IronSheik Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 When executed well, worked-shoots create immense excitement and mystery. Which are the best you've seen over the years!!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Ayass Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Nothing will ever compare to the late Brian Pillman actually managing to get Eric Bischoff to legitimately fire him from WCW as 'part of the angle', to enable him to move to the WWF for more money. Genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Wretch Posted November 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 Nothing will ever compare to the late Brian Pillman actually managing to get Eric Bischoff to legitimately fire him from WCW as 'part of the angle', to enable him to move to the WWF for more money. Genius. Â The night he showed up at the ECW Arena, clearly off his marbles. Absolute magic. Â Having watched the original One Night Stand recently for the first time in absolutely ages, Heyman's worked shoot promo towards the Raw & SmackDown invaders doesn't hold up very well. In fact, it's aged horribly. The majority of Internet fans at the time summed up in an eight minute segment. Â RVD's promo on the same show is still a belter though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm29195 Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 The second Vader/Takada match from UWFI in 1994! Â The Matt Hardy one from 2005 started off really well, but went down hill really quickly once they let Matt talk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted November 27, 2011 Awards Moderator Share Posted November 27, 2011 The Matt Hardy one from 2005 started off really well, but went down hill really quickly once they let Matt talk... Â That's the one I was going to mention - for a little while when he first turned up on RAW, I wondered if it was all for real. Then it clearly wasn't. But it worked, for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L_E_T_H_A_L Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 It might not get another mention in here, but I loved the heel 'shoot' promo that Tony Schiavone cut on Mike Tenay in the early days of TNA. He came off as a sleazy, bitter, egomaniacal grade-A cunt. I never thought he had it in him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Hamptons Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 2 spring to mind:  1) Paul Heyman on Smackdown  2) Joey Styles on Raw  Both awesome, because there saying what a lot of us were thinking at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 The Matt Hardy one from 2005 started off really well, but went down hill really quickly once they let Matt talk... Â The Matt Hardy angle is everything that's wrong with worked shoots. It was never going to work. It couldn't. Simple as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L_E_T_H_A_L Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 The Matt Hardy one from 2005 started off really well, but went down hill really quickly once they let Matt talk... Â The Matt Hardy angle is everything that's wrong with worked shoots. It was never going to work. It couldn't. Simple as. Â Absolutely not. The Kane involvement hampered it further. Â Overall, I think fans are either way too smart - or not smart enough - for worked-shoot angles in the modern day. The smart fans will roll their eyes and the not-so-smart ones will be left scratching their heads. It doesn't work anymore. Thank the Internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEWM Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Heyman's on Smackdown was absolutely brilliant because it had a greater purpose, and actually could have been perfectly placed at the start of the Invasion, rather than at the very end. Backward Invasion booking though innit? The One Night Stand one was just shameless pandering, but to be honest, that was all it needed to be. There was no higher purpose to it, so for that reason, I think you can give it a bit of a free pass. Â CM Punk's earlier this year has to be up there for immediate impact. The shockwaves the next day were like nothing anyone had experienced in years. However, I feel it will age horribly based on the follow up angles and many of his lesser performances following it. Â Add me to the list of Pillman fans, I absolutely love that whole run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 The initial nWo storyline for sure. Those first two months when Hall and Nash would show up and all the heels and babyfaces would just stop their business and stand side by side was so fresh and inventive. It was compelling as fuck. Just excellent. Â The worst was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS8ksd5jFNI Â "Bill Goldberg believes in his own little mind, that if this world was REAL, he could kick everybody's ass" Â Who the fuck thought that would be a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
or619 Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Austin and Tyson on Raw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIzhehBVpI4 When I watched this I thought this was legit so brilliantly done imho McMahons reactions afterwards sold it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey_Jim Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Montreal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted November 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 27, 2011 Hogan/Russo at Bash at the Beach 2000 was good because it fooled almost everyone and it took months if not years for people to realise it wasn't actully legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 The Matt Hardy one from 2005 started off really well, but went down hill really quickly once they let Matt talk... Â The Matt Hardy angle is everything that's wrong with worked shoots. It was never going to work. It couldn't. Simple as. Â Absolutely not. The Kane involvement hampered it further. Â Don't be silly. It worked because people thought Matt genuinely was jealous enough to beat Edge to a pulp, as soon as he actually appeared in the WWE that was gone. There was nothing they could have done. The whole intrigue relied on fans knowing that Matt had been screwed over by anyone, but when he came back it was obvious that wasn't the case anymore and everything was fine. There was literally bugger all they could have done in terms of getting a buyrate or a rating out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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