andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 16, 2015 18:14:57 GMT -5
They actually build the turn of Scott Steiner really well. And just because everyone knew it was coming they didn't try to swerve the fans like WWE would do these days
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Post by El Hijo del Havoc on Sept 16, 2015 18:37:25 GMT -5
Had forgot about that Meltzer reference on Nitro That newspaper article where he called Flair the best wrestler ever?
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Post by andrew8798 on Sept 16, 2015 18:41:23 GMT -5
Yep
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Post by domrep on Sept 17, 2015 13:25:16 GMT -5
Was WWF so bad in 1996 that Bischoff could get away with putting a Duggan vs. VK Wallstreet match for 7 minutes and still win the ratings war for that night?
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Sept 17, 2015 13:32:55 GMT -5
Was WWF so bad in 1996 that Bischoff could get away with putting a Duggan vs. VK Wallstreet match for 7 minutes and still win the ratings war for that night? Yes because TL Hopper vs Freddie Joe Floyd was probably happening over on Raw.
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Post by hbkid718 on Sept 17, 2015 15:35:54 GMT -5
Actually both times that Jim Duggan wrestled Mr. Wallstreet it was in the 1st hour of Nitro before Raw moved to 8 in November. For more, click here
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Post by domrep on Sept 18, 2015 8:42:22 GMT -5
Actually both times that Jim Duggan wrestled Mr. Wallstreet it was in the 1st hour of Nitro before Raw moved to 8 in November. For more, click hereMakes sense, but I guess my bigger point is they could throw in a Mike Enos match vs. RAW and still come out ahead. Crazy. Also 2nd question, was there a no blood rule in effect for WCW? WCW had arguably the edgier product, they had PPVs like Uncensored and they had War Games, but no blood. They didn't even curse, it was kinda like they towed the line between edgy and PG.
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Post by hbkid718 on Sept 18, 2015 12:35:57 GMT -5
True. You're right. I haven't noticed any blood or cursing. Everyone says that they want to kick people's butts instead of ass. I guess things didn't become "Adult" until 1998.
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Post by domrep on Sept 18, 2015 12:49:34 GMT -5
Savage and Flair say ass a couple of times, and Bischoff acts like they just dropped the f bomb.
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Post by Shark on Sept 18, 2015 16:57:19 GMT -5
I think there was a rule for blood. Glacier's first Nitro match, or one of his early ones, his opponents got busted open and the match was only shown from the hard camera and it was zoomed all the way out. A Benoit-Regal match had something similar happen too.
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Post by lws on Sept 18, 2015 17:04:01 GMT -5
there was a general no blood rule until december 95. then bret bled in a ppv main event against bulldog and claimed it was a legit cut (probably wasn't). but anyway immediately after, flair bladed at starrcade so wcw could keep up with the now sometimes cool and bloody wwf. and then gradually it become more acceptable throughout 96. you probably still wouldn't ever see it on raw or nitro, but maybe a few ppvs starting around then.
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Post by El Hijo del Havoc on Sept 18, 2015 18:52:10 GMT -5
True. You're right. I haven't noticed any blood or cursing. Everyone says that they want to kick people's butts instead of ass. I guess things didn't become "Adult" until 1998. I'd argue 1999 was the 'adult period'. Unless smoking cigarettes to the ring and getting drunk during a match counts as Adult. The blood ban was really stupid though. I remember the Flair/Hogan cage match in 1999 where both were bleeding and the rest of the match became 80% of faraway shots of the ring (Although certainly not the worst problem of that match)
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Post by lws on Sept 18, 2015 23:03:32 GMT -5
that particular hogan/flair cage match was a first blood match where flair big time was bleeding first, but was supposed to win. the angle was that charles robinson was a crooked referee trying to help flair win, but the announce team only seemed to half understand that, and i wouldn't be surprised if the production team at the time had NO idea what was happening and were just trying to cover shit up. maybe the blood was an issue, but like you said, certainly not the worst.
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Post by hbkid718 on Sept 18, 2015 23:30:07 GMT -5
I just watched the 4/28/97 Nitro and Flair said ass twice. He said he wanted to kick the nWo's ass and said something about Syxx not getting any ass. The other "bad" word that everyone said was Bite Me. Bischoff, Nash, & Syxx all said it to JJ Dillon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 18:49:01 GMT -5
Actually both times that Jim Duggan wrestled Mr. Wallstreet it was in the 1st hour of Nitro before Raw moved to 8 in November. For more, click hereMakes sense, but I guess my bigger point is they could throw in a Mike Enos match vs. RAW and still come out ahead. Crazy. A year later, Raw could get away with a random Val Venis vs. Steve Blackman match and it more than doubled the rating of a Nitro tag match with four huge names. When you're hot, you don't worry. When you're not, you panic.
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 27, 2015 10:43:30 GMT -5
I cant find the January 1997 eps.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 27, 2015 10:52:22 GMT -5
I can't wait for 2000 just becase I want to relive the randomness of Billy Kidman being one of the rare people to beat Hogan
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Post by lws on Sept 27, 2015 20:09:33 GMT -5
it seems random when you think about it, but considering they actually feuded for like three months, its not that weird
its just those months were the low point of wcw so no one notices or cares that it was a logical(lack of a better word), long feud
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