Vgmastr
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What are the best (Non Royal Rumble) battle royals that people have seen? I want to watch some this week. I love a good battle royal but they're not something I ever think to go back and watch again.
There's a battle royal on RAW in the fall of '93 to crown a new IC Champ that's pretty great.
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Watching the ep of RAW that aired before SummerSlam '94 and they keep saying it's "One Week From Tonight!". Did they really run SummerSlam on Monday night? What aired on RAW that night? I know running PPVs during the week was pretty regular early on, but thought they went exclusively to Sunday Only once RAW started airing. I was watching during this time, but I don't remember them having Monday Night PPVs
EDIT: Ok, they clarified at the end of the show that RAW wouldn't be on the air the next two weeks due to the US Open airing on USA. I still find it odd that they ran the PPV on Monday night
The first seven Summerslams were all on Monday nights. The first Summerslam on a Sunday wasn't until 1995 when they expanded to monthly PPVs and moved them all to Sunday.
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Every single Clash is now up. I thought maybe they'd do a slow roll out,but they're all there.
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If you click on the Clash I link on the schedule it takes you to the "not available on demand until after it premieres" message. But the video is up:
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I went to a Raw House Show in the summer of 2003, this was after Austin retired from wrestling but was the Raw Co-GM. He and Jericho did a Highlight Reel segment and it was pretty clear the whole thing was just them trying to get the other to laugh. Jericho won after stealing Austin's catchphrase and doing multiple "If you want to see Chris Jericho and Stone Cold share a beer give me a " followed by goofy phrases, and the crowd was with him on each one. Austin was just guffawing and hiding it badly by putting his arm over his face. By far the most entertaining thing on the show.
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Did Arn Anderson know his match with Lex Luger from Slim Jims Halloween Havoc 96 was going to be his last one going into it? I'm under the belief that he was hurt going into the match but I don't know if he planned on that being his last match or if he was still planning on wrestling but wasn't able to recover from his injury and was forced to retire.
That wasn't Arn's last match, I went to a Saturday Night taping in January 1997 and remember Arn wrestling. Looking at thehistoryofwwe.com, Arn's last match was teaming with Steve McMichael against the Amazing French Canadians on the 1/27 Nitro. I actually saw Arn's second to last match in person, didn't realize that. Looking further down in the results mentions Flair saying in an interview that Arn would be back wrestling after his surgery, so I'm guessing everyone was expecting him to come back.
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Watching 1993 WCW, and were there ever any plans to turn Vader face? As the year goes along the fans cheer Vader more and more, and by the time Battlebowl comes around it appears as if the fans have taken such a liking to Vader beating the tar out of everyone that they cheer him ferociously all night? I know Vader was very effective as a monster heel, but he sure seems headed towards being a face by the end of 1993. Did Hogan arriving change all that, or were they just content to keep Vader as a heel?
Vader actually turned face in 1995 right before leaving WCW. He was scheduled to be on Hogan's team for War Games.
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Which is kind of funny, because in Jericho's second book he said Vince ripped him a new one after that Armageddon match, basically telling him he was the drizzling shits and that if he couldn't have a good match with X-Pac on the following Raw he was pretty much going to be out the door.
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WWE posted the programming schedule for Wrestlemania Week on the Network:
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/30/wrestlemania-week-on-wwe-network-schedule-26198459
Some highlights:
Live press conference airing tomorrow morning.
A live two-hour Wrestlemania Today show each night from Axxess on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
A brand new Legends of Wrestlemania Roundtable on Friday Night.
A live Red Carpet show before the live Hall of Fame Ceremony.
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I'm guessing NXT gets the preshow match, since they pretty much have no one left on the main roster to fill it. Unless they bump one of the already announced matches to the preshow.
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Nothing earthshattering came out of the ep but it was fun watching them snipe at each other.
A couple of other moments like that:
On the Canada one Bret is asked who in his opinion is the greatest Canadian wrestler and he says Archie Goulding. Pat Patterson just about loses his shit when he hears that.
