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Mostly because Smackdown is on on a terrible night for wrestling with most people having plans that don't involve the tv, and nothing that happens on Smackdown ever seems to matter anymore. Theres rarely a big angle or development on there, and when something significant happens it just happens again on RAW.
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Skinty McEdger posted:Mostly because Smackdown is on on a terrible night for wrestling with most people having plans that don't involve the tv, and nothing that happens on Smackdown ever seems to matter anymore. Theres rarely a big angle or development on there, and when something significant happens it just happens again on RAW. It's this, and even more recently Smackdown is becoming the Raw "practice" show. Just two weeks ago they did an angle on Smackdown, and then repeated it word for word, spot for spot on the following week's Raw. And yeah Friday night is a loving awful night for any TV show.
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maxallen posted:I've just started watching again after 13 years - why does nobody watch Smackdown? For whatever reason when I was a teenager it was pretty much the only show I watched, but there seems to be a serious grudge against it on here. Hell, the RAW thread goes nearly 50 pages and the SD thread only got 6, and there's no one on #wh2k during it either. Its on Friday nights. People have stuff to do. Even internet people.
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Jun 11, 2013 15:36
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Better things to do on Friday. Basically been conditioned to watch wrestling on Mondays after all this time. People prefer live to taped and spoilers give you a chance to pre evaluate a show and choose to skip it. Years of conditioning by wwe that says Smackdown is the B show. Anything big that happens on Smackdown gets ignored or redone on RAW. A lot of people probably do watch it but watch it taped Saturday or Sunday in a quick sitting. RAW is watched live which leads to a live game thread.
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bradzilla posted:It's this, and even more recently Smackdown is becoming the Raw "practice" show. Just two weeks ago they did an angle on Smackdown, and then repeated it word for word, spot for spot on the following week's Raw. And yeah Friday night is a loving awful night for any TV show.
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Jun 11, 2013 15:44
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What happened to that Santino Marella sitcom? Canned before production began? Was it just an angle?
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Jun 11, 2013 15:49
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If I'm going to watch a WWE show that doesn't really matter to the big picture, I'm going to watch NXT. WWE puts out too many shows for me to watch all their poo poo, so I pick and choose. Smackdown gets the cut for me.
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Jun 11, 2013 15:54
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NXT is the best promotion for so many reasons. They have angles, but the angles are used to--gasp!--set up matches.
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Jun 11, 2013 16:00
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I'll sometimes catch one or two interesting sounding matches or segments on Youtube, but I personally generally have no desire to watch Smackdown anymore after the brand split basically ended and the switch to a three hour Raw. The timeslot sucks and three hours of WWE programmming enough for me. Also, for all the complaints about Raw's extra hour it really has led to an increase in quality matches of a decent length. There's no way we'd have seen the fairly lengthy great Bryan/Shield matches we've had for a month now if it was a two hour show. That was previously the main reason for watching Smackdown in the past, but it really just seems like an unnecessary B show in every area now.
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Jun 11, 2013 16:16
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On top of all that, Smackdown is taped on Tuesdays so rather than waste my Friday watching Raw-lite or a recap show, I can look at the spoilers and then YouTube anything of value.
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Jun 11, 2013 18:51
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When is the last time anyone was offered and/or signed a lifetime contract? Bret Hart?
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BlueArmyMan posted:When is the last time anyone was offered and/or signed a lifetime contract? Bret Hart? Vince offered Hogan a 25-year contract around 2007, but he turned it down. It was chronicled on an episode of 'Hogan Knows Best'. Vince told him that he always wanted Hulkamania to be part of WWE and that the contract would guarantee money to his family even after he was gone. In retrospect - dumb move on Hulk's part
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Jun 11, 2013 19:17
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Why did Mordecai happen? I swear it could've been WWE throwing not-so-smarks a bone over that "White Undertaker" rumour.
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Yeah he was basically set up to be an Undertaker nemesis of the week, but he was too terrible even for that.
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SmackDown's been getting a lot better over the past few months -- at least recently, it seems like a lot of the angles have been able to stay on there and only on there. The Rise of Daniel Bryan angle has had pretty major advancements on SmackDown and they haven't redone them on Raw (at least not yet). Also, SmackDown just has a lot of fun segments, like Damien Sandow yelling at a computer to shut up.
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Since he's been the character, what's the longest period of time Kane has ever been off of WWE television? The longest thing I can find is the period from October 19, 2004 - January 2005, when he was off filming See No Evil. The dude almost never gets injured and seems to have no interest in vacations.
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Tato posted:Since he's been the character, what's the longest period of time Kane has ever been off of WWE television? The longest thing I can find is the period from October 19, 2004 - January 2005, when he was off filming See No Evil. The dude almost never gets injured and seems to have no interest in vacations. Libertarians are invincible?
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Tato posted:Since he's been the character, what's the longest period of time Kane has ever been off of WWE television? The longest thing I can find is the period from October 19, 2004 - January 2005, when he was off filming See No Evil. The dude almost never gets injured and seems to have no interest in vacations. He was gone from July 22 '11 to December 12 '11 in between his kayfabe injury at the hands of Mark Henry and his return as a heel with the mask.
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He tore a muscle in his arm once during the era where hogan was about it was a week or so after his kaneinties while mimicking hogans mannerisms promo. But I don't have a time frame on that it might have been the time he returned to stop the unamericans burning the flag.
