November 10, 201410 yr comment_5639020 just thought of something right now... i think 1994 is an awfully similar year to 1990 in terms of the american wrestling landscape. in both years: - WCW was absolutely on fire in terms of match quality during the first half of the year, but didn't draw and degenerated into hideously-booked cartoon garbage over the second half of the year - the WWF mostly sucked but gave us one quality main-event feud (hogan-earthquake::bret-owen) - there was a new indie sensation getting a lot of buzz in the apter mags & dirtsheets (lightning kid::sabu) obviously WCW was in better shape with hogan than with the black scorpion, and 1990's last-gasp territories (e.g. USWA-TX) gave way to 1994's smoky mountain & ECW...but i think there's a lot here.
November 10, 201410 yr comment_5639039 Both years ended with main event title pushes of WWF relics from a prior decade who couldn't handle the fact that the world around them had changed and snapped as a result.
November 10, 201410 yr comment_5639066 that's a really good catch! and both those guys were quite underrated in different ways: slaughter for his work in the ring during that period, and backlund for his character stuff during a weak era for that. although, slaughter obviously has much more of an outright bad rap given the tastelessness of that whole deal...
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