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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Mar 1, 2013 14:14:11 GMT -5
anyone else remember this pile of insanity?
My favourite part was when they started putting Batman style Ka-Pow!s over every weapon shot (no, I'm not even kidding)
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 1, 2013 20:04:57 GMT -5
Remember it? This got me into wrestling.
Shane Douglas: 'CUT THE *whipcrack* MUSIC!'
It used to make me livid how the Channel 5 continuity announcer would make fun of the wrestling.
But Worldwide is literally the worst wrestling show I've ever seen, week on week. They had the announcers commentating over videos, reacting to angles that are 1. completely different to what actually happened on the shows 2. OFTEN SHOW THEM ON CAMERA IN THE FOOTAGE WHEN IT WAS SHOT.
Sigh.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 21:50:17 GMT -5
I'm glad my brother used to get tapes of the better shows.
Hell, weren't the Channel 5 WorldWide shows 3+ months late to air too?
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 1, 2013 22:04:27 GMT -5
WCW on Channel 5 and WWF on Channel 4 were complete and total disasters.
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Post by Smiley Smile on Mar 2, 2013 9:09:21 GMT -5
For a while, WCW on Channel 5 was my only real exposure to pro wrestling so I can't help but have happy memories of watching it. In hindsight the shows were appallingly put together and the booking was nonsensical, but to a child whose only wrestling was WCW Worldwide, it was the TV highlight of the week.
WWF on Channel 4 gets a lot of criticism, but it wasn't helped by censors and Channel 4's insistence on moving the timeslot around constantly. Not ever having Sky Sports, seeing pay-per-views on free-to-air TV was a dream come true for me.
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Post by Essential1 on Mar 2, 2013 19:52:47 GMT -5
I remember the Royal Rumble on channel 4 and they even had ad breaks during the match!
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Post by EP 54 is banned from Collision on Mar 2, 2013 20:58:58 GMT -5
Before WCW went to Channel Five, it was on selected ITV regions on saturday afternoons. It was okay in those days, a few entertaining jobber squashes per week, with some notable faces appearing as jobbers (Regal as a babyface in Union Jack trunks! Benoit with a weird martial artist gimmick, and IIRC a ponytail!) This was pre nWo, I remember they hyped Flair coming back, and later the arrival of Hogan.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2013 10:28:07 GMT -5
For a while, WCW on Channel 5 was my only real exposure to pro wrestling so I can't help but have happy memories of watching it. In hindsight the shows were appallingly put together and the booking was nonsensical, but to a child whose only wrestling was WCW Worldwide, it was the TV highlight of the week. WWF on Channel 4 gets a lot of criticism, but it wasn't helped by censors and Channel 4's insistence on moving the timeslot around constantly. Not ever having Sky Sports, seeing pay-per-views on free-to-air TV was a dream come true for me. I've got grand memories of C4's pay per views, and my older brother's silent rage when they kept shifting around the time slots, so yeah, as much as they screwed around with great events I have nothing but good memories. For all the junk TNA flings out at times I'm glad they've brought back practically terrestrial wrestling shows for people who can't justify the ludicrous subscription costs of Sky Sports. |
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Post by tibbo on Mar 3, 2013 12:17:12 GMT -5
Before WCW went to Channel Five, it was on selected ITV regions on saturday afternoons. Before it was broadcast on Saturday afternoons (between Baywatch/AirWolf/Thunder in Paradise etc) it was actually shown in the middle of the night. I remember in 1991/92 it was shown at around 3am in the morning on ITV...suprisingly the the shows were fairly up to date for the time - I definately remember Tommy Rich/Ricky Morton/Junkyard Dog being tag-champs at the time, the only problem was we had no way of watching the PPVs which the shows were building to  |
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Mar 4, 2013 14:54:21 GMT -5
I forgot their hideous handling of some matches.
Being a 1 hour a week recap of 3 hours plus the PPV, it was incomprehensible even for 1999-2001 in WCW
but one crowning case was Russo vs Booker T which I'm not kidding, ended with "Russo's out of the cage, who's champion? Oh sorry we're out of time"
the upside to that one was them completely cutting Russo's segment as WCW champ, so we could just assume Booker won.
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Post by sagsag on Mar 4, 2013 16:02:07 GMT -5
Please tell me there's footage of the Batman "POW!" "ZUH!" "MINT!" graphics somewhere.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 4, 2013 17:23:07 GMT -5
Channel 4's handling of WWF PPVs was actually part of what drove me away from wrestling for 2002-2006. They cancelled their showing of the Rumble 2002 with like two weeks left to the show. f***ing assholes.
Why were they f***ing censoring a show that was on at 1AM? If I'd flipped over to Channel 5 I'd have seen softcore porn for f***'s sake!
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Post by kieran on Mar 4, 2013 17:41:33 GMT -5
I loved catching WWF Heat on a Sunday afternoon on C4.
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Post by TGM on Mar 4, 2013 18:35:49 GMT -5
I hate you OP, for reminding me of this show.
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Post by Tom S on Mar 4, 2013 18:36:56 GMT -5
Fort Boyard, It's A Knockout and Worldwide every friday night
Then HEAT on Sunday afternoons, followed by the PPV if there was one, I remember RR 2000 was my first ever, then Backlash when Austin came back
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Post by hitch on Mar 4, 2013 19:17:50 GMT -5
C4 had commercial breaks during the PPVs. It was madness.
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Post by baerrtt on Mar 5, 2013 12:04:38 GMT -5
Channel 4's handling of WWF PPVs was actually part of what drove me away from wrestling for 2002-2006. They cancelled their showing of the Rumble 2002 with like two weeks left to the show. f***ing assholes. Why were they f***ing censoring a show that was on at 1AM? If I'd flipped over to Channel 5 I'd have seen softcore porn for f***'s sake! As I stated here some years ago C4 cancelling it's WWF programming over 'explicit' material was the most hypocritical broadcasting decision I'd ever heard of at that point particularly when you consider Channel 4 was basically the British TV channel equivalent of the Attitude Era from it's inception. |
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Post by segaz on Mar 12, 2013 5:29:16 GMT -5
I don't think I'd have liked that WCW Worldwide on Channel 5.
I do vaguely remember seeing WCW shows in the afternoon on ITV around 93/94 though.....
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Post by AtomSmasher on Mar 12, 2013 17:38:29 GMT -5
WCW Worldwide on Channel 5 actually got me BACK into wrestling - but i couldn't work out what the hell was going on from one week to the next. I think the ropey editing and lack of promo's in addition to the general WCW booking madness/swerves/turns caused a degree of confusion that i actually found intriguing. Maybe Russo was right all along?.......or maybe watching 'Wrestling With Shadows' around about the same time was what ACTUALLY piqued my interest again after 5 years in the wrestling free wilderness.....
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