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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Feb 16, 2013 0:24:54 GMT -5
I recall onetime seeing a post on here with old BBS archives of wrestling discussion from the late '80s / early '90s, and that was another goldmine.
The "Anabolic Warrior" was the ever-so-witty equivalent of "Roidback" back in the day.
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Post by The Varsity Club on Feb 16, 2013 1:34:09 GMT -5
ahh the good old days....even better were the wwe fans v wcw fans...
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Post by woowoowoox on Feb 16, 2013 2:01:00 GMT -5
Wow this is awesome.
I didn't get on the internet until late 2005 so it's cool to see everyone's reactions from back then. The IWC seems no different.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 2:49:31 GMT -5
Take it from me, you should never go back and read things you posted on message boards in the past.
I cringe so much whenever I feel the need to go back and look at my posts from the original Tom Rice CAWs Proboards site.
Early teens me was the worst.
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Post by TGM on Feb 16, 2013 5:47:27 GMT -5
Urgh, yeah I found some posts from when I was 16 on those Tom Rice boards.
My biggest complaint was that The Rock was holding back other more interesting wrestlers like Lance Storm.
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Post by Sparvid on Feb 16, 2013 7:25:57 GMT -5
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Post by ERON on Feb 16, 2013 10:29:43 GMT -5
That's why when I read threads talking about how great the Attitude Era was, I laugh. No era was without flaws and critics to tear it down. I read a lot of message boards and wrestling sites that seem like they hated almost everything. Now people talk about that time with glowing praise. Nostalgia makes everything awesome in hindsight. Also, the era of wrestling you grew up with or first became a fan of is the greatest and everything that comes after it sucks. Always. I disagree wholeheartedly with this. I started watching at the dawn of the New Generation era, which I thought was the best thing ever at the time. Then when I was older, the Monday Night Wars came along, which - even though I didn't like a lot of the over-the-top Attitude Era WWF stuff - I thought was even better overall than what I had grown up watching. Years later, I discovered Rock 'n' Wrestling WWF and Horsemen-era NWA through the magic of DVD and YouTube, and that has become my favorite era of all time. Meanwhile, I look back on the era I grew up with - New Generation WWF - pretty much as a joke.
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Post by mrjl on Feb 16, 2013 12:48:10 GMT -5
Yeah, to be fair, it was pretty f***ing justified back in the day. She was EVERYWHERE from 2000-03 and much like Vince, her voice became more and more obnoxious after every week. I remember getting super pissed off when she was named as the Smackdown GM. Much like Vickie Guerrero, she constantly was in a power position and never got any long term comeuppance. Although Steph turned out to be okay in the role, which I guess pissed everyone off that she was actually tolerable so they removed her within a few months. We can't have Stephanie around for anything long term unless she's going to piss the fans off. she never got any comeuppance because in her role as GM she was a babyface character. And she was GM from July 02 to October 03
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Post by Indiana Miz on Feb 16, 2013 13:24:16 GMT -5
forums.thesmartmarks.com/lofiversion/index.php?t13298.html"This was brought up prior to the WM match last year against SCSA. Who would turn heel and how. Some said The Rock could come back from filming with a Hollywood attitude and turn heel. I think they should run with this now. The reason it makes sense now is because of his "Get the F out' promo he did when Stone Cold jumped ship. Someone can do a worked shoot on him where they say that he made those comments then he takes off to Hollywood to be a star while they are working their butt off, etc."forums.thesmartmarks.com/lofiversion/index.php?t13923.html"I agree that Trish is the best allround women wrestler in the WWE at the moment as she can do a bit of everything.
SHe can hold her own when it comes to promo's, she looks good and she isnt that bad a wrestler.
The thing is, with no one really to feud with that can also wrestle (apart from Molly) her wrestling is only gonna get her so far. Plus the fact that the WWE make the womens matches rubbish by giving them so little time (when was the last time you saw a womens match longer than 4 or 5 minutes?)"
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Post by mizerable on Feb 16, 2013 13:48:51 GMT -5
she never got any comeuppance because in her role as GM she was a babyface character. And she was GM from July 02 to October 03 In that particular role, yes. But other times it didn't much matter. Sure she got "fired" as well as beaten by Triple H but in no time at all she was back. You're right about her being GM longer than I said, I don't know why I condensed everything to '03 in my mind. That tells you how okay I was with her character at the time, that I lost track of a year. The only disappointment was the axed storyline between her and Bischoff as lovers. Gee, I wonder why that didn't pan out?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 14:17:09 GMT -5
I find it funny that with 95% of complaints from 10 years ago, you can paste them word for word and just change the name of the wrestler to someone current and it'll fit just fine.
