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  1. Dooley
    Be nice to hear it from Ted's mouth.
  2. Dooley
    Getting his perspective on his '88 run would be interesting. Was he promised the belt, when did plans change, what was he told, etc.
  3. Dooley
    Why wouldn't fans of pro wrestling on a pro wrestling website think something that has something to do with pro wrestling is a bigger deal than something that doesn't? It's not like you're running the question on a general website like CNN or something.
  4. Dooley
    99 WWF/E was a cesspool. You can literally take any year in the history of the company and compare it favorably to that year. Except for all the millions of people who were watching then that aren't watching now. Pretty obvious this thread is not about business. I've never heard anyone - I mean seriously no one ever - claim 99 was a good year for the WWF/E in the ring. If they were setting the high-water mark for business, it's pretty clear people liked what they were seeing. It's an angry smark myth there were no good matches in 99 WWF. It wasn't the main focus obviously, but you still had things like the Rock-Foley feud, the Austin-Taker feud, Rock-Austin on back to back PPV's, Austin-Trips at No Mercy, E&C vs Hardys, and Test-Shane was perhaps the most surprisingly good match of that year. That's just off the top of my head. Sure there were lots of 3 minute Raw matches but it's not like there wasn't good stuff as well.
  5. Dooley
    99 WWF/E was a cesspool. You can literally take any year in the history of the company and compare it favorably to that year. Except for all the millions of people who were watching then that aren't watching now.
  6. Dooley
    Just reading Meltzer's Pillman obit and he mentions off-handedly that George Scott was forced out as WWF booker after losing a power play with Hogan. Can someone explain to me what exactly happened there?
  7. Dooley
    No offense, but why would you have Henry sign a yearbook from 89?
  8. Dooley
    Harley Race = Master of Disguise. He was also the other Ultimate Warrior. That makes me miss Brick.
  9. Dooley
    Plus Canadians don't actually get the day off for Black Friday. Most of us don't see the point in taking the day off just so we can skip the GST at Canadian Tire.
  10. Dooley
    Bischoff had said that he looked at Halloween Havoc as the biggest PPV of the year. '94 and '95 certainly bear that out with Hogan-Flair retirement match and Hogan-Giant happening there respectively. Starrcade those years had Hogan-Beefcake and this event, and this show did an abysmal buyrate because no one cared who the Japanese guys were or why WCW guys were facing them. '96 evened out a bit more with the Hogan-Savage blowoff happening at Havoc and Hogan-Piper taking Starrcade, which did huge business. '97 had the boffo Starrcade number as a result of the year-long Hogan-Sting build while Havoc featured the awful Hogan-Piper "Age in the Cage" match where the feud had clearly outlived its usefulness. '98 again was more even as Havoc featured the double main event of Goldberg-DDP and Hogan-Warrior 2, while Starrcade had Goldberg-Nash. Starrcade also didn't feature Hogan but did a surprisingly big buyrate, showing that Goldberg really was the ace of the promotion at this point. So of course he lost to Nash and never recovered.
  11. Dooley
    Well that escalated quickly. As for mods, maybe just a gentle reminder in PM when things get a little over the top.
  12. Dooley
    What this really could have used was a pre-match interview where Bulldog tells the rest of the Harts to not interfere no matter what, or a spot mid-match where they come to the rescue but Davey waves them off.
  13. Dooley
    I like this but I'm one of those guys who likes battle royals. There is just too much going on to follow though. And the end is more Hogan BS, but I did get a kick out of the crowd turning on him the more he tried to play to them in the aftermath. This was an audible on Hogan's part right? I wonder what Savage was thinking in the post-match interview.
  14. Dooley
    Can't Savage have ONE reign where Hogan doesn't step all over it?
  15. Dooley
    Apparently Observers are mighty flammable. Good thing Sting was there with the water. I've wondered this too. Also, what happened at Bash 95?
  16. Dooley
    So if cable systems think WWE Network will under-perform, and they still get to offer Mania on PPV, is there any real incentive to cut a deal?
  17. Dooley
    Isn't Vic back here under a hood anyway?
  18. Dooley
    I think Savage was out there to call spots and if (worst-case scenario) Rodman freaked out and/or bailed, he could step in. I've heard the second part of that logic applied to Snuka being in the corner for Hogan/T at WM1 and it seems plausible enough. And yeah the Nash "Sting" thing was horrible but just another example of the WCW announce crew not knowing how they were supposed to react.
  19. Dooley
    Was this the first time that Taker did the dive over the top rope?
  20. Dooley
    When did he go from the short 'Woo!" to the longer, more orgasmic 'Wooooooooooooo'?
  21. Dooley
    Not a chance. Not even in the '80s. But especially not now. Like I said with Ringwald, Paul Hogan had a couple of cups of coffee in the limelight. Hulk Hogan has had several straight decades. Still, Ringwald at least endures... Who gives a crap about Crocodile Dundee today? Not even the people who grew up with it. I'd disagree on that point. Crocodile Dundee still gets shown on cable as much as Breakfast Club and Hogan got a third sequel and those Suzuki commercials a couple of years back where he was quasi in the character for them. People remember "Crocodile Dundee" as the movie and the guy, Paul Hogan as the actor may not come to mind. I'd say "Crocodile Dundee" has endured as much as Molly Ringwald has.
  22. Dooley
    Nope. But your average person on the street couldn't name three Molly Ringwald films either. Did she have three starring vehicles? Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink........and I'm stymied.
  23. Dooley
    If nothing else, we would have got a redux of the Andre haircut angle where he was was "raped of his dignity". This may be one of the only times during 94-95 where Hogan allowed himself to look vulnerable.
  24. Dooley
    Wasn't the tag with Savage/Warrior (and then Perfect) vs. Flair/Ramon pushed ahead of the title match on that show, or does it just feel like a bigger match in hindsight? It was. Bret vs Shawn was a title match but was barely given a second thought. Bringing in Bill Watts to book shows Vince was looking outside his wheelhouse. But I don't think it would even have to be a "desperation" move. You said yourself they were face-heavy and Rude would have fit in great as a main event heel foil for either Nash, Bret, or Shawn. With business down and few other options, that may have been enough for Vince to bury the hatchet. The Warrior comparison is apples and oranges. Rude's price tag would have been much smaller and he wouldn't have demanded to be King of Everything, have his own comic book and whatever the fuck the "Destructicity" segments were etc.
  25. Dooley
    If Rude had bailed on Hogan-era WCW while healthy I'm not even sure it would have taken him until '96 to go back to Vince. '95 had business tanking and WCW heating up (even though they hadn't really pulled ahead yet). Being able to get a viable main eventer at that point may have convinced Vince to give Rude a "get out of jail free card" at that time.
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