chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Sept 18, 2016 22:35:17 GMT -5
There's a Thunder from January/February or so with some abduction and I believe Shane Douglas/David Flair double-turn three times over the show's two hour running time.
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Sept 19, 2016 4:23:05 GMT -5
Say what you want about Russo in WCW (yeah it was dumb/crappy), but it was quite a tad better than May-October 99 boredom and January-April 00 coma status!
Sullivan, Hogan, Nash & co managed to produce some of the worst TV/PPV wrestling in history in early 2000, it was beyond unwatchable and horrible. They should be held accountable for that
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Post by madness50 on Sept 22, 2016 12:46:22 GMT -5
I just remember a lot of awful stuff in 2000 in WCW. A lot of random stuff as well. I remember watching Nitro one night and Russo cut a very long promo on how he wanted to fight John Rocker at Starrcade.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 23, 2016 15:17:33 GMT -5
Just thought of another bizarre moment. There's some promo where Big T is commenting on Booker T bringing Midnight into Harlem Heat, and he calls her what sounds like "a piece of fish". Fun with Ahmed indeed.
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Post by thegame415 on Sept 23, 2016 21:12:09 GMT -5
There were 20 different world title reigns in 2000, including 10 from April 1st to June 1st.
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Post by Hypnosis on Sept 23, 2016 21:36:52 GMT -5
Just thought of another bizarre moment. There's some promo where Big T is commenting on Booker T bringing Midnight into Harlem Heat, and he calls her what sounds like "a piece of fish". Fun with Ahmed indeed. I thought I remembered Ahmed also calling Jarrett that in '97 on Raw for whatever reason.
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Post by Tony Schiavontay on Sept 23, 2016 23:04:38 GMT -5
There were 20 different world title reigns in 2000, including 10 from April 1st to June 1st. That belt don't mean shit!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2016 23:15:36 GMT -5
Who can forget the legendary feud between WCW and Battle Dome?
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Post by Emmet Russell on Sept 23, 2016 23:38:23 GMT -5
I watched one Nitro from that period, and I swear (to God, bro), the Harris Twins ran in during every single match.
smh.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Sept 24, 2016 0:30:28 GMT -5
Say what you want about Russo in WCW (yeah it was dumb/crappy), but it was quite a tad better than May-October 99 boredom and January-April 00 coma status! Sullivan, Hogan, Nash & co managed to produce some of the worst TV/PPV wrestling in history in early 2000, it was beyond unwatchable and horrible. They should be held accountable for that Yrah I'm working through Nitro and WCW sucked months before Russo. I swear the last show I watched there were 0 clean finishes and 5 heel gang beat downs.
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 24, 2016 7:14:36 GMT -5
Who can forget the legendary feud between WCW and Battle Dome? I think I actually have some vague memory of this
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Sept 24, 2016 21:06:05 GMT -5
I just watched major guns vs. Tygra vs. Paisley for a 15 second match it was a giant clusterf***
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Post by cabbageboy on Sept 24, 2016 22:34:14 GMT -5
Keep in mind that WCW in 2000 had something like 3-4 different creative regimes. The year dawned with Russo but he was quickly removed in Jan. in favor of the entire Sullivan fiasco that cost them the Radicals and add to it the various injuries (Bret, Goldberg) and you had quite the horrible situation. So obviously that regime bombed and put on the worst shows ever, but it was expected. At least Nitro was scaled back to 2 hours. Can you imagine that roster filling out 3 hours? By April it was obvious this was a disaster so the Bischoff/Russo combo came back, but the whole Millionaires Club/New Blood angle fizzled after a couple of months and Bischoff quickly realized Russo was nuts. So Russo was left fending for himself and the whole Summer of 2000 is one of the biggest, wildest train wrecks of booking you'll ever want to see. GAB 2000, BATB 2000, and then especially New Blood Rising are a trilogy of hilariously bad PPVs of historic value.
After that Russo had so many concussions from putting himself in the ring like an idiot that he was essentially gone. At that point the makeshift booking team of Bill Banks, Ed Ferrarra, and the guy from Husker Du started booking and were ordered to just keep the current storylines in place....and amusingly enough things slowed down and the shows got a lot better. That is when Steiner became quite the heel champion, some sense of logic was regained, and by early 2001 they were putting out a fairly solid wrestling show. By then the damage was done however.
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Post by Jiren on Sept 24, 2016 22:41:36 GMT -5
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 29, 2016 16:05:59 GMT -5
I'm now up to Bash at the Beach and the hits just keep on coming. Shirtless Scott Hudson on commentary was truly something. Just watched an episode where Johnny the Bull injured himself in a hardcore match against Terry Funk, they mention how he's been taken to hospital (even though in this episode there are several people taken to hospital due to Mike Awesome going on a rampage, his injury was legitimate) yet less than an hour later, he's backstage in a segment with MIA and The Cat. We also get a bit where Jeff Jarrett brings out three "fat ladies" dressed as what looks like Vikings, so they can start singing to signify the end of Hogan's career. Another strange thing, Russo and Bischoff have been absent from the last couple of Nitros before this one. One last random thought, why is Goldberg so obsessed with the hard camera? He spends half his matches gurning at it (which I believe Nash made a comment about when he was doing commentary some months earlier).
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Post by wwefan71080 on Sept 30, 2016 5:44:44 GMT -5
Rick Steiner attacked rick Steiner
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Post by auph10imitated on Sept 30, 2016 5:48:48 GMT -5
WCW 2000 was car crash TV. I genuinely could not help but watch it no matter how bad it was, thing is it wasnt boring/dull bad, the issue was it didnt make any sense and it was all over the f***ing place. Had it been dull, I couldnt have even watched it. Its a somewhat guilty pleasure. Maybe as 2000 was such an awesome year at the time, anything bad was even watchable.
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Post by DjZonk on Sept 30, 2016 5:50:15 GMT -5
Don't forget them turning Goldberg heel for no f***ing reason other than trying to shock people, and nobody getting a decent World Title run till Steiner at the end of the year. Easily one of the dumber things. When WCW closed, he was still their hottest act. Puts into perspective how over he was to survive such rotten booking - and keep in mind he was never the same draw after that turn. The company should have been built around him as THE babyface having gret matches with Steiner for the year l;ike the classic at Fall Brawl (sans Russo interference). Alas.
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Post by zappa on Sept 30, 2016 8:16:52 GMT -5
WCW 2000 is better than 2015 and 2016 WWE.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 30, 2016 9:39:54 GMT -5
As someone who grew up in SMW territory, I have always felt that the Harris Brothers sucked. They were booked as ass kickers but their offense was pretty much limited to shitty looking punches.
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