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Post by szatowski420 on Jul 26, 2007 14:01:26 GMT -5
Reading the posts on this thread is reminding me of how much wcw sucked in their last 3 years of existence.
Mr Old School, the man who came up with Viagra on a Pole was Vince Russo. Among his other "brilliant" ideas were: David Arquetter as WCW champ, Mike Awesome being the 70s guy, Hugh Morris changing his name to Hugh G Rection, having Medusa in the world title tournament, having the wcw title change hands like 5 times in a one week span, Oklahoma, and recreating the Montreal Screwjob by having Piper call for the bell when Bret wrestled Goldberg at Starcade 99 and then the belt was vacated the next night and Bret won it again. intellectually- disabled.
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Post by taker1 on Jul 26, 2007 14:52:45 GMT -5
Reading the posts on this thread is reminding me of how much wcw sucked in their last 3 years of existence. Mr Old School, the man who came up with Viagra on a Pole was Vince Russo. Among his other "brilliant" ideas were: David Arquetter as WCW champ, Mike Awesome being the 70s guy, Hugh Morris changing his name to Hugh G Rection, having Medusa in the world title tournament, having the wcw title change hands like 5 times in a one week span, Oklahoma, and recreating the Montreal Screwjob by having Piper call for the bell when Bret wrestled Goldberg at Starcade 99 and then the belt was vacated the next night and Bret won it again. intellectually- disabled. Not to mention he probably booked the most unwanted heel turn ever when he made Goldberg heel. And remember his stupid " If you lose, you're fired" thing with Goldberg? And who could forget the HORRIBLE worked shoot with Goldberg walking out at New Blood Rising. Or the same PPV, Stacy getting pregnant and having a miscarriage. The list goes on and on.
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Post by blu3blazer on Jul 26, 2007 15:14:21 GMT -5
I actually liked Mike Awesome as That '70s Guy. They stuck him with so many horrible gimmicks, but he was able to make them work.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 26, 2007 15:21:23 GMT -5
Basically, the whole "Millionaire's Club" vs "New Blood" was taking a stab at the problems that were alledged to have been going on behind the scenes in wCw. Most fans knew about how rampant the guaranteed contracts to the big name stars had become, and how wCw was notorious for having a "glass ceiling" as far as new talent went. Hogan was at the forefront of all that mess . . . . but actually, I found the storyline to be quite interesting, all be it shortlived . . . . The funny thing is that you would think that the Millionaire's Club would have been the heels in that scenario, but the crowd didn't buy into it. They didn't give a less about Kidman and the other New Blood members and cheered for the Millionaire's Club anyway. They wanted the whiny little bitches to be held down.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 26, 2007 15:37:04 GMT -5
M.C. had Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Terry Funk, Scott Steiner, Diamond Dallas Page, Horace Hogan, Brian Adams, Bryan Clarke, Kevin Nash, Lex Luger, Elizabeth N.B. hadVince Russo, Eric Bischoff, Jeff Jarret, Billy Kidman, Shane Douglas, The Cat, Mike Awesome, Kanyon, Sid, Bret Hart, Chris Candido, Crowbar, David Flair, Daphney, Kimberly, The Event Chuck Palumbo, Buff Bagwell, Perfect One Sean Stasiak, Vampiro, Big Vito, Johnny Da Bull, and Bill Goldberg. Actually, that list isn't quite right. The Millionaire's Club consisted of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sting, Lex Luger, DDP, Jim Duggan, Terry Funk, Curt Hennig, Sid Vicious, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and Miss Elizabeth. You can also count Macho Man for his one lone appearance on Thunder during the feud. The cool thing was how they booked the MC to be on the same page, even arriving at shows together on a bus as opposed to limos like most of them would in the nWo days. The New Blood, led by Russo and Bischoff, was basically everybody else in the company with the exception of The Misfits In Action (MIA). That group was made up of Hugh Morrus, Chavo, The Wall, Lash LaRoux, Van Hammer and Booker T.
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Post by blu3blazer on Jul 26, 2007 16:02:21 GMT -5
If I remember correctly, in storyline, Russo thought that Steiner was with the New Blood but he ended up being kind of a lone wolf type character. I don't think Goldberg was on either side as well.
