ookkie
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Post by ookkie on Sept 4, 2013 19:02:17 GMT -5
As you've already mentioned, the "Running up that hill" promo is stellar. Every time someone brings it up in a thread like this, I can go back, watch it again, and get goosebumps about the programme that the two guys put together. Simply fantastic - storytelling set to music.
I'll always have a fondness, however, for the "Fight" promo from Summerslam 2002, as it was one of their best cards ever (in my opinion) and the music truly underscored the idea of feuds being settled at the event.
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Post by ookkie on Sept 4, 2013 19:16:45 GMT -5
...hmmm... question about the Michaels vs Undertaker feud (Career vs. Streak) - was Michaels supposed to be eliminated by Batista in the Rumble at that point? Or was he supposed to last longer but accidentally went to the floor? It looks like Batista is trying to frantically hold him on the apron before he falls. Have we ever heard a follow-up to that? If it was impromptu, they handled it quite well...
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Post by JTH on Sept 4, 2013 19:29:16 GMT -5
"Good Friends, Better Enemies"
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Post by CrazySting on Sept 4, 2013 19:29:44 GMT -5
This gets extra credit for making the Triple H/John Laurinaitis nonsense look gripping and dramatic..
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Post by 543Y2J on Sept 4, 2013 19:36:23 GMT -5
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Post by "American Nightmare" B.B. Bart on Sept 4, 2013 19:45:16 GMT -5
The video for CM Punk vs. John Cena from Money in the Bank 2011 is another great promo package. I particularly like the bit where it shows either Vince or Cena as various words aligning with what Punk was saying about them flashes by on-screen.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Sept 4, 2013 20:12:59 GMT -5
The video for CM Punk vs. John Cena from Money in the Bank 2011 is another great promo package. I particularly like the bit where it shows either Vince or Cena as various words aligning with what Punk was saying about them flashes by on-screen. I hated when they edited out the 'Sell-outs like Dwayne' flashes.
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Post by Capt. Internet Darling on Sept 4, 2013 20:22:48 GMT -5
Also not a feud but the Eddie Guerrero Tribute set to Hurt by Johnny Cash from Raw is Eddie was also excellent. I came in this thread to ask if the WWE have ever used Hurt in a video. I was listening to it the other day and I thought it would be good for the video package for Taker's final match.
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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Sept 4, 2013 21:02:44 GMT -5
I always think back to Undertaker/HBK's video package from 2010 where they had "Running up That hill" and how amazing it seemed to me. These two guys who I had been watching since aged 9 going up against eachother once again. The build had HBK going in as this underdog and you knew what would happen if he lost and had a good idea of the result but the video package really pumped me up for the feud. Exactly what I was thinking upon reading the thread title and nothing else comes close.
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Post by WorkingInAColeMine on Sept 4, 2013 21:04:50 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2013 23:26:16 GMT -5
Yes it is gonna be the obvious anwser.
But Rock Vs Austn WM 17 is as close to completely flawless as a promo the WWE has ever produced has come...and nothing has come close to touching it , thats not to say there haven't been other epic ones but that promo to that song and all the little soundbytes from JR and Heyman blend so perfectly and just fit with how on their A game the WWE was at that time.
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Post by khyledeen on Sept 5, 2013 14:18:57 GMT -5
Rock/Austin WrestleMania X-7 cannot be beat, that whole promo is just incredible, so good!
Winner Takes All, Team WWE vs The Alliance package w/ Puddle Of Mudd's Control, I was so pumped for that match! (I was 9) I cried when The Alliance lost, I thought I'd never see SCSA again lol, I loved that whole feud, very nostalgic for me.
Austin/Angle - WWE Unforgiven 2001, another beautiful video package
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Post by The Baltimore Staircase on Sept 5, 2013 15:24:55 GMT -5
Batista vs Undertaker for their match at Cyber Sunday is amazing. Really reminds you how good they were together. When you think about it, their rivalry was really, really well done. Even going from them both being injured, to both returning and having their paths cross again.
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Post by Brother Nero....Wolfe on Sept 5, 2013 15:27:51 GMT -5
I'm glad someone brought this up. This is actually the video package that made me a wrestling fan. ...Well, I liked it before but I only watched it on a more or less random basis. Then around mania season, with the Ryder revolution kicking in and the viral corners of the internet making me interested, I began watching feuds and having no idea what was going on. That video came up and I was like "I'm in love with this. I'm sold on everything they are trying to do and I want to see how this ends. Is this how wrestling always is?" (Answer: No, it's not. But goddamn it I still love that video)
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