Hoarr Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I'm young enough to admit that I was mostly influenced by RD Reynolds and X-Entertainment when it comes to online people. Never had a real wrassle site that I followed obsessively, don't know any of y'all old man references happening here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 AOL Grandstand or bust. #old 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I vaguely remember the Prodigy boards but I was so young back then I had no idea what was going on when it came to the insider stuff. This had to be like 93-ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Whatever happened to CRZ??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Wrestling sites were the first websites I went to when I got regular internet access in 1996 or so. Scoops, RSPW (mainly for links to other sites), and Wrestlezone were my biggest stops (Scoops was my internet start page for a long time), plus random other places that would host video clips of ECW/Japanese stuff that took 30 minutes to see about 10 seconds of action. I also subscribed to Slobberknocker Central's Monday night recaps which were always a good read with none of the self-indulgent bullshit a lot of the regular recappers would use. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 The first website I have an active memory of clicking on was "Chow Yun-Fat: God of Actors" It was a geocities, but it's still round sort of It's hard to choose which awesome award blurb at the bottom of the page to go with: This site received a Lavalinks Hot Web Site award from GroovePlanet, a webzine for Top-40 radio stations!!!!!! or This site has been reviewed by Excite, and was given 4/4 stars. or This site was designated a Cool Site in the CYF category of NewHoo! or This page was also honoured with the title of January 1997 Site of the Month by FirePig, who call themselves Boston's favourite band. Actually, the FirePig one is probably the most prestigious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 1 hour ago, Peck said: My 90s sites consisted of Al Isaacs/Scoops, Micasa/Samuda, 1Wrestling/Scherer and I think there was a guy named "The Slammer" Peter Sciretta. All of those are still better than the fucking awful Wrestling Inc, and the terrible human beings who post in the comment section, there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I also read puroresupower regularly back in the day too. Run by Zach Arnold...right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 http://www.the-w.com/ exists, to the person who wondered where CRZ was. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Idiot King Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I used to read a lot of x-wrestling and bino.com (which I never hear referenced anymore and maybe I was their sole reader, but I hope not?), and stuff like that where there was a lot of eyerolling about internet wrestling news sites in general. A lot of that stuff, uh, hasn't aged super well when I've poked around on the wayback machine. Totally unrelated, but: Has anyone ever run a match where all the spots are intentionally called loud enough to be heard by the audience? Not just Cena or whoever being too loud or someone being sloppy, but a match where the point was that that all the spots could be heard. As a comedy match, maybe? Or is that something that would still be treated as breaking a pretty big taboo? I am not saying this is a good idea or anyone should do this, but I was wondering if there's any video of something like that in existence, even on an indy level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 13 minutes ago, The Idiot King said: Has anyone ever run a match where all the spots are intentionally called loud enough to be heard by the audience? i seem to remember Road Dogg and Mick Foley doing something to that effect on a house show, calling spots on mic for everyone to hear. Then they had a "miscommunication" and started going at it "for real". Not sure if this is and Internet folk tale or not, never seen footage. Edit: sorry about huge empty space, I'm on my phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Like many of the old folks, i remember the internet before websites existed. i think i got on usenet in 1990 as an undergrad. I know i had a 1200 baud modem then for my apple iic. #so_old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I can't imagine internet without message boards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Well you had usenet and also places like AOL and Compuserve with message boards back then. dvdvr spawned out of rspw, didnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodzillaPerez Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I miss Xavier Doom's Slayground. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I'm pretty sure the message boards for Promotion Wars and Extreme Warfare were the first websites I found that were wrestling-centric. The latter game introduced me to people like Scotsman, CRZ and Scott Keith. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 7 minutes ago, Casey said: I'm pretty sure the message boards for Promotion Wars and Extreme Warfare were the first websites I found that were wrestling-centric. The latter game introduced me to people like Scotsman, CRZ and Scott Keith. It was always a goal of mine to write an EWR diary but I never had the patience to start one and update it regularly enough for it to be a worthwhile endeavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 9 minutes ago, Casey said: I'm pretty sure the message boards for Promotion Wars and Extreme Warfare were the first websites I found that were wrestling-centric. The latter game introduced me to people like Scotsman, CRZ and Scott Keith. Glad you brought that up. Keith and Scotsman were the same person, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I don't know honestly. I always used CRZ's commentary for matches in EWR because it was more straightforward than the other two. 7 minutes ago, The Nature Boy said: It was always a goal of mine to write an EWR diary but I never had the patience to start one and update it regularly enough for it to be a worthwhile endeavor. EWB has had some fantastic diaries over their 10+ year history. Really, some of these guys should be professional writers they were so good with storytelling. DMN, who is a member of this board, is actually pretty good at it too. I've had a few over the years but never had the patience to stick with it. It's a chore and a labor of love. I think my favorite thing was the efed they had/have, though. That was fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Holy shit, NXT is gonna be in Seattle in May! I'm definitely going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I started with RSPW in early 97. Thru it I found DVDVR. I miss Sabu242's newz updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTTW Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 So am I crazy, or is HHH, looking more muscular than ever at the age of 46, a walking billboard for rampant P.E.D abuse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 5 hours ago, sydneybrown said: Glad you brought that up. Keith and Scotsman were the same person, right? Scott Keith wishes he was Scotsman. Keith (who seems to have lost a ton of weight at some point) Scotsman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I thought Scotsman was funny, back in my youth. On the old Wrestling Uncensored(?) page. Out of any of them from WU, I ended up following Matt, who started his X-Entertainment pop culture site. Which provided some enjoyable articles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I would kill for a mobile version of EWR, had a lot of fun with that back in the day. 411 Wrestling was the only wrestling website I used to visit - loved reading JD Dunn's reviews as he always had great insight with none of the smarkyness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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