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Post by Dynamite Kid on Jul 26, 2007 12:30:41 GMT -5
Storm was one of the most over guys in the company in WCW's latter days.
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Post by Reverend BTY on Jul 26, 2007 12:47:31 GMT -5
Why is it that Canadians hate America. As far as I remember we didn't do anything bad to them. Why do Americans hate everyone? "I'm not from here! Look at my crrrrazy passport!" You make a good point sir, touche.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jul 26, 2007 13:56:48 GMT -5
I don't know if Russo booked that whole angle or not, but I give the man credit if he did. Lance Storm rightfully got some great TV time in the States and he deserved every bit of it. From what Lance said, it was Johnny Ace....who at the time worked for WCW....who booked the whole angle with Lance Storm as a bet to Russo that he could get this guy over.
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Post by Danimal on Jul 26, 2007 17:14:47 GMT -5
Team Canada with Storm, Awesome, and Elix was sweet. I always thought they shoulda added one more heavy-hitter and became a power-stable of tweeners in WCW.
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Post by Parrish on Jul 26, 2007 17:21:25 GMT -5
I remember Storm had like 3 titles at one time The Canadian Heavyweight Title, The 100 Kilos and Under Title and, The Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title. I loved that stuff. Yeah, I knew it was the U.S. and the Cruiserweight, but i couldnt remember if the 3rd title was the T.V or the tag team title...but it was the hardcore!! EDIT: guess i should have watched the video before asking the question
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Post by Dynamite Kid on Jul 26, 2007 17:22:27 GMT -5
I don't know if Russo booked that whole angle or not, but I give the man credit if he did. Lance Storm rightfully got some great TV time in the States and he deserved every bit of it. From what Lance said, it was Johnny Ace....who at the time worked for WCW....who booked the whole angle with Lance Storm as a bet to Russo that he could get this guy over. I suddenly feel so very dirty...
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Post by Parrish on Jul 26, 2007 17:31:33 GMT -5
how about Paulshock botching the word Forming...she pronounced it FEW-ORMING
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Post by Shy Guy on Jul 26, 2007 20:49:18 GMT -5
Why is it that Canadians hate America. As far as I remember we didn't do anything bad to them. but you're attached to us, therefore, guilty by association
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Post by havok666 on Jul 26, 2007 23:05:28 GMT -5
How did they get away with calling it just Team Canada? Doesn't WWE copyright everything that's not bolted down? Actually Hockey Canada owns the name "Team Canada." That is what our olympic / international hockey team is officially called.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Jul 27, 2007 1:39:27 GMT -5
I don't know if Russo booked that whole angle or not, but I give the man credit if he did. Lance Storm rightfully got some great TV time in the States and he deserved every bit of it. From what Lance said, it was Johnny Ace....who at the time worked for WCW....who booked the whole angle with Lance Storm as a bet to Russo that he could get this guy over. I know Johnny Ace seems like a huge turdball nowadays, but one of the reasons (if not the main one) that he was brought into WCW in 2000 was specifically to book creative clean finishes for matches, due to his experience working for Baba in All Japan, and learning that particular style of how to book a finish. The deal was this...in a strange moment of clarity, WCW was gonna go in a hard-core "all clean finishes" direction to make their TVs and PPVs more meaningful again after years of steadily driving millions of viewers away by constantly screwing them. And as I recall, the one-night U.S. Title Tournament (that Lance Storm won) in 2000 was one of the first things that Ace booked all the finishes for, and the tournament was pretty awesome. The Ace/clean finishes experiment was one of many ideas WCW tried throwing at the wall to see if it'd stick. I don't know how long it lasted. And it sucks that a guy who wanted to help introduce an All-Japan style in America ultimately wound up such a huge turdball, but doing Vince's dirty work (firing talent) doesn't help his popularity.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2007 1:53:24 GMT -5
Interestingly enough, that wasn't the first version of a Lance Storm fronted "Team Canada". I think Storm said in one of his Q&As that he had a Team Canada gimmick going on in Japan and Mike Awesome was part of it.
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