Did the WWF or WCW ever mic or pipe in their audience reactions? Sometimes in the early 90s when business wasn't doing so great, the fans will sound like they're fucking losing it at every single thing that happens.

WWE has been piping in noise on most of their taped shows since the '80s. Friday Night Smackdown is full of audio sweetening every week.

 

WCW did it a bit too, been a while since I watched from that era but I believe they were even piping in crowd noise on their live shows during the dying days.

If Tony is not totally bitter about his wrestling career, I think he would be a great guest on the Steve Austin Show. At the very least, I would think he would like to talk Crockett, the Horsemen, Midnights/RockNRolls etc...

WCW definitely piped it in on the lower syndicated shows, to a distracting degree. Most of the time it wasn't even timed to cheer when something big happened, they would just turn on a white noise machine that only vaguely sounded like humans cheering. It sounded like a Tony Conrad or Rhys Chatham composition being played over the matches.

Wow, that is terribly unflattering to both of their noses.

Seems like only yesterday that he was pretending to slip her date rape drugs so he could marry her at a drive-thru chapel as part of a ruse to fool Vince.

No one in wrestling ages well. That pic has to be proof

I think they look pretty good there.

WCW definitely piped it in on the lower syndicated shows, to a distracting degree. Most of the time it wasn't even timed to cheer when something big happened, they would just turn on a white noise machine that only vaguely sounded like humans cheering. It sounded like a Tony Conrad or Rhys Chatham composition being played over the matches.

 

Worldwide had noticeable, bad crowd sweetening for a while in the 90's

 

Heck, even on the live show Nitro they would pipe in Goldberg chants and do other odd things with the crowd noise

 

in the mid 00's when WWE business was down and they had to tarp the arenas for SD tapings because they'd be like half full the fake crowd noise was really noticeable. It would be hilarious when there'd be a huge canned pop for a guy's entrance and you can see the crowd and nobody is popping for the guy

Wow, that is terribly unflattering to both of their noses.

 

Not sure what could you do to make Hunter's nose flattering. But, yeah, Steph looks terrible here.

 

Hunter actually looks much better in a suit now than before. When he had long hair and was bigger he looked ridiculous, like a gorilla in an expensive suit.

I think they look pretty good there.

 

 

Agreed. Steph's expression is not the most flattering one she could do. But I like the photo.

Goldberg and Michelle McCool had the most obvious piped pops in pro wrestling during their respective eras. I am not sure who WWE has to 'cue the cheers' for in 2014.

Did anyone ever get smashed in the head with the York Foundation computer? Everything I know about wrestling tells me it should have happened.

they look like (relatively) normal happy people and not carnies

Did anyone ever get smashed in the head with the York Foundation computer? Everything I know about wrestling tells me it should have happened.

 

You'd think so but the proper laptops she'd sometimes carry were pretty expensive two decades ago.

She usually just carried an unplugged electronic typewriter, not even a laptop. That's what made it so awesome.

I don't know if it was in the head or not, but I know it was used as a weapon at least once. A six man tag against Big Josh and two others (I only remember it for JR commenting that Rich and Josh used to be fishing buddies).

Doesn't Gibson take a shot to the back of the head at GAB '91?

She usually just carried an unplugged electronic typewriter, not even a laptop. That's what made it so awesome.

 

Sometimes she carried one of those old 80s laptops that look like a giant calculator. I saw her definitely carrying a proper laptop a few times too because I recently saw a clip of hers with it and the first thing that I thought about is "damn that laptop looks like shit". A few days later I went to my new work assignment and they gave me an old Thinkpad that was exactly like hers.

 

Weird how some companies operate. I have a 250 dollar executive style chair but the work laptop they gave me is this giant block that is almost a decade old and has been used by six different people before it was given to me.

just looked at the rest of the pics of the Scooby Do premiere and obviously others have said this numerous times over the years but Steph still has puppy dog love for Hunter. That's after nearly 15 years of going out and 10 and a half years of marriage. I have to give that guy credit he's beyond smooth

 

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjXXO0LIEAAq6k9.jpg

 

They actually look like a cute couple on those ones.

He's certainly made the most of his attributes, however much we criticize him for the way he has gone about it.

 

What is the deal with wrestling shows and monday nights? You got Raw every week. Nitro countered that for years. Memphis Coliseum had their weekly shows too. WWF MSG shows were on mondays. For a few years Summerslam was held on a Monday. Building availability? Good night for ticket sales?

 

There really wasn't any deal until WCW decided to launch Nitro.

 

Monday was considered just another night. Although some areas, like Memphis placed a higher priority on it because that was the day of their biggest show.

 

Prior to the Monday night wars, Saturday was probably the wrestling day, for most of the country.

 

 

Raw wasn't considered the flagship show for the WWF when it debuted through when Nitro debuted?

For the WWF, sure, but it really wasn't must-see TV most of the time.