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this was my 1997: 1st hour of Nitro: Luchas and cruisers, yessssss Oh hey RAW is on.
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coconono posted:this was my 1997:
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Apr 18, 2013 16:09
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By 1999, Nitro was coming on on Wednesday afternoons or some poo poo in Canada. Some weeks TSN wouldn't air it at all.
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Halloween Jack posted:What was ever appealing about Jim Duggan? Seriously, someone explain this to me. requisite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afNOqwJrT8s
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Apr 18, 2013 16:26
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Hacksaw was basically Sandman if you replaced the cane with the 2x4 and beer with the flag.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Mr Wonderful also had this gimmick in WCW. This led to a funny match against Disco Inferno. Orndorff was posing in the mirror, and Disco decided to look over Orndorff's shoulder so he could check his hair. Orndorff promptly knocked Disco out and pinned him. I'm so glad this exists on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVL5C-6HDsM
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Zack_Gochuck posted:By 1999, Nitro was coming on on Wednesday afternoons or some poo poo in Canada. Some weeks TSN wouldn't air it at all. Yeah it was pretty hard to be a WCW fan if you were Canadian. Which is probably why most people werent. The time and day theyd show Nitro seemed to be completely random and it was pre-empted for literally any other programming, even in WCWs heyday.
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C. Everett Koop posted:Hacksaw was basically Sandman if you replaced the cane with the 2x4 and beer with the flag.
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Apr 18, 2013 17:30
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Funniest about Luger's narcissist gimmick was hearing wrestlers (including Luger himself) trying to say the word narcissist without loving up.
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MrBling posted:Funniest about Luger's narcissist gimmick was hearing wrestlers (including Luger himself) trying to say the word narcissist without loving up. Right up there with hearing guys fight to pronounce "WWE."
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Apr 18, 2013 20:07
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MrBling posted:Funniest about Luger's narcissist gimmick was hearing wrestlers (including Luger himself) trying to say the word narcissist without loving up. 'The Narciss' rolls off the tongue much more nicely.
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Apr 18, 2013 20:18
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coconono posted:this was my 1997: 
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flashy_mcflash posted:Yeah it was pretty hard to be a WCW fan if you were Canadian. Which is probably why most people werent. The time and day theyd show Nitro seemed to be completely random and it was pre-empted for literally any other programming, even in WCWs heyday. That's a little strange because I recall, living in Edmonton, that Nitro and Thunder aired at the same time on TBS as in the US and weren't really censored. It was Raw on TSN that was annoying to watch at times because TSN would censor the hell out of the program by cutting to crowd shots and pre-recorded segments if something too extreme began to air (I recall when Jericho broke Chyna's thumb with a hammer in 1999, they cut to Chyna's video entrance and aired that for a bit). SmackDown on UPN was fine, but Raw was almost unwatchable at times. Then again, I wasn't a big WCW mark back in the day but I certainly remember being able to flip back and forth between Raw and Nitro on Monday nights.
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C. Everett Koop posted:Hacksaw was basically Sandman if you replaced the cane with the 2x4 and beer with the flag. Hacksaw was a pretty good rugged brawler in Mid-South and drew well there, as I recall. The Sandman comparison is great, though.
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Apr 18, 2013 23:40
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Justin Godscock posted:That's a little strange because I recall, living in Edmonton, that Nitro and Thunder aired at the same time on TBS as in the US and weren't really censored. It was Raw on TSN that was annoying to watch at times because TSN would censor the hell out of the program by cutting to crowd shots and pre-recorded segments if something too extreme began to air (I recall when Jericho broke Chyna's thumb with a hammer in 1999, they cut to Chyna's video entrance and aired that for a bit). SmackDown on UPN was fine, but Raw was almost unwatchable at times. drat you Edmonton!! I always got Thunder and Saturday Night, but my Nitro watching was depended on TSN which I think was usually playing them on Tuesdays while Raw (in all its heavily edited glory) got the Monday spot. I'm still amused at how much I missed from that period due to Canadian censors (although having watched some of it I wonder if I would have just given up on the product considering how juvenile it became)
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CombineThresher posted:Hacksaw was a pretty good rugged brawler in Mid-South and drew well there, as I recall. The Sandman comparison is great, though. I have mid south tapes. and yes he was a draw. People HATED him.
