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[Zach]

HHH was good in 2000

and okay in 1999

that's it

every other year he was the drizzling shits

He was okay in 2000. I think lost in the 2000 Triple H narrative -- there's that word again -- is that he was put in every match imaginable to get him over. Like, everything is a specialty match with a great opponent and it's given 20+ minutes.

I mean, you can call it rightly booking a guy to be strong, but it was overkill. He was given more than anyone before or after, I imagine. But watching it soberly in 2016, it's all downhill from Royal Rumble 2000. Which, I might add, was more Mick Foley being great than Triple H being good.

 

[Heroman]

Sting had a worst run than HHH.

 

[excelsiorlef]

he could've refused to join WWE, or refused to job against HHH.

Sting screwed Sting

Stop trying to work me bro.

 

[Sephzilla]

Anyone who thinks Sting had a worse career run than HHH has forgotten how fucking awful HHH's pre-DX runs were. HHH also had some pretty bad post-DX runs too

 

[SallyIsNow]

Sting had a worst run than HHH.

In WWE.

 

[Sweeney Tom]

Remember that time when sting job to hhh for some dumb reason?

HHH knows he was never half the man Sting and Goldberg were, Vince knows he wasn't even a recognizable fraction compared to the two. So the moment both were signed, the plan to job the WCW guy to the WWE guy was already in action.

Their egos wouldn't let it stop with "our company survived, yours didn't". They didn't want one last victory, they wanted multiple.

 

[Caderfix]

Sting had a worst run than HHH.

In WWE.

Sting was still more over though.

Spoiler

I really like HHH lol

 

[Kornflayx]

Watching old PPVs and Howard Finkel is the greatest ring announcer of all time. What a voice

 

[sf2fanatic]

Did Sina ever get his headband back from AJ?

 

[excelsiorlef]

Watching old PPVs and Howard Finkel is the greatest ring announcer of all time. What a voice

Agreed

Side note Luke Gallows' impression of The Fink is amazing.

 

[Bluekaveli]

Did Sina ever get his headband back from AJ?

Nah Allen Iverson is still holding onto it like it's 2003.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

ReWatched the bash at the beach 2000 debocle last night the whole card was just so bad and the annoucers are worse then good ol dave on smackdown

 

[Heroman]

Anyone who thinks Sting had a worse career run than HHH has forgotten how fucking awful HHH's pre-DX runs were. HHH also had some pretty bad post-DX runs too

Noting that hhh ever has done is as bad as Sting role at starcade 97.

 

[Zach]

Watching old PPVs and Howard Finkel is the greatest ring announcer of all time. What a voice

The WWF felt larger-than-life when they had the voices of Fink, Mean Gene, and The Body doing the talking.

 

[Tagyhag]

Did Sina ever get his headband back from AJ?

Not yet, we're going to get a promo shot of the headband lying on top of a garbage can and getting picked up by someone offscreen .

 

[imBask]

I liked surfer Sting, crow sting was stupid as hell. It was the bad kind of edgy... DX were edgy but it worked better for me

 

[Sephzilla]

Watching old PPVs and Howard Finkel is the greatest ring announcer of all time. What a voice

Finkel is fantastic.

Side note: Bruce Buffer in UFC is pretty great too

Noting that hhever has done is as ban as Sting role at starcade 97.

 

[korly]

Total Nonstop Deletion was OK. Felt overly long. And I could live without ever seeing ODB again. Why did I think The Young Bucks were supposed to be in that Apocalypto match?

 

[Zach]

Noting that hhever has done is as ban as Sting role at starcade 97.

What about that Booker T thing I always hear about?

 

[SallyIsNow]

Noting that hhever has done is as ban as Sting role at starcade 97.

Mid 2000s DX

 

[FlammableD]

 

[Zach]

I liked surfer Sting, crow sting was stupid as hell. It was the bad kind of edgy... DX were edgy but it worked better for me

Haha.

There it is.

 

[sf2fanatic]

Nah Allen Iverson is still holding onto it like it's 2003.

In a couple of years he's going to get paid like it's 2003. Great contract on whoever created it for him

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Anyone know when football season is over so I know when HHH is back?

 

[Heroman]

Finkel is fantastic.

Side note: Bruce Buffer in UFC is pretty great too

That's bad but Starcade 97 was the biggest ppv in WCW history and could have made sting a superstar and unlike Booker Sting had the power to change the finish. Starcade 97 killed Sting.

 

[sf2fanatic]

Anyone know when football season is over so I know when HHH is back?

MNF ends Dec 26

 

[Sephzilla]

Starcade 97 was bad booking and politicking.

WrestleMania 19 was "racism literally wins".

 

[Sweeney Tom]

Anyone know when football season is over so I know when HHH is back?

Regular season it'll be by the 2nd week of Jan, if he's waiting for after playoffs it'll be after the Rumble

 

[Recall]

Kevin Dunn, Vince Russo, Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon and Hulk Hogan.

