Dillkid

I want to get every WWF release on VHS up until Vengeance 2001, and then get the DVDs from there. What was the first few DVDs released after Vengeance by catalogue number?

Odd question, but still.

 

When did Al Snow make the change from the double strap full body singlet with short legs to the standard full leg pair of tights with no upper body. I assume it has something to do with Steve Blackman.

March 2000 I think.

Double post, but i'll turn it into a question.

Why was Goldust let go in 1999?

According to Cornette. It is on the NWA Legends Fanfest 2009 Q & A 'A Conversation with Cornette' if you want to try and dig it out. If you have never heard him rant before, there is some great stuff on there. Even has a tale about how he reduced Dunn to tears by making fun of his buck teeth.

Because Cornette's an oil painting. He has a haircut like Tin-Tin's grandad. I'm sure, no matter how ugly Kevin Dunne, he doesnt have to go home to what Cornette wakes up next to on a morning.

 

I just home he doesnt have Kevin Dunne's email address.

I'll try and summarise, but it was when Cornette was on the Booking committee circa '97. The pair of them got into a row over something, and Cornette made fun of Dunn's teeth before just leaving the meeting. He was later told that he would have to apologise to Dunn as he was upset over what Cornette said. He ended up apologising, at which point Dunn broke down, saying that he was bullied over his teeth at school. Cornette's response was to the effect that he earned over $500,000 a year, and if he was that bothered by his teeth, why doesnt he just get them fixed?

Does the beaver have a fear of dentists or something?

He hates wrestling. Despises it. He's also got considerable sway with Vince McMahon and makes a shitload of money despite being embarrassed to be a part of the industry.

 

Bastard. I was hoping it would be something really controversial with a massive read.

Jim Cornette has a bunch of stories about him in his most recent Shoot Interviews. According to Cornette, Dunn's father worked for Vince Sr in a pretty similar position. One night he was driving home and Dunn Sr's car caught on fire or something, but it had the videos of the TV Taping matches that had been taped earlier in the evening in his boot. Rather than just leaving the burning vehicle, he went back and rescued all the tapes, and as a result his son has a job for life for with the company due to some sort of indebtedness. As Lee said, the guy is not a 'Rasslin' fan, but a fan of Sports Entertainment.

Becuase of one set of Syndicated TV tapings in the 70s?

According to Cornette. It is on the NWA Legends Fanfest 2009 Q & A 'A Conversation with Cornette' if you want to try and dig it out. If you have never heard him rant before, there is some great stuff on there. Even has a tale about how he reduced Dunn to tears by making fun of his buck teeth.

I think I read about it in one of Cornette's Power Slam interviews.

He hates wrestling. Despises it. He's also got considerable sway with Vince McMahon and makes a shitload of money despite being embarrassed to be a part of the industry.

 

Bastard. I was hoping it would be something really controversial with a massive read.

Jim Cornette has a bunch of stories about him in his most recent Shoot Interviews. According to Cornette, Dunn's father worked for Vince Sr in a pretty similar position. One night he was driving home and Dunn Sr's car caught on fire or something, but it had the videos of the TV Taping matches that had been taped earlier in the evening in his boot. Rather than just leaving the burning vehicle, he went back and rescued all the tapes, and as a result his son has a job for life for with the company due to some sort of indebtedness. As Lee said, the guy is not a 'Rasslin' fan, but a fan of Sports Entertainment.

Becuase of one set of Syndicated TV tapings in the 70s?

Apologies if posted. Patricia Heaton from Everyone Loves Raymond.

 

I love her so much

Does anyone know a good place to watch Over The Limit online?

 

Justin.tv is a good place. They had wrestlemania online ready to watch when I woke up at 7am.

 

By the way does anyone know if ioffer is a reliable place and good value for money? Or are they more expensive than traders on tape trading sites?

Does anyone know a good place to watch Over The Limit online?

 

If I don't have anything to get up for on the Monday, I always watch the Box Office PPV's on whsports.net. Great quality usually, very little lag and of the 4 shows i've watched on there, its never been shut down mid-show.

 

Plus its got 7 channels, each one usually showing different stuff. The other day they were showing every Raw from '99-'03, and around Wrestlemania time they showed every Mania back to back. Plus there's ROH, Puro, and occasionally some old WCW and ECW on there. Great website!

Thank you !

Does anyone know a good place to watch Over The Limit online?

When did Don West stop managing Amazing Red? and why does Raw still have those shite white ropes?

Does anyone know what the live attendence was for this years Lockdown? I'm watching it now and it looks like a larger crowd then usual so i'm quite interested to know.

