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Okay Dusty commentated both Braun TV matches. Braun seems like should have been on Prime every week

yeah there's another Braun match on YouTube but as a general rule, Dusty should have called every Braun The Leprechaun match, even if the matches happened on shows he didn't work on, he should just show up suddenly to commentate for the jacked up on Mountain Dew Leprechaun Kevin Sullivan having a Leprechaun is certainly an idea they did a few times

A lot of the time, WCW announcers talking about main event angles during C Shows was a bit much but this time, they were right, the NWO never tried to beat down Braun the Leprechaun

Take your pick on the weird part of this video 1) WWF Tony Schiavone (he’s on Challenge with Gorilla until WM6) 2) George South working a WWF squash or

Let me take a look as Clash Of The Champions 24 (August 18th, 1993) since I just watched an August 1993 WCW episode the other day. Sting and Flair vs the Kongs! The Blonds vs Anderson/Roma! Vader vs Davey Boy Smith! Boy what else could happen. We're in Daytona Beach, the same building that hosted the Hulk Hogan heel turn 3 years later Flyin Brian is injured and since the TV showing the title change is already recorded, he will be replaced by Lord Steven Regal. We open with Arn and Roma vs Steve Austin and Steven Regal: Roma looks so out of place in this group. Even in a situation where they corralled Steven Regal to team with Steve Austin for a night. Nice that Bill Dundee got to see this momentous occasion. Jesse keeps saying shyster lawyers because, yeah. Not sure how many heels were available on short notice but Regal is probably as good as you can get for this situation. Got some fun teasing of the WCW Over the Top Rope DQ rule. Fun match for a bit. Arn gets the hot tag, Steve Austin gets kicked into Sir William and Arn pins him with a schoolboy to win the titles. Jesse is outraged that Arn held the tights on the winning pinfall. Arn and Roma talk to Eric Bischoff postmatch and say very similar things with Arn doing it better. Next up, Bobby Eaton vs Too Cold Scorpio: Bobby Eaton replaces Steven Regal in this match (well, I guess Austin wouldn't want to team with Arn Anderson's best friend Bobby Eaton in a tag team title match). In a sense, not the first time that Regal and Eaton would do business with each other. The very southern looking head of Hawaiian Tropic is in the arena tonight. Two women in Hooters outfits go up the stairs in the background. Bobby hits a swinging backbreaker and top rope elbow. Scorpio wins with the 450. Or as Tony describes it "the 360 from the top" (uh, Tony). Maxx Payne vs Johnny B. Badd, "Norma Jean" (Guitar) vs Mask: Maxx Payne sneak attacks Johnny before the Baddblaster routine. Maxx Payne pulls off a mask only for there to be another mask underneath. Upon seeing how large Maxx is next to Johnny, I'd think that a Billed At 6'6" Maxx Payne would have looked huge in 1996 ECW. Johnny gets the pin after Maxx misses a splash off the top. Johnny B. Badd gets the guitar and he pledges to unmask himself in 3 days on Saturday Night. I believe that's the equivalent of winning Hair vs Hair and then getting your haircut just to spite the other guy. Welcome To A Flair For The Gold with Sting, Davey Boy, and a mystery guest. Oh this should go great. Ric Flair marrying his on-screen maid like 25 years later is amazing foreshadowing. This set looks like a morning talk show set like I'm expecting Regis to show up. Sid, Colonel Parker, and Harlem Heat show up and Sid yells at our heroes. And you know exactly what happens here. Sid yells some more until the Ole voice starts up. Just imagine, there's a non-insignificant number of people who saw the Shockmaster and Hulk Hogan's heel turn in person. Just imagine, the Shockmaster is the 3rd member of the nWo, here to get his revenge on WCW for placing that 2x4 in his way in August 1993. And that's it, segment over. Great use of time. Not sure how much money was lit aflame by fucking that up because let's be honest, the Shockmaster is pretty lame even if they did the intro right. Surprising how early this segment was in the show considering it's the main thing people remember from Clash 23. Ricky Steamboat vs Paul Orndorff for the TV title: A main event