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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 5, 2023 8:38:36 GMT -5
Way too young. Ron Simmons definitely has the voice but again too young. "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd I think would work. “People will come, Ray…but they’re a buncha no-good whiskey drinkers!!” |
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Post by cassonova on Jul 5, 2023 10:12:10 GMT -5
Weird year, but it gave us Bad Attitude. So it evens out.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Jul 5, 2023 11:54:10 GMT -5
I was watching whatever the weekly Saturday show in UK was at the time and the shift was very jarring. I was primarily a WWF fan, but I erally enjoyed those weekly WCW shows with Sting, Steamboat and Rude at the top, the omnipresent Final Boss that was Vader in the shadows, and guys like Cactus Jack, Ron Simmons, Brian Pillman, Steve Austin and hell even Van Hammer, Marcus Alexander Bagwell and Z-Man giving WCW its own distinct feel.
When Hogan came in followed by all the old WWF guys it made WCW feel cheap, especially with Beefcake and Earthquake not able to wrestle under their WWF names. It was like when you went on holiday and bought a knock-off Bort Sampson toy from the market. It stopped feeling like it's own distinct product and felt like a weird, nasty version of old WWF. I lost interest and stopped watching around this time.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jul 5, 2023 12:38:19 GMT -5
I was still in "watch anything no matter how bad it is" phase, so I still watched, but agree about the reliving 80s WWF tropes. It was one of those things even Apter called out. It took Nitro and the nWo to make WCW truly evolve to the next step.
Now the other time that WCW tried to emulate a WWF boom period, the start of Russo WCW, is what made me mostly tap out.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 5, 2023 14:57:20 GMT -5
Heck, even the PPVs were odd, Superbrawl IIRC only had one match (Flair/Vader) that was based off an ongoing feud, and Flair spent the next PPV in a match against Barry Windham (who was supposed to be Col. Parker's mystery man, so it did have buildup, but Windham left after the PPV).
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