I'm glad I was not the only one thinking like that.
Watching these matches now gives a lot more satisfaction because you can just look at the quality and effort put in but watching it at the time, which you'd think would be better as they are in context of what is happening at the time but actually lose a lot from that fact!
I look at it now and say, oh World championship match but at the time I viewed this belt as secondary to even the US belt!
How fucked up is that!
Both WWF and WCW at the time were in a bad state and that was down to thoughtless booking and not enough elevation.....which as you say Grimm is even worse now and could easily be avoided if there were learn from history!
The lack of development of feuds outside of championships, really hurt the business, the last feuds of remember that really really had me more excited that championships were Jake Robert/Rick Rude & Jake Roberts/Ted Dibiase, there are more but these come to mind straight away for me. White fucking hot and not a belt in sight.
It was as if they were both(WWF & WCW) waiting for something to happen, not quite what but hoping it would land on their laps..., and then WCW signs Huckster! It took a while but WCW eventually found it's niche and the WWF had to catch up!
I remember in the early 90s, I always hoped WCW would have developed a better relationship with IWGP and ahve more intercompany events! I remember seeing a brilliant squash match at the Egg Dome featuring Big Van Vader and Bam Bam Bigelow against Doom! Sting teamed with Muta to beat the Steiners!
