rare Magic card l00k posted:

I have no memory of late-2000 WCW so I'm left going both "Okay, they only have X months left" and "How in the world do they still have X months left?"

Shiki Dan posted:

Good lord, I cannot let myself miss this one.

Even though I already KNOW this isn't even the worst WCW PPV in 2000, on paper it still seems atrocious.

DJExile posted:

Was this the last straw that sent Russo home? I know the bookers while he was gone were basically told not to change what he was doing but as I recall NBR was basically the peak.

MassRafTer posted:

No, Russo is around until late October.

MassRafTer posted:

BLOOD WILL RISE ON NEW BLOOD RISING

https://synchtu.be/r/TheDJRanPosition

Jerusalem posted:

Well it really IS very simple:

In a professional wrestling match, a boy band fought a trio of Asians (one of whom was a Southern Redneck) for possession of a gold record and a recording contract, because without the recording contract the boy band would never get to sing a song and get a gold record like the one they got when they got it in the match before they got the record contract. Also Jim the Anvil Neidhart's lookalike decoy got drunk and wandered out to the ring and the commentators had to desperately cover it up by making up a story about a washed up fighter's deeply repressed homosexual lust.

The Great Muta showed up in WCW in the year 2000, wasn't hit by a steel chair, and lost a match to the Commissioner of WCW Ernest Miller, whose feet had been blessed by James Brown, gaining them the very specific power of knocking out The Great Muta. The match between Muta and Miller is best remembered for the crowd chanting a WWF catchphrase.

An elderly woman was put on a forklift and ridden out to the ring to a Nirvana theme-tune ripoff used by the wrong wrestler who was also in lust with the elderly woman. The steroid-popping freak son of this woman then came out and beat up a celebrity guest, and danced rather than save her from her precarious position tied to the forklift. To win the match you needed to get the elderly woman off of the "pole", also you could win by pinning your opponent or making them submit. But count-outs were right out.... maybe.

Two big dumb guys who can't wrestle beat three other teams to win the right to have another match for their belts later that same night - another team came down and got involved in the match as referees because they had referee shirts except for the guy who counted the pinfall who wasn't wearing a referee shirt but once someone slaps the canvas three times that's that buddy. The team that got involved was not the team that would be fighting the two dumb guys later that night.

A skinny meth-addict and the fat assistant manager of a department store stumbled out to the ring during a bondage session, both so high and drunk that they didn't realize they'd ended up in the middle of a Pay Per View.

A woman with giant fake tits fought a woman without giant fake tits in a big pool of mud and then one of them got pregnant from the sperm in the mud and started to miscarry because of the South's miscegenation laws.

Someone opened a time vortex to a brief 6 week period in 1974 when KISS was popular and signed a contract to unleash a Demon into WCW, perhaps for the promise of KISS merchandising rights in return. Luckily for WCW, a fat Samoan screamed at a startled Crow, thus summoning Sting from the rafters to vanquish the Demon to Hell.... which just so happened to be a WCW PPV called New Blood Rising.

In Canada the Canadian hero Lance Storm who loves Canada and is loved by Canadians and had got to where he had by being an exceptional wrestler who backed up his claims of greatness by beating his opponents in straight up matches proceeded to recklessly cheat as he was beaten again and again easily by his American opponent. The crowd cheered for bad guy Storm doing bad guy things while the commentators bitterly cursed his actions and hammered on him for being such a bad, horrible man that nobody liked.

Bret Hart showed up to pick up his back-pay and accidentally ended up on camera.

The two big dumb guys who can't wrestle and had beat three other teams to win the right to have another match for their belts later that same night after interference from another team that wasn't on their side and wasn't going to be fighting them later that night.... lost their match to the team of Vampiro and the Great Muta. Having achieved what he set out to do when he returned to WCW, Muta was able to return to Japan and reinvigorate his career thanks to the imparted magic of James Brown transferred from Miller's foot to his face.

Goldberg, Kevin Nash and Steiner had a match but the unprofessional Goldberg refused to do the job and went into business for himself and left the match which wasn't on the commentator's rundown so Nash and Steiner had to improvise a finish to the match themselves.

Everybody hoped Booker T's bad knee was okay. Turns out it was. He did a Spinarooni and knocked out the referee due to uncontrollable centrifugal force! The crowd feared Jarrett might win, and fearing the idea of a blond primadonna convinced of his own glory forcing himself to the top of the company and holding onto it with a deathgrip, they cheered for the antithesis of all those things by chanting for Hulk Hogan. This can be explained by the fact that it was a Canadian crowd, and thus their patriotism for America got the better of them. A sniper in the upper tier started shooting referees so the crowd threw garbage at the ring to act as chaff and stave off his aim. Booker retained his belt.

What's so difficult to understand about any of that?

Shiki Dan posted:

You forgot that the referee who counted the pinfall in the 4-Way of the Tag Title match was actually a member of a stable that featured one of the teams in the match...but weren't in deciding the pinfall.
Meaning he counted the pinfall in favor of his stable-mates' opponents and cost them the title.
This was not a swerve nor turn, but played straight.

Shiki Dan posted:

You forgot that the referee who counted the pinfall in the 4-Way of the Tag Title match was actually a member of a stable that featured one of the teams in the match...but weren't in deciding the pinfall.
Meaning he counted the pinfall in favor of his stable-mates' opponents and cost them the title.
This was not a swerve nor turn, but played straight.

exploded mummy posted:

should I get myself liquored up and try to do a more detailed recap of NBR tonight or tomorrow

MassRafTer posted:

Post it in the other WCW thread since it's supposedly going to end up in the Goldmine someday.

exploded mummy posted:

alright I will when I'm done

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alright I will when I'm done

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exploded mummy posted:

alright I will when I'm done

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exploded mummy posted:

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

So uh, what happens when Tuesday Nitro runs out of WCW to watch? Are y'all gonna just restart from the beginning and go in a loop, or maybe change gears to ECW or Attitude-era WWF or something, or just axe the project entirely after the Final Nitro?

I realize this is sort of an "elephant in the living room that nobody wants to talk about" question, but... if y'all are at New Blood Rising, we're getting pretty close to the end.

e: I guess now that I think about it, there's also the Invasion to watch after the Final Nitro before you can really completely stick a fork in WCW.

exploded mummy posted:

If you talked to MRT more often you would know he has a plan.