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rovert

Many editions of Nitro especially the 1995 & 96 ones were Cena's destruction of the Wyatts on Monday bad with Hogan standing triumphant at the end.

Shawn hated doing jobs.

CastorTroy

When was the last time there was a major upset victory? Like I'm talking The Kid vs Razor Ramon or Brooklyn Brawler pinning HHH levels of upset

SureYWouldntYa

CastorTroy wrote: »

When was the last time there was a major upset victory? Like I'm talking The Kid vs Razor Ramon or Brooklyn Brawler pinning HHH levels of upset

Brock v Taker

Ape Lincoln

CastorTroy wrote: »

When was the last time there was a major upset victory? Like I'm talking The Kid vs Razor Ramon or Brooklyn Brawler pinning HHH levels of upset

Heath Slater pinned Seth Rollins on Raw Aug 4th 2014 due to Dean Ambrose distracting Rollins by standing on an announce table.

Ape Lincoln

rovert wrote: »

The party culture and unstructured environment really did in British Bulldog and Neidhart. There's some SCARY bad matches with them in WCW where they are clearly cracked out.

Shawn would have lost hugely in the political games Hogan and Savage were playing. Hogan "beat" Shawn politically in their Summerslam match a number of years later. Also Shawn had a special relationship with Vince in the 90s which is open to conjecture. At the very least Vince had the horn for HBK when it came to his on screen commentary and off screen giving into Shawn's tantrums. I don't think Shawn would have had that relationship with Bischoff. To steal a line from Meltzer Eric Bischoff is in the Hulk Hogan business not the Wrestling business. A statement that remained accurate up until Hulk's TNA stint if not to this day. Don't forget Hulk et al. completely and utterly sabotaged Bret Hart.

I do believe Undertaker was a Company man but he was smart enough to know he would mean very little without the Undertaker gimmick. Any attempt to ape it in WCW would be met with swift legal action from WWF.

I think I gave the same albeit more succinct answer just before you

Good point about Hogan/Michaels in 2005.

Insect Overlord

While we're on the topic of WWF Hardcore champions and hardcore wrestling in general, what would people recommend as "must see" matches in that style? Between WWF and ECW classics or other promotions that I might not have seen before?

Omackeral

^^^
This is a bit of a Cult Classic from Wrestlemania 17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3alVq88qKW4

Ape Lincoln

An File wrote: »

While we're on the topic of WWF Hardcore champions and hardcore wrestling in general, what would people recommend as "must see" matches in that style? Between WWF and ECW classics or other promotions that I might not have seen before?

Hardcore Title matches were hardly technical classics but some of the most notable were:


Bob Holly vs Al Snow, St Valentine's Day Massacre 1999 - they ended up fighting in the Mississippi river.

Al Snow vs Big Bossman, Kennel From Hell match, Unforgiven 1999 (a pretty abysmal match but a must-see because it is so bad)

RVD had some decent matches in 2001 vs. Jeff Hardy,vs. Chris Jericho at Unforgiven and vs. Undertaker at Vengeance

Steve Blackman vs Shane McMahon, SummerSlam 2000

Sirsok

An File wrote: »

While we're on the topic of WWF Hardcore champions and hardcore wrestling in general, what would people recommend as "must see" matches in that style? Between WWF and ECW classics or other promotions that I might not have seen before?

Edge v foley mania 22

Awesome v tanaka at one night stand

4 way monsters ball match sabu Ryhno abyss and hardy at bound for glory, just for Jeffs dive

HHH v foley royal rumble 2000

Rock v Foley royal rumble 1999

Kurt angle v shane omac king of the ring 01 (I think)

If your looking for something ridiculous CZW cage of death matches are all kinds of stupid!

ricero

An File wrote: »

While we're on the topic of WWF Hardcore champions and hardcore wrestling in general, what would people recommend as "must see" matches in that style? Between WWF and ECW classics or other promotions that I might not have seen before?

A forgotten classic imo is mankind vs big show in a boiler room brawl at backlash

A Rogue Hobo

Rhino vs Raven at Backlash (think it was 2001) was great, as was their TNA world heavyweight title bout at Unbreakable a few years later although both matches are quite similar.

Kolido

What was the match that took place in a bar? Can't remember who was in it but it was quite humerus. Would have been around 2000 give or take a year.

Ape Lincoln

Kolido wrote: »

What was the match that took place in a bar? Can't remember who was in it but it was quite humerus. Would have been around 2000 give or take a year.

Bossman vs Al Snow, SummerSlam 99?

Kolido

Ape Lincoln wrote: »

Bossman vs Al Snow, SummerSlam 99?

Yeah looks like the one alright, had a feeling bossman was in it.

Palo Alto

Kolido wrote: »

What was the match that took place in a bar? Can't remember who was in it but it was quite humerus. Would have been around 2000 give or take a year.

This would have been a fantastic pun if someone had gotten their arm broken.

cena

Wasn't roads Dogg part of that match

Ape Lincoln

cena wrote: »

Wasn't roads Dogg part of that match

He either did commentary while following them around or he was the ref.

cena

i think he followed them around.

Must be a clip on youtube

Ape Lincoln

Does anyone remember what episode of Raw these shots were from? It is Triple H, X-Pac and the New Age Outlaws. Based on H's gear I would place it in 1998 as it looks like they are standing atop the Lion's Den cage used for the Shamrock vs. Owen Hart match at SummerSlam that year.

Stereomaniac

Was it from Sunday Night Heat that year when Owen Hart fought Steve Blackman and they interfered or something?

Ape Lincoln

Who was Raven's ninja at No Way Out 2001 and where did the angle lead?

Bounty Hunter

Ape Lincoln wrote: »

Who was Raven's ninja at No Way Out 2001 and where did the angle lead?

Maybe I'm getting this mixed up with another ninja angle but I think it was tori and then didn't lead anywhere

rovert

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

Maybe I'm getting this mixed up with another ninja angle but I think it was tori and then didn't lead anywhere

They did the unmasking on Heat or one of those shows. It was Tori (the other one not Wilson).

Reganio 2

So playing Smackdown 2 (as ya do) and had a match against Val Venis his video comes on all is grand but then Val comes out and he is wearing white trunks and boots... Has Val ever wore all white gear?

P.s Steve... What bar is Val Venis in Smackdown 2 :P

Angron

I don't ever remember him wearing all white gear, the only two colours I really remember are black and purple.

Reganio 2

Angron wrote: »

I don't ever remember him wearing all white gear, the only two colours I really remember are black and purple.

Exactly that's what I was waiting on the famous black with purple but he comes out in white was strange.

Ape Lincoln

Reganio 2 wrote: »

P.s Steve... What bar is Val Venis in Smackdown 2 :P

Blue_Dabadee

He wore white trunks briefly when Trish Stratus was his manager during mid-2000.

hufpc8w3adnk65

He had white trunks for awhike around the time he was IC champ with trish

gerrybbadd

He did indeed. Look up his feud with Rikishi for the IC title around that time. I remember them having one very good match