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 | | Subject: Death of WCW comparisons to TNA Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:34 pm | |
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- WWE 24/7 began showing Bash at the Beach 2000 Wednesday morning and boy, is that a trip down memory lane to see exactly what the hell was wrong with WCW (and sadly TNA today). This only scratches the surface, but some things I wanted to note:
1. The opening match (Chavo... sorry, Lt. Loco vs. Juvi for the CW title) is a mess and reminded me of a typical TNA stipulation. The "Misfits in Action" and "Filty Animals" are banned from ringside, so naturally they all start out at ringside anyway. Then they leave. Then they come back in stupid masks, because apparently neither faction had any faith their man could win on their own merits.
2. Again from the opening match, it's almost immediately clear how out of touch Russo was in terms of what people wanted from the promotion. Scott Hudson tells Mark Madden (who is requesting that Tygress and Major Gunns come back out and take their tops off since it's PPV) that, "This is wrestling! That's what it says on the marquee!". Madden corrects him by saying it's "sports entertainment", and Tony follows up by calling the opening match the "opening sports entertainment contest". I don't think WWE has even gone that far. Even in 1999 when Nitro and Thunder were terrible, WCW could still be "the wrestling company" and provide some great PPV matches (Spring Stampede 99 is a great example of this), but in 2000 they're trying to pander to the sports entertainment crowd by doing a lower rent version of what the WWF was already doing? Again, I immediately recognized the big TNA parallel here.
3. After the big Russo / Hogan deal, the announcers are given a short amount of time to reflect on what, in theory, could be the biggest thing to ever happen to WCW. Not too long (longer than anything in TNA, though) because it's TO THE BACK~! for Vampiro arriving to the arena after his stupid "Graveyard Match" with The Demon. Scott Hudson hilariously refers to this as "getting back to reality".
I know I'm just beating a dead horse and not telling you anything you didn't already know, but discussing this show on the message board I usually discuss 24/7 stuff on really got me thinking about it.
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