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In Ring > RAW Replays
>1995 - 4/3/95
This is the post-Wrestlemania XI show where bodyguard Sid turns on HBK, leading to Michaels taking off for six weeks, leading to the babyface return.
In Ring > RAW Replays
>1995 - 4/3/95
This is the post-Wrestlemania XI show where bodyguard Sid turns on HBK, leading to Michaels taking off for six weeks, leading to the babyface return.
That angle was fucking amazing. They should have ripped it off for Brock/Punk the day after 29.
ReplyDeleteAJ Styles and Air Paris as a tag team.
ReplyDeleteThat was the Raw that thoroughly sucked me back in after my fandom had waned somewhat. Of course, things King Mabel getting a monster Summerslam push diminished my interest again until the Monday Night Wars finally put me on the hook for once and for all.
ReplyDeletethank god for my pirate box.. haha i still have all wcw 2000 on tape!
ReplyDeletemuch respect to booker to as the only wcw guy to make it through all the bs vince did to wcw during the invasion. at one point he was the only reason i watched the e until trips buried him.
ReplyDeleteremember midajah?? yumm
ReplyDeletethis goes to all my freaks out there, big poppa pumps your hook up. holler if ya hear me!
ReplyDeleteIn 200 wcw also had wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy hotter women than wwf. torie wilson stacy kiebler end of discussion.
ReplyDeleteScreamin Norman Smiley!
ReplyDeletewhat sucks is he shulda kept up with his cardio for his inevitable wwf run where he would be given a shot.. smh
ReplyDeleteI remember no one giving a shit about Scott Steiner in early 1999, even though they were trying to their best to make people care about him.
ReplyDeleteI second BJ's statement; the only heat he got in early 1999 was "steroid" chants from crowds. I don't remember him getting significant heat until early 2000.
ReplyDeleteI miss the Nitro Girls. Though I will admit that Fyre is nowhere near as fine as I remember her.
ReplyDeleteI liked it better when he was presented as a serious wrestler except he would do the slap the ass thing. Screamin Norman Smiley was way too over the top and over thought out.
ReplyDeleteAmen
ReplyDeleteif you don't believe random kanyon kutters make the list, you need to re-evaluate your priorities
ReplyDeletealso, the cat as commissioner, esp. once he got going as a babyface. for some reason, he was bailing it in that role, along with miss jones
the triple tag team championship was introduced i believe...
ReplyDeleteWas the James Brown payoff in 2000 or 2001? I thought that was an underrated angle. Cat bragging he knew James Brown and it turns out HE DID KNOW James Brown. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteVampiro vs Sting in an inferno match where a stunt double got lit on fire
ReplyDeleteI think it may have been 2001, but I thought the "Simulcast" with Shane McMahon becoming owner of WCW was a masterstroke, and an amazing way to close off Nitro for good - it was like one final "get one over on Vince" moment and it felt epic as hell.
ReplyDeleteIf they hadn't so badly screwed up everything after that in terms of the storylines, it would have gone down as one of THE benchmark moments in professional wrestling, up there with Austin 316, Hogan slamming Andre, etc, don't you think?
spring of 2000, i believe
ReplyDeletebringing back of the insane clown posse for whatever reason
ReplyDeleteand then they kept pushing how sting was scarred for life and had to wear the ski mask
ReplyDeleteand then he randomly took it off and schiavone was like "no, he's fine" and that was the end of it
I think it's funny that Vampriro is in that Mil Mascaras and Ole Anderson group, workers that NO ONE likes. Even Jericho called him an asshole.
ReplyDeleteI heard Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J were recently released from the psyche ward; now they're just calling themselves The Clown Posse.
ReplyDeletealthough some will argue whether it was good at all, the blatant breaking of kayfab kayfabe was interesting. batb 2000, goldberg refusing to cooperate with steiner, the little comments here and there (what's the matter, sid? forget your squeegee?")
ReplyDeleteHe had Kane syndrome. His burns were psychological.
ReplyDeleteno more juggalo championshit wrestling at the gathering of the juggalos?
ReplyDeleteSting attacked by rabid pitbulls but wearing a protective suit...
ReplyDeletenot gonna lie: for some reason i dug the MIA (misfits in action)
ReplyDeleteno clue why. i think it was b/c in true russo fashion, he tried to give everyone something to do. they had a good shelf like, didn't overstay their welcome, and filled the time nicely enough
that was '99
ReplyDeleteJCW is fucking hilarious.
ReplyDeleteThe agents backstage asked Sid to ad aerial moves to his arsenal, on his first move he right angles his ankle!
ReplyDeleteand that was 2001!
ReplyDeleteyou are a man out of time!
soo uch shit at points its hard to keep track of years
ReplyDeleteahh man lol... imkinda just going through flaws of late 99 through the demise i guess.
ReplyDeletevery random moment: the 4 boxes on a pole match, one of which held the world title belt
ReplyDeletebooker t opened up one to get a signed picture of scott hall, who wasn't even with the company anymore but was being used as a running gag for some reason
ok buck nasty was it in 200 when they paid james brown a fuckton of money to not even promote him being there to crown the cat?
ReplyDeleterandom new blood... er, blood baths
ReplyDeletethat hit the target approx. .0000000000001% of the time
200?
ReplyDeleteAD or BC?
The Steiner- Buff combo was over huge for months by the time 1999 rolled around
ReplyDeleteIt was better as a surprise. Bad business but a great payoff to the angle.
