If only Frog could have kept WCW afloat

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Who Killed WCW?
	Eric Bischoff
	Hulk Hogan
	Vince Russo
	Jerusalem

Raeg: Jul 7, 2008; The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.

Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:

I'm actually surprised that WWE or TNA didn't pick up Scott Hudson. He's not the greatest of all time or anything, but he was downright decent in WCW.

I think they had him for a little while during the weekly PPV days.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2010 06:23

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 06:47

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Skinty McEdger posted:

The NWO actually took over the show 4 times in the year running upto the December 22nd show. Each time they got a small ratings boost from it. They had even had NWO Souled out, the PPV equivilent of it, starting with the NWO riding to the stadium on the back of garbage truck. So on paper I can see why it seemed a good idea. The execution just backfired.

Souled out was a terrible show it must be said, but something so different that its worth a watch for the trainwreck.

The announcer for that show was a creepy disembodied voice. What's not to love.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2010 00:35

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Timby posted:

Holy poo poo, I would kill my cats to see video of this.

I recently got a whole bunch of old Nitros, I'll see if I can find this.

Edit: Found the Nitro, will cut out the stuff later.

Raeg fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jan 16, 2010

# ¿ Jan 16, 2010 14:55

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Please everyone, enjoy the death of Lex Lugar. I noticed an other nice little piece of WCW before the Lex Lugar segment, so I left that in too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ15JYQ5gA

# ¿ Jan 16, 2010 19:53

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If there's any other clips people are looking for, I've got what appears to be all the Nitros from '95-'99 and 2001.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2010 21:32

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Strawberry Panda posted:

The best part is the end of the video where Sting just runs into Hogan's dressing room and knocks his knee with the nightstick and runs away.

Yeah, I decided to leave that in because I liked Sting rushing in then nonchalantly walking away.

I'll try and get that Hart match up tomorrow and see if I can find the dates of enough Seven segments to make up a video package.

Raeg fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Jan 16, 2010

# ¿ Jan 16, 2010 22:56

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LividLiquid posted:

Then why did the New Blood cheat to win in just about every match that night and do things like force the Millionaire's Club to come out without music or pyro, then make fun of them all night?

Why did the fans cheer Jarrett and boo Hogan, clearly Jarrett was supposed to be the face!

Oh sorry, wrong reboot.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2010 17:14

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DeclaredYuppie posted:

I love that that photo is from mid-match, even though it looks like Stevie Ray is presenting a photo on QVC.

racist

# ¿ May 11, 2010 09:03

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Maxwell Lord posted:

According to Death of WCW it was the guy just before, a man named Frye? It's not clear why he left.

Yeah, Kip Frye I think, Foley also mentions him in his first book. I think he got the bonus once but I can't remember who he was wrestling.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2011 15:42

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Dragging Iron Feet posted:

Because Mike Sanders owned.

HHH disagrees

# ¿ Mar 28, 2011 10:17

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He was on the hotline at minimum.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2011 09:44

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I love Ed Leslie is in that gallery 3 times, just edging out Nash's 2

# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 14:21

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oldpainless posted:

I THINK it was the highest non-WrestleMania PPV they've ever had.

All I remember is (I think) it worked out that PPV covered WWE's costs in purchasing WCW.

Not that it was a vast fortune anyway.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2011 15:47

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Skinty McEdger posted:

They had a 5 hour of pain slot on a friday night, that went head to head with raw. It was great for channel hopping, but absolutely horrible to try and watch in one sitting.

If I remember correctly, the five hour of pain stopped just before the midnight repeat of Raw. I think I'm right on that one.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2012 16:05

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MassRayPer posted:

That is the most incredible source for short lived and aborted WCW gimmicks I have ever seen.

The only one I couldn't vaguely recall at all was Basket Case. Don't remember that one even a little. Well that and the selection of Nitro Girls.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2013 15:08

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How much meat can it store and keep warm? That is key.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2013 00:37

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Sir Jebus posted:

I just watched this the whole way through. It was awesome.

... Why are they giving away a panasonic cordless phone on a kids game show?

Hmmmm, the team of the Blue Blazers in 2000.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 17:17

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From what I remember, I was probably watching 6-7ish hours in a row on a Friday night in the UK. TNT used to air Nitro, followed right away by Thunder and once they wrapped up, the midnight repeat of Raw came on.

Then during the week I watch Shotgun and Superstars, although if memory serves me correct, they were the same show with different announce teams. Sometimes TNT would also randomly shove on an old Thunder or Nitro on a Saturday night too.