in any WWF arena in 1986-87 (not a diss). Why yes, one guy gets heel heat with Paula chants and the the hero is named Ricky. They're using Buffer for the TV title match. They must be getting an amazing rate for Buffer in 1993 to use him in multiple matches. They dim the lights and use a spotlight to denote that this is impor-tantttt (or the lights are failing in part of the arena). To be honest, they should dim the lights more often these days so that we don't see so many of the bored looking people who are probably not bored. Sting faces Ric Flair for the NWA title this Saturday (they team with each other tonight). There's sort of a weird comfort food thing with me and Orndorff since when I got into wrestling in 1997, I would check out stuff from the video store which would include 80s WWF that included no shortage of heel Orndorff including the cage match with Hogan. Nice near falls where Orndorff puts his feet on the ropes, gets tapped on the back, thinks he's won, and Jesse gives him the TV title belt. The tide turns there to Ricky and Ricky Steamboat wins the TV title by reversing a backbreaker into a cradle (not quite the Wrestlemania 3 finish but). Orndorff attacks Steamboat postmatch and piledrives him on the TV title on the ramp. Fall Brawl! September 19th! From Houston. War Games: Sting, Davey Boy, and Dustin Rhodes vs Sid, Harlem Heat, and Vader. Eric Bischoff interviews Harley Race with the Kongs. Sting and Ric Flair vs the Colossal Kongs: They got Buffer to do the introductions for the match? The Kongs are from the "unexplored confines of South Africa" and this is before someone told them to stop billing one of the Kongs as "King Kong". Buffer is describing Sting and Flair as "professional wrestling champions of the world" which is one way to put it. Sting slams both fat boys quickly. The fans are hot for this. Stinger splash to Awesome Kong and a top rope splash. As far as random goons go, the Kongs were basically the Putty Patrol for Sting and Flair. Postmatch Sting and Flair promo to tell us that hey we're doing a Sting vs Flair NWA title match on Saturday Night. Rick Rude and the Equalizer vs Dustin Rhodes and a mystery partner: Rick Rude tells the Daytona dirtbags to keep their mouths shut as he removes his robe. The mystery partner makes his entrance in the Camaro that some fan will win and it's Road Warrior Animal. Rick Rude prepared for Animal though, but Rick Rude doesn't know that Animal's drawing Lloyd's of London and that the partner is actually Road Warrior Hawk. Nice to see that Dustin isn't still mad about the Road Warriors spiking his dad in the eye in 88. Anyways, this was the tease from the Saturday Night episode that I watched. Equalizer fucked up being put into a reverse neckbreaker to avoid it. Dustin pins Equalizer after Equalizer lifts Dustin for a slam and Hawk knocked Dustin on top of Equalizer in a match that I used Duolingo during. Keep your pen and paper handy to get the information to win that Camaro that smells like Road Warrior Animal. The Camaro is a Z-28, for the record. The call only costs $1.49. What an amazing scam. Or mail Omaha, Nebraska. So much B-Roll of a Camaro. Make a little road warrior history. Davey Boy Smith vs Vader for the WCW Title: Tony assures us that you can hear about the Camaro giveaway on WCW TV until September 12th. The DQ rule is waived, if Vader is disqualified, he loses the title. We got a fight on the outside to start and Vader takes off the mask early. Vader takes a suplex on the ramp. Pretty good match because this is 1993 Vader and Davey can go and be British Sting in the Vader formula. Davey Boy powerslam with a ref bump of course. Harley clips the knee and Vader lands on top to retain. And Cactus Jack has returned to attack Vader and we'reouttatimefanscyaonsaturdaynight Let me guess.. people were expecting a better mystery partner for WarGames than the Shockmaster when you consider they were doing a different mystery partner angle for Dustin, and all the other people with reasons to go after Vader in 1993. Of course Jack is sorta on his own rail in regards to Vader and the what that was building towards. In the scheme of things, if the Shockmaster didn’t fuck up so badly, this Clash is remembered more for the Jack return, isn’t it? If it’s remembered at all.

