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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jun 11, 2017 1:55:05 GMT -5
So I just started to watch some Prime Time Wrestling shows on the Network, and so far I am not impressed at all. Now I am Canadian, we didn't get USA Network so as far as I know, Prime Time Wrestling wasn't ever seen here in Canada. But from what I have seen in watching back these old episodes, all it is really is just matches from MSG house shows and not very good ones at that.
Sivi Afi vs. Iron Mike Sharpe??
Lanny Poffo vs. Rene Goulet??
Nikolai Volkoff vs. Tony Garea??
No thanks.
So is it more of a nostalgia thing for Prime Time Wrestling?? Because I honestly don't care to watch any more episodes of this show.
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Post by King Richius on Jun 11, 2017 2:13:30 GMT -5
Yeah, Prime Time Wrestling was a product of the times. Lots of squash matches and low to mid card wrestlers capped off by an upper mid card type match to wrap up the wrestling portion of the program. That was the formula for almost every WWF TV program until Raw debuted and the squash match went away.
For me, the real charm of the show was the in studio stuff between Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan. They were so good together. It hit a high point when Roddy Piper started appearing in studio as well and had an on air feud with Bobby Heenan.
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Post by hbkjason on Jun 11, 2017 2:21:23 GMT -5
I loved Prime Time Wrestling as a kid and I still do to this day. There is more charm, character, and personality in a 90-minute episode of Prime Time Wrestling than a whole month worth of modern RAW's. I am really looking forward to when they start adding episodes from 90 and 91.
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Post by PJ on Jun 11, 2017 4:43:54 GMT -5
You are watching the wrong matches.
You should be watching
Bobby Heenan vs Gorilla Monsoon
Bobby Heenan vs Gorilla Monsoon
Bobby Heenan vs Gorilla Monsoon
Seriously most of the time I didn't watch it for the wrestling. I watched it for the studio segments. Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon made that show. The two had great chemistry together. But they did feature some really good matches on the show not just the jobbers.
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Jun 11, 2017 5:18:31 GMT -5
The ones you're watching are from a bit before my era, but when I got into wrestling in 1991, I loved Prime Time. The interaction in the studio was great, and it seemed like they had more actual Superstar vs Superstar matches than the other shows at the time.
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Post by FBtagteamsrule on Jun 11, 2017 10:03:00 GMT -5
Watched it for Heenan and Monsoon. As for it mostly being squash matches, so was Monday Night Raw at the beginning.
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Post by robbutler01 on Jun 11, 2017 10:36:28 GMT -5
I loved Prime Time Wrestling as a kid and I still do to this day. There is more charm, character, and personality in a 90-minute episode of Prime Time Wrestling than a whole month worth of modern RAW's. I am really looking forward to when they start adding episodes from 90 and 91. Exactly this, if you watch any of the shows from that era they would seem the same. It was a different time and the squash matches and "feature" matches then meant something for the most part and built the big picture but I guess now could seem pointless unless you were there. They didnt give away every big match every week like they do now which makes the big shows meaningless for me now. It is a big nostalgia thing but just watching Gorilla and Bobby is golden. Probably not seen the best ones but any outside broadcast with them or the summer of 89 with Piper was awesome. Don't get me wrong the athletes today are great but for me Id watch Primetime (and superstars,challenge, all American and old nwa/wcw) over the current overproduced,repetitive, directionless shows now any day of the week. |
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Post by bosox3 on Jun 11, 2017 10:39:48 GMT -5
PrimeTime Wrestling was GREAT in soo many ways! It also made the Big events more important, when 2 big stars squared off.
Todays wrestling seems to be the same matches over and over again.. week in and week out.
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Post by JokerFC on Jun 11, 2017 12:09:57 GMT -5
I loved Prime Time Wrestling as a kid and I still do to this day. There is more charm, character, and personality in a 90-minute episode of Prime Time Wrestling than a whole month worth of modern RAW's. I am really looking forward to when they start adding episodes from 90 and 91. Well said man. I LOVED prime Time wrestling and when I get the Network back in July? I will be watching plenty of it again. particularly 88 onwards |
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Post by The Brain on Jun 11, 2017 12:22:33 GMT -5
I'll admit some of the matches can be tedious to sit through especially in those early years(85&86), but the chemistry between Heenan and Monsoon more than makes up for it. To this day it's still my favorite wrestling show of all time and I don't ever see anything topping it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2017 14:36:31 GMT -5
best episode is mr perfect turning good (nov 1992)
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Post by The Brain on Jun 11, 2017 20:36:27 GMT -5
One word sums up this show in my eyes....Priceless
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Post by marino13 on Jun 11, 2017 21:25:34 GMT -5
Yeah, it certainly doesn't hold up to today's standards. Match wise, you were lucky to have a competitive back n forth. But 9.5 times out of 10, it was squash match after squash match. But as others have pointed out, it was Bobby & Gorilla that kept us fans tuned in.
