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Post by Richikane on Jun 10, 2011 1:47:18 GMT -5
So I've been watching alot of youtube classic matches the last few days since its been rainy and I came across this and I can bet a lot of fans in their teens and early 20s never saw this. I know I never saw much WCW before the NWO formed.
I'm talking about the dark side hulk hogan angle and the Taskmaster gimmick as whole, along with the dungeon of doom. After looking more into this and eventually finding out what happened with Kevin Sullivan and Benoit, I'm really just speechless at this whole thing.
So what I've gathered is that Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and other top WWF superstars went over to WCW and were put into an angle where the Taskmaster was a satanic ringleader and had assembled a dark stable to combat hulkamania? On top of this the matches that the Taskmaster put on were completely awful and he couldn't sell anything, he would get hit and a second later be at 100%.
I guess I'm just looking to see if anyone remembers how these videos came about and maybe if Sullivan was booking at this time, because I'm really suprised WCW didn't go under during this time as this is worse than their last year.
I mean, how long did this go on? I'm completely dumbfounded right now...
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on Jun 10, 2011 2:47:45 GMT -5
The DOD was one of the worst things to ever, lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2011 4:43:06 GMT -5
LOL dark Hogan......I remember that.I also remember Bischoff saying it was done to test audience reaction to a heel Hogan or hint of a Hogan heel turn.
I think this(dreadful nonsense aside)provided clarity for Bischoff-it showed fans didnt care about Hogan the super face anymore.
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Post by marino13 on Jun 10, 2011 9:04:28 GMT -5
Everything that the Dungeon of Doom was involved in was just awful. Their whole gimmick was just insulting to the fans. These videos just remind me how bad it really was.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Jun 10, 2011 10:27:21 GMT -5
Always seemed like the Dungeon of Doom stuff was the culmination of two things: Hulk Hogan's long-standing preference for working against monsters (either really big guys or really scary guys, or both), and WCW being far worse at writing those types of angles than the WWF ever was.
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Post by K5 on Jun 10, 2011 11:51:46 GMT -5
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Post by mikey1974 on Jun 10, 2011 12:21:39 GMT -5
you gotta remember though,this was WCW at a point where they felt people would accept a 7' Mummy wrestling....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2011 13:36:36 GMT -5
you gotta remember though,this was WCW at a point where they felt people would accept a 7' Mummy wrestling.... THE YETAAII |
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Post by awesomeallamerican on Jun 10, 2011 13:50:43 GMT -5
you gotta remember though,this was WCW at a point where they felt people would accept a 7' Mummy wrestling.... THE YETAAII Lmao, I still can't fathom how a mummy was named The Yeti. A Yeti is a  ing Big Foot or Abominable Snowmonster, not a mummy. |
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Post by mikey1974 on Jun 10, 2011 14:00:28 GMT -5
to be fair,though, Vince would do his own weirded out s**t too.... my personal favorite was Royal Rumble 94 where Undertaker's "spirit" rose out of a coffin and ascended into the rafters...
mind you,i'm the hugest Taker mark you'll ever find....and even i was like "What the hell is this?!" when it happened...
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jun 10, 2011 14:10:40 GMT -5
Eesh. That first clip looks like Hogan tried to impersonate Westley from "The Princess Bride".
And Ming? MING?!?!
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Post by figurecollector on Jun 10, 2011 14:35:06 GMT -5
This was definitely bad, but putting Sting in the rafters for a year and a half not saying anything, hitting people with his black wiffelball bat and rarely wrestling was as bad or worse. An absolute waste.
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Post by LtD73 on Jun 10, 2011 14:40:31 GMT -5
I just watched about 20 seconds of the 1st video....So Hogan was in a fued with himself?
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Post by kazoosandstreamers on Jun 10, 2011 19:43:43 GMT -5
Those were hard to watch.
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Post by Richikane on Jun 11, 2011 0:53:21 GMT -5
Yeah I spent way too much time yesterday watching videos trying to put things together. Watching the Rey Mysterio vs Syxx feud from 97 with the same ending every match was easier than any of those.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that way about these videos, I mean, they didn't even show any of this in the rise and fall of wcw dvd. They could have just put this angle on the DVD and called it a wrap saying no matter how good things got it never made up for this.
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Post by done on Jun 11, 2011 18:26:16 GMT -5
you gotta remember though,this was WCW at a point where they felt people would accept a 7' Mummy wrestling.... What it did when he came out to Hogan was just wrong! |
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Post by Emerald Enthusiast on Jun 11, 2011 21:47:25 GMT -5
It was bad, as was pretty much everything from WCW in '94 and '95. Although he won't admit it, Hogan realized that the fans had tired of his superhero antics (particularly WCW fans, who were always lukewarm to him) and he tried to become edgy to stay face. Obviously, it didn't work.
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Post by juicewinslow on Jun 11, 2011 23:30:47 GMT -5
Thanks for reminding me why I didn't like WCW back in the day. lol. It was so stupid at this point in time.
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Post by BV on Jun 11, 2011 23:57:48 GMT -5
How can anyone not remember the great part of this storyline where Big Show and Hogan had a monster truck war and Hogan killed him? Best.
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Post by mikey1974 on Jun 12, 2011 8:55:01 GMT -5
yep! and then the Giant was "resurrected" like 2 hours later to face Hogan in the main event....
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