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Bad News Gertner 02-17-2019 05:48 PM
Wrestlers/promotions/angles that didnt age well, or look better in hindsight
 
I'm about halfway through watching the 98 Raws and man does Degeneration X not age well at all. Especially X Pac. They are so unbearable I just want to fast forward through their promos.

On the other side, WCW 2001 is way better than I remember it. Watching a February 2001 Thunder and it's pretty good. Nice segment to set up the Main Event of Thunder, cool Boogie Knights vs Air Raid match, well done locker room segment between Vito and Stasiak to set up a match. I've seen pretty much all the Nitros and Thunder from this time and it's pretty good.

Savio 02-17-2019 11:48 PM
A lot of the bikini contest segments with Jerry perving don't age well....... I am still happy we had them though.

Evil Vito 02-18-2019 12:25 AM
2001 WCW is a good shout. I think the days of WCW ever being serious competition to WWF again were done but had WCW stuck around it would've just gradually become what TNA did anyway.

xrodmuc316 02-18-2019 12:50 AM
How about when Vince had Brian Pillman's widow on Raw grilling her with questions like the day after he passed away.

Emperor Smeat 02-18-2019 02:00 AM
Tim White's series of attempted suicide segments in WWE.

The first one was pretty dark in terms of timing and tone before becoming a running gag that progressivly got more goofier.

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
On December 18, 2005 White made a controversial on-screen appearance at the Armageddon pay-per-view.[3] In a segment, a "despondent" White was interviewed by SmackDown! reporter Josh Mathews inside the bar he owned, the Friendly Tap in Cumberland, Rhode Island.[3] He was depicted drinking large amounts of alcohol, claiming that the aforementioned Hell in a Cell match "ruined his life."[3] He then proceeded to take a shotgun out from under the bar and, off screen, fired the gun, apparently intending to kill himself. This sketch was considered distasteful, in part due to the death of Eddie Guerrero a month earlier.[3]

Evil Vito 02-18-2019 07:46 AM
Lol I friggin loved Lunchtime Suicide

The MAC 02-18-2019 10:31 AM
Katie vick

Evil Vito 02-18-2019 10:51 AM
I dunno, even as a 13 year old I knew the Katie Vick angle was in very poor taste

xrodmuc316 02-18-2019 11:49 AM
I never thought the Katie Vick stuff was offensive only because it was SOOOO over the top that it was clear it was all HHH messing with Kane, not an actual thing that we were supposed to take serious.

Plus Triple H wearing a Kane mask was funny as hell.

Bad News Gertner 02-18-2019 10:35 PM
ECW from 1998 till 2000

Mr. Nerfect 02-19-2019 04:59 PM
DX and elements of ECW were the first things that sprung to mind for me.

Ol Dirty Dastard 02-19-2019 05:04 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5225866)
I'm about halfway through watching the 98 Raws and man does Degeneration X not age well at all. Especially X Pac. They are so unbearable I just want to fast forward through their promos.
MAKE SOME NOISE

DAMN iNATOR 02-21-2019 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito (Post 5226366)
Lol I friggin loved Lunchtime Suicide
"MR. WHITE, THATS NOT WISE!"

Mr. Nerfect 02-24-2019 02:13 AM
This isn’t a super-passionate suggestion, but some of Mark Henry’s comedy stuff during the Attitude era, prior to the hand stuff, was actually really entertaining. I never liked Henry, but I can kind of appreciate it now.

Seanny One Ball 03-05-2019 06:35 PM
Mae Young's tits at the Rumble.

My old man walked in at like 8am because he heard me howling laughing and went bonkers as if I had ripped Mae Young's top off myself.

In retrospect those may have been prosthetics. I don't really want to check.

Johnny Vegas 03-08-2019 10:48 AM
nWo after Starrcade '98

#1-norm-fan 03-08-2019 11:43 AM
I agree with Seanny that Mae Young’s tits didn’t age well.

Seanny One Ball 03-08-2019 11:53 AM
You assume.. I mean it's possible they looked like that in 1940

#1-norm-fan 03-08-2019 12:17 PM
I’m betting they look like that now.

Black Widow 03-08-2019 12:34 PM
HHH promo on Booker T was great and it's hysterical people (nerds) are still crying about it 15yrs later.

GD 03-08-2019 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Widow (Post 5231438)
HHH promo on Booker T was great and it's hysterical people (nerds) are still crying about it 15yrs later.
no

Seanny One Ball 03-09-2019 06:13 PM
I wish I hadn't looked for that clip

GD 03-09-2019 06:58 PM
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