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Friday Evening Discussion & Live Watch Thread!

9 years ago
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Hey all! It is Friday night and the mood is right… oh what a night! Baseball is back with some big series getting under way. We can talk that, wrestling or whatever else!

Plus… at 9:15PM ET, we dive into our weekly Friday group Live Watch… this week’s show is Fully Loaded 2000. Be sure to come join in the discussion and fun!

364 thoughts on “Friday Evening Discussion & Live Watch Thread!”

  4. This is my first live watch. Do we start it on our own at 9:15 or is there a countdown?

      1. Thank you. I’m looking forward to a relaxing watch of a show I never saw.

          1. Anything Jericho is is quality. He is incredibly high on my list so far. Cracks the top 20.

    1. Ready. I’m at the :30 mark on the old school signature at the start of the show

  12. “What you are about to watch features that guy we don’t mention anymore. Oh and the King guy on commentary screams about puppies a lot.”

        1. Trying to figure it out, I’m paused right at the end of the opening video

        1. we’ll synch up on a time stamp when he’s back. Good group here, let’s do it together

  20. This was Trish still learning the ropes along with Lita…crazy how they both end up being main eventing Raw in 4 years

    1. I know I could look it up but when did lita join the Hardy’s? At backlash she was still with essa rios.

        1. Figured it was around then just couldn’t remember off the top of my head.

    1. Something that i noticed going through 2000…crowds were always smoking hot

  34. Six-person tags are always great for show openings. Lots of action to get the crowd pumped.

      1. 17 years later one team was just tag champs a month ago, one guy is the head trainer at nxt, and the two ladies are both hall of famers.

    2. They really put her over strong during this time…just a cool chick that can do high flying and can connect to the crowd without saying much

  36. Women are legal to fight men in this match? I just saw the Lita Hurricanrana

          1. Ah, figured it would be too much for him to jump into a random 2000 PPV at this point.

          3. Listened to half of it earlier today while I was driving, I’ll finish it tomorrow on the way to work.

          5. Well I love the series. Hearing someone react to classic wrestling with fresh eyes is great.

    2. Didn’t watch intently to the Attitude era. Hardcore fan from 84-96, didn’t come back full time until 2010. I have some serious blind spots that hurt me, but Ill work through it.

  37. Lita and Trish seemed to be the only two women who could get exploitive chants like “We Want Puppies” and yet still have the crowd fully invested in their in ring work as well.

  38. Love that opener… crowd was super invested and everyone worked their asses off. Really fluid. This was around when Trish took her first step in her evolution.

    ***1/2

  39. LazyTaker arriving after the show starts, someone take him to Wrestler’s Court!

  40. Haircut was a good look on Mick..needed to get away a bit from the shaggy look when he became commish

      1. I thought after his involvement later he would get pushed into an IC title feud, but sadly no.

  42. JR describing Tazz: He’s thick, strong and as great balance.

    Translation: He’s short.

  46. That was better than I expected… they never really slowed up and again the crowd was into it. Good finish too. **

  48. Tazz and Scott steiner both had big debuts at msg that the crowd went crazy for but both ended up disappointments

  53. Damnitt Hunter, when your woman gets mysterious flowers, you don’t cop to not sending them!

  54. See, Eddie probably stole those roses backstage, but Mamacita does not know that!

    1. I maintain that he would have been a bigger star if he didn’t have such an ugly face. Great body, really good worker, solid size. Ugly AF.

        1. It was out there that he was scratched, who knows this time of year getting close to the trade
          deadline

  62. Odd that Eddie is wrestling with the shirt on, I wonder if he had taped ribs or was off the gas at the time.

  63. It is amazing how sustained the sound is on this show… so much energy from everyone: the wrestlers, the crowd, the announcers, everything.

  64. Eddie did all the little things right. Something you see today from Kevin Owens and Samoa Joe.

      1. Outside stuff too, like bringing Chyna to his corner just to give her a kiss on the hand. Great character moment.

  71. Saturn has a great top rope elbow… big upset there. Fun match though, good chemistry for sure and both guys do the little things well. **3/4

  75. I’m glad wrestling isn’t so trashy anymore. That Terri looked like three bucks.

  84. I was glad they had E&C go through some other teams in between Mania and SS gimmick matches. DX, Too Cool, APA… was good to see them vary it up.

    1. Yeah you didn’t want to burn the fans out on them going against dudleys and hardys all the time

        1. Simple, don’t let yourself get bullied. I don’t care who it is.

          I’m not tough guy at all, but I would make him go through the effort of kicking my ass. It would happen, but I wouldn’t let him off easy.

  93. I would gladly show Boss Man my ID, of course at the time of this show I would have been a week away from 21 soooo.

  96. Will and the guys talked about this match on the last episode of for your consideration so I’m glad we are watching it now

  97. I take it Kid Rock is edited on the PPV too. It is on the Raws and Smackdowns.

    1. The Hall of Fame is a nice touch; a great way to honor past performers, but everyone gets in.

    1. Think you called it porno club music or something to that effect on the FL Vault pod lol

      1. I feel the same but I’ll give them both a little more look for that bottom 15 or so

        1. I’ll accept anyone’s list, my thing is just be ready to justify it. Val Venus would be tough to justify.

          1. I have a good idea on my top 30 I’m having a harder time with my bottom 30 and then the middle I have a good group. My list changes a little everyday when I see a random match or listen to a pod. It’s a fun project though.

