2013 Pro Wrestling Thread

IMPACT going on the road permanently, starting March 14 in Chicago. Well, we thought IMPACT on Mondays was permanent too ... and we know how long that lasted.

Still, I think this is a good move. Every time I watch IMPACT it feels like I'm watching WCW Saturday Night. Sound stages with a tourist audience, mixed in with canned crowd noise ... not good.

 

I don't know if "permanent" is the right word.

Aren't they doing a show live and then taping the next one right after?

 

Yes. But it's still out on the road and away from Orlando.

 

Live one week, taped the next is how the WWF did it until WCW got its sea legs, and got a few shots in on them about it ("Shawn Michaels beats the big guy with three superkicks"). Hell, it used to be that the WWF knocked out a whole month of Raws in one taping. The savings they get from only being live every other week is counterbalanced by the fact they didn't have to pay rent to tape at Universal.

 

True enough. This is the program I want to see. Which of course means we'll get nothing close to it. How I can come up with that in just a couple of minutes and WWE writers can't come up with it with weeks of planning is beyond me.

 

Even before the Raws, they used to tape a whole month of shows like Superstars and Challenge in one TV taping. I can't imagine being in that crowd and watching roughly 4 hours of squash matches with a couple of decent dark matches thrown in. Talk about sleep inducing.

Looking back on the website "History of WWF", which has results of most of their cards, there was even a TV taping in the mid-80s in which Hogan made one appearance, in which all he did was come out before a match and encourage ... Steve Lombardi of all people. If I was a fan going to that taping, I would have felt pretty ripped off.

At least with some of the smaller promotions, when they did TV each week, the 50-odd people in the one bleacher got in for free. And they'd see at least a couple of decent matches, even if they usually didn't end in decisive fashion.

 

I remember being at one of those at Brown County Arena in Green Bay (when this match was taped:

) ... and I loved every minute of it. Of course, I was 10.

I remember the main event being Hulk vs. One Man Gang in a steel cage.

 

Didn't The Genius win the WWF title for one night at a house show back in the day? I remember hearing that as a kid but I don't remember it ever seeing the light of day.

 

Not sure if The Genius ever beat Hogan for the championship, but he did beat him via countout on SNME back in 1989:

 

I feel bad for all the pixels that died in vain imagining anything other than a Cena-Rock II main event where Cena wins the title to redeem himself from last year.

 

That's the only time it happened. Never for the title at a house show. I remember they made it up like it was a huge deal. I actually was kinda glad it did happen, because I figured there was no way Leaping Lanny was going to win.

 

So didn't any of the posters on this thread find it kinda funny that, one week after the lights going out in the arena became a plot point in the Royal Rumble main event, the Super Bowl gets delayed by the lights going out in the stadium/arena?