The one thing I loved about WCW

[illiniman88]

I'm watching early episodes of NITRO and I have noticed that when they go to commercial sometimes during a match the two competitors are still going at it. It;s not a rest hold or anything. They will do a far away camera shot as the music is playing and Bischoff says they will eb right bakc and you see the 2 guys in the ring actually still wrestling

I love it!

Its such a small detail but its cool to think that even though were on commercial they are tsill going lal out beating the crap out of another

[Deleted]

This is one gripe I have with WWE.

[Mozenrath]

I like it to an extent, but I remember it annoying me to feel like I missed some of the action. Then again, I guess that promotes the PPVs or the live shows.

(fat lot of good the latter did, given how poorly even better days WCW live shows did, mostly due to questionable scheduling and the deserved reputation for unreliability of the card. Guys skipped house shows all the time without a care.)

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

I don’t think it was done on purpose and it was more of a f*** up off wcw for not having match agents.

[Main Event Mark]

Current WWE is so obvious when a commercial is coming. Usually someone dumped to the outside. "Can ____ get back in this thing?" "Raw rolls on." Ugh.

Why not take the page from WCW? If the action is happening before the ad break, would people not want to stick around for the rest? As soon as you cut to commercial, then you can go to a rest hold or whatever.

[Deleted]

I always liked the sound the ring made. Is that weird?

[THE FVNKER]

I was always the odd one out when people said that WWF had better production values. I always thought Nitro looked a million times better, and did a better job at looking authentic.

- Multiple man announce team (I know I'm REALLY one of the few who digs this).
- Interviews at the bottom of the ramp, or directly in the ring.
- The actual placement of the announce team, far from the ring.
- How the original Nitro set complimented the arena, and wasnt this giant, gaudy set piece like Raw is today.
- Very few, if any, backstage shots unless it was a limo arrival or Goldberg's entrance.
- Calling it an event instead of a "show".

Just some of the things that I really miss about a wrestling show.

[ronnie2hotty]

May 31, 2019 6:10:57 GMT -5 THE FVNKER said:

- How the original Nitro set complimented the arena, and wasnt this giant, gaudy set piece like Raw is today.

While I don't completely hate the Raw set, I just hate that it takes all the great arenas around the country and just sanitizes it so that every single show looks exactly the same. It takes all the personality away from the arena.

[THE FVNKER]

May 31, 2019 9:32:03 GMT -5 ronnie2hotty said:

May 31, 2019 6:10:57 GMT -5 THE FVNKER said:

- How the original Nitro set complimented the arena, and wasnt this giant, gaudy set piece like Raw is today.

While I don't completely hate the Raw set, I just hate that it takes all the great arenas around the country and just sanitizes it so that every single show looks exactly the same. It takes all the personality away from the arena.

I mean, for me, it's really just the whole presentation of any WWE setup. From the giant "LOOK ITS THE f***ING WWE" stage setup to the awfully tacky LED ring posts and aprons.. it just makes it painfully clear that the show is about the WWE brand, and not what's happening in the ring. Same thing with the weird red and blue mood lighting in the crowd (which is something I was disappointed about when I watched DON). Its all too polished. UFC doesnt need that shit because everyone knows the most important thing is what's going on in the octagon, not how polished and HD the arena can look. Just my two cents.

[mo]

I always thought the slow motion shot of the winning wrestler at the end of the post match replays was pretty cool. Guys like Harlem Heat screaming into the camera when they were coming out was a neat thing as well. WCW had a lot of cool shit really.

[johnnyk9]

That was cool