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I agree. I can't even remember that last time I looked at this thing but I can't believe that it has gone on for 6 years or so. Looking at the PPV thread, I have to say that my feelings are hurt the you guys seem to have discontinued "Living Angleously" as a PPV. I feel that was pretty much my only positive contribution to the fed.

I have virtually every Raw from early 96- late 99. But you can't get them from me.

It would have to be broken up into 7 sets that woudl probably run about $20-25 each. So, while this set would never happen it would probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of $140-175 total.

There are times when Russo seems like he's throwing everything against to see what sticks but to say he's incapable of planning things out is ridiculous. The 1998 Survivor Series angle and everything leading up to it was more developed and thought out than anything the WWE has done in the last five years. Everything leading to the nWo reformation in December of 1999 was laid out really well too. The Rock heel turn was well written, that much is true. Not everything leading up to nWo version 653,322 was well written. The World title tournament, which was part of it, was one of the worst booked tournaments of all time. Not to mention we had another boring and pointless rehash of Montreal. It's funny that everyone who rushes to defend the guy throws one angle out as proof that he could plan things and disregard everything else that he did that either didn't make sense or didn't have a finish. Russo calls himself a professional writer, but to me, to be a professional writer tha story is supposed to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Russo was great at writing the begining, but not so good with the middle, and horrible when it came to the end.

Anybody who says "I've got to be honest with you" as much as Russo does is probably lying. I wish that Dave asked Russo to elaborate on what exactly the year's worth of programming that he supposedly laid out for the WWE writing team during his brief return actually entailed.

That's the impression I got. But Russo was booking for WCW when the Radz were still there. In fact they left the week after Russo was booted out the first time. You'd think that Russo would remember that.

Dave pretty much owned him when bringing up that Angle, the Radicals, and others took over the show and it went in a completely different direction than Russo's and that 2000 was their best year business wise. This coming after Russo saying that he told Vince that everything was lined up and that all Vince had to do was ride it out.

I wouldn't think so either... but so far the old one has not comeback, which back when the Smoking Skull was around, the regular title came back the next night after the change. Not true. Austin lost that belt by being pinned by both Taker and Kane at the same time. The next night on Raw they brought out the red carpet for the ring and Vince was going to award the belt to one of them. They had the old WWF winged eagle belt in display case. This was segment that Austin drove the Zambone out to the ring. They didn't bring back the Attitude era belt until Rock won it at Survivor Series 98. Why do I remember this? Because I was marking out thinking that they realized how ugly the new WWF title was, came to their senses and decided to go back to the real WWF title. Another thing I hated about the beginning of the Attitude era was that all the belts were colored. The WWF title was blue (late made balck with a blue back when Rock won it), the IC was purple, the Euro was green, and the back of the Tag belts were red. Come to think of it WWE has not come out with a good looking title in years.

The best belt they had was the Winged Eagle WWF title that was used from WM 4 through WM 14. I never liked the belt that Austin was given on the Raw after WM 14. The Undisputed WWE Title is ok. The ugliest belt is hands down the US title.

But it's still really stupid. To me it falls into the "shit that only wrestlers do" category. Wearing fanny packs falls into that category as well.

I always found Jarrett, Jericho, and Piper (to name a few) taping their wrists despite wearing street clothes and not wrestling to be really strange.

He yelled "Shah" everytime he hit someone. Hence the chant and the nickname.

I really hope that you're kidding, otherwise you have a complete and total lack of understanding as how the whole thing happened.

It does appear to be a black fag bag.

There is a Black Tiger match on Benoit's DVD, though.

I limit this to 3. RVD is far and away the most misused piece of talent in the last decade. I'm not a huge fan of his work but he was incredibly over and ready to hit the ME scene months after his WWF debut. He would have been the 3rd biggest star in WWF behind Rock and Austin if they followed through. Booker T was wasted big time by WWE. If he got even a decent push during the Invasion angle he would still be a top guy and a pretty good draw. But they aborted the Austin feud, jobbed him to Rock repeatedly, and made him Shane's lackey. Then after they rebuilt him he was jobbed to HHH. Which leads to... Goldberg. After his debut he was ruined by horrible booking. He could have drawn WWE a ton of money had he been pushed properly, but they chose to put him in long matches, making him talk, and putting him in lame vignettes. Goldbegr proved at Summerslam 03 that if they let him be what the fans wanted him to be then he could be over. But they chose to make him just another guy and proved their self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Stones concert destroyed the brand new outfield that the Sox had laid down during the off season. This caused them to have to replace most of the outfield and delay the start of a game to allow the grass more time to take.

IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMNIT! Bob made me laugh.

He won't and he can't. Sting has not been a draw since 1998 and hasn't had a good match since then either. He was never a very good worker now was he ever a very good draw outside of his feud with Hogan.

Dude, I'm a pretty big HBK mark but they would have to repeat all 7 of those matches and include others that I already have on a WWE DVD to get up to 15. The only stand out HBK matches that I can think of that have yet to make WWE DVD is HBK/JJ from an IYH in 95 and HBK/Hall: Ladder Match 2. He has a book for the life retroperspective.

I'm still pissed that this wasn't shown in it's entirety on the Warrior DVD. I've yet to see it and after reading the review in "Death of WCW" and yours I really want to see how bad this thing is.

How could they possibly be running out of ideas? They have virtually all footage of American wrestling from the past 30 years at their disposal. The list of guys whose DVDs would sell is pretty long: Dusty, Piper, Snuka, Rude, Hennig, DiBiase, Steamboat, Vader, Sting, Savage, Andre, Sammartino, Lawler, Taz, Angle, "The Self-Destruction of Lex Luger," Iron Shiek (the promos would be worth the price), Slaughter, etc...

Did you think that Hogan belonged in the IC title picture in 1990? It's about elevating the Joe. JJ could easily agree to the match on the basis that it's the only belt he hasn't won or whatever.

That match was really fucking good. Alf did a damn fine job on this one.

He cut my taxes, so I could spend more money of WWE DVDs.