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The Grey posted:It got a bunch of people who don't normally pay attention to AEW to pay attention to it for five minutes. And then copyright strike a bunch of the loudest and dumbest blue checkmarks. A masterstroke.
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Posting on the Vincent Kennedy McMahon page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcXhMSOLJKM
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Did JR know Vince was going to be the higher power? His “aw son of a BITCH” always sounded so authentically annoyed. Related, what do you think this all would have been like if the higher power had been revealed to be any of the other rumored names like Jake Roberts?
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I've said this a few times but I watched the Greater Power episode (they insisted on calling it the Greater Power) recently and it's unbelievably bad. It opens with a video package about the Corporate Ministry, and then Vince comes out and cuts a promo about the Greater Power and Shane is on the titantron all while JR and Lawler are speculating on the Greater Power being Jake Roberts, and then it cuts to commercial and when it comes back Shane and the Corporate Ministry enter again, and then the Greater Power reveal happens. The first match happens like 45 minutes in and it's the Acolytes vs. The NAO and it ends in a DQ after two minutes.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I've said this a few times but I watched the Greater Power episode (they insisted on calling it the Greater Power) recently and it's unbelievably bad. It opens with a video package about the Corporate Ministry, and then Vince comes out and cuts a promo about the Greater Power and Shane is on the titantron all while JR and Lawler are speculating on the Greater Power being Jake Roberts, and then it cuts to commercial and when it comes back Shane and the Corporate Ministry enter again, and then the Greater Power reveal happens. The first match happens like 45 minutes in and it's the Acolytes vs. The NAO and it ends in a DQ after two minutes. Cinema!
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Gotta love the attitude eraquote:WWF World Tag Team Title Match
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Kennel posted:Gotta love the attitude era god we are living in a golden age right now if you actually like wrestling
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As a kid who started watching during the Attitude Era, the first time I realized matches could go 20, 30 minutes my mind was absolutely blown. I was flipping channels one Friday afternoon and caught an episode of ECW on tnn where they were showing RVD vs Jerry Lynn from Hardcore Heaven and it literally changed my life. Probably not for the better but 
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Sandman from ECW posted:As a kid who started watching during the Attitude Era, the first time I realized matches could go 20, 30 minutes my mind was absolutely blown. I watched that match before RVD last AEW appearance and it still loving rocks. Except for Bill Alfonso's... enthusiastic whistling.
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Shard posted:god we are living in a golden age right now if you actually like wrestling We really are. There's never been this many talented wrestlers all over the world and now we have internet infrastructure and bandwidth such that we can watch wrestling from anywhere in the world with relative ease and minimal cost It's the best and I'm so glad that I came back to wrestling during the pandemic
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Did the people watching during the attitude era realize they where watching a giant boom period? Like the hottest wrestling had eber been from a cultural standpoint? I didnt because I was a stupid kid, but older dudes.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Related, what do you think this all would have been like if the higher power had been revealed to be any of the other rumored names like Jake Roberts? Defenestrategy posted:Did the people watching during the attitude era realize they where watching a giant boom period? Like the hottest wrestling had eber been from a cultural standpoint? I didnt because I was a stupid kid, but older dudes. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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Defenestrategy posted:Did the people watching during the attitude era realize they where watching a giant boom period? Like the hottest wrestling had eber been from a cultural standpoint? I didnt because I was a stupid kid, but older dudes. Absolutely. During the Monday Night Wars my friends and I were all recent college graduates and we were all over the newsletters reading about weekly ratings and blah blah blah. We remember all the highest rating matches and promos and stuff and wrestling shows have never even gotten close to those numbers since then I realize that a lot has changed in 25 years and Nielsen ratings aren't the best way to measure success anymore but I don't think wrestling is as popular now as it was back then. It's definitely in another boom period but we haven't seen Monday Night Wars numbers yet
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I remember watching it as a kid and all I cared about was watching Austin beat up Vince, watching Kane wreck dudes, or Watching Booker T and DDP. I just assumed wrestling had always been really fun and exciting up to that point, and then...I learned about the new generation
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I remember when a little child in an Austin t-shirt threatened to stomp a mudhole in my rear end and walk it dry. You knew it was a boom because you saw wrestlers doing commercials, ads for wrestling toys, and random people aged 6-60 wearing wrestling merch in public.
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I learned a lot of wrestling history through reading wrestlecrap.com back then. I feel like that influenced me on a deeper level than I realize
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Defenestrategy posted:Did the people watching during the attitude era realize they where watching a giant boom period? Like the hottest wrestling had eber been from a cultural standpoint? I didnt because I was a stupid kid, but older dudes. I knew just because the crowds were huge and loud and you saw wrestling shirts out in public, at least in the South where I grew up. How could it not feel like a boom period? Seeing all the signs in the crowd and how quickly people's catchphrases caught on and the insane crowd roars for even midcard guys, how could it not feel like a boom? Wrestling was cooler and more integrated into pop culture than it is now, and the shows felt wilder and less predictable. Also lots of kids watched wrestling and talked about it, but since there was no social media yet it was still fun to be a fan.
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I was born in the early eighties so I was around for the initial boom that lasted until '92 and then the mid-nineties when nobody was talking about wrestling in school anymore. So it was really obvious when suddenly everyone had either nWo or Austin 3:16 shirts no matter where you went.
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Vince McMahon defeats Ken Shamrock (0:07)Elephant Ambush posted:I realize that a lot has changed in 25 years and Nielsen ratings aren't the best way to measure success anymore but I don't think wrestling is as popular now as it was back then. It's definitely in another boom period but we haven't seen Monday Night Wars numbers yet Vince McMahon defeats Ken Shamrock (0:07)
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Yeah seriously, what the hell happened there. I assume it was some sort of angle but loving hell.
