Dave at the Movies
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Sept 15, 2010 19:56:31 GMT -5
WWF November 1994 to November 1996 just to much awesome stuff Diesel was champion all year, the rumble was star packed, WM was one of the best ever with a hot crowd, Every In Your House had a five star mat classic as a main event (Diesel/Sid Diesel/Bulldog), the King Of The Ring was superbly booked and gave us King Mabel King Mabel VS Diesel was one of the best feuds and matches ever there is nothing really to list from this time which was crap from any company pity it started to go downhill from then on as the dreaded 'Attitude Era' started to come in 'shudders' Yeah. Either quantum is pulling our chain or he is secretly Jim Cornette who hated Russo and the attitude era.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 15, 2010 21:49:44 GMT -5
Austin was becoming the next John Lennon that year. what the hell kind of comparison is that Working Class Hero.
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Sept 15, 2010 22:04:15 GMT -5
The year Shelly Martinez was Ariel in WWECW.
Man, I miss Shelly....
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Post by markdown474 on Sept 17, 2010 7:40:33 GMT -5
Not sure what I would say for WWF, but NWA wise it had to be 1989. The three high profile Steamboat vs Ric Flair matches are must-sees, the Sting vs Muta feud had all sorts of heat and those two guys had great matches.
Ater the conclusion of Steamboat vs Ric Flair we got two more awesome feuds: Flair vs Terry Funk and Steamboat vs Lex Luger (Luger was actually pretty solid back then, especially when in the ring with a Flair or Steamboat). This of course led to the awesome "I Quit" match beween Flair/Funk at Clash of the Champions.
Plus there were lower profile feuds that were great as well like Rick Steiner vs Kevin Sullivan and The Midnight Express vs the Dynamic Dudes (Cornette's heel turn on the Dudes was one of my favorite moments of the year).
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Post by spaceship on Sept 17, 2010 8:26:35 GMT -5
Pure entertainment wise:
WWF: 1997 or 1998
WCW: Mid-1996 to Mid-1997.
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Post by spaceship on Sept 18, 2010 14:12:13 GMT -5
I hold 1993 and 1994 in high regard, mainly because of nostalgia. It was my first full two years into wrestling. The whole 1987-1992 era, had better storylines, and more larger than life wrestlers. I think 1993-1994 had better pure wrestling, though.
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Post by generationxero on Sept 18, 2010 14:27:03 GMT -5
1996-2001
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FHgrad99
Vegeta
Never mind that s***, here comes Mongo!
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Post by FHgrad99 on Sept 18, 2010 15:15:26 GMT -5
This is a tough call but I might have to say 1992. Here's my list of reasons.
WWF:
-Savage vs. Flair had a good feud over the title for much of the year.
-Bret Hart was emerging as a single's star and eventually won the title from Flair in October. He had very good matches with Roddy Piper, The British Bulldog and Shawn Michaels on PPV during 1992.
-Strong tag team division with Money Inc, Natural Disasters, LOD and The Nasty Boys leading the way.
WCW:
-Sting had some good matches with Rick Rude, Cactus Jack, and Vader among others.
-Rude also had some good matches with Ricky Steamboat during the summer of 1992.
-Good tag team division with the Steiners, Dusty Rhodes Rhodes/Steamboat, Rhodes/Barry Windham, Freebirds, Arn Anderson/Bobby Eaton, Anderson/Larry Zybyszko and Steve Williams/Terry Gordy as the top teams.
I think 1992 was the year where both WWF/E and WCW both had their strongest in-ring products at the same time.
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Post by rhennesey on Sept 18, 2010 16:01:39 GMT -5
I'm torn between 1999 and 2000. Both were great years in my life and wrestling was really popular with all of my friends.
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Post by machomark on Sept 18, 2010 19:11:10 GMT -5
Austin was becoming the next John Lennon that year. what the hell kind of comparison is that Considering Steve moved an Austin 3:16 shirt every 32 seconds in North America in 1997, I would say in terms of popularity it was a pretty decent comparison.
