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cantoms:
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--- Quote from: Styles1 on February 04, 2008, 11:28:13 PM ---I could really do without these Vince McMahon Kiss-My-Ass Club segments..
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I agree with you on that. Also, I'm tired of these contract signings too. I never got the point of them except that someone always gets jumped in the end.
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they should just do it for Wm and Summerslam, make them special and mean something again. If not have em every single time because having them out of the blue makes it seem amature.
»Then again a lot of shit they do comes off immature
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Yeah, that's what I mean.... they just kind of do them whenever they feel like it, and it's always the same outcome. I guess the thing that doesn't make sense to me is why you need to sign a contract. Why only for the world title and not for the IC and tag team? Or think of how many times the world champion is ordered to defend the title when he doesn't want to.....
I know this post is pretty dumb, but it just shows how much the writers suck and are just trying to hype things unnecessarily or come up with "exciting" ::) angles.
cantoms:
--- Quote from: SGV: R.I.P. To Pimp C on February 05, 2008, 03:09:20 PM ---PPV's aren't even special anymore. What I liked about Wrestling back in the day was that you wouldn't really get these big matches every week. You had to wait for the PPV's for that. And PPV were once every 3 months or so, making them mean more. Not EVERY month. Back in the day it was Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, Summerslam and Suvivor Series and that was it. Not every month is a new PPV. It's too much. They mean nothing to me. You can see a Wrestlemania Main Event by tuning into ANY Monday Night Raw. That's weak.
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I found that when they had only 4 PPVs a year, they seemed like a big deal, especially how Survivor Series and Royal Rumble were unique, but the wait was too long. The perfect number would be 6-8 per year.
I don't find that the televised matches are really "big matches." They may involve the big names, but it's almost always a tag team match or a handicap/mystery partner match. The thing I liked about WCW was that they used Nitro (and sometimes Thunder) to give PPV-style matches. A lot of people complained about how often WCW did title changes on TV with the TV title, Tag Team, US, and Cruiserweight titles. I liked these title changes because it made the PPV match seem more important if the former champion was trying to win back his title or if the title had changed hands a couple of times already and this was the last match in the series. WCW frequently had the World Title change hands on TV (Giant-Ric Flair, Goldberg-Hogan), which is something that the WWE should do sometimes too (i.e., more than the once a year that they are doing - and this is only when there's been an injury and they need to take the title off of the champion.)
SGV:
^IMO the title loses it's value if it changes hands so often. Wrestling turned me off when David Arquette (sp) won the title in WCW. That was horrible.
I loved the wait. The suspension was dope cuz you didn't know what to expect and they were worthwhile. I waited for the Royal Rumble cuz the Rumble always meant something to me. Wrestlemania was really the big show, it wasn't just another PPV like it is now, IMO. Summerslam was the lesser of all the PPV's, but it had no gimmick... Survivor Series you couldn't fuck with. I wish they brought that format back.
AlerG:
Even when they added the fifth big pay-per-view 'King of the Ring' i enjoyed that alot as well. Because the best actual wrestlers were actually brought out, not the cats hiding behind gimmicks and 8 minute matches. If you go back and watch KOTR 93 and 94 you'll see some great matches. Especially in 93 when Bret won, we got the pleasure of seeing him in great matches with Curt Hennig, Scott Hall & Bam Bam Bigelow,
chill
SGV:
--- Quote from: AlerG on February 05, 2008, 04:28:28 PM ---Even when they added the fifth big pay-per-view 'King of the Ring' i enjoyed that alot as well. Because the best actual wrestlers were actually brought out, not the cats hiding behind gimmicks and 8 minute matches. If you go back and watch KOTR 93 and 94 you'll see some great matches. Especially in 93 when Bret won, we got the pleasure of seeing him in great matches with Curt Hennig, Scott Hall & Bam Bam Bigelow,
chill
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I forgot about when they added that! All these other PPV's take away from its importance.
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