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The best part of TSN censoring is they would cut to pre-recorded crowd shots, with out of date signs that had nothing to do with what was going on. The worst part was never getting to see Mae Young put through a table Hardcore matches were also hard to watch, since they cut away every weapon hit.
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Apr 19, 2013 14:08
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No way. The best was when somebody like Austin or DX would say something bleepable on a live feed and the censors would miss the actual cuss by a mile and censor out the rest.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:No way. The best was when somebody like Austin or DX would say something bleepable on a live feed and the censors would miss the actual cuss by a mile and censor out the rest. hahaha, true. It wasn't uncommon to hear Road Dogg yelling "YOUR rear end BETTA *bleep bleep bleep*"
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El Gallinero Gros posted:No way. The best was when somebody like Austin or DX would say something bleepable on a live feed and the censors would miss the actual cuss by a mile and censor out the rest. Or when they are unsure if Big Show said a racial slur and bleeped it anyways and makes it look bad.
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There was the time when Kevin Nash came out to the ring and did a shoot promo and TNT totally missed bleeping everything.
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coconono posted:There was the time when Kevin Nash came out to the ring and did a shoot promo and TNT totally missed bleeping everything.
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Isaac Bruce Bowen posted:I always assumed that was intentional since Russo wanted WCW to be "edgy". Would Russo have any sort of control over the censors? I thought that sort of thing would be independent and out of their hands.
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Yeah that makes sense. I guess the TNT censors were asleep at the switch.
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triplexpac posted:Would Russo have any sort of control over the censors? I thought that sort of thing would be independent and out of their hands. It was, this was one of Russo's major excuses for why he couldn't apply his vision to WCW.
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MassRanTer posted:It was, this was one of Russo's major excuses for why he couldn't apply his vision to WCW. I would have loved to see what Russo could have done with WCW if he had nothing holding him back. TNA was probably close, but still.
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triplexpac posted:I would have loved to see what Russo could have done with WCW if he had nothing holding him back. I'm pretty sure Wrestling Society X is about as close as we'll get to Russo's unfiltered vision of wrestling. Exploding everything! Though WSX didn't really have enough convoluted backstage drama I suppose.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I'm pretty sure Wrestling Society X is about as close as we'll get to Russo's unfiltered vision of wrestling. Exploding everything! Though WSX didn't really have enough convoluted backstage drama I suppose. Did Russo have anything to do with WSX? I thought it was a fun little show for what it was, didn't feel like a Russo production.
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WSX had matches so it can't be Russo's dream show.
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triplexpac posted:Did Russo have anything to do with WSX? I thought it was a fun little show for what it was, didn't feel like a Russo production. No he didn't at all, just the matches seemed to be gimmick piled ontop of gimmick (always ending with something exploding).
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The fact that Fabian Kaylan isn't employed by a major wrestling fed is absolute bullshit
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One time the Nitro censor didn't show up for work and they said poo poo like 5 times in the first hour.
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WSX was the best wrestling promotion ever and I have all of it on DVD. Most of mid 90s WCW like the King of the Road match and Junkyard Invitational would fit right in.
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bobkatt013 posted:Or when they are unsure if Big Show said a racial slur and bleeped it anyways and makes it look bad. That was when he called Kaientai "goofs", right? Holy poo poo I remember the IWC exploding over that one. As far as stupid censors go, the best was when Stone Cold's middle finger got bleeped in 2011.
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Justin Godscock posted:As far as stupid censors go, the best was when Stone Cold's middle finger got bleeped in 2011. Okay, I'm curious. How the hell do you bleep a GESTURE? Did they split in footage of him playing the guitar instead or something?
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Cornwind Evil posted:Okay, I'm curious. How the hell do you bleep a GESTURE? Did they split in footage of him playing the guitar instead or something? Generally you mosaic something out, or add a black bar over it. Watch a rap video from the early 90's for a hundred examples of this.
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oatgan posted:Generally you mosaic something out, or add a black bar over it. Watch a rap video from the early 90's for a hundred examples of this. Or any WWE Attitude era footage released from 2002-2012.
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