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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 21, 2012 14:23:39 GMT -5
Just remembered something from when I first started watching in the early 90's. It was on WWF's Saturday morning show (Superstars?). The match was between Ted DiBiase and I believe Tatanka, where if DiBiase lost, he would give up $1 million. DiBiase lost and tried to bail with the money. Randy Savage came in the ring and told DiBiase he had to honor the stipulation. Savage then took the bag and started throwing cash into the crowd.
Am I remembering this correctly? Was it really $1 million? Seems like a huge amount of money especially since WWF wasn't in the best shape at the time. Also seems like throwing money into the audience could start a riot.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 21, 2012 14:31:52 GMT -5
The Rock getting beaten up in a locked coffin and Sgt. Slaughter/other backstage people opening it up and being horrified at what they saw. At first the camera didn't show what Rock looked like, which was actually kind of cool as it let viewers use their imaginations and think that the attacker was real heinous. Unfortunately, they ruined this by the end of the night by showing Rock who just had a little blood on him possibly from an incredibly weak blade job. Didn't Triple H beat on it with a Sledgehammer? I think this was the summer of 99. And Mankind did the same thing to Undertaker 3 years earlier. Yea, Trips beat it with a sledgehammer. I believe it was only the first or second time he used that weapon (he also used it to take out Mankind's knee around the same time, not sure which came first). I vividly remember this because the hottest/most popular girl in school talked to me the next day to ask what happened on RAW. When I told her about that, she got really happy and said "good, I hate The Rock!" Totally caught me off guard because I didn't even know she was a fan, much less a fan that wasn't a total sheep that cheers/booes whoever WWF wanted her to.
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Post by TGM on Sept 21, 2012 17:10:47 GMT -5
Jacqueline winning the Cruiserweight title from Chavo Guerrero only to lose it at the next PPV. It came completely out of nowhere and after she lost the title, I don't recall it ever being mentioned again. Also Jacqueine beating Disco Inferno back in 1997. Wasn't she also a referee at some point?
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Post by sagsag on Sept 21, 2012 17:16:46 GMT -5
Seems like a huge amount of money especially since WWF wasn't in the best shape at the time. Wrestling is a work. In all seriousness, I'm sure it was just $1 bills Savage threw around.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2012 7:47:27 GMT -5
Jacqueline winning the Cruiserweight title from Chavo Guerrero only to lose it at the next PPV. It came completely out of nowhere and after she lost the title, I don't recall it ever being mentioned again. Also Jacqueine beating Disco Inferno back in 1997. Wasn't she also a referee at some point? Wasn't this also around the time Disco had the whole "trying to figure out how to do my own leglock finisher" gimmick? He even resorted to using crib notes. In a Torch Talk he did around the time he was feuding with Jackie, he mentioned that when he finally was able to do the move, it was undersold and they just dropped the idea. It was pretty funny. I'd like to see that again.
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Post by joebob27 on Sept 23, 2012 8:01:43 GMT -5
Jacqueline winning the Cruiserweight title from Chavo Guerrero only to lose it at the next PPV. It came completely out of nowhere and after she lost the title, I don't recall it ever being mentioned again. Also Jacqueine beating Disco Inferno back in 1997. Wasn't she also a referee at some point? I saw the opposite finish in a dark match. One of the loudest crowd reactions I've ever seen. Dunno if it was just a one-off or something they did to get the crowd hot regularly, but it's definitely weird and obscure.
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Post by The Scuba Guy on Sept 23, 2012 10:06:37 GMT -5
Don't know if this one has been shared.
Kurt Angle is feuding with the Undertaker, and to make him mad, he throws 'Taker's bike off the Raw ramp. Then he tries to make it up to him by offering him a motor scooter, which I believe ends up being thrown off the ramp by Big Evil.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 23, 2012 10:42:07 GMT -5
Don't know if this one has been shared. Kurt Angle is feuding with the Undertaker, and to make him mad, he throws 'Taker's bike off the Raw ramp. Then he tries to make it up to him by offering him a motor scooter, which I believe ends up being thrown off the ramp by Big Evil. That led to my favorite Angle quote of all time: "I'm sorry, Undertaker. Or, as they would say out on the street (finger quotes) My bad."
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Post by flatsdomino on Sept 23, 2012 12:00:00 GMT -5
I have no idea on the date, but I remember one Nitro that had an entire first hour dedicated to some NWO videos. I think one of them had Nash hanging out at a pool hall with Luger (maybe) and Torrie Wilson. The videos weren't that long, maybe like 5 minutes each, but they kept replaying the same two or three for the entire hour. At the start of the second hour, Nitro starts normally and I don't think any of the announcers even mentioned the videos. The No-Wrestling First Hour Nitro is actually pretty famous; it was one of the turning points as far as ratings went when people REALLY started to turn away from Nitro. It in was early '99. Apparently it was Nash's idea to just have the first hour be recaps and videos, and it tanked HARD. When WWE started the 3-hour Raws, I think this was what people were afraid they'd do to kill time.
