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Stereomaniac · 16-09-2015 12:00AM

I saw a teaser trailer for it and they came across as being genuinely happy with their position.

Itssoeasy · 16-09-2015 11:44PM

Watching slamboree 2000 for some strange reason.

jaykhunter · 17-09-2015 12:34AM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Watching slamboree 2000 for some strange reason.

What a great show! (at being terrible). It has so much awful goodness.

Itssoeasy · 17-09-2015 01:07AM

jaykhunter wrote: »

What a great show! (at being terrible). It has so much awful goodness.

I've only just watched the first two matches. Terry funk vs Norman smiley was a perfectly acceptable hardcore match. Who in the blue hell was Ralphus ? What a utter waste. He walked around with a trash can backstage and I was shouting for him to hit terry funk. :mad: you can tell that tony schiavone would have been anywhere else but sitting at ringside calling the matches.

Ageyev · 17-09-2015 01:08AM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I've only just watched the first two matches. Terry funk vs Norman smiley was a perfectly acceptable hardcore match. Who in the blue hell was Ralphus ? What a utter waste. He walked around with a trash can backstage and I was shouting for him to hit terry funk. :mad:

Ralphus was Chris Jericho's gimmick bodyguard. Was he still,around in 2000? Haven't watched that show since the Warjer Bros. VHS tape years ago.

Itssoeasy · 17-09-2015 01:11AM

Ageyev wrote: »

Ralphus was Chris Jericho's gimmick bodyguard. Was he still,around in 2000? Haven't watched that show since the Warjer Bros. VHS tape years ago.

Apparently. He wore a mask for most of it as a "mystery partner" in a baseball catchers gear. Why I don't know. It was painful to watch.

Itssoeasy · 17-09-2015 01:17AM

Also I've not got that far yet but the fact that David arquette was the ****ing wcw worlds champion annoys me more than it should. I'm right in thinking that him getting the title was Vince Russos brilliant idea ? Jim cornette is right about Russo.

the groutch · 17-09-2015 01:40AM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Jim cornette is right about Russo.

Cornette is always right, I could spend all day watching his shoot videos.

Stereomaniac · 17-09-2015 02:02AM

Table For 3 with The New Day is on now. Probably wouldn't've gone out of my way to see it.

Palo Alto · 17-09-2015 10:18AM

Tyler is MVP of NXT at the moment, so entertaining. Bull's great now too.

Adam Rose's promo was death. Be Kruger or go away!

Angron · 17-09-2015 10:22AM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Apparently. He wore a mask for most of it as a "mystery partner" in a baseball catchers gear. Why I don't know. It was painful to watch.

The why is easy. It was a gay joke.

Ralphus was the "catcher", Norman Smiley was the "pitcher".

Stereomaniac · 17-09-2015 12:39PM

Why didn't that get brought up on Are You Serious? in the last few years I wonder. Shocking carry on. To think of how politically incorrect so much of this was not so long ago.

beakerjoe · 17-09-2015 12:47PM

the groutch wrote: »

Cornette is always right, I could spend all day watching his shoot videos.

Regardless if you agree with him or not, Cornette is entertaining.

Angron · 17-09-2015 01:20PM

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Why didn't that get brought up on Are You Serious? in the last few years I wonder. Shocking carry on. To think of how politically incorrect so much of this was not so long ago.

I dunno, it was pretty awful and not really subtle either.

I'm just watching Slamboree 2000 now, the whole show is just absurd. Kinda moronic that in a feud between the rich main event stars that want to keep their spot on the card, and a group of the younger and/or overlooked talent trying to break through, it's the guys at the top being portrayed as faces.

Stereomaniac · 17-09-2015 01:43PM

Sure WCW just lost the run of themselves putting over oul lads and having basketball players and television people into their main events. I tuned right out when all of that happened. It's mad to think of how much things have changed over the last 15 years in PC terms.