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Post by futurama on Jul 26, 2007 16:07:58 GMT -5
pics arent working
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Post by taker1 on Jul 26, 2007 16:22:22 GMT -5
If I remember correctly, in storyline, Russo thought that Steiner was with the New Blood but he ended up being kind of a lone wolf type character. I don't think Goldberg was on either side as well. I believe Goldberg turned heel and helped Jeff Jarrett defend his belt against Nash, so that turned him New Blood. But then he got injured and when he came back the storyline was over.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2007 16:27:21 GMT -5
the best part of it was on thunder a limo pulled up and it turned out to be macho man and he helped of all ppl hogan but that was savage's last wcw appearence which sucked
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Post by destructiondan on Jul 27, 2007 20:57:25 GMT -5
i liked the whole if you lose your fired thing with goldberg i also liked when he was on that big win streak and he could pin anybody he wanted anytime but after while it was so boring like anybody he faced you knew hed win does anybody know the actual no. of wins no losses he got ?
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Post by destructiondan on Jul 27, 2007 21:23:46 GMT -5
Reading the posts on this thread is reminding me of how much wcw sucked in their last 3 years of existence. Mr Old School, the man who came up with Viagra on a Pole was Vince Russo. Among his other "brilliant" ideas were: David Arquetter as WCW champ, Mike Awesome being the 70s guy, Hugh Morris changing his name to Hugh G Rection, having Medusa in the world title tournament, having the wcw title change hands like 5 times in a one week span, Oklahoma, and recreating the Montreal Screwjob by having Piper call for the bell when Bret wrestled Goldberg at Starcade 99 and then the belt was vacated the next night and Bret won it again. intellectually- disabled. Not to mention he probably booked the most unwanted heel turn ever when he made Goldberg heel. And remember his stupid " If you lose, you're fired" thing with Goldberg? And who could forget the HORRIBLE worked shoot with Goldberg walking out at New Blood Rising. Or the same PPV, Stacy getting pregnant and having a miscarriage. The list goes on and on. and this..
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Post by heartbreakkid2k3 on Jul 29, 2007 14:40:18 GMT -5
Anyone remember the team of Diamond Dallas Page and Kevin Nash? The Insiders?
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Post by blu3blazer on Jul 29, 2007 15:07:01 GMT -5
Yeah, and for a while they talked about Scott Hall all the time even though he wasn't under contract anymore. Then, WCW banned them (in real life) from mentioning Hall. I think there was even an interview where they bleeped out his name.
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Post by taker1 on Jul 29, 2007 17:14:16 GMT -5
Yeah, and for a while they talked about Scott Hall all the time even though he wasn't under contract anymore. Then, WCW banned them (in real life) from mentioning Hall. I think there was even an interview where they bleeped out his name. wait, they banned them for mentioning Hall..yet they had a portrait of him in one of the boxes during the " San Francisco Box Match" between Jarrett/Booker in late 2000? Dumb.
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Post by blu3blazer on Jul 29, 2007 17:41:53 GMT -5
Yeah, and for a while they talked about Scott Hall all the time even though he wasn't under contract anymore. Then, WCW banned them (in real life) from mentioning Hall. I think there was even an interview where they bleeped out his name. wait, they banned them for mentioning Hall..yet they had a portrait of him in one of the boxes during the " San Francisco Box Match" between Jarrett/Booker in late 2000? Dumb. The San Francisco 49er Match was at the beginning of October 2000. Nash and DDP didn't start teaming until the end of November through the beginning of January 2001.
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Post by taker1 on Jul 29, 2007 17:46:38 GMT -5
wait, they banned them for mentioning Hall..yet they had a portrait of him in one of the boxes during the " San Francisco Box Match" between Jarrett/Booker in late 2000? Dumb. The San Francisco 49er Match was at the beginning of October 2000. Nash and DDP didn't start teaming until the end of November through the beginning of January 2001. what happenned between those few months that would make them do such a thing? I mean..Hall wasn't with the company in October, either. Or was he just inactive?
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Post by blu3blazer on Jul 29, 2007 17:54:03 GMT -5
The San Francisco 49er Match was at the beginning of October 2000. Nash and DDP didn't start teaming until the end of November through the beginning of January 2001. what happenned between those few months that would make them do such a thing? I mean..Hall wasn't with the company in October, either. Or was he just inactive? According to OWW, he was released from his contract in Fall 2000, which would coincide with the dates up above.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 23:36:58 GMT -5
didnt hall return towards the end and aline himself with the new blood when he attacked nash during an attempt to redo the outsiders(sort of like when hbk returned after 4 years to raw and tried to redo dx hhh) COINSEDENCE
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 23:40:15 GMT -5
what happenned between those few months that would make them do such a thing? I mean..Hall wasn't with the company in October, either. Or was he just inactive? According to OWW, he was released from his contract in Fall 2000, which would coincide with the dates up above. i beleive he was still under contract but he had to commit to AA meetings due to his demons
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Post by rkolegendkilla on Jul 31, 2007 5:05:21 GMT -5
I had stopped watching WCW by then.
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