Sting and The Steiners vs. Rick Rude/Arn Anderson/Bobby Eaton
That's like a first ballot Wrasslegaf HOF list there. And Bobby Eaton.
That's like a first ballot Wrasslegaf HOF list there. And Bobby Eaton.
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Cappetta is the best. Great voice. Penzer sucks.
You dare besmirch the good name of Sir Robert of Eaton?!?
Be raised as a kid in the same city as Bobby Eaton and you'll hate Bobby Eaton too
Jimmy King
Member
They probably finally realized Sting was one dimensional Surfer Dude. Goth paint on a surfer brah but it's still a surfer brah
That and Hogan sandbagged him badly to protect his spot, which was never really in doubt.
I'm not even talking about the not fast fast count, but how for literally the first time since the heel turn Hulk Hogan isn't wrestling as a chickenshit and is instead 1984 unstoppable Hulk.
He puts over Macho/Lex/The Giant/and no hips looking kinda like AJ Styles Hot Rod in the past eighteen months but when it comes time for him to actually lose in the biggest match of all time he can't fucking do it.
Jimmy King
Member
Sting was keeping it kayfabe. No longer surfer, no longer tan. Chicken or the egg?
Sounds to me like Sting was worse than Macho, Lex, The Giant, and Roddy Piper and Hogan saw through the gaudy Crow bullshit
Brother
Of course that ICON of WCW is worse than a bunch of WWF dudes (Giant totally counts being the Son of Andre)
Beefer has a more competitive Starrcade match with Hogan too!
QueenOfThorns
Member
what the fuck. he didn't have a tan. holy shit. HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE A TAN! HULK HOGAN DESTROYED HIS SOUL AND HE WOULD NOT RECLAIM IT UNTIL HE DEFEATED THE NWO! That was the entire point to his character!
He was going through personal issues? Tough shit! The starrcade match wasn't at fault in any way from Sting, Sting did his part wonderfully...they just booked a fucking awful match and fucked up everything about it. That's the worst excuse I've ever heard. They burned all that time and energy and effort put into that entire story because Sting didn't have a tan and wasn't living up to their standards. What the god damn fuck.
That match is what made me stop watching wrestling until around 2012, because even then I knew that was a BS ending threw away all the buildup and excitement over that match. Bullshit. Fuck Eric Bischoff and fuck Hulk Hogan. I can hear Hogan now going "BROTHER, look at him, BROTHER, he doesn't have a tan. He's not ready, brother. We need to keep this going."
I lost a lot of respect for Bischoff for this bullshit justification. No one in that fucking audience gave a shit that Sting didn't have a god damn tan. He didn't stumble throughout that match. The people at fault for that match is you and hogan for deciding that they should just throw it all away.
real_slime
Banned
this topic
and the woman herself who cannot stop branding every word she says
has made me hate stephanie
when i came in i was all 'ha, she's fun and playful!'
now i hate her
i still like cena
fuck many of you
also i love you
that's my poem
and the woman herself who cannot stop branding every word she says
has made me hate stephanie
when i came in i was all 'ha, she's fun and playful!'
now i hate her
i still like cena
fuck many of you
also i love you
that's my poem
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Wait, they did? When was that mentioned? I mean it clearly must've been abandoned rather quickly, since they did the whole Big Show/Boss Man angle (y'know, the whole "Big Show's father's funeral" bit) in 1999, which wasn't that long after Show debuted in WWF.
blackaroni
Member
sf2fanatic
Member
F baseball. Will watch fuckball. Hyped for Star Wars. And end with watching West Coast feed of Raw.
Hechicero vs Trauma I seems like fun lucha hold craziness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUHIYwDRiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUHIYwDRiw
sf2fanatic
Member
The ending.
Tekken King type of move
Professor Beef
Banned
buy this game friends
I'd buy Young Bucks merch before I buy that shit.
real_slime
Banned
She's the Chief Brand Officer.
yeah and i find it repulsive
the way she goes about it makes me dislike WWE way more with her insincere 'i'm a grown up' crap. i try to tune her out pretty much entirely now.
looking forward to bald man talks to blonde man tonight!!
Bluekaveli
Member
So it's been what? 15 years now but the whole Hogan and JJ think, when Hogan commented on why the company is going to shit was that real? Or scripted also, how much is Russo's "worked" shoot crossed the line? Someone give the full story on this.
