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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 22, 2021 18:14:29 GMT -5
OK, so this is what things look like at the end of January 1994, counting only matches from RAW, Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, the Royal Rumble and an MSG house show where The Quebecers won back the tag belts they'd just lost to Marty Jannetty and The 1-2-3 Kid:
Notice all those low counts in the L column. Yep, the shows were 95% enhancement matches, although you may also notice that I count Brooklyn Brawler as being on the roster... Well, he kind of WAS, wasn't he? Debating in my mind whether or not to count Barry Horowitz here as well. And another thing... DOS DOINKS? AY-YI-YI! Yeah, the last matches with the original Doink, Matt Osborne, in the role were taped in late 1993 but aired in early 1994 after his release, by which point Ray Licameli (often credited as Ray Apollo) was in the role.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 28, 2021 2:26:31 GMT -5
All righty, we've had WrestleMania, so let's check in and see how things look at the end of Q1 1994... Again, at this point, this counts RAW, Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, PPVs, scattered TV specials (March To WrestleMania, which will become Sunday Night Slam in the middle of the year) and house show title changes, like The Quebecers and Men On A Mission trading them back and forth on a European tour:
By the way, for those curious, this is what's the women's rankings look like:
Slim pickings, right? Leilani Kai, Blayze's WrestleMania challenger, was only a one off so she'd be under the Legend/Alumni designation, while I can't get any info on Heidi Lee Morgan (Blayze's opponent in her second match scored) that tells me she was signed to the roster and not just a recurring jobber, so she's not listed here either. Hell, once you add Bull Nakano later in the year, there are literally only three women who will end up with a rank for 1994.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 4, 2021 9:28:23 GMT -5
At this point, it seems like the logical course of action for updating everybody on the standings here will be at the end of a PPV month. As such, we've now had King Of The Ring (the infamous Art Donovan one), so here are the standings:
Honourable shoutout to Duane Gill, Reno Riggins, Tony Devito, Derek Domino, Mike Bell, PJ Walker, John Paul and Barry Horowitz for reaching double figure enhancement losses in the first half of the year so far. For what it's worth, the Women's rankings were LITERALLY unchanged, so they weren't worth posting here, but Bull Nakano begins her brief WWF run soon, so that'll change for the SummerSlam update.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 11, 2021 10:12:33 GMT -5
Next post-PPV update with SummerSlam in the books, as well as a couple of months worth of RAW, Superstars and Wrestling Challenge:
While George South, Mike Maraldo, Rich Meyers, Corey Student, Austin Steele and The Black Phantom (a young Gangrel under a mask, apparently) have cracked the double-digit mark for enhancement losses, making that 14 for the year so far.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 29, 2021 5:27:04 GMT -5
So, at this point I'm going to have stop with 1994 just near the end of November as the uploads for Superstars have dried up on the Network and the details for the remaining episodes of 1994 are not detailed enough for me to score accurately, so I've scored up to after Survivor Series. This includes featured matches from Action Zone (started in October), which actually started their first couple of weeks with two title matches (Bret v Owen for the world title, Michaels/Diesel v Ramon/1-2-3 Kid for the tag titles) before going straight to midcard filler material.
This is how things look as this sidebar part of the project goes into temporary hiatus:
As it is... while I wait, I actually have started scoring 2004 televised matches and am into February for that, so... watch this space.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 19, 2021 3:43:48 GMT -5
As I wait for the last handful of episodes of 1994 Superstars to land on the Network, I've gone and scored the first quarter of the year 2004, the next actual year back that can be absorbed into the overall calculations of the project (other than the soon-to-conclude 2021, of course).
This means we're past the Rumble and past WrestleMania, both of whom ended with a man atop the ultimate sports entertainment pedestal, the grace from which he would make wrestling's greatest fall from in 2007. That's right, Chris Benoit is the World Heavyweight Champion. But we're also right smack-dab in the middle of the "Reign Of Terror", so that means that Triple H and Evolution (Randy Orton, Batista and Ric Flair, all of whom hold the other male belts on the brand) are lurking around, plotting and scheming. Maybe Triple H should be wrestling some wrestling matches, because as you'll see soon enough, he stumbled out of the blocks in a massive way in 2004.
And then there's Eddie Guerrero, in his one and only reign as the WWE Champion, atop a SmackDown brand that is teetering on collapse having just lost Brock Lesnar to his acrimonious departure after the shambolic WM20 match with the also-departed Goldberg, and Kurt Angle to another injury (although he'll still be on TV as the new General Manager). With Big Show soon about to take time off for knee surgery, this left the heel side of the roster rather barren. Wait a minute, what's this I hear about Bradshaw being really good at playing the stock market?
