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Post by 543Y2J on Nov 2, 2013 19:59:51 GMT -5
I wonder if we could get a little list together of the most crude and violent things that happened in the final full year that all programming of WWE wasn't PG, before they started going in the completely new direction. Just thought it might be interesting to compare it to today 6 years later.
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Post by Sparkybob on Nov 2, 2013 20:01:04 GMT -5
The Great Khali was the world champion.
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Post by The Beast Disincarnate on Nov 2, 2013 20:03:44 GMT -5
Horswoggle getting beaten down by his own father and other people. Good times.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Nov 2, 2013 20:03:59 GMT -5
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Cena bled quite a bit during his matches with Umaga.
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Post by thegame415 on Nov 2, 2013 20:14:35 GMT -5
Well, I hate to do it, but....
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Post by Injustice45 on Nov 2, 2013 20:20:04 GMT -5
The cage match b/w Batista and The Undertaker on SmackDown for the World Heavyweight Championship. Taker's bleeding, and the match ends on a draw. Mark Henry comes out and kicks his ass. Then, Edge comes out and cashes in the Money in the Bank on the Deadman to win the title. That was a pretty bad night for The Undertaker.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Nov 2, 2013 20:20:47 GMT -5
The steel steps piledriver Michaels did on Cena.
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Nov 3, 2013 1:04:16 GMT -5
Orton punting spree: Shawn Michaels, RVD, Dusty Rhodes, John Cena, John Cena's dad
Also Cena choked Umaga with the top rope for like 20-30 seconds to win a match.
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Post by mizerable on Nov 3, 2013 1:24:46 GMT -5
Well, I hate to do it, but.... I always found it amusing that after the details came out, they changed the picture of Benoit to reflect a more sinisterness. Can't a murder/homicide perpetrator be seen smiling!
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Post by thegame415 on Nov 3, 2013 1:27:20 GMT -5
Also, IMO, WWE wasn't too crude or "attitude" like post WM. I think the rest of the year was very similar to WWE now.
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Post by JTG Fan on Nov 3, 2013 1:59:27 GMT -5
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Post by JCBaggee on Nov 3, 2013 2:35:14 GMT -5
Well, I hate to do it, but.... I've only just put this together, but was the move to PG a response to the Benoit incident?
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Post by 543Y2J on Nov 3, 2013 7:17:00 GMT -5
I will add a lot of the Rated RKO Raw beatdowns to this list. Bleeding, conchairto's etc all done to Flair (among other roster members) at that time.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2013 7:30:37 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2013 7:44:03 GMT -5
The last thing that felt like TV-14 to me was Maria doing Playboy during the TV-14 era.
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Post by Juice on Nov 3, 2013 8:14:27 GMT -5
Also, IMO, WWE wasn't too crude or "attitude" like post WM. I think the rest of the year was very similar to WWE now. Exactly, yet some people like to sensationalize Benoit for being more than it really was. THose murders were not at all game changing beyond the fact that all sports now monitor concussions better. And Benoit isn't the only concuss athlete yo go nuts. It got cable news media attention because it was a hot story and once they realized that Marc Mero and other pros that were carnying for spotlight weren't ratings grabbers they moved on to the next hot topic. And Benoit was forgotten about. In fact Chris Nowinski was already pushing that concussion stuff before it all went. down. But for some reason people like make the incident out to be this huge game changing moment when it really wasn't at all. The product was exactly the same as it is now, but you could still bleed a little on tv. Mattell and the senate run are 100% the reason it's pg now and really, go back and pay attention besides some scattered blood and an occasional "sonofa bitch" line. products exactly the same.
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Post by craigdanbeaton on Nov 3, 2013 8:17:31 GMT -5
Didn't JBL hanging Chris Jericho happen in 07? If so then that.
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Post by Germansuplex on Nov 3, 2013 10:58:51 GMT -5
Didn't JBL hanging Chris Jericho happen in 07? If so then that. I think that may even have been in early 2008.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Nov 3, 2013 11:39:40 GMT -5
Well, I hate to do it, but.... I've only just put this together, but was the move to PG a response to the Benoit incident? I believe it was more in response to Linda's Senate runs. Benoit affected more of the actual in-ring action, I think.
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Post by Gummydavidson on Nov 3, 2013 13:21:10 GMT -5
Triple H did a very brutal beatdown to Umaga in September 2007.
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