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Post by chazraps on Feb 1, 2020 23:42:35 GMT -5
No current high school student was alive at any point that WCW was in business. (additionally, they were also not alive when 9/11 happened).The infamous Brian Kendrick & Paul London shoot interview that set the tone for the modern shoot interview turns 10 years old at the end of February. As much time will have passed between now and then as then and the 2000 Cornette shoot that gave us "Cornette Face" and set the tone for shoots of the aughts. On a slightly related note, TNA/Impact has been around for almost 18 years, 5 years longer than WCW has existed(1988 to 2001). If you were born from the time John Cena made his debut(June 2002) to the time he won his first WWE championship(April 2005), you'd be a Freshman to Senior in High School by now. Wow. Basically the equivalent of if you were born during Hogan's first title reign, how old you'd be during his last.
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Post by sungod2020 on Feb 1, 2020 23:48:01 GMT -5
On a slightly related note, TNA/Impact has been around for almost 18 years, 5 years longer than WCW has existed(1988 to 2001). If you were born from the time John Cena made his debut(June 2002) to the time he won his first WWE championship(April 2005), you'd be a Freshman to Senior in High School by now. Wow. Basically the equivalent of if you were born during Hogan's first title reign, how old you'd be during his last. Thats scary to think about. I turned 33 in late December which is how old he was when I was born.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 2, 2020 7:57:44 GMT -5
This isn't a fact, but the thing that drives home to me that the main event wrestlers are my age now is when they reference pop culture at the same age as me.
Like Roman said he flicked dog food at Corbin like in Hook.
Roman and I were both just dickhead children when we saw that movie.
He is at the top of his industry, a millionaire. I am broke and contribute nothing of value.
Just... f***, man.
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Post by Session Moth is over on Feb 2, 2020 8:11:26 GMT -5
Not quiet the same, but some if you here mentioned the year you were born in and it makes me think some of you don't know a time before the internet became an important and necessary part of society.
f***, I feel old at 35 lol
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Post by msc on Feb 2, 2020 9:09:44 GMT -5
Not quiet the same, but some if you here mentioned the year you were born in and it makes me think some of you don't know a time before the internet became an important and necessary part of society. f***, I feel old at 35 lol Hah, yeah I remember getting home internet for the first time in 2000. One of the first in my class too. Bit pricey but mum was of the view it was going to become a rapidly indispensable bit of technology, and she was right. Dial up, and the connection broke if someone phoned the house. 25 minutes to download a single song. Some folk could download video snapshots of stuff from old RAW or Nitros on Real Player. And most of them were Kevin Nash "breaking Big Shows neck" on a powerbomb, or very choppy versions of Eddie v Rey from Halloween Havoc! I'll be completely honest, I much prefer our wireless instant info world! Although on that note, we went to a computing exhibition in April 1999, and they had consoles linked to the internet. I went on WWE.com and it announced the new tag champs had been crowned on RAW, X-Pac and Kane. "I don't remember that!" I thought. That Friday, Kane and X-Pac won the tag titles, and that was the first time I realised the UK got a tape delayed version of the show! There after, I picked an ICT elective which meant I could go up to the computing classrooms once a week and read the RAW spoilers! But some weeks they were shut and I had to rely on the Teletext Teasers on the WWF page, a hotline number with teaser headlines. One week it was "Brood Mutiny Shocker" and I got all excited and waited all week to watch RAW and see The Brood turn face. Which they did. Or hell, the horror: our Video Machine didn't record Rumble 2000! I had to wait 5 days for a friend to come over the next weekend with a copy they'd taped on their VCR to VCR copier! It's like another world.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Feb 2, 2020 9:35:39 GMT -5
Taker has wrestled in the Hulkamania, New Generation, Attitude, Ruthless Aggression, PG, and “Reality Era” Thanks to that Saudi show last year, HBK can make the same claim.
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Post by The Barber on Feb 2, 2020 10:36:19 GMT -5
I believe I was in Kindergarten when Randy Orton made his WWE debut. I am now a 23 year old man, and Randy is currently in a major program heading into this year's Wrestlemania. And as another poster pointed out, the most impressive thing about that is that Randy isn't even 40 yet. On that note, I was a freshman in high school last time Edge wrestled. You wanna know an example of a horrifying passage of time for me?
