oh my god
HLA is back in the WWE
I went to a live Thunder then they taped the next week's Thunder right before the ppv after Goldberg lost when he was going to wrestle Scott Hall.
Scott Hall spoiled the whole thing in a promo
I completely understand the logic of recording multiple shows in one night for economic reasons. But I never understood the logic of recording so far in advance. What happens when you book shows 2 months in advance, but by the time you get to the big show at the end of those 2 months, you have guys who are hurt or fired and throw everything out of whack? Let's say it is June and you have the Steiners win the tag titles on a show that won't air until sometime in August, but the Steiners leave for the WWF in July. What do you do? Do you keep those shows and angle and drop it after it airs? Do you have the Steiners on your TV winning the titles and making your fans think they'll be at house shows when they're on WWF TV? Do you scrap them and tape new shows? Do you cut the shows up and add in a new match? Do you just have a voice over saying it was taped in advance and they are no longer with the company? I swear WCW had this come up multiple times because they used to tape shows stupidly far in advance. Like they'd be taping shows for the lead up to Halloween Havoc before the Great American Bash.
I went to a Raw taping in 1997 that was the 3 weeks of Raw, Superstars, and Shotgun. It was brutal.
I think WCW once had an issue come up with the tag titles, so they aired a 2 year old match between someone (I'm thinking it involved the Rock N Roll Express) and said it was a title match, despite it A. Being 2 years old and previously aired on TV and B. Not having the titles anywhere in sight.