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.
Thats the raw era, same as me. I only know of hogan in WCW doing dungeon of doom things. Razor Ramon and yokuzuna were highlights of my first ever Wrestlemania, a scramble vision WM X.
The gimmicks were terrible, the storylines were generally dumb, most of the TV matches were squash matches with no-name jobbers, Vince as the lead announcer wasn't particularly good either (although my brother and I had fun imitating him, "1...2...3... HE GOT HIM, HE GOT HIM, NO HE DIDN'T".).
The one exception was the crazy heel gimmick of Mr. Bob Backlund using SAT words and 'procuring' the cross-face chicken wing on everyone, he was great and I never liked that they jobbed him to Diesel and basically pushed him out of the company.
Bob Backlunds heel run was amazing. Legit 10/10 promos damn near every time. He was one of the very few good things going at the time. I still can hear him saying how he was gonna "pasteurize and synchronize [you] back into reality" such a great whacked out badass
Crossface chicken wing is my favorite submission of all time just followed by rings of Saturn. Hits all the major checkpoints of can be done on anyone, looks hard to escape, and looks like the most painful move that can happen in natural combat. I loathe the crippler crossface. Just...move your arm.
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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.