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They accidentally included work they were doing for Country Bear Jamboree http://smg.photobucket.com/user/m-a-d-d-o-g/media/portfolio/WCW%20Mayhem%202/KN_the_band_is_getting_NEW.mp4.html?sort=3&o=23
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 21:38 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 23:11 |
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What ever happened to like 75% of the flock? Van Hammer, Reese, Riggs, Sick Boy? They dead?
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 21:51 |
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MRT said that Van Hammer trained the Briscoes, which I will never, ever get over.
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 21:54 |
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Rodney the Piper posted:MRT said that Van Hammer trained the Briscoes, which I will never, ever get over. There's a video of Colt Cabana calling Mark or Jay and pretending like he's Van Hammer. I thought it was amusing at the time, because VAN HAMMER.
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 22:03 |
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 22:25 |
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I want to say that Sick Boy and Scotty Riggs are teaming up again in the indies.
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 23:04 |
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D Lambent posted:What ever happened to like 75% of the flock? Van Hammer, Reese, Riggs, Sick Boy? They dead? Riggs ended up in ECW as Scotty Anton, Sick Boy spent a few years in developmental as Scott Vick. Lodi ended up in WWA and briefly in TNA doing the gay gimmick and still does indies.
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# ? Jul 29, 2014 23:25 |
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Still a better costume than JJ's mid-90's singlet
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 00:06 |
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MassRafTer posted:Riggs ended up in ECW as Scotty Anton, Sick Boy spent a few years in developmental as Scott Vick. Lodi ended up in WWA and briefly in TNA doing the gay gimmick and still does indies. I used to love that the whole crew just walked down the ramp with no music and scratched their bodies to signify dope-like withdrawal. Or mites.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 00:07 |
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Tonight, Nitro! I seriously have no clue what is on these shows. I imagine we'll get more build to Disco vs Jackie! Will Sting be there? DDP and Macho are about to go to war in Vegas, what'll happen next? On top of that at Halloween Havoc we'll get Hogan vs Piper: AGE IN A CAGE so you just know Piper will say a bunch of stuff that makes no sense! Tonight at 8 PM! 7:30 for Cowboy Who? and if these shows end at a reasonable hour we'll watch a TNA Weekly PPV from 2004 afterwards! http://psp-tv.com/r/badmoviesworsewrestling
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 00:24 |
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Bill Goldberg botched a jackhammer on his second televised match, what a jabron.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 01:34 |
Bigass Moth posted:Bill Goldberg botched a jackhammer on his second televised match, what a jabron.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 02:18 |
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Third match, according to Meltzer. Please don't cite that hack in this thread.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 02:19 |
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Didn't he have the scoops?
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 02:41 |
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MassRafTer posted:Please don't cite that hack
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 02:46 |
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D Lambent posted:What ever happened to like 75% of the flock? Van Hammer, Reese, Riggs, Sick Boy? They dead?
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 02:48 |
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MassRafTer posted:Tonight, Nitro! I seriously have no clue what is on these shows. Summary of what happens on Nitro: Pillman died. JJ finally says gently caress it and heads up north. Sting beat up some people. Larry and Mike are racist.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 03:33 |
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I never realized there was a December 98 Observer available on the site, so I went looking through it and here's some WCW tidbits:quote:There is a huge deal that hasn't been finalized at press time but if it is, has potentially huge positive repercussions as it regards this company's position in the wrestling war. quote:Eric Bischoff had another meeting with talent before Nitro on 12/14. He officially told talent that Kevin Nash and Diamond Dallas Page would be joining in the booking team with himself, Kevin Sullivan and Dusty Rhodes, and that Terry Taylor would be moving over to production. Bischoff heavily stressed all the wrestlers being easy to find at least two segments before they go on television for any fine-tuning of what they need to do, and the need for wrestlers to hit their time marks better since it's a live television shoot. He, without saying names, talked about people doing interviews or matches for longer than they are scheduled and how it messes with the timing of the show. He spoke about big changes coming in January with the company. He said that they are going to re-invent wrestling early next year, claiming they did so once and will do it again and told everyone he didn't want them attempting to compete on a vulgarity level with WWF. He claimed that he watched both shows on 