2017 Pro Wrestling Thread

Yeah, Miz did an interview with Renee where he said some mean things about her and Ambrose and she slapped him. Maryse then later slapped Renee, and that was it for her involvement.

 

Didn't see the actual PPV because it was way too expensive for me on a weekly newspaper reporter's salary. I think I had missed Nitro that week too, or maybe saw it. Felt kinda sad, in a way, because I hadn't seen Hogan as a heel in his earlier incarnation, except on one or two tapes, plus for his brief time when he was still a face, but had worn black against the Dungeon of Doom. Then when he came out dressed all in black with the NWO theme song, it was a pretty big shock.

It was a great move for him, because he was stale as hell as a babyface.

 

I'm almost positive I was in an AOL chat room at the time this happened. (I was 12 at the time, so I think it's somewhat acceptable.) We never bought PPVs in my house, so I would follow along with them on what passed for the Internet at the time.

 

WWF kid through and through here....I was 11 when Bash at the Beach 96 happened. When I was 9-10 and my mom mentioned Hulk Hogan was on WCW I told her that WCW was stupid and I didn't want to watch that.

Started watching Nitro over a year into the nWo shortly before Montreal when I was around 13----and at that time I thought Hollywood Hogan was AWESOME.

 

I was 15 when Hogan turned. Heenan totally ruined the segment. Hulk came down for the save, and I didn't have the first thought it woild be him. Hulk was always a good guy as far as I knew. Then Heenan screams, "Could Hulk be the third man?" And there was zero surprise at the leg drop. But seeing him go full Hollywood soon after was the craziest, most exciting thing I had ever seen at that time.

 

I was 11, or about to be, when Hogan turned. Heenan's over the top "WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON???" nearly ruined it for me, but it was still jarring to see him actually turn on Savage. I'm still working my way through 1996 WCW on the Network, watching all the episodes of Nitro -- though not watching the full show; I've fast-forwarded through a bunch of stuff -- and it's fun to go back and watch the nWo grow.

It was awesome in the beginning, then got too big for its britches.

 

I remember at one point, when the NWO was at its peak, thinking about how the heck Bischoff & Co. were going to eventually have the storyline end, and how they would be able to use guys like Hall and Nash after that.

Turns out, I was right. WCW could never kill off the NWO storyline.

 

Fantasy booking time. If you were in charge, how would you have ended it?

 

I would've held Goldberg-Hogan until Starrcade '98 and wound it down from there.

 

I would have had Bret Hart come in, do the "will he join the NWO or not?" for a few weeks, then have him help Sting at Starrcade, and be the guy, along with Davey Boy and Neidhart (for the undercard) to turn the tide. Eventually have a WCW vs. NWO PPV, maybe four out of seven matches, in which the loser (obviously the NWO) must disband. Have them split the first six, then have Goldberg beat Hogan in the seventh match.

Put Ted Turner in it where, if WCW lost, he'd have to sign the company over to Bischoff.

After WCW wins, as the PPV closes, Turner announces all NWO members are fired, with Hogan and Co. left crying. They take a few weeks/couple of months off, then start begging for reinstatement. You get one or two guys who ignore the reinstatement and just try to invade week to week, and eventually, the WCW guy they attack asks J.J. Dillon to reinstate them. Eventually, Dillon allows it, as long as they don't team with any other ex-NWO members.

 

Sting beating Hogan was the right way to end it. The problem was they didn't have any new stories after that.

 

Yeah, and it never really felt like Sting definitively beat and crushed them, either. Instead, they did weird stuff like NWO Wolfpack and what not.