I never watched much WcW except Saturday nights and Thunder. And the first hour before raw.
I never watched much WcW except Saturday nights and Thunder. And the first hour before raw.
real_slime
Banned
Goldberg's WWE debut is pretty funny. Literally the night before was Austin's last match. The next raw, The Rock comes out (as a heel again) and they say
hell
LET'S STICK HIM UP AGAINST ANOTHER BALD WHITE GUY WITH A GOATEE
hell
LET'S STICK HIM UP AGAINST ANOTHER BALD WHITE GUY WITH A GOATEE
Goldberg's one year run in the WWE looks amazing on paper.
Beat Rock
Beat Jericho
Beat HBK
Beat Orton
Beat Triple H
Beat Lesnar
Then he left forever.
real_slime
Banned
Wow, didn't know he did all that. And people say his run sucks, though, right? So were the matches no good? Cos like you said, on paper that looks like some fun.
Jimmyfenix
Member
My favourite goldberg match was against the chick magnet...captain charisma
Christian cage
Christian cage
Yeah his matches weren't exactly memorable even though he had many "dream matches." Probably the biggest one was the elimination chamber match at Summerslam where he destroyed everyone, but still lost to Triple H via interference. Many people point to that match as the biggest booking mistake in his run, but there was much more than that. Basically the MYSTIQUE OF GOLDBERG was already gone, so what do you even do with him? He could not fit into the WWE style of 15 minute promos and 15-20 minute matches. He was just kind of thrown into matches against popular guys like Rock and Jericho, and got booed for it. Goldberg did manage to win the championship off of Triple H, but some feel that Triple H was booked as some insurmountable obstacle for Goldberg win in reality he was... Triple H. Goldberg also never really put anyone over during his run (except Trips lulz) so he basically racked up a bunch of wins in mediocre matches against more popular guys, had a championship run, and left forever. In the end they just really didn't have anything interesting for him to do.
Emphasis is on paper. They majorly screwed the pooch on his booking many times, the biggest one being with Triple H, who was in full reign of terror era then.
All I've seen of Goldberg's WWE run is him coming out the spear The Rock. He manages to make a 30 second promo be lame and unconvincing. He spears Rock. He leaves. It was very ho-hum.
tbf to Goldberg it'd be almost impossible to match beating Hogan on Nitro for the title, based off the reactions of the crowd alone.
tbf to Goldberg it'd be almost impossible to match beating Hogan on Nitro for the title, based off the reactions of the crowd alone.
https://youtu.be/hh8Y9YIV8Wo?t=2m47s
Although the feud wasn't long, I loved the confrontations between Goldberg and The Rock. Rocky obviously got cheers in some cases but didn't pander and acted like a true heel.
And to think Smackdown was getting equal ratings, and in some cases higher than Raw was doing in '02-'04. You kind of thought people went tiresome over the Triple H Reign of Terror. You know they miss those latino crowds coming just for guys like Eddie and Rey.
slightconfuse
Banned
WHO'S NEXT
WHO'S NEXT
I think Finn Balor might be the next victim of MainRosteritist, sadly
slightconfuse
Banned
Wait Orton and Ambrose are on the pre show.
lol
lol
That's so... bad.
British Monsoon
Member
¡HarlequinPanic!
Member
to be fair, would've loved the gifs that would have provided.
The only thing that sucked about Goldberg's WWE run is having to watch Goldberg on my TV. Feed him tons of guys and all he can bitch about is HHH doesn't like me and they tried to bury his character by having goldust put a wig on him. I'm glad his WMXX match went how it did.
Maybe a little too far back. Does anyone still do an atomic drop? Those used to always pop crowds back in the good old days.
Maybe a little too far back. Does anyone still do an atomic drop? Those used to always pop crowds back in the good old days.
Conrad Link
Member
So the rumored original plan for the burying of the hottest angle wrestling had produced in years is somehow even worse than the shit that actually happened lol. :|
I miss Punk but for his sanity I'm glad he is probably in a happier place right now with AJ and no Mr. H's.
I miss Punk but for his sanity I'm glad he is probably in a happier place right now with AJ and no Mr. H's.
