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Edge & Christian posted:The following week, Scott Steiner and Jeff Jarrett act as if this was all part of their plan, and they're cheering on Vince Russo. They declare that it's going to be a CAGE MATCH, which suits Booker fine because there will be no interference. I'll always remember this match because of all the people on the outside stopping Russo from escaping and then Russo trying to escape through the roof while Mike Awesome climbed up the cage and Sting came down from the rafters to stop him and patrol the roof of the cage which made me laugh. Steiner jabbing Booker with the pipe through the cage always made me laugh too.
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This exemplifies why WCW was so frustrating to watcch. In ring there is a cool match. Fun, colourful, lotsa movement and excitement. One commentator trying to get the other into it with "ooh"s and "ahhs" and "Gosh this is exciting and new" etc. But the other is talking about Hulk Hogan and the nWo and what those boring old men may or may not have to do 1 hour later in the show.
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Didn't Rey Mysterio sell like, a zillion masks when he jumped ship to WWE? And like, nobody from WCW creative had any idea what to do with him (or any other cruiserweight really).
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Ah come on, they knew what Rey needed. His mask removed and little devil horns!
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haljordan posted:Didn't Rey Mysterio sell like, a zillion masks when he jumped ship to WWE? And like, nobody from WCW creative had any idea what to do with him (or any other cruiserweight really). "Nobody has ever drawn a dime wearing a mask" Vince Russo mutters because hes an idiot
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WWE got him to remask as they knew it was more marketable but they also undercut his world title run as they never thought he could be the guy cause he was too small
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SatoshiMiwa posted:WWE got him to remask as they knew it was more marketable but they also undercut his world title run as they never thought he could be the guy cause he was too small He also looked like a child without the mask on, you couldn't take him seriously at all.
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syzpid posted:He also looked like a child without the mask on, you couldn't take him seriously at all. This is true, I can still remember watching the match where Kevin Nash pulled it off him and tried to put it on his own giant melon head.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:WWE got him to remask as they knew it was more marketable but they also undercut his world title run as they never thought he could be the guy cause he was too small They also got him heavily on roads and he looked boxy, lost a lot of his agility, and became a worse wrestler. He did it all to match WWEs ideal and it was still not good enough. He got better due to Lucha Underground of all things where he lost a lot of his size and got stem cells for his knees.
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Lid posted:They also got him heavily on roads and he looked boxy, lost a lot of his agility, and became a worse wrestler. He did it all to match WWEs ideal and it was still not good enough. To be fair, I think it's been good enough. He's had a really long career, much of which was upper mid card, albeit with a couple of questionable world title runs, but that puts him above the vast majority of wrestlers over the past couple of decades. Considering his height, it's a pretty big statement that he wasn't relegated to catering or purely joke status. Even Dominic getting a chance/push is high praise for how much the fed actually values him.
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iamsosmrt posted:To be fair, I think it's been good enough. He's had a really long career, much of which was upper mid card, albeit with a couple of questionable world title runs, but that puts him above the vast majority of wrestlers over the past couple of decades. Considering his height, it's a pretty big statement that he wasn't relegated to catering or purely joke status. Not only that, they didn't give up on him, which they've certainly done in the past
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I'm enjoying the Ron garvin and Ric Flair feud much more than the dusty/Ric feuds. I've read a bunch of stuff about Garvin and a lot of people seemed to not like him? I don't get it. He puts on a great show in the ring and while ron is a bit stiff in the promos, ron has an earnest intensity in the interviews that a lot of wrestlers do not have
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Mr Hootington posted:I'm enjoying the Ron garvin and Ric Flair feud much more than the dusty/Ric feuds. For this specific program, I'm willing to bet a lot of the distaste for it is that he's a midcard guy feuding with the top guy for backstage reasons. (And because I don't know how much you know, I'm putting the rest of this in spoilers.) Ultimately, being a belt pillow is a weird look for anyone, and it just gets worse when they don't care about making you look good long-term. Especially not when you're the transitional champ between an all-time great champion and the that champion, again. Also, after he left WCW, his career consisted of two years being weirdly stiff in WWE and a lot of time randomly showing up in the wasteland that is the post-1990 independent scene, and he's already in his mid-40s in the feud you're watching now. He's just one of those guys who weren't being reliably recorded until they were old and beaten down by decades of wrestling, so modern fans get a lopsided view of his ability as a performer.
