The Attitude Era Thread Vol 1

[strummer]

Sunny also had a monthly kayfabe article in the wwf magazine and would always make references to having a crush on Shawn. Don't know if she actually wrote those but the signs were there that they had a thing going behind the scenes.

 

[Valeyard]

I'm not sure anyone including her was too bothered in 1997 honestly. Well except for Candido maybe.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

At this point, I kinda think Candido was into it. It was obvious to everyone that knew them how crazy for each other they were, so I'd like to think he was into the hotwife kink more than he was a cuck.

 

[Valeyard]

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Poor poor Chris. Getting reminded that he was a year younger than I am now when he died (and he was in the “getting his last chance as a part time wrestler and manager.” Stage of his career) made me super depressed. Almost enough to let Ahmed Johnson bang my girlfriend.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Scotty 2 Hotty got bullied off of Twitter for saying that he doesn’t want to do intergender wrestling.

I never thought the woke mob would come after one of my people

 

[Valeyard]

The woke mob is every bit as toxic and insane, they just have the added misfortune of representing my belief system the loudest and the dumbest. The world is fucking awful all over, and it just adds to things when the people I agree with go out of their way to be gigantic twats, but this is a whole other discussion.

Scotty worked Chyna did he not?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Scotty teamed with Chyna at WrestleMania 2000.

(checks YouTube)

No. You're right. They faced each other.

 

[Valeyard]

Worm turned.

 

[alkeiper]

Intergender wrestling has grown beyond a niche. Any given card I go to has men and women mixed and no one bats an eye.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Has it though? I feel being acceptable on indie shows (and the occasional appearance on Impact) is niche.

 

[Valeyard]

It's very common, has been for a few years. Seems like every indie social media post has clips of one or two matches a show, at least. Dark cloud though he may be its mainstreaming is the biggest thing Joey Ryan has ever done for the business.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I think if you're a casual fan who only watches WWE and AEW, I still think inter gender wrestling is unusual or a throwback to the Attitude Era. Look at how the Ronda Rousey-Triple H spot at WrestleMania 34 was presented. It's definitely not normal in mainstream North American wrestling.

 

[Valeyard]

I'm interpreting mainstream in this case to mean widely known, in the sense that not only do you have references to it on Twitter periodically from major names (Bayley, for one, has mentioned it positively in the past) but the wizardry of social media suggest indie shows that book intergender matches if you have any interest in any other wrestling product.

Only reason it isn't on TV is because the networks immediately picture Braun killing Alexa for ten minutes instead of real competition.

 

[BruiserBrody]

On this weekend's pod Corny "blames" Bruce for being the main shiller of signing Marc Mero.
Apparently Vince also asked Shane Douglas to bring his wife with him a few months earlier, so Rena Mero really wowed Vince to the degree that she got a gig out of Mero's interview too.
Corny shits on Mero way more than is really justified. He mentions the same contract envy that Foley does.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1594387094343802880

 

[Valeyard]

Those were great though. See 2001 had great matches and made both Creed and Limp Bizkit not suck for a little bit.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1595105899114565632

I half wonder if things would've turned around for Vader if he stuck around in '99. Probably not but maybe!

Vader being a part of and/or afraid of the Ministry woulda been funny at least.

 

[Valeyard]

He made bank in NOAH and had arguably the best overall year of his career. He won.

But he and green Mark Henry had a match that had no business being a fun hoss fight.

 

[BruiserBrody]

They signed him while he was injured, then he ran afoul of HBK, and after that his planned push was canceled and they fat shamed him both on screen and off.

He would have ended up as a LOD like shell of himself jabroni worse than he already was.

Now a return to WCW in early 2000 once everyone was fired or injured..... hmmmmmm....

 

[Valeyard]

There is no way he works anyone important in singles because no one on top would want to take his offense. He'd get dumped into the hardcore division. At best he and Bigelow feud with Kronik.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Vince Russo obviously didn’t like Vader based on his booking in ‘97-‘98 WWF.


Now if WCW had signed Vader instead of SID in the Summer of ‘99...

 

[Valeyard]

Goldberg would have fucked him up beyond repair.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Yeah and ‘99 Kevin Nash would have been a literal and figurative bigger version of ‘96 Shawn Michaels.

Really, Vader should have left for Japan years earlier.

 

[Valeyard]

Nash, Hogan, and Savage wouldn't get near him. Goldberg would kill him. He'd hurt DDP. Bret hated working with him.

He'd in either year had some very sad matches with fucked up unmotivated Sting, maybe an equally sad match with Flair, just because they would be his biggest advocates. Vader was over being in the US anyway and WCW would've probably made him retire.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Vader would've had some awesome US Title matches against REDACTED though.

Vader Vs '99-'00 Big Poppa Pump also seems like a potentially fascinating train wreck.

 

[Valeyard]

Benoit would probably be the guy. Even then I don't think it'd be anything beyond a couple matches just because. I think his best work would be cutting loose on Saturday Night with Meng or Finlay.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1595794244924772352

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1598197630173319170

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1602644147160203265

Heard this about HBK and Vince but not this!