Episode 130: Declassified: August 3, 1996
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A HUGE weekend in pro wrestling for all three companies back in early August 1996. The WWF was preparing for Summer Slam with a main event of Shawn Michaels vs. Vader, WCW was in the beginning stages of nWo takeover mode and ECW was slowly changing the game one show at a time from the bingo hall in South Philly. This week we look at the WWF House Show loop through Canada, WCW's Texas shows and a memorable Monday Nitro from MGM Studios and ECW's The Doctor is In. What a time to be a wrestling fan!
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Let's get it going right here. Right now. This is the new rebranded, Declassified. |
| 0:14.1 | If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad. And we're going to take a journey back in time. |
| 0:18.5 | And we're going to look at August 3rd, 1996, |
| 0:23.1 | and a couple of surrounding days. |
| 0:25.0 | We're going to be generous with a few of the days surrounding August 3rd, 1996, looking at all three promotions from the mid-90s. |
| 0:33.5 | We're going to look at the WWF, what were doing, WCW what they were doing. |
| 0:38.1 | And of course, ECW, who is the catalyst for this episode. |
| 0:42.7 | As I finished the recording with Yuzi last week, and we were talking about November to remember 96, |
| 0:48.3 | got me thinking about the BWO, it got me thinking about how the VWO was so counter. |
| 0:53.4 | What was going on at the time, taking a couple big shots at the NWO who were so big and so massive at that point in 96 that they were seemingly untouchable and they were parodied pretty damn easily. |
| 1:08.1 | And it all goes back to basically the first parody that the BWO did as the unofficial |
| 1:12.5 | group BWO and we go back to look at that and we'll cover it in a couple minutes here |
| 1:17.6 | declassified like I mentioned about two weeks ago I'm going to expand the universe a little bit |
| 1:24.3 | it's getting tougher to just cover one singular topic in the new |
| 1:29.5 | generation world. And I'm not saying we won't. I'm not saying I won't be specific to certain |
| 1:35.2 | new generation era personalities or events or shows. But it's just going to be a little easier |
| 1:42.3 | for digestion purposes to look at some of the other things going around the wrestling world in 96 because it kind of sets the tone for what was going on in the WWF. |
| 1:53.0 | And sticking with this 1996 year, it's almost fitting because we looked at how the WWF was on the rise with November over the last few weeks, |
| 2:02.3 | the last couple shows, last week with Hughesy specifically. |
| 2:05.3 | But going back to August, only a few months before, man, this company looks a lot different, |
| 2:10.9 | and it looked like they were really grasping at straws as it related to some of their |
| 2:16.4 | booking decisions that they had, especially on the |
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