A couple of observations on the WWF after watching the WM VI main event...

[BigJim]

Yep, I still refuse to call it the WW everfucking E. 😀

I saw Hogan on some show the other day, cutting a promo on Randy Orton in preparation for the Summerslam confrontation. He seemed to have an extremely serious case of saggy tits disease. Having just re-watched the WM6 main event with him and the Warrior it's really apparent that this guy should have retired from the ring years ago. He's a physical shade of himself.

Secondly, after having watched that match for probably close to the hundredth time, I saw Earl Hebner fuck up in the immediate aftermath. After Warrior gets the win he's doing his arms-a-pumin' thing and Hebner gets both the IC and WWF belts from ringside and tries to hand them to him. Now the script called for Hogan to magnanimously present the Warrior with the WWF belt a few seconds later (a major angle that culminated in him being called the "Immortal" Hulk Hogan), so Warrior just took the IC one and unceremoniously shoved the WWF back at Hebner.

Damn I'm just so observant that I could snog myself. 😀 (Yeah right; it only took me 100 viewings to notice it - I never even saw the second belt in Hebner's hands before - plank.)

 

[BigJim]

You know, if you go back and watch WM VI, 12 of the wrestlers from that event are dead. That's like one-third of the card.

These wrestlers...goldfish live longer then they do. *sigh*

Hmmm, let's see if the old memory still works...

Andre's gone, so is Perfect. Warrior's brain dead anyway...

Who else is gone?

 

[C.K. Storyteller]

Wow. I never thought of it like that. I am incredibly depressed now.

Puts the terms "Only the Good Die Young" in a new light.

 

[Goodieluver]

Heh but one has to ask, why the hell was bad news brown ever on a ppv card?

LOL, btw, check out the royal rumble anthology, it is a must

Whats scary is between my brother and i, we have every royal rumble up to 2002 on vhs from our watchings, including the first one, which wasnt even on ppv, it was on regular USA network, and we all saw dino bravo become the worlds strongest man 🙂

 

[C.K. Storyteller]

Heh but one has to ask, why the hell was bad news brown ever on a ppv card?

Anyone with a finisher called the Ghetto Blaster is OK in my book. 🙂

Seriously, he wasn't that great, but his Battle Royal match at WM IV where Bret Hart turned face was excellent.

 

[BigJim]

Whats scary is between my brother and i, we have every royal rumble up to 2002 on vhs from our watchings, including the first one, which wasnt even on ppv, it was on regular USA network, and we all saw dino bravo become the worlds strongest man 🙂

The one won by Big John Studd, if memory serves. Ted Dibiase tried to buy him off with money and promptly got battered and chucked out?

 

[Goodieluver]

The one won by Big John Studd, if memory serves. Ted Dibiase tried to buy him off with money and promptly got battered and chucked out?

The first one, Jim duggan won, eliminating dino bravo and one man gang

 

[BigJim]

The first one, Jim duggan won, eliminating dino bravo and one man gang

That's odd, because all the Royal Rumbles I ever saw were from 1989 onwards: won by John Studd; Hulk Hogan; Hulk Hogan again; Ric Flair; Yokozuna; Bret Hart and Lex Luger jointly; Shawn Michaels; Shawn Michaels again; etc...

If there was a Royal Rumble before 1989, how come it was never in the RR video series? Surely not being a PPV wouldn't have stopped them releasing it?

 

[Tickle Fiend]

That's odd, because all the Royal Rumbles I ever saw were from 1989 onwards: won by John Studd; Hulk Hogan; Hulk Hogan again; Ric Flair; Yokozuna; Bret Hart and Lex Luger jointly; Shawn Michaels; Shawn Michaels again; etc...

If there was a Royal Rumble before 1989, how come it was never in the RR video series? Surely not being a PPV wouldn't have stopped them releasing it?

The first one was in '88. I think Hacksaw won it.

 

[SlaverTickler]

If there was a Royal Rumble before 1989, how come it was never in the RR video series? Surely not being a PPV wouldn't have stopped them releasing it?

The McMahon's arn't as smart as everybody thinks they are. If they were they would have probably put alot of things out on DVD or VHS that they haven't... every one is still looking for video footage of Pat Patterson's winning the IC title tourny (probably because it doesn't exist because it never realy happened). If you've got WM's XIV-XXI, or "Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story" I would hold on to them like a bible, because soon the McMahon's will try there best to write Mr. Benoit out of wrestling history, and being that they own about 95% of his materia; (ECW, WCW and WWF/E) they can do so.

Little known fact about the first Royal Rumble, Bret Hart came out first and went 36 min. Little known fact about WMVI Bret Hart helped plot out the main even with Hogan and that idiot he was working with (the first is from Bret's book, the 2nd is just a rumore I've heard).

 

[BigJim]

Goes to show doesn't it, events can be erased from known history just because someone is selective with information.

 

[Goodieluver]

That's odd, because all the Royal Rumbles I ever saw were from 1989 onwards: won by John Studd; Hulk Hogan; Hulk Hogan again; Ric Flair; Yokozuna; Bret Hart and Lex Luger jointly; Shawn Michaels; Shawn Michaels again; etc...

If there was a Royal Rumble before 1989, how come it was never in the RR video series? Surely not being a PPV wouldn't have stopped them releasing it?

The very first royal rumber is in the dvd set
It was in 88 and was a non ppv, but on USA network
Duggan won
other notables, with the aid of jesse ventura, dino bravo lifted about 700-800 lbs to become the "worlds strongest man"
and a classic opening bout of ricky steamboat vs rick rude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rumble_(1988)

 

[C.K. Storyteller]

Amazing that Hacksaw won the Rumble in '88, and probably won on Heat this week with his tag team partner, Super Crazy! He just keeps being big-time. . . .

Anyway, I need to get my hands on a copy of that Rumble anthology. Lord knows I need another reason to spend 55 hours sitting around 🙂

 

[Goodieluver]

Amazing that Hacksaw won the Rumble in '88, and probably won on Heat this week with his tag team partner, Super Crazy! He just keeps being big-time. . . .

Anyway, I need to get my hands on a copy of that Rumble anthology. Lord knows I need another reason to spend 55 hours sitting around 🙂

its torrented if you got 30 gb of hard drive space to dedicate it to