Psychoblue
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Post by Psychoblue on Feb 10, 2011 21:33:54 GMT -5
Whew. For a moment I was worried that I was in the minority when I thoroughly enjoyed HHH's WWE title reign, as it made me a much bigger fan of his work than ever before.
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Post by HollywoodArmbar on Feb 10, 2011 21:39:14 GMT -5
2008 had Glamarella. That alone makes it awesome.
Then 2009 was dog shit for the most part, luckily 2010 was pretty solid and turned it around.
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Krazee
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Post by Krazee on Feb 10, 2011 21:40:02 GMT -5
cause thats when they went pg?
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Post by FUNK_US/BRODUS on Feb 10, 2011 21:42:11 GMT -5
Why was 2008 awesome? One reason. LA FAMILIA. Human Fence! Human Fence! Human Fence!
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Post by Dub H on Feb 10, 2011 21:46:44 GMT -5
BECAUSE WE STILL HAD ECW!
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Post by The Ichi on Feb 10, 2011 21:47:19 GMT -5
I remember a very brief period on this board in 2008 where everyone seemed positive. The naysayers would eventually come out of hiding, but for at least a couple of days it was nothing but happiness here.
I'm of course talking about the couple of days after CM Punk won his first World title.
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Post by chunkylover53 on Feb 10, 2011 22:00:42 GMT -5
I remember a very brief period on this board in 2008 where everyone seemed positive. The naysayers would eventually come out of hiding, but for at least a couple of days it was nothing but happiness here. I'm of course talking about the couple of days after CM Punk won his first World title. I was going to get to this as well. As guess the IWC isn't ALWAYS bitter. As far as 2008 goes, it was the last full year that I watched WWE regularly. Plus, I went to Wrestlemania of that year.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2011 22:17:52 GMT -5
-Don't forget Raw is Anarchy -The In Crowd being the most entertaining WWE tag team since Edge and Christian -Kane is ECW Champion -Jericho's epic heel turn -Randy Orton the tweener and the start of legacy and how he once had like 3 different storylines and feuds at the same time -Triple H on Smackdown -The Brian Kendrick former interim WWE Champion!
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Post by Chiral on Feb 10, 2011 22:45:09 GMT -5
Love 2008. Definitely one of my favorite years. Edge/Taker is one my favorite feuds ever. Now that I think about it 2008, had a lot of great PPV's too.
2009 was great on the SmackDown/ECW side, but awful on the Raw side. Raw was great in 2010, but then Smackdown basically sucked.
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Post by Cyborg Franky on Feb 10, 2011 23:16:24 GMT -5
Agree, 2008 was a great year. The entire Jericho Vs. HBK Saga were epic. Wrestlemania 24 was a pretty damn good show. Edge and Taker matches during the summer months were great. Miz and Morrison with the Dirt Sheet.
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Post by Tiger Maskooo on Feb 11, 2011 1:27:59 GMT -5
I loved 08. But 09 deserves more love. Heres why.
1.Christian ecw title run. The best fighting champion ive seen in ages. Great matches with everybody from finlay,to ryder,to regal,to jericho,to benjamin to swagger to cm punk. Maybe my favorite title run in years. That brings me to. 2.Ecw. Yes it wasnt the original but sweet baby jesus it was FUN. Golddust,Christian,Regal,ryder,Yoshi Tatsu,Tyson kid,And a great tommy dreamer run. 3.Jerishow 4.Cm punk heel turn 5.Randy orton being on fire for all of the year. I know its unpopular but,as much as cena vs orton has been overdone. Their matches that year were really,really good. 6.the begining of the batista heel turn 7.Jericho vs rey 8.Random sheamus title win 9.Undertaker vs michaels 1 10.Edge however briefly,showing up and being awesome. And giving us the best tag team that never was.
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Post by Wade Barrett = WRESTLING GOD!! on Feb 11, 2011 2:01:50 GMT -5
i rekon cause raw and sd where more even then previous years
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Post by WhiteFu on Feb 11, 2011 2:06:41 GMT -5
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Feb 11, 2011 2:12:46 GMT -5
If you watched wrestling in the late 90s I don't see how anyone could think 2008 was a good year for WWE at all.
Now if you don't compare it to the Attitude Era then I guess you could say it was okay but that is like saying you saw a dirt clod in a pile of crap meaning that the last decade really sucked over all for wrestling in general.
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Post by Tiger Maskooo on Feb 11, 2011 2:18:53 GMT -5
If you watched wrestling in the late 90s I don't see how anyone could think 2008 was a good year for WWE at all. I can easily. Its two words. Chris jericho. i loved jericho in the late 90s and early 2000s and always rooted for him to get his chance as literally THE guy. To the point of wanting him to be in rocks role of dethroning triple h. Even through an undisputed championship reign he wasnt quite the guy. In 2008,He was. And he was Damn near as good as anybody I've seen before or since. Thats one reason. As for others. 1.undertaker-edge 2.The age of orton 3.The Brian Kendrick 4.Punks title win 5.HHH's title run was actually pretty good. 6.Great edge return 7.shawn michaels. Just shawn michaels. 8.Ric flair retirement some of those are as classic as austin with the beer truck or the hhh rock iron man match or the mankind title win to me
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Feb 11, 2011 2:20:36 GMT -5
If you watched wrestling in the late 90s I don't see how anyone could think 2008 was a good year for WWE at all. That depends on your tastes, really. I don't deny that the shock factor and crash-TV of the Attitude Era translated into huge profits, but it made me lose interest in pro wrestling for nearly a decade.
