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RC and Moon Pie posted:It went nearly 30 minutes, but I don't know of any story beyond that. Kevin Sullivan was head booker at that time. IIRC it was a demand by Hogan to try and expose that the "vanilla midget" types couldn't excite a crowd for a main event amount of time. Edit: Thinking about Colonel Parker just makes me mad he beat Madusa in the blowoff of their feud, even if by outside interference and cheating. She should've gone over clean. Someone that isn't presented at all as a wrestler onscreen should not be going over a wrestler, regardless of their gender.
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Rolling Miss Elizabeth into the +1 spot for Flair’s entourage was a real big waste of a manager. Same with JJ Dillon on knocking on Goldberg’s door duties(tho that was a cool bit of wrestling trivia back in the day)
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Darthemed posted:Who would the five most noteworthy managers who worked exclusively under WCW be? As far as I can tell, Harley Race only managed guys in WCW.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Who the gently caress calls it suncream? 
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Darthemed posted:Who would the five most noteworthy managers who worked exclusively under WCW be? I don't think J.J. Dillon was a manager outside of NWA/WCW
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Recently been watching some episodes of WCW Saturday Night from 1992. Not that I didn't know, but it's just kinda crazy that there was a time when Jim Ross, Steve Austin, and Paul Heyman were in WCW, while Ric Flair and Lex Luger were working for McMahon.
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rujasu posted:Recently been watching some episodes of WCW Saturday Night from 1992. Not that I didn't know, but it's just kinda crazy that there was a time when Jim Ross, Steve Austin, and Paul Heyman were in WCW, while Ric Flair and Lex Luger were working for McMahon. I was watching WCW Saturday nights from 1993 a few years ago and Sting had a match with Stunning Steve Austin, not even sure if it was the main event. Just thought it was funny that the same match 5 or 6 years later could probably fill a football stadium.
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I wanna say Stunning Steve and Dustin had some pretty good matches around then, as well.
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1992 Saturday Night is really fun. Say what you want about Watts, he sure could book a logical TV show and build dudes up.
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here comes the spunk posted:1992 Saturday Night is really fun. Say what you want about Watts, he sure could book a logical TV show and build dudes up. I've been watching clips from the Sullivans/Foley vs Nasty Boys feud. Good feud even though most of the people involved stink in the ring except Mick.
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gary spivey? of the psychic companions network? what are you doin' here?!
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Low Desert Punk posted:gary spivey? of the psychic companions network? what are you doin' here?! is that the wcw ppv that has missy Hyatt getting chased out of the mens locker room by stan Hansen in tighty whiteys? bc that's my favorite wcw moment
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Check out the fine print of the Superbrawl 2000 poster. WCW teddy bear!
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Booker T using the big gold belt as a gloryhole is up there with Buff Bagwell duck face and Halloween Havoc 2000s MS Paint font as bad WCW posters
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The next season of Pose is gonna be lit.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I've been watching clips from the Sullivans/Foley vs Nasty Boys feud. Good feud even though most of the people involved stink in the ring except Mick. The Nasty Boys were the drizzling shits, but they were alright when they could just brawl around the ring and stiff dudes with shots. Cactus and Sullivan were really the perfect opponents to get something passable out of them.
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The early Nitros where the Nastys just did garbage brawling are moments fondly remembered. 90s garbage brawls in general were less about doing harm to the other guy as much as wrecking everything. Like the subway level from Max Payne where you spend more time shooting the walls because its cool as hell.
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What was it like to be at a live show for all those WWF Raws where they had long brawls in the back?
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You were probably drunk outta your head with 10 college buddies so... pretty great
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Halloween Jack posted:What was it like to be at a live show for all those WWF Raws where they had long brawls in the back? I never verified it but someone once told me they saw midget matches while the taped brawls were being shown.
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Randaconda posted:I wanna say Stunning Steve and Dustin had some pretty good matches around then, as well. Yeah, Austin was part of Heyman's "Dangerous Alliance" so he got to have plenty of matches with Dustin, Barry Windham, and Ricky Steamboat.
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An Actual Bear posted:Booker T using the big gold belt as a gloryhole is up there with Buff Bagwell duck face and Halloween Havoc 2000s MS Paint font as bad WCW posters If I remember well that wasn't even Booker T, just some random guy.
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Numero6 posted:If I remember well that wasn't even Booker T, just some random guy. Tough to tell from the back, but he doesn't look like Booker, even though Booker did have short hair then.
