Pier Six Brawler Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 The whole Hogan/Savage/Elizabeth angle, if you want to specify one particular moment, Elizabeth returning at WM7 to save Randy from Sherri's attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Bret Hart beating Goldberg in under 5 minutes isn't the best ever but it deserves a mention. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtLhBYYni4 Â Hogan saves Sting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarTheSlouch Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 The Kid beats Razor Ramon clean on Monday Night Raw. My favourite wrestling moment ever from the best Raw ever. Everything about that match and its immediate aftermath was just perfect. Â Good pick, but the Sep 95 thru Feb 96 pickup was really good too ( Bar the diaper match). Yes it wasnt as much of a surprise but the whole respect part was great. Watching Kid's promos go from nervous to ballsy was sublime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bono Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 I know what should have been the best angle ever and that was the wcw invasion angle. Just imagine if hogan,nash,hall,sting,goldberg,steiner,ddp,booker t and ric flair all turned up at the same time to take on the wwe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted May 10, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted May 10, 2014 Maybe not the best angle per-se, but led to the biggest match of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gold76 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Dibiase giving the belt too Andre, 2 "Dave Hebner's" in the ring at once was amazing.. Â Hogan heel turn at Bash at the beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I'm surprised it took so long for Hogan's turn to earn a mention. They don't get much better, financially or creatively, than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Showtime Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Â For continuous laughs over a decent period of time, you can't get much better than Austin Appreciation Night (video here). Â At Summerslam 2001 "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, representing the WCW/ECW Alliance, battered the WWF's Kurt Angle but could not beat him, getting himself disqualified to save his championship. The next night on Raw, the Alliance decided to honour Austin's brilliance with an appreciation night, something they said the WWF never did for him. Â The show was peppered with backstage clips and testimonies of Alliance members sucking up to Stone Cold, chanting "thank you Steve!" and looking forward to the festivities. Throughout, Jim Ross was at his sarcastic best on commentary. "What the hell was that?!" he asked himself after Hurricane Helms spent five minutes explaining the history of the Green Lantern to camera. We then got uber-loser Shawn Stasiak attempt to praise Austin, but viewers were given a blooper reel of all the times he messed up his promo. Amazing. Â The Alliance stormed to the ring in Stone Cold t-shirts, led by Paul Heyman, Stephanie McMahon and Austin's wife Debra. Heyman began by comparing Stone Cold to Julius Caesar. "Nobody since biblical times has anyone led a force like the Alliance!" The exaggeration throughout the segment is wonderful. Stone Cold is introduced, and Heyman invites Alliance members into the ring to shower Austin with gifts, starting with Hurricane. "What the hell is a Green Lantern?" ponders JR as Helms declares Austin his new hero. Â Next up, Chris Kanyon! JR: "Ugh. Who better than Kanyon...let me think(!)" After Kanyon reveals a new catchphrase for the ages, Debra offers Stone Cold one of her own home-baked cookies. Austin looks concerned. JR: "He really will be the toughest SOB in the Alliance if he tries to eat one of those bricks(!)" Â This is followed up with a video package of Austin beating the holy hell out of everyone, before Stephanie invites everyone in the ring to SING A SONG. We get the words to Wind Beneath My Wings (changed to Wind Beneath Our Ring) on the TitanTron and, after Lilian Garcia fails to provide the correct enthusiasm, Steph takes over lead vocals instead. Jim Ross is about to explode. "Oh my God...not that." Â ECW nutters like Raven and Tommy Dreamer sway back and forth, arm in arm, singing along to a ballad. Imagine predicting that six months previous... Â After we survive that, Austin notices Tazz is the only person not wearing a Stone Cold or Alliance shirt. Setting up to beat the crap out of him (again), Kurt Angle's music hits. Taking the piss out of the famous Austin beer bath segment from 1999, Angle careers down the aisle in a fucking MILK TRUCK. Â Â I'm glad I wasn't in the front rows for that one. Â So, to sum up, the Alliance was decimated at Summerslam, and the night afterwards they all took part in a night-long comedy angle in which they all got drenched in milk. The Invasion storyline, everyone! Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Paul's Bin Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 The angle between Goldberg and Lesnar has to be up there with one of my favourites which started at Survivor Series 2003 and they built it in a few months involving Eddie Guerrero and Stone Cold. Wrestling at its best. However as we all know the match ended up as a disgrace. Â Batista Vs Triple H at the end of Evoultion involving JBL was also great. Loved that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheep Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 http://dai.ly/x491vq  If an entire episode of a TV show can be classed as an angle, then Flair vs. DiBiasi from Mid South in '85. Easily one of the best uses of the touring NWA Champion, using his title defence to turn one of their top heels into one of their top babyfaces and setting up a hot feud down the line. All three parts of the angle are executed perfectly, the Murdoch turn, Watts' 'send your kids out the room, this is going to be rough' and then the match itself with the horrible post match attack. Such an intelligent and emotive bit of wrestling, with everyone nailing it. I think it could be my favourite bit of pro wrestling that anyone has ever done.  There's a great write up of it here that covers all the details brilliantly.  It's either that or the time HI-V hung Zandig on hooks at CZW Redemption. It's really tough call between the two though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted May 10, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted May 10, 2014 The angle between Goldberg and Lesnar has to be up there with one of my favourites which started at Survivor Series 2003 and they built it in a few months involving Eddie Guerrero and Stone Cold. Wrestling at its best. However as we all know the match ended up as a disgrace. Â The build up to that match was indeed sublime, probably my favourite ever. I was such a huge Lesnar mark for his whole first run (still love him now but nothing like that) and I was so invested in the lead up to that awful 'Mania match it was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTXRussomark Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 The episode of Prime Time where Mr Perfect turned face was an absolute masterpiece of storytelling. They managed to turn a perennial heel babyface over the course of a single TV show, with no prior build up (that I can remember?) and in an entirely studio setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted May 10, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted May 10, 2014 The episode of Prime Time where Mr Perfect turned face was an absolute masterpiece of storytelling. They managed to turn a perennial heel babyface over the course of a single TV show, with no prior build up (that I can remember?) and in an entirely studio setting. Â Absolutely. For anyone who has only seen the brief snippet of that show that featured on the Survivors 92 tape, I encourage you to watch the whole episode. It's quite brilliant. Â I'm surprised it took so long for Hogan's turn to earn a mention. Â I may have mentioned it an hour after the thread was started. Â It's either that or the time HI-V hung Zandig on hooks at CZW Redemption. It's really tough call between the two though. Â That's mental. One is a great old-school example of the art of pro wrestling storytelling, one is actually hanging a bloke by metal hooks actually going into his skin, for torture-porn shock value. I can see why it's a tough call, the two can't really be compared. Still, at least you watch a broad spectrum of rasslin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I may have mentioned it an hour after the thread was started. Â I'd channel-hopped during your third paragraph. You've gotta keep 'em tuned in until the end, brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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