Angron · 17-09-2015 01:57PM

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Sure WCW just lost the run of themselves putting over oul lads and having basketball players and television people into their main events. I tuned right out when all of that happened. It's mad to think of how much things have changed over the last 15 years in PC terms.

Yeah, I was fairly young when this stuff happened so I've only really got vague memories of some of the stuff that happened.

Highlight of the PPV "Russo gave me the name Hugh Morrus so people would laugh at me, to make me a joke. Now you'll call me by my real name... Hugh. G. Rection!"

Stereomaniac · 17-09-2015 02:07PM

This is the same guy who would berate young trainees at the Performance Centre about 12 or 13 years later. Wow, they must have seen the potential from his stellar performances here. I didn't really follow it at that stage but kept up on WCW from seeing them in the magazines.

Ageyev · 17-09-2015 03:53PM

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Also I've not got that far yet but the fact that David arquette was the ****ing wcw worlds champion annoys me more than it should. I'm right in thinking that him getting the title was Vince Russos brilliant idea ? Jim cornette is right about Russo.

Yeah that was a Russo idea. Arquette apparently didn't want to do it and tried to talk Russo out of it and later gave whatever money he made to the families of Pullman, Owen as well as Darren Drozdov. Arquette was there to promote that Ready2Rumble film, the one where wrestling fans are portrayed as geeks!

It's worth pointing out that for all the talk about the WWE title being devalued over the years and the aforementioned Arquette fiasco, Vince McMahon was WWF champion in 1999 after pinning Triple H on Smackdown. Granted it played into a storyline but it was a clusterf**k and Triple H really stumbled to get over as the #1 heel early on in his run.

17-09-2015 08:34PM

A few more ECW tv from 96 being added.

Up to Slamboree on my Raw/Nitro 96 viewing.

At this stage neither show is must see tbh. I think nitro is the better show but wwe have better build ups to their ppvs.

Battle bowl is the concept for slamboree which is basically tag teams picked randomly and its awful.

Itssoeasy · 17-09-2015 08:51PM

Anyone else on update their iPhone to iOS9 and now can't get the subtitles off the screen ?

21-09-2015 12:25PM

I think that legends show with JBL looks good.

Angron · 21-09-2015 12:27PM

Yeah, I think I'll give it a watch. Mainly want to see Eric having a go at Russo :pac:

21-09-2015 12:32PM

Angron wrote: »

Yeah, I think I'll give it a watch. Mainly want to see Eric having a go at Russo :pac:

Id like to see the Austin podcast done like the way this is.

I dont think Steve looks comfortable doing the podcast live on the network.

gerrybbadd · 21-09-2015 12:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think that legends show with JBL looks good.

Is this a new roundtable?

21-09-2015 12:38PM

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Is this a new roundtable?

No, its a sitdown interview series JBL is doing. First guest is Bischoff.

gerrybbadd · 21-09-2015 01:34PM

Deleted User wrote: »

No, its a sitdown interview series JBL is doing. First guest is Bischoff.

Sounds great!

*Maggle

Stereomaniac · 22-09-2015 03:08AM

I only just remembered this when I saw it mentioned there. They haven't really been plugging it throughout the evening have they? Hopefully there's some new information on there.

22-09-2015 01:19PM

Enjoyed part 1 of the Bischoff interview.

da_hambo · 22-09-2015 02:48PM

Anyone watch Night of Champions? Spoiler alert (kind of but not really)!

Seems Sting nearly suffered a broken neck taking a powerbomb. Am I the only one to suspect Rollins being sloppy considerng he also made sh@t of Cena's poor nose a few weeks ago?

Just another reason for me not taking to him.

innuendo141 · 22-09-2015 02:51PM

After signing up for my second (free...) month.

Where the dang hell is Best of Nitro 3 and the Monday Night War Shots fired specials? Didnt realise that not all DVD releases go up. Makes perfect sense to make money from both ways I guess but.... still sh1te

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