TheEvilDoink1987
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on May 16, 2022 17:15:24 GMT -5
1992 is celebrating its 30th anniversary. That got me thinking about wrestling and the WWF that year.
Is there another year that comes to mind where the company transforms completely like 1992? Just compare the roster at the 1992 Royal Rumble to that year's Survivor Series. A very weird time for sure, but just as much pivotal for the future of the company in the long haul.
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Post by LA Times on May 16, 2022 18:53:44 GMT -5
Definitely, because of stuff happening outside the ring as well. Other transitional years include
1997: New Generation to Attitude
2001: Attitude to Ruthless Aggression
2008: Ruthless Aggression to PG
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jason1980s
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Post by jason1980s on May 16, 2022 23:29:39 GMT -5
There were so many guys who had been with the company for 4, 6 years or longer and they were leaving and they was a new group of guys either coming in or starting to become stars after years of being on the lower or middle card. Early to mid 1993 was a little similar with guys around for 4 or so years starting to go out jobbing and then leave.
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Post by CM Tusk on May 17, 2022 3:37:41 GMT -5
Funnily enough I’d look at 2002 as a pretty big transitional year. Look at the changes in roster throughout the year. The biggest stars in the company, Austin and The Rock would never work full schedules again and both left the company. Old stars would return and leave in the NWO. HBK came out of retirement and started a nearly 8 year run. Eric Bischoff debuted for the company putting the last nail in the Monday Night Wars era. The brand split happens. New stars are brought in such as Brock, Cena, Orton, and Batista. Where the company started the year and where they ended felt like too very different places. Not to mention the company rebranded and changed its name.
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ClassicFan2
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Post by ClassicFan2 on May 17, 2022 13:32:26 GMT -5
i felt big transitions in:
1988 (many of the 1985/86 stars were gone and new wrestlers were coming in)
1992
1997
2002
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Post by cordless2016 on May 17, 2022 20:35:32 GMT -5
1992 is up there. 2002 is another one that pops into my mind as well. The WWF became the WWE. They were bleeding fans for about a year now due to the terrible Invasion storyline. Austin left and Rocky became a part-timer. We saw the return of Hogan and his leaving all within 8 months. The rise of Brock. The return of HBK. 8 different WWE champs and 2 different WHC.
2004 always came off as another transition year to me. Brock, Goldberg, and Steiner were gone early in the year. Taker went back to being the dead man. Eddie and Benoit became the top champs of the company, yet always felt like transitional title holders. We saw the rise of Cena, Orton, and Batista continue towards the main event. JBL became WWE Champ literally out of no where. And it was the final stages of HHH’s reign of terror, as well as the ending to the long-running HHH/HBK feud.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on May 19, 2022 10:50:38 GMT -5
The 1992 year is easily the biggest transitional year for WWF.
Just look at Royal Rumble 92 and then Survivor Series 92 and that pretty much sums up the difference in an 11 month turn around.
January had Hogan, Sid, Savage, Piper, Slaughter, Martel, Santana, Michaels, Jannetty, Bret, Neidhart, Owen, Bulldog, Mountie, Flair, Tornado, Warlord, Undertaker, Roberts, DiBiase, IRS, Animal, Hawk, Earthquake, Typhoon, Knobbs, Sags, Boss Man, Duggan....
November had Savage, Martel, Santana, Michaels, Bret, Owen, Flair, Undertaker, DiBiase, IRS, Earthquake, Typhoon, Knobbs, Sags, Boss Man, and Duggan
So a lot of the main names were gone that were seen as superstars for Vince and the WWF. So it was definitely a transitional year and easily can be argued that it was the biggest one.
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Post by JokerFC on May 22, 2022 20:49:11 GMT -5
Its funny...1992 & 2002 are Vinces biggest transitional years & eerily similar.... he lost his top guys in these years....
92 Hogan bolts, Warrior fired.
02 Austin Bolts then later Rock.
3 return a year later briefly.....Hogan returns in Feb 93 to build to WM & is gone by June.. Austin returns in Feb 03 to build to WM...Rock similar. then they are practically done.
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Post by hitmancmedge on May 23, 2022 13:30:26 GMT -5
Spring to Fall of 1992 imparticular is wild. Look at the house show and dark matches they were literally giving everyone a fair shake to see what they can do. Mountie got a house show run for the title against Savage, Berzerker got a run, repo man got ic and world title shots. Nailz, Kamala, etc they threw everything at the wall.
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Post by jason88cubs on May 28, 2022 10:32:49 GMT -5
If I counter correctly 14 of the 30 1992 rumble entries were no longer wrestling for WWF by end of 92
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