Not, certain, but they sold 2,500 tickets weeks before the pay-per-view with a target of 4,000. I believe they at least reached their target of 4000 paid. They may have papered more seats out, but there was at least 4000 paid in attendance. TNA looks pretty big time with people actually attending doesnt it?

 

Either way, they did way better than the 800 fans that paid to watch their biggest show of 2009 last October.

It was a MUCH better show as well, was my favourite TNA PPV since they started doing them.

Rachel Riley off of Countdown

 

 

Christ that's a good body, think im gonna have to start watching Countdown more

Oh yes

Those are some nice legs.

How could you not enjoy Have a Nice Day?

 

Its the blueprint for fantastic wrestling books.

I might give it another try, everyone goes on about it being so good.

I've read Bret Hart's, Shawn Michaels', Hulk Hogan's first, Stone Cold's, The Rock's, Mick Foley's first and Jerry Lawler's. I only enjoyed the first two, so you should read them. I will probably buy Jericho's new one when it comes out, but I need to get through Edge's first. Is it any good?

Teri Hatcher, 45, pictures from this week:

 

 

Now That's a milf.

Is there any chance of JBL ever coming back to commentate?

How far was the Bret Hart timeline for had he stayed after Survivor Series 1997?

 

Someone mentioned a fatal four way at DX PPV followed by a Ladder match between Bret/HBK at the rumble following that by a Hart/Austin WWF Title match at Mania. Was anything else for Bret planned?

Bret was scheduled to be part of WWF TV until the In Your House: DX show. I believe that was to be his official send off. There's no way he was pencilled in to be there until WrestleMania, or even the Royal Rumble.

 

 

I think its referring to before Vince decided/agreed to let Bret go, when he was still in his 20 year contract

 

Yeah someone on here mentioned a Bret/Shawn Ladder match at the Rumble. Not sure who be interesting to see where they got that info on. Alough it would made sense for Austin to face Bret at mania

It was in the Bret Hart book.

How far was the Bret Hart timeline for had he stayed after Survivor Series 1997?

 

Someone mentioned a fatal four way at DX PPV followed by a Ladder match between Bret/HBK at the rumble following that by a Hart/Austin WWF Title match at Mania. Was anything else for Bret planned?

I'm not sure, but on the same subject, what was planned for Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania 14?

Is Over The Limit on Box Office?

When did Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, Prime Time Wrestling and All American Wrestling air on Sky and Eurosport in the late 80s/early 90s?

 

 

Superstars aired on Sky One at 12-1pm On a Saturday iirc 1990 onwards

 

Eurosport showed Prime Time at 6/7pm on a Friday iirc

 

I have an episode of Wrestling Challenge from Eurosport on tape some where so will check the showing times ahh the view from adverts they were class

 

You may want to also consider Trans World Sport, which also covered WWF on Eurosport. Again I can find the broadcast times of that as well.

 

 

Dillkid.

 

Ive looked and the results are as follows

 

Superstars, not Wrestling Challenge was on Eurosport ( thats my bad).

 

According to the trails I have it says Tuesday 6pm/CET 7pm, but I remember them being show on occasion on a Saturday morning ( Eurosport only had 12 hour broadcast per day and not everything was shown just the once either. When they showed Havoc's 7,8,9 they were repeated multiple times in the week so

its possible for other times.. for Original Broadcasts though, programming went all over the place for example The Paris Dakar Rally 1990 was shown 12pm/1pm in 1990/1 and then had an evening update and then a repeat again before close down. So everything would fit around that rather than the other way around.

 

The Prime Time Spot is right ( well is as right as my mind 20 years on) as was the same spot used to show WM6 in two parts (successive fridays) in May 1990. The show was with audience inc Jameson on occasion and had Various inguests and Clips.. The pre WM6 one came from the Toronto Tower (restaurant) iirc

 

NEC Transworld Sport aired on a Wednesday at 6pm/7pm CET The trail features an Ultimate Warror Promo. Afaik it featured WWF in News spots summing up the world of sport. It would also air a match on occasions, though from the quality I would guess would be a recorded house show or TV dark match.. Usually the venue with all the highlighted advertising signs in the background from the camera position.

 

If you want more Eurosport stuff see what TV Ark can offer they have some trails and programme guides but only from saturday/monday iirc. worth checking out mainly cos the Eurosport Ident was at the time amazing.. still is to be honest.

 

 

Hope that helps

When did Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, Prime Time Wrestling and All American Wrestling air on Sky and Eurosport in the late 80s/early 90s?

