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This entire feud was better than Austin vs McMahon

Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 15:12:02 No.9055414 View View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 15:13:06 No.9055424 Report

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>>9055414
Basic logic says otherwise

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 15:14:45 No.9055437 Report

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>>9055414
As a boomer, I can attest that nothing quite epitomizes "nostalgia goggles" quite like WCW.
It was good in '96, great in '97 and complete dogshit afterwards, watching it now is just depressing.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 15:15:20 No.9055444 Report

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>>9055437
>he isn't a 1992 CHAD

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 15:16:23 No.9055448 Report

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>>9055444
..

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 16:03:11 No.9055875 Report

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>>9055424
cope

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 16:08:07 No.9055916 Report

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>>9055437
98 had awesome matches, just awful storylines.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 16:12:55 No.9055972 Report

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>>9055414
Yes
Hogan didn't realize that only Nash and Hall were cool heels though
He was never over as a baby face in WCW, but he had all time great nuclear heat as Hollywood Hogan
The fans were paying to see him get his ass beaten at Starrcade 97 and felt very ripped off
Wolfpac would have worked if Hall and Nash teamed up with Sting against Hogan also

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 16:14:55 No.9055994 Report

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>>9055437
yeah despite the monday night war narrative we always flipped back and forth but as time went on i remember just not watching nitro entirely and just reading results.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 16:25:35 No.9056098 Report

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>>9055994
I watched until the final shoot firing of Double J without fail

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 17:06:00 No.9056510 Report

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>>9055437
WCW was still pretty good for the most part in 98. 99 was when it all started coming off the rails.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 17:08:16 No.9056542 Report

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>>9055414
>He stood in le rafters and didn't wrestle for a full year
WCWtrannies really were like this is peak wrestling lmao

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 17:09:44 No.9056561 Report

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>>9055437
WCWankers have the biggest victim complex ever LMAO.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 17:15:44 No.9056627 Report

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>>9055414
No it wasn't. The 3 months of build up was great but Hogan fucked it up at starcade.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 17:20:50 No.9056681 Report

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>>9055414
WWE has always been inferior to WCW in every single way

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 17:23:11 No.9056702 Report

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>>9056681
WCWetty lost, tranny

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 19:17:16 No.9057788 Report

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>>9055414
It could've competed with what Austin/McMahon were doing on the other channel in 1998.

Instead, they went right into Hogan vs Savage (which, to be fair, did pop a rating when Hogan beat him for the title) and didn't set up any significant challengers for Sting.

The war was WCW's to lose and it was like they just threw in the towel (and got lucky with Goldberg catching on for a few months). By 1999, they were toast.

And that's without any of the Jamie Kellner/corporate bullshit. Bischoff and Hogan took that company into a nosedive.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 19:19:29 No.9057814 Report

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>>9056542
It was cool as fuck. He quit WCW, wouldn't join the nWo, and had his eyes on the target. Had they actually written a payoff where a focused Sting annihilated Hogan, it would've worked. It arguably still did even with the fuck finish due to the buyrate/ratings.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 19:23:35 No.9057850 Report

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>>9055414
The build-up was perfect, but Nick Patrick and Hulk Hogan ruined it in the end

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 19:23:59 No.9057854 Report

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>>9055414
I was there at the time, and nah. The writing, the fact that they weren't slowly increasing production values (like WM 13, to 14, to 15), the fact that Austin was younger and going against the CEO who actually lifted, rather than another wrestler. The fact that Hogan came out on top. Nah.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 20:04:18 No.9058293 Report

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>>9055444
>he isn't a 1992 chad
>broken quads into trips

Fellow Nash xirs, it's time we an hero en masse.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 20:25:33 No.9058511 Report

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>>9055444
Memes aside, 1992 is a great year for pro wrestling. 1992 until about halfway through 1994 was a transitionary period for both WWF and WCW, but also had some great storylines, matches, and new/changing gimmicks. We saw Flair in WWF, his triumphant return to WCW, the death of Hulkamania, the ascension of Bret Hart, Vader's monster run, the debut of WWF Monday Night Raw and WCW Saturday Night, and young, rising stars that would become legends in both companies. And so much more! It's one of my favorite periods in wrestling. And it's followed by one of the worst (late 1994 through much of 1996).

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 20:41:30 No.9058693 Report

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>>9055414
yup, as it stands the fact that nitro was basically always better than raw, in fact late attitude era WWF already planted the seeds for it's decadence in the following years, culminating with the infamous triple h reign of terror, which killed the industry altogether. Meanwhile 99 and 00 nitro was offering groundbreaking meta storytelling while putting over younger stars which ironically became the biggest draws of WWE in the ra era. Its only sin was to be literally too mature for the gen x faggots to get.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 20:42:52 No.9058715 Report

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>>9058693
Look at this obese smark cope

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 20:47:52 No.9058768 Report

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>>9058511
92 was the last unofficial year of the 80s. Everything between mid 93 and late 97 didn't draw.

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