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Stone Cold became the GM and made Vince and Shamrock fight in a Lion's Den Match which they hyped up all night and then that happened. I don't actually remember the finish.
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found the match, before clicking try and guess who interferes on Vince's behalf (unprotected chairshot in the video in case anybody doesn't want to see that) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR1kEoSgVmk&t=164s
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gently caress you for reminding me that that person exists
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Kennel posted:Gotta love the attitude era The Greater Power RAW was a Historic poo poo-Show, but can't compare to "The RAW That The Nexus Debuted" : - Dark Two On One Handicap Match Chris Masters defeats The Dudebusters (Caylen Croft & Trent Barreta) Bodyslam Challenge Match The Big Show defeats Chris Jericho (2:55) Non Title Tag Team Match The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith & Tyson Kidd) (w/Natalya) defeat Hornswoggle & The Great Khali (1:17) 12 Man Battle Royal Maryse defeats Alicia Fox and Brie Bella and Eve Torres and Gail Kim and Jillian and Kelly Kelly and Layla and Michelle McCool and Nikki Bella and Rosa Mendes and Tiffany (3:50) Singles Match Kane defeats Sheamus by Count Out (7:30) Tag Team Match The Miz & Zack Ryder defeat John Morrison & R-Truth (3:20) Edge's Arm Tied Behind His Back Match Randy Orton defeats Edge by DQ (1:40) Singles Match Matt Hardy defeats Drew McIntyre (1:25) Non Title Match CM Punk vs. John Cena - No Contest, 8 Guys Run In And Destroy The Set (10:00) The rest of the 3 hour show was devoted to a plot in which the characters from The A Team travel to WWE Raw, to sovle The Mystery of Jerry Lawler's Missing Crown. After confronting the Evil Bad Guy Team of IRS, Virgil and Ted Dibiase Jr, the heels lure The A Team into a room full of Sleeping Gas, and kidnap Rampage Jackson. In the ring, the evil mastermind is revealed to be Roddy Piper, who kayfabe believes Mr T and Rampage Jackson are the same person, and stole Lawler's crown in order to lure The A Team to WWE Raw, so that he can enact his revenge from Wrestlemania 2. The day is saved when Dusty Rhodes and Gene Okerlund storm the ring in a golf cart, allowing Rampage Jackson to break free of his plastic handcuffs, and potato Virgil so badly that everyone just rolls out of the ring, rather than taking any more bumps. Dusty Rhodes dances to the A Team theme song. 10 minutes later Bryan Danielson debuts on WWE RAW, and everyone forgets that he last 3 hours happened. Tyma fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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The Nexus debut was partially so good because it was a historically awful Raw until that point. Like, it was the worst. It broke the ardent fans on the forum I was on until that moment. It's almost funny. Three hours of torture until an incredible ending.
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I remember schoolyard rumours that the Higher Power was 100% definitely going to be Brian Pillman.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The Nexus debut was partially so good because it was a historically awful Raw until that point. Like, it was the worst. It broke the ardent fans on the forum I was on until that moment. It's almost funny. Three hours of torture until an incredible ending. I remember a very similar feeling when this card happened. Singles Match Kane defeats CM Punk by Count Out (4:18) No Count Out Match Sin Cara defeats Evan Bourne (4:50) Non Title Match Kofi Kingston defeats Dolph Ziggler (7:35) Steel Cage Match Alberto Del Rio defeats The Big Show (5:19) Non Title Submission Match Kelly Kelly defeats Nikki Bella (w/Brie Bella) (1:21) Tornado Tag Team Match Alex Riley & Rey Mysterio defeat Jack Swagger & The Miz (11:43) Non Title Tables Match R-Truth defeats John Cena (5:14) The show was saved at the very end with Truth winning and CM Punk cutting the best promo of his life and possibly the best WWE produced promo in years Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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Tyma posted:10 minutes later Bryan Danielson debuts on WWE RAW, and everyone forgets that he last 3 hours happened. And then he got fired.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The Nexus debut was partially so good because it was a historically awful Raw until that point. Like, it was the worst. It broke the ardent fans on the forum I was on until that moment. It's almost funny. Three hours of torture until an incredible ending. Here's the thread for those who want to check https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3313832&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=55 (archives needed) quote:gently caress YES! I don't know what's happening but there's the future of the WWE in the ring. well.... Kennel fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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Kennel posted:Here's the thread for those who want to check This is such a treat to read  I was modding another wrestling forum at the time (how does this keep happening to me) and had to stay up 'til like 2AM herding the discussion because the hype was so real. Also prize for the most unintentionally hilarious post in the thread: 
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Kosmo Gallion posted:I remember schoolyard rumours that the Higher Power was 100% definitely going to be Brian Pillman.
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so many old friends
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Defenestrategy posted:I remember a very similar feeling when this card happened. Vince was cooking
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Seams posted:Vince was cooking cooking meth
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Kofi vs Sydal was probably good? Maybe? Edit: Misread those matches Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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We are so blessed that we're actually getting good Mistico vs. Sydal matches now.
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Gaz-L posted:Kofi vs Sydal was probably good? Maybe? it was pretty good by 2011 raw standards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlVpv-DQsAs
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Re: “did people know it was a boom period” I absolutely think we knew. Wrestling was popular at a level it wasn’t during the Rock and Wrestling period. But I think the rub is that a lot of people felt it was a natural cycle of interest and when wrestling cooled off a lot of people were convinced it was just a matter of time before it hit an even higher peak.
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