12/7 and he believes WCW has a better television show but that WWF is gaining attention of teenagers because it's more vulgar (the point he's missing is that WWF is gaining the attention of teenagers to a huge degree for its shock value and swearing, but it is also the better television show most weeks, particularly from a storyline standpoint). He really emphasized not tolerating changing finishes, and he got to put his foot down on 12/14 when Stevie Ray complained about doing a job for Konnan. Ray went up the ladder to complain, and when it got to Bischoff, he totally put his foot down about it. quote:Everyone is noticing just how rapidly Bill Goldberg is cooling off. A few months back his merchandise was huge, and now it's actually nicknamed "Coldberg." . . For whatever reason, WCW has either decided not to, or simply never decided to, promote the Hart movie on its television even though it sponsored at least one of its Grand Openings. The one mention on 12/7 by Gene Okerlund, in passing without saying when it airs or what it is, was something Okerlund decided to do on his own. quote:Giant is strongly leaning toward leaving again. quote:McMichael no-showed Nitro on 12/14. quote:Sting is doing a TV movie called "Shutter Speed" as a pilot for a potential series. quote:Vampiro's debut has been pushed back to SuperBrawl in San Francisco.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 17:08 |
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Daniel Bryan posted:That's interesting. I thought it was Starrcade that killed him, and this was before that. Goldberg was cooling off before he got beat? They started cooling him off the moment he won the belt. He wasn't in the main event of Bash at the Beach (Hogan was), he wasn't in the main event of Road Wild (Hogan was), he DIDN'T EVEN APPEAR at Fall Brawl, his Halloween Havoc match got clipped off for time because Hogan/Warrior went long, and he DIDN'T EVEN APPEAR at World War 3. They gave him the belt and then Hogan and company immediately shunted him back to the lower card. I don't think he got a single loving feud in six months outside of DDP. Dude fought loving Curt Hennig and a battle royal of losers while Hogan, Nash, and DDP filled up the main events. Really, it was quite a masterful political move. Hogan owns.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 17:34 |
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Daniel Bryan posted:Why couldn't it have been pushed back indefinitely? I loved Vampiro in WCW
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 17:45 |
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Considering how over Goldberg was even with this clownshoes booking of him after he won the belt, one can only imagine what he would have been like in a company that consistently used him well.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 17:46 |
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I remember being really hyped for the Sting/Vampiro feud, but then they kept doing this thing where they'd give Vampiro a microphone and he'd speak into it.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 17:48 |
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Tato posted:, his Halloween Havoc match got clipped off for time because Hogan/Warrior went long, That was not true. That was all on Bischoff not informing the PPV providers that the show was going to go long.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 19:54 |
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Didn't they replay the whole thing on Nitro the next night? At least, I have a vivid memory of that match's finish despite never having bought the PPV.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 19:56 |
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1st AD posted:Didn't they replay the whole thing on Nitro the next night? At least, I have a vivid memory of that match's finish despite never having bought the PPV. Yes, and the segment got something stupid like a 7.0 rating I think it also made the PPV providers annoyed that they were giving away the main event for free on TV thus cutting down on late orders.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 19:57 |
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bobkatt013 posted:That was not true. That was all on Bischoff not informing the PPV providers that the show was going to go long. Well, not so much Bischoff as his helpers he told to inform the providers.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 21:07 |
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bobkatt013 posted:That was not true. That was all on Bischoff not informing the PPV providers that the show was going to go long. My mistake. It's really quite striking to look at the televised match history of Goldberg and see how far away from the top of the card he was: http://www.profightdb.com/wrestlers/bill-goldberg-365.html?year=1998 You'd figure the WCW World Champion would be wrestling the likes of Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Sting, Bret Hart, etc, but instead he's wrestling the likes of Rick Fuller and Scott Putski on Nitro and Thunder. I think the biggest guys he got to beat were The Giant (who was on the way out), Scott Hall (who was barely around and starting his drunk angle), Sting, and DDP.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 21:50 |
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Daniel Bryan posted:I never realized there was a December 98 Observer available on the site, so I went looking through it and here's some WCW tidbits: The positive development was NBC wanted to do monthly WCW specials. Goldberg was viewed to be cooling in early December but by the end of the month they did an incredible run of stadium shows with nearly 1 million in gate for each show and it was obvious he was still a huge huge deal.
