BloodyChamp

I haven’t seen so many of these ???

We love this stuff, but this is 1 of those we would never choose to try and make somebody a fan lol! The 3 fat guys could barely stomp and then Lawler comes in and falls off the stage, for which the guy he missed punching bladed lol ooooouuuuuf!!!!!!

One of the best storyline driven matches ever, and they only built it for 30 minutes. This is better than some matches that were built up for a year. Best Ted Dibiase match? Best Ric Flair match in a regional promotion? I remember it not being ranked as the best Mid South match here but it was in the top 10 I think.

That is 1 of the best crimson masks. At the end his face is dark red, and where his beard is mixed with blood is even darker somehow. In the deathmatch thread I mentioned that this match is now underrated because it was the first match many people got ahold of as bloodthirsty adolescences just to see violence and got mad at because it didn’t involve a busted jugular or a being strangled with barbed wire. Great match though, great action and great things all around for all the reason you mentioned. The Cactus Jack vs Ohno match is also very good.

So freaking great. I haven’t looked it up in a while but every time I have everybody has stuck to kayfabe on this one. Love it. I can’t believe this idea wasn’t stolen by others. Did anybody first see this as a youngun like I did most of the bloodiest stuff I ever saw back then?

Lies. You were listening to Under the Blade by Twisted Sister. I love that match. I can’t believe the Headhunters never caught on anywhere else.

Ooooooooooooo I get it. We’re doing the coolest actual crimson mask. In that case my first match belongs, as that’s the coolest one that I know of that the MAT wore lol! Not counting the unknown match from the AWA DVD set of course. Here’s another token pick similar to Cactus’ match. Any list like this isn’t complete without this guy on it. Ric Flair. This is not the greatest mask but it’s still a good one, and it was many fans our age’s first good look at 1 in master tape quality, plus they got to rewind it over and over again. Also there was the green crimson mask that probably made Kevin Sullivan and The Undertaker jealous because it looked scary af.

I hope it’s ok to post a match from this territory. As I’ve said before I’ve never seen anything from it that I didn’t like, and I’ve been able to compartmentalize in my head separate from the Brody tragedy. What it lacked in technical mat wrestling it made up for in entertainment, but all oldschool entertainment. Cool gimmicks, scary masks, and crowds like 1984 Mid-Atlantic on steroids. And this lol! I like this color guy keeping it real, talking about the MONEY nonstop but it’s dubbed commentary. I wish the live version existed somewhere.

Such a good match. I’ll wait to see which direction this thread goes before I choose mine. That was 1 of the guys WCW thought wasn’t as good as Nash or Hogan if you remember. ? ??

Idk what the first few minutes of this is... But as for the match, am I on crack or were the fans going OOOOOHHHHH for every punch Larry threw in this match? Fans didn’t do that unless they were all in, like territory guys coming back vs Flair on territorial TV in. Imagine a time when the 2nd most 40 year old history teacherest wrestler in the world was that over in a ring against Paul Heyman and SCSA.

It was that even before things went to shit. I had a great childhood. Good parents. Good grandparents. Just a freaking good life. But even back then wrestling was an hour long fantasy trip to another world somehow. That was the best part.

The thread will do well here amongst us adult wrestling fans. Anywhere else though forget it. The scales of social media justice only go 1 way no matter what’s on 1 side and what’s on the other.

Florida is 1 of the hardest things to find stuff from, but my old man used to go to all of their shows so he would always chuckle at Kevin Sullivan and mark out but pretend he wasn’t at Dusty Rhodes. On top of that as senile as he was, Crimson Mask from Wrestling Classics was a Florida vault. His mind was to Florida what Jim Cornette’s is to Memphis. I’m assuming he has passed but that where I always found Florida information.

In Florida?

Wow what an infamous show that ended up being. All they had to do was show the dang replay lol! But it was probably so sad in that building that night that they decided not to.

