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I think running WCW as its own show was considered at least somewhat semi-seriously by WWF brass, and splitting the roster definitely made sense with having “rival” organisations. There were attempts to do so early doors with the WWF running WCW-branded house shows live events, and running a poll on WWF.com to choose the name of a WCW show that included atrocious options along the lines of Saturday Night Hard-On. The brand split may have also been thought of as a way to bolster the piss-weak “roster” they got with the WCW purchase. No one was going to tune in to a weekly show to see the likes of Hugh Morrus and Kanyon as main eventers, so they may have used the brand split to pad out the WCW roster with existing WWF superstars.

However, this is the WWF. As soon as the Booker T vs. Bagwell match bombed on Raw and I think the one or two WCW shows they ran didn’t exactly break box office records, they saw it as a dead duck and just moved to sow the whole thing up as soon as possible, and went ahead with the brand split any way afterwards.

1 hour ago, air_raid said:

As an aside since I'm on finishers... learning that Perez' finish is called "PopRox" amused me greatly. A far cry from when they used to get real lazy and called anything "(something) bomb" "(something) slam" or "(something) kick."

At least it wasn’t the Overdrive, which most people in that 2002–2005 period got given as a finisher. 

What heat did Hogan and Foley have in the first place?

27 minutes ago, Dead Mike said:

They don't know the house number....no dog mess coming through this letterbox!!!

No. But you’re clearly in the vicinity. And now not only is name at house number  getting dog shit through her letterbox, but she’s also now been doxxed on a public Internet forum.

5 hours ago, Mr_Danger said:

Fucking hell, Cold War Steve has surpassed himself this time.

It pains me that I know the two that aren’t Rishi, and that I know the exact spot that photo was taken as it’s my old hometown.

43 minutes ago, air_raid said:

He'd probably pay some young peoples' marketing agency to help get him up to speed with what all the kids are into these days, and end up deciding that for maximum "engagements" the matches will all need to be short enough to go on TikTok.

Isn’t that what WWE is doing with WWE Speed, albeit on Twitter X instead?

18 minutes ago, no user name said:

I think somebody else would of done it eventually. If there is a market for something, generally someone will take advantage of it.

Pretty much this.

Good thread.

1 hour ago, WyattSheepMask said:

The Juice has run out

Good riddance you murdering cunt

Reading “The Juice” and my brain immediately jumped to Juventud Guerrera. Glad it wasn’t.

21 hours ago, s279 said:

A couple of earlier shows have been shown out of filming order though.

Yeah. I went to the first day’s taping, but that ended up going out as episode 2.

Pretty sure the whole series was filmed back to back days from what I remember when applying for tickets, and how long the arena was booked out for. 

3 hours ago, Kamaras-Tash said:

 

What a heel

What’s with the blue bib? Has he just nipped over from the local 5-a-side pitch at half time to cut a promo?

3 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Sorry, have you either woken up in a bad mood or confused me with someone else, or maybe missed the part where it was clearly a fucking joke?

Holier than thou attitude? Got some examples to back that up chief?

No I wasn't planning to steal my elderly neighbours parcel.

Fucking hell.

Chill out. A written joke doesn’t come with tone and/or inflection that conveys it’s meant to be taken as such like it would if you were speaking it. So yes, what may “obviously” seem like a joke to know, or people who know you better, may not come across as such to others. I say this as someone who can read things literally.

So if it were indeed a joke then it clearly didn’t land, and no need to get so uppity and defensive about it, because then the only person who comes across as “having woken up in a bad mood” is you.

Fucking hell.

Saw the thumbnail and realised I’d randomly watched a video a couple of months ago that she did on my hometown football club, Darlington: 

5 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

This is wholesome...

https://x.com/SGWug?t=BoBZkv9nbNnRkL0bLgQhmQ&s=09

Link at the top is just to their twitter account. So much fun in these clips, quite touching too.

I love seeing stuff like this so much, where you can see the appeal of wrestling worldwide and the influence that WWE has, in particular.

BUMBASH!

 

Had a browse and this post just made me burst out laughing:

Someone jumped on a months-old meme.

This was going around months ago, with people posting CGI renders of famous folk and then captioning it with “scientists have discovered what [historical person] looked like.”

3 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

The contenders are all far too pally. It’s supposed to be a competition, you’re not mates.

Who do we reckon is getting dropped from the Gladiators in Series 2? Comet from the womens side surely, I think she’s only been on once.
As for the men, Viper’s heat has totally gone, he’s rubbish. Legend, who is a massive bellend, has totally eclipsed him

Think that’s more due to picking up an injury fairly quickly rather than, “You’re shit, you’re not over, you’re not on the card tonight, love.”

1 hour ago, chokeout said:

It's just blown my mind that I saw Hogan's last match at a house show in Manchester. Madness. 

Same!

Hilarious to see Sting’s son found Sting’s unlockable Wolfpac attire (that Sting never actually wore) from the WCW Mayhem game.

I’m surprised to see them dispense with the age-old, “put the other guys over on your way out” result, but if any one deserves to dispense and go against tradition, it’s Sting. Not many wrestlers can say they’ve had a four decade-long career and able to walk away on their own terms and in relative good health.

On 2/28/2024 at 12:51 PM, SuperBacon said:

 

Had to be done:

56 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I'd rather not.

Same.

A bunch of four or five LADSLADSLADS sat next to me at the Impact show in Newcastle last year and they were the loudest and most obnoxious twats to roam the earth. They certainly thought they were the funniest people in the room shouting “We love you Eric!” for the 20th time without a reaction. 

Whilst on holiday in New York a few years ago we were walking past a cinema (sorry, “movie theatre”) and people were either side of red velvet ropes. My girlfriend and I didn’t really know who or what they were waiting for, so just strolled on. We hear commotion, turn around, only to see my girlfriend’s mum nearly deck Jeremy Irons walking into him. He had pulled up in a black SUV, and turns out he was there for the Assassin’s Creed premiere.

4 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

Minge 2027.

This has to be someone taking the piss. Gauntley can’t really be stupid enough to think that people will have forgiven him for screwing people over and stealing money for what, the fourth time? And that he thinks he can’t just swan back into things a few months later like nothing’s happened. 

2 hours ago, Merzbow said:

So who we betting on taking over? Double J? Hogoff? Vince Russo???

His replacement’s already been announced and put in the role: Anthony Cicione.

Gutted. We no longer got a stew goin’.

5 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

That poster’s been treated by whoever does the Photoshop on WWE’s Pay-Per-View Premium Live Event posters. Stupid amount of airbrushing going on.