it's a lot more fun than my high school whose major league baseball players are only good for being Immaculate Grid answers

The Narcissist Lex Luger should have had a dude carrying a large mirror with him like Morris Day did, that would have been more interesting than the giant mirrors that they would put in the ring.

Of the various gimmicks on 1993 WCW, Charlie Norris was cited in more lawsuits than Yoshi Kwan, wasn’t he? Yoshi Kwan had the look of “gimmick Chris Kanyon would have used as a one-off to get on TV before someone realized it was horribly offensive”

Another thing I noticed looking at Brutus’ Wikipedia entry is that 80s Brutus Beefcake looked as much like Michael Keaton as Paul Heyman did.

Does Brutus gain or lose credit for aging relatively well facially when you consider the facial surgeries to keep him from dying?

For the record, Braves had a 7:55 Eastern start for a game vs the Expos which they lost 5-3 in 10 innings. But several of the WCWSN episodes around this time are a bit shorter than the norm.

WCW Saturday Night (8/7/93) We're live from the Disney/MGM Studios. It's Saturday Night from essentially the setting of countless Worldwide/Pro episodes. WCW has a rainbow logo (but this show wasn't taped in June?). Rick Rude and The Equalizer were pictured on the big screen behind Jesse. Sting vs Bill Payne: Vince would insist on not having an enhancement guy named Bill Payne on the same show as Maxx Payne. Harley Race is at ringside with two fat guys who look like the Assassin (the Kongs). Sting wins with the Splash and Scorpion, one of the cooler finisher combos of the mid-90s. Tex Slazenger/Shanghai Pierce vs Chris Benoit/Bobby Eaton: It wouldn't be 1993/94 WCW without Tex and Shanghai. Chris Benoit was still around WCW at this time? I think this is heels vs heels and the crowd responses don't seem to indicate otherwise. The fans boo after Bobby pins Shanghai with a swinging neckbreaker. Marcus Alexander Bagwell vs Yoshi Kwan: Our first look at noted Asian dude Chris Champion Yoshi Kwan. Kwan looks like John Wayne as Genghis Khan in the Conqueror. Hopefully Judy told Chris not to do the crane kick to Bagwell. Since the last time I checked in on WCW Saturday Night, Harley Race stole Cactus Jack's bag. Chris Champion is almost enough of a maniac to make this ridiculous looking gimmick work. Kwan wins with a weird looking nerve hold. Yoshi Kwan now has Cactus Jack's bag. Yoshi Kwan looks a little too much like Leo Kruger for my taste. Big questions about Dustin Rhodes and his mystery partner. Rick Rude and the Equalizer want to know who this mystery partner is. Dustin has clues. Hey, there's more infamous mystery partners from WCW's Summer of 1993. Rick Rude/The Equalizer vs Warren Quinn/Leroy Howard: Gonna be hard for me to buy into Dave Sullivan as something other than simpleton who has a pet rabbit. Equalizer looks like a fake Windham family member. Rude pins Leroy Howard after the Rude Awakening. Too Cold Scorpio vs Mercenary #2: Until proven otherwise, i'm assuming this is Jack Victory. Mercenary #1 is apparently busy this week. Regal is is now a heel by this time in 1993. Scorpio is facing Regal at the Clash which is either fun or disappointing. Mercenary #2 is a dude in facepaint and camo, noted Mercenary attire. Scorpio wins with the 450. Maxx Payne/Paul Orndorff vs Ricky Steamboat/Johnny B. Badd: Not sure which tag team combination is weirder. Johnny B. Badd is wearing a mask because Maxx Payne blasted him in the face with the Badd Blaster IIRC. Maxx Payne looks like a guy who should have had an ECW run post-Man Mountain Rock. Fun match for a little bit. Then Paul Orndorff pulls out brass knucks, Johnny B. Badd takes them, he punches Maxx in the stomach and eventually the ref catches him and the heels win by DQ. We close with Ric Flair, Arn (and Paul Roma) being interviewed on the stage. Short episode this week, gonna guess that the Braves had a big game before or after this show.

would Bruti cut your hair before or after he watches you fuck his wife?

