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A Primal Nut

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

What about 2000??

They have 40 episodes from 2000 up.

Stereomaniac

I've been watching Survivor Series 1988. The first ever pay per view I saw on VHS years ago.

Itssoeasy

Watching wrestlemania 8 as its a brilliant event. I've said it before here but flair macho man is an all time classic. It's just sublime stuff all over. It's one of my favourite matches of all time.

Stereomaniac

I love Bret Hart vs. Roddy Piper as well. That was another one of the earliest videos that I rented with a couple of friends when we were in school. We couldn't believe all of the blood.

gerrybbadd

Love Mania 8. Young HBK and Sherri together were fantastic.

Bret match with Roddy was amazing, especially when considered that Roddy hadn't been pinned in years before that.

The original main event was meant to be Flair / Hogan. But we ended up with the far better Macho / Flair match, and the crap that was Hogan / Sid

Itssoeasy

Stereomaniac wrote: »

I love Bret Hart vs. Roddy Piper as well. That was another one of the earliest videos that I rented with a couple of friends when we were in school. We couldn't believe all of the blood.

Yeah piper showed that he could wrestle if needed which was nice to see. With the flair macho man match, it's a case of flair doing what a heel should do and that's to make you absolutely hate his guts. And perfect is well perfect.

Stereomaniac

The one thing that still bothers me is that the Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair match wasn't the main event. Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair seemingly worked a house show tour together beforehand.

A Primal Nut

Watching some Raws from 2000 - it's funny how every show they were trying to outdo themselves with how much they could stack the deck against the top babyface, usually The Rock but on the most recent show I watched was Chris Jericho. The Pat Patterson skidmark stink face was funny.

They were fun shows, the crowds were on fire, it didn't matter who was out there, the crowds were going insane. Everything they did just worked.

Stereomaniac

There was such widespread mainstream of the WWF in the year 2000 that I think Vince McMahon thought he could do no wrong after a while. He should have really thought a lot more about things like the XFL and WWF New York and how he was going to execute these projects.

jaykhunter

FWIW it is weird how he "McMahon'd" up wrestling and it worked phenomenally well, but do the same to bodybuilding or american football and it failed completely. Seems like a logical venture. I still think a wrestling restaurant (or at least owning one and showing wrestling events/merch) is a great idea, just don't do it on the most expensive street in the world. Houston, Philly or Chicago would've been better choices. Also having a decent chef (it was reportedly extremely bland) and a manager who didn't swindle you out of millions would've helped! It is odd that despite his other costly venture, WWE Films losing about $30,000,000 so far, he's still determined to continue.

Itssoeasy

Watching the main event of mania 8 and the while somber interview with Vince and hulk. Vince thanks him for the memories. You have to know he was thinking "thanks for my healthy bank balance hulk."

A Primal Nut

Yeah he already was the leader in Wrestling when he started those reforms so he had a solid base. Trying to compete with the NFL was always going to be very difficult, there are very few examples of someone successfully competing with a dominant sports league. The annoying thing is for the money spent on XFL he could have signed all the top WCW talent and had a proper invasion angle.

WWF New York wasn't the worst idea, but it was just a restaurant; nothing special about it I suppose.

Ageyev

Stereomaniac wrote: »

The one thing that still bothers me is that the Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair match wasn't the main event. Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair seemingly worked a house show tour together beforehand.

Hogan v Flair didn't do well on the house show circuit hence why that didn't happen at Mania 8.

Savage v Flair was placed in the middle of the card because they didn't want them outshining Hulk Hogan. Flair v savage went over their allotted time resulting in shorter matches afterward. Flair was also fined 5grand for blading and of course, the Papa Shango screw up where Sid kicked out of the leg drop.

Stereomaniac

I think Bret Hart said he got away with blading at that WrestleMania, but they completely forgot that Ric Flair was naturally going to blade in his match as well so it all seemed excessive. Typical Vince though, if something will outshine other matches why not put it headlining?

Ageyev

Yeh Bret got away with blading at Mania8. Same again during the match with Davey Boy at In Your House 5:Season's Beatings - I watched this tonight, weird show but great main event.

Vince was also unaware that Bret and Austin were going to get colour during the submission match at Mania 13.

Reebrock

Surprised there was no new content up on Christmas day. A pre recorded Stephanie "Queens speech" type deal is needed.

PTH2009

app still not fixed on my LG tv, working on the downstairs Panasonic tv.

Will the network ever get the swipe to tv thing like YouTube and Netflix have on smart phones. ??

Itssoeasy

Have gone down a post rumble 2000 raw black hole. Loving it.

sky88

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Have gone down a post rumble 2000 raw black hole. Loving it.

Some of my favourite raws are from that time. HHH and steph were just as good as heels as you could want with rock and foley the perfect faces.

Pity they cant recapture that with the authority now.

I know I should be happy with 2000 Raws being added but I hope Smackdowns are as well.

Never happy :P

Reebrock

sky88 wrote: »

Some of my favourite raws are from that time. HHH and steph were just as good as heels as you could want with rock and foley the perfect faces.

Pity they cant recapture that with the authority now.

Give them a fighting chance mate, it's early days for this Authority concept...

Angron

Rewatched the 2015 Rumble, there's something rather funny about Cole saying "The fans are not happy about Ambrose being eliminated", while the fans are angrily chanting "Bullsh*t" in the background.

The triple threat was still fecking magnificent though.

Bret Hart

I decided to watch Judgement Day 2000 last night,having not saw it for a while,which saw the return of Taker and the introduction of his new gimmick as the "American Badass".

Just an instant amazing PPV as you could expect from the WWE from the year 2000.I'd recommend anyone who ain't saw it on here to give it a watch or if you have it's definitely worth another watch.

A amazing PPV in a year in which everything WWE touched turned too gold and it was also coming off the back of what was a stellar PPV that was Backlash.

Stereomaniac

The timing was screwed up on The Undertaker's entrance and him attacking in the ring. The time was already gone so they took the screen clock down when they realised I think, didn't they? I never really liked the way that the match had so much back and forth happening with the falls. I guess at that stage my only reference point for an Iron Man match was Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart at WrestleMania XII. It was good to see Taker though.

A Rogue Hobo

Stereomaniac wrote:

The timing was screwed up on The Undertaker's entrance and him attacking in the ring. The time was already gone so they took the screen clock down when they realised I think, didn't they? I never really liked the way that the match had so much back and forth happening with the falls. I guess at that stage my only reference point for an Iron Man match was Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart at WrestleMania XII. It was good to see Taker though.

Yeah Taker was to meant to tombstone/chokeslam HHH in front of the ref HBK who would disqualify Rock giving HHH the deciding fall and the win. But the buzzer and the timer went off before taker hit the move meaning Michael's disqualified taker after the match had actually ended.

Pretty sure they may have teased Michael's turning heel after this for a little bit but other than that pretty much just casually ignored the botched ending.

Stereomaniac

At the time I found that ending infuriating because The Rock had only just won the championship and also sometimes referees would call a no-contest in a situation like that. I was 13 at the time and beginning to poke holes in continuity around rules and things like that.

A Primal Nut

Yeah I wonder why they took the belt of The Rock so quickly.

Stereomaniac

Then he won it back the following month by pinning Vince McMahon, which seemed a bit odd.

Itssoeasy

Gone from the raw after the rumble and watching no way out right now. I makes a huge difference having the rows between the ppvs for 2000.

You'd forget how stacked the roster was then. seems like creative decided the year 2000 was going to be the year.

One thing though. Why does bubba have a kind of southern USA accent ?

Itssoeasy

A Rogue Hobo wrote: »

Yeah Taker was to meant to tombstone/chokeslam HHH in front of the ref HBK who would disqualify Rock giving HHH the deciding fall and the win. But the buzzer and the timer went off before taker hit the move meaning Michael's disqualified taker after the match had actually ended.

Pretty sure they may have teased Michael's turning heel after this for a little bit but other than that pretty much just casually ignored the botched ending.

Yeah the buzzer might have gone off but the bill didn't ring until after the tombstone from memory and hbk was asking him to stop.