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Post by Bruinsfan on Jan 6, 2015 17:41:14 GMT -6
Unfortunately for Atlanta (fortunately for us), Ted Turner make a horrible business decision when he agreed to the AOL-Time Warner merger. If that merger had never happened, Turner would still be a billionaire, World Championship Wrestling would still exist, and the Thrashers would have probably won a Stanley Cup by now. However, the dolts who voted Turner out thought wrestling was too "low-brow" and cancelled it, and they did not care for hockey either. AOL time warner is the worst merger in history. AOL had a chance to be facebook whatsapp twitter and google all in one But instead they decided that Dial Up internet was the future over broadband, and then they decided to not fund AIM which at one point in time was the most used instant messenger in the country. Man I could go for years on AOLs stupidity |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2015 17:59:39 GMT -6
Embarrassing as it is to admit it now, I was really into wrestling from late 1997-2001. I still remember the Monday Night Wars, and the nWo, etc. And the AOL CEO cancelled the program, which was at the time, the highest rating cable program on TNT and TBS, because he though "wrestling was below him." That's just stupidity.
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Post by Bruinsfan on Jan 6, 2015 18:42:09 GMT -6
Embarrassing as it is to admit it now, I was really into wrestling from late 1997-2001. I still remember the Monday Night Wars, and the nWo, etc. And the AOL CEO cancelled the program, which was at the time, the highest rating cable program on TNT and TBS, because he though "wrestling was below him." That's just stupidity. To be fair the WCW had a lot of problems. They refused to book their young stars as champions (kevin nash and hogan refused to drop the strap), they pushed a guy who wasnt liked in the lockerroom in Goldberg, They missed a huge opportunity in Bret Hart coming over, and they lost benoit, Jericho and Guerrero who they developed on their own. Vince didnt need to compete for old stars...vince was 5 steps ahead of them in letting them develop young talent and then poaching the "young stars" not the old ones like WCW was used to doing. They ran it into the ground when in reality they were sitting on a gold mine |
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Post by calgaryflames on Jan 7, 2015 10:06:42 GMT -6
the ORIGINAL nWo was the greatest thing to happen to wrestling. I haven't watched wrestling since like 2003. crap product these days.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2015 10:53:58 GMT -6
the ORIGINAL nWo was the greatest thing to happen to wrestling. I haven't watched wrestling since like 2003. crap product these days. The last match I watched was Goldberg-Jericho in early 2003. I had heard on the internet about the infamous backstage fight between the two, where Jericho ended up more than holding his own against the much larger and muscular Goldberg. |
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Post by Bruinsfan on Jan 7, 2015 17:41:18 GMT -6
the ORIGINAL nWo was the greatest thing to happen to wrestling. I haven't watched wrestling since like 2003. crap product these days. The last match I watched was Goldberg-Jericho in early 2003. I had heard on the internet about the infamous backstage fight between the two, where Jericho ended up more than holding his own against the much larger and muscular Goldberg. Jericho trained in the hart dngeon...where they practiced under Shoot rules. Pro wrestling rules but a real fight....research ken shamrock in old shoot pancrase fights which is essentially the "rules of pro wrestling" without the planned outcomes or planned moves....thats what the hart dungeon was like. Im sure he could fight pretty well. |
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Post by Lions67 on Jan 7, 2015 21:41:27 GMT -6
so i thought this thread was about NHL in Atlanta?
instead we get rasslin.
UPN would love this lol
no matter though, keep talking about rasslin. there is more of a chance that Brett Hart comes back to win the WWE than it is for the NHL to come back to Atlanta anyway.
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Post by calgaryflames on Jan 8, 2015 11:07:37 GMT -6
so i thought this thread was about NHL in Atlanta? instead we get rasslin. UPN would love this lol no matter though, keep talking about rasslin. there is more of a chance that Brett Hart comes back to win the WWE than it is for the NHL to come back to Atlanta anyway.[/quote] THIS |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2015 11:20:14 GMT -6
so i thought this thread was about NHL in Atlanta? instead we get rasslin. UPN would love this lol no matter though, keep talking about rasslin. there is more of a chance that Brett Hart comes back to win the WWE than it is for the NHL to come back to Atlanta anyway.  |
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Post by maniaaron on Jan 11, 2015 19:47:26 GMT -6
Atlanta; sending top level hockey teams to western Canada since 1980
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Post by floatyghosthat on Jan 12, 2015 16:25:16 GMT -6
Atlanta; sending top level hockey teams to western Canada since 1980 Regina should be ready for a team in 5-10 years.  |
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Post by cheswick on Jan 16, 2015 13:18:13 GMT -6
Unfortunately for Atlanta (fortunately for us), Ted Turner make a horrible business decision when he agreed to the AOL-Time Warner merger. If that merger had never happened, Turner would still be a billionaire, World Championship Wrestling would still exist, and the Thrashers would have probably won a Stanley Cup by now. However, the dolts who voted Turner out thought wrestling was too "low-brow" and cancelled it, and they did not care for hockey either. AOL time warner is the worst merger in history. AOL had a chance to be facebook whatsapp twitter and google all in one But instead they decided that Dial Up internet was the future over broadband, and then they decided to not fund AIM which at one point in time was the most used instant messenger in the country. Man I could go for years on AOLs stupidity Mentions of AIM brings back memories. Everybody around here all used MSN messenger but the chicks you'd meet in chat room from the States used AIM. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 13:55:41 GMT -6
AOL time warner is the worst merger in history. AOL had a chance to be facebook whatsapp twitter and google all in one But instead they decided that Dial Up internet was the future over broadband, and then they decided to not fund AIM which at one point in time was the most used instant messenger in the country. Man I could go for years on AOLs stupidity Mentions of AIM brings back memories. Everybody around here all used MSN messenger but the chicks you'd meet in chat room from the States used AIM. I had a bad work accident in 2000, when I was in my early 20s. I was off work for almost a year, and I discovered MSN Winnipeg Chat Rooms. People actually would get together offline, and party. Met some pretty cool people, a couple of them I maintain contact with. |
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Post by IantheD on Jan 17, 2015 16:45:01 GMT -6
Thrashers were Atlanta's second chance and they failed. It will be a long time until they're name is even murmured in rumors.
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