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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 07:39:14 No.4882507 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4882515 >>4882517 >>4884064 >>4885422 >>4885742 >>4886499

Or as I like to call it: Rock, Hogan and the other couple of fellas. What went right/wrong?

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 07:40:05 No.4882515 Report

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>>4882507
It should have been the invasion blow-off

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 07:40:21 No.4882517 Report

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>>4882507
Imagine if Hogan vs Rock happened during the pandemic era. Would have been terrible. That’s why it’s a bad match imo. If you mute the crowd it’s boring as fuck.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 09:54:38 No.4883234 Report

Quoted By: >>4883766 >>4885405 >>4885654

I can’t put my finger on it but something about this image is so soulless, shit graphics both washed up no story, just soulless

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 11:48:34 No.4883766 Report

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>>4883234
Stone Cold in 2002 was pretty soulless 2bh. Those two heel turns in 2001 killed his aura even he was still really over afterwards.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 12:23:43 No.4883950 Report

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It's one of the most average wrestlemania ever
I can't think of a single great match on it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 12:39:58 No.4884027 Report

Quoted By: >>4885471 >>4885549

The day that confirmed that Dwaynetty would never match Hogan in popularity.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 12:46:56 No.4884064 Report

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>>4882507
Rock had the worst fucking shirts

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 12:49:21 No.4884071 Report

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>>4882515
They botched that angle so badly though that by survivor series it had already overstated its welcome

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 13:08:53 No.4884212 Report

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>Right
The profits.
>Wrong
Almost everything else went wrong because of how inconsequential everything ended up to be. Hogan got another run and Haitch got a title, that's it.
All of it ended by August, with only Rock being able to deal with the shit the board was coming up with.
Jericho got relegated to the midcard while Austin slowly cruised to retirement.
They got lucky they had dimes encarnations like Lesnar debuting and Micheals coming back, otherwise they would have had to work properly to fix the aftermath of this show.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 15:50:45 No.4885405 Report

Quoted By: >>4885697 >>4886526

>>4883234
Up until the Mania match and its great crowd reaction, the Rock/Hogan "feud" was pretty soulless too. If someone had told you in 1998 or 99 that Stone Cold and the Rock feuding with the original 3 of the nWo would be the lamest thing ever, you would've never believed it.
The real problem is that thanks to over exposure and shit booking, Austin and Rock were both rapidly becoming parodies of themselves by 2002. And the completely neutered and even worse booked WWF version of the nWo even moreso. Make this feud prime Attitude Austin/Rock vs. the actual WCW version of nWo and you'd have a totally different vibe.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 15:52:48 No.4885422 Report

Quoted By: >>4885444

>>4882507
It was good from start to finish

Some people didn't wanted NWO Hogan, because muh american hero, but that people has brain damage

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 15:54:33 No.4885444 Report

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>>4885422
said well sirs

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 15:57:21 No.4885471 Report

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>>4884027

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 16:05:15 No.4885549 Report

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>>4884027
Meanwhile Austinetty ran away from a match with Hogan because he was afraid Hulkster would hit him with the big boot, the leg drop and the 1-2-3 KWAB

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 16:18:06 No.4885654 Report

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>>4883234
Hall was at a bad time in his life, fucked up on alcohol and drugs and couldn't be bothered to do anything tha going through the motions and Steve Austin understandably didn't want to work with him

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 16:19:03 No.4885663 Report

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>>4882517
Too bad the crowd is part of the experience. A good performer works the crowd.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 16:22:56 No.4885697 Report

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>>4885405
Rock was a parody of himself by 2000.
Smackdown was a mistake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 16:27:57 No.4885742 Report

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>>4882507
Turning Jericho heel when he was white hot & turning Angle heel after 9/11
The Austin HHH feud from 1999-2001
Pushing Triple H in 1999 resulting in a planned Austin heel turn angle due to him flopping
Pushing Triple H when everyone backstage told Vince it wasn’t a good idea
The entire unification title bullshit when Rock & Austin already put Jericho/Angle over clean on consecutive PPV’s for the belt
Pushing Big Show in WM2000 main event when even he said he didn’t deserve it
The McMahon Hemsley faction
Allowing Stephanie to be a on screen character
Letting Bret Hart leave in montreal
Allowing the Kliq to gain so much backstage influence
Blowing a shot at bringing in Hulk Hogan & Savage during the Monday night wars

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 16:40:19 No.4885898 Report

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>>4885742
If Hogan Rock happens at WM2000 & Hogan Austin happens at WM17, who gets put over at WM18?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 17:24:36 No.4886448 Report

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>>4885471

aww somebody didn't take his vitamins :-)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 17:30:35 No.4886499 Report

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>>4882507
Billy Gunn should have run in after the match and hit both these shitters with a Fame Asser

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 17 Mar 2022 17:33:15 No.4886526 Report

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>>4885405
I liked the build up. I remember they beat up and tried to kill The Rock which I enjoyed because I was an nWo mark in WCW too. But it could have been better, but "it could have been better" is the story of WWE since WCW died.

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