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Dave at the Movies
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Feb 11, 2011 2:22:14 GMT -5
If you watched wrestling in the late 90s I don't see how anyone could think 2008 was a good year for WWE at all. I can easily. Its two words. Chris jericho. i loved jericho in the late 90s and early 2000s and always rooted for him to get his chance as literally THE guy. To the point of wanting him to be in rocks role of dethroning triple h. Even through an undisputed championship reign he wasnt quite the guy. In 2008,He was. And he was Damn near as good as anybody I've seen before or since. Thats one reason. As for others. 1.undertaker-edge 2.The age of orton 3.The Brian Kendrick 4.Punks title win 5.HHH's title run was actually pretty good. 6.Great edge return 7.shawn michaels. Just shawn michaels. 8.Ric flair retirement some of those are as classic as austin with the beer truck or the hhh rock iron man match or the mankind title win to me I don't know. You do have some good points but I don't think 2008 was even as good as WCW's 1998 and that is when WCW started doing pretty bad. I think I'm looking at the overall picture and not just pointing out stuff. WWE hasn't had a very good flow when it comes to storylines in years or at least since Heyman was there as a writer. As good as stuff that there was in 2008 there was just way too much bad stuff that went along with it that I couldn't get over. La Familia was a failure. Legacy was basically a failure. Anarchy on RAW was a cool idea like when JBL declared Martial Law and then they just screwed it up the very next week by turning it into some stupid joke with stuff like some idiot running in front of Batista during an interview. They didn't even follow up on JBL's martial law thing.
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Dave at the Movies
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Feb 11, 2011 2:27:44 GMT -5
If you watched wrestling in the late 90s I don't see how anyone could think 2008 was a good year for WWE at all. That depends on your tastes, really. I don't deny that the shock factor and crash-TV of the Attitude Era translated into huge profits, but it made me lose interest in pro wrestling for nearly a decade. I would put 1997 which I think was the true beginning of the Attitude Era before they started using the term Attitude Era against any other year in wrestling that took place in the 90s or 2000s. WCW and WWF were doing great in 1997. WWF's business wasn't doing all that great but they had a good storyline going with the Hart Foundation. I agree that the Attitude Era went bad around early 2000 into late 2001 but I think everything before that was pure gold.
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Post by Tiger Maskooo on Feb 11, 2011 2:49:20 GMT -5
I can easily. Its two words. Chris jericho. i loved jericho in the late 90s and early 2000s and always rooted for him to get his chance as literally THE guy. To the point of wanting him to be in rocks role of dethroning triple h. Even through an undisputed championship reign he wasnt quite the guy. In 2008,He was. And he was Damn near as good as anybody I've seen before or since. Thats one reason. As for others. 1.undertaker-edge 2.The age of orton 3.The Brian Kendrick 4.Punks title win 5.HHH's title run was actually pretty good. 6.Great edge return 7.shawn michaels. Just shawn michaels. 8.Ric flair retirement some of those are as classic as austin with the beer truck or the hhh rock iron man match or the mankind title win to me I don't know. You do have some good points but I don't think 2008 was even as good as WCW's 1998 and that is when WCW started doing pretty bad. I think I'm looking at the overall picture and not just pointing out stuff. WWE hasn't had a very good flow when it comes to storylines in years or at least since Heyman was there as a writer. As good as stuff that there was in 2008 there was just way too much bad stuff that went along with it that I couldn't get over. La Familia was a failure. Legacy was basically a failure. Anarchy on RAW was a cool idea like when JBL declared Martial Law and then they just screwed it up the very next week by turning it into some stupid joke with stuff like some idiot running in front of Batista during an interview. They didn't even follow up on JBL's martial law thing. I will agree that 2008 is hardly perfect. Infact,in the period between mania and the jericho heel turn things went kinda down hill for a bit. I mean take for example punk as champion,as much as I loved it was kinda thrown together. Legacy,as much as i like rhodes and orton while it started interesting went downhill. Manu was probably the least charismatic supposed badass of all time. They missed a boat on a ted dibase face turn. Jbl,Who I love,kinda drifted along. But I think youre looking at it in the way they dont intend as far as overall picture. I think when wwe say theyre a variety show,they dont so much mean it in just the fact that they have varieties of differing walks of entertainment but also because of The hit and miss nature. Basically I think they see it almost as a series of sketches,and not unlike sketch shows,theres several that miss. Sometimes its only one or two sketches that are worthwhile. The show kinda lives and dies by whether now theres 1 or 2 things interesting going. Its not a perfect model,and I dont always agree with it but i think thats sort of the way they see it. Another reason I might have a fondness for it is I remember those raws during the reign of terror(which i kinda liked) where the shows were sometimes so awful.
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Post by "Dashing" Dr.VonPhoenix on Feb 11, 2011 3:03:44 GMT -5
2009 and 2010 kinda lost that spark. 2011 is just starting to regain momentum. Something about WWE in 2008 was really cool that 2009/2010 was missing. I'm not entirely sure what it is, given that the roster/storylines were relatively static. I thought 2010 was actually not that bad at all. I'll second that. I don't remember anything awesome about 2008 in the least. 2010 had some moments I'll never forget. For example, the first Nexus beatdown, Kane finally getting the strap (for more than a day), The Miz's first title win, the debut of Alberto Del Rio, Cody Rhodes becoming "Dashing", heel Michael Cole.... oh, yeah, and Bret Hart came back. I honestly don't give a toss if people liked his storyline or not. Bret Hart actually showed up again. That was big. So, I dunno, man. 2008 was kind of weak to me on it's own, but looks even weaker in comparison to last year.
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