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weekly font posted:I dunno guys, the racist Rap is Crap guys being fan faces over Master P is kind of hilarious. factor out the race factor and you still had like 20 dudes beating on Curt Hennig and Co.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:51
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coconono posted:factor out the race factor and you still had like 20 dudes beating on Curt Hennig and Co. Excuse me, you mean The West Texas Rednecks.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:53
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bobkatt013 posted:It really symbolizes the don't give a poo poo nature of WCW There was a time when Eric Bischoff and I think Hak came to the ring smoking. I remember it being a huge deal when Kevin Nash said "poo poo" unedited live on TV, but he said it like thirty times in his promo so it kind of lost the edge I'm sure they were going for.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:55
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coconono posted:factor out the race factor and you still had like 20 dudes beating on Curt Hennig and Co. It's a bunch of NASCAR and country music fans in the South against rappers with the NASCAR fans outnumbered like 5 to 1. Race is a minimal factor. It'd be like trying to book RVD as a heel in Hammerstein against Triple H, John Cena, and Batista at once.
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coconono posted:factor out the race factor and you still had like 20 dudes beating on Curt Hennig and Co. haljordan posted:Excuse me, you mean The West Texas Rednecks. The West Texas Rednecks, with: - Minnesotan Curt Hennig, with no accent - Vincent/Virgil/Curly Bill, from Tennessee, technically, but with no accent
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Feb 28, 2014 20:57
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Plus the No Limit Soldiers were like a miniature Aces & Eights.
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Red posted:The West Texas Rednecks, with: It's kinda like how in boxing, anyone white is referred to as "Irish".
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Great White Hope posted:It's Pearl, not Merle. Who the hell is Pearl
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triplexpac posted:Who the hell is Pearl Minnie Pearl?
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Feb 28, 2014 21:05
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The DDP/Goldberg main event from Halloween Havoc '98. The match was incredible but many PPV providers cut off the match because the show ran long so WCW had to air the match for free the next night on Nitro.
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bartok posted:The DDP/Goldberg main event from Halloween Havoc '98. The match was incredible but many PPV providers cut off the match because the show ran long so WCW had to air the match for free the next night on Nitro. Eric Bischoff time "management".
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Feb 28, 2014 21:10
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Anything can happen in (the) WCW. Another cool segment I remember involved the Powers That Be vs. Roddy Piper, I guess somewhere around 1999. No matter how much he tried, Piper ALWAYS called them "The Powers To Be".
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bartok posted:The DDP/Goldberg main event from Halloween Havoc '98. The match was incredible but many PPV providers cut off the match because the show ran long so WCW had to air the match for free the next night on Nitro. Don't forget all the refunds they had to give out as well. Also, wasn't the Hogan/Warrior match that ate up all that time and forced them to cut off DDP/Goldberg voted worst match of 1998 by a bunch of places? haljordan fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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I'm just now remembering WCW's rip off of The Road Dogg: Buzzkill. Played by Road Dogg's brother. Because, really, as long as WCW had their own Armstrong, he's pretty much the same. 
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haljordan posted:Don't forget all the refunds they had to give out as well. It got the Observer "award," yeah.
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haljordan posted:Don't forget all the refunds they had to give out as well. I also think it was Goldberg's first PPV main event after winning the belt from Hogan. The previous PPVs had Goldberg in the middle of the card defending the belt against Curt Hennig, being in a battle royal, or not even being on the show.
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Bigass Moth posted:There was a time when Eric Bischoff and I think Hak came to the ring smoking.
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haljordan posted:Don't forget all the refunds they had to give out as well. It's already on the list, but the show was planned to go long. Bischoff thought ending PPVs at 10:50 hurt main event finishes and made them predictable. He decided to have the show go long and had word go out to the cable companies. There was a gently caress up in the chain of command and word didn't go out until the day of the show, causing some to not be able to change the planned cut off.
