1996 WWF was underrated

[Pinyapplesuckas]

I think when he started calling Bret Hart out of that Hiatus("You put the S in front of Hitman and you got my exact thought of Him")is when Austin was Heating up

yeah i havent gotten to that point yet..he's still being squandered and treated like any other idiot on the roster...like they're slightly protecting him but the booking is plain stupid for him right now...its dope to see how shyt plays out....

Triple H was the ultimate scrub during this era and look at him now

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

currently watching all of the 96 raws & ppvs...i wish the network had all the other shows that aired during that year...

HBK was mega over at this time...he couldnt do any wrong

HBK was getting booed out of buildings as a face.

they have action zone on there??

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

HBK was getting booed out of buildings as a face.

they have action zone on there??

no action zone as far as i know

 

[DaylitoJames]

yeah i havent gotten to that point yet..he's still being squandered and treated like any other idiot on the roster...like they're slightly protecting him but the booking is plain stupid for him right now...its dope to see how shyt plays out....

Triple H was the ultimate scrub during this era and look at him now

In hindsight HHH laid in wait, was patient and played his role he did want he needed to do and it paid off for him in the long run

 

[KevCo]

1996 was great, and led to my personal fav year ‘97.....

 

[richaveli83]

In hindsight HHH laid in wait, was patient and played his role he did want he needed to do and it paid off for him in the long run

 

[cozy carl]

i am watching every show of the year thats on the network and he was not over at all...his matches had the crowd dead...the most reactions i saw him get leading up to KOTR 96 was his semi finals match....even in the Jake The Snake match there wasnt a huge change in the crowd....that promo got him a huge pop but they didnt even give him an entrance the next night on raw he was just on screen with the bubble lip already in the corner...

now im curious to when his music changed because he still got that bullshyt Ringmaster theme at this point im at...

that was around Sept/Oct

 

[Ku$h Parker]

I wonder of Trips plotted on that back then while Steph was helping Pops in the Back

 

[DANJ!]

I had to go back and check some of this out because I wasnt really following WWF or wrestling in general by '96. I'd tune in every now and then, didn't get the idea that I was missing much.

So the good was HBK's match quality, but his character was kinda like Diesel after he turned face- Vince just loved to add cheese and have him be the opposite of what got him cheered in the first place. And Jose Lothario brought NOTHING to the table. It's no surprise he started getting booed. Matches were good tho, when he wasn't gettin' mad and throwing tantrums in the ring.

Austin took a while to catch fire even after KOTR, but when that Bret feud got rollin', you could see he was headed up the card.

Ahmed, man. You could see why Vince was intent on pushing him, he was a big dude but had energy and hard-hitting moves and just looked like someone who'd be high on the card. He was on fire... but then he got injured and started the longest gotdamn feud ever, and was Larry Holmes level a year later.

That Taker/Mankind feud was dope... it went on for a long time but it didn't burn itself out with matches every month.

Goldust with the Razor and Piper shyt was That's the kinda shyt I was seeing when I'd tune in and be like "TF is goin' on, Dusty son gay as shyt"

Sid was goin' on softball breaks every 3 months, but he was still a beast.

Everybody else was just kinda there. Owen and Bulldog pretty much coasted all year. Vader was killin' it, but after SummerSlam them Kliq rules stopped him. Marc Mero was TRASH.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

In hindsight HHH laid in wait, was patient and played his role he did want he needed to do and it paid off for him in the long run

you say this as if HHH had much of a choice.

HHH was awful back then.

hes lucky he was given the spots that he got. only reason he even got that was because vince prolly had a hard-on for his look.

Now I'll readily admit my feelings on 96 WWF are very influenced by nostalgia because this was the year I really started watching but I do think it get's too bad a wrap because I often see 95 & 96 lumped together as the absolute low points of WWF. Now in terms of business that might be true, but while the product was piss poor in 95, there is a lot of good stuff in 96.

yea, the product was a lot better in 96.

I still kinda gave most of it the curve, seeing how the wwf's product was still a distant 3rd behind what WCW & ECW were doing.

 

[Lord Bison]

yea, for the most part, I always liked wwf '96 for what it was - the 3rd best promotion.

and i'd take it over the previous 10 years of the WWE.

problem is, they never followed thru with the hot chit for one reason or another, some it it was out of their hands.

- vader debut
- warrior return
- wwf livewire
- ahmed Johnson I-C title run
- ahmed/Farooq feud with the classic livewire episode

all incomplete.







vince McMahon was on raw yelling "attitude era" when hbk was still getting booed out of buildings as a struggle-face.








that's why those years were forgettable.

keep it 100.

Livewire was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of it's time. It's funny to think back that WWF had a social media show back in 1996.

 

[b. woods]

i am watching every show of the year thats on the network and he was not over at all...his matches had the crowd dead...the most reactions i saw him get leading up to KOTR 96 was his semi finals match....even in the Jake The Snake match there wasnt a huge change in the crowd....that promo got him a huge pop but they didnt even give him an entrance the next night on raw he was just on screen with the bubble lip already in the corner...

now im curious to when his music changed because he still got that bullshyt Ringmaster theme at this point im at...

He debuted "Hell Frozen Over" at In Your House: Buried Alive in October 96 against .

 

[NYChase718]

I think when he started calling Bret Hart out of that Hiatus("You put the S in front of Hitman and you got my exact thought of Him")is when Austin was Heating up

Its funny how long after the infamous 316 speech it took b4 he really became the gimmick
He didnt do nothin until october starting with pillman and then bret
The themesong change the black and white promos
From there it only took him like 3 to 4 months to become face

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

That was the year I first started watching wrestling

 

[NYChase718]

you say this as if HHH had much of a choice.

HHH was awful back then.

hes lucky he was given the spots that he got. only reason he even got that was because vince prolly had a hard-on for his look.





yea, the product was a lot better in 96.

I still kinda gave most of it the curve, seeing how the wwf's product was still a distant 3rd behind what WCW & ECW were doing.

HhH was supposed to be some kind of rich big nose ladies man with all those valets chyna saved his career and set it off
She was the draw that put eyes on him
He always bytches about his little punishment but he was in the intercontinental scene pretty quick
Being boring until chyna and foley saved him