I like the idea of restarting Goldbergs streak gimmick but booking his 2nd and 3rd wins as a double squash in a texas tornado handicap match vs your just-arrives hot tag team contenders (Harris Bros) seems very bad

Talk about undermining your tag division

Sure wish they'd drop another year of Superstars on us. Odd that they chose 1992 of all years if they were only going to drop one for the foreseeable future. I enjoyed watching it, but that's also not a standout year for WWF.

Would love some 80s superstars to watch

Mike Awesome was ****ing awesome

Completely destroyed his credibility with the "That 70s Guy" gimmick. Talk about burying your most talented heel big man on the roster, frustrating to watch

Lance Storms intro has been one of the few bright spots, Canadian take over, changing the US title to the Canadian title and the cruiserweight title to the 100 kilogram and under title so ****ing good

Mike Awesome is who I always bring up on those conversations about guys that never got a chance to realize their potential.

It's pretty sad when you think about it.

2000 Wwe told such cohesive stories and is so much better to watch than dying overswervy WCW obviously

Kurt Angle, The Rock, Austin and Undertaker, Edge and Christian, Hardy, Dudleys, Triple H, Foley as Commish, Rikishi, Hardcore contenders, Benoit. Man this is golden age ****

Heel Rikishi was awesome, doing an awesome job after me being skeptical that the heel turn was going to work

Awesome performer

Introducing the Banzai Drop as his finisher, awesome

I'm wondering if he brought this in as a tribute to Yokozuna who died around late 2000

The original pairing of Undertaker with Brother Love was so odd. I can only assume that there must have been some pre-existing relationship between Mark Callaway and Bruce Prichard that caused them to shoehorn that on-screen alliance together.

I was always able to buy, while growing up, that Dino Bravo was really strong. But in a company full of wrestlers who appeared to be chiseled out of stone, it was hard to embrace him as the strongest. Really, it was hard to embrace him as much of anything since he had no personality.

The appearance of dark-haired babyface Dino Bravo was one of the weirder outliers I can remember encountering as I grew up watching:

Naming Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart "The New Foundation" is one of the more uninspired team names I can remember.

Speaking of "in a company full of wrestlers who appeared to be chiseled out of stone, it was hard to embrace him as the strongest", it messes with my brain when I think about Otis being like the runaway strongest person (idk if it was just PC or entire WWE, but he apparently crushed everyone in the yearly records thing they do).

Otis is Mark Henry.

Cancelled the network today... after 6 years.

I had cancelled right after wm. Sad days

Its only 10 bucks a month? Even if I only watch a few hrs a month its nice having it there. I'm up to December 2000 at the mo, WCW is picking up again, Steiner promos ruling and Flair as Commish is cool.

I'm guessing it's too little too late for them to survive though lol

Yeah, just based on the archive I can't see myself giving it up at the current price point. I use it every month.

This is new. I've never heard of anyone favoring this period in WCW history. Have they done the Mystery Man angle yet and has Sid done his infamous "high risk" maneuver off the ropes yet?

These would be the last things I remember from WCW without giving away any spoilers.

The Bushwhackers were a JTTS comedy tag team who I'm sure WWF never considered giving a serious push to. For some reason, in the era of only four PPVs per year, the Rougeau Brothers had to job to them at two PPVs (WM V and Rumble '90). The Rougeaus also did one of the most puzzling jobs of all time at WM III to the Dream Team. The Dream Team was breaking up, one of the members was turning face that night, and not only did their win hurt the story by making the breakup more puzzling, but of course the team that was breaking up couldn't possibly benefit from the win.

The Bushwhackers were way bigger than the Rougeau Brothers at the time.

I wouldn't even remember Rougeau brothers unless mentioned while Bushwackers were comparatively huge.

Licking faces and grinding opponents noses in their armpits is what I remember - as well as the arm-walk thing they did while walking to the ring. Only thing I remember about Rougeau Brothers is Jimmy Hart. So yea - I don't remember much of anything about them specifically - just Jimmy Hart who was awesome at all he did, even the forgettable Rougeau Brothers. And the fact that they needed JH to be even close to memorable says quite bit about them.

Yeah I definitely disagree with that (except for the props to Jimmy Hart, who I appreciate more when watching his Golden Era stuff back as an adult than I did at the time; he was great). The Rougeaus, with a proper push, could have been just as effective as Jacques's later team, the Quebecers, who were a strong and credible champion team. I actually thought Jacques and Raymond had the better characters than Jacques and Pierre. They were a mainstay who showed up on every PPV for almost four years. To me they were certainly one of the memorable teams of the era.

It's a difficult point to argue as I guess it depends on the coverage at the time. I'm in Europe and WWF back then was the weekly show where the stars would beat up on local nobodies with a single name vs name match at the end and otherwise they never faced off outside of PPVs or other big shows.

I'm pretty sure a poll for "who do you remember from back then" here would be hugely in favor of Bushwackers. Rougeaus wouldn't even have crossed my mind if asked to name tag-teams from back then, while Bushwackers certainly would've made a top 10. Probably even a top 5 - Demolition, Hart foundation, Rockers, Road Warriors... not sure who else I'd pick for a top 5 at the time.

Edit: after some googling - Twin Towers would be in there ldo.

Under the standard you name, the Bushwhackers may have been a bigger deal, but I do come back to the fact that they were a comedy team who really had no reason to ever go over anyone even if they were the more widely recognized team.

There was no pretense that they were a title contender, nor that they were particularly good wrestlers, so mostly they were just loved for being goons who came out and entertained kids. They could lose every non-jobber match without it affecting their value. I don't really know what them beating a non-jobber team even did for them.

Sure, I'm not arguing that. They were pure comedy and hardly any wrestling-skills and if wrestling was based on wrestling-skills they'd never get any tv-time.

I mean, one of their signature moves was rubbing their opponents nose into their armpits like the smell would hurt them - you've given up pretending it's "serious wrestling" at that point.

But wrestling being entertainment, they were way bigger than the Rougeaus. I'm certainly not going to argue they were better wrestlers, but they were bigger names.

I'm willing to concede the "bigger name" point, though it feels like the original point - that they for some reason went over a non-comedy, non-jobber team on two PPVs when PPVs were rare - is getting a bit lost. And, more than that, the Rougeau WM III example was tied in because it just feels like they were booked to lose far more often than they needed to.

At least Raymond got a complimentary handjob for his efforts.

What a pro, just continues the match like he wasnt sexually molested in front of an arena full of people.