As such, here are the rankings as of March 2004:
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 25, 2022 6:20:09 GMT -5
I finished 1994. Well, as much as 1994 could be finished anyway. Someday someone will upload all of Mania and All-American Wrestling and I'll be able to scan through those for matches that haven't been scored, but, as things currently stand, all of the 1994 PPVs, RAW, Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, Action Zone, scattered specials (Sunday Night Slam) and scattered non-televised matches where titles changed hands are covered here.
You see a few big names lower than where you'd think they'd be, guys like Bret Hart, The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. Hart barely worked TV matches despite being the WWF Champion for most of 1994, with only nine matches on regular TV, only one of them against enhancement talent. Undertaker was out injured from Royal Rumble to SummerSlam, missing out on a huge chunk of points. And Michaels had a massive absence from the ring as well, with a nearly five-month break between matches after the ladder match at WrestleMania (even though he maintained a TV presence via the Heartbreak Hotel interview segment). Near everyone else? That's what enhancement matches can do for you, points and wins out the wazoo (Irwin R. Schyster the f***in' midcard monster, with only three losses out of 45 matches for the year... That's why you pay your taxes).
Speaking of enhancement talents, congratulations to Reno Riggins for being 1994's most frequent counter of lights, being on the receiving end of 27 televised squash losses!
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 5, 2022 6:25:03 GMT -5
All righty, time for a bump as I've reached the halfway point of 2004. JBL has just won the WWE Championship, Lita is up the duff because of Kane doing a sexual assault, and Eugenemania is running wild! In fact, the next RAW is the famous "musical chairs" episode, so that'll be a barrel of fun. You may have noticed the win/loss record of one Triple H... That's accurate. Only five wins so far this year, and other than him beating Shawn Michaels in an absolute wankfest of a Hell In A Cell at Bad Blood, they haven't been over big stars either. Spike Dudley and Tajiri are his only clean wins, plus DQ wins over Shelton Benjamin and William Regal. I thought this was the Reign Of Terror, isn't this the Reign Of Terror? And I get most of it is because he's still the main guy on the show even though Chris Benoit is the reigning (and very regularly defending) World Heavyweight Champion, but this thing isn't for scoring promo segments.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 15, 2022 4:04:51 GMT -5
Three-quarters of the way home now with 2004, having reached the end of September. Triple H has gotten the World Heavyweight Champion back, but still has a pissweak win/loss record and is down one man in Evolution, with Randy Orton having been kicked out after winning the gold from Chris Benoit. JBL is beginning the foundations for his Cabinet, as you realise how f***in' old Orlando Jordan looks without hair. And Kane now has a wife, but she's no longer pregnant, thanks to one Gene Snitsky. Three months left, including four PPVs, before another year is in the books.
(Yeah, I don't know how the f*** Mark Jindrak ended up with a win/loss record like that either. Dude was a B-show bully for sure)
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 22, 2022 7:57:11 GMT -5
Well, it's another year in the books. Every televised WWE match from the start of 2004 to the current day is now covered within the scope of this project.
The next thing, as always, is the tedious part of editing the master spreadsheets and connecting up the new data, but that can wait for a few days.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 7, 2022 4:53:07 GMT -5
Well, it was inevitable. I started work on 2003. It was started ages ago, and all this is now going to take a lot longer now I have an ACTUAL job in real life, but I have Q1 2003 in the books:
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 1, 2022 6:53:06 GMT -5
Halfway there for 2003:
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 14, 2022 5:18:23 GMT -5
F***. I motored through the next three months of this somehow. It must be like I'm trying to get it done before the end of the year or something. Anyway, here's the standings after Q3 2003:
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 2, 2022 6:27:26 GMT -5
2003 DONE, holy shit. That means that when 2022 finishes, there will be 20 FULL YEARS covered in this project.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 18, 2023 7:07:53 GMT -5
Well, I WAS making decent headway into the year 2002, until suddenly my Network subscription ended as a Peacock-esque deal with a local streaming service came into effect. Much like Peacock, the back catalogue isn't there in full at this time, so until 2002 shows are uploaded, the end of April will be as far as I go, so here's what I have. I think it's literally days after this that the name change happens.
