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Post by Bandalero on Mar 26, 2018 7:54:31 GMT -5
Hey guys,
Like most of you, I've watched, and re-watched all the famous PPVs in the mid-80s to late-90s; but recently I've been binge-watching NWA World Championship Wrestling episodes from '87 and '88 on the Network and it's given me such a nostalgic rush. I know I'm going to sound old, but we complain a lot about today's product and how they rush story lines for the next month's PPV, but back then it took months to build feuds. And it's the weekly television taping that fueled that. Plus every now and then I get a glimpse of a guy in some jobber-gimmick when he first started out - like I totally forgot there was a period of time when Johnny Ace was the flag bearer for the Sheephearders <-- remember them before they became knuckle-heads?
Would love for WCW Power Hour circa '90-'92 to be uploaded on the Network eventually.
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Post by PJ on Mar 26, 2018 8:09:29 GMT -5
I haven’t really had time to watch any of the WWE Network. The last thing I watched were the last RAW & SD PPV’s. Before that it had to have been the Royal Rumble. But actually just watching Network content it has to have been back in Nov when my Father-im-Law fell and had to have brain surgery. Anyway before that I would watch at least two of those shows a week. With an episode of Nitro and Prime Time mixed in.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Mar 26, 2018 11:21:54 GMT -5
As exciting as those old weekly TV shows were, I also find them pretty horrible now as well.
When you constantly see job matches over and over it gets boring. I liked 1993 - 1995 though for the weekly TV shows for WWE. They started putting some top talent guys against each other as well as have the job matches too. So it didn't feel that bad to watch it.
But I know for WCW, they usually had top guys wrestling top guys on a lot of their weekly TV shows, so it was never really that bad to sit through those ones.
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Post by Bandalero on Mar 26, 2018 13:38:51 GMT -5
^^ Your right, there are a ton of job matches in these shows - but I liked the interviews before and after because they moved along story lines. It's the nostalgia for me mostly, because I remember watching them on VHS tapes I borrowed from the video store. The weekends couldn't come fast enough to get to me catch up (a week behind) with wrestling.
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Post by ClassicFan2 on Mar 26, 2018 15:59:43 GMT -5
love old superstars, challenge episodes. usually FF thru alot of squash matches tho. wish they put out dvd's with all the major stuff that happened on thoe shows only.
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Post by Nivro™ on Mar 26, 2018 17:52:24 GMT -5
I watch them frequently. Sometimes I sit and watch and some times its just for noise. I thought if I broke it down and watch one Episode of a different show a day by the time I caught up to the present I should be dead. I figured its a good way to spend the rest of my life lol
Also Id love to see WCW Power Hour but only if we get the last 5 mins of Bonanza too!
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Post by The Brain on Mar 26, 2018 19:55:43 GMT -5
I miss weekend morning squash tv. Some of it was tough to sit through but overall it was only an hour long so that helped.
Challenge had Monsoon/Heenan in the booth I mean it don't get better than that!!
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Post by jeffro2000 on Mar 29, 2018 14:29:01 GMT -5
I've watched a good bit of the weekly World Championship wrestling episodes. I enjoy them, because it's something different compared to a PPV I have seen multiple times.
I read yesterday they were going to upload around a 100hrs or Saturday Night very soon. I think 92-94? Can't remember and not sure if the report is accurate.
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Post by The Brain on Mar 29, 2018 15:38:46 GMT -5
I've watched a good bit of the weekly World Championship wrestling episodes. I enjoy them, because it's something different compared to a PPV I have seen multiple times. I read yesterday they were going to upload around a 100hrs or Saturday Night very soon. I think 92-94? Can't remember and not sure if the report is accurate. That's correct. They will add em this Monday. |
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Post by mikey1974 on Mar 29, 2018 16:41:02 GMT -5
Having gone to several TV tapings in the 90's, I can say they were both excrutiating, for how long you had to sit there through 90% jobber squash matches, and also a huge value, getting up to 4 hours of 20 some matches for your ticket price.
I fondly remember one I went to in July 93, as it had The Steiners vs Money,Inc. for the Tag Belts, Shawn Michaels vs Macho Man for the IC Belt, and Yokozuna vs Bret Hart for the World Belt with a special appearance by newly turned Luger at the end. lso had the dbut of the Quebecers, though they were introduced as "The Mounties", and I remember thinking "Damn, did Ray Rougeau get fat!" til I realized it wasnt him. Also Bret Hart almost getting arrested because he apparently came in the wrong side entrance and security didn't know who he was so they attempted to escort him out.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Apr 3, 2018 7:38:29 GMT -5
One nice quality of a jobber match is it’s a great, quick primer on the “Star” wrestler’s current move set, set ups, finisher and such. Because it’s a jobber match, you’re likely going to see all of the big name’s signature moves. And because it’s a jobber match, you’re probably going to see them quickly and without much fuss.
Quick way to see what the “name” guy is all about.
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Post by k5 on Apr 3, 2018 12:29:42 GMT -5
i’m 27, so the true era of the original ecw went right over my head and smw was a bit too early. I remember seeing ecw on tnn in 99 and recognizing raven from wcw. by that point the product had already eradicated a fair degree.
I didn’t use the network, I just found all the original shows on dailymotion 2-3 years ago in specific order and watched the bulk of them - specifically 95 to late 97. those hardcore tv’s are, in my opinion, a thing of absolute gold from the bad tape edits, to music theft, and everything inbetween. as a guy who was a kid in the 90s, it was like vicariously time traveling to what it would be like to experience that stuff as a young adult then.
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Post by PJ on Apr 3, 2018 15:58:49 GMT -5
I hated watching ECW. First off it only aired at 2 or 3 am and then it played like a late night informercial.
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Post by Zigzag on Apr 28, 2018 21:58:41 GMT -5
The only real TV tapings I've been to were an episode of ECW on TNN, and an episode of Hardcore TV, in June of 2000 in Danbury, CT (One town over from where I lived at the time). It was just a bunch of matches over 2 hours (almost 3) total. You didn't know how much of what match would air on what show, until you saw it. It was so fun to attend live. I had the TNN episode on a VHS tape, until both episodes were put on WWE Network. I would also attend the Living Dangerously 2000 PPV, plus two house shows, at the same venue.
The last house show, I was nearly killed when Rhino wasn't looking where he was going, and almost landed in my lap. I was two weeks home after heart surgery, too. True story.
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Post by BSR on May 2, 2018 18:05:50 GMT -5
People couldn't sit through slow builds these days.
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on May 2, 2018 18:14:20 GMT -5
If the episodes are marked off by the start and end of each match like most pay per views, then I might watch them. I could see the entrance and finish of each match. Then again, not all pay per views are, so I’d imagine the shows aren’t either. I would like to see all the promos though.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on May 2, 2018 22:52:58 GMT -5
As exciting as those old weekly TV shows were, I also find them pretty horrible now as well. When you constantly see job matches over and over it gets boring. I liked 1993 - 1995 though for the weekly TV shows for WWE. They started putting some top talent guys against each other as well as have the job matches too. So it didn't feel that bad to watch it. But I know for WCW, they usually had top guys wrestling top guys on a lot of their weekly TV shows, so it was never really that bad to sit through those ones. I feel like that is some of the charm with those old shows. You do have a TON of meaningless squash matches, but it helps elevate the importance of the PPVs. Once WWE Network starts airing old episodes of Superstars and Wrestling Challenge I'll be happily glued to my couch for a few weeks. |
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