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 22:08 |
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MassRafTer posted:The positive development was NBC wanted to do monthly WCW specials. I remember hearing that Goldberg was influenced to sell less and do less by Hogan and Nash. Dave ever talk about that in WON?
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# ? Jul 30, 2014 23:23 |
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I remember "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels coming in to late WCW and me as a middle school kid being real hype for him because the internet was blowing up about how good of a wrestler he was. Did he have anything in WCW that was worth tracking down to watch?
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 04:25 |
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Tato posted:They started cooling him off the moment he won the belt. He wasn't in the main event of Bash at the Beach (Hogan was), he wasn't in the main event of Road Wild (Hogan was), he DIDN'T EVEN APPEAR at Fall Brawl, his Halloween Havoc match got clipped off for time because Hogan/Warrior went long, and he DIDN'T EVEN APPEAR at World War 3. How did Goldberg not have matches booked on 2 of 3 PPVs? I know Hogan did that poo poo because Hogan, but why did they keep Goldberg off them. I know Jericho wanted to do a squash at Fall Brawl and Goldberg didn't get it. I mean, if Goldberg only wanted to work 3 weeks a month why let him take off the money shows? Is the answer WCW?
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 04:34 |
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Wasn't he limited in talent/ability? Everyone loves his DDP match but DDP is also known for pre-planning his matches. Goldberg was really only a 3 or 4 spot guy, right?
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 05:05 |
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The American Dream posted:How did Goldberg not have matches booked on 2 of 3 PPVs? I know Hogan did that poo poo because Hogan, but why did they keep Goldberg off them. I know Jericho wanted to do a squash at Fall Brawl and Goldberg didn't get it. I mean, if Goldberg only wanted to work 3 weeks a month why let him take off the money shows? Is the answer WCW? I think he was filming Universal Soldier: The Return during one of those PPVs.
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 05:09 |
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natetimm posted:Wasn't he limited in talent/ability? Everyone loves his DDP match but DDP is also known for pre-planning his matches. Goldberg was really only a 3 or 4 spot guy, right? Goldberg was extremely athletic, fans adored him, and quite frankly he was one of the better workers to hold the WCW Title from Giant's 1996 run to the company's death. But really, it doesn't matter. If you have a guy who is that popular and can put on a match fans love (Hint: All you need to have a match fans love is to have the guy they love beat the snot out of the guy they hate, especially in WCW where PPV main events went maybe 10 minutes), you put him in your loving main event. Of all the stupid WCW facts out there, Goldberg having only one WCW Title reign is the most mind-boggling.
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 05:49 |
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Great White Hope posted:Goldberg was extremely athletic, fans adored him, and quite frankly he was one of the better workers to hold the WCW Title from Giant's 1996 run to the company's death. You can only hold the belt once when you never lose.
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 05:52 |
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MassRafTer posted:You can only hold the belt once when you never lose. Bret Hart.
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 05:54 |
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Great White Hope posted:Goldberg was extremely athletic, fans adored him, and quite frankly he was one of the better workers to hold the WCW Title from Giant's 1996 run to the company's death. The moves he knew looked good, but he didn't exactly have a huge bag of tricks to pull from. He was very Kevin Nash when it came to what he could pull off to the point when he actually did a new move, the commentators would go apeshit over it.
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 06:00 |
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natetimm posted:The moves he knew looked good, but he didn't exactly have a huge bag of tricks to pull from. He was very Kevin Nash when it came to what he could pull off to the point when he actually did a new move, the commentators would go apeshit over it. His gimmick early on was he did all sorts of different moves.
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 06:04 |
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Great White Hope posted:Bret Hart. Shawn Michaels.
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# ? Jul 31, 2014 06:06 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 23:11 |
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MassRafTer posted:His gimmick early on was he did all sorts of different moves. I must not remember that because every one of his matches I remember was brawling, samoan drop, superkick, spear, jackhammer. EDIT: Also work a powerslam variant in there somewhere.
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