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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jul 3, 2014 13:29:30 GMT -5
So I'm watching the 1991 Great American Bash on the WWE Network. Before the Sting-Nikita Koloff Russian Chain Match, we see a pre-taped video package showing what lead up to the match. One of the incidents is Sting greeting a little Stinger who won a contest and after the young fan is sitting in his front row seat, Nikita clotheslines Sting with a chain wrapped around his arm and we see the little Stinger's horrified reaction. At Wrestle War '91 Doom got into it after losing the WCW World Tag Team Titles to The Fabulous Freebirds. After the match Dusty Rhodes and Jim Ross interview a young fan who won a contest to attend Wrestle War. Ross asks him who is favorite tag team and the kid answers Doom (if this seems familiar, it's because I made a post about this particular incident during the winter, here's the incident in question www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswpiuXQJHA). It just seems like WCW had a thing for traumatizing their contest/sweepstakes winners. Punishing people who enjoy their product was a long and glorious tradition. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 3, 2014 14:13:15 GMT -5
WWF/WWE has had some lame contests as well. Anyone remember the 1997 Summerslam when they had a million dollar give away? A few fans won the chance to play for $1 million. There was only like 3 fans or so and the way the game worked is that they had 100 keys to pick from and only could pick 1 key. If they picked the right key to a lock it would open and the person would get $1 million. Of course no one won. In all fairness to the WWF I remember the winning number was something simple like 3, which isn't the weirdest number to pick. I remember during the game though someone picked number 54 or something and I was just thinking, "WTF there is no way it's going to be a number that random."
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Post by TGM on Jul 3, 2014 15:41:25 GMT -5
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Post by Professor Chaos on Jul 3, 2014 17:25:55 GMT -5
WWF/WWE has had some lame contests as well. Anyone remember the 1997 Summerslam when they had a million dollar give away? A few fans won the chance to play for $1 million. There was only like 3 fans or so and the way the game worked is that they had 100 keys to pick from and only could pick 1 key. If they picked the right key to a lock it would open and the person would get $1 million. Of course no one won. In all fairness to the WWF I remember the winning number was something simple like 3, which isn't the weirdest number to pick. I remember during the game though someone picked number 54 or something and I was just thinking, "WTF there is no way it's going to be a number that random." If someone actually had won WWF might have went bankrupt at that time. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2014 17:27:38 GMT -5
I would have loved to win the house from the In Your House contest.
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Post by Hawk Hart on Jul 4, 2014 17:36:39 GMT -5
Greatest WWF contest winner of all time {Spoiler}{Spoiler} Has this been restored in the Network version? I bought the PPV live and the DVD but ended up forgetting about that segment until I saw it on YouTube last year. So f***ing funny in such a weird way. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jul 4, 2014 21:11:16 GMT -5
I would have loved to win the house from the In Your House contest. If memory serves, you really wouldn't have. The winner ended up getting tagged with some massive taxes and I think had to ditch it. |
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Post by Chuckie Finster on Jul 4, 2014 22:54:32 GMT -5
WWF/WWE has had some lame contests as well. Anyone remember the 1997 Summerslam when they had a million dollar give away? A few fans won the chance to play for $1 million. There was only like 3 fans or so and the way the game worked is that they had 100 keys to pick from and only could pick 1 key. If they picked the right key to a lock it would open and the person would get $1 million. Of course no one won. In all fairness to the WWF I remember the winning number was something simple like 3, which isn't the weirdest number to pick. I remember during the game though someone picked number 54 or something and I was just thinking, "WTF there is no way it's going to be a number that random." If someone actually had won WWF might have went bankrupt at that time. Probably not. Companies take out insurance policies in case someone wins a contest with very long odds. |
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Post by TGM on Jul 5, 2014 3:54:22 GMT -5
Greatest WWF contest winner of all time {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Has this been restored in the Network version? I bought the PPV live and the DVD but ended up forgetting about that segment until I saw it on YouTube last year. So f***ing funny in such a weird way. No idea, I screen capped these from my Wrestlemania 17 dvd. |
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jul 5, 2014 7:11:15 GMT -5
Pretty sure the little Stinger that one that contest was a plant. The contest was for who was the best Sting look-a-like and the kid had the exact same face paint that Sting was wearing that night. This is a man that never seemed to wear the same paint twice at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2014 7:21:36 GMT -5
The Wrestling Classic's win a Silver Cloud III Rolls Royce contest was silly in retrospect. There were two winners, whomever won the tournament and a lucky fan.
-Junkyard Dog won the tournament.
-Some old woman who was alive in an era when automobiles didn't even exist. I think the Rodney Dangerfield line from Caddyshack fits here: "Hey baby, you must have really been something before electricity."
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Post by Dave the Dave on Jul 5, 2014 9:00:02 GMT -5
I want to know what that lady did with the Macho Man monster truck from Halloween Havoc 96
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