WWE Raw (8/9/1993) We're still in the hangar in upstate New York. Lex Luger is talking to Tim Raines and throwing out the first pitch at a White Sox game! Macho Man is back on commentary. The Native American Tatanka vs Mr Hughes: Lots of foam tomahawks in the crowd that may or may not have been stolen from the Atlanta Braves. Bit of a gnarly near wipeout on a leapfrog. Mr. Hughes never found that right spot that would harness his ability to adapt the Big Bubba gimmick instead of giving him a 3 month stint before firing him because he fell asleep or something. I believe that IRS and Mr. Hughes never crossed paths despite their similarities in wrestling attire. Hughes shirt does not protect him from T.N.A. Tatanka's stereotype chop attacks. They fight on the floor and T.N.A. Tatanka wins by countout after backdropping Hughes on the floor. Hughes uses the urn to beat up T.N.A. Tatanka postmatch. But there's a black wreath at ringside that gets dumped on T.N.A. Tatanka. The Native American Tatanka here for ICO PRO. Lex Luger talks some more in an effort to make people like him. Also he played pro football (unless you're a snob about the USFL) The Bushwhackers and The Macho Midget vs Blake Beverly, The Brooklyn Brawler and Little Louie: Macho Man has loaned out his midget child to the Bushwhackers. Tiger Jackson breakdances prematch. Not sure what happened to the other Beverly around this time. Little Louie looks like he could be working a knockoff Chucky gimmick if Midget Louie Anderson stops working. Not sure if the Macho Midget would be more or less horrifying if he was wearing a mask if it that was actually his face. Lombardi jobs to a Macho Midget splash. This was a certainly a match that happened. Heenan lobbing out jokes in a furious effort to make that worthwhile Lex and Yokozuna sign the contract, tonight! Jim Cornette is here with Yokozuna. He's the American Spokesman. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Jack Tunney's in the ring for this special occasion. I think they've beaten contract signing segments into the ground but as time has gone on, the recent contract signings haven't served as a way to get all the WWF suits on TV in the ring for the signing. Lex's suit is only mildly patriotic, He is restrained for this occasion. The contract is signed. If Lex Luger doesn't beat Yokozuna , he will never get another shot at the WWF title. It must be 1000 degrees in the ring with all the head sweat going on. Razor Ramon vs Dan Dubiel: hiptoss, Sack of shit, Abdominal stretch with leg hook, Chin lock, top rope back suplex, Razor's Edge, ballgame. All the moves you could wish for in a Scott Hall squash. Summerslam Report! It's in 3 weeks. Lex/Yokozuna. Bret/Lawler. Undertaker/Giant Gonzalez. HBK/Perfect. Contact your cable companies. Jim Cornette and the Heavenly Bodies are backstage. The Heavenly Bodies vs Bobby Who and Mike Bucci: The objects of every American Woman's lust is a distinction to make in an arena that's like 2 minutes from Canada. Nice float over DDT by Del Ray that Bucci invented for him. Bucci looks barely coordinated at this time in his life. Bodies win with a Del Ray splash off the top. Fortunately he would get a little better over time. Promotional Consideration Paid For By The Following: WWF toys, Hulk Hogan! Virgil! IRS! Hacksaw Jim Duggan faces Yokozuna. The Steiner take on Money Inc. The Summerslam Spectacular (Sunday August 22nd). I assume this show is on YouTube somewhere because the Hidden Gems aren't on Peacock. NEXT WEEK: GIANT GONZALEZ SPECIAL INTERVIEW! (who's the Gary Michael Cappetta of the 1993 WWF who could speak Spanish in public?) Ludvig Borga! Men on a Mission! IRS vs El Matador! 123 Kid vs Ted DiBiase. At least one of those things sounds good!

Just imagine the money that Marty could have made or lost wrestling in Georgia if that territory had lasted a few years longer

one thing is for sure, if you say you're speaking about hypothetical things, then you can describe crimes without scrutiny..

yep Marty's accent makes me think that he's about to talk about how Firuhhhhed up he is whoa... didn't know that Mean Mike from Disorderly Conduct was actually a dude in anything else okay.. Brutus Beefcake got his wife into this episode.. I'm not sure why either of them are here but we'll see (edit: okay i'm an idiot, it makes sense why Brutus is here)

The final episode (of this season) is tonight. Guess I’ll have to see if Royals/Red Sox finishes before this goes on the air. Once DSOTR finishes, then Jon Bois Minnesota Vikings miniseries takes over this timeslot for me on Tuesday nights

At least we won’t have to worry about Tim Anderson’s nickname changing from TA to Magnum TA after this weekend

hearing the Lawler/Aldo postmatch whiskey angle on BTS and Vince is calling Lawler pouring whiskey on Aldo Montoya like it's Jake Roberts' snake biting the Macho Man.. didn't notice that when I saw this episode last week

I can see why he didn’t shave his head during his career but bald Lance Storm looks more threatening than Lance Storm with hair

The Fall Out Boy modern version of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” is pure dogshit. Like it’s taking an already overrated song and it’s even worse now.

Feels like an opening for the US Mutant Ninja Turtles to not underwhelm over the next few years (nah, the USMNT will likely underwhelm hard even with the USWNT about to enter a non-rebuild rebuild)

Jose Ramirez also inspired this tweet from the Guardians team account back in April: so, once again.. feels like a bad dude to try fighting