I think its earmarked for the Hart Family retirements, Konnan retires as a wrestler (for Nitro at least, he'll probably still work for AAA) but becomes a manager, so you can only imagine someone is going to debut with Konnan as manager.
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I think its earmarked for the Hart Family retirements, Konnan retires as a wrestler (for Nitro at least, he'll probably still work for AAA) but becomes a manager, so you can only imagine someone is going to debut with Konnan as manager.
Bret, Davey Boy and Jim are all retiring. Owen still has a couple years before he retires since he wants to be with his family.
But the problem is that IMO Bret still hasn't proved himself in the WCW? Could he wait until has?
He's retiring because he's been in the business for decades and Dynamite's suicide shook him pretty badly. He didn't get the concussion from Goldberg, so he probably still could go another year, but his heart just isn't into it and having him retire at Starrcade seems like a better send-off.
Him, Davey Boy and Neidhart will be running the Dungeon from here on out. And hey, maybe he can whip Teddy into shape.
That will keep them at WCW even though they've stopped wrestling?
We'll be working out a partnership with them to bring Dungeon graduates to WCW on developmental deals.
Wrestling Observer Awards for 1999
Any awards that are blank are ones I haven't fully figured out yet.
Any awards that are blank are ones I haven't fully figured out yet.
- Wrestler of the Year: Mitsuharu Misawa
- Most Outstanding Wrestler: Mitsuharu Misawa
- Most Outstanding Fighter of the Year: Frank Shamrock
- Best Box Office Draw: Goldberg
- Feud of the Year: Raven vs. Sting
- Tag Team of the Year: Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama
- Most Improved: Vader
- Best on Interviews: The Rock
- Most Charismatic: The Rock
- Best Technical Wrestler: Shinjiro Otani
- Best Brawler: Mick Foley
- Best Flying Wrestler: Juventud Guerrera
- Most Overrated: Hulk Hogan
- Most Underrated: Steven Regal/William Regal
- Promotion of the Year: World Championship Wrestling
- Best Weekly TV Show: WCW Monday Nitro
- Pro Wrestling Match of the Year: Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa
- MMA Match of the Year: Frank Shamrock vs. Tito Ortiz
- Rookie of the Year: Blitzkrieg
- Best Non-Wrestler: Paul Heyman
- Best Television Announcer: Jim Ross
- Worst Television Announcer: Ed Ferrara
- Best Major Wrestling Show: Starrcade
- Worst Major Wrestling Show: Heroes of Wrestling
- Best Wrestling Maneuver: Dragonrana
- Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: Ed Ferrara's Jim Ross impression
- Worst Television Show: XPW Total Nonstop Action
- Worst Match of the Year: Abdullah the Butcher (Halloween in Hell)
- Worst Feud of the Year: Hulk Hogan vs. Triple H
- Worst Promotion of the Year: Xtreme Pro Wrestling
- Best Booker: Jim Cornette and Paul Heyman
- Promoter of the Year: Paul Heyman
- Best Gimmick: The Rock
- Worst Gimmick: Kaientai
- Readers' Favorite Wrestler: Chris Jericho
- Readers' Least Favorite Wrestler: Hulk Hogan
- Worst Wrestler: Kevin Nash
- Worst Tag Team: Dennis Knight and Mabel
- Worst Manager: Sonny Oono
- Worst on Interviews: Sid Vicious
- Most Embarrassing Wrestler: Hulk Hogan
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Off the walls crazy when Eddie was around but after the accident, Chavo just went into a bloodrage on the cruisers.
Pretty much this. I based this run of Chaco off his early Lucha Underground run where he hated everyone and just threw chairshots all around. It's my favorite Chavo.
July:
Bash At The Beach 1999: 615,000 buys
Fully Loaded 1999: 480,000 buys
August:
New Blood Rising 1999: 710,000 buys
Summerslam 1999: 890,000 buys
September:
Fall Brawl 1999: 801,000 buys
Unforgiven 1999: 432,000 buys
October:
Halloween Havoc 1999: 830,000 buys
Rebellion 1999: Not Available due to Sky Sports Deal.
