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Post by corndog on Jan 6, 2012 1:46:00 GMT -5
In the last few years alot of big stars from the 80s and 90s have been using the internet and books as an outlet to trash talk fellow employees during their wrestling career. This came to mind with the Nash/Warrior twitter fued and also after watching a YouTube video where Piper calls out his friends and contemperaries Hogan,Warrior, Hart and Flair. I have noticed alot of the top stars from the WWF in the 80s, and 90s have alot of bad things to say about each other. While the top NWA stars of the 80s seem to have alot of respect for each other. Race, Flair, Piper, Steamboat, Magnum TA and Dusty don't seem to crap on each other at all. Most of those guys are pretty respectful overall, but Flair in the last few years has bad mouthed half of the business, although he never has anything but good things to say about everyone of these guys. Sure the occasional jobber/mid-carder cry about Flair, but other than that there seemed to be alot of respect in that locker room. Not so much in the WWF. Does everyone agree? Is there a reason for this? Did Harley Race threaten to beat everyone up if they didn't get along?
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Post by 2CSultan on Jan 7, 2012 10:01:54 GMT -5
In the last few years alot of big stars from the 80s and 90s have been using the internet and books as an outlet to trash talk fellow employees during their wrestling career. This came to mind with the Nash/Warrior twitter fued and also after watching a YouTube video where Piper calls out his friends and contemperaries Hogan,Warrior, Hart and Flair. I have noticed alot of the top stars from the WWF in the 80s, and 90s have alot of bad things to say about each other. While the top NWA stars of the 80s seem to have alot of respect for each other. Race, Flair, Piper, Steamboat, Magnum TA and Dusty don't seem to crap on each other at all. Most of those guys are pretty respectful overall, but Flair in the last few years has bad mouthed half of the business, although he never has anything but good things to say about everyone of these guys. Sure the occasional jobber/mid-carder cry about Flair, but other than that there seemed to be alot of respect in that locker room. Not so much in the WWF. Does everyone agree? Is there a reason for this? Did Harley Race threaten to beat everyone up if they didn't get along? Those guys all made a ton of money together and had a lot of autonomy over their characters. They were able to develop promos on their own and get each other over. They all took turns running with the ball and never tried to bury eachother. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2012 10:12:45 GMT -5
I've also heard that Vince himself likes to stir things up backstage to make the wrestlers more competitive. I've never heard any stories of Jim Crockett doing this.
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Post by dlg3000 on Jan 7, 2012 11:15:55 GMT -5
I've also heard that Vince himself likes to stir things up backstage to make the wrestlers more competitive. I've never heard any stories of Jim Crockett doing this. I can't say about Jim Crockett, but if it is true about Vince, isn't it kind of cruel and manipulative to do that to your employees? I am not anti-WWE at all. I watch it every week and they have some good wrestler and I think that Vince is a smart man. But it seems rather cruel to stir things up like that or to pit one man against one another. I heard that he did that to Bret Hart and HBK by the way and they already did not like each other. True? |
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Post by ICBM on Jan 7, 2012 14:55:22 GMT -5
If Vince did so it was to drive competition between them for a better on screen product. BTW, Flair buried Jimmy Crockett, Dusty, Ole, Paul Bosch about things they did during the NWA 80's. I am recalling his autobiography underwritten by WWE as my source.
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