ReplyDeletelol cut me a break i havent slept in 36 hours lol
ReplyDeletedidnt hogan make a comment about "eating kidman's ass"?
ReplyDeleteI was a fan of team package which was flair and Luger who used to use that weird stretchy thing to build muscles to intimidate ppl
ReplyDeletethe lex flexor?
ReplyDeleteand remember he was know longer known as luger but just simply the total package!
ReplyDeletebingo
ReplyDeleteand the announcers kept calling him Luger anyway
ReplyDeleteGeneral Hugh G. Rection
ReplyDeletethat was '99 i think :)
ReplyDeleteBUT
his entrance then was awesome. the music and the spotlights
and he changed his name in a "shoot" promo where he said he was sick of being hugh morrus and wanted to use his "birth name"
ReplyDeleteI say this realizing that The Hurricane was in Helms' best interests, but indie wrestling fans really lost out when Helms put the mask/facepaint on. The guy spent the rest of his career as a comedy character (save for the brief Rock push) and never found any momentum as serious heel Gregory Helms.
ReplyDeleteIf he hadn't been picked up by WWF or if he'd been released before the Hurricane thing caught on, we'd be speaking of him in the same awe'd breaths as AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels right now. There would have been some spectacular matches had "Sugar" Shane Helms been a founding father of ROH.
And let me reiterate once more, I realize WWF/E was the smart and profitable route for the guy. I'm saying this solely as someone who really used to enjoy watching epic 25 minute matches on VHS tapes that I ordered from a website. Seeing Shane Helms get to open up and let it go like James (Noble) Gibson did during his indie run, would have been awesome. Let's face it, the Hurricane never booked to work a single match that was better than the stuff Shane Helms did with Chavo Guerrero.
ahh i did do homework on this one it was 2000.. when the two of them teamed to battle hogan and sting until imediately the total package turned face to join the millionaires lub.. again why were the older richer guys faces while the hungry up and comers heels?? stupid!
ReplyDeletebig t's (ahmed's johnson) gut
ReplyDeletebooker and big feuding over the "t" and harlem heat music and booker having to use disney music
because wcw
ReplyDeletethan there was private stash, which only lasted one ep before they made him sgt stash bc the rannk of private was beneath him lol even though private stash was cooler.
ReplyDeletelol, just remembered a good one:
ReplyDeleteheel chauvinist mike tenay
"yeah yeah honey. i know, i get it, 'i am woman, hear me roar'"
and how baout major gunns with those double qq tits lol
ReplyDeleteDid hitman suckering Goldberg to spear him with a metal plate hidden under his jersey happen in 2000. If not I think flair won the title for a moment
ReplyDeleteand how pops was a dirty old man around her
ReplyDeleteTo bad Russo thought that would actually draw money.
ReplyDeletewas it 200 wen mean gene finally got the official gimmick of the dirty old man haha. you can tell its not far from real life everytime ashley would walk in the legends house.
ReplyDeletesteel plate was '99, right before owen died
ReplyDeleteflair did win the title twice in 2000
beat jarrett for it, but was stripped of it b/c his (legit?) inner ear balance issue flaired (heh) up
the nash beat jarrett for it, and simply handed it back to flair
no winter 99 before owen died.. still brets best wcw segment besides the el dandy interview and the benoit tribute match.
ReplyDeleteI liked when Kaz Hayashi and La Parka were briefly paired as Kazanova and The Bone Daddy, complete with over-dubbed jive-talk promos. I don't know, some might say it was kind of racist-ish, but I just saw it as a funny and clever way to showcase two underused workers with language limitations. According to Wikipedia La Parka ended it by throwing away the mic in the middle of one of the promos.
ReplyDeleteWWF ripped off that idea for Kaientai; I feel like that would have gotten over if they'd stuck with it longer.
luger and bagwell getting squashed on ppv in about 10 sec bu jindrack and o'haire
ReplyDeleteNever got a fair shake in WWF? They constantly pushed him and gave him TV time. And would have been in a feud with Austin had he not vetoed it.
ReplyDeleteholy shit i dont remember that at all
ReplyDeletehey remebr the critically acclaimed blockbuster ready to rumble came out in 2000 lol. Jimmy the King! King is King!
ReplyDeleteloved the skull captain gimick for laparka!
ReplyDeletehaha it also gave us that ppv with that rediculous triple cage that had a guitar room of all things smh... dont get confused i am a huge wcw fan but the writing was on the wall halfway through '99 nad it hurt me as a youngster.
ReplyDeletei wonder how much pleading backstage happened just for hogan to do a program with a cruiser weight like kidman?
ReplyDeleteSin Cara is enough justification to make everybody serve at least 3 months at the performance center.
ReplyDeleteI though George Steele, of all people, had one of the most painful-looking submission holds with the flying hammerlock. I don't know that I've seen anyone else use it.
ReplyDeleteThe condominium spot? I've never been able to find the footage. I wish I remember what episode it was. I know I recapped it for the blog years ago.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the segment where he put the journalist in the chicken wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eov_8n8GaUU
No, but Total Divas is on multiple times a day!
ReplyDeleteDarren Young is in the present, though.
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, I checked it out, Vince's stunned silence after Savage's rant was hilarious.
ReplyDeleteThat ranks right up there with Gorilla Monsoon's "I don't care if you have a Z in the side of your head, that's not legal!" from (I think) Survivor Series 89 in terms of great quotes to bust out at random.