You can search by year in any given category. So looking at WWE PPVs and clicking 1995 will show all the shitty New Generation PPVs in chronological order. I believe they default at newest to oldest.
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WWE Network |OT| $9.99 PPVs, that's gonna put some butts in the seats
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You can search by year in any given category. So looking at WWE PPVs and clicking 1995 will show all the shitty New Generation PPVs in chronological order. I believe they default at newest to oldest.
DyslexicAlucard
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Watching WCCW live on the Network.
... God damn, Michael Hayes is terrible. He does probably the worst elbow drop I've ever seen.
I guess there's a reason that they never show him wrestling in any of the videos that mention him.
... God damn, Michael Hayes is terrible. He does probably the worst elbow drop I've ever seen.
I guess there's a reason that they never show him wrestling in any of the videos that mention him.
BFIB
Member
He just doesn't give a fuck unless its something he really cares about, or its in a territory where he's a top guy.
Watched Slamboree 98
Its that PPV where Bischoff challenged Vince McMahon to a fight, and it was all suppose to go down in this PPV
What was Bischoff thinking? He is a heel and a part of the nWo, yet WCW fans obviously are not going to cheer for Vince, so who do they cheer for?
Nobody. That is the answer and that is what they did, plain no reaction.
But the golden thing here, is how stressed and messed up Eric looks, this was the time ratings started to go WWF's ways and this whole shit "feud" was a attempt to spike controversy, yet failed. WCW looked second rate, even the commentators were admitting that Vince "is not coming"
So wtf?
Its that PPV where Bischoff challenged Vince McMahon to a fight, and it was all suppose to go down in this PPV
What was Bischoff thinking? He is a heel and a part of the nWo, yet WCW fans obviously are not going to cheer for Vince, so who do they cheer for?
Nobody. That is the answer and that is what they did, plain no reaction.
But the golden thing here, is how stressed and messed up Eric looks, this was the time ratings started to go WWF's ways and this whole shit "feud" was a attempt to spike controversy, yet failed. WCW looked second rate, even the commentators were admitting that Vince "is not coming"
So wtf?
Host Samurai
Member
Watched some of that 1999 Raw show that was streaming on the Network. It was a post Backlash Raw.
Cliffs
-Forgot that the Brood were in the Ministry
-Seeing Kane being a legit monster again is always a treat. Funny how easily he destroys Edge back than only to get his ass beat by Edge multiple times years later
-At one point HHH & The Rock were in the same faction
-Those packed Attitude era areas. Just oozed with energy and atmosphere.
Cliffs
-Forgot that the Brood were in the Ministry
-Seeing Kane being a legit monster again is always a treat. Funny how easily he destroys Edge back than only to get his ass beat by Edge multiple times years later
-At one point HHH & The Rock were in the same faction
-Those packed Attitude era areas. Just oozed with energy and atmosphere.
Mr. Enigma
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The triple threat match with Kevin Nash vs. Goldberg vs. Scott Steiner at New Blood Rising is seriously the thing that ended WCW for a lot of people. When Goldberg "shoots" and walks out with Russo getting in his face, telling him to go back and "do what he was supposed to do" is bonkers. Then the announcers rip on Goldberg the whole match for not letting Nash powerbomb him and "breaking the script," yet they praise Steiner, a heel, the entire match for "improvising with Nash". They were still trying to consolidate this in a way that still sounded like kayfabe, but failed miserably, essentially saying, "Yeah, this is all one big fake thing with a script". It's one of the most insane things I've ever seen. All the while, they are throwing out all these insider terms that casual fans have no idea about.
It was a very meta attempt of booking by Russo, but the only people who got it were the Internet crowd, which was still a very small segment of people in the year 2000.
This is why he was such a great tag team-level heel to me. He was simply all talk and had nothing to back it up. His overall form is hot garbage. But him on the mic got me to mark out and heat up at him.
This was a complete facepalm. I tuned completely out of WCW close to this point, already. :-/
Trying to snatch up that "indy" flavor from ECW and others. But those were good times, indeed.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Yes! That was the height of this unreal idea. I can't believe they thought this was compelling TV. And you can see how it would have worked in a less cynical way, if they did something like Goldberg just leaving the arena because he hates his boss or something as bringing real drama into kayfabe, but instead they devalued their entire product and just kept screaming "this is fake" to us.
