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lawler vs. bill dundey is the best match i ever saw, youtube it

Originally Posted by thekunk07

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lawler vs. bill dundey is the best match i ever saw, youtube it

Holy ****, I haven't heard that name in a long long time. Superstar Bill Dundey!! Man Kunk, you must have been watching some early mid south ****.

i had a ton of vhs tapes as a kid from my uncle's friend who lived in georgia. tons of memphis, mid south, florida. was awesome

Originally Posted by thekunk07

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lawler vs. bill dundey is the best match i ever saw, youtube it
Best match I ever saw was Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon for the Intercontinental Belt at Wrestlemania X. They pretty much equaled it 17 mos. later at Summerslam. It's really too bad that Hall was such a drunken ass as he could have been one of the all time greats. Also up there is the TLC match in 2000 between Christain & Edge vs. The Hardy Boyz vs. The Dudley Boyz. That and pretty much every Wrestlemania match HBK ever took part in.

HBK VS. Taker were pretty much the only reasons to watch recent Wrestlemanias.

Originally Posted by kronik

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I figure I'm setting myself for ridicule, but I don't particularly care.

Have you ever followed it? How old were you, what time period, what organization/federation/etc.? What possessed you to stop if you did.. growing up, no longer entertained, blah blah.

A part of the WWE's (I dislike the WWE) ad campaign is attempting to get away from the stereotype of wrestling fan = redneck. I can actually appreciate this since most of the serious fans that I know are the same ones that'd be into weird subcultures or anime and whatnot. Needless to say, it has me intrigued.

I'll start.. great-Granddad started me off when I was about 7, watching the WWF. I did that until about 12; subsequently, I took a short break. Started up again at about 14, then started watching ECW, puroresu/Japanese deathmatches, and now I'm into Ring of Honor and at times, TNA. I watch WWE perhaps once every couple of months. I'm 26, for reference.

(This is not a thread to drone on about wrestling being fake, etc. Thanks.)

I've watched wrestling since the 80's and watched on and off for about till the WWF merged with WCW. The storylines began to get boring and stopped. Watched WCW, WWF, World Class Championship.

My brother and I went to the civic auditorium in San Francisco to watch the first Wrestlemania. I was maybe 12-13 at the time and the place was packed wall to wall people, everyone's excited. My mom though we would be trampled to death and all.

My brother in-laws are into it. Not WWE, stuff like ECW.

A few of the guys I grew up with ...

Sweet Daddy Siki:




Haystack Calhoun:




Tiger Jeet Singh:




The Love Brothers (Hartford and Reginald Love):




The Sheik (or The Original Sheik):



Seen here executing The Camel Clutch.


Whipper Billy Watson:



lefty

ROH

is that when they broke kayfabe and HHH got buried for awhile?

Originally Posted by Biggskip

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Best match I ever saw was Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon for the Intercontinental Belt at Wrestlemania X. They pretty much equaled it 17 mos. later at Summerslam. It's really too bad that Hall was such a drunken ass as he could have been one of the all time greats.

Also up there is the TLC match in 2000 between Christain & Edge vs. The Hardy Boyz vs. The Dudley Boyz. That and pretty much every Wrestlemania match HBK ever took part in.

Originally Posted by thekunk07

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is that when they broke kayfabe and HHH got buried for awhile?
This took place about a year later. What's completely funny, however, is that when those guys jumped WCW actually had a very compelling storyline (The NWO) that they were able to use to crush the then WWF for several years. Eric Bischoff loved the storyline so much that he's pretty much using it again over in TNA.

Originally Posted by Biggskip

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This took place about a year later.

What's completely funny, however, is that when those guys jumped WCW actually had a very compelling storyline (The NWO) that they were able to use to crush the then WWF for several years. Eric Bischoff loved the storyline so much that he's pretty much using it again over in TNA.

Yes, the invasion angle really worked for the WCW, that NWO gimick was great. One of the greatest wrestling moment was watching Hogan go heel. Then when Eddie Guerrero formed the LWO (Latino World Order) I knew it jumped the shark. The WWF did do something very risky and that was to get rid of a lot of their older talent for guys like the Rock and HHH. They got hammered for a couple of years but ended up on top.

Originally Posted by Slopho

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Yes, the invasion angle really worked for the WCW, that NWO gimick was great. One of the greatest wrestling moment was watching Hogan go heel. Then when Eddie Guerrero formed the LWO (Latino World Order) I knew it jumped the shark. The WWF did do something very risky and that was to get rid of a lot of their older talent for guys like the Rock and HHH. They got hammered for a couple of years but ended up on top.
The rumors that I always heard wasn't so much that the WWF wanted to get rid of the older guys (although the really old guys were a pleasant departure). It was more that Ted Turner (who owned WCW at the time) could afford to pay them so much more. The invasion thing was a good angle, but WCW problem was that it couldn't develop any of its own talent. They gave creative control to Hogan and a few other guys who took advantage of it for their own gain. None of the younger guys who were coming up had a chance to compete for the titles. Eventually the younger guys and the fans became bored with the same three or four people trading the belts to each other and the whole thing caved in on itself pretty quickly. When Jericho, Malenko, Saturn, and Benoit all came over to WWE, I knew it was over for WCW.

Originally Posted by Biggskip

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The rumors that I always heard wasn't so much that the WWF wanted to get rid of the older guys (although the really old guys were a pleasant departure). It was more that Ted Turner (who owned WCW at the time) could afford to pay them so much more.

The invasion thing was a good angle, but WCW problem was that it couldn't develop any of its own talent. They gave creative control to Hogan and a few other guys who took advantage of it for their own gain. None of the younger guys who were coming up had a chance to compete for the titles. Eventually the younger guys and the fans became bored with the same three or four people trading the belts to each other and the whole thing caved in on itself pretty quickly.

When Jericho, Malenko, Saturn, and Benoit all came over to WWE, I knew it was over for WCW.

+10000.

The whole David Arquette incident with the WCW title didn't help either.

Originally Posted by Slopho

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+10000.

The whole David Arquette incident with the WCW title didn't help either.

Don't forget the infamous "Finger Poke of Doom".

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