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Originally Posted by Poncharello
I mentioned somewhere else that I have begun watching RAW from the beginning. I also will watch the PPVs as they come up. My goal is to watch through Wrestlemania X7. I’m not in a hurry so I have no idea how long it will take me or if I will even get there, but with a running time of 44 minutes or so, it’s a real easy watch. At least it will be until late 97 or early 98, whenever they moved to 2 hours. Even then 90 minutes isn’t to bad. I will tell you this, even if I fly through these, I will not be watching it when it gets to three hour shows.
Ok with that said, I have completed the first 30 which brought us to Summerslam 93. I have been really entertained by these initial RAWs which is something that I did not expect. Something else that I did not expect is how much I am enjoying the run of Doink. What a great character he has been thus far, and his ability in the ring is really good too.
The King of the RingPPV was an excellent show while Summerslam was an odd one. First it was on a Monday night which I found curious at first since RAW is on Monday, but then I saw that there was no RAW the following Monday. Then it hit me, they were preempted for US Open tennis. The show itself was just strange too. Jim Cornette was just introduced a week or two prior and he already had a tag team wrestling for the tag titles and he was put with the world champ. I’m not saying that Cornette isn’t worthy of that, I just found it odd that it happened all of a sudden.
Speaking of all of a sudden, what the hell was with that Lex Luger “turn”? He went from being a heel before KotR, to acting like a face at the end of his match asking for 5 more minutes, then going heel with the forearm shot, then disappears for a week only to become this ultra patriotic face who slammed Yokozuna. No wonder the Lex Express didn’t work, there was literally nothing there other than telling us he is this great man who slammed a far guy and loves his country. And with all of that we get a count out victory with confetti and wrestlers hoisting him on his shoulders like he won the world championship. Just very strange.
I started at the very beginning, watched every wwf raw/ppv up until early 1998. It took me about 4-5 months. The early raws were nostalgic and short which helped. The 2 hour raws fly by because you actually have good entertaining storylines.
I only started watching wrestling around 93 so for me it's a golden year. The whole lex express thing is funny, I actually love his video where he travels around the states in the bus. The ending of summerslam still amazes me, they put in all the effort to build him up only for him to win the match but not the title. Celebrating at the end on the shoulders of the wrestlers was hilarious considering he didn't win the title and made him lose credibility