Bruce Prichard discusses Shawn Michaels "sunny days" promo and the tension it caused backstage. FULL SHOW: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1AnoBjd4x8E.html #bruceprichard #somethingtowrestle #shawnmichaels #brethart
I'm glad to hear someone discuss the TV ratings issue from a different standpoint for once. I was a teenager watching Raw and Nitro back in the '90s, and as Bruce said here, I didn't even think about the ratings, let alone care about them. Before I started getting wrestling magazines, I didn't concern myself with any of the behind-the-scenes business aspects of wrestling, I just wanted something fun to watch. Although the Monday Night Wars era was cool to witness at the time, in hindsight I think a lot of the stuff that didn't work so well - especially towards the end of that period - was due to WWF and WCW obsessing a little too much on beating the other in the ratings that week, rather than just building up good storylines for the long run. Of course, I'm sure a lot of good stuff also came out of that desperation to win, but I think it's worth noting that the weekly ratings probably meant a heck of a lot more to those running the show than to most of those watching, and maybe that stuff should have been kept from becoming a semi-shoot on-screen storyline.
I always preferred bret to shawn. His matches were more believable imo . Shawn was a better promo but brets matches were great! Bret was way ahead of his time imo
Both men were as bad as each other although Shawn didn’t try to hide it like Bret did as Bret was obsessed with being a leader to ‘the boys’ as he always went on about In regards to Shawn not drawing as champion in 1996 the reality is NO ONE was going to beat WCW in the ratings from the minute Scott Hall showed up on Nitro, the whole ‘who’s the third man’ and ‘WCW/NWO’ storyline is one of the biggest the industry has EVER seen. What Shawn did manage to do was boost house show numbers as house show numbers were the highest in some time and that went up again in 1997 with Shawn as champion at the end of the year although by then Austin, Bret, Undertaker, Kane coming in storyline, The Nation/Rock and the origins of ‘attitude’ all on screen meant WWF were turning the tide against WCW on screen whilst doing better house show numbers.
Shawn did his great promos from when he was with Sherri - first retirement, he was close to having it all (the only flaw is he couldn't draw) but still, light years ahead of Bret
3:00 not everyone is like that but athletes brag about that stuff all the time….it’s like rappers who brag about how many more albums they sold than the other guy. It’s obnoxious but that’s a byproduct of capitalism
Don’t understand how marks act like Shawn is so much greater than Bret. All those new generation boys , Bret, Shawn, Undertaker, Yokozuna, Diesel, none of them drew. Austin had to save the day
More people say Bret is better than Shawn, but I think Shawn was better because he was a better talent overall. He had more memorable moments in his career, even before his comeback. It all has to do with personal taste but I think Shawn fit the entertainment side more. Like you said, no one was drawing in that era. But that’s like saying Roman Reigns and John Cena weren’t draws because the company was down at their time as well. If the overall product sucks, no one is going to watch it.
@@Christopherjazzcat same here. Both were kinda 1a and 1b to me back then. I didn't really like either ( I was a Razor fan during the new generatioin). Bret was more solid with his moves, shawns moves always looked like a sissy threw them to me. Both held up things as best as they could within the confines of Vince's booking. Bret had considerably better matches with Austin than did Shawn. I never cared for HBK until he came back in 02 and had that run.
@@deebo1103 I live in Australia. In the 80s wrestling was on TV (the occasional big match) but by the early 90s we didn't get anything. At some point around 98/99 a 1 hour version of Nitro and a clip show of Raw started to air really late at night, it was difficult to find. I imagine similar to ECW in the US. That is all to say that I didn't get to see the New Generation era or early Nitro stuff until after the fact. But I watched Shawn's comeback as it happened. It's really hard to compare when you're viewing it like that. I had to tape trade to get old PPVs from the 90s as few were available to buy and almost nobody out here cared about wrestling. I've still got several massive boxes of VHS tapes I tracked down in the early 2000s. It was only when compilation DVDs came out that I got to see much of Bret's early work. So yeah, I was never in the thick of the rivalry as it happened. Now, get me talking about 2000s/2010s ROH and I'll rant forever about who is better and why.
That’s kind of a dumb take from Bruce. Out of touch. The viewers did care about things like ratings and what was going on behind the scenes, otherwise there’d have been far less interest in the Monday Night Wars, or in dirt sheets. The blurred lines between reality and fiction was EVERYTHING for a lot of the diehards. And… There wouldn’t be more interest in wrestling podcasts about old wrestling behind the scenes stories now than there is interest in actually watching wrestling.
@@TL2354 - well he covered for vince mchamhon's rape and sexual assault for decades ...... and he covered up pat patterson's sexual abuse and harassment. for starters not sure how you can trust a guy who thought all this stuff was cool and funny
Like some girl married the blob! Whenever I'm having a bad day I just think about this and know that there's somebody doing worse 😅 must be tough having that muffin man on top of you 😂😂😂
It ALWAYS takes two to tango. Shawn definitely was in the wrong but like you said, Bret wasn't exactly a saint either. And at least Shawn has ADMITTED afterwards what a dick he was, while Bret STILL holds a grudge.
I loved Shawn but he wasnt the issue. The storylines were not very interesting. No one cared for what "creative" had going on in the WWE. WCW was going to be number 1 regardless.
