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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
No distraction, I watched season one and am watching season 2. What I don't want here, is to just have a bunch of WWE rivalries here. I assume most of you guys now those. There are absolutely high profile awesome rivalries that will be on this list.
But growing up there were absolutely awesome rivalries in the territories or NWA or ECW for example that I'd like to shine a light on. I mean how many people saw the rvalrie between Tommy Dreamer and Raven that had a for real crucifixion Of Jim Cornette's Midnight express vs the Rock and Roll express that lasted years and went across territories.
BTW sorry for the delays that are going to happen. I kind of want to give some deep dive to these. The first two were awesome rivalry concepts that unfortuately had dire consequences Stomper Allen ended a territory. NWO vs Sting though such an amazing build was ruined by politics and was a contributing factor to the eventual death of WCW as much as the finger poke of doom was.
BTW people didn't critize me obviously but asked how I couldn't have Hogan on my Mount Rushmore. And it wasn't Hogan's work rate, though by half way through his career his work was like a parody account. It wasn't his charisma, it was his overall effect on the wrestling world where he left behind battered careers and battered promotions all because Hogan was the ultimate political player and was hilariously self interested in. Hogan never learned the lesson that Andre the Giant tried to teach him. And to me that's the tragedy of Hogan.
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Well I will call you out for omitting Hogan, though I see you later acknowledge it. The explosion in the 80's was purely on the back of Hogan; The MTV partnerships, Pay Per Views, Hollywood crossover, mainstream integration were all built on Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan's Rock and Wrestling, Hulk Hogan bubble bath, Hulk Hogan lunch boxes, nobody had the impact on wrestling's popularity like Hulk Hogan did. No wrestler (prior to The Rock) had the mainstream recognition Hulk Hogan did. Great wrestler? obviously not, neither was Andre the Giant, but, great for wrestling? The Greatest.
Leaving him out because of his "self interest", but including Brett Hart?? Brett failing to drop the WWE title was the ultimate self interest move. Having grown up in the business who does he think is by not dropping the title before moving promotions? Like the Hitman is too good to lose the title, he has to forfeit it? Give us a break Brett. Maybe not more self interested then Hogan, but just as bad.
Also looking forward to where the Freebird/ Von Erich feud lads on this list, has to be top 3.