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    SEPT WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    The nWo did age really poorly. Hogan did have heat, but that was just WCW crowds who hated him already turning that hatred up a notch. I don't know if Hogan really changed much about himself as a character in terms of his delivery or goofy weirdness, though he did change his offense to back rakes, eye pokes, belt shots, and stalling, which was actually interesting depending on the context. 

     

    Where the nWo angle goes wrong, at least for me, is when they are setting up a renegade group led by Sting that included a recently-fired Randy Savage and a DDP that was on the outs with his old friends Hall and Nash. That looks REALLY interesting, and they quash it by turning Savage heel on DDP for no reason and having him join up with the guys that tortured him for months. Even something like justifying it by saying that he had his problems with Hogan, but he'd never want to be on the same side as that son-of-a-bitch Ric Flair would have done a bit to make the turn make sense, but really, they should have just run with Sting gathering an army of outcasts that they had going there. That opens up some interesting matchups and storyline possibilities.

     

    The other thing that drags this down is that I've seen it and already know that the nWo doesn't get killed off at Starrcade '97. The nWo needed to be put down completely at that point and milking the angle beyond that was just awful, especially that Wolfpac/Black-and-White garbage. Sting joining the nWo was the worst - that never, ever, ever should have happened, but since they needed stuff to do with the nWo in 1998...

    The reaction Savage got for his sit-down protest on Nitro and when Sting joined him was nuclear and one of WCW's better executed angles. The fact that they made it a distant memory by not building on it and having Savage rejoin the nWo says it all, really. Love the idea of an anti-nWo but not quite part of WCW faction. They hinted at it strongly but never went anywhere with it. Shame.

     

    The nWo had some heat left on them after Starrcade but there certainly should've been an end game with them at some point. I liked Sullivan's idea on a recent shoot (I think a timeline of '96 WCW) where Hogan loses clean to Stinger and goes insane watching the footage in a dark room with multiple TVs over and over again with Hall and Nash mocking him, setting up a crazy Hogan face turn IIRC. Sullivan has such a tremendous mind for angles and characters.

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    The NXT Thread

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    Delusional heel Tyson Kidd might be my favorite thing about WWE television right now. 

     

    I love that Sasha Banks continues to establish that her real Achilles heel is hubris. 

     

    I am sad if Regal as GM means no more of him on commentary. Which reminds me, I can't tell Alex Riley's shitty heel commentary apart from Byron Saxton's shitty heel commentary, but either way, they really bum me out. 

     

    I liked Bull Dempsey's inset promo tonight. He had some nice delivery. I really do think that he's going to put it together and be really good at some point. 

    Dude, I can't tell Riley, Saxton, or Phillips apart. They all have the same voice and none of them are any good. Saxton can be decent when he's not trying to be an over the top heel. I can only tell it's Phillips when he busts out his "whoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoa" five times a match.

     

    I preferred the previous Bayley/Sasha match but this week's wasn't bad. Charlotte was good with the crowd but took it a bit too far to the point Bayley had to refocus her. All three women have a bunch of potential. Hopefully they can drop the "divas" label and create a strong women's division on the main roster with AJ, Emma, Paige, and Alicia Fox.

     

    Going back to the poor crowd reactions to Neville, I don't even think it's just him. They're missing Bo's presence and major heeling in a bad way. Breeze and Kidd are fine heels but they don't drive the crowd nuts like Bo did.

    August 2014 Football Thread

    in SOCCER/FUTBOL

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    Loving this draw. Groups D, E, and F are really toight and Liverpool gets a the biggest club in the world and two teams they ought to finish above. Couldn't have gone much better than that.

     

    Another group of death for City, that is some luck. My heart goes out to them (lol).

     

    Edit: Fixtures found here.

    WWE Home Video Revisionist History

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    It's weird how the WWF kind of neglects the fact that the Attitude Era wasn't a switch they turned on after they were getting beaten by WCW in ratings, but rather a slow progression towards an edgier concept of SPORTS ENTURTAINMENT. Goldust debuted in September 1995, Diesel basically went tweener in '96 before leaving with the whole black glove gimmick ("buy the glove if you want to support Diesel, kids!"), and late '96 through '97 had more and more racy shit. The Attitude Era episode of MNW made it seem like VInce's speech was more or less the light switch. Shit, Roddy Piper was "attitude era" as well.

     

    They threw ECW a bone saying they influenced the hardcore/violent in-ring stuff but neglected to say anything about Austin finding himself there, Sandman's influence, or any of the other stuff that would take away from the brilliance of the McMahon.

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