WWEedy
Don Corleone
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Post by WWEedy on Aug 27, 2015 14:07:52 GMT -5
Funilly enough as soon as I saw the thread title my mind went to Glacier, I'm not sure whether I was joking or if you're joking but...y'know what, I'm going to say no, this is serious business. Glacier.
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Post by CeilingFan on Aug 27, 2015 16:34:52 GMT -5
The Dangerous Alliance. Paul E is fired as announcer, brings Rude in as a hired gun, and the program ends with a killer Wargames match.
The period from October 1991 until May 1992 was one my favorites times watching WCW. It felt like the company was on the right track.
Then Bill Watts came in.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Aug 27, 2015 20:12:28 GMT -5
Funilly enough as soon as I saw the thread title my mind went to Glacier, I'm not sure whether I was joking or if you're joking but...y'know what, I'm going to say no, this is serious business. Glacier. Glacier wasn't a horrible idea, the costume was great but the guy playing it had all the looks and charisma of a gym teacher and the whole thing happened at a time the NWO was taking off. Had they used a real international talent to play the character it would have gone somewhere even if it was just as a solid midcard act, but you need a degree of charisma to play a silent badass fighter that Ray Loyd just lacked.
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lws
ALF
No. It's the children who are wrong.
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Post by lws on Aug 27, 2015 23:42:03 GMT -5
raven sitting in the crowd looking 2 cool 4 skool.
sting standing in the rafters looking 2 cool 4 skool.
nitro having occasional GIANT crowds which went CRAY RAY for goldberg, making him look 2 kool 4 skool.
mean gene and tony having a pleasant rapport. i really mean this one. i like the shifting back and forth so casually. you never quite felt the friendship when JR shot it back to coach or something like that, but tony and gene liked each other and respected each other. usually. and bobby hated them both but thats good, too, its emotion.
that said, i also liked their bigger commentary teams in general. i know 3 is also the standard on raw now, but wcw would more than occasionally dip into the idea of a 5 or 6 person team, and if its the right team, i think that actually works really well. of course, the wrong team can destroy it. but it could work if the nwo was being particularly funny or 2 kool 4 skool.
letting lower talent run wild with the microphone, allowing people like aforementioned raven, curt hennig, arn anderson, chris jericho, and sometimes even just random low-card cruiserweights get significant chance to shine on the microphone and be 2 kool 4 skool.
the big gold belt. i still think its the coolest world title ever. i guess nwa gets the credit for it overall, but...nah. wcw, too.
oh, and just as importantly...the nwo spraypainting "nWo" on the big gold belt, and on people's backs. thats one of my biggest nitro memories. the nwo spraypainting stuff. and then sting showing up with a baseball bat ready to be...
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Aug 29, 2015 2:05:25 GMT -5
Pretty much everything in the summer and fall of 1996. Even Hog Wild? Hog/Road Wild had no business being done more than once, but I do wish there were more risks taken like that. Nowadays, every show but Mania looks exactly the same, whereas Hog Wild was so radically different from every other setting in wrestling that it does have some worth.
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Aug 29, 2015 2:32:43 GMT -5
I would also go with presentation as a whole. WCW for the most part came off like a legitimate sports event with everything from Micheal Buffer announcing main events to the Goldberg streak being discussed around the water cooler at work. Sure they had some silliness, but it had a bit of everything for everyone.
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