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This scared the hell out of me and was the only time post Macho Man feud and pre Kronik that Crush really felt over to me.
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WWF New Generation Thread III
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Valeyard
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Even when I didn't know who he was I just thought Corino was too punchable.
If his word is anything to go by, too, it's a total shame the Fake Razor and Diesel thing didn't get over because they were gonna make him fake 123 Kid.
If his word is anything to go by, too, it's a total shame the Fake Razor and Diesel thing didn't get over because they were gonna make him fake 123 Kid.
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As I've said in many Rumble history threads- I thought Razor was taking the belt off Bret.
If that happens.... that Rumble finish has to alter.
Do they do the first double dip and have Bret come back and win the Rumble to set up WM 9?
Macho Man to set up the final Macho/Razor clash, but with heel Razor winning, and then the Hogan swerve?
Mr Perfect to bolster the hot new babyface to the big title?
The absolute worst option and give Backlund the time record and the win to set up the lowest PPV buyrate in history?
If that happens.... that Rumble finish has to alter.
Do they do the first double dip and have Bret come back and win the Rumble to set up WM 9?
Macho Man to set up the final Macho/Razor clash, but with heel Razor winning, and then the Hogan swerve?
Mr Perfect to bolster the hot new babyface to the big title?
The absolute worst option and give Backlund the time record and the win to set up the lowest PPV buyrate in history?
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Listening to JR's KOTR 93 pod from last June this AM (Avoiding the Nash pod again...) and I was surprised to hear Bret came into the PPV with a legit knee issue and had 3 bangers anyway.
JR is hitting most of his usual talking points (Run the play the coach calls, Everyone should be able to do a job w/o an issue if you know how to work..., Vince fired me X2 this year - perhaps because he was sick of my southern voice even though he put me on RAW that summer. ) But since it's been a bit since I listened to JR, I'm enjoying it.
JR thought Mike Shaw should have gotten a better push. I'm not sure the 1987 Makah Singh was in the sloppy fat of 1993 Shaw.
He blamed Bryan Clarke's lack of charisma on why a guy who looked like that failed to get over in the WWF.
JR also takes zero credit for any of the recent WCW guys getting signed in 1993. JR was just doing what was asked and trying to survive the political BS in the WWF. Lord Al was mad at JR for taking Gorilla Monsoon's spot....as if Monsoon wouldn't have had the pull to call his own shots.
JR is hitting most of his usual talking points (Run the play the coach calls, Everyone should be able to do a job w/o an issue if you know how to work..., Vince fired me X2 this year - perhaps because he was sick of my southern voice even though he put me on RAW that summer. ) But since it's been a bit since I listened to JR, I'm enjoying it.
JR thought Mike Shaw should have gotten a better push. I'm not sure the 1987 Makah Singh was in the sloppy fat of 1993 Shaw.
He blamed Bryan Clarke's lack of charisma on why a guy who looked like that failed to get over in the WWF.
JR also takes zero credit for any of the recent WCW guys getting signed in 1993. JR was just doing what was asked and trying to survive the political BS in the WWF. Lord Al was mad at JR for taking Gorilla Monsoon's spot....as if Monsoon wouldn't have had the pull to call his own shots.
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KOTR '93 is the best night of work Bret ever did. I can't think offhand of a time anyone had two ***1/2+ matches and one 5* in the same night. Maybe Liger.
Shaw deserved better pretty much everywhere. Even when in shitty shape, I think he had something to offer to the lower card beyond being fat and ugly. Smart enough worker to at least get a better shot.
Clarke was fine and I feel like part of any charisma complaint about the WWF run is that his name is fucking Adam Bomb in a cartoon promotion. When he was in WCW, he didn't have any of the percieved issues as before because he was from day one a cool looking guy who beat the shit outta people and not cutting scripted promos with bomb puns and shit.
Shaw deserved better pretty much everywhere. Even when in shitty shape, I think he had something to offer to the lower card beyond being fat and ugly. Smart enough worker to at least get a better shot.
Clarke was fine and I feel like part of any charisma complaint about the WWF run is that his name is fucking Adam Bomb in a cartoon promotion. When he was in WCW, he didn't have any of the percieved issues as before because he was from day one a cool looking guy who beat the shit outta people and not cutting scripted promos with bomb puns and shit.
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I want that ‘94 Macho Man shirt
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I had that Razor Ramon shirt and I wore it proudly to Summer Slam 95.
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I was thinking of that Razor shirt earlier this week, specifically how Walter Payton managed to split it down the middle, under the collar, at Summerslam 94 by not doing anything.
Tantanka's shirt looks like merch from a Wyoming gay bar.
I really don't miss the age of people's faces all over merch.
Tantanka's shirt looks like merch from a Wyoming gay bar.
I really don't miss the age of people's faces all over merch.
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WWE Shop sells a reprint of that Tatanka shirt. It pops up in my sponsored feed sometimes.
And shockingly, no. I have not bought it. Maybe if it was red Mohawk Tatanka.
And shockingly, no. I have not bought it. Maybe if it was red Mohawk Tatanka.
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Yeah. Sure.
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They went a little scorched earth on Hogan after his 93 run. The WWF magazine posted pics of Hogan looking "scared" as they covered Yoko's rise.
Maybe they should have gone all the way with Luger at Summerslam and washed the Hulkamania residue off once and for all.
It'd be kind of funny/sad if they ran 2 Manias in a row where Yoko won the belt and lost it the same night (Assuming they would go Yoko over Luger - then Bret over Yoko)
I wonder if Vince thought he was getting more Hogan dates than he ended up with after handing him the title or if the NJPW promo chaffed Vince's britches. (Plus Vince had given Linda control of the company in the summer of 93 to help protect it from whatever was to come from the law chasing down Vinnie Mac. )
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That was one of the first issues of WWF Magazine I ever bought. That article also mentioned Hogan being so shattered by that Yokozuna defeat that he could only wrestle in some old timers circuit* down South.
*Meanwhile WWF was about to put the title back on 45 year old Bob Backlund (and the current World Champion Bret Hart was only four years younger than Hulk Hogan)
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That Raw clip with Savage going off is surreal. Guess nine year old me didn't hear a lot of post-Hogan commentary on school nights. Even then, that's the WWF going way out of their lane of not mentioning something that isn't theirs three years before Billionaire Ted.
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It’d have been one thing if he just brought it up on Radio WWF but he brought it up there then they asked him about the interview on RAW.
WWF was making weird, subtle overtures to the proto smark community to prove that they weren’t all that bad after the steroid and sex abuse scandals the year before so I think this was one of those.
WWF was making weird, subtle overtures to the proto smark community to prove that they weren’t all that bad after the steroid and sex abuse scandals the year before so I think this was one of those.
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That Savage rant was also when heat was highest with he and Hogan, if I remember correctly. Like I think Liz was staying with the Hogans then during the separation or something and Savage was extra surly.
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Somewhere Jerry Jarrett wept to see his Wrestlemania 10 dream headliners fighting over the airwaves.
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Didn’t know Rotunda ever got this athletic during his IRS run.
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I know what gift I am going to disappoint one of my nephew’s with this Christmas.
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This wouldn’t win any of our “worst house show card” threads but it’s NOT GREAT.
That’s 260 dollars today. How much do you love Well Dunn?
