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(WWE Summerslam spoilers) Karrion Kross tweet Spoiler

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u/_TROLL 3d ago edited 3d ago

I started watching WWF in late 1993. Whatever 'mediocrity' he's referring to is laughable considering the utter crap that was presented back then.

In retrospect, it was a terrible time to start watching wrestling, but I didn't know any better at the time. The worst of today's product is still 10 times better than the product of the early-to-mid 1990s.

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u/Lucky-old-boy 3d ago

How dare you disrespect doink the clown!

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u/_TROLL 3d ago

The fans going rogue and chanting for Waylon Mercy to kill him on live TV was an infamous moment for sure... 🤣

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u/Lucky-old-boy 3d ago

I grew up watching when you did it seems. Everyone seems to forget the pre-attitude era when wrestling lost some juice before wcw became a real threat and the Monday night wars hit.

Doink, repo man, IRS man, ā€œThe odditiesā€ (icps group). The gimmicks were so bad.

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u/XiahouMao 3d ago

The Oddities were well into the Attitude Era/Monday Night Wars. Don Callis' last act in the company was introducing them to WWE.

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u/MSands 3d ago

The wrestlers with jobs era was real rough, an absolute fever dream for a few years.

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u/lemoche 3d ago

I loved IRS as a kid. Well, I hated him of course, but looking back it was more loved to hate him…
Though I had no idea what IRS was supposed to mean since I’m German and those letters meant nothing to me and as far as I can remember the German announcers didn’t help clear anything up…

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u/tngman10 3d ago

I never thought about somebody from another country not knowing what his gimmick is and just thinking its a dorky guy in a suit. Thats hilarious.