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I added three but could only find two I wanted to take off, so I think that leaves us with 51. Since this is WCW I think 51 counts as a nice round number. I'll start writing the OP tonight and hopefully get things going by morning. Suggestions are still welcome! Beach Blast mini movie WCW/Battledome Crossover Judy Bagwell: Tag Team Champion Signing Master P Hiring Lanny Poffo, buying the Gorgeous George gimmick for him and then never using him Bischoff suspends Ric Flair in 1998 over petty bullshit Ric Flair heart attack/poisoning angle leading up to Bischoff/Flair match Ric Flair has a kayfabe heart attack to strip him of world title WCW runs Mick Foley out of town Hog Wild: WCW runs a PPV (yearly!) in front of a racist bikers paying nothing WCW starts a Sting/Black Scorpion feud with no clue who the Scorpion will be Bret Hart turns heel and joins nWo as a midcarder 6 months after Montreal Hiring Bill Watts Turning Scott Hall's alcoholism into an angle Stacey Kiebler miscarriage angle in a Rip off the Camo match Sting/Vampiro human torch angle ends with stunt man Sting jumping off Turner tron and announcers acting like Sting has maybe died. Paul Roma: Horseman Hiring Mike Awesome and being forced to have him job the title to Taz. Jobbing Austin to Jim Duggan in 10 seconds Oklahoma wins WCW Cruiserweight title Letting the Radicalz Leave nWo Nitro (on the Starrcade 97 go home!) Licensing Deal with Kiss Chucky Juvi winning the IWGP Jr title via tequila bottle shot Hogan rips up Observers at WW3 and buries main event storyline/reality of Macho's elbow. Madusa throwing the WWF belt in trash (triggering a lawsuit and then never using her!) Unmasking Rey Mysterio Jr Hogan vs Ed Leslie headlines Starrcade 94 The Junkyard Invitational (Huge cost both in money and injuries) Making Kevin Nash booker Hiring Vince Russo I'm not sure if I missed an obvious suggestion that was posted. Those are added to Letting Ric Flair go to the WWF Firing Steve Austin Letting Brian Pillman work them into a release The Giant vs Hulk Hogan monster truck match The Uncensored 96 DOOMSDAY CAGE MATCH nWo Souled Out Sting doesn't go over Hogan cleanly at Starrcade 97 Goldberg vs Hogan given away on free TV Leno/DDP vs Hogan/Bischoff Hogan vs Warrior Bischoff plans for Halloween Havoc to run long, chain of command forgets to inform cable companies Goldberg loses to Nash via cattleprod at Starrcade 98 1/4/99 Nitro (Butts in seats, Goldberg goes to jail, Fingerpoke) The Hummer Starrcade 99 is another Montreal Screwjob Bringing Vince Russo back David Arquette: World Champion The Russo/Hogan worked shoot that caused a lawsuit Vince Russo: World Champion
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How about trying to get The Cat over for months because he taught karate to Biscoff's kid? Their methods of trying to get him over was having him come out and talk about he could whip anyone's rear end for ten minutes, dancing for five, then kicking some jobber in the face.
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Blood Runs Cold The Juventud/Jushin Liger IWGP situation. Edit: building up Mortis as an undefeated match, only to feed him to... Nash, maybe, for no discernible reason
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Rodney the Piper posted:Blood Runs Cold I can't add Blood Runs Cold just because the initial Glacier entrance was actually really cool and kind of got over, and the first Glacier/Mortis match was really good. They tried something different and it fizzled out, for WCW it is low on the list. The IWGP thing is on the list. The Cat was just kind of white noise to me. He never really got too much of a push until he was all over TV in a speaking role in 2000. Going back his promos kind of sucked, but at the time people liked them, so, eh. He debuted as another karate guy involved with Glacier so I can see why he'd get hired. Wrath got the undefeated streak, and having Nash break it was dumb but at least it was building up their biggest match. There's a lot of dumb poo poo, but right now everything on that list just slaps you in the face as utterly idiotic. Most of it cost them at least $50,000 dollars to produce or clean up too!
