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The death of WCW as told in newsletter quotes:

http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=294

So many rofflets, so little time.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

wow, these are great. i wanted so much to see the last ep of nitro that my gf & i hung out at some former housemates' apartment to watch their tv(i was locked out of my apt that weekend). they eventually got bored & left the room, but i stayed on to see Shane McMahon show up on WCW tv.

ah, memories of 4 years ago, when i briefly held an actual engineering job...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

linked from there:

http://www.ddtdigest.com/features/downfall.htm

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

Wicked!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 19 September 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

Some of these are fucking killing me, man.

Quote #128

"Steiner undid the protective mats around ringside. He then piledrove Sting on a protective mat." - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 14, 1999

Quote #133

"Nash sold very little considering it was a 16-on-1 beating" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: June 28, 1999

Quote #35

"Sting and Vampiro fought in a graveyard. Vampiro broke a tombstone over Sting's head and he fell into a grave. Offically, because Sting may have died, this match was ruled a no contest" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: May 08, 2000.

― F (Ferg), Monday, 19 September 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

i remember seeing all those. I started watching wrestling again in January 1999. For the few 9 months, I stuck with WCW more due to La Parka being there, misused as he was.

About the time that Sid Vicious came out to ruin every match and I flipped over to see a great match with D'Lo Brown & Edge was when i started watching WWF primarily.

also, mid-late 1999 is when Bob Mould was around WCW. I always wanted to interview him on the wrestling side of things, since most rock mags never asked him anything beyond "Dude, you SERIOUSLY wrote for a pro-wrestling thing?!!!11"

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Quote #195
"The top selling auction item was a Ric Flair robe at $28,000, sold to the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: August 6, 1999

This is good trivia.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I always wanted to interview him on the wrestling side of things, since most rock mags never asked him anything beyond "Dude, you SERIOUSLY wrote for a pro-wrestling thing?!!!11"

I remember seeing a print interview with him that was all about wrestling -- maybe I can track it down. I think he was interviewed on Meltzer's old internet radio show, I can't remember.

Mould was a big Benoit fan and seemed to play an important role in getting him pushed in the fall of 1999.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I thought Mould was a writer during the Kevin Sullivan booking period, follwoing Russo's 1st departure.

Meltzer was asked about the quotes thread on his show a few weeks back. His reaction was kind of funny, as he sighed with nostalgic exhaustion over having to have re-capped so many hours of the confoundingly bad televsion WCW had produced; remembered as a hazy blur today.

Anyone read "Death of WCW"?. Pretty fun I think. It's well rounded in the list of details that led to the demise but also has a broad awareness of history regarding the business. The trainwreck is revealed as a comically epic inevitability given the personalities and circumstances.

The WWE should put together a WCW death dvd doc. It would be hilarious to see clips juxtaposing the different horrible booking periods.

― theodore (herbert hebert), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Mould was on in mid-late '99, before getting pissed off & leaving. they only used a few of his bits, like the "Sting isn't fooled by lex lugar/mace in the eyes" thing.

god, and they actually put mark madden on tv.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 23 September 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

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