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Post by thetower52 on Aug 31, 2017 19:48:08 GMT -5
Watching old WCW Monday Nitro's. Jesus, it's really difficult to get through some of these, 1996 in particular. They allow no time for anything to sink in or let people breathe. Everything is ''GO!GO!GO!''. Even when the second hour of Nitro begins there's fireworks and music playing and there could be a match going on in the ring at the same time! WTF?! Not to mention the announcers just talking over everyone, even when wrestlers are cutting their promo and the damn camera angles switching every 2 f****** minutes. Yeesh. I'm in 1996 still and haven't gotten to nitro being two hours I'm scared
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 31, 2017 22:32:56 GMT -5
Watching old WCW Monday Nitro's. Jesus, it's really difficult to get through some of these, 1996 in particular. They allow no time for anything to sink in or let people breathe. Everything is ''GO!GO!GO!''. Even when the second hour of Nitro begins there's fireworks and music playing and there could be a match going on in the ring at the same time! WTF?! Not to mention the announcers just talking over everyone, even when wrestlers are cutting their promo and the damn camera angles switching every 2 f****** minutes. Yeesh. You don't wanna watch Raw now then, if they linger on a camera angle for longer than 3 seconds, I'd be amazed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 7:40:57 GMT -5
More fans need to watch those NWA WCW shows from the late 1980s so that they can bring this awesome chant back:
"Come on, *wrestler*, beat him up! Put a little power to it!" "Come on, *wrestler*, beat him up! Put a little power to it!" "Come on, *wrestler*, beat him up! Put a little power to it!"
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Sept 2, 2017 12:01:14 GMT -5
They're showing a segment from the Flair, Anderson, and Blanchard episode of Table for Three as interstitial programming on the live stream. They're discussing the Horsemen being inducted into the hall of fame. Apparently Tully Blanchard is the LBJ of pro wrestling, because his kids are there and they all have names beginning with "T". Jeff Jarrett is the same way with the kids he has with Jill. Dudes just love their own initials.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 4:40:59 GMT -5
WCCW continues to feature never-before-seen stuff like Kevin Von Erich wrestling... ...WITH BOOTS ON!
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Post by chronocross on Sept 3, 2017 11:29:26 GMT -5
I learned from Michael Cole that Eric Bischoff was the sole reason behind ECW being shut down, on the 6/9/2005 edition of Smackdown leading into ECW One Night Stand.
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Post by the2ndevil on Sept 7, 2017 8:20:24 GMT -5
WCCW continues to feature never-before-seen stuff like Kevin Von Erich wrestling... ...WITH BOOTS ON! *Horrified Gasp*
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Post by lildude8218 on Sept 8, 2017 15:03:07 GMT -5
The last episode of TNT features Jake Roberts making several dick jokes
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Sept 8, 2017 19:18:34 GMT -5
WCW President Ric Flair incentivized the Latino World Order to dissolve by offering them money, cars, and women. I can see how you can promise the first two, but the third doesn't seem like something you can guarantee, even if you are the Nature Boy. At least not legally.
He also refers to the injury that put Eddie Guerrero out of action as "a broken leg", which man, talk about an understatement!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2017 8:49:57 GMT -5
OK, why did they never use this face paint variation for Kamala for actual in-ring use? He looks 1,000x scarier and more bad-ass than the goofy face paint variations they put on him in his in-ring appearances...
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Sept 10, 2017 12:53:08 GMT -5
WCW President Ric Flair incentivized the Latino World Order to dissolve by offering them money, cars, and women. I can see how you can promise the first two, but the third doesn't seem like something you can guarantee, even if you are the Nature Boy. At least not legally. He also refers to the injury that put Eddie Guerrero out of action as "a broken leg", which man, talk about an understatement! Flair and LWO know in WCW first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
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Post by Gummydavidson on Sept 11, 2017 7:28:02 GMT -5
Viagra must of became a big thing in May 1998 because both WCW and WWF were making quite a few references about it. It had just been released and 99.9% of people involved in wrestling have the maturity level of a 12 year old at most.What was funny/sad especially in wcw was guys like Hogan,Nash,Piper and Savage thinking it was super edgy and clever to mention Viagra in every promo to 0 crowd reaction. Jerry Lawler was the worst for it surprise surprise.
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Post by thegame415 on Sept 12, 2017 15:35:18 GMT -5
Nitro 1/18/99
Ric Flair tells Hogan at Superbrawl he's going to face his ass.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Sept 12, 2017 16:02:12 GMT -5
Man...the more 1998 Raws I watch...the more I can not STAND Degeneration X. A bunch of 30 year old men acting like caricatures of shitty stupid 14 year olds. I genuinely can't understand the appeal, in retrospect.
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Post by Famous Rocking Chimes on Sept 13, 2017 13:42:31 GMT -5
Man...the more 1998 Raws I watch...the more I can not STAND Degeneration X. A bunch of 30 year old men acting like caricatures of shitty stupid 14 year olds. I genuinely can't understand the appeal, in retrospect. The 90s haven't really aged well overall. Reminds me of when you'd look at pictures of your mum and dad when they were younger and think "Wow the 80s had some horrible fashion choices" when back then it was probably the coolest thing going.
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Post by chronocross on Sept 13, 2017 15:52:53 GMT -5
I forgot WWE tried to book Floyd Mayweather as a babyface in the lead up to Wrestlemania 24.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Sept 13, 2017 17:16:13 GMT -5
OK, why did they never use this face paint variation for Kamala for actual in-ring use? He looks 1,000x scarier and more bad-ass than the goofy face paint variations they put on him in his in-ring appearances... He was still tinkering with the design for much of his first Memphis run - he almost never looked the same early on from match to match. Here's his debut match in the gimmick and while it shares a lot with the vignette look, it's a step down. I liked his later designs much better: (Also note he knows how to pin someone here)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 3:31:47 GMT -5
Remember when I said that everybody seemed to pass through Mid-South at one point in their career? I do mean everybody...
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Sept 20, 2017 20:02:58 GMT -5
Man, watching the first show during the awful Brawl for All tournament, and jesus, listening to JR and King trying to convince themselves that this is unique and interesting is something to hear.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 21:04:32 GMT -5
At Backlash 1999 (April) When Rock and Stone Cold bust the stage set, JR refers to it as "The Walls of Jericho falling down!" ...Jericho didn't actually leave WCW until July but he's said the deal was done for a while before that, so intentional foreshadowing? Highly doubt it. The Walls of Jericho falling down is a reference to the bible.
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