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Who came up with the Rock's "If ya smell" line? Please tell me it was him
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Wario Kart 64 posted:Who came up with the Rock's "If ya smell" line? Please tell me it was him Russo claims he came up with a lot of the patter. The rudi poo and jabroni thing was actually coined in World Class Championship Wrestling by "Iceman" King Parsons.
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Wario Kart 64 posted:Who came up with the Rock's "If ya smell" line? Please tell me it was him It's an old expression like "if you catch my drift." He said in his book that one of his uncles used to say it all the time. Iirc the first time he used it was the Gennifer Flowers interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2QUZ9T_KhI
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Have any of you guys tried to make a spreadsheet or database of your wrestling DVDs? I'd love to be able to quickly search for stuff in my library but I'm not sure the best way to set things up. Plus with different gimmick matches, stipulations, multi man matches, etc, it might be way more complicated than the utility I would get out of it. I also haven't made a database in over a year, since I made one for a class project. For software I have Microsoft Office, including Visio (for designing/planning) Excel, and Access, as well as Open Office. Any ideas?
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Monkeycheese posted:Have any of you guys tried to make a spreadsheet or database of your wrestling DVDs? I'd love to be able to quickly search for stuff in my library but I'm not sure the best way to set things up. Plus with different gimmick matches, stipulations, multi man matches, etc, it might be way more complicated than the utility I would get out of it. I also haven't made a database in over a year, since I made one for a class project. http://www.filmaf.com/
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When was the last time there was a criss-cross spot? I can't remember it happening beyond the 80s. 80s WWF used to do it fairly frequently, where they'd run the ropes adjacent to each other and it would continue until someone inevitably dropped or leapfrogged or the two double-clotheslined each other. If it weren't so inherently silly (because momentum doesn't force you to keep running ropes), I feel like there are some interesting flippy spots from the lighter part of the roster that could be done.
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sticklefifer posted:When was the last time there was a criss-cross spot? I can't remember it happening beyond the 80s. It happens on the indies every once in awhile.
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sticklefifer posted:When was the last time there was a criss-cross spot? I can't remember it happening beyond the 80s. Michael McGillicutty never stopped running: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xww2dy_wwe-saturday-morning-slam-1-19-13-full-show-hq_sport&start=861
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Bard Maddox posted:Michael McGillicutty never stopped running: I love how betrayed he looks when he finally realizes sheamus ditched him.
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Monkeycheese posted:Have any of you guys tried to make a spreadsheet or database of your wrestling DVDs? I'd love to be able to quickly search for stuff in my library but I'm not sure the best way to set things up. Plus with different gimmick matches, stipulations, multi man matches, etc, it might be way more complicated than the utility I would get out of it. I also haven't made a database in over a year, since I made one for a class project.
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Bard Maddox posted:Michael McGillicutty never stopped running: Oh wow. Now I'm really hoping Curtis Axel's gimmick turns out to be that he's actually just half-retarded and Heyman's been exploiting him. After all, he recently claimed to be the next Intercontinental Title. They need to go full-Adamle.
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So do you see him as more of a Dave Sullivan or a Eugene? Those were great ideas.
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You never go full Eugene.
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Bard Maddox posted:Michael McGillicutty never stopped running: Is this show comedy spots, or was this just a comedy match? As a comedy match, I thought it was entertaining.
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Shadow225 posted:Is this show comedy spots, or was this just a comedy match?
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Shadow225 posted:Is this show comedy spots, or was this just a comedy match? SMS has more comedy matches that it does regular matches. There's so many old school classic comedy spots they use every week, its such a throwback of a show.
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Cromulent posted:The show has a lot of comedy spots like that. It's TV-G so there's no head shots or brutal moves or anything, so it's usually a pretty basic wrestling match with lots of entertaining spots like that thrown in. Track down Tyson Kidd vs Daniel Bryan from Saturday Morning Slam. Yeah, Daniel Bryan busts out all the classic World of Sport comedy match spots (Lady of the Lake!  )
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Not a question, but generally when they change the way title belts look they do it for the worse (spinner, etc.) However, I really like the way the tag titles look now even though they confusingly didn't continue the reign of their original tag titles from the 70s.
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EugeneJ posted:Vince offered Hogan a 25-year contract around 2007, but he turned it down. It was chronicled on an episode of 'Hogan Knows Best'. Vince told him that he always wanted Hulkamania to be part of WWE and that the contract would guarantee money to his family even after he was gone. Was this decision a Ric Flair type thing where Hogan couldn't afford (finance or ego wise) to not be able to pursue outside interests while under a lifetime contract with WWE or just Hogan being a big dummy? Sidenote: I know those aren't mutually exclusive WeaponX fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jun 15, 2013 |
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WeaponX posted:Was this decision a Ric Flair type thing where Hogan couldn't afford (finance or ego wise) to not be able to pursue outside interests while under a lifetime contract with WWE or just Hogan being a big dummy? It wasn't a dumb move at the time and still may not be. Being tied down to a deal for the rest of your life isn't smart. The Hulk Hogan brand may not be what it once was, but there is still some value in it. It didn't take much to convince Dixie and Spike of this. Also nobody could have predicted the ugly divorce.
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Hogan was doing fine until he lost his nest egg in the stock market and had to go work for JBL.
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