Which lead to the title being vacated until the end of February. Then Sting winning, dropping it to Savage 2 months later, who then dropped it back to Hogan the next night.
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Which lead to the title being vacated until the end of February. Then Sting winning, dropping it to Savage 2 months later, who then dropped it back to Hogan the next night.
Host Samurai
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The jobber format was great for these old RAWs. It gave a chance to really showcase the star. Also these 1 hour RAWs really built up the mid card wrestlers very well with great matches, case in point was Janetty vs Doink 2 out of 3 falls.
It really made the build up to PPV events worthy because you wouldnt see Razor Ramon vs Bret Hart 100x a year on RAW. The product was so much less diluted and pretty fresh. I know that the early 90's was a huge downtime in pro wrestling but the booking and matchmaking were damn great.
It really made the build up to PPV events worthy because you wouldnt see Razor Ramon vs Bret Hart 100x a year on RAW. The product was so much less diluted and pretty fresh. I know that the early 90's was a huge downtime in pro wrestling but the booking and matchmaking were damn great.
I'd love to go back to having local wrestlers jobbing to the stars on RAW, but I'm assuming that doesn't happen now because of contracts and whatnot? Maybe?
No, it doesn't happen now because WWE (and TNA) are still in the mind set of the Monday Night Wars where you had to give away big matches every week to win the ratings war each week. Now I think they're afraid to go back to that kind of style of booking in mainland WWE, even though they do it in NXT, because they think fans will tune out. They trained their audience to accept the change in ring style over the course of a few years. I think the could do the same with formats of TV shows. It's beneficial for everyone for a number of reasons: Saves big matches and prevents people getting worn out of the same things over and over, saves wear and tear on stars, allows wrestlers to get characters over, allows people to actually look like stars instead of having the entire mid card also be jobbers at the same time, makes big matches happening on Raw/Smackdown seem like a big deal again, and possibly even make house shows seem more important.
Mr. Enigma
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Wait what? You mean you guys didn't enjoy watching Alberto Del Rio work with Sheamus and The Big Show on PPV about 7 times each?
Okay, so I was tired of everyone saying how cool this network is.. And I have watched wrestling in passing but was never a huge fan.
I went ahead and bit, and I'm pretty new when it comes to this stuff. So where should I start?
(If this has already been broken down I'm sorry.. I didn't wanna read through every page today)
I went ahead and bit, and I'm pretty new when it comes to this stuff. So where should I start?
(If this has already been broken down I'm sorry.. I didn't wanna read through every page today)
Rafa=FedKilla
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Where my Nitro at? Better be on the sixth month renewal carrot....
Wrestlemania 17 is possibly the greatest PPV ever, and includes all of the big names (Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H, Undertaker, Kurt Angle, etc.)
Another route you can go, if you want to watch multiple PPVs in order, would be to start at the beginning of 1997 (in WWE specifically) and just watch everything until Wrestlemania 17. Basically an Attitude Era marathon. I did it over the past couple of years (including every Raw). It's fun.
Pop-O-Matic
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Watched some of the Best of Smackdown episode, and is it just me, or did the graphic for the Tag Team Title still have the WWF logo on the belt?
brain_stew
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Zero.
Yeah, the one week free trial will definitely be disabled during PPV weeks.
JPeeples83
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They made a deal with the Fund to show the WWF logo and not have to mute the F anymore back in 2012.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
"...put the NWO colors on them and they become a star forever"
*shows closeup of Buff Bagwell*
*shows closeup of Buff Bagwell*
Fox Mulder
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that's nice. No way they could have launched a network with footage ruined with excessive blurring of every little logo.
Frustrated_Grunt
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Holy shit. The skipping is back in full force for me. It's becoming unwatchable if it happens every minute and a half.
The Fronde
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Skipping a little bit for me, too.
Didn't watch back in 2008, and picked SummerSlam at random. Haha, wow, Jericho just punched HBK's wife. Gotta give her a lot of credit. Plus, she's a great actor - was legit crying in the ring when HBK was teasing retirement.
Pop-O-Matic
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I know that, but this episode of Smackdown was from 2003, a year after the name/logo change, and yet it looks like the graphic they had for the belt still had the WWF logo.
Yup, expecting the worst but hoping for the best.
That's a good idea if you're watching the Raws. But while the Raws in 1997 might have been one of the best years ever, the PPVs are not that good. Really as you're watching those 1997 PPVs, you should skip everything that doesn't involve Austin and Bret probably until you get to King of the Ring 1997.
Mr. Enigma
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They still used the "WWF" belts for a few months after the WWE name change.
JPeeples83
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However, the blue and gold SD tags came about after the WWF-E name change. I went through my screens, and I didn't see anything showing the WWF logo for those belts - although I didn't grab a screen of the really big-shot of the belts before the match, only the corner graphic of them.
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It's good, but I'm pretty worn out from it. I think it's their basic nWo doc they released a couple years ago but I'm not entirely sure. They've retread that stuff SO much.
The doc they did a year or two ago was literally made up entirely out of the 2002 doc and Monday Night Wars DVD with updated Kevin Nash telling the same stories and Cody Rhodes telling the story about Dusty working him the whole time. It was shameless almost to a gross degree.
Yeah it's same documentary that's on netflix.
Fox Mulder
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lol, blackface xpac
Big Papa Husker
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I just watched The Rock VS Stone Cold from Wrestlemania X-7. Man, what a match. Man I miss JR's announcing ...
bitesnintendog
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Early impacts on fsn did a lot of the jobber matches. I don't think they were received very well by most. I agree that they should try to bring them back though, guys like Kofi and Ziggler would be in a much better place if they did.
Mr. Enigma
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Nobody knew it was Luger either until the Rumble '93 PPV.
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Can someone explain to me how Dennis Rodman & Jay Leno deserve 8 minutes while the fucking Fingerpoke of Doom is basically just reduced to one clip?
Personally, I'd rather watch Rodman and Leno than the Fingerpoke of Doom. At least with Rodman and Leno you had DDP and Hogan wrestling.
They'll probably allow it for now so they have another week to grab you on a 6 month commitment, but post Wrestlemania, they'll probably close it.
I wish there was a way to watch some of the interstitials independently of the live channel. I'd love to show the people the Blow Away diet.