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SatoshiMiwa posted:Turns out Wrestling fans don't want to see a concert at a Wrestling event The West Texas Rednecks?
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Turns out Wrestling fans don't want to see a concert at a Wrestling event (Unless it's Jam, Project at the start of an Event in Japan cause Jam Project)
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I still find it hard to believe Eminem or Marilyn Manson never appeared on WWF TV during the Attitude Era.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:I still find it hard to believe Eminem or Marilyn Manson never appeared on WWF TV during the Attitude Era. Manson had a song be a theme for Smackdown
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I recently subscribed to Peacock+ and see they have a ton of wrestling shows. I know next to nothing about wrestling, but have looked around the net and know about some of what WCW/NWA put out. Is there a good list of what to watch from 70s to 00s? Should I just watch all of the PPVs then jump into the "Monday Night Wars"? I know Ric Flair, Dusty Baker, Sting, Hulk Hogan, and the NWO are essential to WCW/NWA, but is there anyone else I should keep an eye out for? I've already watched Starrcade '83. Flair, Rickey Steamboat, Charlie Brown, Roddy Piper, Bugsy McGraw and Rufus R. Jones were all enjoyable personalities. I am interested in the late 80s/early 90s era, but everything I read says the weekly shows are bad. I browsed some parts of this thread and it seems like the catch-all WCW/NWA/Crockett thread so I hope my questions are in the right place. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Mr Hootington posted:I recently subscribed to Peacock+ and see they have a ton of wrestling shows. I know next to nothing about wrestling, but have looked around the net and know about some of what WCW/NWA put out. Is there a good list of what to watch from 70s to 00s? Should I just watch all of the PPVs then jump into the "Monday Night Wars"? I know Ric Flair, Dusty Baker, Sting, Hulk Hogan, and the NWO are essential to WCW/NWA, but is there anyone else I should keep an eye out for? These would be the best top to bottom shows I can think of Clash of the Champions 1 Starrcade 88 Great American Bash 89 Clash of the Champions 9 SuperBrawl I WrestleWar 91 WrestleWar 92 SuperBrawl III Spring Stampede 94 Also watch the 3 Flair/Steamboat matches from 89 but the full cards aren't really fantastic.
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STING 64 fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Late 1996 and all of 1997 were great for WCW. I've found the episodes of Nitro after the NWO formed really interesting. You should watch the Diamond Dallas Page vs Randy Savage feud, because it's probably the last great thing Savage ever did as a wrestler. They wrestle three matches at Spring Stampede, The Great American Bash and Halloween Havoc, all in 1997. There's also a side-quest match of DDP and Curt Hennig vs Savage and Scott Hall at Bash At The Beach which leads to DDP vs Curt Hennig at Starrcade 97, possibly Hennig's last ever good match. 1998 isn't as good as 97 but there are some gems out there: the DDP vs Raven vs Chris Benoit saga, DDP vs Sting on Nitro, Goldberg vs Hollywood Hogan on Nitro, the rise of Booker T as a singles guy and finall, DDP vs Goldberg at Halloween Havoc. Then WCW pretty much falls off a cliff in 99 and never recovers. Man, I just realised DDP was doing some heavy lifting keeping WCW watchable in the '90s.
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I found this reddit watch list and would all of you say it is good or too much?
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I don't think Fall 93 is good at all, Winter 99 is very bad and April 2000 is awful.
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MassRafTer posted:I don't think Fall 93 is good at all, Winter 99 is very bad and April 2000 is awful. Ok so take those out and add the PPVs and I should be good?
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Mr Hootington posted:Ok so take those out and add the PPVs and I should be good? The only PPVs I'd bother watching from Halloween Havoc 98 through the end of the company are Spring Stampede 99 and Greed. The rest are really genuinely bad. Also I missed the guy saying September of 99 through November is good, that's some of the worst poo poo the company ever did. Although there is one really funny Nitro in there.
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MassRafTer posted:The only PPVs I'd bother watching from Halloween Havoc 98 through the end of the company are Spring Stampede 99 and Greed. The rest are really genuinely bad. Also I missed the guy saying September of 99 through November is good, that's some of the worst poo poo the company ever did. Although there is one really funny Nitro in there. Ok. Thank you for all the help. 