The match after that is Booker T vs Jarrett, I think, and the announcers are like "has Jarrett booked himself to win again?" What the fuck?
LOLOLOL
I can't be the only one who loves the promos you cut on Michael Hayes. Don't stop.
I don't think I have many things left I could say about him.
Yeah, I'm loving this service. Just tuned in randomly to the live feed. Caught the last bit of a video package featuring pre JBL Bradshaw that was really cool to watch. Immediately following, there was a promo segment with the two greats, Macho Man Randy Savage and Paul Bearer. It was fantastic.
More of this please, WWE. There needs to be an hour show dedicated to the best promos. Need more Macho Man in my life.
More of this please, WWE. There needs to be an hour show dedicated to the best promos. Need more Macho Man in my life.
Host Samurai
Member
Im going to use the search feature and watch lots of Bastion Bugger matches.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Yeah Hayes sucks on Legends too. And the CM Punk documentary was really clear about him being the main guy behind him being held down for so long. What an obnoxious shithead.
This thread should be turned into FUCK MICHAEL HAYES for a page or two to make Sunny sad about like Michael Hayes. Some other Michael Hayes stories: Got suspended for believing he had n-word privileges and telling Mark Henry that he was "more of a nigger" than Mark was. This was after he had been reprimanded for using slurs in the past because he feels it is okay since he doesn't "mean any harm" by them. And that was done on a WM weekend.
Has currently been suspended since last year for offering Rosa Mendez a drink literally days after she finished an alcohol rehab program.
Has currently been suspended since last year for offering Rosa Mendez a drink literally days after she finished an alcohol rehab program.
bitesnintendog
Member
You can catch the Raw he debuted as Friar Ferguson. I have no clue how they thought that was going to get over but they seemed to have dropped it after two episodes.
Host Samurai
Member
Seen it. Such a strange gimmick. I like Bugger much better. Ill never forget him picking his nose while on the toilet.
On the subject of Michael Hayes, he seemed like such a dick wad in a video that involved the guy that does Stone Cold ET and all those drive through videos. He goes to a signing dressed as Flair and greets Hayes, and Hayes is acting like a complete dick.
He does the same thing to Warrior and Warrior got a kick out of it
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
Michael Hayes and the Nasty Boys should be a tag team.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Wow I forgot about that Mark Henry thing. What good has this guy ever done?
Host Samurai
Member
Here is a PPV that I am going to catch hopefully tonight. Summerslam 91. That last time we would see the end of prime Warrior. This was apparently the match where he got fired when he came back through that curtain.
When Warrior came back at WM 8, he was mad skinny and had weird attire. He wasn't the same.
Also isn't this the first time Ric Flair has shown up in the WWF?
When Warrior came back at WM 8, he was mad skinny and had weird attire. He wasn't the same.
Also isn't this the first time Ric Flair has shown up in the WWF?
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Deleted member 47027
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I completely forgot about the Mark Henry shit. Fuck Hayes.
Idk. He's been in control of Smackdown for a long time and Smackdown has been a non-factor for most of the last 10 years. I have to think they only reason he hasn't been fired is because he's on Smackdown. The shit he does wouldn't fly at Raw. Maybe Vince feels some kind of loyalty for him for whatever he did during the Attitude Era.
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Deleted member 47027
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You can have it today using unblockus or any other reasonable proxy.
BFIB
Member
Hayes is like that guy in high school that constantly "hung out" with the popular kids. And by "hung out" I mean constantly stood in the vicinity of them, but never was really noticed, but thought his shit didn't stink because he was "one of the cool kids."
Regarding Legends, I never really noticed how much he tries to hijack the conversations, but now upon watching another one, you guys are exactly right. He truly thinks he is the end all be all for anyone who has had success.
Marvel
could never
Interesting *strokes goatee* I'll look into that.
Not only does he hijack conversations, but he cuts people off constantly to talk himself up. And bitches about the Freebirds not being in the HOF just about every show. He's more of a mark for himself than Bret.
BFIB
Member
Unblock-Us is fantastic. I'm using it for my MLB subscription.