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Post by Abadebe on Feb 16, 2013 14:21:11 GMT -5
What's funny was back in the late 90s people complained about the Rock and Austin like they do/did for HHH more recently. Hogging the spotlight, repetitive boring promos, holding people back, same main event matches,glass ceiling etc. I was just about to say that. BTW, does anybody have threads from the Attitude Era? I'd love to see those. Just goes to show you can't please everybody. What I remember is in early 98 when the seeds for Austin/Mcmahon were being planted, there were a lot of people saying it would never work. The main argument was that Vince wasn't a wrestler and no one would buy him as a physical threat to Stone Cold, so there was no big match to build to. So while they could cut promos, they wouldn't lead anywhere. Also, aside from Kane, who was programmed with Taker, there weren't any credible heels to challenge Austin after Mania (this was before Foley turned heel and joined Vince). Quite a few people predicted that Austin's run would fail due to a lack of opponents.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 14:31:40 GMT -5
The average person who posts on message boards are usually in their 20's for the most part. So most people posting 10-15 years ago probably grew up on the Hogan/original Wrestlemania era and consider that to be when wrestling was at its best. Most people posting today probably grew up on the Austin/Rock/attitude era and consider that to be when wrestling was at its best.
In 10-15 years time when most of us are too old to still be posting about this stuff regularly the new guys that take over will probably be talking about how the current product of the day sucks and they miss the good old days of John Cena and Randy Orton. "And even the announcers suck these days! Remember the King/Cole team from 2008-2013? Man, those were the days."
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Post by donbot on Feb 16, 2013 18:15:58 GMT -5
I was just about to say that. BTW, does anybody have threads from the Attitude Era? I'd love to see those. Just goes to show you can't please everybody. What I remember is in early 98 when the seeds for Austin/Mcmahon were being planted, there were a lot of people saying it would never work. The main argument was that Vince wasn't a wrestler and no one would buy him as a physical threat to Stone Cold, so there was no big match to build to. So while they could cut promos, they wouldn't lead anywhere. Also, aside from Kane, who was programmed with Taker, there weren't any credible heels to challenge Austin after Mania (this was before Foley turned heel and joined Vince). Quite a few people predicted that Austin's run would fail due to a lack of opponents. Thats a fair argument. The roster was kinda lacking in the beginning of 1998 before it blossomed at the end of the year.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 18:31:05 GMT -5
I hope our old GameFAQs posts are currently burning in hell.
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Post by Free Hat on Feb 16, 2013 18:31:32 GMT -5
Also, the era of wrestling you grew up with or first became a fan of is the greatest and everything that comes after it sucks. Always. I disagree wholeheartedly with this. I started watching at the dawn of the New Generation era, which I thought was the best thing ever at the time. Then when I was older, the Monday Night Wars came along, which - even though I didn't like a lot of the over-the-top Attitude Era WWF stuff - I thought was even better overall than what I had grown up watching. Years later, I discovered Rock 'n' Wrestling WWF and Horsemen-era NWA through the magic of DVD and YouTube, and that has become my favorite era of all time. Meanwhile, I look back on the era I grew up with - New Generation WWF - pretty much as a joke. Pretty sure everybody who grew up with the New Gen era looks back on it that way, which is why the argument kinda falls apart. Sometimes bad is just bad, and no amount of nostalgia can fix that. While the current product is nowhere near that awful, I honestly would not be surprised if 10-15 years from now people look back on it in a similar light.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 16, 2013 18:39:37 GMT -5
This was around the time HHHate was at an all time high correct? Boy do I remember these days, The way people went on about him you'd think he was Hitler or Bin Laden
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Post by stealthamo on Feb 16, 2013 19:28:57 GMT -5
This was around the time HHHate was at an all time high correct? Boy do I remember these days, The way people went on about him you'd think he was Hitler or Bin Laden My guess is that that came a little bit after that, during the "Reign of Terror" in 2003. I can't say for sure though, since I didn't go on any message boards until the middle of '04.
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Post by percymania on Feb 16, 2013 19:56:43 GMT -5
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Post by mrjl on Feb 16, 2013 20:10:10 GMT -5
I have more of a problem with the comments on the year there, than the year
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