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Post by LillaThrilla on Feb 4, 2011 9:59:36 GMT -5
How did US wrestling change during the 90s? I'm thinking WCW and WWF in particular. - PPVs became a monthly event. They had been every 2-3 months, often supplimented by things like SNME and Clash Of The Champions.
- Wrestling TV shows changed thanks to the Monday Night Wars. Flagship shows started caring about ratings (rather than just hyping PPVs and drawing people to house shows), went to 2 hour shows (instead of 1 hour), and started having some good/meaningful matches instead of being all squash matches.
- Fewer goofy gimmicks (plumbers, race car drivers, construction workers, monks) and more edgy gimmicks (nWo, Stone Cold, D-X).
- Cruiserweights became more accepted in major US wrestling organizations.
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Post by theimpalertmx on Feb 4, 2011 13:48:24 GMT -5
Well, there were more frequent title changes, but that was due to how the Monday Night Wars changed things as you said.
Another thing that ties to what you already said was a blurrier line between faces and heels. Edgy gimmicks brought a sense of ambiguity into that and it was not just faces vs. heels.
The only thing I can really think of that wasn't tied to what you already listed was having Triple Threat/Fatal 4 Way/etc. matches. Then again, maybe you credit that to raising the bar on what companies offered on PPV.
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Post by psz on Feb 4, 2011 15:51:21 GMT -5
The fact that there WAS a competition also made it so it wasn't taboo to refer to "the other guys".
Let's be honest, pre-Monday Night Wars, had the WWF *EVER* mentioned NWA, WCW, or AWA on regular TV? Rarely. Hell, they barely reference those NOW, and they own the rights to two out of three of them :-P
Now that WWE is the "only game in town", they never mention TNA. They never mention ROH. They refer to everything else quite bluntly as "The minor leagues".
Another thing that changed: The "Prime Time" main shows went from weekly recaps of house shows/other TV shows, to live (or semi-live) shows.
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Post by pulsar on Feb 5, 2011 2:23:32 GMT -5
I'd say throughout the nineties, wrestling became more racially diversified and equal. Prior to the nineties, a black man was normally a sterotype gimmick, and had very little success, especially outside of tag team wrestling, but in the 90's you saw the emergence of a few black stars like Booker T, The Rock, and to a lesser extent Ron Simmons, Ahmed Johnson, 2 Cold Scorpio, Jacqueline.
Then, the idea of international stars, the countless wrestlers who crossed over from Japan and Mexico.
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