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Victory
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Post by Victory on Sept 18, 2010 21:42:26 GMT -5
Sorry I'm old for this board, 1984 for me. The territory system was still running pretty strong at this point.
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h
Hank Scorpio
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Post by h on Sept 19, 2010 10:39:12 GMT -5
1993 is far above anything else.
The Hart-Lawler feud was possibly the best in WWF history. The USA vs. the world storyline was very well done--Yokozuna and Borga were definitely credible threats, especially with Yokozuna taking people like Duggan and Crush out of action altogether (have they actually sold a defeat like that since 1993?). Evil Doink was a great character. Mr. Hughes is still my favorite wrestler of all time. The Undertaker vs. Wippleman feud is the most underrated feud in WWF history. Storylines like Crush turning on Savage, the 1-2-3 Kid overcoming the odds. Razor Ramon had several good feuds going at the end of the year. Tatanka's undefeated streak came to an end. Ted DiBiase had his last few moments of glory as a wrestler. The tag team situation still hadn't gone too far downhill. The company still put a storyline behind every match on a pay-per-view rather than just throwing two people in a ring (okay, maybe Razor Ramon vs. Bob Backlund was an exception). Diesel made his WWF debut and hadn't yet become an idiot. The Harts-Steiners match was 20 minutes or so of wrestling gold. The old guys like Hogan and Beefcake finally left.
What more could I ask for?
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Post by Crazy Diamond on Sept 19, 2010 10:51:11 GMT -5
WCW: 1992-1994, 1996-1998
WWF: 1992, 1998-2001, and then with the brand split SD from 2002-2005.
AAA: 1993-1995
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 19, 2010 11:52:49 GMT -5
Sorry I'm old for this board, 1984 for me. The territory system was still running pretty strong at this point. That was just slightly too early for me. I do remember '86 and '87, which I guess could be called the tail end of the territory days, but since my uncle had one of those illegal descramblers on his big satellite dish, we were able to watch shows from all over, everything from Vince and Crockett to Mexican midget wrestling. On a purely personal level, as well as my enjoyment of the wrestling itself, '86-'89 will never be topped for me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2010 12:31:12 GMT -5
As far as WWF, my favorite years were 1987-89, and 1991.
WWF and WCW together, I would say 1997. Almost flawless booking by both sides at the time.
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smokinvokoun
Dennis Stamp
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Post by smokinvokoun on Sept 20, 2010 12:58:09 GMT -5
I'd actually pick 1998. It was the closet year of the Monday Night Wars. Both companies were making huge money that year, the WWF with Austin and WCW with Goldberg.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2010 14:29:38 GMT -5
1992, by miles (and for all the reasons FHGrad99 listed above).
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DavidArquette
Don Corleone
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Post by DavidArquette on Sept 20, 2010 18:15:51 GMT -5
1997, without a doubt. Mainly because of the WWF's product at the time but '97 was also a great year for WCW and wrestling in general.
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Post by foreveryoung on Sept 20, 2010 18:43:45 GMT -5
1987-88 for sure. Hogan and Andre and a stacked WM 3 card with an indoor attendance record. This biggest WM of all time IMO and probably will always be... And the SNME from February 5th 1988 which had like a 15 point cable raiting.. INSANE as a far as viewership is concerned.
Honorable mention for 96-97 as well. WCW was red hot and WWE was gaining ground.
The beauty of the two boom periods is EVERYONE from bottom to top on the card was of some importance, along with all the titles, unlike today.
There is a direct correlation there. Wrestling usually hit its best when EVERYONE on the card was important. Nowadays, its just the top guys that get the importance and the rest of the card is creatively pissed on
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Post by Son of a Pregnant Dog on Sept 21, 2010 15:27:01 GMT -5
'97 was best, even if I couldn't stand the greasy guy in pink spandex and the male stripper who were on top of WWF at the time. In retrospect, it was just a great year for both of the big companies and ECW.
'92-'93 made me quit watching wrestling for a few years (only seeing ECW on local Philly TV and then Attitude soon after brought me back).
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