Big Hurt
Samurai Cop
Hot damn!
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Post by Big Hurt on Jan 24, 2007 21:11:52 GMT -5
I was at school when the historic Monday Night took place. We had TNT in our building but no TNN at the time. I saw the Nitro but not the Raw.
Are there any videos online from the Raw side? Or even the Nitro side? I heard Raw had some good backstage segments and even if they weren't, I'd like to see them.
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Post by dirtydickraines on Jan 24, 2007 21:21:05 GMT -5
I was 13 or 14 at the time and I really marked out hard. I learned of the purchase a few days earlier on WWF.com and I exploded with excitment. Too bad how it all ended.
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Post by Redface: Dispenser of Justice on Jan 24, 2007 21:25:18 GMT -5
I was going through my "Wrestling is for dumbasses" stage back then  |
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Post by Se7en: Horse That Wrote Poems on Jan 24, 2007 21:44:26 GMT -5
i was going through my "hey the internet tells me stuff about wrestling i didn't already know" faze :-D
it was a crazy weekend, hearing about the acquisition and then waiting til Monday
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HRH The KING
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
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Post by HRH The KING on Jan 24, 2007 22:11:10 GMT -5
It was shocking.
Went onto WWE.COM and saw WCW's logo.
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nostradumbass
Tommy Wiseau
The only man to be booked in TNA and not look like a jackass
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Post by nostradumbass on Jan 24, 2007 22:17:38 GMT -5
I knew it was coming a year prior, but damn did it hit hard when it was officially announced.
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Post by Dr. Marzvon Zombie M.D. on Jan 24, 2007 22:17:49 GMT -5
I remember typing in www.wcw.com and wwe home page came up, that was sir real as a fan of wrestling since 1983 |
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Post by Voldemar H. "Brak" Guerta on Jan 24, 2007 23:39:50 GMT -5
I was going through my "Wrestling is for dumbasses" stage back then Wait, wait, wait. How could you be going through that phase back then and be a fan now?  |
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Post by Tyfo on Jan 24, 2007 23:44:55 GMT -5
Yeah I remember coming home from school(I think it was a Friday) and getting online, headed off to look for wrestling news and I see this. My first thought naturally was, bulls***. Then I go to WWF.com and the main page has the WWF logo, under it says BUYS and below it, the WCW logo. That was a shocking moment for me.
I think I spent that whole weekend sitting at my computer going over both rosters, thinking of what they could do with everyone, what matches could happen, feuds, etc. I remember being on the phone with one of my friends almost every 30 mins as more news would come out and we would discuss it. We were both 15 year old high school students, but we were like giddy school girls on the phone all weekend.
I remember that Monday, being at school was agony and it seemed like the school day would never end. But even if the angle turned out bad, I will be damned if that night of Raw and Nitro is not one I will NEVER forget. I had goosebumps when Nitro opened with Vince standing in front of the WWF logo announcing his purchase.
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Stotty
Unicron
This is what happens when you don't give Taker the hot tag
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Post by Stotty on Jan 25, 2007 0:02:05 GMT -5
a great day for me as atrue WWE loyalist, but at the same time i was a lttile saddened, knowing that this was the end of a great war, that put out some of the best TV id seen in years
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Post by Error on Jan 25, 2007 0:06:40 GMT -5
I remember hearing it on the 5:00 news and thinking "Naw, that fell threw and Bischoff's using some other company and buying it." Then I tuned into Nitro and damn near crapped myself when I saw Vince.
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Stotty
Unicron
This is what happens when you don't give Taker the hot tag
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Post by Stotty on Jan 25, 2007 0:09:30 GMT -5
It made the news? (im in aus, so it didnt here, and the idea of a wrestling event making the news is foreign to me)
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Post by Error on Jan 25, 2007 0:12:34 GMT -5
It made the news? (im in aus, so it didnt here, and the idea of a wrestling event making the news is foreign to me) Yeah, it surprised the hell out of me. They put it in the business part about AOL Time Warner and Ted Turner selling off one of their hottest properties. |
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Godhand
Team Rocket
The feel good poster of the year
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Post by Godhand on Jan 25, 2007 0:36:22 GMT -5
I was on a wrestling hiatus at the time. My dad told me one day that wcw had been bought and I was shocked.
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Post by Redface: Dispenser of Justice on Jan 25, 2007 15:24:48 GMT -5
I was going through my "Wrestling is for dumbasses" stage back then Wait, wait, wait. How could you be going through that phase back then and be a fan now? I don't think it's much of a Stretch... |
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