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Post by robby.blade on Sept 9, 2011 1:46:57 GMT -5
Just wondering if anyone knows why they used the black bar-style cage for the Austin Vs. McMahon match at St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1999 as opposed to the chain-link cage we are more common to?
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Post by Mike Bockwinkel on Sept 9, 2011 1:50:28 GMT -5
Just wondering if anyone knows why they used the black bar-style cage for the Austin Vs. McMahon match at St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1999 as opposed to the chain-link cage we are more common to? Simple: for the finish. |
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Post by robby.blade on Sept 9, 2011 2:16:09 GMT -5
Exactly what I had figured, I just wasn't 100% sure.
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Post by The Dude on Sept 9, 2011 3:50:03 GMT -5
That's the style cage that they were using around that time.
That's from about 3 months before the Vince/Austin match
EDIT:
here's another from Summerslam 97
and from '98 I believe this was right after Wrestlemania XIV
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Post by danmorganbrand on Sept 9, 2011 3:58:01 GMT -5
To put big show across  |
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Post by Cass on Sept 9, 2011 5:31:48 GMT -5
They used the same style Black Cage at Rebellion 99 as well. IT wasn't just a one time thing. I don't think they even started to use to the steel cage until late 99 with X-Pac/Kane at Armageddon.
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Post by Kemp2k on Sept 9, 2011 7:22:28 GMT -5
I love the old style cage. Way more....menacing and brutal than the fence link cage.
(P.S TNA failed at their own, it's RED for crying out loud, you can't even barely see what's going on)
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Post by LeighD on Sept 9, 2011 8:02:11 GMT -5
Yeah the old-style cage (it was blue for a long time) was still being used. They just painted it black to update with the decor.
I still always have prefered this style versus the chain-link style.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2011 11:07:25 GMT -5
as said they were still using that style.
now Im probably wrong but the first time I remember the steel mesh being used outside HIAC was HHH vs Rock in the summer of 99.
not saying it was the first time but its the first I remember.
the Rock vs Mankind vs Shamrock match at Breakdown 98 was big bar too.
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Post by Brad on Sept 9, 2011 12:12:39 GMT -5
I hate the old style cage. it looks so bad IMO. The new style is much more visually pleasing in my eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2011 12:21:45 GMT -5
I think Edge vs Christian was one the last times they used it
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Post by -=[ CRuSH ]=- on Sept 9, 2011 13:28:45 GMT -5
I much prefer the old bar cages. Must be a generational thing
When I was first getting in to wrestling in 91 I remember seeing the WMII video in Asda and looking at the cage match images and thinking it was the most insane thing ever two men...locked in a cage to fight it out. Ahh to be a kid again
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Post by K5 on Sept 9, 2011 15:33:37 GMT -5
ah, that triple threat at breakdown is a  ing great match! i think i may watch that now |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2011 16:16:55 GMT -5
ah, that triple threat at breakdown is a ing great match! i think i may watch that now sure is.I watched the entire event not too long ago. LOVED Austins herculean effort against Taker and Kane-just awesome. |
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Post by skribbel24 on Sept 11, 2011 16:41:47 GMT -5
The old cage is awesome, I remember the good ol days... Ah, the memories
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Post by K5 on Sept 11, 2011 19:06:51 GMT -5
ah, that triple threat at breakdown is a ing great match! i think i may watch that now sure is.I watched the entire event not too long ago. LOVED Austins herculean effort against Taker and Kane-just awesome. i believe that event was the sole wwe ppv ever hosted out of hamilton, ontario. |
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Post by Barrett on Sept 11, 2011 20:48:29 GMT -5
I swear there was a time when they used the chain link cage once before St. Valentine's Day Massacre but I can't remember when or why it was used. I just remember when a friend told me about the Austin/McMahon match the next day, I envisioned the chain link one since it had been used most recently. I was surprised when I saw the footage on Raw that night and it showed the black bar cage.
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Post by RussellV1 on Sept 11, 2011 21:05:37 GMT -5
kane v HHH on RAW a couple of weeks before it used the "new" style cage
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Post by robby.blade on Sept 12, 2011 0:58:24 GMT -5
kane v HHH on RAW a couple of weeks before it used the "new" style cage This is what I was thinking when I made the topic actually. I was watching some old school episodes of Raw and saw that. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 5:22:22 GMT -5
sure is.I watched the entire event not too long ago. LOVED Austins herculean effort against Taker and Kane-just awesome. i believe that event was the sole wwe ppv ever hosted out of hamilton, ontario. really?well it was a good one for a sole event then. |
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