I think I'll be dead before it happens but I'll be happy once they retire fully from the world of fake athletics.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

MNF ends Dec 26

Regular season it'll be by the 2nd week of Jan, if he's waiting for after playoffs it'll be after the Rumble

Cheers!

I find it hilarious because it seems like standard Haitch to avoid wanting to be on Raw when the ratings are pretty low.

 

[Zach]

Starcade 97 was bad booking and politicking.

WrestleMania 19 was "racism literally wins".

^

P.S. Oh my gah, that's my next Mania! :O

 

[Fox318]

That's bad but Starcade 97 was the biggest ppv in WCW history and could have made sting a superstar and unlike Booker Sting had the power to change the finish. Starcade 97 killed Sting.

Booker T could have been a legit main event star that could have main evented wrestlemanias down the line.

Instead this happens because HHH wants to work with Kevin Nash.

The documentary on this wrestlemania just happens to exclude one match.

Guess what match it was?

 

[avengers23]

Jason Kincaid got signed by WWNLive, so good for him.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Xavier Woods encountering a KKK-AW in WWE 2K

https://clips.twitch.tv/denkops/ShinyJackalSriHead


There are 2 types of CAW's. Recreating wrestlers no longer in WWE or the most edgy edge lord shit.

On a related note I want to say my CAW from Smackdown 2 on ps1 was basically a Solid Snake clone called THE VIPER.

There's videos on Youtube featuring that shithead .

 

[avengers23]

Finkel is fantastic.

Side note: Bruce Buffer in UFC is pretty great too

From that to this:

to fans getting upset at the Black Excellence thing from this week.

 

[Bluekaveli]

Starcade 97 was bad booking and politicking.

WrestleMania 19 was "racism literally wins".

Wm 19 resembled this year's election

 

[excelsiorlef]

Noting that hhh ever has done is as bad as Sting role at starcade 97.

Wait you're blaming Sting for Hogan/Nick Patrick/Bischoff?

 

[imBask]

HHH is a better wrestler than Booker T, regardless of the skin tone, cmon now

 

[Menome]

It's DC, they'll fuck that up too eventually

Crisis On Infinite Quinns. Book it.

 

[Fox318]

Watching old PPVs and Howard Finkel is the greatest ring announcer of all time. What a voice

You mean Gary Michael Cappetta

"This is STIIIINNNNNNGGGGG"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Y-4AG29Hw

 

[Heroman]

Booker T could have been a legit main event star that could have main evented wrestlemanias down the line.

Instead this happens because HHH wants to work with Kevin Nash.

The documentary on this wrestlemania just happens to exclude one match.

Guess what match it was?

There had never been a greater fall from grace in pro wrestling history than Stings fall in Starcade 97.

 

[excelsiorlef]

WINNER!

That was one of the worst things the WWE has ever done... let's do a racist feud where the racist wins and let's have the match be the racist kicks out of all Booker's finishers and wins with a single Pedigree with a 10-30 seconds lying on the mat exhausted spot before the pin....

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

I mean, I guess that's probably safe enough to not sufficiently anger DC/Warner Bros., but who knows?

Definitely not #safe, though.

Well, if someone squints enough they can just assume it's a Harley Quinn shirt.

Not as bad as WWE expecting men to buy a shirt that says 'I'm not like most girls'.

 

[Kacho]

HHH marks are the worst

 

[excelsiorlef]

HHH is a better wrestler than Booker T, regardless of the skin tone, cmon now

HHH wishes he had done something as good as the Best of 7 between Booker and Benoit.

 

[Zach]

Wait you're blaming Sting for Hogan/Nick Patrick/Bischoff?

Sting played his part. If there was one time he shouldn't have been the nice guy team player, Starrcade '97 was it. Dude should've put his foot down and been like "uh, I'm squashing this guy or you don't have a match."

But it became clear that he was just a guy who wanted to collect a paycheck, and the fans suffered for it.

 

[imBask]

HHH marks are the worst

Reddit parrots are the worst

 

[shaowebb]

And now for your moment of botch.

That concludes your moment of botch.

Spoiler

Ric Flair am cry at that shit.

 

[SallyIsNow]

And now for your moment of botch.

That concludes your moment of botch.

Spoiler

Ric Flair am cry at that shit.

He shoulda tried to repeat the spot by himself lol

 

[excelsiorlef]

Sting played his part. If there was one time he shouldn't have been the nice guy team player, Starrcade '97 was it. Dude should've put his foot down and been like "uh, I'm squashing this guy or you don't have a match."

But it became clear that he was just a guy who wanted to collect a paycheck, and the fans suffered for it.

The finish with the proper fast count isn't the worst thing ever.

It's the lack of fast count that ruined the whole thing.

Though clean is obviously preferable.