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Post by King Shocker the Monumentous on Mar 28, 2011 22:24:58 GMT -5
Care to try that one again? Yeah, I definitely wouldn't call that positive news. One of the worst days in wrestling history really Unless your definition of "positive" is "nobody got murdered." |
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Post by Mr. Old School™ on Mar 29, 2011 14:45:45 GMT -5
Unfortunately, it's got to be the Benoit tragedy or death of Owen Hart. Both stories made their rounds on the news when they happened.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2011 16:32:42 GMT -5
The Chris Benoit murder-suicide.
Black Saturday.
Vince buying WCW and ECW, virtually all of his competition.
The Montreal Screwjob.
The Steroid Trial.
The deaths of Eddie Guerrero, Owen Hart and (IMO) Mitsuharu Misawa.
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Post by STJ on Mar 30, 2011 1:15:42 GMT -5
Def. WWE purchasing WCW. With Chris Benoit tragedy at second. |
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Post by hollywoodscene on Mar 30, 2011 1:20:03 GMT -5
WWF Buying WCW easily
Benoit Comes right behind it
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Post by Dan on Mar 31, 2011 6:03:12 GMT -5
Kurt Angle's move to TNA was one of the most suprising things of all time. He was at his absolute peak when it was announced on WWE.com that he had been released. Nobody had it comming that he would turn up in TNA a few days later. That was still a time where not many people had jumped ship and TNA was on the rise.
The Chris Benoit Tragedy and WCW going out of business are still probably the biggest two though.
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Post by Himmy! on Mar 31, 2011 11:30:52 GMT -5
I would definitely say WWE puchasing WCW.
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Post by garose74 on Mar 31, 2011 13:36:18 GMT -5
Mne would have to be: The deaths of Owen Hart, Eddie Guerrero, Davey Boy Smith, Chris Benoit & Curt Hennig. All were great Wrestlers and should still be alive today. Ric Flair jumping to the WWF with the NWA World Heavyweight Title. The '97 Screw Job. The Deaths of ECW and WCW. Wrestling realy went down hill for me when Vince lost his main rivals. Finding out Wrestling was a work. I was gutted when I first found out, aged about 12). Its a good job Father Christmas is real  |
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Post by jakksking1 on Mar 31, 2011 18:09:45 GMT -5
I think the only answer is the steroid scandal of the early 90s. Not only was it all over the news, it changed the course of the decade for the WWF. It was sort of the last gasp of kayfabae that we saw. It exposed Vince as the owner of the WWF, not just some goofy announcer. It implicated the babyface, child friendly Hulk Hogan as using illegal substances. It had everything.
More importantly, WWF was forced to move away from the meatheads, and push their younger, "leaner" talent like HBK and Bret Hart.
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Post by No Brokeback on Mar 31, 2011 19:48:34 GMT -5
Austin walking out of the WWE.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2011 19:50:25 GMT -5
Definitely the Benoit Double Murder Suicide, WWE purchasing WCW, or the WWF becoming the WWE.
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Post by mikey1974 on Mar 31, 2011 20:00:27 GMT -5
couple other,less known ones were the initial skirmishes between the NWA and the WWF...
Starrcade 1987, the NWA's premier "Wrestlemania-Like" event was held on November 26,1987...HOWEVER,Vince McMahion fired a direct shot across the bow by scheduling his innaugural Survivor Series card the same night,AND telling cable distributors around the country that if they also carried Starrcade,they wouldn't be allowed to carry the upcoming WrestleMania...at the time the WWF was the growing 500 pound gorilla,so most took the WWF offer,and Starrcade's pay per view audience was 1/4 of what it normally would've been...
the NWA fired back the next year,though,and scheduled the first ever Clash of Champions on the same night as WrestleMania IV, offering a PPV-quality card for free on cable TV....it took a lot of PPV buys away from Vince....
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Post by bountyhunterblood5 on Apr 1, 2011 8:58:54 GMT -5
Ric Flair's final WWE match with HBK.
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Post by cooga99 on Apr 1, 2011 14:40:13 GMT -5
I dunno if you want to classify this as news or biggest stories but these are the things that to me impacted wrestling the most....
Black Saturday '84- I think this really set off the WWF vs NWA (WCW) war as McMahon took over the notorious time slot for NWA wrestling.
Rock-N-Wrestling- It took pro wrestling from studios and smokey old armories to a national stage.
Steroid Scandal- The beloved "larger then life" heroes of the 80s were quickly knocked down to size when (although already known) it was publicly let out that steroids were a huge problem in wrestling.
Monday Night Wars- WCW reloaded to take another shot at the WWF much like in 84.
WWF purchasing WCW-Obvious reasons
Benoit Double Murder-Suicide- For an industry that had seemed, at least from the outside, to have cleaned up some of their bad ways, this set wrestling back a good 20 years......if not longer.
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Post by Lewscher on Apr 1, 2011 20:19:34 GMT -5
Doesn't really get bigger than WWE purchasing WCW. Storyline-wise is a little tougher. . this. but all deaths hit people harder than others, i mean look at a thread i made thats still going amazingly   Depending on the person it might be considered the biggest to one person, but not another Which is why the wcw/wwf deal is safely the biggest  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2011 21:37:18 GMT -5
couple other,less known ones were the initial skirmishes between the NWA and the WWF... Starrcade 1987, the NWA's premier "Wrestlemania-Like" event was held on November 26,1987...HOWEVER,Vince McMahion fired a direct shot across the bow by scheduling his innaugural Survivor Series card the same night,AND telling cable distributors around the country that if they also carried Starrcade,they wouldn't be allowed to carry the upcoming WrestleMania...at the time the WWF was the growing 500 pound gorilla,so most took the WWF offer,and Starrcade's pay per view audience was 1/4 of what it normally would've been... the NWA fired back the next year,though,and scheduled the first ever Clash of Champions on the same night as WrestleMania IV, offering a PPV-quality card for free on cable TV....it took a lot of PPV buys away from Vince.... Great point as well, I agree totally. I would also add the accident that cost Magnum TA his promising wrestling career as well... |
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Post by skribbel24 on Apr 3, 2011 5:15:46 GMT -5
Hogan turning heel at batb.
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Post by StingerSplash on Apr 4, 2011 11:01:14 GMT -5
What was 'Black Saturday?'
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Post by Mr. K.O on Apr 4, 2011 11:52:06 GMT -5
What was 'Black Saturday?' In professional wrestling, Black Saturday refers to Saturday, July 14, 1984. On that date, Vince McMahon and his World Wrestling Federation (WWF) took over the Saturday night time slot on Superstation WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and its flagship weekly program, World Championship Wrestling, for twelve years. |
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Post by StingerSplash on Apr 4, 2011 13:36:01 GMT -5
What was 'Black Saturday?' In professional wrestling, Black Saturday refers to Saturday, July 14, 1984. On that date, Vince McMahon and his World Wrestling Federation (WWF) took over the Saturday night time slot on Superstation WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and its flagship weekly program, World Championship Wrestling, for twelve years. Ah. Thanks man. That was 11 years before I was born, no wonder I didn't know. lol |
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