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Post by Hypnosis on May 1, 2022 17:08:17 GMT -5
No overly-bright lighting and CGI graphics like today's WWE. The arenas were slightly darker, but the shows still looked professionally-made. Just the right balance.
Raw had a chaotic feel every week, when we never knew what would happen next.
Most of the roster was given something to do, whether it was good or bad.
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Post by thegame415 on May 3, 2022 9:30:36 GMT -5
Not caring about workrate and star matches and just enjoying the show and characters.
When you watched Raw in this era, it felt like a show about wrestlers, not a wrestling show. We knew who these stars were, and we invested in them every week.
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Post by malloc on May 3, 2022 17:24:09 GMT -5
It lasted from my late teens to my early 20s and I think of the era as encompassing all wrestling so....Ivory, the "hand prints", Madusa's red white and blue gear and outfits, computer games,Foley, Angle, there was still proper tag wrestling if you knew where to look, ECW violence, Goldberg, Sting, the cruiser weights, The music being more rock and metal based.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on May 3, 2022 17:39:57 GMT -5
Seeing Steve Blackman destroy bitches during his run in the hardcore division....always made me mark out when he'd bust out the canes.
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Post by "Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat on May 3, 2022 21:42:05 GMT -5
I liked how many people could main event a show. You obviously had Stone Cold, Vince McMahon, Mankind, Kane and Undertaker as your main event scene in 98, but you could easily have any combo of DX vs The Nation, or Vader step up and still feel important.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on May 3, 2022 21:51:23 GMT -5
There was a trust that someone could get ever in 1-2 months. They knew that guys like Crash Holly wouldn't be over in the first few weeks because the crowd didn't know him. But they gave it time. As fast paced as the shows were, they tried to give guys time to find their thing.
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