 

 

Superstars aired on Sky One at 12-1pm On a Saturday iirc 1990 onwards

 

Eurosport showed Prime Time at 6/7pm on a Friday iirc

 

I have an episode of Wrestling Challenge from Eurosport on tape some where so will check the showing times ahh the view from adverts they were class

 

You may want to also consider Trans World Sport, which also covered WWF on Eurosport. Again I can find the broadcast times of that as well.

 

 

Dillkid.

 

Ive looked and the results are as follows

 

Superstars, not Wrestling Challenge was on Eurosport ( thats my bad).

 

According to the trails I have it says Tuesday 6pm/CET 7pm, but I remember them being show on occasion on a Saturday morning ( Eurosport only had 12 hour broadcast per day and not everything was shown just the once either. When they showed Havoc's 7,8,9 they were repeated multiple times in the week so

its possible for other times.. for Original Broadcasts though, programming went all over the place for example The Paris Dakar Rally 1990 was shown 12pm/1pm in 1990/1 and then had an evening update and then a repeat again before close down. So everything would fit around that rather than the other way around.

 

The Prime Time Spot is right ( well is as right as my mind 20 years on) as was the same spot used to show WM6 in two parts (successive fridays) in May 1990. The show was with audience inc Jameson on occasion and had Various inguests and Clips.. The pre WM6 one came from the Toronto Tower (restaurant) iirc

 

NEC Transworld Sport aired on a Wednesday at 6pm/7pm CET The trail features an Ultimate Warror Promo. Afaik it featured WWF in News spots summing up the world of sport. It would also air a match on occasions, though from the quality I would guess would be a recorded house show or TV dark match.. Usually the venue with all the highlighted advertising signs in the background from the camera position.

 

If you want more Eurosport stuff see what TV Ark can offer they have some trails and programme guides but only from saturday/monday iirc. worth checking out mainly cos the Eurosport Ident was at the time amazing.. still is to be honest.

 

 

Hope that helps

 

I remember that Countdown show where they were up on the highest place in canada. They did air Superstars quite regulary on a Saturday dinner time. I think once they started putting it at 10pm as well same day I went for the late night option as I believe that was when they started doing double bills with Challenge. Not sure why but for some reason we used to get Challenge airing on a Saturday daytime and Superstars on a sunday time which was fine and then strangly one day they reversed the programming so Superstars came on Sat and Challenge Sun which eventually got moved to monday.

 

Im not sure why they kept moving Superstars around as 1 minute it was on a saturday then it went to sunday after a while and then back to saturday. Very strange I know I do miss the old days of having my fridays entertained by Hillbilly Jim and Mean Gene hosting All American Wrestling as they did show it back then in 1989.

Thanks for all the info. I would of had Prime Time Friday Night, Superstars Saturday Morning, All American Saturday Night and Challenge Sunday Morning. Didn't Sky Sports used to air NWA around 1989?

Anything in particular info you need?

Do you know what was the purpose of WWE Superstars in 2002 after Bottom Line and Afterburn debuted? and when did Raw air when it debuted in '95?

 

Superstars in 2002 made no sense at all probably to fill a place for a wrestling show with more recapping we didnt need.

 

As for the Debut of Raw in 1995 I have listed on my tape Friday 15th 1995 on Sky Sports at 5pm. This was back when they didnt air it on a night time. Alough when watching the highlights on Mania I noticed that the Raw had been edited to pit in with the timeslot. Not by much but they had cut out the odd 10 seconds here and there. I guess with 4 commercial breaks it didnt match up with the US time. After a while they did edit violent stuff and sexual stuff out. The debut in the UK show had Sid vs Shawn as the main event. They even showed clips of the upcoming matches for the following weeks show.

Do you know if there is any videos of this online?

 

Probably not. I suppose I could always cap a clip on my pc and upload it to youtube.

Yes please!

God I forgot about Sarge teaming with Goldberg, he was terrible. There was some good stuff in late 2000 though, the 3 count/Jund Dragons feud produced some good matches, Lance Storm and Hugh Morrus's feud over the US Title was good, Goldberg and Steiner's pay per view match, Steiner and Booker T's Title feud, there was quite a lot of decent stuff. I know it's all down to personal opinion but for I just thought Nitro was better than Raw at that time

There was also the WCW Hell in a Cell match between Goldberg and Steiner on Nitro.

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And also the one between Steiner and Booker T at the Mayhem PPV in November.

