10 Early Internet Wrestling Outrages

7. WCW Monday Night RAW

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We didn't merely hover around specific wrestling message boards to unleash our rage; in the course of researching this article, your writer happened upon an old Star Wars board with a pro wrestling sub-thread.

There, a user named 'Darth Pipes' foretold of a prophesy on July 10, 2001. Had this come to pass, much like 'Anakin Skywalker is the Chosen One', this development would not have balanced the North American wrestling universe - but would have d*mn near destroyed it.

"I hear WCW is getting the RAW time slot. I hope this isn't going to happen. It will literally kill the WWF."

While Messr. Pipes wasn't au fait with the concept of monopoly in business, his incredulity was shared by us all. This mooted development, one that mercifully didn't happen - thank you, Buff Bagwell, for bumping two feet away from a Booker T dropkick - was among the strangest and dumbest ideas to have ever spewed forth from the mind of Vince McMahon, and this is a white man who once dropped the 'N' bomb on live television.

Buff Bagwell is a lot like Anakin Skywalker, come to think of it; a jumped-up little sh*t with temperament issues, he, too, ruined the idea of a harmonious world of balance, thus allowing the Federation to strangle every last resource.

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