funkdoc Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 just thought of something right now... i think 1994 is an awfully similar year to 1990 in terms of the american wrestling landscape. in both years: - WCW was absolutely on fire in terms of match quality during the first half of the year, but didn't draw and degenerated into hideously-booked cartoon garbage over the second half of the year - the WWF mostly sucked but gave us one quality main-event feud (hogan-earthquake::bret-owen) - there was a new indie sensation getting a lot of buzz in the apter mags & dirtsheets (lightning kid::sabu) obviously WCW was in better shape with hogan than with the black scorpion, and 1990's last-gasp territories (e.g. USWA-TX) gave way to 1994's smoky mountain & ECW...but i think there's a lot here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 Both years ended with main event title pushes of WWF relics from a prior decade who couldn't handle the fact that the world around them had changed and snapped as a result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 that's a really good catch! and both those guys were quite underrated in different ways: slaughter for his work in the ring during that period, and backlund for his character stuff during a weak era for that. although, slaughter obviously has much more of an outright bad rap given the tastelessness of that whole deal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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