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That WWF Radio that was at RR94...was that picked up by actual stations around the country? How did that work?

 

It was a syndicated radio network, not unlike the NASCAR Radio Network or talk shows like Rush Limbaugh. Stations paid for the programming and it was beamed to them and sent out over their local airwaves. Radio WWE was a weekly show hosted by JR for a long time as well.

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That WWF Radio that was at RR94...was that picked up by actual stations around the country? How did that work?

 

It was a syndicated radio network, not unlike the NASCAR Radio Network or talk shows like Rush Limbaugh. Stations paid for the programming and it was beamed to them and sent out over their local airwaves. Radio WWE was a weekly show hosted by JR for a long time as well.

Brock has a tatoo on his chest now? UGHHHHHHH

 

topic, How about when they did Radio WWF before Royal Rumble 2000, I was mad cuz I didnt get it here.

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Why didn't Ken Shamrock get the IC title at WM 14?  The real reason.

I doubt they ever seriously considered giving it to him.

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What was Rey Mysterio doing from the time WCW went out of business to when WWE signed him in 2002?

 

I'm not sure if he was one of the workers who got paid by Time Warner to sit out, but he was recuperating from a knee injury anyways.

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That WWF Radio that was at RR94...was that picked up by actual stations around the country? How did that work?

 

It was a syndicated radio network, not unlike the NASCAR Radio Network or talk shows like Rush Limbaugh. Stations paid for the programming and it was beamed to them and sent out over their local airwaves. Radio WWE was a weekly show hosted by JR for a long time as well.

Brock has a tatoo on his chest now? UGHHHHHHH

 

topic, How about when they did Radio WWF before Royal Rumble 2000, I was mad cuz I didnt get it here.

 

As before SummerSlam 2000, they were one-shot specials to promote the next night's PPVs.

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Here's a good one:

 

During the end of '99, there was a strange man in the audience that would always hold up signs during the Godfather's and Val Venis' matches that said something along the lines of that what they stodd for (A pimp and a porn star) was immoral and whatever. The man would then distract the wrestlers and would eventually lose their respective matches because of it.

 

I remember one incident in particular back in '99 that had Godfather vs Kurt Angle (Night after Survivor Series, Kurt's Raw debut) and the man showed up and flashed a signed in front of the Godfather which distracted him and Angle came from behind with the Angle Slam and won.

 

What was this all going to lead to?

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Here's a good one:

 

During the end of '99, there was a strange man in the audience that would always hold up signs during the Godfather's and Val Venis' matches that said something along the lines of that what they stodd for (A pimp and a porn star) was immoral and whatever. The man would then distract the wrestlers and would eventually lose their respective matches because of it.

 

I remember one incident in particular back in '99 that had Godfather vs Kurt Angle (Night after Survivor Series, Kurt's Raw debut) and the man showed up and flashed a signed in front of the Godfather which distracted him and Angle came from behind with the Angle Slam and won.

 

What was this all going to lead to?

I believe it was their take on L. Brent Bozell head of the PTC (Parents Television Council) who was very anti-WWF at the time.

 

God knows where it was heading.

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Why didn't Ken Shamrock get the IC title at WM 14?  The real reason.

I doubt they ever seriously considered giving it to him.

 

Then why the KotR title in the exact same match 3 months later?

 

I thought they were priming him for it as well.

 

They wanted to keep the title on Rocky. I don't think they ever looked at Shamrock winning that match as an option.

 

They compromised (given that it is Wrestlemania and the history of title changes there) by letting Shamrock go over like he did.

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Yeah I remember Val being managed by Trish for a while in 2000 well before RTC.  It was after he lost the IC title I think.

 

The RTC basically killed the heat of anyone associated with it.

yea he did and he had the awful plain white tights and boots.

 

as for the pre rtc guy, I remmeber his sign "WWF-World wide Filth"

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The guy was, if memory serves, David Koeshner (spelling is way the hell off), formerly of SNL.

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What was the reason for having Terry Funk come in under the "Chainsaw Charlie" name?

 

If I recall correctly, in Foley's book, he says that it was Funk's idea, to debut coming out of a wooden box with a chainsaw and to use that moniker.

 

Why he wanted that, I have no idea.

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What was the reason for having Terry Funk come in under the "Chainsaw Charlie" name?

 

If I recall correctly, in Foley's book, he says that it was Funk's idea, to debut coming out of a wooden box with a chainsaw and to use that moniker.

 

Why he wanted that, I have no idea.

 

<JR>Because he's middle aged and crazy, bah gawd!</JR>

 

OK, here's one...I think I missed it when it happened...what happened when Dustin Runnels went from TAFKA Goldust to Mr. Religious Guy (not official name, but still)

 

I do remember how he reverted back to Goldust, so no need for that.

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What was the reason for having Terry Funk come in under the "Chainsaw Charlie" name?

 

If I recall correctly, in Foley's book, he says that it was Funk's idea, to debut coming out of a wooden box with a chainsaw and to use that moniker.

 

Why he wanted that, I have no idea.

 

<JR>Because he's middle aged and crazy, bah gawd!</JR>

 

OK, here's one...I think I missed it when it happened...what happened when Dustin Runnels went from TAFKA Goldust to Mr. Religious Guy (not official name, but still)

 

I do remember how he reverted back to Goldust, so no need for that.

Goldust wrestled Austin for the title on RAW in 1998 (i think it was maybe may 1998) oh behest of Vince. Dust lost the match and wanted a rematch, but Vince wound up giving the shot to Dude Love (after foley beat funk), Dust came out the next week in plain clothes denouncing vince and how he made him dress like a freak and everything and wouldnt even give him a shot. He burned the dust ring attire in a trashcan and from then on was simply Dustin Runnels, he wrestled in all balck and cowboy boots and prayed before each match. He started to preach abput all the immoral stuff in WWF.

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yeah, it was pretty funny because he was acting all totally nice, everytime he would cut a promo / vignette, he would be in white clothes sometimes with this bright light and church music playing talking about how HE was coming back (obviously refering to Jesus), but it turned out he was talking about Goldust. Too bad his time as himself was just him jobbing on Jakked.

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They had plenty of matches on house shows but never a big PPV match. It's kind of mindblowing really that they never did that match and cashed in. But then it would require either 1. Jobbing out Flair right as he debuted and killing his heat. Or 2. Hogan jobbing, which he probably wouldn't want to do.

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They had plenty of matches on house shows but never a big PPV match.  It's kind of mindblowing really that they never did that match and cashed in.  But then it would require either 1.  Jobbing out Flair right as he debuted and killing his heat.  Or 2. Hogan jobbing, which he probably wouldn't want to do.

 

It's not mind-blowing because of how shitty the series went over @ house shows.

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They had plenty of matches on house shows but never a big PPV match.  It's kind of mindblowing really that they never did that match and cashed in.  But then it would require either 1.  Jobbing out Flair right as he debuted and killing his heat.  Or 2. Hogan jobbing, which he probably wouldn't want to do.

 

It's not mind-blowing because of how shitty the series went over @ house shows.

Their series did pretty well at house shows gate wise considering that Flair was an unknown to most of the WWF audience at the time and that they went into the program cold.

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