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Post by ryan93 on Jun 13, 2017 23:04:09 GMT -5
The matches were decent at best. The in-studio stuff was main event quality every time.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jun 14, 2017 0:34:58 GMT -5
Everyone on here talks about Gorilla and Bobby, now from what I have seen, those two hosted from 1986 - 1990 perhaps...??
I remember seeing pictures in the old WWF magazines of Vince McMahon and Bobby Heenan hosting Prime Time Wrestling in front of a live studio audience.
Then I remember it being Vince at the head of a table and four guys around him, but I wanna say that was in 1992.
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Post by The Brain on Jun 14, 2017 1:16:26 GMT -5
Everyone on here talks about Gorilla and Bobby, now from what I have seen, those two hosted from 1986 - 1990 perhaps...?? I remember seeing pictures in the old WWF magazines of Vince McMahon and Bobby Heenan hosting Prime Time Wrestling in front of a live studio audience. Then I remember it being Vince at the head of a table and four guys around him, but I wanna say that was in 1992. Monsoon/Heenan hosted from April 86 until February 91
The live studio audience era lasted from February 91 until November 91
The round table era lasted from November 91 until the end in January 93
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Post by mikey1974 on Jun 17, 2017 9:35:02 GMT -5
It worked because that was the standard back then, not only for the WWF but the NWA/WCW as well. Watch any of the shows - Prime Time, Wrestling Challenge, Superstars of Wrestling, WCW Main a Event, and WCW Saturday Night. They were almost all squash matches, with the occasional mid-card main event, buffered by interview segments and promos. On TV, they keep the big matches for Saturday Night's Main a Event and Clash of Champions, respectively. What set Prime Time apart was the banter between Gorilla and Heenan.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jun 17, 2017 13:58:58 GMT -5
It worked because that was the standard back then, not only for the WWF but the NWA/WCW as well. Watch any of the shows - Prime Time, Wrestling Challenge, Superstars of Wrestling, WCW Main a Event, and WCW Saturday Night. They were almost all squash matches, with the occasional mid-card main event, buffered by interview segments and promos. On TV, they keep the big matches for Saturday Night's Main a Event and Clash of Champions, respectively. What set Prime Time apart was the banter between Gorilla and Heenan. I know that, I watched Superstars, Challenge and such as a kid in the 80s. Just the way people talked about Prime Time Wrestling, it was like something special and I don't feel that when watching it. So did people not like Prime Time Wrestling when the studio audience happened, and Vince and Heenan became the main hosts?? I remember in the WWF magazine seeing a lot of cool stuff go down on that era of it. From Snake burgers by Earthquake, to Andre putting Heenan in some sort of grape pit pool, to the introduction of Ric Flair into the WWF. |
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Post by The Brain on Jun 17, 2017 14:08:13 GMT -5
It worked because that was the standard back then, not only for the WWF but the NWA/WCW as well. Watch any of the shows - Prime Time, Wrestling Challenge, Superstars of Wrestling, WCW Main a Event, and WCW Saturday Night. They were almost all squash matches, with the occasional mid-card main event, buffered by interview segments and promos. On TV, they keep the big matches for Saturday Night's Main a Event and Clash of Champions, respectively. What set Prime Time apart was the banter between Gorilla and Heenan. I know that, I watched Superstars, Challenge and such as a kid in the 80s. Just the way people talked about Prime Time Wrestling, it was like something special and I don't feel that when watching it. So did people not like Prime Time Wrestling when the studio audience happened, and Vince and Heenan became the main hosts?? I remember in the WWF magazine seeing a lot of cool stuff go down on that era of it. From Snake burgers by Earthquake, to Andre putting Heenan in some sort of grape pit pool, to the introduction of Ric Flair into the WWF. I was a big fan of live studio era With Vince and Bobby. Granted it doesn't top the Monsoon/Heenan era but overall it still was entertaining. I still remember the Berzerker throwing Jamison off the roof on one episode lol. |
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Post by mikey1974 on Jun 17, 2017 14:17:27 GMT -5
It worked because that was the standard back then, not only for the WWF but the NWA/WCW as well. Watch any of the shows - Prime Time, Wrestling Challenge, Superstars of Wrestling, WCW Main a Event, and WCW Saturday Night. They were almost all squash matches, with the occasional mid-card main event, buffered by interview segments and promos. On TV, they keep the big matches for Saturday Night's Main a Event and Clash of Champions, respectively. What set Prime Time apart was the banter between Gorilla and Heenan. I know that, I watched Superstars, Challenge and such as a kid in the 80s. Just the way people talked about Prime Time Wrestling, it was like something special and I don't feel that when watching it. So did people not like Prime Time Wrestling when the studio audience happened, and Vince and Heenan became the main hosts?? I remember in the WWF magazine seeing a lot of cool stuff go down on that era of it. From Snake burgers by Earthquake, to Andre putting Heenan in some sort of grape pit pool, to the introduction of Ric Flair into the WWF. At the time, it was definitely the Gorilla - Heenan dynamic that made it great. People didn't talk about the matches, they talked about what those 2 did. I don't think the studio audience thing went over that well, since it didn't last long , and they went back to a non studio audience format, albeit with 5 people instead of 2. |
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