  103. Liking this match/feud, but I cannot buy Val as a legit serious heel character. The change is too abrupt.

    1. He was still prime King here…face turn later on made him lose his mojo then he stopped giving a shit

  111. I feel like there’s an expression of sexual jubilation incoming for Lita and Trish

    1. I’d be curious what the last one they did around that time was. I thought the stip had been gone for a long time until Punk/Umaga

  116. Damn came back to “show 194 new comments” – nice work guys.

    Right in time for Rikishi’s big splash

    2. Flat finish, totally forgot he wins off the camera shot. Did like how Tazz opened the door while hiding for him.

      1. Yeah, that intentional walk shaved off 20 seconds of the 3 and half hour running time.

      1. Couple infield hits, an error and a walk-off walk. Gift wrapped by the Yankees, really.

  121. Ugh, Kurt was not going to begiven anything to work with by Undertaker in this era.

  125. So quick note on this show, i remember watching my cousin’s tape of it later that summer. When i started collecting, i got a MINT VHS version of this show since, of course, it wasn’t on DVD and everything had the WWF scrubbed out. So i wonder an authentic version…which is now in a box in my attic.

  126. Braves with a nice comeback win over the Diamondbacks to start the 2nd half.

      1. Jesus how fake was that big wrench. Surprised it didnt’ make a THQ game as a weapon you could pull out of the crowd

        1. Security was awful in thq arena they let the fans bring in all sorts of weapons

  130. I did like the build to Taker/Angle. Especially the night Kurt brings out the scooter.

    1. All that wrench-to-knee work disappears.

      Taker pulling him up on a count off a regular move is sooooo bad

        1. At least in the long run it didn’t kill angle, he’s in the main event at summerslam and wins the title in October. Doesn’t excuse this crap.

          2. Think they may have realized they fucked up here and were careful with him rest of the year hence SS and winning the title

    2. The crowd is really behind seeing Taker get his revenge for all of Angle’s shenanigans.

      Man Angle really doesn’t even get a hope spot in here.

  134. Fuck this match. * for Kurt trying to make something happen… Taker picking him up earlier in the match and then pinning him clean anyway was a huge slap to the dick.

    1. What was the deal here did taker have creative control and not want to put him over?

      1. No clue… I am guessing it was to establish Taker as a challenger to Kurt after he wins the title but Taker didn’t need the win in any way. It was dumb, especially since it was basically a squash.

        1. I’m not surprised at the booking of Taker going over given his status with the company and where he was inserted coming back. But whoever agented this match is terrible.

          3. I’m really surprised after watching Angle’s WWE 24, with how close Vince was to his rise, that this went down as it did. A one-off in his push.

  136. As big of a Taker fan as I am i would like to know what was going on with him at this point.

      1. Thanks – was an hour late as i”m on dad duty with a 3 month old, but now get her laying on the ground and working on the guitar and fully loaded. Pretty good night. {I’m not a fan of triple H, but I feel like time to play the game just is so much better. This one just has too many words in it and just bland to his other themes}

  142. This LMS match is before they ran the stip into the ground years later so very interested to see how it’s laid out.

    2. As of 2009 they just slowed each match to a crawl and did counts off regular moves – which is a-w-f-u-l

    3. HHH bumping face first off a shoulder to the gut through the ropes is fantastic.

    4. Like the rib work and I love a good irish whip into an abdominal stretch (not being snarky)

    7. Hunter’s disgust over the pedigree not getting the 10 count really gets the match and Jericho over

    8. Low blow -> chair shot -> Jericho still selling on offense and taking it to HHH

  143. Forgot how good the HHH/Y2J Feud was leading in till i watched the lead up again.

  149. Terrific finish booking-wise. Table spot looked rougher than i remembered (poor HHH’s knee essentially took the brunt to break it).

    1. Loved everything they did count-wise there. Terrific match still 17 years later. ****1/4

  150. The babyface being strapped by a DQ stip where he loses the title on a DQ is the WORST. They came up with plenty of tricks to get people thinking Benoit would win the belt

      1. Yeah they didn’t over do it in the match, only played into the first false finish. Much better and different than Orton/HHH at Mania

    1. This was it for a while though…doesn’t go near the world title again til the build for XX

      2. He’s in the 4 Way at Unforgiven plus gets a rematch with Rock before Summerslam.

    2. I nodded off here, but i remember this match getting buzz about Rock transitioning into a super worker since he kept up with Benoit (allegedly)

  158. I like Shane “nah don’t worry he’s prob out here for some other reason you’re still the champ”

  159. Do you think they could have had Benoit win the title here and then have a rematch at summerslam and rock wins it back and he still drops it to angle at no mercy. You could have had triple h vs angle at summerslam as well or would that have been a waste of benoits first title reign

    1. Rock had just won the Title back the month before and they were already doing the flip flopping with him & HHH.

  160. Benoit is really strong in that main event. I like that after the restart, you’d think the Rock would just clean up and get the win, but it’s Benoit really putting the heat on him again – and it’s a snap Rock Bottom which finishes. Shane is a really good second here too.

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