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What is/was your best angle(s) ever?

Owen Hart RIPPosted on 06/24/04 at 19:52:25

Just wondering what your best angles/feuds of all time in TNM were.

My best angle would probably be one that went on for approx 1 year tnm time way back in 1998. The angle was called the eWo (extreme World order.) Basically what I did was I drew inspiration from the nWo and ECW's invasion of the old WWF.

It all started when Tazz (Then with one Z) came out to the surprise of the fans and give an interview that the fans would never forget. During the interview Tazz called out the "guys", and out came RVD, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer, Raven, and Shane Douglas. Over the next few weeks more ECW wrestlers and wrestlers who had wrestled for ECW at some point joined the stable.

Vince McMahon said that none of these men were under contract to the WWF and were all invaders, but in fact the only ones at the time that were not full-fleged WWF wrestlers were Shane Douglas and Tommy Dreamer. The height of the angle came on august 11, 1998 (TNM time) when Stone Cold Steve Austin shocked the fans and joined the group. In face the only wrestler that joined the group that was never part of ECW was Big Bossman, and they turned on him quicker than the Nation turned on Ahmed Johnson. Al Snow, Brian Pillman, and D-Lo Brown all were in the group (D-Lo wrestled a couple of dark matches for ECW prior to being in WWF which is a little known fact) Also in the group was Ron Simmons who did at one point wrestle for ECW. The End of the stable came when Shawn Michaels defeated RVD at WrestleMania for the World title, The match had a stipulation that if Michaels lost, then DX would have to split, but if the eWo lost, then they would have to split and return to ECW. RVD got counted out on purpose allowed HBK to take the title (title could change hands on a DQ/countout) and thus joining DX, ending the eWo angle! TAZZ, Raven, and Douglas also stayed in WWE to form their own stable known as Hardcore Revolution which never lasted long at all!

I can remember which is something I just forgot, that Mick Foley was offered several times to join the eWo but decided to fight in WWF's name, so basically he was the top face in WWF for some time. Although some eWo wrestlers (SCSA, RVD, and Sabu) were almost inadvertenly babyfaces anyway!
91Posted on 06/26/04 at 13:20:48

After much thought, I'm thinking the Team Matt angle that lasted a fair while.

Matt Hardy, having tricked his way into the commissionership after a brief feud with his brother, hired ("Haiku Reading") Jeff as his lackey who in turn got his buddy Paul Roma into the group (but not after Roma had to pay Matt to let him in and Roma got the money by placing a bet AGAINST Matt). Matt also grabbed the "1980's Representation" Tom Zenk and Jim Brunzell who promptly spoke like the ninja turtles and high fived on a regular basis whilst enjoying a cool can of Quatro.

The long term goal was to get Matt the title, which never happened, but he used his power to make himself the focal point of the show (including the infamous "Matt Hardy show" where an entire TV broadcast was scrapped in place of a show dedicated to him right down to a screwjob win over Chris Benoit). The big addition to the group was Shane Douglas who was only in the group to get himself the world title, and whom Matt had only hired to get him the world title. In any case, Shane hated everyone, cuing up much comedy mirth. :P

In any case, the group ran around like idiots for several months until Douglas managed to win the world title, before Matt tried to trick him into signing the title over to him, only to realise Douglas had outsmarted him ("Since when do you go by the name River Phoenix?"). Matt did the next best thing and booked himself against Douglas, only to promptly lose. Jeff was so unhappy that he got the rest of the group to turn on him and Matt got ditched.

Matt got his own back in due course after a Survivor Series match against "Team Jeff" (who had recruited a few more people for the match) by introducing his own team chock full of mystery entrants, who turned out to be Ken Mattera, El Mattador, Mattanka, The One Matt Gang and the Ultimatt Warrior. Matt was duly the sole survivor in that one.

The angle was more a success due to me writing up ridiculous segments where everyone (bar Douglas) was in one form or another a complete moron and me having a blast doing it. And isn't that what TNM is really all about...