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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Jan 1, 2015 23:24:42 GMT -5
Who knew Eric Bischoff was a big Mortal Kombat fan? His Raiden cosplay needs work though. You missed Glacier? |
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Post by Stu on Jan 2, 2015 0:02:30 GMT -5
Supposedly Bischoff originally wanted to announce that he had officially purchased WCW from Time Warner and he could now run the company without the corporate interference that Bischoff had previously claimed was the real reason for WCW's downfall. When that fell through Bischoff and Russo supposedly made an offer to Paul Heyman to have some ECW guys do a run-in. Heyman asked for a ridiculous amount of money to do it and Bischoff turned him down. After ECW went under it turned out the amount of money that Heyman asked for was pretty much the exact amount Heyman owed to Vince McMahon. Goldberg's heel turn was an early rumor when the big announcement was first announced, and might have worked if WCW hadn't gone out of their way to overhype it at every moment possible. Unfortunately by show time it was their only available option and it flopped miserably. I always heard it was a deal with NBC or another major station for a new weekly WCW program. |
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jan 2, 2015 0:07:13 GMT -5
Yes, I also heard it was originally supposed to be a TV deal, like prime time specials on NBC or FOX, but the deal didn't go through.
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Post by lws on Jan 2, 2015 1:01:03 GMT -5
I never knew Andy Warhol was in WCW Eh, it's been done before   that picture looks familiar! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 16:20:49 GMT -5
Their faces are priceless.
They're like "What the hell have we done?"
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 2, 2015 16:52:16 GMT -5
I always heard the NBC television deal was a couple of years earlier. Bischoff tried to pitch it to NBC as a replacement for the NBA during the 1998 Lock-Out.
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Jan 2, 2015 17:02:11 GMT -5
On the bright side, this ended with Goldberg turning face on Russo and feuding with Nash and Steiner over who would job to the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZtuwjdPJUHE DID THE UNTHINKABLE! |
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Post by fortknox on Jan 2, 2015 21:09:41 GMT -5
Who knew Eric Bischoff was a big Mortal Kombat fan? His Raiden cosplay needs work though. You didn't know Bischoff was a MK fan? Uh hello Blood Runs Cold. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 21:14:50 GMT -5
It also led to Goldberg punching Jim Duggan in the kidney that he had cancer in it. I remember laughing at it because it was just an awful moment that they played being dead serious.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 2, 2015 21:21:47 GMT -5
On the bright side, this ended with Goldberg turning face on Russo and feuding with Nash and Steiner over who would job to the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZtuwjdPJUHE DID THE UNTHINKABLE! I had never actually seen that promo. Good lord how stupid. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 2, 2015 21:43:20 GMT -5
On the bright side, this ended with Goldberg turning face on Russo and feuding with Nash and Steiner over who would job to the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZtuwjdPJUHE DID THE UNTHINKABLE! I had never actually seen that promo. Good lord how stupid. Nothing like hyping a show with... All that other shit happening on our show is blatantly bullshit... but this stuff is real.... |
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Post by molson5 on Jan 2, 2015 22:01:23 GMT -5
I had never actually seen that promo. Good lord how stupid. Nothing like hyping a show with... All that other shit happening on our show is blatantly bullshit... but this stuff is real.... It was even crazier when they had that contrast in the same match at new blood rising. Mark Madden and Tony Schiavone have to strongly imply how Goldberg broke script by not taking the power bomb, while at the same time calling the Scott Steiner/Kevin Nash match that was still going on. At one point Madden said something like, "Nash is a such a pro, he could have punched Goldberg out for not cooperating and won the match that way!" |
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Jan 2, 2015 23:34:01 GMT -5
On the bright side, this ended with Goldberg turning face on Russo and feuding with Nash and Steiner over who would job to the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZtuwjdPJUHE DID THE UNTHINKABLE! I had never actually seen that promo. Good lord how stupid. One of the stupidest builds for what's actually a great match especially considering which two guys are in it. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 3, 2015 0:03:25 GMT -5
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Jan 4, 2015 4:52:31 GMT -5
Supposedly Bischoff originally wanted to announce that he had officially purchased WCW from Time Warner and he could now run the company without the corporate interference that Bischoff had previously claimed was the real reason for WCW's downfall. When that fell through Bischoff and Russo supposedly made an offer to Paul Heyman to have some ECW guys do a run-in. Heyman asked for a ridiculous amount of money to do it and Bischoff turned him down. After ECW went under it turned out the amount of money that Heyman asked for was pretty much the exact amount Heyman owed to Vince McMahon. Goldberg's heel turn was an early rumor when the big announcement was first announced, and might have worked if WCW hadn't gone out of their way to overhype it at every moment possible. Unfortunately by show time it was their only available option and it flopped miserably. Yeah, but my favorite rumor during that time was that Shane f***ing McMahon was going to jump to WCW, which is why the "big surprise" would personally devastate Vince so much. I'll have you know that we were only nine months away from that prediction coming true. |
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