So yeah, I was at about 9 hours for a good chunk of 98-2000 before Nitro was sold off when TNT became TCM over here.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 23:18

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Skinty McEdger posted:

The late Raw showing was 2am, so it was entirely possible to watch all 7 hours in a row. Then the next day there was livewire, action zone, superstars all in a row on Sky one and then the same footage used for superstars was commentated on with a different team on Sunday lunchtime.

I can't remember what night the first airing of Smackdown was in the UK. Saturday?

God yeah, I forgot that I watched that Saturday block too on Sky 1. Was it 2am? Thought it was midnight but it has been a long time but yeah, I think I did that more often that I should've.

Yeah, we got Smackdown I think ~6 months after it began if not more and it was on Sky Sports on Saturdays.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 23:25

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I think my first exposure to Nitro was waiting for Raw to come on one night and flipping through the channels and had that "Wait, there's other wrestling?" moment. I think it was some kind of nWo beatdown involving Jim Duggan?

# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 23:57

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Pretty sure Lanny Poffo had that power.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2013 13:40

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tzirean posted:

Heenan was pretty bad in WCW, and who could blame him? Schiavone was hit-or-miss, Tenay was fine.

However, half of each Nitro was called by Zbyszko, and Larry was loving awful.

Larry was awful? I bet you didn't like when he called out the dastardly New World Odour!

# ¿ Jan 25, 2014 23:27

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bartok posted:

Bischoff had a WCW theme?

Yeah, it was from the Desperado soundtrack I think.

It was sadly not Eric Bischoff - Karate Man

# ¿ Apr 6, 2014 22:54

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oatgan posted:

someone tell me which high school the guy behind the raft went to

woah, calm down, I was just trying to investigate local rafts and thought this would be a cool thing to find out.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2014 14:18

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MRT, was this ever sold on QVC?

# ¿ Jul 20, 2014 16:26

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I keep looking at it, it's a true work of art. It is truly too sweet.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2014 16:35

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oatgan posted:

his move is a power bomb so we packaged him with a giant atomic bomb

A wolf headed atomic bomb, because he was in the Wolfpac, therefore wolves.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2014 17:24

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MassRafTer posted:

He had just turned heel and really hated Hulk Hogan for his skinny jeans.

I remember when I first dug out that clip for SA, it still amazes me just how much insane crap there is in a 10 minute span.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 11:32

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rare Magic card l00k posted:

The Luger funeral, the first Seven segment, and the Hogan cut the pants off segment are back-to-back-to-back and that makes me incredibly happy.

Still can't believe when I cut that up years ago there was so much quality in such a short timeframe.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2018 08:38

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NikkolasKing posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2R0v1I_-ys

I should upload this video myself since I have to keep it in my Favorites as there's no way I'd ever remember this title.

Also Sting gives zero fucks.

Years and years ago on this forum, someone posted a recap for a Nitro containing Lex Luger's funeral and asked if any had it, I quickly scanned through the Nitro shows I had and hastily went through the show on Movie Maker to get it up on Youtube. As I was watching it, I realised Sting casually batting Hogan and then meandering out was DIRECTLY after that batshit segment and left it in the vid too. WCW truly was the best of us.

Also before the segment, Seven cuts a promo on Tony Schiavone from his spooky window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ15JYQ5gA

# ¿ Feb 6, 2021 19:23

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MassRafTer posted:

I'm not sure it's a slur as much as it's incredibly bizarre and offensive but I believe he is referring to the camera man as a "Jiggly, Jiggly Jew."

I have never heard anyone other than Hogan say this.

Hulk Hogan is a revolutionary, whether it be reinventing the sport of wrestling by tragically murdering Andre the Giant in from of 500,000 screaming Hulkamaniacs, or creating levels of racism us simple folk just can't possible comprehend.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2021 19:53

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Defiance Industries posted:

I notice you forgot that he invented the idea of wrestlers coming out to music...

Anyone got any clips of Hogan's Pride days?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2021 20:46

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Goldberg performed a shoot Jackhammer and I don't know how to accept that.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2021 21:04

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D.N. Nation posted:

Only thing I really remember between Starrcade '98 and '99 was DDP winning the title and turning (sorta) heel. Oh, and there was one time I flipped over to TNT for the hell of it and saw Hogan back in the Hulkamania gimmick in front of a half-empty arena. 1999 WWF was total nonsense but the crowds were at least white hot for it.

Who could forget the overwhelming force of THE JERSEY TRIAD.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2021 17:52

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 06:47

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Beer_Suitcase posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWg_gaFx-lg

I think its Weird Weekends

"You're doing a documentary about wrestling and you don't know who I am?"

"... we just started"

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 00:06

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