I agree that Bobby was pretty good on the mic. I read somewhere that the Midnight Express of course had Jim had their talker, but for no bad reason. Managers just did the talking. Then they did a classic manager is talking and wrestler snatches the mic from him mad heel promo somewhere and he messed it up, so he never talked again. I don’t know how true that is and I haven’t found the promo either. Jim Cornette managing a champion wow how great would that have been. He’s 1 of my favorites as I’ve said many times. I know he managed Yoko but that wasn’t the same. So does anybody have the Bobby Eaton face turn or am I mistaken and they just piped in chants? They did that back then? Lol! As for the heel turn that match jogged my memory. I don’t remember seeing the whole match but I remember seeing Dustin mad at getting tagged, getting beat up then the shoulder breaker now. I’m guessing I saw clips in the following weeks or on whatever else was on that weekend. Maybe that Worldwide was preempted by baseball or something.

I clearly remember Bobby over as a face big time, down to the commentary JR did when he was walking the aisle at Superbrawl. He talked about how he’s the 1 man with no manager, no partner, no stable etc coming to fight. This came after weeks of TV where he was basically the temporary Tommy Rich who had became Thomas Rich. What I mean by that is that he was the good guy in the B TV main events lol! And it was extra fun because he actually won matches. I also remember him winning that Superbrawl match being a mark out moment but that might have been because that was the first time I’d ever seen Arn lose that belt, after all the times I’d seen him cheat to keep it. I’ll also confess to that match not being very good upon rewatching but that really doesn’t matter. I clearly remember all of that like I clearly remember everything else I watched as a youngun. The problem I have recalling things is different - I only had broadcast TV. No WCWSN or COTC except for tapes my Uncle sometimes made. That Superbrawl was actually my first ppv that my father arranged for me to watch at our friend’s house. I also remember him losing the belt to Steve Austin on regular TV and being VERY upset, so there had to be atleast a window of time between the belt and the turn. But I can’t say that I remember it. So anyway I don’t remember the face turn or the heel turn. I just assumed they both happened somewhere just as Ricky Morton’s did when his tag team abruptly ended similarly.

LOL Virgil. He was a good worker I thought when he was young in Memphis. I also recently learned he was a good amateur. I guess he mailed it in after being in the WWF so long. The NWO B team could have worked imo, similar to how all the TV shows with more characters than others work when done right. It was so poorly done though and worse so obviously thrown together just because those guys sucked so bad. I actually remember a low point in 1998 or 99. Virgil hadn’t wrestled since his WCWSN main event match against DDP in 1997 I think, and he comes out for the token Goldberg squash on Nitro. And he he never wrestled again to my knowledge (granted I abandoned ship in mid99 and I do remember reading he got a new gimmick...maybe he wrestled with it). If there was ever a moment that gave away exactly what they didn’t want to give away. Goldberg vs Virgil basically spelled out that this guy in the top group is expendable, which is why he’s in the B team, but we can’t give away that it’s a B team so we didn’t pick anybody else. And as for Goldberg you already know what we’re doing with him. Stay tuned for Bobby Blaze next week.

Pretty freaking good stuff there. The HBK IYH promo would have been epic because they would have done it right. “Stick it” was just fucking weak. I know they were still working within the confines of many things but that really keeps that from being perhaps best complete heel turn of all time imo. And they kept repeating it for the next 3 years like it was their equivalent to Austin 3:16 or something. Ugh...

I just read that when the One Man Gang came back to WCW, Kevin Sullivan did a ritual to kill Akeem the African Dream and awaken the real One Man Gang. Does anybody remember this or have a link?

He didn’t look like he was in that bad a shape for a guy his size. I’m surprised he wasn’t in the Job to Goldberg once a month and never wrestle anybody else club a little later.

Not bad work there by Tim Horner and Black Bart lol! I remember Disco Inferno’s first win came against Bart on WCWSN. I don’t remember him making any other appearances and I had to Google Star Blazer tbh. At about 3:47...they got real like that all the time on WCW prime. I mentioned it earlier in reference to the historical references they often made! I bet they would have gotten in trouble for it had anybody bothered to review those shows lol!

How did this not turn The Skyscrapers into good guys lol https://youtu.be/26ykX9kyMc4

ROFL I also had GLOW in the wrestling block I forgot. I did watch Velocity somewhere for months late at night. It was perfect turn off your brain TV for me at the time with some good wrestling mixed in.

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