DDP and JR go at it a lot in the celebrities one over the various celebrities WCW used, Arquette especially.
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They added a particularly awesome episode of Legends of Wrestling on the 1970s with Nick Bockwinkel, JJ Dillon and Pat Patterson all trading stories. Too bad the fourth seat for that one was Hayes. The Patriotism one is pretty good too as it's just pretty much Sgt. Slaughter telling awesome stories the whole time.
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They could make Brie one of the most over faces on the roster if they have her take Steph out at Wrestlemania.
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They just added another MSG show from 1991, and the top and bottom ropes are reversed so the top rope is blue and the bottom rope is red, it's an odd thing to get used to.
The first match is Steamboat vs. Smash, and Steamboat makes a mistake. Not sure if he lost count or just wasn't thinking, but Smash had him in a chinlock and the ref went to raise his arm and on the third time Steamboat's arm drops, so the ref lifts his arm a fourth time and Steamboat keeps it up and powers out. Heenan had a field day yelling at the ref about not doing his job.
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I got a chuckle out of Maria Menounos trying to protect kayfabe and Jericho was all "Say whatever you want."
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Show her Savage/Warrior from WM7, explain to her the history between Macho and Liz and watch her bawl her eyes out at the reunion.
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It's kind of interesting how little Gorilla and Jesse actually worked together. When you think of Hulkamania era WWF, you think of those two calling it, because they did the PPVs and all the big moments. However on TV it was always Vince/Jesse and Gorilla/Brain. When you actually count them up, Gorilla and Jesse did five Wrestlemanias (1, 3, 4, 5, 6), three Survivor Series (87, 88, 89) and one Royal Rumble (89). That's it, did those two really only do nine shows together?
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Rockers/Express is awesome, as is the Bossman/Barbarian match that follows. Probably my favorite big man match, I love everything about it. After that, though, the card is pretty meh. The Rumble itself is just blah, pretty much nothing happens, they build up the ring to about 10 guys right away and it stays that way the whole time, no real story to it at all.
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I'm watching Battlebowl 93 and Jesse tells Tony, "Things could be worse, you could be indicted or something." I googled the dates, and this show took place the day after Vince was indicted.
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Alright I watched long enough to see the Steiner brothers vs. Harlem Heat and that was a really fun match. I think I'm going to take Raziel's suggestion and stop 98 and head to 91 and 92.
And of course on the ps3 version it stops at 93. Maybe they have it on the computer version...
91 and 92 are on WrestleWar those years. 93 is when they moved it to Fall Brawl.
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War Games '98 is the worst of them, don't judge the gimmick on that, they bastardized the format to fit the multiple nWos, it's pretty awful.
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Garvin/Valentine blowoff is at the Rumble with a Submission match.
Survivor Series is after Garvin was reinstated. Summerslam has Garvin as the ring announcer of the Valentine/Hercules match.
The announce job by Gorilla and Jesse at Survivor Series 89 is my favorite of all time. They are absolute gold for the Hulkamaniacs/Million $ Team and Warriors/Heenan Family matches.
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Survivor Series 89 and all these random teams...
Can the WWE go back to a whole PPV of Elimination Tag matches?
One thing I hope an effect the network has is now that they don't really have to be worried as much about buyrates is allow them to experiment a little with PPVs. Do a Survivor Series with all Elimination Matches, do a Battlebowl, bring back KOTR, etc.
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I couldn't get any VOD to play for more than 5 minutes on my PS3 the first two days. However, today has been flawless. Watched Starrcade 91 this morning and Tuesday in Texas right now, no buffering whatsoever, they play immediately, and I can fast forward and rewind with no issue or hiccup. Absolutely perfect. I'd say anyone still with issues to just have patience, I think they're working out the kinks.
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If you don't care about outdated rosters, try to find the Bigs or the Bigs 2, fun as hell and pure arcade.