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Post by Starshine on Mar 11, 2024 18:22:12 GMT -5
Anything involving Owen Hart and Over The Edge 99. WWE spend the last 2 decade gaslighting their audience into thinking that Martha Hart was in the wrong for her not wanting to work with the company or have anything to do with them. Also the fact they sued Martha for breach of contract on Owen's behalf is up there with the most scummy things they've ever done.
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Gunhaver
Bubba Ho-Tep
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Post by Gunhaver on Mar 11, 2024 19:36:40 GMT -5
Don't forget it was done on a day Nitro was pre-empted for other sports, so they crowed about DX visiting an arena they were never getting access to and getting massive ratings against a show that was broadcast in a truncated form at midnight. They ran multiple such DX skits but they don't mention those because it's harder to spin them as important, because they weren't. The bit with the jet is where everyone involved realized they were clowns.
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Post by fortknox on Mar 11, 2024 21:11:06 GMT -5
I do 100% agree with the notion that they are “performing” on those DVD’s. It’s pretty obvious which guys in WWE at the time they were cranking those out were students of the game and who were just guys wanting to be on TV, and you could totally tell through what they said on there if they were coached or not. I remember on Confidential, which would air mini 10 min docs in the same style, they had a big piece about how Road Warrior Animal coming back to wrestle a tag match against Kane/RVD in 2003 was a nice wholesome moment, of him beating his addiction and finishing his career on top. In reality, it was a tryout match and he was yelled at backstage for no selling BOTH Kane/RVD's finishers and still dealt with addiction after that match (which was confirmed by Bruce Prichard on STW). Like, I get not wanting to paint someone negatively who is dealing with addiction, and not wanting to make your own company look bad, but it was just a straight lie. It was Hawk not Animal that did the no selling after the match.
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on Mar 11, 2024 21:17:14 GMT -5
I remember on Confidential, which would air mini 10 min docs in the same style, they had a big piece about how Road Warrior Animal coming back to wrestle a tag match against Kane/RVD in 2003 was a nice wholesome moment, of him beating his addiction and finishing his career on top. In reality, it was a tryout match and he was yelled at backstage for no selling BOTH Kane/RVD's finishers and still dealt with addiction after that match (which was confirmed by Bruce Prichard on STW). Like, I get not wanting to paint someone negatively who is dealing with addiction, and not wanting to make your own company look bad, but it was just a straight lie. It was Hawk not Animal that did the no selling after the match. Bah, typo. my bad
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Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by XIII on Mar 15, 2024 4:12:04 GMT -5
WWE/F inventing the slick production of wrestling with rock songs, lighting, and different camera angles.
1) World Class was already doing it 2) NBC produced and edited the early Saturday Nights Main Events to meet their standards and the WWE followed that lead.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Mar 15, 2024 6:24:43 GMT -5
Most of Triple H's biggest pops too were people chanting along to D-X. And that isn't to downplay Triple H's place in history, since he does have a place...but no one was going to school or work and talking about him. In truth, he was putting on a lot of good work, but most people simply weren't buying a ticket for him. To add on, in my perception as an elementary school kid who wasn't watching wrestling yet, X-Pac was the face of DX, not Triple H. Triple H got the higher-ranked title, but that feels almost entirely like it was an artifact of the mentality that the biggest star had to be the heavyweight instead of the cruiserweight. Yeah, same in my school. X-Pac, then the New Age Outlaws, and then Triple H. We didn't really take him seriously until his feud with Cactus.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Mar 15, 2024 6:31:10 GMT -5
The “working relationship” with ECW. They pretty much just helped themselves to whatever they wanted from ECW and put Heyman on payroll to get the tape library., Jim Ross confirmed that he cut ECW's parent company a check every week starting in 1996 when he was in charge of payroll. WWE also loaned ECW $500,000 in 2000 to put on the Heat Wave PPV that year. Interesting, I had no idea about them having to borrow money for Heatwave.
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