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new Hogan raft dropped https://twitter.com/GaryCappetta/status/1674299971955245065
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If only the WCW bowling balls could have knocked down the competition.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:If only the WCW bowling balls could have knocked down the competition.
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I want a bowling ball that looks like Goldberg's head.
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drat I’d love one of those bowling bowls, hopefully someone’s got a spare
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Nothing compares to Late 90s bowling alleys. The cloud of smoke that waffed over from the 10 "smoking lanes" covering the 10 non-smoking lanes. The smell of stale, overpriced beer. The "restaurant" whose menu was ellio's pizza, nachos with cheese and hot dogs that have been in the warmer for an eternity. Oh and maybe stale, rock hard, pretzels. Definitely makes me think of WCW.
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MrBling posted:new Hogan raft dropped We can hold out hope there is a Sting ball.
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The Kevin Nash ball never comes out of the dispenser unless he's going over all the pins
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I'm not sure if this thread's for me anymore. Maybe it's time to 7/10 split.
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The Wife bought the Nitro game. Why in the world did they go with Buff Bagwell of All people on the cover?
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Erainor posted:The Wife bought the Nitro game. Why in the world did they go with Buff Bagwell of All people on the cover? Because he's the stuff, and the girls just can't get enough
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zetamind2000 posted:Because he's the stuff, and the girls just can't get enough Many have said this
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"You didn't get Goldberg, and you didn't get Sting, but you got Buff, and he's the Stuff!" is possibly the funniest wrestling story this side of The Iggy AKA The Office so that alone justifies his cover star status.
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Well, let's do a poll to see who the people want to see on the cover. Buff Bagwell up? Buff Bagwell down?
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Well, let's do a poll to see who the people want to see on the cover. Buff Bagwell up? Buff Bagwell down? Buff Bagwell... stuff?
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Learning about WCW history. https://twitter.com/TommyIsBS/status/1674843248508928002
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MassRafTer posted:Learning about WCW history. I vaguely remember the misfits in wcw, but for some reason I had always labeled it as Jerry only.
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Nystral posted:I vaguely remember the misfits in wcw, but for some reason I had always labeled it as Jerry only. Yeah, this was right before even Doyle left to do his own thing.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, this was right before even Doyle left to do his own thing. Which ultimately resulted in the band "Gorgeous Frankenstein"
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Angry_Ed posted:Which ultimately resulted in the band "Gorgeous Frankenstein" That sounds like a tremendous wrestling gimmick.
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haljordan posted:Didn't Rey Mysterio sell like, a zillion masks when he jumped ship to WWE? And like, nobody from WCW creative had any idea what to do with him (or any other cruiserweight really). Even better than that, they repeatedly insisted he lose the mask because they figured it was impossible to get a masked wrestler over and that nobody could possibly care about it. How can you be so out of touch with wrestling fans? Parents would have bought a billion replica masks for their kids, and they could've sold higher quality (and way higher price) masks to adult fans. People loving love masks! It's absolutely incredible how bad the WCW leadership was. But the ultimate best evidence of them being godawful will always be Bret Hart. When Bret jumped ship, he was probably the most talked about wrestler in the world and they had the easiest layup in the history of the world in making him their top babyface. But instead they did nothing with him and shortly afterwards turned him heel. When Owen died, they once again had the world's easiest undeserved layup, but because Bret was a heel in their plans and THOSE PLANS WILL NOT BE CHANGED, they once again kept him off TV intentionally.
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