mcstoklasa
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Post by mcstoklasa on Jan 20, 2019 10:44:20 GMT -5
I always see these three years of RAW as much maligned. Which was the best of the three?
I know RAW has been quite awful recently but I barely watch anymore so if you wanna vote for that it’s “other” as I can’t pick out an individual year.
1999- seen as getting a bit too ridiculous
2003- reign of terror
2009- guest host
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Post by mcstoklasa on Jan 20, 2019 10:45:26 GMT -5
I voted 1999 as I started watching that year and it has Austin, Rock, Mankind, undertaker etc
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Post by disorganisedchaos v:2 on Jan 20, 2019 12:32:47 GMT -5
If you wanted to create the most one-sided poll in FAN history, you've got a shot here.
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Post by 4real on Jan 20, 2019 12:42:21 GMT -5
1999 was still the Attitude era and I loved the Ministry storyline at the time. It probably dipped in quality once the Austin Vince feud ended though.
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Post by CeilingFan on Jan 20, 2019 12:49:30 GMT -5
One of the best Raws ever was the one after Backlash 1999. I highly recommend it!
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Post by chazraps on Jan 20, 2019 12:54:41 GMT -5
99 by far. Especially if we're evaluating watching these as they happened.
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Post by chazraps on Jan 20, 2019 12:55:18 GMT -5
Wait, why is there an "other" option?
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Post by mcstoklasa on Jan 20, 2019 13:11:42 GMT -5
If you wanted to create the most one-sided poll in FAN history, you've got a shot here. It was my plan all along. For my next poll I plan to make: “Daniel Bryan vs Ryback- better in-ring technician?” |
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Post by mcstoklasa on Jan 20, 2019 13:12:37 GMT -5
Wait, why is there an "other" option? I couldn’t think of what year recently was really bad as I haven’t watched enough. I swear it might have been 2017 or 2018 that mega sucked? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 13:48:53 GMT -5
Wasn't watching in 2009, but looking back on it 2003 was pretty boring for the most part and I'll take the batshit craziness of 1999 over boring any day, even if the match quality in 1999 was the worst of the three years.
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Post by cabbageboy on Jan 20, 2019 14:20:56 GMT -5
I think 2009 is probably the worst actually. There was some excellent stuff to be found in 2003 if you could deal with the tedium of the HHH Reign of Terror. 2009 was the guest host trash and nothing but Legacy as the main heels for a long period of time. It was dire.
1999 wins this of course. It was junk food wrestling but at the time it was fun.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jan 20, 2019 15:03:08 GMT -5
Wow, the guest host era was the first crack in my watching habits. No longer did I feel I "had" to watch Raw every week with the garbage they were putting on and that just snowballed as the years went on. Shocked that it's the 10 year anniversary of the decline of my fandom.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 15:15:50 GMT -5
Man, I was 10 years old in 2009, their target audience at the time, and even I knew most of what they were doing was corny aside from the SES lol
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 15:17:33 GMT -5
2009 Raw was the worst wrestling period for any show ever.
At least 2000 WCW was “so bad it was entertaining”
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Post by Albino Heat on Jan 20, 2019 18:24:56 GMT -5
2003. I can at remember at least 5 great matches to make up for the reign of terror. 1999 was too much Russomania for me.
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Jan 20, 2019 18:48:26 GMT -5
1999 was a kick ass time. Yeah, there was some goofiness, but there was a pace and an energy to the show that, by far, made up for it. Plus, you had both Austin and The Rock at the top of their games, Mick Foley and Triple H were elevated to Main Event spots, and Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle (among others) made their debuts. It was a great time to be a fan.
2003, while not as bad as it seemed back then, was still a mighty steep drop off from even the year before. Too much Triple H dominating everyone.
2009 was hot garbage. TNA was producing a better weekly product at that point, IMO, than RAW was. That's mighty bad.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Jan 20, 2019 19:26:10 GMT -5
1999 for me. Still not a great year looking back. There's some truly terrible stuff, but it's entertaining at least and the crowds were always white hot. 2003 was a chore to get through, and I wasn't watching in 2009.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 20, 2019 19:29:00 GMT -5
1999. Mankind winning the WWF Championship on the night of Schiavone's "That'll put butts in seats!" call, Jericho's WWF debut, and The Rock's face turn that helped soften the blow of Austin being out of action due to his neck injury.
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Boss Man's hilarious moments during the Al Snow and Big Show feuds
The rise of the Hardys and Edge & Christian
Mean Street Posse
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Post by beefy on Jan 21, 2019 13:13:15 GMT -5
99 and it’s not even close. Bad? Certainly. Entertaining? Yes.
03 is equal parts boring and frustrating, with a dash of disappointment.
09 was bland. The Vanilla Wafer of wrestling.
An interesting option? RAW 95. That was a brutal time period.
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Post by stevec484 on Jan 21, 2019 13:27:26 GMT -5
I actually stopped watching in Summer of 99 because I thought the show started to suck, but in retrospect it was better than any year besides 2000 since.
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