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Post by flowercity on Apr 10, 2016 21:22:24 GMT -5
Meltzer always says this is his favorite year in WWF/E history. I was only seven at the time so I have no detailed recollection as I was mostly watching tapes my older brother had.
Where do I start? What should I watch?
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Post by MAD TITAN on Apr 10, 2016 22:20:46 GMT -5
Well... you should start with watching the first show of the year.
SmackDown from that year isn't complete yet so I would wait till they put all of them up. SmackDown was just as good as Raw that year because the storylines would carry over.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 10, 2016 22:55:09 GMT -5
If you don't start with the Dec 31 2000 show, you'll really miss out, bro.
What kind of question are you asking??? It's really weird. One of those questions that's so easy, it's actually hard.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 10, 2016 23:35:43 GMT -5
Get in the pit and try to love someone.
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Post by auph10imitated on Apr 11, 2016 5:39:59 GMT -5
2000 was an awesome year. Its worth just watching the entire lot from start to finish. I think ironically Wrestlemania may be the weakest show of the year.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 11, 2016 6:07:46 GMT -5
2000 was an awesome year. Its worth just watching the entire lot from start to finish. I think ironically Wrestlemania may be the weakest show of the year. Yeah, generally speaking, I'd say Backlash is a much better show, and certainly a better WWF title match. |
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Apr 11, 2016 8:38:44 GMT -5
Yeah, you really should start with the January 3rd 2000 Raw since {Spoiler}that's when Triple H wins the title and the McMahon-Helmsley Regime really begins. |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 11, 2016 10:23:48 GMT -5
Yeah start with the first show of the year with the Rumble build. It's a really, really great year. Sometimes I watch stuff that happened on the day it happened, as opposed to watching episode in order or just randomly picking a ppv. Since Sunday's of 2016 fall on what was a Monday in 2000 I've watched a few of those Raws. I had forgotten how completely awesome they were.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 11, 2016 14:24:21 GMT -5
Wrestlemania and King of the Ring are the only subpar pay-per-view events.
But yeah, start from the tip-top of the mip-mop.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Apr 11, 2016 16:21:10 GMT -5
Also bear in mind that 2000 is still deep in the Crash TV Attitude Era so you'll be lucky to get a TV match that goes ten minutes.
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Post by auph10imitated on Apr 12, 2016 4:45:14 GMT -5
I think the weakest part of the year is between Judgement Day and King of the Ring, it the McMahon-Helmsley stuff was beginning to get stale, It was getting dragged out by this point, but they pulled it back with a great KOTR and the follow up gave fresh new matches headed into Fully Loaded and that too was a great PPV
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Apr 12, 2016 6:31:10 GMT -5
Meltzer always says this is his favorite year in WWF/E history. No kidding? Wow, Meltzer and I agree on something for once. |
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Apr 12, 2016 6:35:54 GMT -5
I just started this as well, being the first year I'm planning on starting RAW's from the beginning of the year and going sequentially with PPVS where they should be as well as Smackdown where they're available.
Kind of an experiment as a precursor to see if I'd be able to start from the beginning at the first Raw(just don't have a lot of time having just started a new job and being the only one in the house that likes wrestling.)
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Post by Nickybojelais on Apr 14, 2016 21:50:42 GMT -5
Wrestlemania and King of the Ring are the only subpar pay-per-view events. But yeah, start from the tip-top of the mip-mop. King of the Ring is definitely bad, but I actually think Wrestlemania 16's worst crime is that it just doesn't feel like a Wrestlemania. Maybe if the same show happened at an Unforgiven or No Mercy, it would be regarded more favourably. |
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Post by lebuddha on May 2, 2016 7:31:08 GMT -5
If you just start watching from January 2000, you will lose some context.
I think its better to start in late 1999.
Either when Austin got ran over by the car in Survivor Series '99 or when the McMahon-Helmsley era started and they made The Rock fight Mankind in a pinkslip-on-a-pole match in December 99
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Post by auph10imitated on May 3, 2016 10:03:11 GMT -5
Wrestlemania and King of the Ring are the only subpar pay-per-view events. But yeah, start from the tip-top of the mip-mop. King of the Ring is definitely bad, but I actually think Wrestlemania 16's worst crime is that it just doesn't feel like a Wrestlemania. Maybe if the same show happened at an Unforgiven or No Mercy, it would be regarded more favourably. Yeah, it did feel really plain. Coupled with the fact there was alot of throwaway stuff on there as well. Given that it really is one of the best years of all time and wrestling was red hot, it could have been much much grander |
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Post by bigalbass86 AKA Smokin Vokoun on May 22, 2016 11:59:43 GMT -5
What I'm gonna do is start at the 1999 Survivor Series and go all the way to Wrestlemaina X-7, which is probably the best way to go about it.
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Post by Racksman on May 22, 2016 12:39:24 GMT -5
I'm currently in Novemeber 2000. I started all the way back with the first RAW of 1997, and it's been a really cool nostalgia trip. There's a lot of things I didn't even remember. There are some points in 2000, I must warn, that do tend to get a little bit boring, at least on TV. But the PPV's except for the aforementioned WrestleMania and KOTR almost always deliver.
...It's kind of like 2016.
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