I also have the dilemma of scoring Hardcore 24/7 matches. Now, you'd think I'd have done what I did with the 24/7 belt and score it that way. And I've tried to do that. Anyone who wins the belt at any point gets a point for doing so, even though the outside scrambles aren't counted as full matches, just as it was for that belt. However, the actual in-ring matches at this point don't have the protection of the 24/7 rule being inactive for the duration, thus I have several examples of a third party running in to get the pin in matches involving two other people, including at that year's WrestleMania. Thus my rule is this:
*The wrestlers that are there for the match when the bell rings get the match credited to their records and earn all subsequent match point gains or losses based on the result and appearance points *Anyone who runs in while the match is in progress doesn't get the match added to their record, but if they are involved in the first fall, the one that nominally ends the pre-existing match, they either gain or lose the appropriate number of points based on all the regular methods of calculation
To use the WrestleMania example: The official match is between the champion Maven and the challenger Goldust, the two being the wrestlers in the ring when the bell rings to start the match. As such, Maven and Goldust get the match added to their career records and earn the appearance points for appearing in a match on WrestleMania. Spike Dudley runs in while the match is in progress and pins Maven to win the match and get the belt. Dudley gets the points for winning the match, but it doesn't get added as a win on his win/loss record, nor does he earn the appearance points, while Maven and Goldust take the points penalty for losing the match, Maven moreso than Goldust since he was the one who got pinned, and have the loss on their career records. The subsequent scrambles throughout the night where the belt goes from Dudley to The Hurricane to Mighty Molly to Christian to Maven, aren't counted as matches, but the wrestlers get a point each for winning the belt in them.
Look, it makes sense to me. Anyway, here's the standings:
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 8, 2023 23:52:19 GMT -5
With the help of Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast and hbkid718 on Twitter, I've managed to scratch my way to the halfway point of 2002. The new Australian hosts of the archive still haven't got all of RAW or SmackDown on there yet. Anyway, here are the rankings at the end of June 2002:
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Post by ChitownKnight on Feb 9, 2023 3:11:21 GMT -5
Got a little bored in lockdown, big whoop, wanna fight about it? Anyway, this should be remarkably interesting. 2005 was a massive year for WWE, as they put their stocks into two rising stars that would go on to be the faces of the company for the remainder of the decade (one of them well into the next). It'll be interesting to watch the John Cena backlash happen in real time. Along the way, there are some notable events, including the arrival and departure of one of the most controversial talents in the history of the company, an unprecedented spill-over of real life circumstances changing the directions of several careers, a fair few forgotten oddities, some absolute classic bouts and one of wrestling history's most tragic deaths. Anyway, we begin in January, and we have no World Heavyweight Champion on RAW, although that is quickly rectified by... putting it back on the guy who had it a month earlier. Yep, it's the death rattles of the Triple H "Reign Of Terror", but not all is well in Evolution. Randy Orton is long gone, and Batista's got his own ambitions, which are handily boosted by his first Royal Rumble win (the one where Vince destroys both quads trying to book the finish on the fly). Recent injuries have seen some shuffling of the deck in the other RAW title divisions, with Trish Stratus regaining the Women's Championship after Lita blew out her knee. She will return to TV soon enough, but she won't compete again this year. That said, this does end up being one of the most pivotal years in Lita's whole career, but more on that in a few posts.. La Resistance (the Quebec version) are keeping the World Tag Team Championship warm briefly after winning them from William Regal in the absence of his partner Eugene (who also blew out his knee, and won't be back in action until mid-year), while Shelton Benjamin ploughs a lonely furrow in his first reign as the Intercontinental Champion. And Kane is still somehow feuding with Gene Snitsky, but it's not his fault. I promise I'll only make that reference once. Meanwhile on SmackDown, it's a great day for America ( ) as John Bradshaw Layfield is your WWE Champion, having been as such for the previous six months already. At this point in time JBL is tangled in a whole web of schemes, those of him and his Cabinet, Kurt Angle and his heavies Mark Jindrak and noted peas enthusiast Luther Reigns, and Big Show, also involving a couple of anonymous women who literally only exist for like another month after this. The United States Championship is spinning in the hands of that angry young stud John Cena, who will go on to finish runner-up in the Rumble. The Basham Brothers are enjoying a fleeting WWE Tag Team Championship reign after winning the belts off of Rey Mysterio and an injured Rob Van Dam, who was the third wrestler to blow out a knee this month and will ALSO not return to action this year. Funaki is somehow Cruiserweight Champion, and actually stringing together some wins for the first time since Yamaguchi-san was talking about choppy choppy the pee-pee. And in correspondence with his brother from a destructive mother, The Undertaker is also still fending off a limited hoss in poet laureate Heidenreich. You all know how it works, so here are the rankings after January 2005: Wait, who was the controversial talent that arrived and left in 2005?
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 9, 2023 4:00:50 GMT -5
Wait, who was the controversial talent that arrived and left in 2005? Muhammad Hassan. I mean, if you want to be technical, his first appearances were in 2004, but his first match wasn't until 2005.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 1, 2023 8:17:23 GMT -5
Still making my way through 2002, I'm now three-quarters of the way home.
Here are the rankings at the end of September 2002:
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 16, 2023 5:30:43 GMT -5
Well, I'm done with 2002 and technically I have now scored every single WWE televised match, at least every one they've had under that name. Anything to score from before the scope (2002 to the present day) puts the F back in. God help me if I go so far back that I need to add the extra W.
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