No Mercy 1999: 421,000 buys
November:
World War 3 1999-Mayhem: 810,000 buys
Survivor Series 1999: 750,000 buys
December:
Armageddon 1999: 430,000 buys
Starrcade 1999: 1.2 million buys
Bash At The Beach 1999: 615,000 buys
Fully Loaded 1999: 480,000 buys
August:
New Blood Rising 1999: 710,000 buys
Summerslam 1999: 890,000 buys
September:
Fall Brawl 1999: 801,000 buys
Unforgiven 1999: 432,000 buys
October:
Halloween Havoc 1999: 830,000 buys
Rebellion 1999: Not Available due to Sky Sports Deal.
No Mercy 1999: 421,000 buys
November:
World War 3 1999-Mayhem: 810,000 buys
Survivor Series 1999: 750,000 buys
December:
Armageddon 1999: 430,000 buys
Starrcade 1999: 1.2 million buys
WCW Starrcade for the Nintendo 64
The third ever WCW game developed by AKI for WCW. While the roster itself drops a great deal of its predecessor's nWo members, it more than makes up for it with the inclusion of the ECW camp. Gameplay-wise, it's very similar to OTL's No Mercy and while it does lack the character customization option, it makes up for it with the large roster that had become the standard for the AKI WCW games and it becomes a hot seller after its December 17 1999 release, often regarded as one of the best wrestling games ever made.
The third ever WCW game developed by AKI for WCW. While the roster itself drops a great deal of its predecessor's nWo members, it more than makes up for it with the inclusion of the ECW camp. Gameplay-wise, it's very similar to OTL's No Mercy and while it does lack the character customization option, it makes up for it with the large roster that had become the standard for the AKI WCW games and it becomes a hot seller after its December 17 1999 release, often regarded as one of the best wrestling games ever made.
WCW Genesis 2000
14,000 fill the Firstar Center in Cincinatti for the show that will be taking Souled Out's place, built on WCW vs. NWA. Title for Title.
ESPN Pre-Show
And that's it for Genesis. Next time, we're gonna Rumble in the Garden.
14,000 fill the Firstar Center in Cincinatti for the show that will be taking Souled Out's place, built on WCW vs. NWA. Title for Title.
ESPN Pre-Show
- The Dudley Boyz d. The Full Blooded Italians (Johnny the Bull/Tony Mamaluke) The Dudleys finish their run through the ECW teams with a 3D to Tony.
- Little Guido (w/Big Vito) d. Spike Dudley. And Little Guido beats Little Spike, throwing him regularly to Vito to give him some beatings.
- Tank Abbot d. Fit Finlay. It's a quick match. Finlay can work stiff, but we make it quick and get Abbott over with the Phantom Right.
- Los Guerreros & Rey Misterio Jr. vs. lWo (Juventud Guerrera/Super Crazy/Psychosis) Big trios opener with a big split in the Latino World Order. Juvie decided he had enough of Rey taking the spotlight and wasn't about to let Eddie think he could do the same and we get this match. Chavo and Rey do a lot of the work on this to let Eddie take it easy early on, then he comes in like a house of fire and hits the Frog Splash on Super Crazy.
- Billy Kidman (w/Torrie Wilson) d Devon Storm (w/Daffney) And we go 1-1 on the Kidman-Storm feud, hitting a 450 on Devon.
- Shane Helms d. Tony Kozina for the NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship. A quick title match. A little less exciting than the rest of the cruiserweight matches, but it's a solid match nonetheless and ends with a Vertebreaker to Kozina.
- Jeff Jarrett (w/Dustin Rhodes) d. Dean Malenko (w/Chris Candido) Jarrett gets a dirty win after Dustin hits Malenko with a loaded boot while the ref is distracted. It's some old-school heel chicanery.
- Manami Toyota d. Debbie Combs for the NWA World Women's Championship. And another quick title match. Debbie takes a few bombs before getting hit with the Ocean Bomb.
- Chris Kanyon (w/Bam Bam) d. Perry Saturn. Who betta than Kanyon!?
- Rob Van Dam d. Lance Storm for the NWA World Television Championship. A good match between two talented workers. Five-Star Frog Splash to Lance to keep.
