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Post by Trent Valentine on Sept 1, 2010 13:59:18 GMT -5
I rarely hear anyone speak of the year 1999. We all know it was a horrible year for WCW...but was it for WWF? In WWF...The year 1999 consisted of..but not limited to...
1. Meat(Complete with a boner)
2. Chaz..a kid from Jersey who just wanted to have fun and beat his woman.
3. Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his Dog Pepper, Boss Man dragging Show's dead Daddy through a Graveyard, The Kennel from Hell.
4. WWF Flopping big time by having the Higher Power be Vince McMahon..once again restarting Austin v.s McMahon. (Undertaker said in a interview once this was the lowest point of his Ministry phase, seeing as he was no longer leading his troops, plus it was just another way for the McMahons to have the glory.
5. Mae Young and Moolah Decide to wrestle again.
6. Jeff Jarrett becomes a misogynistic asshole.
7. The Good Housekeeping Match.
8. GTV...Starting off with Mark Henry taking a huge dump in the bathroom.
9. Mark Henry has sex with a transsexual.
10. P.M.S. Nuff Said.
11. Nicole Bass.
12. Vince McMahon...winner of the 1999 Royal Rumble.
13. The Kat...Womens Champion.
14. Howard Finkle as the NEW Ultimate Warrayah
15. Your 1999 King of the Ring winner....Billy Gunn.
I could list more..but my head hurts already. (Out of respect..I didn't list Owen Hart's death.) Thank god for the debut of Y2J. He actually helped even it out, plus HHH finally ascended to Main Event status.
Was 99 a horrible year?
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 1, 2010 14:28:21 GMT -5
Yes, it was one, if not THE most absurd trainwrecks of a year in WWE history.
But it was also smack dab in the middle of a huge boom period, so it manages to get away with it.
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Post by Ryushinku on Sept 1, 2010 14:32:19 GMT -5
Ratings-wise it was an absolute champion, but yeah, there's an awful lot of crap in there looking back at it now. I think there was a fair bit of coasting from the superior 1997-1998 in there and Russo-itis was at its absolute height (including over in WCW at the end of the year too).
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 1, 2010 14:33:01 GMT -5
1999 is saved for one of the greatest WWF debuts in history:
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Post by The Ichi on Sept 1, 2010 14:35:07 GMT -5
1999 is saved for one of the greatest WWF debuts in history: Make that two of the greatest. 1999 was kind of the peak of my fandom too, so I can admit I have a hard time trashing it no matter how bad it was in retrospect.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Sept 1, 2010 14:36:41 GMT -5
For the last time.... Mark Henry didn't have sex with a transsexual.... they just fooled around!
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Post by toonami4life on Sept 1, 2010 14:44:50 GMT -5
It wasn't until The Hardy Boyz, Edge and Christian, and The Dudley Boyz started having their series of matches together that you coud tune in for Raw for something instead of just Stone Cold and The Rock.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2010 14:48:02 GMT -5
YES YES AND YES.
Though the second half of that year was a bit better, I just hated the first part of the year. It seemed like monkeys were booking matches and gimmicks.
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 1, 2010 14:50:10 GMT -5
1999 is saved for one of the greatest WWF debuts in history: Make that two of the greatest. 1999 was kind of the peak of my fandom too, so I can admit I have a hard time trashing it no matter how bad it was in retrospect. That Jericho picture reminds me. I miss this stage.
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Post by luiscurse on Sept 1, 2010 15:17:52 GMT -5
1999 is saved for one of the greatest WWF debuts in history: Make that two of the greatest. 1999 was kind of the peak of my fandom too, so I can admit I have a hard time trashing it no matter how bad it was in retrospect. No love for Big Show? and no I think the year went along well with the time period.
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Post by AndyUK on Sept 1, 2010 15:31:58 GMT -5
I don't know if it deserves to be called a ''Wrestlecrappy year'' because it was full of memorable storylines and angles but I started watching the year again recently and was astounded at how bad some of it was. The WWF in 1998 is what happens when you've got a creative mind like Russo to talk to but not completely run everything. WWF in 1999 and WCW in 2000 are what happens when you let Russo off his leash.
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Post by Raging_Demons on Sept 1, 2010 15:43:48 GMT -5
Make that two of the greatest. 1999 was kind of the peak of my fandom too, so I can admit I have a hard time trashing it no matter how bad it was in retrospect. That Jericho picture reminds me. I miss this stage. Ah yes "The Time Tunnel" stage. I wonder where were the two guys that designed that stage. Are they still traveling in time lost throughout the ages?
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Post by johnnyk9 on Sept 1, 2010 21:50:10 GMT -5
Yes it was because HHH had his first of many annoying title reigns
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Post by Ryushinku on Sept 2, 2010 4:06:41 GMT -5
That Jericho picture reminds me. I miss this stage. Ah yes "The Time Tunnel" stage. I wonder where were the two guys that designed that stage. Are they still traveling in time lost throughout the ages? Oh, tremendous, I was going to say that was The Time Tunnel stage too! That series got shown on a re-run here in the UK in the late nineties and the SD! (and Heat, natch) set always reminded me of it.
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Post by Hugh Mungus on Sept 2, 2010 8:12:44 GMT -5
Yes it was because HHH had his first of many annoying title reigns At least at that time, Trips was VERY over with the crowd.
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