side" "run over the driver side?" "NO DONT RUN OVER THE DRIVER SIDE"
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"Alex Wright pinned Johnny Swinger. Swinger is Canadian and Wright is German. Crowd chanted USA"
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"One of Ultimo Dragon's students from Naucalpan was brought in for a tryout. He was given the name 'Tam Pong' in someone's idea of a practical joke" That student was CIMA.
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quote:"Madusa vs. Liz were supposed to have a cage match but Luger came out dressed as a cage repair man and saved Liz. Russo came out and hit Luger with a low blow, but he was wearing a cup so he no sold it and rubbed the cup in Russo's mouth. The security maced Luger. Palumbo attacked Luger with that 60's comic book twister deal. Awesome attacked Nash. Nash called him Eddie Money, who was a rock star probably when Nash was in college, and challenged him to an ambulance match. Scott Steiner went outside for a street fight with Tank and Rick. The Goldberg monster truck made the save. Nash nearly killed Awesome with the greatest power bomb in the sport. Just before Awesome faced sure paralysis, DDP made the save to help Nash do the move before he dropped the guy on his head. The (ambulance) match ended with Awesome never put in the ambulance." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 22, 2000 I don't know which part of this is funnier - the idea of a cage repair man, or that a Goldberg monster truck made the save?
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quote:"Chris Jericho's final WCW match was 7/21 in Peoria, IL in a tag match teaming with Eddie against Kidman and Mysterio. Before the match, Jericho said that if he got pinned he'd leave WCW. Misterio than said everyone already knew it was his last night in WCW. (After the match) all four hugged in the ring. There were fans in near tears, as was Jericho. Kidman started a Jericho chant. Jericho said that he was overwhelmed by the response, but he still thinks that Peoria sucks" Jericho is awesome.
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quote:Quote #36 did this ever air? It's gotta be in a Botchamania somewhere.
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I've got a question. What was the story with Chief Morley? All I remember from it was one week Val Venis showed up and became known as Chief of Staff, Chief Morley. Then he eventually started a program with the Dudleys, and one week declared himself tag champ, before finally they just did away with it completely and he went back to being Val Venis. I missed alot of shows during those couple of months, and my memory from that period is a little fuzzy. Plus, I didn't really browse online about wrestling like I do now, and hadn't even heard the term dirt sheet. What was the reason for the character change, and why did they just end it so abruptly and go back to the Val Venis character? Anyone know?
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Graic posted:What was the reason for the character change, and why did they just end it so abruptly and go back to the Val Venis character? Anyone know? The reason was just that they wanted to turn him heel and having him play Bischoff's lackey was as good a way as any. As for ending it so abruptly, I think his original tag partner was Regal and Regal got fired/suspended/injured, so they quickly paired him with Lance Storm instead, just to give the titles to RVD and Kane (2003 was such a bizarre year) and then abandoned the whole thing, probably because while Val Venis was a dead-end gimmick, it was at least over and Chief Morley, in addition to Val not really being all that great at playing a heel by himself, wasn't going to take Val to new, dizzying heights.
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Does anyone have pictures of the old WCW sets/stages for Nitro and Thunder? GIS isn't doing much and I keep reading about them but don't remember a thing.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:All this WCW talk is reminding me of the story where WCW wanted to build the return of Rick Steiner on TV (forgive me if I'm thinking someone else, but I think it was Rick), and the day of the show the people in charge forgot to tell Rick to be there. Wrestling Observer Newsletter posted:"The 12/18 Nitro was supposed to practically be built around Rick Steiner as the surprise guy, but he wasn't there because they forgot to tell him" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: January 01, 2001
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quote:"Michael Buffer came out for absolutely no reason. See, he was there to announce the main event. But get this, there was no main event. Flair, at this moment, fell out of the turnip truck, grabbed a hoe and kept falling down" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: February 22, 1999 quote:"WCW took out a huge ad in USA Today with the new logo which read "Looks like something a bird left on the hood of my car", and never mentioned wrestling once" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 12, 1999 quote:"Thursday was supposed to be a grudge Flair vs. Benoit lumberjack match. However, WCW forgot to tell Flair he was booked. Jason Hervey was in Charlotte at request of management and they gave Flair off Thunder because they were producing an upcoming Flair home video, but never informed the people writing the show about Flair having the day off. When they panicked since Flair wasn't there at 6pm, they called him and told him to get to Syracuse. At the cost of thousands of dollars, they chartered a flight from Charlotte to Syracuse to get Flair to Thunder, but due to the weather problems it couldn't get off the ground until 7pm. The show was put together with the idea that Flair would do several interviews building to the Benoit match. So virtually the entire Thunder show was filling time. Flair finally arrived at 9:55pm, but they had already changed plans for the show because they had to be off the air at 10:03pm because TBS decreed that the Chimp movie had to start on time. When Flair got there, they told him he wasn't needed and to go right back home. So, as a panic move, the decision was made to turn the Kanyon-Saturn singles match into a tag title match. However, Bam Bam Bigelow wasn't there either, so Kanyon defended the titles with Page with zero explanation given to have this make sense. It wasn't even announced as a title match until about a minute left" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 21, 1999 God I miss WCW.
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TL posted:"WCW took out a huge ad in USA Today with the new logo which read "Looks like something a bird left on the hood of my car", and never mentioned wrestling once" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: April 12, 1999 I have to, HAVE TO see this.
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One of my favorite moments of 2000-01 WCW is this promo Page and Nash cut when they were a tag team. They were in the ring cutting the promo, but there was clearly this light above them that was swinging back and forth. They kept getting distracted and looking up at it and it was the most hilarious and surreal loving thing.
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How come WWE used to show highlights from the previous PPV on Raw/SM only in still picture form .... And now, they actually show video clips from the PPV?
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mode posted:How come WWE used to show highlights from the previous PPV on Raw/SM only in still picture form .... And now, they actually show video clips from the PPV? They want you to buy the replays of the PPV.
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Batmanuel posted:They want you to buy the replays of the PPV. And they still somewhat do the still image bullshit - but they've gotten smarter about it.
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Aug 29, 2009 09:07
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Grisham saying "I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW" while the screen is blacked out is a good way to get viewers.
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I think the reason that some cite Sting as not passionate because he was never political backstage in regards to things that are meant to be political play. At least that's what I remember Bruce Mitchell saying.
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Does anyone do an Inverted Chokeslam?
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Pneub posted:Does anyone do an Inverted Chokeslam? Morishima
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nyratk1 posted:And they still somewhat do the still image bullshit - but they've gotten smarter about it. I've noticed on smackdown (just recently started catching it when I can on hulu) that whenever someone connects with a chair (or for example Mike Knox with the steel stairs) or something of that sort or even sometimes with top rope moves they freeze frame right before impact and then just skip forward without ever showing the end result. On a free show like Smackdown is there a reason they're editing the replays like that? It's pretty annoying 
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Mr. Carlisle posted:I've noticed on smackdown (just recently started catching it when I can on hulu) that whenever someone connects with a chair (or for example Mike Knox with the steel stairs) or something of that sort.. and even sometimes with top rope moves they freeze frame right before impact and then just skip forward without ever showing the end result. On a free show like Smackdown is there a reason they're editing the replays like that? It's pretty annoying It's a direct rip of the Canadian/British version, they're not allowed to show weaponry or man-on-woman violence.
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Ahh, so its not like that when its originally aired in the states then. Thanks!
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grody but still def posted:It's a direct rip of the Canadian/British version, they're not allowed to show weaponry or man-on-woman violence. On the 'daytime' version. The 'late night' version they show hasn't got anything edited out.
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