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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2017 18:01:04 GMT -5
There’s a few things that I’ve always wondered about this show:
why was was it held on a Monday?
Why was there so much confusion for the announcement of the Muraco/Orndorff double count out?
Who was in charge at each venue? I would guess it was Vince in NY, Gorilla in Chicago, and Patterson in LA?
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Post by ToyfareMark on Dec 24, 2017 21:05:29 GMT -5
Wrestlemania 2 is big guilty pleasure for me. Its a bad show for sure, but I love the time period.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Dec 24, 2017 21:26:10 GMT -5
Wrestlemania 2 is big guilty pleasure for me. Its a bad show for sure, but I love the time period. I've always been fascinated by the concept of one event at three different locations. I hope that the WWE someday revisits it. |
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Dec 24, 2017 21:45:05 GMT -5
Back in the day, PPVs were usually held on strange days of the week. I don't think "The PPV on Sunday" thing became a codified thing until well into the 90s.
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Post by FightinPhils777 on Dec 24, 2017 23:03:38 GMT -5
Wrestlemania 2 is big guilty pleasure for me. Its a bad show for sure, but I love the time period. I've always been fascinated by the concept of one event at three different locations. I hope that the WWE someday revisits it. I believe Raw's 25th anniversary is going to be in 2 locations. The Barclay center and the Manhattan center. |
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 25, 2017 11:32:30 GMT -5
I would assume that being able to get 3 specific arenas in 3 different places that were available on the same day had something to do with it being on a Monday.
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Post by mauled on Dec 25, 2017 11:43:31 GMT -5
The Bulldogs v Beefcake and Valentine is a forgotten classic. A great Tag match
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Post by mizerable on Dec 25, 2017 12:52:36 GMT -5
The Bulldogs v Beefcake and Valentine is a forgotten classic. A great Tag match Agreed. Also while not an amazing match, I liked the steel cage match with Hogan and Bundy. Steamboat and Hercules wasn't too bad either. Everything else was pretty forgettable. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2017 12:58:32 GMT -5
The Bulldogs v Beefcake and Valentine is a forgotten classic. A great Tag match Dynamite took a stupid bump on the finish headbutt spot and crashed hard onto the arena floor |
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Post by Jiren on Dec 25, 2017 12:59:50 GMT -5
Back in the day, PPVs were usually held on strange days of the week. I don't think "The PPV on Sunday" thing became a codified thing until well into the 90s. It was about 95 PPVs became Sunday |
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 25, 2017 13:25:40 GMT -5
The Hogan/Bundy match I enjoy mainly for loving how Lord Alfred says Avalanche.
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Post by domrep on Dec 26, 2017 11:08:49 GMT -5
I really liked the concept but looking back at it, they loaded the NY show a bit too much. At that time, Orndorff was a major star, then they had Savage/Steele plus Piper/Mr. T.
The Chicago card was pretty awful, and the LA card was alright. I think they should have placed one of Orndorff/Muraco or Savage/Steele on one of the other locations.
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Post by Aceorton on Dec 26, 2017 11:17:15 GMT -5
The Bulldogs v Beefcake and Valentine is a forgotten classic. A great Tag match Yes, WrestleMania 2 literally became a nightmare for the Dream Team. [/gorilla] |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2017 12:50:02 GMT -5
Back in the day, PPVs were usually held on strange days of the week. I don't think "The PPV on Sunday" thing became a codified thing until well into the 90s. Of the major PPVs, WrestleManias and Rumbles were on Sundays (as far as I always knew). But SummerSlam used to be the last Monday of August (except '92, which was a Saturday), and Survivor Series was "the Thanksgiving Eve tradition" (a Wednesday). It was either 1994 or 1995 when they moved permanently to Sundays. I have to admit, the special themes of those 2 really faded when they were shifted to Sunday nights. SSlam was like the last big hurrah of summer before school was back in (so why not do it on a Monday night?) and SurSer was actually a fun pre-holiday event for me & friends a few of those years. |
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Dec 26, 2017 14:38:36 GMT -5
Would you believe that I didn't know it was a multi-cast event as I have watched it only once, on a shitty VHS copy with poor audio when I was 6 or 7 years old, so thought it was just one show?
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Post by cjh on Dec 26, 2017 14:44:53 GMT -5
Back in the day, PPVs were usually held on strange days of the week. I don't think "The PPV on Sunday" thing became a codified thing until well into the 90s. Of the major PPVs, WrestleManias and Rumbles were on Sundays (as far as I always knew). But SummerSlam used to be the last Monday of August (except '92, which was a Saturday), and Survivor Series was "the Thanksgiving Eve tradition" (a Wednesday). It was either 1994 or 1995 when they moved permanently to Sundays. I have to admit, the special themes of those 2 really faded when they were shifted to Sunday nights. SSlam was like the last big hurrah of summer before school was back in (so why not do it on a Monday night?) and SurSer was actually a fun pre-holiday event for me & friends a few of those years. SummerSlam 1992 aired on Monday in North America., two days after it was taped. I believe it did not air live in the UK, either. Survivor Series was actually held on Thanksgiving from 1987 to 1990 before moving to the night before Thanksgiving in 1991. |
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Post by ToyfareMark on Dec 26, 2017 15:40:40 GMT -5
The only day of the week a WWE PPV hasn't aired in the US is Friday.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2017 15:20:26 GMT -5
WCW still ran PPVs on select Saturdays up until 1996.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 31, 2017 16:56:30 GMT -5
Would you believe that I didn't know it was a multi-cast event as I have watched it only once, on a shitty VHS copy with poor audio when I was 6 or 7 years old, so thought it was just one show? I think I thought the same thing. Coliseum Video cut the event so badly you didn't see a lot of the "sending to in..." segments where the hosts would send the interview segments to the hosts from the other cities. Seeing the 1998 WWF home video version which was the PPV version was totally awesome just to see the wrestler introductions. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 2, 2018 23:36:01 GMT -5
Such a weird show. Even beyond the three-city deal and the questionable celebrities, the whole thing was just...weird.
Hogan and Bundy might have been something had they not been hitting the house show circuit off and on for the previous year, with Hogan going over every time.
Ordorff goes from headlining the prior year to opening this one.
George Welles foaming at the mouth for no particular reason as Damien crawls over him.
The boxing match that wasn't.
Kirchner vs. Volkoff getting way more build than it deserved, and being one of the very few matches they actually did any build for.
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