No honestly, by autumn 2000 most of the stupid Russo gimmicks had gone, they'd started rebuilding the titles so that they meant something, they didn't have everyone turning every 2 weeks like they did in spring and summer that year, the roster had been cut down so the in ring product was the best it had been in years (no Hogan main events), plus at the same time WWF went stale after Summerslam 2000 until the invasion started

To say it was better than WWF at the time is one-eyed and completely mental. The return of Steve Austin was blinding television, as was Kurt Angle's weekly comedy segments, Mick Foleys run as commissioner, Edge and Christian still on top form as well as characters like Triple H, The Undertaker and the Rock at their compelling best. You also had Benoit, Jericho, Guerrero, X-Pac and others filling the mid-card with some top matches. WCW on the other hand had 3 Count's endless feud with the Jung Dragons, BattleDome invading WCW, Beetlejuice from Howard Stern having interaction with Jeff Jarrett and others, The Natural Born Thillaz vs the Insiders who kept referencing Scott Hall even though they werent bringing him back. All WCW had was Scott Steiner being awesome. WCW just looked a sad state of affairs. It hurt your enjoyment watching the show, when you saw Nitro had not only blacked most of the empty seats up, but the ropes were blue because they were taping Thunder after it. It was only when Bischoff and Johnny Ace took over, that WCW showed promise, and that wasnt until about early 2001. WCW looked on top form in February 2001.

 

I was always a WCW fan, and watched it even when it was on it's arse, but compared to the WWF in late 2000, it couldnt hold a candal.

That was stupid, why not just have black ropes to suit them both?

Anything in particular info you need?

Do you know what was the purpose of WWE Superstars in 2002 after Bottom Line and Afterburn debuted? and when did Raw air when it debuted in '95?

 

Superstars in 2002 made no sense at all probably to fill a place for a wrestling show with more recapping we didnt need.

 

As for the Debut of Raw in 1995 I have listed on my tape Friday 15th 1995 on Sky Sports at 5pm. This was back when they didnt air it on a night time. Alough when watching the highlights on Mania I noticed that the Raw had been edited to pit in with the timeslot. Not by much but they had cut out the odd 10 seconds here and there. I guess with 4 commercial breaks it didnt match up with the US time. After a while they did edit violent stuff and sexual stuff out. The debut in the UK show had Sid vs Shawn as the main event. They even showed clips of the upcoming matches for the following weeks show.

Do you know if there is any videos of this online?

Vince didn't originally decide Davey Boy should lose in Britain. Michaels talked him into that *after* Smith had dedicated the match to his cancer-ridden sister. Supposedly he would have won it back in Manchester a few months later but Smith was gone before then.

As was Michaels, but it would have been against Triple H anyway.

Not really. According to the Observer's Montreal article the whole planned was to lead into the Manchester match after that. If you want to get into the tangled web of bollocks, if Bret Hart hadnt have left, Smith wouldnt have left. Which means Bret would still be the champion. Which means Bret Hart and Michaels would have had their ladder match at Royal Rumble (which Bret would have won), avoiding the casket match bump which finished Michaels off for 4 years. Which means the proposed Bret vs Austin match would have happened, and Michaels didnt need to drop to European belt to Triple H on Raw and the Bulldog vs Michaels match would have happened.

But Bulldog would've stayed had the screwjob not happened. Say Survivor Series had the DQ finish, then Bret lost the title to Shamrock or Foley on Raw and left on good terms, Michaels would've beat them for it at the DX pay-per-view. It would still have been Michaels as world champion vs Austin at Mania. HBK could've held onto the European title throughout his WWF title reign I suppose, but chances are he was never bothered about the rematch at Mayhem in Manchester. He had the finish for One Night Only changed just to fuck the Harts about.

The whole plan that they presented to Bret before he'd asked to leave for WCW, was for Bret and Michaels to wrestle at Survivor Series with either a DQ or a hatchet job of a finish, Michaels to win the title in a four way match a the December PPV and Bret to beat Michaels in a ladder match. Bret and Austin was penned in as the main event for WrestleMania 14 from the previous April. Austin never got his win back on Bret, and Bret never got revenge for Austin putting him in a wheelchair, so the ending to that feud hadnt ended yet. McMahon asked Hart to take a pay cut, and Bret asked what the plans were if he indeed did cut his pay and this was what was presented to him.

 

The One Night Only PPV was the first ever UK WWF event that we had to pay for, so WWF had to prepare for the next event to make sure it'd draw. A Michaels vs Smith match was the only match they could have done, coming off the insane finish to the One Night Only PPV (also it was in Smiths so called 'home toon' of Manchester). To be fair it didnt need that, because by the time the Mayhem in Manchester PPV came about WWF was the hottest company in the world again.

I think WWF and WCW were sort of both the number 1 promotion until about October. Think of how big Goldberg's title win was, and Hollywood Hogan took over the Jay Leno Show, DDP was big and the nWo Wolfpac had Sting in it. I don't think until they brought back The Warrior, and then the fingerpoke of doom that WCW became number 2.