percymania
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Percymania will live forever! Oh yeah!
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Post by percymania on Dec 5, 2013 19:59:34 GMT -5
I've always thought this was one of the biggest myths in wrestling. I blame WWE for trying to write history on the Monday Night Wars DVD.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 6, 2013 8:09:08 GMT -5
It's incredibly stupid for one of WWE's criticisms of WCW to be that they never made their own guys when WWE existed entirely on the backs of the promoters that Vince crushed. In the 80s, he took talents like Piper and Hogan and even Warrior from the regional promotions and the AWA and made them his stars, into the 90s he took guys from ECW, and WCW too. Guys like Austin, Foley, Undertaker, Triple H, all these guys had cut their teeth elsewhere, and by the end of the 90s WCW guys were jumping to WWF to become stars, like the Radicalz. It's a f***ing stupid argument.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Dec 6, 2013 18:21:28 GMT -5
Does Booker count as a real star if absolutely nobody was watching WCW by the time he was main eventing? I think I'm kidding, but I'm not entirely sure...
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SOR
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Post by SOR on Dec 6, 2013 18:47:00 GMT -5
Does Booker count as a real star if absolutely nobody was watching WCW by the time he was main eventing? I think I'm kidding, but I'm not entirely sure... 4 time WCW World Heavyweight Champion by the time the company closed and had a slow build to the main event in 2000. He is a later years star.
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Post by jimmyjames on Dec 7, 2013 19:42:49 GMT -5
Does Booker count as a real star if absolutely nobody was watching WCW by the time he was main eventing? I think I'm kidding, but I'm not entirely sure... There's also his Harlem Heat days when they were one of the biggest if not the top tag team in WCW.
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thecrusherwi
El Dandy
the Financially Responsible Man
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Post by thecrusherwi on Dec 8, 2013 9:57:35 GMT -5
Does Booker count as a real star if absolutely nobody was watching WCW by the time he was main eventing? I think I'm kidding, but I'm not entirely sure... And the idea that "absolutely nobody was watching" is straight out of WWE revisionist history. Nitro"s ratings were about what Raw's are now until it's dying day. Even accounting for the growth in overall cable TV households, that's still, at the very least, about 80% of the number of people watching modern Raw who were watching the last year of Nitro. I know you were somewhat kidding, but I wouldn't be surprised if WWE tried to make this argument on a DVD someday.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 10:52:00 GMT -5
Home Grown talent in WCW that were treated as main eventers? "Stars" that they made? Sting was their constant, and since he was made in 1988 with the Flair matches, I'd say he counts. DDP as a wrestler, Goldberg obviously as the thread states, and then I guess Booker? I mean as a singles star, or would he and Scott Steiner both be unusual cases? Beyond that...I guess just Buff Bagwell since he was pushed heavily from day one (he was the "rookie of the year" of course) If you're going that far back, I want to put Sid Vicious on that list as well. Guy was in the frickin' Horsemen for crap sakes!
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