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Post by donbot on Sept 27, 2012 9:36:05 GMT -5
Not sure if any of these were mentioned yet, but.. - Bobby Heenan spraying something into the Ultimate Warrior's face during Warrior's "Posedown" with Rick Rude at the '89 Royal Rumble. Warrior no-sells it, and Rude attacks him from behind. No one ever mentions what that spraying was about. I was wondering about that. Speaking of Royal Rumble 89, I remember one of the banners moving throughout the entire event.
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Post by tibbo on Oct 3, 2012 16:48:30 GMT -5
Anyone remember Hawaiian Crush using the weakest spinebuster known to man as a finnisher when he made his debut?... and lifting the arm of his defeated opponents after the match, only to let them fall to the floor once he released them?
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Post by skulldouggory on Oct 4, 2012 9:14:09 GMT -5
Speaking of Torrie Wilson. I remember renting Uncensored 99 and when it started it had Torrie on a bed speaking to someone who was holding the cam corder, she also had a taser and it was implied that she used it on the guy during their love making and he enjoyed it. I think it ended up being David Flair, because he turned on his dad in the cage main event.
Imagine watching the start of that tape when your mother is in the room. Stupid Stupid WCW.
Also, i thought of this the other day. The Halloween episode of WWECW in 2007 had Tommy Dreamer in a match where he wrestled dressed as Paul E.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Oct 4, 2012 9:35:47 GMT -5
Speaking of Torrie Wilson. I remember renting Uncensored 99 and when it started it had Torrie on a bed speaking to someone who was holding the cam corder, she also had a taser and it was implied that she used it on the guy during their love making and he enjoyed it. I think it ended up being David Flair, because he turned on his dad in the cage main event. Imagine watching the start of that tape when your mother is in the room. Stupid Stupid WCW. Also, i thought of this the other day. The Halloween episode of WWECW in 2007 had Tommy Dreamer in a match where he wrestled dressed as Paul E. On the Uncensored 99 thing, you MIGHT be thinking of the Kid Cam, with Billy Kidman, but I'm not sure if the timing matches up.
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Post by skulldouggory on Oct 4, 2012 11:20:49 GMT -5
I'm 99% certain it was Uncensored 99 and it was David Flair she was talking to, this was around the time the NWO abducted David and brainwashed him to turn on his dad. and almost everything revolved around a taser since Starcade 98.
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Post by willywonka666 on Oct 4, 2012 12:50:10 GMT -5
I have no idea on the date, but I remember one Nitro that had an entire first hour dedicated to some NWO videos. I think one of them had Nash hanging out at a pool hall with Luger (maybe) and Torrie Wilson. The videos weren't that long, maybe like 5 minutes each, but they kept replaying the same two or three for the entire hour. At the start of the second hour, Nitro starts normally and I don't think any of the announcers even mentioned the videos. The No-Wrestling First Hour Nitro is actually pretty famous; it was one of the turning points as far as ratings went when people REALLY started to turn away from Nitro. It in was early '99. Apparently it was Nash's idea to just have the first hour be recaps and videos, and it tanked HARD. When WWE started the 3-hour Raws, I think this was what people were afraid they'd do to kill time. Wasn't this right after ratings were taking a hit when sometime late the year before the nWo had won access to run Nitro and spent a lot of the night taking apart the set instead of wrestling?
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Post by donbot on Oct 8, 2012 10:47:49 GMT -5
Razor Ramon telling Goldust he wants his ass.
The Guerrero's keep trying to get disqualifed, only for the ref to make it a no-DQ, and then interference comes out(I forgot who else was involved) and they end up winning the match.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan at the 1989 Royal Rumble and Survivor Series telling the ref "Get off my ass."
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Post by 2 Cold Scorkum on Nov 3, 2012 6:59:02 GMT -5
Goldust having a brief "born again" gimmick.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2012 7:28:50 GMT -5
Goldust having a brief "born again" gimmick. Are you referring to when he became Dustin Runnels after he burned his suit in the trash can and said, "Goldust Dies Tonight!"? I remember that. He held a prayer before the "Bikini" contest between Jacqueline & Sable. There's also a Botchmania out there that had a Dustin Runnels match (either on Shotgun or a dark match from Raw) where the fans were more into a fight that broke out in the stands than in the actual match in the ring. The camera angle was the low one from ringside instead of the hard camera so nobody could point it out.
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Post by donbot on Nov 18, 2012 11:58:20 GMT -5
Does anybody remember somebody calling Vader "Big Van Vader" when he was in the WWF? I swear that happened.
Also, Triple H telling him its Jenny Craig Time.
And while we're still on the topic of Vader, him calling himself a "Big fat piece of crap" on TV.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Nov 18, 2012 12:47:57 GMT -5
Does anybody remember somebody calling Vader "Big Van Vader" when he was in the WWF? I swear that happened. Also, Triple H telling him its Jenny Craig Time. And while we're still on the topic of Vader, him calling himself a "Big fat piece of crap" on TV. I think someone HAD to have called him that on commentary or something, probably JR. I was introduced to Vader when he came to WWF, but I still knew he was called "Big Van Vader" sometimes.
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