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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Feb 14, 2022 7:31:34 GMT -5
Having mostly given up on watching WWE since 2011 after the Punk stuff became about Nash and HHH (holy shit more than ten years now!), and having had times when I wasn't looking at much wrestling stuff online or podcasts either, it still feels like something out of someone's TEW game to me that Kurt Angle came back as GM and stuff after that. It's not that it's so surprising he'd eventually come back, but that period feels so alien to me.
For first couple months of 2002 I wasn't keeping up with what was happening for some reason and I've no idea why now, maybe the TV channel stopped showing WWF briefly, and was shocked to later find out that Mr Perfect had returned in that brief period and it had completely passed me by.
Going back further, in the early-mid 90s I mainly only had access to late 80s and early 90s WWF tapes and some random wrestling books and stuff, and some early 90s WCW on TV, before being able to watch WWF regularly from 1996 onwards. When I later had more access to more information, my mind was blown to find out people like Lex Luger and the Steiner Brothers had come to WWF during my "dark" years, and that people like Jim Duggan and Macho Man had gone to WCW.
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Nosnorb
El Dandy
Nachos and Fraggle Rock are TIMELESS.
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Post by Nosnorb on Feb 14, 2022 10:20:38 GMT -5
After stopping watching or following WWE in early 2019 due to several reasons (Ambrose Heel Turn, Saudi Blood Money, Pissing away the potential of Braun), there was Elias, who had turned face in 2018, turning heel the following year against Jeff Jarrett.
The thought of anyone feuding with Slapnuts and being the one turning heel is just surreal.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Feb 14, 2022 11:04:32 GMT -5
Another period for me not following WWE was 2003-2007, and when I later heard of the "Shawn Michaels and God" tag-team against the McMahons I thought was some sort of online joke or something until I saw it really listed as the match on Wikipedia. Was also weird to realise the likes of ECW having been brought back in 2005, that HBK vs Hogan had happened, and that Rey won the Rumble and World title.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Feb 15, 2022 13:03:04 GMT -5
After stopping watching or following WWE in early 2019 due to several reasons (Ambrose Heel Turn, Saudi Blood Money, Pissing away the potential of Braun), there was Elias, who had turned face in 2018, turning heel the following year against Jeff Jarrett. The thought of anyone feuding with Slapnuts and being the one turning heel is just surreal. I just had one of those moments reading your post lol. I had no idea any of these things happened. I checked out on WWE sometime in 2018. Never knew Elias was a face, never knew he feuded with Jarrett. Being that Elias and Jarrett were involved I assume I missed absolutely nothing entertaining or of importance. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 15, 2022 13:14:57 GMT -5
I wasn't watching from Jan 02 to Aug 06, so first of all a Summerslam featuring Flair vs. Foley plus Sabu vs. Show for the ECW belt melted my brain
Then I went back and saw a bunch of stuff from the intervening years and it still feels to me like an alternate timeline
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BRV
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Wants him some Taco Flavored Kisses.
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Post by BRV on Feb 15, 2022 13:44:35 GMT -5
I stopped watching from early 2002 through early 2006 and I missed some of the dirt worst angles in company history. Stuff like Katie Vick, HLA, Al Wilson, Billy and Chuck's wedding, Kane/Lita/Snitsky, these are angles that I can't believe got out of the writers' room, let alone onto TV screens. Meanwhile, WWE was working overtime to improve the in-ring product with the SmackDown Six, the championship reigns of Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit, the dominance of Brock Lesnar, and the rise of John Cena and Batista.
It was just an absolutely baffling time for the company and, for better or worse, I missed all of it.
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Post by government mule on Feb 15, 2022 14:38:38 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan & Edge as tag team champions?!
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tafkaga
Samurai Cop
the Dogfather
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Post by tafkaga on Feb 15, 2022 14:38:54 GMT -5
Seeing Bob Backlund and Hulk Hogan team up in early '84 kinda blew my mind, because I didn't realize they overlapped.
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Post by nickcave on Feb 15, 2022 17:41:43 GMT -5
I mean I was watching when it happened but Tatanka having another run in the mid-00s feels like a fever dream lol
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Feb 15, 2022 18:07:40 GMT -5
I mean I was watching when it happened but Tatanka having another run in the mid-00s feels like a fever dream lol And also his second attempt at a heel turn and how it crashed and burned again to nobody’s shock. |
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 15, 2022 18:10:49 GMT -5
I wasn't watching much WWE in mid 2015, and whenever I read about the Women's Revolution stuff I was consistently baffled, because it felt like there was some context to the teams or feuds that I missed, and it certainly wasn't just women randomly plucked from NXt and paired together.
It was surreal to later find out that was precisely what happened.
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Post by Hypnosis on Feb 15, 2022 19:42:40 GMT -5
I mean I was watching when it happened but Tatanka having another run in the mid-00s feels like a fever dream lol Not only that, but another heel turn that flopped like the one he had in his first WWF run. |
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
Better have my money when I come-a collect!
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Post by chazraps on Feb 15, 2022 19:44:09 GMT -5
I wasn't watching in 2006, so the US Title scene is surreal to me.
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Post by eudypfohl on Feb 15, 2022 22:16:17 GMT -5
The Quebecers/Amazing French Canadians making a very brief comeback to the WWF right around 98 or 99. Strangely they didn't put them back in their old Mounties like gear. I remember they were very rarely used...just basically filler when they needed it. Shame as I always enjoyed their work. I only remember them in one RAW match where they were announced while already in the ring (didn't even show their entrance which really tells you where they fell on the totem poll at that time)
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Post by ianriccaboni on Feb 15, 2022 22:31:59 GMT -5
Bad News Brown implying Elizabeth and Jack Tunney had a thing in 1988.
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Post by eudypfohl on Feb 15, 2022 22:46:57 GMT -5
Bad News Brown implying Elizabeth and Jack Tunney had a thing in 1988. Ha! Interesting. Is there youtube of this? |
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Post by Cyno on Feb 15, 2022 22:55:58 GMT -5
That weird period of time where it looked like TNA was going to merge with Jeff Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling until it didn't felt like a weird fever dream.
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cjh
Hank Scorpio
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Post by cjh on Feb 15, 2022 23:03:14 GMT -5
Bad News Brown implying Elizabeth and Jack Tunney had a thing in 1988. Ha! Interesting. Is there youtube of this? |
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Post by genericusername on Feb 15, 2022 23:16:21 GMT -5
I stopped watching in late 2001/early 2002, then came back in 2009, everything that happened in-between seemed weird to me.
-Kurt angle being bald
- Kane unmasking
-NWO, the WWE version
-speaking of, the switch from WWF to WWE, and the reason for it
-Katie Vick, though I'll m glad I wasn't there for it
- the brand split
- WWE reviving ECW
- Jeff Hardy and Edge being WWE world champions
- the whole Edge/Lita/Matt Hardy debacle
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Feb 15, 2022 23:24:51 GMT -5
That weird period of time where it looked like TNA was going to merge with Jeff Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling until it didn't felt like a weird fever dream. It was so weird. I went to one of their two house shows and ran into Cameron Grimes during the intermission. He was eating a hot dog in just khakis and sneakers. |
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