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here comes the spunk posted:1992 Saturday Night is really fun. Say what you want about Watts, he sure could book a logical TV show and build dudes up. Banning moves off the top rope was poo poo, however.
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I never got the point of that because it was supposed to get heels heat for going to the top rope, but people pop for top rope moves. There’s tons of other ways to get heat that don’t cripple face flyers
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Aesop Poprock posted:I never got the point of that because it was supposed to get heels heat for going to the top rope, but people pop for top rope moves. There’s tons of other ways to get heat that don’t cripple face flyers The "kayfabe" reason was even dumber: Wrestling's supposed to take place in the ring, so going to the top rope goes against that.
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rujasu posted:Recently been watching some episodes of WCW Saturday Night from 1992. Not that I didn't know, but it's just kinda crazy that there was a time when Jim Ross, Steve Austin, and Paul Heyman were in WCW, while Ric Flair and Lex Luger were working for McMahon. WCW had Mick Foley, Steve Austin, HHH, and Undertaker and didn't know what to do with any of the.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:WCW had Mick Foley, Steve Austin, HHH, and Undertaker and didn't know what to do with any of the. Books could be filled with people promotions dropped the ball on.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:WCW had Mick Foley, Steve Austin, HHH, and Undertaker and didn't know what to do with any of the. The worst one they dropped the ball on was Austin because they knew how good he was. He was upper midcard on his way to main event for 2 years before hogan and his buddies came in. Undertaker and hhh? 2 young guys that knew they could have a better chance elsewhere. I can’t fault wcw for losing them. There’s not a single person on earth that would look at mean mark callus and say he would be hugely popular for the next 30 consecutive years. Even Vince McMahon. And no one outside hhh would say that he was destined to become one of the biggest stars of the 2000s and playing an not insignificant part in beating wcw.
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Davros1 posted:Banning moves off the top rope was poo poo, however. Oh no doubt, one of the many signs that Watts was way behind the times
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The American Dream posted:The worst one they dropped the ball on was Austin because they knew how good he was. He was upper midcard on his way to main event for 2 years before hogan and his buddies came in. I would argue the worst wrestler that WCW dropped the ball on was Bret Hart. He was the recent WWF champion, coming off a huge kayfabe angle, a huge worked angle, and coming in to their company with huge fanfare. But due to internal politics, within a few months, he was relegated to midcard mediocrity.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:WCW had Mick Foley, Steve Austin, HHH, and Undertaker and didn't know what to do with any of the. Remember when Austin was awarded a title by default and within 2 minutes lost it to Jim Duggan?
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BrigadierSensible posted:I would argue the worst wrestler that WCW dropped the ball on was Bret Hart. Yeah, squandering a known talent is in a whole other league of stupidity than just not realizing what you had IMO. Then again, which is worse between loving up a superstar due to all the politicking from "the boys" or running a superstar into the ground because they aren't "your" superstar?
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I know that WWF were wanting to build to Hart/Hogan at Summerslam 93 and Hogan insisted on putting Yokozuna over instead, do we know if he also helped keep Bret from getting anywhere in WCW?
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Maxwell Lord posted:I know that WWF were wanting to build to Hart/Hogan at Summerslam 93 and Hogan insisted on putting Yokozuna over instead, do we know if he also helped keep Bret from getting anywhere in WCW? It's been a while but I think Bret has mentioned in interviews that Hogan was trying to hobble him pretty quickly in WCW. For what that's worth anyway.
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TheKingslayer posted:It's been a while but I think Bret has mentioned in interviews that Hogan was trying to hobble him pretty quickly in WCW. For what that's worth anyway. Whilst I am sure it was a lot of that, and indeed a lot of the politics surrounding that. I don't deny that Hogan was very much "ain't nobody taking my spot brother, and I have both the creative control written into my contract, AND the ear of the booker to make sure." But don't discount pure moronic incompetence on WCW's part. Insomuch as they spend so much money/time/influence to get Bret, but once they have him, they have no idea what to do with him, and are unwilling/unable to even try to shoehorn him into the main event/important storylines. So they just threw him on the pile. Remember, this company put out a Bret Hart T-Shirt with him standing behind an American flag. So stupidity/laziness is as valid a reason as malice. 
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BrigadierSensible posted:Remember, this company put out a Bret Hart T-Shirt with him standing behind an American flag. So stupidity/laziness is as valid a reason as malice. Holy poo poo, I've never seen that before. It's like you can eternally shake the WCW tree and keep finding things.
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