- DDP d. Shane Douglas. Giving these guys something to do here. Shane's been off PPV for months but here comes to bring a challenge to Page, but falls to the Diamond Cutter.
- Raven d. Terry Funk. We get hardcore here as Raven beats Terry in a wild brawl before getting jumped after the match by Vampiro, the two having gone after each other since Starrcade.
- The Hardy Boyz (w/Lita) d. Team Extreme (Kit Carson/Khris Germany) for the NWA World Tag Team Championships. The Hardy Boyz make quick work of Team Extreme with stereo Twists of Fate, only to get jumped by the Dudleyz, setting up for Superbrawl.
- Booker T d. Chris Benoit. Booker probes he can hang as he gets the first win against the man who retired Bret Hart. Spirited face vs. face matchup and both men shake hands afterwards.
- Chris Jericho d. Goldberg for the NWA United States Championship. Jericho, who had spent a year as a face, now begins the shift to heel by taunting Goldberg. He brings up the legit issues between them, how when Goldberg was on top, he refused to wrestle a "Cruiserweight Nobody" but now look at him. No belt, no streak and now the "Cruiserweight Nobody" has the #2 belt in WCW and at Genesis, he'll have the #2 belt in all of wrestling. The taunts to get to Goldberg and he has enough, Spear and Jackhammer on Nitro, then he takes the mic and tells Jericho "You're Next." But when it comes PPV bell-time, Y2J puts him away in the Liontamer and retains. It's a big win for Jericho and a upset for Goldberg.
- Owen Hart d. Tazz for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. A nice little rematch for Owen and Tazz as the WCW World Champion meets the NWA World Champion. The two put on a clinic and it ends with Tazz beat in the Sharpshooter.
And that's it for Genesis. Next time, we're gonna Rumble in the Garden.
Funny, one of the vingettes I haven't written out yet is for a Ric to be taking a phone call with Tom Kalinske over bringing WCW games over to the Saturn.
At this point the saturn is death and burried, should be the dreamcast
I know, but the Sega I imagine in that vingette is one that still had the complex dual core motherboard setup, but Sega sent out better development kits for it. The Saturnday launch still happens and Nakayama steps down when it bombs. Okawa becomes the new CEO and he convinces Tom to stay on while keeping America's autonomy. All in all, the Saturn bounces back in 1997 by pulling the same kind of deal Nintendo did with the 3ds: a price cut to $200 after christmas 95 and a massive underwriting of quality titles throughout 96.
Being Honest...is even easier than that...Sega was working with Nvidia in the US for a 'saturn in a single board' and using nvidia quads graphics and being perfect backward compatible with old saturn(thus games have not the be rewritten,google Saturn V08) but saving saturn is a nightmare, better slash and burn since the begin that disaster.
Royal Rumble 2000: Part 1
19,000 pack Madison Square Garden for the beginning of the Road to Wrestlemania. Six matches on the card, here's the five non-Rumble matches.
And soon, the Rumble...
19,000 pack Madison Square Garden for the beginning of the Road to Wrestlemania. Six matches on the card, here's the five non-Rumble matches.
- Mark Henry d. Hardcore Holly, retaining the Hardcore Title. Mark destroys Bob in this match, keeping his hardcore title.
- William Regal d. Taka Michinoku(w/Funaki) retaining the European Title. The CREW keeps their singles belt with a Regal Stretch to Taka.
- The CREW (Edge/Christian/Rhyno) d. The APA (Bradshaw/Simmons/Test) retaining the Tag Titles. It's a wild hardcore match because that appears the be the theme of this PPV. It's a big trios brawl, ending with a Gore to Ron Simmons.
- Kurt Angle d. X-Pac for the Intercontinental Title. And Kurt goes from the European Title to the IC title, tossing around the smaller X-Pac and putting him away with the Angle Slam.
- Hulk Hogan d. Cactus Jack in a Street Fight, retaining the World Title. We get this match, but with Hogan in place of Triple H. More hardcore for the bloodthirsty crowd, Foley taking whatever Hogan can throw at him because Hogan's not taking too many bumps for Foley. Hogan puts the chair across Cactus and gets hit with the legdrop for the finish.
And soon, the Rumble...