Stuff that makes you feel old

[seph]

2 hours ago, air_raid said:

It’s difficult to believe because when you look at the difference between the WWF at the beginning of that time and the end, then compare it to WWE in 2002 and today, it’s stunning how one period represents so much change and the other so much stagnation.

In the former the company growth was as obvious as the changes in people - one PPV a year '85-'86, two in '87, three in '88, four from 89-92, five from 93-94 and from May 1995 at least one per month ever after.

Since WM18... what's changed apart from the people? not much positive but at the same time too much to get into in a single post.

[bAzTNM#1]

nWo and the "Monday Night Wars" seem like 50 years ago.

[JimmyAnderson]

Brock Lesnar became the youngest ever WWE champion nearly 20 years ago. 

[rollthedice]

Somebody mentioning Strong Style Tapes in the UKFF Birthday thread has made me feel rather old. I was buying from him when it was Fuse MP.

I'd write out a really nice letter that, upon reflection, probably read like Bernard Black's first betting slip and send a cheque every month for the WCW PPVS.

[Michael_3165]

I'm often amazed at how Ziggler started in WWE around 16 years ago! I remember his debut and to think he is still going. Also Kofi has been signed w WWE over 15 years.

It's weird because Undertaker felt like he had been around for decades in 1997, and he only had 7 years in WWF. 

Give the number of guys who have hung around for so long it's shocking how little WWE has evolved. As others have said, comparing 1985 and 1997 is like night and day w so few being around from both periods. Yet here we are in 2021 and still have Jericho, Hardy, Ziggler et al still out there. Its even more mental when you consider the Hardys have been around for 23+yrs. Time seems to have stopped in the mid 2000s for me. I can barely remember anything from WM 25 onward. 

[tiger_rick]

Just saw this and couldn't believe WWE DVDs are still a thing.

 

[Roy]

On 9/18/2021 at 1:36 PM, rollthedice said:

Somebody mentioning Strong Style Tapes in the UKFF Birthday thread has made me feel rather old. I was buying from him when it was Fuse MP.

I'd write out a really nice letter that, upon reflection, probably read like Bernard Black's first betting slip and send a cheque every month for the WCW PPVS.

Ah, FuseMP! I remember that name. I got Super J Cup 94 and When Worlds Collide from Mark Petar in about '99 I think. Remember being really excited to watch them, even if it was on a grainy VHS. Good times!

[Hannibal Scorch]

1 hour ago, tiger_rick said:

Just saw this and couldn't believe WWE DVDs are still a thing.

 

Direct to Poundland's £2 section. I did actually see a PPV in my local Tesco's recently. But it was the first new WWE DVD I had seen since just after Silver Vision closed.

[WyattSheepMask]

They still release the PPVs on DVD and I think Wrestlemania still gets a BluRay release, but that’s the first “superstar set” that they’ve released in a long time. Since the network launched they’ve become pretty redundant 

Edited September 28, 2021 by WyattSheepMask

[RancidPunx]

Michael Cole will have been with WWE for 25 years come next June.

[Guest]

Vintage Michael Cole.

[Jazzy G]

Thought it was off topic. My mistake. 

Edited May 14, 2022 by jazzygeofferz

[The King Of Swing]

I'm older than Stardom's entire roster. 

By 20+ years in a number of cases. 

[TildeGuy~!]

23 hours ago, The King Of Swing said:

I'm older than Stardom's entire roster. 

By 20+ years in a number of cases. 

Everyone over the age of 25 on that roster gets called a Grandma in any promo.

[Keith Houchen]

Jesus, that makes the whole fandom seem even more noncey.