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Oh yeah all those guys are amazing but then a lot of 1998 was shit like the oddities and hawk and animal alcoholic angle and the brawl for all and actually watching the full raw you won't see much wrestling other than kicks and punches and every match ending in a run in
I enjoyed oddities as an act. The early attitude stuff was shit though. Meat, mae young hand birth, sexual chocolate, that interview with pillmans wife, the headbanger dude who pretended his wife was his mother until they changed that to his wife but they hinted he beats her or whatever that shit was.
Attitude era had a lot of shit (Perry Saturn and Moppey
) but it also had viscous matches (e.g. TLC with the Hardy Boyz) and some fantastic storylines as well as some of the most charismatic wrestlers from Stone Cold to The Rock to 2 Cool to even midcarders like Gangrel (until he was forced to speak).Now, a lot of the wrestlers seem very bland, probably due to the PG nature of the product.
Cody, who is the world champion, seems really boring. They have champions who are part time (Brock and Roman), the tag team scene only has a few good teams etc.
It was apparent when Rock came back recently. He put everyone to shame with his mic work, making the main face and heel look like side characters whereas back in attitude days, wrestlers were able to keep up with him.
But maybe I'm seeing things through rose-tinted glasses.
One thing for sure, the women's division is infinitely better now.
I get what you mean. Its why I liked oddities. It felt like lower and mid card people had actual characters. Some of it was shit. I think recently were seeing more of a move towards that again which is good.Attitude era had a lot of shit (Perry Saturn and Moppey
Now, a lot of the wrestlers seem very bland, probably due to the PG nature of the product.
Cody, who is the world champion, seems really boring. They have champions who are part time (Brock and Roman), the tag team scene only has a few good teams etc.
It was apparent when Rock came back recently. He put everyone to shame with his mic work, making the main face and heel look like side characters whereas back in attitude days, wrestlers were able to keep up with him.
But maybe I'm seeing things through rose-tinted glasses.
One thing for sure, the women's division is infinitely better now.
I think overall what helped was I watched attitude era as a teen. so it was a lot of fun. And it was good for its time too. Im not sure how a rewatch would go now, but I do remember a lot of early on was shit. It did take its time to get into the groove.
Finally. This was meant to be released days after mania but apparently the rock got involved?
Oh and Who can forget the Asian faction kidnapping val venis to chop off his dingdong
“I choppy your pee pee”Oh and Who can forget the Asian faction kidnapping val venis to chop off his dingdong
I watched that back when I thought wrestling was realOh and Who can forget the Asian faction kidnapping val venis to chop off his dingdong
Was confused as feck when he still had a massive bulge there a couple of weeks later
aside from the sexism, blatant degradation of women, occasional casual racism and general inappropriateness I still love the attitude era stuff.If the actual wrestling at the time wasn't 95% utter trash it would be peak WWE forever.
My favourite was the raw where undertaker tried to get Kane taken to an insane asylum by making him pass out, but then got hit over the head with a shovel by Austin who then swapped his body with Kane so Undertaker got committed instead, and then Kane and Austin threw Paul Bearer into a sewer. Just a standard Raw episode back in the day.
Finally! These guys deserve the titles.
So World of Sport is coming back in some form, for now just a couple of live shows. A young man I trained with for a few months is part of it, no surprise as he's 21 and like 6'5 or 6'6 Nathan Angel. Think he'll end up in WWE eventually
VICE has a great 4 part documentary on the downfall of WCW called "Who Killed WCW?" produced by The Rock and featuring key talent such as Eric Bischoff, Kevin Nash, The Rock, Goldberg, Bret Hart etc. I'm two eps in and really loving it.
Edit: just finished it. Booker T comes across really well in that. Some of the others though (Goldberg, Vince Russo etc) seem like deluded feck heads.
Edit: just finished it. Booker T comes across really well in that. Some of the others though (Goldberg, Vince Russo etc) seem like deluded feck heads.
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Guess that Drew is going to cash in tonight.
Wow... I didn't expect Bron to lose.
I didn't want him to have the title as we've already recently had one unstoppable IC champion, I thought it was too soon for Bron but really expected him to get the win but Zayn winning clean too?
I didn't want him to have the title as we've already recently had one unstoppable IC champion, I thought it was too soon for Bron but really expected him to get the win but Zayn winning clean too?
Cena retiring?
Retirement tour it seems. Ending at Mania.
Ending end of 25 apparently.
Their Summerslam match will be epic.
Both the ladder matches were bonkers.
Like how they tied Seth back into the CM Punk angle as well.
Like how they tied Seth back into the CM Punk angle as well.
Loved Jey USOs entrance.
The show has become so good that we cheer babyfaces now!
The show has become so good that we cheer babyfaces now!
Fairs, he carried the company on his back for a good few years there. I wonder who he puts over at Mania.
He said he’s doing 40 dates next year beyond mania.
They will defo let him fight for 17, probably win the new WHC
R truth
Cena is on Mount Rushmore for sure.
Ric Flair is a bit problematic these days so they may give Cena 17 to be the new King.
"Jesus Christ, Luther!"
Shame he won't have a reunion with Edge, probably his best rival.
One of the worst booking decisions to never turn him heel in his prime. The guy was versatile enough to be one of the hottest heels in the business. Shame that we'll never see it.
Reckon we'll get Cena/Cody to go along with Rock/Reigns at WM41?
I believe this is what they'll do on the first night with The Rock turning on Romans after the match setting them up for the Summerslam or WM42. The Rock squashed Cena with a single rock bottom at the WM40 so there is definitely a payback for that. Cena can win his no.17 at the Summerslam.
The rumors are that The Rock might not return in August as planned so it's one of the directions so they might take this direction.
Would rather Orton against one of them, feels like he’s just there waiting to start his next heel run
CM Punk Vs DM Hunk has a fair claim to one of the nights
Can they keep it going all the way to WM? Feels like it's red hot at the moment. I feel like they could get away with the year long build for Cody/Roman 2.0 because Roman was basically part time. Punk and Drew feels Summerslam bound. Could have a feud ender at WM in the Cell maybe?
Watching the XL doc.
Should have just released it as is initially, and let rock have his own doc released after.
I certainly can smell what the rock is cooking with the amount of brahma-bullshit coming out his mouth.
Should have just released it as is initially, and let rock have his own doc released after.
I certainly can smell what the rock is cooking with the amount of brahma-bullshit coming out his mouth.