Migs
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As good as Savage is, I have trouble enjoying the matches from '89 and '90 with Hogan, because it feels so obvious that Hogan is going over. Always feels like such a waste of a great performance from Savage. The clean pin at WM V sapped him of the danger aspect that was so integral to their '86 matches.
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After the Montreal Screwjob, I didn't buy a WWF PPV for over two years.
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Have to mention the Steiners - rewatching some '89 WCW and their offense is super.
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Speaking as the husband of a woman who owns two Nikki Bella t-shirts - if Total Divas works to get women watching, the Bellas are going to be babyfaces. The show treats them as such (really, it treats almost everyone that way, other than Eva Marie and Summer Rae, when she was on). In some ways, Total Divas has given them the chance to do some more nuanced character building with the women. Whereas the women used to get no time to build a character - now they have a whole television show that has, over time, developed the on-screen personality of many of them, and could push them beyond more traditional face/heel dynamics. The Bellas are a good example - they can both do very unpleasant things on the show, but the overall response to them is positive, even if one may be positioned as in the wrong in a particular episode. Will WWE ever actually write to that level of nuance on Raw? Probably not.
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Me too. Unless I'm missing something, sounds like three free months? I think it's that you can buy three months at Walmart, and not have to enter a credit card. Key if you want the network but don't have one.
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Kal is a frighteningly creepy interviewer. Pure entertainment.
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But then, why would you put the title on him? Or why wouldn't you find a way to hold up the belt? They did do a weird finish, that could had been a Dusty finish. I guess that's better than what I was assuming. Barely. Not that I watch this stuff, just morbid curiosity.
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But then, why would you put the title on him? Or why wouldn't you find a way to hold up the belt?
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I find Ross and Schiavone both tried way too hard to get everything over as the biggest deal in the world. In watching some old WCW as of late, Ross commentating solo has me so frustrated that I've gone without sound - I just find him grating unless he has someone with a personality to bounce off of (Jim Cornette, Michael Hayes). Weird to think of WWF commentating as more low-key, but it was, and it's much more pleasant.
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I was going to ask why no one was discussing TNA getting cancelled by Destination America, but I'm not sure there's much to say. Maybe they end? Maybe they find a new sucker?
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Watching some 1989 stuff, and it's amazing how much more enjoyable Jim Ross is with a color commentator (in this case Michael Hayes). I find him very grating when alone, or with a color guy who's playing it straight (Caudle, Schiavone).
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One I always really enjoyed was Martel / JYD v. the Hart Foundation, from summer or fall of '87, I guess right before Strike Force became a thing.
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ECW's style I think was a bit different than you describe, because the center really was that TV show. It's probably the best promotion of any to just binge watch the TV, because it operates like a TV show, and rarely builds to anything not shown on TV (even the PPVs are extensively detailed in highlight shows). The modern indy promotion afterwards is much more focused on selling a DVD of a show, and there's little to none of the backstage aspect that made ECW different. I also think that while a lot of the older territories used a version of that WWF model (TV is angles to set up the frequent shows), there was a real range in how much was given away on TV. Look at Crockett in '86-'88 - they showed a ton on TV, with the intent of being exciting but still wanting to sell "the big match" that would occur at the arena. That gives the TV a very different feel than the WWF TV at the time, even if they are attempting to do the same thing.
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Wouldn't a brand split where the 2nd brand had a top, but clearly inferior title (like the NXT belt) solve one of the more absurd aspects of the original split?
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They literally just released Cena 15X champion merchandise.