Evo2012 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Anyone else a fan of those posed pictures they used to use for hyping matches? I loved how home-made some of them looked, with superimposed title belts and whatnot. I recall the ones for Insurrextion and Rebellion changing week to week as the WWF hadn't a clue on a final card. Here's another few for a main event that kept switching up. Â Â Â Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Impact Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Yeah, I miss those! Â Actually looking at them has made me feel all nostalgic for the Free for All/half hour before PPVs, you know where they tried to sell you the PPV? A lot of the VHS copies of PPVs had them tacked on the beginning. Loads of examples of graphics on those obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I'm a massive fan of them. Â This one from Survivor Series 1999 was great: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted June 4, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2012 This thread concerns about ten years after the prime of on screen match graphics. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Yeah, I miss those! Actually looking at them has made me feel all nostalgic for the Free for All/half hour before PPVs, you know where they tried to sell you the PPV? They still do those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smegma Cake Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 What bugs me about the match up graphics these days, is they look very good with the moving clips of the wrestlers, in WWE at least, until they flash and it cuts to horrible looking images, for the static versions. Why not just use the moving clips in a final pose or something. Though WWE have updated their entire roster pages with brand new full length shots of their talent, which they probably should now use, but probably won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 What bugs me about the match up graphics these days, is they look very good with the moving clips of the wrestlers, in WWE at least, until they flash and it cuts to horrible looking images, for the static versions. Â I know what you mean there, I think it looks rubbish as well. They only recently started doing that though, didn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted June 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Was that Chyna vs Steve Austin graphic from Summerslam 1999 legit? They were really going with that?!? Wow. Â EDIT: I bet they would have got a bazillion buys for it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted June 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 Was that Chyna vs Steve Austin graphic from Summerslam 1999 legit? They were really going with that?!? Wow. EDIT: I bet they would have got a bazillion buys for it too.  Well, it was certainly advertised, at least for a week (as the match graphic proves, although it may have been less than the duration of a single Raw), but I very much doubt it was legit~ the plan at any point.  Basically, Austin vs HHH was set in stone as the SummerSlam main event, but Austin picked up a minor knee injury (amongst his laundry list of injuries around that time) so they needed to cover for that. The way they did it was through a series of rather contrived No.1 contenders matches which saw Chyna beating HHH for the contendership in a flukey manner during a 3-way with Taker, Mankind beating Chyna for it, Shane McMahon then insisting Mankind defend it against HHH, and those two doing a double-pin (involving 2 guest referees, Shane & Commissoner Shawn Michaels) resulting in 2 No.1 contenders and the triple threat.  Ah, the Attitude era... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted June 5, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2012 This thread concerns about ten years after the prime of on screen match graphics. Â Exactly what I was thinking. Â Wrestlemania 9 was particularly awesome I thought. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evo2012 Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Was that Chyna vs Steve Austin graphic from Summerslam 1999 legit? They were really going with that?!? Wow. EDIT: I bet they would have got a bazillion buys for it too.  Well, it was certainly advertised, at least for a week (as the match graphic proves, although it may have been less than the duration of a single Raw), but I very much doubt it was legit~ the plan at any point.  Basically, Austin vs HHH was set in stone as the SummerSlam main event, but Austin picked up a minor knee injury (amongst his laundry list of injuries around that time) so they needed to cover for that. The way they did it was through a series of rather contrived No.1 contenders matches which saw Chyna beating HHH for the contendership in a flukey manner during a 3-way with Taker, Mankind beating Chyna for it, Shane McMahon then insisting Mankind defend it against HHH, and those two doing a double-pin (involving 2 guest referees, Shane & Commissoner Shawn Michaels) resulting in 2 No.1 contenders and the triple threat.  Ah, the Attitude era...  Yep, it was advertised for a week until they got Mankind involved six days prior to Summerslam. Interestingly enough, they went off the air on the night without a chosen winner. They had Linda McMahon announce triple threat rules on the following Saturday morning's Livewire.  Here's a good example of the messy title belt situations I was talking about! The belt looks pretty dodgy.   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Nick James Posted June 11, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted June 11, 2012 To add to the Photoshopped titles to graphics, just been over to WWE.com and noticed this on the main page. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Was that Chyna vs Steve Austin graphic from Summerslam 1999 legit? They were really going with that?!? Wow. EDIT: I bet they would have got a bazillion buys for it too.  Well, it was certainly advertised, at least for a week (as the match graphic proves, although it may have been less than the duration of a single Raw), but I very much doubt it was legit~ the plan at any point.  Basically, Austin vs HHH was set in stone as the SummerSlam main event, but Austin picked up a minor knee injury (amongst his laundry list of injuries around that time) so they needed to cover for that. The way they did it was through a series of rather contrived No.1 contenders matches which saw Chyna beating HHH for the contendership in a flukey manner during a 3-way with Taker, Mankind beating Chyna for it, Shane McMahon then insisting Mankind defend it against HHH, and those two doing a double-pin (involving 2 guest referees, Shane & Commissoner Shawn Michaels) resulting in 2 No.1 contenders and the triple threat.  Ah, the Attitude era...  Better days my friend, better days. None of this immature 'logical' PG bullshit now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted June 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted June 12, 2012 Shame. Imagine Beth Phoenix vs. Sheamus for the World Heavyweight Championship being announced for this year's Summerslam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyswynne Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 This thread concerns about ten years after the prime of on screen match graphics. Â Exactly what I was thinking. Â Wrestlemania 9 was particularly awesome I thought. Â Â Am I right in thinking that during the preshow the wrestlers were mosaics before flashing into the image above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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