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  • TheShizNo1
    Asst 2 the Comm Manager
    • Mar 2007
    • 26341

    #9916
    Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

    Originally posted by dubcity
    Watching some random March/April 1992 WCW TV on YouTube.


    JR keeps bringing up the WCW hot line on commentary. Pretty sure a 6 year old me called that number at least a few times smh.
    You called the '1-900' number? [emoji23][emoji23]

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    Originally posted by Mo
    Just once I'd like to be the one they call a jerk off.
    Originally posted by Mo
    You underestimate my laziness
    Originally posted by Mo
    **** ya


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    • dubcity
      Hall Of Fame
      • May 2012
      • 17876

      #9917
      Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

      Originally posted by TheShizNo1
      You called the '1-900' number? [emoji23][emoji23]

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      Yeah. The WCW one and the WWF one multiple times. Didn't go well. $100 phone bill or something. Which was a lot in 1992 apparently lol. I remember the WWF one had some kind of a game where you'd press 1 to punch, 2 to kick, etc. Like you were having a match. The WCW had some inside dirt sheet type stuff that I wouldn't have given a damn about at that age. Good times.

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      • TheShizNo1
        Asst 2 the Comm Manager
        • Mar 2007
        • 26341

        #9918
        Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

        Originally posted by dubcity
        Yeah. The WCW one and the WWF one multiple times. Didn't go well. $100 phone bill or something. Which was a lot in 1992 apparently lol. I remember the WWF one had some kind of a game where you'd press 1 to punch, 2 to kick, etc. Like you were having a match. The WCW had some inside dirt sheet type stuff that I wouldn't have given a damn about at that age. Good times.
        12/13 year old me envies that experience........ but not the belt that would've came with that phone bill lol.

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        Originally posted by Mo
        Just once I'd like to be the one they call a jerk off.
        Originally posted by Mo
        You underestimate my laziness
        Originally posted by Mo
        **** ya


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        • southernmetalhead
          Inter Miami
          • Dec 2012
          • 3862

          #9919
          Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

          You were supposed to have your parents' permission!

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          • reyes the roof
            Hall Of Fame
            • Mar 2009
            • 11526

            #9920
            Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

            Originally posted by dubcity
            Watching some random March/April 1992 WCW TV on YouTube.

            Dangerous Alliance sure rolled deep. Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Steve Austin, Larry Zybesko, Bobby Eaton, Madusa AND Heyman.

            JR keeps bringing up the WCW hot line on commentary. Pretty sure a 6 year old me called that number at least a few times smh.

            Ricky Morton as a heel... still one of the dumbest things you will see.

            Greg Valentine and Terry Taylor (The Taylor Made Man) were tag team champions at one point? That can't be real. The Patriots (Firebreaker Chip and Todd Champion) are the ultimate generic roided up babyface tag team.

            Jim Ross and Jesse Ventura on commentary together feels so odd. It seems like JR legit hated Jesse lol. Not great chemistry. Other commentary duos on their TV that year: Schiavone and Magnum TA, JR and Bill Fralic, JR and Randy Owen, JR and K Allen Frey AKA Kip Frey. Lol.

            Apparently for a while on WCW Saturday Night they were best 2 out of 3 falls matches every week, with commercial breaks after each fall. Not a bad way to get around commercials interrupting matches. Steve Austin and Barry Windham had some battles with this stip.

            Part of me thinks this era of wrestling is the perfect balance of great selling with more athleticism and moves in general. Seeing a midcard guy like the Z Man go out there with Steve Austin and sell his *** off AND work a long match is impressive. Selling (with facial expressions and everything) used to be such a satisfying part of wrestling.
            92 WCW up until Watts took over is one of my favorite periods of wrestling. The war games from that year is such a great match

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            • Brother Love
              MVP
              • Jun 2017
              • 1826

              #9921
              Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

              3/31/97 Bret and HBK in ring promo was just so damn good. It’s easy to see how these guys worked themselves in to a shoot over the next few months.


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              • dubcity
                Hall Of Fame
                • May 2012
                • 17876

                #9922
                Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                Was watching a ton of shoot interviews about 1985/1986, so I signed up for Peacock to watch some of that era.

