Dave at the Movies
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Jul 6, 2012 20:42:19 GMT -5
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JIMBOB
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Post by JIMBOB on Jul 6, 2012 21:05:50 GMT -5
Its been mentioned and shown on some WWE DVDs, but I forget which ones. I was shocked when I first saw it too. Definitely surreal.
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Rave
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Post by Rave on Jul 6, 2012 22:27:40 GMT -5
It was a year and a week before I was born, yet I can understand the outcry. If my favorite wrestling show was suddenly replaced by a show filled with squashes and Vince (badly) reading off cuecards while obviously fantasizing about Hogan, I'd be pissed too.
While links to clips are fine, linking to complete shows is not allowed.
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TuneinTokyo
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Jul 7, 2012 0:49:41 GMT -5
I grew up with AWA and then WWF but when cable came around we started getting Super Station. It was great and I like the matches and mayhem even better, so when Vince showed up that day even I was like WTF? It was like the Easter bunny showing up at Christmas. It just didn't seem right, and they used all that "here to bring you the best action in professional wrestling crap". It was also around WM1 so Mr T showed up for an interview and they of course showed some matches from the Spectrum.
I'm glad it didn't last and we got Dusty Rhodes and the Four Horsemen back.
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Dave at the Movies
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
VINTAGE D-DAY DAVE! Always cranking dat thing.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Jul 7, 2012 1:54:57 GMT -5
I grew up with AWA and then WWF but when cable came around we started getting Super Station. It was great and I like the matches and mayhem even better, so when Vince showed up that day even I was like WTF? It was like the Easter bunny showing up at Christmas. It just didn't seem right, and they used all that "here to bring you the best action in professional wrestling crap". It was also around WM1 so Mr T showed up for an interview and they of course showed some matches from the Spectrum. I'm glad it didn't last and we got Dusty Rhodes and the Four Horsemen back. Was it more controversial than the last Nitro or was the last Nitro a bigger deal due to wwf actually buying out WCW? I remember the last Nitro and it was shocking to me because it was still a few years before I used the internet and i was only 13 years old. I had no clue exactly what was happening. |
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Post by Chuck Conry on Jul 7, 2012 2:29:50 GMT -5
While Vince and the WWF was on TBS where was Flair and the NWA guys? Did they have another show or off the air all together?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 11:07:57 GMT -5
While Vince and the WWF was on TBS where was Flair and the NWA guys? Did they have another show or off the air all together? World Class Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, and Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, which were NWA members at the time, continued as usual. Ole Anderson was able to start "Championship Wrestling from Georgia" to replace the Georgia/World Championship Wrestling promotion that the WWF had purchased. On August 4, 1984, 3 weeks after Black Saturday, the new Georgia promotion (with Gordon Solie back as the announcer) debuted with a 7:35 a.m. Saturday morning timeslot on TBS. That didn't make the WWF happy as they felt their deal gave them exclusive rights to TBS. Anderson's group lasted until the spring of 1985 when it was merged into Jim Crockett's Mid-Atlantic promotion so that Crockett could take over the Saturday morning timeslot. At the same time that happened, the WWF was paid $1,000,000 by Crockett to give up the Saturday evening spot. |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jul 7, 2012 12:00:55 GMT -5
It may surprise some to learn that I don't have an actual memory of this, because I wasn't quite 2 years old yet.
The best I can do is imagine what I would have thought and felt if it had happened in late '86-'87, or even into '88-'89. I don't know about in general, but it would have been a HUGE deal to me. I liked anything wrestling back then, and oddly enough, Hogan was my favorite, but if my uncle dipped into his tape collection and asked me what I wanted to see, I'd pick NWA every time.
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TuneinTokyo
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Jul 8, 2012 20:52:52 GMT -5
I grew up with AWA and then WWF but when cable came around we started getting Super Station. It was great and I like the matches and mayhem even better, so when Vince showed up that day even I was like WTF? It was like the Easter bunny showing up at Christmas. It just didn't seem right, and they used all that "here to bring you the best action in professional wrestling crap". It was also around WM1 so Mr T showed up for an interview and they of course showed some matches from the Spectrum. I'm glad it didn't last and we got Dusty Rhodes and the Four Horsemen back. Was it more controversial than the last Nitro or was the last Nitro a bigger deal due to wwf actually buying out WCW? I remember the last Nitro and it was shocking to me because it was still a few years before I used the internet and i was only 13 years old. I had no clue exactly what was happening. I don't think at the time, I was like 12, I thought much about the business end. And I really wasn't around for Nitro, but it was pretty lame I remember. Just out of place. I don't recall it lasting more than that first Sat. It may have gone on for a few weeks. It was long time ago now so the details may be sketchy. But there was definitely a Mr. T and Hulk Hogan interview and an SD Jones match from the Philly Spectrum. |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jul 9, 2012 9:01:31 GMT -5
I've heard that they received a lot of complaints at the SuperStation when Vince's show aired. I would say more people cared about it then than cared about WCW by the end.
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