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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 1:40:33 GMT -5
They should have these on the WWE Network. When I was really young my parents didn't have cable, the only channels that we had were 7 (cbs) and 10 (nbc). I found out that late at night on Saturday on I think channel 7 they had WWF Shotgun Saturday Night. I don't remember any matches in particular but it was awesome. Then in the late teen years they started having Smackdown late on Saturday night.
Anyone else have a similar experience. Do you remember any special moments on the show?
I know from I think the WWE Attitude Era they had a match with Undertaker vs HHH where HHH gets tombstoned on an escalator? Not sure but what are some of the best matches that took place on the show?
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Post by auph10imitated on Apr 15, 2016 7:11:53 GMT -5
Marlena going topless and flashing The Sultan Flying Nunns Terry Funk vs Steve Austin
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 7:18:40 GMT -5
HHH taking a tombstone on an escalator.
In what seemed to be Grand Central Station in NYC.
.......really.
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Post by CH Punk on Apr 15, 2016 7:38:44 GMT -5
HHH taking a tombstone on an escalator. In what seemed to be Grand Central Station in NYC. .......really. It was at Penn Station, but the best part was that the show opened with a train pulling in and revealing that the conductor was The Undertaker. Shotgun Saturday Night also gave us random homeless Nikolai Volkoff, Sunny's sex tape with Elmo and the tease that Goldust was pregnant and was going to give birth on the show (they scrapped that idea and the week he was supposed to give birth, he was in a match). In the end, either WWE couldn't find more club venues to run the show (which was supposed to be competition for ECW) or gave up on the concept of the edgy late night show and, within a few months, the show turned into just another b-show that was taped before Raw.
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Post by chronocross on Apr 15, 2016 8:27:43 GMT -5
The night before Royal Rumble where Terry Funk called out Austin, but not before ranting on the mic and calling Todd Pettengill's mother a whore.
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Post by auph10imitated on Apr 15, 2016 9:21:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2016 16:38:16 GMT -5
My buddy at school would spend all his time looking for wrestling newz on the net and was convinced that the Sunny Sex Tape was to introduce the new guy she was managing and it ends up being Todd Pettengill dressed as Elmo in a thong grinding w/ Sunny.But the segment featured decent product placement for tickle me Elmo & The Clapper.
There's really no other memories because after a few weeks it just became matches taped before raw with the guys that weren't on raw against local competitors.
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Post by edgestar on Apr 15, 2016 16:48:04 GMT -5
I remember the escalator thing lol
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 16, 2016 5:40:24 GMT -5
HHH taking a tombstone on an escalator. In what seemed to be Grand Central Station in NYC. .......really. And thanks to that, Triple H has taught his daughters to fear and respect all escalators.
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Post by jagilki on Apr 16, 2016 5:59:30 GMT -5
Ah, This thread made me think it was added.
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Post by Juice on Apr 16, 2016 9:43:03 GMT -5
I maintain that I won't renew the network until they have Shotgun Jakked and velocity up.
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Post by johnnyk9 on Apr 16, 2016 15:17:10 GMT -5
I agree it was a good b-show in 1997 and 1998 till Heat and Smackdown started, then it became a d show
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Apr 16, 2016 17:26:29 GMT -5
HHH taking a tombstone on an escalator. In what seemed to be Grand Central Station in NYC. .......really. And thanks to that, Triple H has taught his daughters to fear and respect all escalators. Thou hopefully they don't Google escalators
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Post by CeilingFan on Apr 16, 2016 19:00:58 GMT -5
Marlena going topless and flashing The Sultan Flying Nunns Terry Funk vs Steve Austin
the Funk-Austin segment was hilarious. Funk was more heelish than Austin
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Post by Shai on Apr 16, 2016 22:38:12 GMT -5
This and Sunday Night Heat would be awesome
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Apr 16, 2016 23:45:30 GMT -5
Goldust and Owen had a few pretty good matches on there in '97. I have them on VHS since I routinely fell asleep during Svengoolie's old movies on WCIU and missed Shotgun. Figured if I set my VCR to record, I'd watch them in the morning after Superstars on Sunday.
Speaking of Svengoolie, he'd make references to WWF all the time. There was a movie with a shotgun going off (I think it was American Gothic? Crazy ass movie.) and he overlayed the audio for Vince saying "Shotgun *boom* Saturday Night!"
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Post by Manute Bol on Apr 17, 2016 1:58:40 GMT -5
Most of this show's highlights have been mentioned already: the tombstone on the escalator, Terry Funk's promo, Marlena "flashing", The Flying Nuns, and the weird Sunny/Elmo thing.
There was also the RVD & Jerry Lawler vs. The Head Bangers match, which is noteworthy because it was part of the original ECW invasion and Van Dam was still under contract with them.
And of course Ahmed Johnson putting D'Lo through the windshield of a car.
They also had some funny "facts" about wrestlers that would show on the screen (Savio Vega had a real bad day), and Christopher Daniels wrestled on the show a few times.
I'd say that about covers it. People tend to look back on this show with rose-tinted glasses.
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Post by Gummydavidson on Apr 27, 2016 22:03:08 GMT -5
Would be interesting to watch episodes when Brian Pillman and JR were the broadcast team.
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Post by 111111 on Apr 29, 2016 15:43:08 GMT -5
Wasn't there one the night before the Royal Rumble from some bar in Texas where Terry Funk shows up drunk calling Vince Mcmahons mum a whore?
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Apr 29, 2016 18:39:25 GMT -5
HHH taking a tombstone on an escalator. In what seemed to be Grand Central Station in NYC. .......really. And thanks to that, Triple H has taught his daughters to fear and respect all escalators. ...that kid is back on the escalator!
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