Sin Cara Tres
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Post by Sin Cara Tres on Oct 6, 2013 23:37:52 GMT -5
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CH Punk
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Post by CH Punk on Oct 6, 2013 23:48:58 GMT -5
So did WWE end up running the shows under their name, were they canned or did they happen as intended?
Also, that's a fantastic find.
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Post by percymania on Oct 6, 2013 23:49:32 GMT -5
That was a great show. 800 thousand people where there. Booker T successfully defended the WCW Title against Triple H. It's a shame WWE has chosen to never acknowledge it.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Oct 6, 2013 23:53:45 GMT -5
That was a great show. 800 thousand people where there. Booker T successfully defended the WCW Title against Triple H. It's a shame WWE has chosen to never acknowledge it. Also, wasn't this the show where Big Show did the moonsault and Kane came out in green attire?
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Post by hassanchop on Oct 6, 2013 23:54:08 GMT -5
What else happened?
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Sin Cara Tres
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Post by Sin Cara Tres on Oct 6, 2013 23:56:59 GMT -5
So did WWE end up running the shows under their name, were they canned or did they happen as intended? Also, that's a fantastic find. Looks like they were canned completely.
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Post by celticjobber on Oct 6, 2013 23:58:08 GMT -5
Supposedly WWE was going to give Nitro the Monday night timeslot and replace RAW. With Smackdown becoming the WWF's flagship show (at the time it was on broadcast TV and had a bigger audience than RAW).
But the negative crowd reaction to Booker T. vs. Buff on RAW in Tacoma, changed Vince McMahon's mind about it. And he killed the WCW re-launch because of that.
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Post by thetower52 on Oct 7, 2013 0:00:56 GMT -5
Supposedly WWE was going to give Nitro the Monday night timeslot and replace RAW. With Smackdown becoming the WWF's flagship show (at the time it was on broadcast TV and had a bigger audience than RAW). But the negative crowd reaction to Booker T. vs. Buff on RAW in Tacoma, changed Vince McMahon's mind about it. And he killed the WCW re-launch because of that. So the first wwe show I ever went to more or less killed wrestling awesome
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Post by Error on Oct 7, 2013 0:08:12 GMT -5
Supposedly WWE was going to give Nitro the Monday night timeslot and replace RAW. With Smackdown becoming the WWF's flagship show (at the time it was on broadcast TV and had a bigger audience than RAW). But the negative crowd reaction to Booker T. vs. Buff on RAW in Tacoma, changed Vince McMahon's mind about it. And he killed the WCW re-launch because of that. I think that killed them doing live events. It was no network being willing to touch a WCW brand show with how badly they had tanked that killed the brand dead. As for the video, something seems off about it, probably how the end uses all the classic WCW branding instead of the newer stuff or WWE stuff.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Oct 7, 2013 0:18:21 GMT -5
Well, WWE did use the classic WCW logo after the buyout. From March 2001 to about late May (or whenever Hugh Morrus debuted), they used the original logo. Ticketmaster and others were promoting these shows as "Shane McMahon Presents WCW" and this fits the timeframe the shows were going to run before Vince McMahon had his ready-made Buff Bagwell freakout and killed the promotion over the course of a night terror in Tacoma.
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Post by JTG Fan on Oct 7, 2013 0:36:11 GMT -5
Would have been 10000x better than anything we got during the InVasion/pre-Brand Split era.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2013 0:41:24 GMT -5
THANKS BAGWELL
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Post by Paco on Oct 7, 2013 0:54:50 GMT -5
Rumor was WCW Saturday Nitro...
The time slot eventually went to WWF Excess (later replaced by Velocity & Confidential)
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Post by DIIV on Oct 7, 2013 1:09:19 GMT -5
Crazy to think one single match killed what could've been such an amazing angle.
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Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Oct 7, 2013 1:21:42 GMT -5
I laughed out loud at this freeze frame. Dirty old man, wife looks annoyed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2013 7:05:53 GMT -5
Well, WWE did use the classic WCW logo after the buyout. From March 2001 to about late May (or whenever Hugh Morrus debuted), they used the original logo. Ticketmaster and others were promoting these shows as "Shane McMahon Presents WCW" and this fits the timeframe the shows were going to run before Vince McMahon had his ready-made Buff Bagwell freakout and killed the promotion over the course of a night terror in Tacoma. If Vince cancelled the WCW plans that night in Tacoma then why on earth did he run a WCW branded cruiserweight match the next night at the Smackdown taping?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2013 8:28:09 GMT -5
The idea that Vince Mcmahon is so impulsive that he cancelled all WCW plans after one match is ridiculous.
They probably just realized with the lack of talent coming over from WCW, it didn't make any sense. Also what would the network(Spike TV) say about WWE just randomly changing the name of their top rated show? What would the advertisers say?
WWE was really hot at the time and made more sense to just stay on course than to completely reshuffle everything with a brand that sunk into the toilet.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Oct 7, 2013 8:36:17 GMT -5
That was a great show. 800 thousand people where there. Booker T successfully defended the WCW Title against Triple H. It's a shame WWE has chosen to never acknowledge it. Also, wasn't this the show where Big Show did the moonsault and Kane came out in green attire? And Yokozuna came back from the dead and joined the Hart Foundation.
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Post by ICBM on Oct 7, 2013 11:54:19 GMT -5
IIRC, the exclusivity clause with Viacom or whoever, killed tv negotiations for a new show. That and the underwhelming reaction to wcw branded matches like Bagwell v Booker T did taint perspective
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Post by CMWaters on Oct 7, 2013 12:05:25 GMT -5
Why did the announcer say "the" before "WCW" all the time.
That's as annoying to me as people saying "the" before "WWE".
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