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Post by sarkerpolseng on Nov 6, 2023 4:03:15 GMT -5
I am watching this for the first time ever. I remember watching the Raw after this show, and the video montages made it seem like the most epic show ever. I do think it is an awesome event. 1996 was a stale year for the WWF, but this show took place from MSG and had a completely different feel to it. A LOT of things happened in this.
- Red Hot/Smart MSG Crowd
- Debuting Furnas and LaFon as the sole
survivors of their team by beating the
champions (Bulldog and Owen).
- Undertaker returns with new look
- Rock debuts in Survivor Series match.
- Sunny commentates said match very well.
- Bret Hart returns and puts on a classic
with Austin.
- Farooq debuts the Nation of Domination,
Flash Funk debuts, and Jimmy Snuka
returns all in the same match. (Match
sucked)
- MSG cheers on Sid as he beats HBK for the
title.
- 6 match card with nice alternating Survior Series Match, Single Match format.
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Post by CeilingFan on Nov 6, 2023 9:26:32 GMT -5
In my opinion it was the best WWF pay per view of 1996!
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tafkaga
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Post by tafkaga on Nov 6, 2023 9:51:02 GMT -5
I have a soft place in my heart for 1996 WWF. WCW was where all the big stories were at in wrestling, but you could feel the shift starting in mid-late '96 and WWF really getting interesting again.
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Post by msc on Nov 6, 2023 10:36:59 GMT -5
It's been twenty seven years. I've become an adult, worked, got married, become a dad, and I'm still pissed off a survivor match ended in a non contest!
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Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 6, 2023 10:40:16 GMT -5
It took another year or so to fully get there, but you saw some important groundwork for what was coming. y
Shawn/Sid was better that it should have been and it's probably Sid's best singles match ever
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Nov 6, 2023 19:56:47 GMT -5
1996 had a lot of dull PPV's. But by the fall, especially after Mind Games with ECW and Fake Razor and Diesel, the product felt grittier.
Survivor Series 1996 made the WWF feel a whole lot more different than the beginning of the year. You slowly felt the attitude era type fans packing the building and it showed when Sid won the strap and they went NUTS.
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Post by jason1980s on Nov 6, 2023 22:55:28 GMT -5
This event reminded me so much of the 1991 Survivor Series. First, the Free For All match which consisted of all the low card guys on the card (like Duggan/Mustafa's teams) and they were mostly gimmick type guys on all teams.
They also had a four team match like 1991 and also a match that ended no contest due to brawling-very similar to Flair being the survivor in 1991.
I feel like this event really helped catapult Austin even if he lost. He had worked with world champions in WCW (Flair/Savage) but being paired with Bret really put it in my head he was a main event guy.
I was taking a little break from WWF at the time versus WCW so didn't get this PPV but I was so glad when Coliseum or WWF was liquidating their VHS tapes for $19.99 and I got to see this.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 6, 2023 23:56:01 GMT -5
The main event crowd is a literal Battle Of The Sexes. The girls are screaming for Shawn and damn near every guy is pulling for Sid. And Sid is constantly playing it up and not even bothering to be much of a heel (“Who’s the man?!?”) When he beats HBK for the title, there’s a hard camera shot of this dejected woman and one dude sitting by her who’s just too hyped.
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Post by bogussting on Nov 7, 2023 0:43:52 GMT -5
1996 is a somewhat underrated year for the WWF. It especially starts cooking in the fall/winter with NOD, bitter Jim Ross, Livewire and Austin's feuds with Pillman and Bret.
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msc
Dennis Stamp
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Post by msc on Nov 7, 2023 5:47:56 GMT -5
The main event crowd is a literal Battle Of The Sexes. The girls are screaming for Shawn and damn near every guy is pulling for Sid. And Sid is constantly playing it up and not even bothering to be much of a heel (“Who’s the man?!?”) When he beats HBK for the title, there’s a hard camera shot of this dejected woman and one dude sitting by her who’s just too hyped. At the Rumble: Commentary: Sid is literally the devil. Sid: who's the man? *Fistbumps the crowd |
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Nov 8, 2023 12:05:38 GMT -5
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Nov 8, 2023 13:38:30 GMT -5
He called him Sweatsock! I repeat, Zane called Jose Lothario Sweatsock! |
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Post by thegame415 on Nov 8, 2023 15:48:58 GMT -5
Easily the best show of 1996. IMO, the precursor to what would be come the norm for crowds a few years later.
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Unicron
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Post by tirtefaa on Nov 8, 2023 23:11:13 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a good show. When it comes to guys like Bret and Shawn, I always enjoyed them immensely more when they worked bigger guys like Sid, Diesel and Undertaker, as opposed to working each other. This was one of my all time favorite Shawn matches, much like Bret and Diesel was one of my favorites from the year prior.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Nov 9, 2023 7:35:58 GMT -5
 My parents took me to this show second row when I was like...9. What a memory. I still have the chair - it was the first time I ever heard a crowd "hijack" a show when Sid was getting cheered over HBK. It was wild. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 9, 2023 8:14:53 GMT -5
It is so surreal seeing Austin in the Stone Cold mode, but all springy on his bumps and working technical spots. He called him Sweatsock! I repeat, Zane called Jose Lothario Sweatsock! ...did we do that? Was that us?? |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Nov 9, 2023 11:14:23 GMT -5
HBK’s best sell that night was pretending to care about Jose Lothario.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Nov 10, 2023 10:24:53 GMT -5
He called him Sweatsock! I repeat, Zane called Jose Lothario Sweatsock! I've been on this forum for nearly two decades, and the Sweatsock Lothario thread is STILL my favorite thing that has ever happened here. |
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Nov 10, 2023 14:20:17 GMT -5
He called him Sweatsock! I repeat, Zane called Jose Lothario Sweatsock! I've been on this forum for nearly two decades, and the Sweatsock Lothario thread is STILL my favorite thing that has ever happened here. And here it is for those who are interested in taking a trip down memory lane. Some of the replies still make me laugh til it hurts. Fricken' Sweatsock... |
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Nov 10, 2023 14:46:34 GMT -5
It is so surreal seeing Austin in the Stone Cold mode, but all springy on his bumps and working technical spots. He called him Sweatsock! I repeat, Zane called Jose Lothario Sweatsock! ...did we do that? Was that us?? lmao yeah that is a FAN/Wrestlecrap original babeyyy |
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