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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 25, 2017 4:01:03 GMT -5
Mick foley hasn't changed clothes in 3 episodes of raw and smackdown I just assumed that already.
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 25, 2017 4:24:12 GMT -5
I had forgotten how long the save the hos thing lasted. Sane with the cat vs Terri fued.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 25, 2017 5:06:19 GMT -5
I'm almost done 99 and I can see why I have so few memories other than Tag team ladder match,Austin getting run over,HHH & Steph.The shows are a mess I'm hoping when 2000 comes it gets instantly awesome like I remember.Stephanie is vastly improved after turning heel. Hope so, I remember it being literally Steph turn+HHH beats Big Show for the belt then the best creative streak I've seen. That's reportedly because the new head writer, Chris Kreski, used storyboarding as part of his writing process, thus he was able to keep track of the relationship continuity between the wrestlers better than any other writer before or since. Naturally, he was mocked for doing so.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 13:59:20 GMT -5
Man, the go-home Nitro to Souled Out 2000 is a pretty textbook example of how to kill a heel. Jeff Jarrett loses three times, in three consecutive matches, to washed up old guys. Almost literally since Snuka gave him a concussion bad enough to take him out of the event in the year 2000 when the attitude to them was "walk it off then get out there". And didn't Benoit also get a pretty bad concussion doing a run-in head butt off the top of a cage in the same match?
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 27, 2017 2:34:19 GMT -5
I had completely forgotten that Undertaker vs Kane happened at summerslam 2000 Edit: Huh this is also where Kane debuts his tank top look. No explanation or mention of it all
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 27, 2017 4:08:03 GMT -5
Apparently they had Chyna comfort HHH about steph and kurt possibly seeing each other....jeez
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Feb 27, 2017 4:08:57 GMT -5
Almost literally since Snuka gave him a concussion bad enough to take him out of the event in the year 2000 when the attitude to them was "walk it off then get out there". And didn't Benoit also get a pretty bad concussion doing a run-in head butt off the top of a cage in the same match? Benoit did the headbutt off the cage, but I don't remember him getting a concussion, and he was cleared to wrestle at the Souled Out show. It was Jarrett and Bret that were sidelined for that show.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 13:15:26 GMT -5
And didn't Benoit also get a pretty bad concussion doing a run-in head butt off the top of a cage in the same match? Benoit did the headbutt off the cage, but I don't remember him getting a concussion, and he was cleared to wrestle at the Souled Out show. It was Jarrett and Bret that were sidelined for that show. And that's where the Death of WCW book brought up how 4 matches were lost, Bret had a match scrapped and Benoit-Jarrett were supposed to have 3.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 13:34:24 GMT -5
And didn't Benoit also get a pretty bad concussion doing a run-in head butt off the top of a cage in the same match? Benoit did the headbutt off the cage, but I don't remember him getting a concussion, and he was cleared to wrestle at the Souled Out show. It was Jarrett and Bret that were sidelined for that show. That's correct I just remembered guys were getting concussed a ton during that period but it was Bret & Jeff not the guy crazy person that did a top of the cage head butt in a match he wasn't even in.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Feb 27, 2017 13:57:33 GMT -5
The one thing I find amazing about WCW 2000 is all the shit Russo was up to in the lead up to Souled Out but putting the belt on Tank Abbott was the final straw.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Feb 27, 2017 15:13:54 GMT -5
Watching an early 2000 Nitro and man, lemme tell ya, NOTHING kills whatever "aura" the KISS Demon had more than him whining to security about having his gear stolen.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 21:53:46 GMT -5
I forgot how early they started the Steph/Kurt Angle stuff.In December 99 she turns heel with HHH and then next week she's got a crush on Kurt.Then on the 1st Raw of 2000 HHH says he's got 2 goals for tonight #1 win the wwf title #2 Put an end to Angle's undefeated streak.
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 28, 2017 2:13:49 GMT -5
So foley is accusing HHH of calling the cops on himself ITs almost like someone texts themselves
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 28, 2017 3:07:18 GMT -5
I forgot how early they started the Steph/Kurt Angle stuff.In December 99 she turns heel with HHH and then next week she's got a crush on Kurt.Then on the 1st Raw of 2000 HHH says he's got 2 goals for tonight #1 win the wwf title #2 Put an end to Angle's undefeated streak. Reminds me of when Triple H eventually concludes that if Kurt ISN'T trying to bone Steph, he may in fact be gay, and makes some reference to flowers Steph received from Kurt. "Nice flowers, must've come from pansies" or something like that. Later, Kurt kisses Steph and lays out Triple H, telling him that he can ask his wife if he kisses like a pansy. I do not know why I remember this much of it like 17 years later, but I'm sure I'm screwing some of the lines up.
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 28, 2017 3:29:27 GMT -5
f***ing kane is doing Commentary in the main event of raw 11/4/00 Which is just weird as Shit. In fact this whole f***ing episode is absurd.
I never knew they had kane do commentary this early in to the Kane gimmike
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 2, 2017 3:14:31 GMT -5
Benoit did the headbutt off the cage, but I don't remember him getting a concussion, and he was cleared to wrestle at the Souled Out show. It was Jarrett and Bret that were sidelined for that show. That's correct I just remembered guys were getting concussed a ton during that period but it was Bret & Jeff not the guy crazy person that did a top of the cage head butt in a match he wasn't even in. You might be thinking of Kanyon.
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Post by TGM on Mar 2, 2017 17:47:47 GMT -5
Kurt Angle had "never had a beer" until the APA shared one with him after he confronted Stone Cold on the post-Invasion RAW.
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Post by thegame415 on Mar 3, 2017 13:02:28 GMT -5
How did Godfather win the IC title? Big Boss Man was supposed to challenge Goldust on the 4/12/99 Raw, but he traded his title shot for a night with Godfather's ho's.
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Post by thegame415 on Mar 3, 2017 13:08:00 GMT -5
I forgot how early they started the Steph/Kurt Angle stuff.In December 99 she turns heel with HHH and then next week she's got a crush on Kurt.Then on the 1st Raw of 2000 HHH says he's got 2 goals for tonight #1 win the wwf title #2 Put an end to Angle's undefeated streak. Reminds me of when Triple H eventually concludes that if Kurt ISN'T trying to bone Steph, he may in fact be gay, and makes some reference to flowers Steph received from Kurt. "Nice flowers, must've come from pansies" or something like that. Later, Kurt kisses Steph and lays out Triple H, telling him that he can ask his wife if he kisses like a pansy. I do not know why I remember this much of it like 17 years later, but I'm sure I'm screwing some of the lines up. I really think the ending to the storyline drove away a huge demographic. The women, 30-45, who liked Days of Our Lives, Friends, and Jerry Springer (yes, it was a weird time). The same audience I would say watches The Real Housewives and Love and Hip Hop shows. That audiences watched because it was like a soap opera. There were weddings, love triangles, pregnancies, miscarriages. Test in 1999 was basically a soap opera star. If we are writing the show like a soap opera, Steph leaves Triple H for Kurt. It's funny, because the same bastard who we hated for getting Steph months earlier is now showing a new side, and this dorky goody two shoes who should get his ass kicked gets the girl. It's just great storytelling. They didn't follow through, and many fans left.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Mar 3, 2017 14:15:08 GMT -5
Man, Uncensored 2000 sucks, even by the dire standards set by Uncensored events past.
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