Johnny Guitar
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Sting is the Fourth Horsemen. You know that it won't last forever. Good promo's from Flair and Arn. I can't buy Ole as a babyface though
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Sullivan doesn't really give Norman much of a beating here. I'm surprised that they even let them use paint to emulate blood as TBS wouldn't let Sullivan wear bloody smocks for the Slaughterhouse gimmick. Women looked hot!
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Good promo from Lawler, even though it was a bit racist. I appreciate the fact that he doesn't just bury Cobra, which he could of. Marlin played his part well and Dave Brown was great.
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Total lucha novice here as well for the most part. Dragon is the guy I'm most familiar with, so it was cool to see him as a young boy. The others i've all heard of and seen bits and pieces of their stuff and am looking forward to seeing more from them all. Especially Casas, who is awesome here. Good match.
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Love The Dangerous Express! For the 2000 version of The Heenan Family feuding with The Rock. What about holding off their debut for 2 months and have Heenan debut with The Radicals the night after Wrestlemania? They could have definitely used a mouthpiece during that time as Eddy wasn't quite there yet promo wise.
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Whilst I'd like to think that this was would have led to some great business for WCW, it probably wouldn't have given how badly that company was run. On the plus side. All those guys plus Flair, Sting, Luger, Funk, Muta, Windham, Arn, Pillman, The Steiners and the Midnights would have led to an absolutely amazing amount of great matches, angles, promos and shows that we would all probably look back on today with a great reverence and nostalgia for. As you pointed out in the yearbooks. Watts has finally starting to head in the right direction before he got turfed, but realistically he was probably always on borrowed time there. I wonder what 1992 WCW would have been like if you could have kept Kip Frey in charge and he'd hired Watts to be his head booker. Maybe he could have been a buffer between Watts and upper management. Both regimes made missteps along the way, but there was some common ground between them and they had an amazing roster to work with. If they could some how have been merged together with the backing that Bischoff got. Wrestling in North America could have taken a very different path. Especially as Vince was at his weakest point in those years
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In one of those totally weird coincidences I was talking to someone at work today about They Live. Shit news.
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The build up to Survivor Series 1996 Between Steve Austin and Bret hart. Austin vs Bret wAs already a bit of of dream match amongst smart fans in 1996. But the trAsh talking from Austin was on a whole other level that fans were used to at that time. WhAt put it over the top was bret excepting a match with the best guy in the company. But ending up in a blood feud with a killer
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The build up to Survivor Series 1996 Between Steve Austin and Bret hart. Austin vs Bret wAs already a bit of of dream match amongst smart fans in 1996. But the trAsh talking from Austin was on a whole other level that fans were used to at that time. WhAt put it over the top was bret excepting it, like a good sportsmen to starts with, wanting to wrestle the best guy in the company. But end
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That's how modern fandom goes in regards to things that have an on going open ended serial narrative. If your favourite character isn't standing tall over everyone else. It's a conspiracy to hold them back. A vocal portion of fans don't want to see there favourite go through trials and tribulations, which builds character. They just want to see them destroy all.
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Like Karl, I went to a few uk shows over the years when I was young, but don't really remember what happened during them. Although me and my dad bumped into Giant Haystacks in a supermarket before one of them. We has very cool. The first WWF event I went to was Summerslam 92. My cousin got punched in the face for wearing a bret hart shirt.
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King of the Ring 95. It promised little on paper other than Shawn being crowned King. Which it failed too deliver on, and even then the way the other brackets were laid out and the participants involved offered nothing in the way of quality matches like bret and Owens March to the throne. There were no title matches booked on the card and I know that injuries stopped some people working. Razor and Kid. But no Owen, Yoko, Luger, Bulldog or Jarrett weren't booked either. Which was pretty much the mid card. Plus none of the new signings they'd hired like Hakushi, HHH, Candido or Spicolli were on the show. The only other point of interest was Bret/Lawler, but that had been reduced to a comedy gimmick and the only thing that came from the event was Mabel's main event push. Which even the most optimistic WWF fan could tell you was doomed to failure. It was defiantly the worst WWF ppv at that pointin history and the only point of note in history was the ECW chants in the kOTR finals.
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Agreed. Also, Hogan in someways is his own worse enemy. He's never reAlly shown the ability to step back a notch when there's the perception that he's being over exposed. I think the first example of that is the mega powers angle where a lot of people sided with Savage. In Hogans defence in regards to the current audiences perception of him. It's been nearly quarter of a century since he was the man in the company. Over that time he's spent most of it on the outside looking in. And Vince has bad mouthed him to high heAven when he's been elsewhere, especially when he was in wcw. A lot of fans have come and gone in that time frame with a skewed perception of Hogans place in history. It also doesn't help that despite the availability of footage part of the fanbase today just doesn't care about the past. Although that sentiment could apply to a lot of things
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Justin Credible. Everyone deserves a second chance and he wasn't the worst wrestler ever like people portray him as. But he had the stigma of a jobber who was repackaged all over him and didn't have the rep of guys like Candido, Snow or Lynn that were given lame gimmicks and got the shaft by the big two before being "reborn" in ECW. To make matters worse there was always more deserving guys that the hardcore fans could point to that we're more deserving of his spot. When Heyman brought him in, in 1997, guys like Reckless Youth, Devon Storm and Ace Darling were the Indy darlings that people wanted too see get their dues. When he finally got his big world title push. He wasn't even the best heel in the company. Tajiri and Corino, who were still a team and had him lapped by a country mile on ring and character work.
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Like loss said they have a bunch of shareholders who nothing about wrestling. So the concept of using your top guy to make some new people is lost on them. Also Vince is as much to blame as well. As proven with Hogan and Austin, he'll ride his top guys into the ground until they quit (hogan) or are forced to retire ( austin). And the people he hand picks to replace them never really pan out. It always someone unexpected who rises from the pack. Like Cena. They'll continue to milk Cena until he's crippled or he falls out Vince like nearly everyone else has. At which point they'll rush to Jesus push someone new. Which history shows us will probably fail. Especially now that the shareholders panic over any thing that deviates from the status quo that they know and Vince seems to have completely lost his magic touch/ mojo in recognising talent that's over and pushing it. Wether he likes them or not.
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In fact it was so great, that I had to triple post on it. Sweet times!
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This was a fantastic listen. You guys did him proud.