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    Another Attempt at a MARCH Wrestling Thread

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    14 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

    Who's to say TBS would have kept funding WCW if they never got Hogan etc.? They could've been dead within two years instead of seven. Who knows, though, maybe Austin, Foley, and Dustin Rhodes become stars way sooner and they put Vince out of business-- its not out of the realm of possibility. The key thing was not just signing name WWF guys, but making the TV look less shitty and regional. If Bischoff still does that, I think they could've MAYBE had a shot. 

    Well yeah, that's why I said it was a catch 22.  Hogan, etc put them over the top but ended up killing the company.

    Podcast Potpourri (aka Not Austin, AOW, Talk Is Jericho....)

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    Prichard towing the company line is usually easy to let slide since it doesn't impact things too much.  Listen to the show enough and you'll figure out how to take the good with the bad.  That being said, the Mania 7 and the steroid scandal shows were skippable due to Prichard's insistence on sticking to McMahon's narrative becoming absolutely intolerable.  When he's doing things like sticking to the bomb scare story or swearing Meltzer is wrong about the Mania 3 attendance, it's too much.

    When they covered No Holds Barred, I really wished they'd addressed the rumor that Vince and Hogan locked themselves in a hotel room with a bunch of coke and rewrote the script.

    The Old School Questions thread

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    Listening to Prichard's podcast, he mentions that there was always an argument of who made who and who was bigger, between Piper and Hogan.  I don't get it and I think Piper played up his importance a bit too much.  Piper did play a major part in the War to Settle the Score and the ramp up to Mania 1, but it looks like that was the limit to his involvement with Hogan.  Just looking at MSG matches from before and after Mania, it looks like Piper was programmed against mid and upper mid carders before and after that angle and doesn't even seem to have had a singles run with Hogan, probably due to Piper's refusal to do jobs.

    So did Piper contribute to a hit angle?  Yes.  Did he "make" Hogan?  I don't think so.  It's not like they had some drawn out feud between arch-rivals that boosted Hogan's career.  Piper helped one hot angle but I feel like Hogan would have been huge no matter what.

    The Walking Dead.

    in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV

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    Third-to-last episode of the season so of course nothing much happens until the final minute and they're just treading water.  Good to know Negan was polite enough to hold off coming out of his hideout until Rosita and Sasha finished their heart to heart.  

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    Another Attempt at a MARCH Wrestling Thread

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    13 hours ago, Wyld Samurai said:

    But, AJ Styles isn't that 15-20 year guy eother. He's great as a 3-5 year guy due to his age... but really, every talent should be looked at in that kind of window. Project the next 3-5 years and see where they are and tske it from there.

     

    This is a great point.  They're just not going to get a 15-20 year guy.  The last two booms were led by Hogan and Austin, 8 years and 7 years, respectively, though both runs should have ended before they did.  5 years is about right but this is what happens when you have a company whose management never changes.  If people are worried about AJ's "bump card," I'm sure he could tone down his style a bit and be just fine.

    12 hours ago, Craig H said:

    I still say the person with the best chance of being the guy and doing all of this publicity work and so on is Finn Balor. The dude has got "it."

    Finn will never be the guy as long as he's under 6' and under 200lbs.  GOD DAMMIT PAL HE'S SO SKINNY.  

    12 hours ago, Brysynner said:

    The thing with Roman is, he's getting all the praise that people gave the Rock when he first started. 

     

    Aside from Samoan lineage, sweet pecs and dreamy eyes you could lose yourself in, who in the fuck looked at Leeakee in FCW and thought the same things they did when they saw the Rock on day one?  Because those people are idiots.

    Another Attempt at a MARCH Wrestling Thread

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    5 minutes ago, Casey said:

    The sooner WWE realizes Roman Reigns isn't the next John Cena, but the next Randy Orton - the better off they'll be.

    I don't know if they ever will, though.  Vince seems to have gotten even more tone deaf and stubborn in his old age, not less.  Vince is a guy who thinks without a doubt that the fans will like what he tells them to like.  In his mind, he alone created the 80s and 90s booms, not a combination of his own talent plus timing, luck, and having the right wrestlers.  He seems to really believe he can create a star whenever he wants.  If they didn't realize Roman wasn't the guy their first six coronation attempts, I don't think they ever will.

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