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Mr Hootington posted:Ok. Thank you for all the help. Also WCW is weird in general where during the Monday Night Wars the TV is way better than the PPVs for the most part. Watching every Nitro was a lot of fun but late 96 through early 98 was incredibly fun when we did our rewatch... but the PPVs are often just kind of there.
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The TV was where everything happened because Bischoff was obsessed with TV ratings rather than PPV buy rates. If its in the award winning WWE network on Peacock© (and it should be) you could probably do worse than watch some Mid-South Wrestling. Start in 1983 and continue to 1986. It is some of the best weekly TV from the territories era. If these aren't on peacock they'll be on youtube.
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MrBling posted:The TV was where everything happened because Bischoff was obsessed with TV ratings rather than PPV buy rates. They are. I watched a couple of episodes of the mid-atlantic and it was really dry.
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yeah. Mid-Atlantic can be a bit rough, since its a lot of studio wrestling with fairly small crowds. Mid-South has some crowds that are really into it, some good workers and some good booking back when Bill Watts was actually the best booker in the business.
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Dusty Baker wasn't in NWA/JCP/WCW. That was Scott Hall - you must have seen the toothpick and got confused.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Dusty Baker wasn't in NWA/JCP/WCW. That was Scott Hall - you must have seen the toothpick and got confused. I meant Dusty rhodes
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That cover is so loving bad. https://twitter.com/WCWNitroBook/status/1584265480663359488
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Can't wait to read 300 pages of Bischoff insulting anybody that's ever disagreed with him, calling them marks.
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"Highly anticipated" doing a looot of heavy lifting there
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Can't wait to read 300 pages of Bischoff insulting anybody that's ever disagreed with him, calling them marks. Don't forget him, well, forgetting even basic details of events.
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MassRafTer posted:The only PPVs I'd bother watching from Halloween Havoc 98 through the end of the company are Spring Stampede 99 and Greed. The rest are really genuinely bad. Also I missed the guy saying September of 99 through November is good, that's some of the worst poo poo the company ever did. Although there is one really funny Nitro in there. Do what I did and watch El Generico's mash-ups of those late '99 Nitros https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x810e4e
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Does anyone have a link to the youtube video that has random clips of Nitro set to the Ben Folds song "Annie Waits"? I'm pretty sure it was posted in this thread a long time ago but I can't find it
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A little bit late on WCW wasting money on singers: Remember when The Cat was going on and on for months about how he knew James Brown as part of his self aggrandizing blowhard character. Then WCW paid a shitload of cash to get James Brown actually show up and dance with him. Only they did it on PPV with no build up and no real fanfare and it didn't draw a single extra viewer.
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BrigadierSensible posted:A little bit late on WCW wasting money on singers: I bet that was a decent six figure payday for James Brown, easy.
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Starrcadde 84 rules. Some great matches and modern wrestling started taking shape.
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haljordan posted:"Highly anticipated" doing a looot of heavy lifting there "It is highly anticipated by me, Mr. Tterrag Ffohcsib! Please don't ask about the tattoo on my chest!"
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MAGNUM T.A.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/iandrewthegiant/status/1587613613908443136?s=46&t=UQBC7ZTQuFgB5w51cSHMLg That's an unfortunate choice of trunks for Konnan there
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just found this on an old machine (recreation of the prototype name/logo of WCW Nitro)
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JOHN CENA posted:just found this on an old machine early 90s graphic design was unmatched
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Did you know that Comet Hale Bopp became visible to the naked eye in May of 1996 as the nWo invasion began? Did you also know that it stopped being visible to the naked eye in December of 1997 before Sting vs Hogan? Have you ever wondered what the Heaven's Gate cult really knew???????
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JOHN CENA posted:just found this on an old machine 
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MassRafTer posted:Did you know that Comet Hale Bopp became visible to the naked eye in May of 1996 as the nWo invasion began? Hale Bopp sounds like a jobber on WCW Saturday Night in 1992.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Hale Bopp sounds like a jobber on WCW Saturday Night in 1992. No it was a comet.
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