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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 15, 2014 14:11:34 GMT -5
I only found out recently that the milk was fake milk.....so bizarre that they made that choice I'm guessing they did that because real milk would have meant the ring and arena would be stinking all night. |
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Mar 15, 2014 14:52:44 GMT -5
With some people, revisionist history says Angle was only really over post 9/11. That logic is dead wrong. Angle was as white hot a face as they'd had in a long time. They totally blew it with him If anything, I have to wonder if Angle was uncomfortable being a red, white, and blue babyface post-9/11, or if WWF wanted to avoid accusations of exploiting the event for Angle's popularity. He got there before 9/11, but it's reasonable to say that 9/11 made Angle-as-top-babyface look uncomfortably jingoistic. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 21:46:05 GMT -5
Yeah WWE turning him back heel again was so typical but I suppose they had HHH penciled in as the hot returning babyface so... I loved Angle as a face, its so weird in retrospect thinking about that period when the main event feud was RVD vs heel Austin vs face Angle. Same reason Edge didn't main event WrestleMania 22. I remember that Stone Cold truth interview they did in WWE magazine where Austin pretty much says by the time he came back from injury there was someone else in Vince's ear. I wonder who that was. |
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Mar 16, 2014 1:23:20 GMT -5
I find it more baffling that not only was Angle, and Vince a heel, but Austin turned face the next night and acted like none of the last 6 months never happened.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 16, 2014 1:30:07 GMT -5
With some people, revisionist history says Angle was only really over post 9/11. That logic is dead wrong. Angle was as white hot a face as they'd had in a long time. They totally blew it with him If anything, I have to wonder if Angle was uncomfortable being a red, white, and blue babyface post-9/11, or if WWF wanted to avoid accusations of exploiting the event for Angle's popularity. He got there before 9/11, but it's reasonable to say that 9/11 made Angle-as-top-babyface look uncomfortably jingoistic. I don't think anybody in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was concerned with coming off jingoistic. It was such a huge swelling of patriotism nationwide that the possibility for exploitation seemed an impossibility. |
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Mar 16, 2014 6:11:51 GMT -5
Yep. I've been saying it for years. Turning Angle heel when they did was one of the biggest mistakes they've made with a top guy. And the fact that they didn't even turn him back face the night after SurSer? Baffling.
His match with Austin at Summerslam (even with the screwy finish) is one of my favourite matches of all-time. Big missed opportunity from WWE by not pushing Angle as the guy after that summer.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Mar 16, 2014 6:27:36 GMT -5
Yep. I've been saying it for years. Turning Angle heel when they did was one of the biggest mistakes they've made with a top guy. And the fact that they didn't even turn him back face the night after SurSer? Baffling. Even if they did turn him back I think it was already ruined with the original heel turn, his white hot face hear had already gone and I dont think it just would have come back the same if he just turned back face. And I dont agree with that 9/11 theory, it's not like he was fighting against Islamists. |
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Post by madness50 on Mar 16, 2014 9:47:18 GMT -5
Angle was absolutely white hot prior to 9/11. The feud between Austin and Angle was brilliant and was a breath of fresh air with Angle as the babyface. When Angle won the WWF title in Pittsburgh, it was a very awesome moment and should have kicked off a lengthy title reign. Instead, he dropped the belt back to Austin, turned to the Alliance, revealed to be a mole for the WWF, and turned heel again the next night. The stupidity of those events still baffles me, one of the many problems that the WWF had in 2001. I still didn't get the logic of the night after the Survivor Series, it was almost an entire reset of all the storylines. It reminded me of a modern version of Dallas' dream season from 1986.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2014 10:53:11 GMT -5
The milk truck incident to me will always be far more epic than the beer truck incident. I only found out recently that the milk was fake milk.....so bizarre that they made that choice Maybe some of the alliance members were lactose intolerant? |
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Post by Woo on Mar 17, 2014 13:38:25 GMT -5
Angle was an amazing face! I literally had goosebumps when it was down to him vs the Dudleys at Invasion. The crowd were red hot for him in 2001. I remember the promo he did where he said something like "I'm a better wrestler than you. I'm a better athlete than you. Heck I'm even better playing the guitar than you!" and it got huge pop.
All this talk of Bryan being the most over face since Austin may be true, but he had some serious competition in Angle!
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