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Post by Rocky Van Heineken on Aug 6, 2005 18:18:27 GMT -5
RD,
I haven't read your book about WCW, so I don't know if my question is mentioned in it. I'm sitting here watching the NWO DVD the WWF released back in 2002. It came to the BATB 96. I started thinking: this was probably WCW's only BIG main event in terms of hype and the payoff. Would you agree that in WCW's history, the six man tag at BATB would be their biggest main event match ever?
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Post by rdreynolds on Aug 6, 2005 18:43:38 GMT -5
RD, I haven't read your book about WCW, so I don't know if my question is mentioned in it. I'm sitting here watching the NWO DVD the WWF released back in 2002. It came to the BATB 96. I started thinking: this was probably WCW's only BIG main event in terms of hype and the payoff. Would you agree that in WCW's history, the six man tag at BATB would be their biggest main event match ever? As far as delivering at the end of the night? Probably. As far as drawing a crowd, popping a buyrate, making money? No way. That would be Hogan-Sting at Starrcade. In fact, in terms of delivering a buyrate, BATB was actually LOWER than the PPV right before it. RD |
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Post by THE Dinobot on Aug 7, 2005 5:41:09 GMT -5
Wow....that's pretty shocking.
Hogan/Sting was a shoe-in, everyone and their mother was waiting for that to take place.....and then we got what WCW delivered to us on the night of Sunday December 28th, 1997, and well, WCW screwed the pooch on that one.
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Post by Van Hagar on Aug 7, 2005 5:51:59 GMT -5
RD, I have to respectfully disagree, about as far as the best delivering at the end of the night. What about Ric Flair vs. Vader from Starcade '93? While financially that wasn't close to great it was a great moment of having Flair come back to WCW, and finally get back his world title in his hometown in front of a sell out crowd after putting his career on the line.
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