Today in WWE History

[Wang Chung]

WCW was just pure shit at the end... I mean come on

It was shit but I would still watch it over what we have now and then on RAW fucking AOL screwed everything.

 

[Horrorfan_1986]

WCW was just pure shit at the end... I mean come on

WCW had greatly improved in their final few months. Hell, they were actually using logic in their booking.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Hell I would have been happy with Vince keeping WCW around and shutting down smackdown instead or keeping and running it as its own separate company. I think things would have been better and used WCW to help his creative team pumping out good shows for both companies.

I'd had liked that, would it still be Nitro but like Friday Night Nitro?

The original plan was for WCW to be the babyface in the Invasion and they were going to win the angle declaring SmackDown! as their show.

It didn't pan out that way as first TNN refused to host WCW programming. Then the fans wouldn't get behind WCW stars so they turned heel.

After that things fizzled out due to the booking and Vince blamed WCW for that and turned SD! into it's own brand instead.

I never heard of this, learn something new every day.

WCW was just pure shit at the end... I mean come on

Kind of how WWE is now? WCW in it's prime was great, even when it was getting kinda blah I was bleeding WCW, I got to see both shows cause we had two VCR's and Two TV's :laugh: but i'd watch which ever tv has Nitro on it for that night and watch Raw later cause that's how big a fan of it I was. But I know you're not old enough to know when WCW was good so I'll let you get away with that.

 

[Smart Marx]

WCW was just pure shit at the end... I mean come on

You're pure shit.

It was shit but I would still watch it over what we have now and then on RAW fucking AOL screwed everything.

WCW had greatly improved in their final few months. Hell, they were actually using logic in their booking.

Exactly. WCW actually had a lot of greatness going on in the last six months. I thought it was the best WCW had been in a long time.

I'd had liked that, would it still be Nitro but like Friday Night Nitro?



I never heard of this, learn something new every day.



Kind of how WWE is now? WCW in it's prime was great, even when it was getting kinda blah I was bleeding WCW, I got to see both shows cause we had two VCR's and Two TV's :laugh: but i'd watch which ever tv has Nitro on it for that night and watch Raw later cause that's how big a fan of it I was. But I know you're not old enough to know when WCW was good so I'll let you get away with that.

It would have been WCW SmackDown!. WWE weren't going to revive the Nitro name after TNN refused to air it.

UPN already had a contract to air SD! so simply rebranding it as WCW was a simpler solution.

WCW fans make my heart warm and my pants tight. I miss the days of the nWo and Cruiserweights.

 

[The Viper]

I love going back and watching WCW in 2000 just for the nostalgia because that's when I started to watch WCW. I was so damn late :

 

[Horrorfan_1986]

To be fair, WCW in the Monday Night Wars wasn't very good. The Cruiserweights rarely had any actual angles, the main events virtually always ended in DQ when the nWo came in, the commentators refused to talk about anything except for the nWo, the nWo was a brilliant idea that ended up being terrible because Bischoff was forever stuck in the middle phase of the group, they failed to use their top guys to get newer stars over, so many of their main eventers didn't care and it showed in their matches and a lot of it just doesn't hold up when you watch it in 2013.

When it comes to WCW, I'd gladly watch 1992 over any of the Monday Night Wars years. The stuff holds up and things were actually advancing (Vader's push, the creation of Dangerous Alliance and push, Erik Watts being pushed, Scott Steiner's short lived push, ect)

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Today in WWE History takes us back to 1991 WrestleMania VII LIVE!!!! from Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California!!

The Main Event was Hulk Hogan vs Sgt. Slaughter!

Now I wasn't born yet back then and only has been able to watch that Wrestlemania once(dvd box set) and can't recall much from it so I don't got much of an opinion here but I will give my insight on the main event from where I can.


Sgt. Slaughter turns heel on all of America at a very important time, a war was going on with Iraq and he joins up with them. Hogan the Real American, the Hero of the USA.

Royal Rumble of 91 we see Sgt. Slaughter win the title and Hogan win the Rumble. As far as I know at this point the Rumble winner didn't get the Wrestlemania match so I got no idea how he got the shot, but that might have helped.

Wrestlemania we have Hogan going in for the US! and Sgt. Slaughter for Iraq.

Hogan ends up winning for America and I approve.

So what are people's opinion on not just that match, but on WrestleMania VII

 

[Horrorfan_1986]

The funniest thing about the Hogan/Slaughter match is that the Gulf War ended a month earlier! :

 

[Starlight]

I'm not sure what years my oldest brother watched wrestling, but he's 29 now. He use to watch WWE when it was WWF. After he grew out of it, he kept all his wrestling stuff in boxes in our storage unit. I use to find posters of wrestlers and divas I never even knew. He had a bunch of posters of his favorite wrestlers and divas, Hulk Hogan, but not the way he looks today, Undertaker in a jazzy gothic attitre and Paul Bearer, Kane with a mask, Sable, PMS (would have loved to seen a female group like that), and stuff like that. Reading what you guys are talking about it seems like WWE was really a lot better back then. Some of the best feuds I know probably wouldn't make the top 100 list in WWE/WWF history, or maybe so. It sucks being so young and missing out on so much in wrestling history.

I think he also watched a lot of ECW and WCW. I never talk much about wrestling to him because he's constantly on deployment or in the field for his job. He hasn't been a wrestling fan like he was for a long time. Ever since I could conversation about wrestling and not just say, "that was cool," I cannot talk to him about it. LOL

 

[Horrorfan_1986]

I'm not sure what years my oldest brother watched wrestling, but he's 29 now. He use to watch WWE when it was WWF. After he grew out of it, he kept all his wrestling stuff in boxes in our storage unit. I use to find posters of wrestlers and divas I never even knew. He had a bunch of posters of his favorite wrestlers and divas, Hulk Hogan, but not the way he looks today, Undertaker in a jazzy gothic attitre and Paul Bearer, Kane with a mask, Sable, PMS (would have loved to seen a female group like that), and stuff like that. Reading what you guys are talking about it seems like WWE was really a lot better back then. Some of the best feuds I know probably wouldn't make the top 100 list in WWE/WWF history, or maybe so. It sucks being so young and missing out on so much in wrestling history.

You really know how to make a guy feel so old. :

 

[Starlight]

You're only 26, but a big gap in between the eras of wrestling. I'm envious you got to see the height of wrestling without a John Cens.

 

[Horrorfan_1986]

You're only 26, but a big gap in between the eras of wrestling. I'm envious you got to see the height of wrestling without a John Cens.

Huge gaps. I began watching when Hulk Hogan was on top of the world in the WWF. All of you young whippersnappers make me feel even older than I actually am.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

How do u think I feel Jimbo?

 

[Fuji Vice]

How do u think I feel Jimbo?

Haha, even I get to call Booty old!

 

[Horrorfan_1986]

How do u think I feel Jimbo?

I imagine you're so old that you keep forgetting your age. :coolthumb: