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Stereomaniac · 25-05-2015 11:09PM

To be honest, that probably led to my lapsed-fandom for the better part of a decade....and drinking.

rovert · 26-05-2015 12:54PM

I am HERE for this:
https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/603072209310097408

LeeJM · 26-05-2015 01:02PM

rovert wrote: »

I am HERE for this:
https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/603072209310097408

Yes!!! Pls WWE do this. I love Nash and this would just be so f'n brilliant. I also think Big Kev should have his own show on the Network

gerrybbadd · 26-05-2015 01:19PM

He'd likely pull a quad in the first training session, and the whole thing would have to be nixed.

Or ya know, he could get a text message and have to leave, to go to Raw

Pentecost · 26-05-2015 01:22PM

Himself and Hogan could reprise the fingerpoke of doom.

Ageyev · 26-05-2015 04:39PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Remember having to buy long play VHS tapes for the PPVs?! I used to but a three pack at a time. Major panic if they couldn't be got local on the Saturday before the event.

I still have some of the tapes

Yeah I got stung with WrestleMania 2000. I switched to four hour tapes for the 'big five' PPVs after that. I still have a lot of my tapes of Attitude era shows recorded off of Sky Sports but they're useless now as they were left in an attic storage so exposed to variations in temperature. I regret not storing them safely and digitizing them as some stuff on the live shows hasn't been recreated eg. Highway to Hell music video from SummerSlam1998.

26-05-2015 08:40PM

I remember times not being able to afford VHS tapes so I'd fill the holes on official movies VHS tapes so I could record over them. Dad went mental when he realised I recorded over his goodfellas tape! Could only imagine the minnt he found out!

Here is a picture of me giving away my tapes .... Just takin up space so when I got the network I thought if have no use...had loads of tna ones and czw ones.

My Aunty told me before that there wa a kid on her street thy wante to meet me as I used to wrestle (shane the bruiser represent! Terrible name givin to me in IWW) and I collected figures, so I thought he might get more use out of them then me.

I'll never get rid of my figure though.....Ever! Even If there's a fire!

ERG89 · 27-05-2015 05:30PM

Was the Daniel Bryan doc on after Raw any use?

Loughc · 27-05-2015 08:19PM

ERG89 wrote: »

Was the Daniel Bryan doc on after Raw any use?

It was just a first look. Not the full documentary. That's being released on dvd.

Ageyev · 27-05-2015 11:35PM

ERG89 wrote: »

Was the Daniel Bryan doc on after Raw any use?

Worth a look to pass twenty minutes. It hints at being warts and all with Bryan talking about being booked to work Sheamus at Mania, Batista beingbooed et cetera.

Sirsok wrote: »

Here is a picture of me giving away my tapes ....

You might have gotten a few quid for that Wrestlemania boxset. Not much but someone might have bitten for the nostalgia buzz of having the WWF Attitude artwork.

What's the story with Elimination Chamber? Is it free on the Network or is only a portion of it free? I re-subbed with my US address, start time it 8pm Eastern, should be finished by 11pm and midnight will be June 1.

billion dollar baby · 27-05-2015 11:50PM

Ageyev wrote: »

Worth a look to pass twenty minutes. It hints at being warts and all with Bryan talking about being booked to work Sheamus at Mania, Batista beingbooed et cetera.

You might have gotten a few quid for that Wrestlemania boxset. Not much but someone might have bitten for the nostalgia buzz of having the WWF Attitude artwork.

What's the story with Elimination Chamber? Is it free on the Network or is only a portion of it free? I re-subbed with my US address, start time it 8pm Eastern, should be finished by 11pm and midnight will be June 1.

Elimination Chamber is free with the Network. That's kinda the point...

Stereomaniac · 28-05-2015 12:18AM

Do you know is it going to be the full length we usually get for pay per views? I hope so....

Ageyev · 28-05-2015 12:19AM

I must have misheard on a podcast that only the first hour was free.

Itssoeasy · 28-05-2015 12:27AM

Ageyev wrote: »

I must have misheard on a podcast that only the first hour was free.

It's on the 31st of May isn't it ? So here at least it will end on the 1st of June here so would people be charged after midnight.

Ageyev · 28-05-2015 12:44AM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

It's on the 31st of May isn't it ? So here at least it will end on the 1st of June here so would people be charged after midnight.

Yeah that's what I was thinking but I'm registered in the USA 😜

There's also that thing we're you're only billed two weeks after registering...

I'm not too arsed with the the show tbh, onlynthing I want is Cena vs Owens.

Ageyev · 29-05-2015 12:48AM

Working my way through late 1996 Monday Night Raw. A pivotal period in some ways but they were still looking a bit rinky dink eg. Billy Gunn, Jake Roberts and Marc Mero for your main event!

They were still taping several episodes weeks in advance and they often lacked urgency but there was the beginnings of change around this period.

Looking forward to the early 1997 period when the Steve Austin/Bret Hart rivalry was built pretty damn good with Austin constantly interfering in Hart family matches, the Rumble and Final Four shows and then the submission match and Canadian Stampede.

Stereomaniac · 29-05-2015 01:09AM

SummerSlam 1997 still holds up as one of the best, for me anyway as well. It was crazy what ended up happening a few months later, because in hindsight, Bret probably had one of his best ever years in wrestling during those 12 months, starting with Survivor Series 1996. I was watching Bunkhouse Stampede 1988 last night. Man, that was one weird pay per view. It's a wonder Vince never did some sort of match like that after he bought WCW out.

Ageyev · 29-05-2015 02:12AM

Haven't watched SS '97 in full in ages. Hard to believe it would hold up match-wise. There was a good air of 'big show' that had been lacking that year especially with the WWF title being a hot potato in early '97 and then taking a back seat to Austin vs Harts.

I always like Bret v Taker; Owen v Austin was good until the finish and the cage match was a notable gimmick encounter. Not reallly looking forward to revisiting LOD vs Godwins, Bulldog vs Shamrock etc.

Ageyev · 29-05-2015 02:26AM

Monday Night Raw Episode 190
December 23 1996

This is the first time that "attitude" is mentioned on air. Vince McMahon interviewing Sid says "Shawn Michaels has an attitude, Bret Hart has an attitude, Stone Cold Steve Austin has an attitude, The Undertaker, everybody has an "attitude". When it comes to attitude however, I suggest they are all going to be playing into your hands".

This is the genesis of the famed "Attitude Era".

Stereomaniac · 29-05-2015 03:05AM

Do you think they had any idea what they were doing using that word so many times in that interview segment? I can't say I've ever seen that since it even aired, so cheers for the reminder. The Attitude Era seems to have been done to death with various programmes that they've produced over the years, but for some reason I don't think I've ever seen that part on any of them. I think they like to claim that Vince McMahon screwing Bret Hart was the true birth of it, because that portrays Vince as the definite on-screen innovator.

Ageyev · 29-05-2015 03:19AM

The "New Attitude", which was written about by Vic Venom/Vince Russo in WWF Magazine in early 1997, was a reaction to what Bischoff was doing in WCW at the time. In part it was just basic hotshotting with bloody, violent, over the top angles. Not always booked Bret and Austin went into business for themselves using blood un the Mania 13 match.

I think Shawn getting booed to f**k in MSG against Sid was a watershed moment as this was WWF territory and their star babyface was shat on.

Iirc, shortly before the Royal Rumble 97 Sid goes full heel by powerbombing Jose Lothario's son through a table backstage and Michaels references the "new attitude" of the time.

There were other little things like Sable attacking Undertaker during a match he had with Marc Mero on Superstars in February of 1997.

Bret Hart turning heel was a direct response to Hogan turning heel in 1996.

Ageyev · 29-05-2015 03:52AM

Episode 191
December 30 1996

In ring interview between HBK and Bret Hart by Jim Ross. Coked up HBK alludes to Bret Hart's infidelities on the road "you ain't no role model".

hufpc8w3adnk65 · 29-05-2015 06:57AM

Ageyev wrote: »

Episode 191
December 30 1996

In ring interview between HBK and Bret Hart by Jim Ross. Coked up HBK alludes to Bret Hart's infidelities on the road "you ain't no role model".

How sure are you about both those points?

Pentecost · 31-05-2015 10:06PM

Just threw on Starrcade '93 there for the hell of it. Watching Ric Flair leaving his house for his match v Vader, just spotted who I assume is little Charlotte!

Stereomaniac · 31-05-2015 10:30PM

I'm pretty sure the Flair kids were seen at ringside a good few times during big matches then?!

Pentecost · 31-05-2015 10:38PM

Could have been, I never watched much WCW back in the day to be honest. I throw it on on the Network when I have a chance. The pre Russo stuff mostly!

Agent Coulson · 01-06-2015 05:06PM

Free for June for new subscribers.

martyos121 · 01-06-2015 05:12PM

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Free for June for new subscribers.

This is getting annoying. I already made new accounts for the last two free months, I'm running out of fake names and addresses!

Loughc · 01-06-2015 07:17PM

martyos121 wrote: »

This is getting annoying. I already made new accounts for the last two free months, I'm running out of fake names and addresses!

I like the way mister snrub thinks.

Stereomaniac · 02-06-2015 03:37AM

Wouldn't it be easier for them if they just said first month is free, like Netflix do if I recall correctly?

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