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Post by Mongo & Pepe: Back in Black on Dec 6, 2008 18:07:44 GMT -5
I had friends that used to watch WCW all the time with me. Once the fingerpoke happened, they were so pissed off that they never watched WCW again until the last show.
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Post by darkpatriot on Dec 6, 2008 18:37:30 GMT -5
I had friends that used to watch WCW all the time with me. Once the fingerpoke happened, they were so pissed off that they never watched WCW again until the last show. now that's hardcore.
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Post by Smark Henry on Dec 7, 2008 0:52:35 GMT -5
You can tell Nash knows it was lame booking, just by judging his body language. At the end of the clip, where he defends not actually wrestling Hogan, he looks like a 7th grader trying to explain why he didn't do his homework.
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Post by bretclark on Dec 7, 2008 1:43:58 GMT -5
When you consider the damage the Fingerpoke of Doom did, it really could have made a big deal out of the nWo factions fighting amongst each other if it was an all out war for the title. Let me use an example outside of wrestling. In Transformers, Starscream has always wanted to oust Megatron from leading the Decepticons, but always failed. So he decided one day to form his own army through the Combaticons, which brought in one of the greatest Transformers to ever live, Bruticus. The nWo concept could have kept going and going like the Autobots versus the Decepticons, until a great war would finally settle the score, with the nWo being consumed by it's own greed and arrogance and defeated by the WCW guys bonding together to finally deliver the nWo it's fatal blow. But alas, that was not meant to be.
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Post by bretclark on Dec 7, 2008 1:45:19 GMT -5
I had friends that used to watch WCW all the time with me. Once the fingerpoke happened, they were so pissed off that they never watched WCW again until the last show. That happend to me, although a little bit later, and when I finally saw the final Nitro, I got EXTREMELY lucky when I turned the channel to see what happened in the end. It was truly a sad day, but for all the right reasons. - bretclark
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Post by Madagascar Fred on Dec 7, 2008 16:04:36 GMT -5
you can see how he's REACHIN' and searching for excuses and explanations
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Post by darkpatriot on Dec 7, 2008 17:06:37 GMT -5
after WCW died I didnt watch any wrestling on tv (except Angle vs. Lesnar iron man match) until TNA came around.
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Post by Fantozzi on Dec 7, 2008 18:29:56 GMT -5
my problem with the fingerpoke of doom is that it was a major upset for the fans and it led to nothing a hogan-flair feud in 1999, when in WWE stone cold and vince finally were going at it in ppv? come on... how can you think it's gonna help you?
austin and mankind at the time were screwed evry other week by mr mcmahon. but they always came back and had the last laugh
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Post by Mac on Dec 7, 2008 18:58:52 GMT -5
It wasnt so much the fingerpoke as it was the build up of basically years of bait and switches when it came to putting on the shows.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Dec 7, 2008 20:37:17 GMT -5
This is why it sucked. Look, I think the booking is fine, the old double cross. The problem is that you promised two matches, the first being Hogan and Nash, and the Second being Goldberg and Nash. Neither one happened. Had the Screwjob happened after a pro forma match, then maybe. Had the order of the matches been reversed, so that Nash and Goldberg fought, Hogan interferes, then Nash challenges him to a title match, which he lays down for. That may have worked. Part 2 is what was on Raw that night. Mankind's title win was a marvelous piece of television. It was very well booked.
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