                Maybe I'm blind, but Primetime Wrestling and Tuesday Night Titans aren't in the WWE section at all. You have to search for them. Guess we should just be lucky that they are on there at all at this point. [emoji2369]

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                • dubcity
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • May 2012
                  • 17876

                  #9923
                  Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                  Originally posted by reyes the roof
                  92 WCW up until Watts took over is one of my favorite periods of wrestling. The war games from that year is such a great match
                  The in-ring was amazing. I guess business sucked, which is why they went from Kip Frey to Watts. And Flair had long been fired by Jim Herd. Bischoff was there already, but was only do on-air stuff.

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                  • SmashMan
                    All Star
                    • Dec 2004
                    • 9756

                    #9924
                    Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                    Originally posted by dubcity
                    Was watching a ton of shoot interviews about 1985/1986, so I signed up for Peacock to watch some of that era.

                    Maybe I'm blind, but Primetime Wrestling and Tuesday Night Titans aren't in the WWE section at all. You have to search for them. Guess we should just be lucky that they are on there at all at this point. [emoji2369]
                    If you go to the main WWE section and scroll down enough, there’s a carousel titled 80s Flashback. That’s the only place they show up for me.

                    Yeah, Peacock’s UI still absolutely sucks for a content library like WWE’s. But it was clearly made for TV shows to be displayed with a simple season > episode > watch flow, and it’s fine enough for that stuff.

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                    • dubcity
                      Hall Of Fame
                      • May 2012
                      • 17876

                      #9925
                      Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                      Originally posted by SmashMan
                      If you go to the main WWE section and scroll down enough, there’s a carousel titled 80s Flashback. That’s the only place they show up for me.



                      Yeah, Peacock’s UI still absolutely sucks for a content library like WWE’s. But it was clearly made for TV shows to be displayed with a simple season > episode > watch flow, and it’s fine enough for that stuff.
                      Good call, I didn't even see that. And some of the organizing of content is a holdover from the Network days I think. The whole "in ring" section is a weird decision to me.

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                      • georgiafan
                        Hall Of Fame
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 11129

                        #9926
                        Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                        Originally posted by dubcity
                        Was watching a ton of shoot interviews about 1985/1986, so I signed up for Peacock to watch some of that era.

                        Maybe I'm blind, but Primetime Wrestling and Tuesday Night Titans aren't in the WWE section at all. You have to search for them. Guess we should just be lucky that they are on there at all at this point. [emoji2369]
                        I like to do the watch alongs from that era with some of Conrad’s podcast (jr,Bruce,tony)
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                        • southernmetalhead
                          Inter Miami
                          • Dec 2012
                          • 3862

                          #9927
                          Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                          The Smoking Gunns had to take off an insane amount of **** to wrestle.

                          Long coat, vest, bandana, button up shirt, cowboy hat

                          Then they still wrestled in jeans and cowboy boots

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                          • dubcity
                            Hall Of Fame
                            • May 2012
                            • 17876

                            #9928
                            Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                            Originally posted by southernmetalhead
                            The Smoking Gunns had to take off an insane amount of **** to wrestle.



                            Long coat, vest, bandana, button up shirt, cowboy hat



                            Then they still wrestled in jeans and cowboy boots
                            And yet they kind of pulled it off (no pun intended). Cowboy gimmick, but two huge dudes who were super athletic and looked like they could take care of themselves.

                            Dusty Rhodes over in WCW must have been watching those two thinking, "it's time to bring back the Bunkhouse Stampede, baby" lol.

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                            • Brother Love
                              MVP
                              • Jun 2017
                              • 1826

                              #9929
                              Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                              Originally posted by dubcity
                              And yet they kind of pulled it off (no pun intended). Cowboy gimmick, but two huge dudes who were super athletic and looked like they could take care of themselves.

                              Dusty Rhodes over in WCW must have been watching those two thinking, "it's time to bring back the Bunkhouse Stampede, baby" lol.

                              For real. And you know the gimmick worked because Bart couldn’t do a thing after they dumped the Gunns.


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                              • southernmetalhead
                                Inter Miami
                                • Dec 2012
                                • 3862

                                #9930
                                Re: WWE Network Discussion Thread

                                Originally posted by Brother Love
                                For real. And you know the gimmick worked because Bart couldn’t do a thing after they dumped the Gunns.
                                Poor guy ended up as "Bodacious Bart" lol.

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