gravedigger3
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Post by gravedigger3 on Jan 4, 2012 14:55:33 GMT -5
The match from that years Ground Zero between Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker is severely underrated aswell as Taker vs Bret can't remember the pay per view but not Summerslam ( which was awesome)
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Post by mikey1974 on Jan 4, 2012 15:46:52 GMT -5
The match from that years Ground Zero between Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker is severely underrated aswell as Taker vs Bret can't remember the poverty but not Summerslam ( which was awesome) the other great match between them (Hart/Taker) was at One Night Only in Birmingham,England....the match is on the Bret Hart DVD set... this was also the card where HBK beat the Bulldog for the European Championship and caused a riot.... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 16:40:53 GMT -5
The match from that years Ground Zero between Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker is severely underrated aswell as Taker vs Bret can't remember the poverty but not Summerslam ( which was awesome) the other great match between them (Hart/Taker) was at One Night Only in Birmingham,England....the match is on the Bret Hart DVD set... this was also the card where HBK beat the Bulldog for the European Championship and caused a riot.... yup.HBK wasnt supposed to intereact with Mrs Bulldog at all at ringside......and there was trouble backstage over it. and yeah HBK vs Taker @ IYH:Ground Zero was overlooked but thats only because there next meeting was so great. |
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Post by DTP. on Jan 4, 2012 20:44:47 GMT -5
I disagree. Whilst WWF in 1997 was good for countable things; the edgy nature of the Nation, the blood inclusion, the Bret shoots, the rise of the Steve Austin character; the Canada/USA war, the Shawn/Undertaker angle, the Undertaker/Kane/Paul Bearer series, the Screwjob, DX and the uprising of younger talent...
I feel like there are more negatives to 1997. There were more untalented workers in the promotion at the time, there was some terrible storylines, for example the stereotypical factions war (DOA, Los Boricuas, the Truth Commission, etc etc), also because WCW were kicking their asses no matter how hard the WWF tried (although they ended up f*cking that up). See, WCW were still loved for their fast-paced program format, Nitro was putting on some big matches, the cruiserweight division in my opinion was peaking, and the fans could still stand to see the nWo dominate, the hype for Sting's return, and more importantly the masses of older talent working the main events week in and week out.
My theory is this; the WWF barely made it through 1997. They lost Bret, they almost lost Shawn, they almost lost a lot more too. They were running incredibly poor (for a mainstream professional wrestling promotion), had tons of issues (with Bret's contract particularly, as well as the Shawn/Bret real life feud), and were running on ice from the media for their uprising of edgy television. So maybe the WWF fluked their way to the top; the Screwjob could have made more fans tune it, the edgy programming probably brought in more fans; anything else too. The WWF in my mind were literally THROWING sh*t at the viewer that wanted to make them watch every week. And as we all know, it worked well. But I still prefer WCW through the year 1997.
I can admit that the WWF were kicking ass on pay-per-view though. Final Four, Calgary Stampede and Badd Blood were my favourite cards by a long shot.
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