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Post by Ando9001 on May 24, 2022 5:42:11 GMT -5
And this time they joke about a guy looking naked and cite his lack of knee pads… Despite him clearly wearing knee pads In fairness he was wearing them below his knees
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Post by Ando9001 on May 24, 2022 5:45:22 GMT -5
I don't know but i just wasn't feeling this arc. The other WCW stuff they did i think was better just because the Dungeon of Doom was much funnier to riff on. The Warrior arc just never really clicked for me. Hopefully another TNA arc is coming up.
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Post by Fundertaker on May 24, 2022 6:28:04 GMT -5
I don't know but i just wasn't feeling this arc. The other WCW stuff they did i think was better just because the Dungeon of Doom was much funnier to riff on. The Warrior arc just never really clicked for me. Hopefully another TNA arc is coming up. Tbf, it's nWo era WCW. Which means a whole lot of nWo and a whole lot of not really cooky, over the top stuff. In fact, I don't think they even did a WHAT BAR!? segment, since almost everyone just uses black, denim, white, red and any combination of those.
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Post by HMARK Center on May 24, 2022 7:37:52 GMT -5
I don't know but i just wasn't feeling this arc. The other WCW stuff they did i think was better just because the Dungeon of Doom was much funnier to riff on. The Warrior arc just never really clicked for me. Hopefully another TNA arc is coming up. Tbf, it's nWo era WCW. Which means a whole lot of nWo and a whole lot of not really cooky, over the top stuff. In fact, I don't think they even did a WHAT BAR!? segment, since almost everyone just uses black, denim, white, red and any combination of those. Yeah, it's tough when so much of the show is "here are two guys who never go anywhere on the card having a match" and "whacka-ja-HEY-HEY!" nWo interferences.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 24, 2022 12:33:18 GMT -5
Tbf, it's nWo era WCW. Which means a whole lot of nWo and a whole lot of not really cooky, over the top stuff. In fact, I don't think they even did a WHAT BAR!? segment, since almost everyone just uses black, denim, white, red and any combination of those. Yeah, it's tough when so much of the show is "here are two guys who never go anywhere on the card having a match" and "whacka-ja-HEY-HEY!" nWo interferences. which is going to be a problem whenever they mention post 96 WCW... as that's basically the entire show... the only really interesting/funny bits on this arc was Hogan vs. Warrior itself... (and I guess you could find WCW's incompetence at Halloween Havoc causing people to lose the main event funny too...) but it's more that they go through the trouble of getting the only major star that Bischoff didn't buy originally. Then clearly not have a plan for what to do with him outside of we need to do the Rematch so Hogan can get his win back... Warrior didn't change anything about his presentation and only kinda leaned even further into the late 80's early 90's goofiness with his magic powers... which isn't what fans tuning in to watch the nWo wanted to see. all ending in an overbooked fiasco... which included Hogan trying to throw a fireball for some reason?
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 24, 2022 12:51:07 GMT -5
It bugged me for some reason that they didn't even cover his actual final appearance episode. I know it was just a run in but still
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 24, 2022 13:34:16 GMT -5
Engage in ultimate suffering and do the Eric Young vs. Robert Roode feud. "YEAH GET HER ERIC! SHE'S DEFENSELESS!" - The face announcers
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 24, 2022 13:37:56 GMT -5
It bugged me for some reason that they didn't even cover his actual final appearance episode. I know it was just a run in but still I mean its hard to justify two Nitro episodes after the Halloween Havoc episode so they did the one that had more Warrior
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on May 24, 2022 19:46:40 GMT -5
It bugged me for some reason that they didn't even cover his actual final appearance episode. I know it was just a run in but still I mean its hard to justify two Nitro episodes after the Halloween Havoc episode so they did the one that had more Warrior Honestly, I had no idea that run-in even happened, so I did learn something out of them showing the footage.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 24, 2022 23:11:59 GMT -5
I mean its hard to justify two Nitro episodes after the Halloween Havoc episode so they did the one that had more Warrior Honestly, I had no idea that run-in even happened, so I did learn something out of them showing the footage. Me too
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 25, 2022 18:35:05 GMT -5
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on May 25, 2022 18:38:24 GMT -5
Seeing these Nitro reviews made me remember just how many nothing happening matches took place on Nitro in 1998. I know they had a lot of time to fill but my god. And it's even more incredible when you remember they were in a ratings war competing for viewers.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on May 25, 2022 23:25:00 GMT -5
Seeing these Nitro reviews made me remember just how many nothing happening matches took place on Nitro in 1998. I know they had a lot of time to fill but my god. And it's even more incredible when you remember they were in a ratings war competing for viewers. At the same time, that first hour was unopposed, so it especially became synonymous with throwaway matches nobody could possibly gave a crap about. It was really more like the third hour of Thunder rather than Nitro.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jul 31, 2022 14:58:20 GMT -5
The Golden Nogger Awards episode is live now.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 31, 2022 16:07:30 GMT -5
Gotta love Horace being runner-up at all turns then finally winning the last one. And how appropriate it is that the nWo won everything.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 1, 2022 17:57:54 GMT -5
Glad I watched it when I did as WWE have now blocked the video.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Aug 1, 2022 18:05:10 GMT -5
Glad I watched it when I did as WWE have now blocked the video. Calling people "clints" wasn't enough for them?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Aug 1, 2022 18:21:55 GMT -5
Glad I watched it when I did as WWE have now blocked the video. Calling people "clints" wasn't enough for them? They made it funny with their workaround but YouTube trying to claim that it’s a “hate word” on the same level as the N word” is a joke. Context is everything and in the case of OSW, it’s not hate speech in any way
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 1, 2022 18:40:05 GMT -5
Seeing these Nitro reviews made me remember just how many nothing happening matches took place on Nitro in 1998. I know they had a lot of time to fill but my god. And it's even more incredible when you remember they were in a ratings war competing for viewers. At the same time, that first hour was unopposed, so it especially became synonymous with throwaway matches nobody could possibly gave a crap about. It was really more like the third hour of Thunder rather than Nitro. One one hand, I get the idea of "saving" the good stuff for competing with the WWF, but they could have still tried to not make the hour total filler when A. they had a higher chance of having WWF fans who were into wrestling in general watching, and thus, could have tried to win some interest from them, and B. if you start compelling, it might get people to stick around for the whole episode. Instead, they WCW'd it.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Aug 28, 2022 13:22:23 GMT -5
New episode coming up later today for the Girls Gone Wild PPV
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