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greatn posted:How about trying to get The Cat over for months because he taught karate to Biscoff's kid? I don't see how you can rank giving a paid performer promo time and matches on television to get him over and putting the World loving Title on Vince Goddamned Russo.
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Cat related thing: Was James Brown appearing at Superbrawl hyped in any way before the event other than The Cat saying he was bringing in James Brown like he would claim from time to time? That's one thing that probably belongs on the list and I'd make an exception to be #52.
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MassRafTer posted:Cat related thing:
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Wikipedia says Bret was associated with but not a member of the nWo in 1998.
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Wikipedia says Bret was associated with but not a member of the nWo in 1998. He was pretty definitively a member of the nWo, he wore Hogan shirts and tried to recruit Benoit. It just hurts my brain thinking about how they turned Hart into a Hogan lackey.
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MassRafTer posted:He was pretty definitively a member of the nWo, he wore Hogan shirts and tried to recruit Benoit. It just hurts my brain thinking about how they turned Hart into a Hogan lackey. Like you said, he was just a Hogan lackey. It was supposed to built to a feud with Hogan, but never did. Probably because they both had creative control.
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MassRafTer posted:He was pretty definitively a member of the nWo, he wore Hogan shirts and tried to recruit Benoit. It just hurts my brain thinking about how they turned Hart into a Hogan lackey. Are you at all surprised that anyone who came into the company with a modicum of heat or buzz was quickly incorporated into either whatever Hogan was doing or the nWo?
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Looking through Bret's career in WCW it seems like the majority of it was spent trading the US Title belt with Lex Luger and DDP. http://prowrestling.about.com/od/wwesmackdownwrestlers/a/bretharttimelin_2.htm
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The tablet gimmick was amazing sooo
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greatn posted:How about trying to get The Cat over for months because he taught karate to Biscoff's kid? If not for that we never would have had Garrett Bischoff: TNA Karate champion! They actually say it's Garrett he trained on-air on Nitro, it made me laugh.
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-Paternity Test on a Pole Match (David Flair and...I think Bagwell, over Stacy Keibler) -Oklahoma as Cruiserweight Champion -David Flair as US Champion -Giving Hall and Nash contracts which stipulated that if anyone came into the company making more money than they did, their salaries would be bumped up to match -That Nash/Sid "Powerbomb" match at Starrcade 99 where the match could only end when someone hit their finisher (The Powerbomb); the ref took a bump and Nash laid out Sid but was too lazy to actually powerbomb him, so he just woke up the ref and simply told him he powerbombed Sid. -Cole Miner's Glove Match (especially stupid since Jake Roberts came straight out of WWF as possibly the hottest heel in the business, had a ton of fanfare, and did this one stupid match before never being used in WCW ever again) Shiki Dan fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Mar 1, 2014 |
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Shiki Dan posted:-Giving Hall and Nash contracts which stipulated that if anyone came into the company making more money than they did, their salaries would be bumped up to match And then hiring Dennis Rodman.
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triplexpac posted:They actually say it's Garrett he trained on-air on Nitro, it made me laugh. Of everything I've ever watched, hearing that on-air when I was watching random wrestling on youtube easily elicited the biggest  of all.
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Wow, WCW did a lot of crap. Pinata on a pole match, with the pinata accidentally falling down by itself and then 'Dr Death' Steve Williams coming out and clumsily injuring several of the wrestlers involved. Back when the NWO was first formed, Charles 'Kama/godfather' Wright was going to come into WCW to fill an 'Enforcer' type role in the group, but Vincent got the role by saying he would do it for half the salary, thus screwing over Wright and himself. So, the WCW got an 'enforcer' who was 5'10" and 220lbs instead of 6'4" 320lb Wright. Vincent was literally one of the smallest members of the NWO.
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So that's why they went with Vincent!
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One of the carniest guys in wrestling is the only guy who didn't get filthy rich working in WCW. That's some irony for you.
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Wasn't the REAL finish to the Ms Hancock pregnancy storyline that she faked the miscarriage and she brought a bunch of 8x10s of "Perfectshawn" Stasiak out in a baby carriage?
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