Just a word of note however, that it will not work on tablets, and phones due to location services being used for the WWE app.
However, if you have a Roku/AppleTV/home console, your good to go!
Another Hayes thing, though one I would hope isn't true: I remember picking up an issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated as a kid, and an article on the Freebirds jokingly discussed how as a kid Hayes would bury cats up to their heads and run over them with lawnmowers. It seems like a Michael Hayes kind of thing to do.
Fox Mulder
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wow, I quit watching wcw by then. Wasn't Jarrett in some shitty nwo too?
BFIB
Member
Everything Jarrett ever touched turned to shit.
bitesnintendog
Member
I think it was nWo 2000. It quickly became just him and the Harris brothers.
Wow, this guy sounds like a hot mess. God, I could only imagine Henry's expression at being told some shit like that. I have to start watching his matches on the Network now.
Aaaaaand, I just found this. SMH, Stephanie. And I was feeling her so much two weeks ago on RAW.
Some other things Michael Hayes has been accused of doing:
Calling David Kapoor (Ranjin Singh) a sand nigger.
Booker T. says he heard Hayes say the n word all the time because he thinks he is black, but Booker didn't take offense as he didn't believe there to be malice behind the word when Hayes used it.
It is rumored that part of the reason Lashley left WWE was due to some conflict with Hayes that made Hayes ice him out of stories on Smackdown.
Calling David Kapoor (Ranjin Singh) a sand nigger.
Booker T. says he heard Hayes say the n word all the time because he thinks he is black, but Booker didn't take offense as he didn't believe there to be malice behind the word when Hayes used it.
It is rumored that part of the reason Lashley left WWE was due to some conflict with Hayes that made Hayes ice him out of stories on Smackdown.
Host Samurai
Member
Oh god. NWO 2000 its almost been blocked from my mind. What was the story with that faction? Was this before or after the New Blood era? 2000 era WCW was just so fucking bad from what I remember.
This
He fucking sucks. His WWF days were ass, Jim Cornette was the whole gimmick, Jarrett on his own was useless, he had that awful white attire. There was one PPV where he "sang" with some country singer in WWF.
His WCW days were even worse, those orange glasses, the shitty short blond hair, the "Slap Nuts" gimmick, fuck he was shitty.
I know he isent the worst wrestler (the whole package) of all time, there are worse turds than him in this bussiness but in terms of being where he was on the card and who his father is, he was ass.
CartridgeBlower
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Going back and watching a lot of pre-Attitude era stuff, its funny seeing and hearing McMahon as an announcer. Was he liked in this role? Was he considered good? Because half the time I can't understand what he was saying...
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Deleted member 47027
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Hell yes. Vince's enthusiasm is endearing and a lot of fun to listen to him especially with Ventura with him. Ventura would give him a hell of a hard time and he always took it in stride.
For some reason that really, really bothers me.
They reformed at the end of 1999. Russo forced Roddy Piper to recreate Montreal at Starrcade 1999, screwing Goldberg. The next night on Nitro, they had a rematch. The Outsiders came out and Bret SWERVED everyone by turning on Goldberg. Originally, the group was Bret, Hall, Nash, Jarrett. Scott Steiner returned a few weeks later and joined the group. The Harris Brothers were body guards. Then Bret got hurt. Then Nash got hurt. Then Jeff and Hall started fighting and were in a triple threat with Sid. Hall got hurt and never returned. Steiner went off to do his own thing. Jeff then turned on Nash and the nWo became just Jeff and the Harris Brothers, which ended completely once the New Blood kicked in. It was fucking garbage. All of it.
Host Samurai
Member
What a death to the nWo.
Whats ironic is that ultimately the nWo really did destroy WCW IRL
You know with you recapping that year...it makes me feel like Oh Dae-Su after he's realized what he's done. It's not a good feeling.
Host Samurai
Member
How did the original NWO break up. The last thing I really remember about the original NWO in 1999 was that the Wolfpack NWO and Hollywood NWO merged into one group. I have totally forgot what happened inbetween the merger and the NWO that Bret was the leader in.
I finally figured out my problem (no thanks to WWE support). Evidently my password was too long; when I changed it to something shorter, everything suddenly worked. So bizarre.