I was in my second year of college when Randy Orton debuted, yet kids that age feel old now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 12:44:03 GMT -5
The company's name has been WWE for 18 years, only five years less than when it was the WWF (unless you want to count WWWF as part of the former name).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 12:54:21 GMT -5
This March, Kenny Dykstra will still be 20 years old. (He'll actually be 33, but still.) That’s “Future Legend” Kenny Dykstra to you
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Feb 2, 2020 13:06:03 GMT -5
WCW closed down 19 years ago.
Goldberg,Rey Mysterio, Big Show, AJ Styles, Edge, Triple H, Undertaker, and Kane are the only active WWE wrestlers that have wrestled in the promotion
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 13:10:10 GMT -5
Kenny Dykstra, holy heck, if some fantasy bookers during those years weren't totally off-guard preparing themselves for his legendary future career. I remember being in the Renee Dupree train.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Feb 2, 2020 13:28:40 GMT -5
Invasion was almost 19 years ago.
R-Truth debuted almost 20 years ago.
It's crazy to think R-Truth debuted in the WWF when WCW was still around.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Feb 2, 2020 13:50:32 GMT -5
Nick Bockwinkel was in the midst of his 2nd AWA World title reign at my current age - when I was born he had zero. (And he still had 2 more to go!) Invasion was almost 19 years ago. R-Truth debuted almost 20 years ago. It's crazy to think R-Truth debuted in the WWF when WCW was still around. To think PWI had "written off" K-Kwik in its 2001 Year-End Awards (2nd Runner-up for Rookie of the Year) because he was no longer in the WWF at the time and they figured his time as a big name was over. Looking at the group of that category: Randy Orton (Winner) Brock Lesnar (1st Runner-up) K-Kwik (R-Truth) The Prototype (John Cena, 3rd Runner-up) As Mean Gene would say, "That reads like the 'Who's Who' " of the past decade.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 15:13:35 GMT -5
I made a thread about this a while back but the weirdest one for me has to be the time frame between the Golden Era, New Generation and Attitude Era.
When you think about it, that's around 1988 to 2000. Three massively distinctive differences and feels to the show. The Hogan era to the Attitude Era genuinely feels like a life time apart.
Whereas if you go back to 2008 to 2020, you barely see any difference. Same time frame and Everything looks and feels the same with NXT being the exception. It feels like yesterday when I was watching those crappy Guest Hosts on Raw. In reality it was ELEVEN years ago. The Rock wasn't even that long in WWE.
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Post by Aceorton on Feb 2, 2020 17:52:25 GMT -5
- Paige was less than six months old when Andre the Giant died. Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan and both Authors of Pain weren't yet born. - Bray Wyatt, Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch are all older than Paul Heyman was (31) when ECW had its first pay-per-view.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Feb 3, 2020 7:28:59 GMT -5
WCW closed down 19 years ago. Goldberg,Rey Mysterio, Big Show, AJ Styles, Edge, Undertaker, and Kane are the only active WWE wrestlers that have wrestled in the promotion Terra Ryzing?
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Feb 3, 2020 14:21:59 GMT -5
Tegan Nox, Liv Morgan, Lio Rush, Keira Hogan, JoJo Offerman, Toni Storm, Tessa Blanchard, Velveteen Dream, Taynara Conti, Rhea Ripley, Bea Pristley, MJF and Tyler Bate are some of the wrestlers younger than WWE Raw.
Xia Brookside is even younger than WWE SmackDown.
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Post by avenger on Feb 3, 2020 19:13:37 GMT -5
NXT started closer to the WWF being renamed to WWE, than to now.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 3, 2020 19:16:17 GMT -5
NXT started closer to the WWF being renamed to WWE, than to now. Speaking of which, we’re close to the 10 year anniversary of the premiere of the first episode of NXT (in its original pros/rookies format). February 23.
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Post by sungod2020 on Feb 4, 2020 20:04:41 GMT -5
Wrestlemanias I and 2 are closer to Hulk Hogan's birthdate(August 11, 1953) than it is now. Wrestlemania III will have that distinction on November, 13th of this year.
The part of The Ruthless Aggression Era(around 2002 to 2004) is closer to the end of The Hulkamania era(late 80s/early 90s) than it is now.
Lifelong low carder Zack Ryder, who's been on the main roster since May 2007 has been with the WWE almost as long as The Rock's(1996 to 2004) and "Stone Cold"s Steve Austin's tenure(1996 to 2002) original runs COMBINED. If he's still employed by the end of this year, he'll beat their original record. He already has if you count his OVW run in 2006 to 2007.
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