Great American Bash 2000: 83 Weeks
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- On this episode of 83 Weeks, Eric and Conrad take us back to the year 2000 and the Great American Bash! The guys discuss the eroding relationship between Eric and Vince Russo, the growing number of gimmicks being added to every match, and the overall disgust Eric had for this PPV now watching it back over 20 years later.
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That bug told Eric "that doesn't work for me, brother"
"Kidman runs down to the ring and hits Hogan with a blowtorch.." This episode is money - reminiscing how bad/crazy WCW was at the end of it's run. 🤣
VINCE RUSSBRO
I consider myself a near expert on WCW 2000 and I had completely forgotten about Sid's turn here.
Probably because there was never any follow through. I think the next time we'd see Sid was late 2000 going into Starrcade
Love that Eric called the bug his ex😂. His ex wife is NEVER mentioned
Unclean finishes are good. But if they happen too often it really kills the desire to even see the finish rather clean or not.
Agreed
I love when Tank Abbott used to dance with 3 Count.
Ive got the slapnutz tank top jeff jarrett wore at this show signed aswell
20:46 - The Great American Bug!
I used to watch cmll in the 90s and saw Norman smiley as black magic. So when Norman was doing the big wiggle and all that stuff I loved it. Highly entertaining
I have to watch him in CMLL.
Knowing WCW, they probably had a traveling Blow-Torch 🔥 guy on retainer
It’s so crazy that Eric Bischoff who we saw as the nWo mastermind and bada$$ and HLA creator….is still a papaw and so awesome. Love ya easy e
He's also bankrupt and failed with every business he ever started.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw stop pocket watching worry about your broke ass self lol
I really liked this era of WCW. I was confused when it ended.
I did too to be honest. RAW was becoming formulative by this point, despite the huge ratings. Russo and Bischoff had an action show going on while RAW was all about Rock and the precursor to reign of terror aka Trips.
Ok, so you're the one!
@@danielboom72 We the ones.
It was terrible, Russo screwed up the soul of Wcw that Bischoff/ Sullivan had cultivated from 95 on.
Russo didn't understand structure, didn't care about psychology, and just created crash tv.
He had no storylines, and thought he could make people hot by having them do outrageous stuff that had nothing to do with rasslin. He drained the promotion of the charisma that Bishoff and others there since the early 90s had busted their butts to develop
@@chadhoganlive seriously, I really liked the cast of characters that the New Blood vs Millionaires Club story had built. I personally liked the combo of Bischoff’s gang warfare trope with Russo’s Y2K zeitgeist. I was all excited to see the Nitro after Bash at the Beach and all of a sudden the storyline was dropped and Hulk was gone.
Crash TV bro! 🤣😂
21:35 wow that bug is huge, Eric shows no fear. I would cry.
Great show
Starts at 4:00
The bug no sold Eric's offense.
I got a question. How does Conrad not get sued for gimmick infringement using all these wrestling logos lol!?
You know what? I love Eric. I love unapologetic he is
Look at all those signs in the crowd ❤
I really don’t understand why these guys all need Conrad Thompson on their podcasts.
EB treats bugs like good creative
1:50:02 This idea was never going to get over.
Perfect timing with this podcast as I just reached this ppv during my rewatch of WCW. I appreciate Eric sitting down and trying to stomach this haha but i agree it's basically unbearable with Vince Russo's style. The mouth to mouth of the old man, the best of 5 tables match. Kidman wrestling Hogan still seems ridiculous to this day. Nothing made sense and was extremely gimmicked out of control. Jeff Jarrett did what was asked of him but him being champ/at the top was incredibly forced and not believable. Nothing was at this time. We had Vince Russo on the screen constantly.
To be fair. WWE did the same with their Cruiserweight title.
Fuck me Conrad that was a lazy podcast, racing through half the matches at the PPV. Gone are the days of episodes like Chris Jericho where they would just talk and talk on every discussion point
The whole bug thing. Lmao.
😂
I only listen to these but I had to pick-up my phone to see Whalen.
I remember the filthy animals rejoined around this point but you knew WCW had no idea what to do with rey mysterio n konnan by this point the kidman n hogan fued was different tho they should have done tht in 99.
21:06 😂😂😂😂
I hope 83 weeks doesn't end when wcw did, Conny could just continue with Eric into his WWE career.
The mamalukes were one or the few bright spots in 2000
That goofy Italian mob stuff was surprisingly over if you watch it back they were getting big pops everytime they came out
Waylon completely no selling the pod and stayin silent was perfect
Its crazy how 956 people viewed this but only 69 like it?? Come on!
Bug!
Bug!
Bug!
20:46
Eric if you didn't want to defend that hardcore title, why did you win it in the first place? You knew you would be expected to defend it, right? 🤔
Im not a DDP fan but I was inspired when DDP brought out a crippled Kanyon to defend his friends honor but when Kanyon turned on DDP it got a little sour but when Kanyon showed off the new blood shirt it made more sense it turned out to be good but Kanyon had a lot of beef with Mike Awesome so that's were it was a little off.
I think the higher ups just let Vince Russo do whatever the hell he wanted to WCW around this time, just to get the company the hell off the air in 6-7 months. They had to know the company was done by this point, so what else did they have to lose really? Everything was a big joke, and too hokey by this point in time.
Wait did they discuss Nitro and Thunder or the Great American Bash?
I was always under the impression that if Bischoff didn't agree with any of Russo's ideas, he could veto them and then Brad Seigel would be the tie-breaker (he explained this when discussing the Bash at the Beach 2000 debacle) In that case, not sure why he allowed Russo to move forward with so many of these dumb ideas. Maybe he wanted to go along to avoid conflict. I also wonder maybe if this is where they could've split the roster into two, one roster for Nitro, led by Bischoff or Russo and one for Thunder, led by the other. Along the way, there could've been occasional cross-over. I still think there was alot of potential when Bischoff and Russo returned. Just poor execution (ie..blow torches, asylum matches, monster trucks, you name it)
I thought he meant Ted Turner titled his autobiography "Porter Bibb" lol
palmetto bug there huge
Eric said that Nitro in 96, 97, and, 98 never ended in clean finishes but it didn't matter because they were compelling stories. I disagree. I was sick of the main event interference by 1998. I didn't keep watching because they were compelling stories. I kept watching because I was emotionally invested in the characters. I hated the endings of Nitro.
Wcw. In 2000. Was. Historically bad television 📺. 💯
Man....this reminds me of why I didn't watch WCW at the end...what a mess.
20:45 WWE take heed RE: Roman Reigns!!!
Great episode for such a horrible PPV
6.5 thousand views and only 152 likes. People can do better than that.
21:40 😂😂😂
I hate to say this,but Eric Bishoff played a role in the downfall of WCW....
Eric Bishoff played a big role with WCW ending as a promotion
No he didn't.
@@naph-the-criticYes he did
*Vince Russo and more importantly Time Warner/AOL.*
You type in the podcast comments on YT just to say things that purely show you do not listen to it. Go get lost again.
@@briankersten3287agreed
WCW went downhill once Bischoff and Sullivan were replaced.
1:22:00 I wonder if that was the time period WCW was trying to bring in Sable but, Jerry McDivitt was able to put the breaks on it. Why else invoke Vince McMahons name? Why would McMahon give a fuck about Goldberg turning heel?
"The Death of WCW" claimed the talks with SFX that fell through was the the original plan for the big announcement being teased.
Please stop talking about meltzer. He knows nothing!!!!
How do you miss Kevin Nash with the blood drop gimmick? He's not a small target by no means.....DAMN