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Hulk Hogan on TNA; Bret Hart on WWE Monday Night

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oldvnewschool

Last night definitley had the feel of the old WCW/WWE Monday Night Wars; especially when you see superstars that had been on WWE now on TNA:

Hogan, Ric Flair, Jeff Hardy, Sean Morley, Sean Waltman, Scott Hall, and Eric Bischoff; They might as well be WCW at this point.

The best match of the two programs was the AJ Styles Kurt Angle bout in my opinion.

Although WWE Raw had some highlights as well; Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels buring the hatchet, I think :(!

McMahon trying to be heel at the end made little sense to me unless it becomes a really good angle in the future;

Raw's best match was the handicap match with the always reliable Chris Jericho losing to D-X for the unified tag team titles.

All in All I give the edge to TNA since they had the most going in, even though the way they scheduled the endings to some of the matches leaves me scratching my head a

little bit (X-Division cage match ending in DQ; PPV title match bumped to Free TV)?

Hopefully this may be the spark TNA needs to at least say they're in WWE's level if they aren't already after signing so many former WWE superstars already.
 
I only got home in time to see a few minutes of each show; Spike is re-running last night's show this Thursday, and WWE Raw, of course, will be seen in their weekend replays on USA (shortened) and Telemundo (full show).

Around 10:05pm ET, the Spike signal on DirecTV went out and wasn't restored until maybe 10-15 minutes later, so I missed Hogan's speech. I did see the final minutes of Raw, when Vince and Bret Hart were in the ring, and ol' Vinnie taking that predictable swerve on the Hit Man. A lot of people saying that it could be a set-up for a McMahon vs. Hart match at this year's Wrestlemania, although I don't know what kind of physical wrestling shape's in since he suffered a stroke several years ago.

Back to TNA...

oldvnewschool said:
Last night definitley had the feel of the old WCW/WWE Monday Night Wars; especially when you see superstars that had been on WWE now on TNA:

Hogan, Ric Flair, Jeff Hardy, Sean Morley, Sean Waltman, Scott Hall, and Eric Bischoff; They might as well be WCW at this point.
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It was already looking like WCW even they brought in the Hulkster and his buddies...all those old WCW retreads like Sting, Booker T., Scott Steiner, and Kevin Nash, plus the old taping location of their syndicated shows (Universal Studios Orlando). Short-term, I think TNA will have the advantage, and it helps having arguably the biggest name in wrestling history in the corner...but, in the end, unless Spike can really commit big dollars to TNA, they'll never truly dethrone WWE. The only way WWE goes as if it kills itself.
 
oldvnewschool said:
...Ric Flair, Jeff Hardy, Sean Morley,...
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These three surprised me the most.

I liked how Sean Morley rehashed his old WWE gimmick (sans "Val Venis" because it's the intellectual property of WWE).
 
Doesn't Vince or his wife Linda own TNA? Didn't Vince buy WCW a few years ago? There was an episode of VH-1's 'Hogan Knows Best' a year or two ago. That had Hulk going to Stamford to talk with Vince about signing a 20 year contract with his company.
 
ShawnHill1 said:
It was already looking like WCW even they brought in the Hulkster and his buddies...all those old WCW retreads like Sting, Booker T., Scott Steiner, and Kevin Nash, plus the old taping location of their syndicated shows (Universal Studios Orlando).
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Actually, WCW did their syndicated tapings at the Disney/MGM Studios.

And while all of Turner's production trucks were rented out for the Summer Olympics back in Atlanta, they did a few live "Monday Nitro" shows there in 1996.
 
johnnya2k6 said:
ShawnHill1 said:
It was already looking like WCW even they brought in the Hulkster and his buddies...all those old WCW retreads like Sting, Booker T., Scott Steiner, and Kevin Nash, plus the old taping location of their syndicated shows (Universal Studios Orlando).
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Actually, WCW did their syndicated tapings at the Disney/MGM Studios.

And while all of Turner's production trucks were rented out for the Summer Olympics back in Atlanta, they did a few live "Monday Nitro" shows there in 1996.
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I totally forgot that...right city, wrong studio lot. :-[

I read on another board that TNA's final rating for Monday's broadcast was 1.5 household rating (drawing 2.2 million homes), its highest ratings ever. Raw, on the other hand, still beat them, drawing 5.6 million homes. Lots of reasons to that...WWE's viewer loyalty, USA being in more homes than Spike, and outside of Hulk Hogan and maybe a few others, you don't have many household names in TNA known to the causal fan.
 
Team America said:
Doesn't Vince or his wife Linda own TNA?
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TNA is owned by a company named Panda Energy (Hogan being a "partner" in TNA is a storyline). I think Viacom/Spike TV has a stake in it also.
 
JayR said:
I liked how Sean Morley rehashed his old WWE gimmick (sans "Val Venis" because it's the intellectual property of WWE).
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Instead of "Hello, ladies," does his TNA entrance theme have him saying, "Greetings, girls," to get around the WWE intellectual property issue?

Who would have thought - "intellectual property" and WWE in the same sentence. ;D
 
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