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Watching Over The Edge 1998 main event Austin vs Dude Love, with Vince as ref.
- Pat Patterson is introducing Gerry Brisco, he says he's the reincarnation of Jim Thorpe, then he reads the address and phone number for the Brisco Brothers Body Shop. Then JR says "and we know who does the rear ends." Damn lol.
- The Stooges were so great. I remember thinking they were hilarious as a kid, and they're even better in retrospect.
- Austin flips McMahon the bird, and the crowd pops like he just won the title or something.
- Crowd is hot, almost to a scary degree. Fans in the front row getting in both guys face, super aggressive.
- There's a spot where Dude Love's false teeth come out. Lawler says he's lost his smile lol.
- Crowd chants "Vince is gay!"
- Dude Love gets clotheslined over the guard rail landing right on his head/neck on the cement. ****.
- Austin gets busted open and is taking bumps on rusty cars. Does insurance cover that?
I don't know how much that PPV cost back in 1998, but for the effort and entertainment value it was likely a steal.
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Negative. PPVs were still cheap back then. In Your House was still going for 19.95while the big 5 were going around 29.95
Once they phased out In Your House after Backlash ‘99 everything was 29.95 with Wrestlemania climbing up to around 34.95
It wasn’t until around the Ruthless Aggression era I believe possibly the 05-06 range when monthly PPVs climbed to 34.95 a month then 39.99 and Wrestlemania climbing to 49.95 and then 54.95 eventually monthly PPVs climbed to 44.95 and then 49. Think that was brought in with the HD era.
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Yeah, WM didn't get crazy with the prices until HD. I remember getting WM12 when I was a kid and it was like $30.
I was searching around for historical PPV buyrates and saw this
View historic WWE/WWF pay-per-view event buyrates (A 1.0 buyrate is approximately equivalent to 400,000 buys).
Strange to see how low the buys were for WM19 in Seattle. Around 2007 forward we see the beginning of the WM shows dwarfing all the other shows in terms of buys and relevancy. To me that's about when the weekly/monthly WWE product stopped delivering.Comment
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I'm up to 1987 World Championship Wrestling and Kevin Sullivans' promos were so terrible at that time. Couldn't understand what the hell he was saying....i'm not talking about the promos on evil, darkness and such you could follow those and they fit his character.
I'm talking about him literally going through most of the big names in WCW at that time and saying *name* you can't do this or you can't do that to *name*
*Name* you don't know *name* as well as you think and he will beat you, just all over the place.-= Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.=- Edward MurphyComment
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I really wish Table for 3 was longer but I guess these Network only shows is the only place they succeed in having the viewer want more. Never knew Adam Cole was the guy in the skit with Serena in a bar where Punk catches her breaking her straight edge pledge. Also crazy to think the original plan for the Riott squad was to not even be together for long and they were to be seperated so soon after their debut.Comment
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Playoffs winding down, picked back up where I left off. Late November 99.
Spoiler
-This episode of Raw is brought to you by Wrestlemania 2000 the video game on N64! I played that game so much. I hated how I never finished it. Its impossible to win the rumble or a steel cage match on hard to unlock HBK!
-Hardcore Holly is mad at Al Snow. Because Al had to be a maniac who beheads women lol, Holly's action figure which was packaged with Snows was also pulled.
-Angle vs Henry. Fans really hated Angle. To think he'd be a main enter by next year and a whole better superstar.
-They had some plant in crowd with a giant World Wide Filth sign. Testing the waters for the RTC?
-LOL, in the parking lot McMahon is waiting for DX. Wanting revenge for what he saw them do to his family during SD in Vegas(if only he knew what else happens in Vegas lol). As soon as they arrive, he floors it and drives into their limo, gets out, then starts smashing the limo with a baseball bat!
-JR had too much fun talking about Godfathers "Buffahos" (they were in buffalo if you didn't know)
-Still weird having fans not care much about tag division. Edge/Christian vs Dudleys. Fans treated it like generic match.
-Speaking of tag teams. Too Cool getting beat down before some guy making his Raw debut comes out. "RAKISHI"(as JR calls him). He then saves them and they do a mini dance before fans start cheering.
-Half of Raw revolves around McMahon going to jail for what he did to the DX limo. HHH uses that as a way to say McMahon ran over Austin, with the proof being how crazy he was with that car on Raw, so who's to say he didn't do it a few weeks ago?
-Rock vs Bossman/Albert. Foley helps out Rock and we get mini Rock N Sock reunion.
-Main event of HHH vs Acolytes (using their APA theme). Acolytes really beat down HHH for 99% of match. HHH escapes, McMahon returns from jail, hits him with a chair and throws him off the stage!
Kind of interesting thing on Raw that happened here too. Definitely shows how rough things were despite it being boom period. JR gave a mini speech to the fans telling them to let sponsors know how much they love them/WWF. Seemed like sponsors really weren't happy with the company at the time. They were going public soon too weren't they?Comment
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Does anyone know when the network will be available on 2019 TVs? I have a Samsung from 17 and one from 18 with the network app. Got this new QLED from 19 and it’s not available. Samsung said it’s on the developer, the network said “soon.” They just purged a lot of support for older models and 19 is half over. Wouldn’t you want the app on a new tv? Sucks for me cause one tv is now at my parents, the other tv is in my basement. The new tv in the living room now doesn’t have the network and I got rid of the PS4 in that room.Comment
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It's a shame that I'm getting close to the end of Foleys full time in ring career. Only a few months left since I'm in November 99 right now. On plus side, almost Radicalz time!
Foley/Snow together are too funny.Attached FilesComment
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After I finish Raw it’ll be time to flip over to Nitro and the debut of Warrior in WCW. Good ole 8/17/98.
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