muhammedboehm Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Just as a head's up Royal Rumble 2014 is up. Wonder who #30 will be 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGFanJay Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Starrcade '90's first-annual Pat O'Connor Memorial tournament is to DETERMINE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE UNIVERSE. I think Michael Scott came up with the concept for this. Rocco Rock looks shockingly ripped in the South African mercenary getup. Norman Smiley has aged shockingly little since 1990. LOL @ Rey Mysteric being used for all of Rey Sr.'s graphics. Love the Brits using a wacky tumbling routine to escape a submission. AND PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS REAL!? Love Rey Sr. dropkicking Smiley to aid with a dropkick - I'm used to that spot being used for a crossbody block catch, but not a backslide. Michael Wallstreet's getup rules. Alexandra York looks so odd as a business woman. JACKO VICTORY. GLORIOUS! YAY MUTA and Mr. Saito! MASSIVE Muta chant broke out when he took the hood off. Love Heyman hyping up JACKO VICTORY facing Holyfield. I'm sure Holyfield would take that fight now. No one has ever done the handspring elbow as well as Muta did it. Jinsei Shinzaki's was close, but didn't have the same snap to it. SAITO IS SPEAKING ENGLISH, and sounds like a slightly younger Mr. Fuji. Team Canada is a pair of jobber-looking motherfuckers. Victor Zangiev looks like the wrestling version of G. Gordon Liddy. Never seen him before, but while he looks really old, he moves incredibly swiftly and does some great bridges. A boring chant broke out, and while this isn't the most exciting match ever, they really shouldn't have paired off two completely unknown teams like this. A weird suplex>armbar...won...somehow with a 2, or maybe a submission or whatever. Sting pointing out how illogical the Black Scorpion thing is something else - now, they'd never even bother explaining this deal making so little sense. Sting's rat tail is something else. Terry Taylor's got the robe on that he sold to Roode - Terry definitely got his money's worth out of it, and for a 25+ year old robe, it's in good shape. YOU'LL NEVER GUESS - Michael Wallstreet did an abdominal stretch using the ropes. Rotunda has at least a bit more fire here than he did as IRS, and won with the Samoan Drop/Stock Market Crash. IRS matches were hard enough to get through with the WWF's production, let alone WCW's low-budget look in the early '90s. Michael Hayes dressing as the stripper version of Uncle Sam is something else. Curtis Hughes as just the Big Cat and the Motor City Madman are out to further the feel of this being an AWA show. The Skyscrapers, with Sid in a singlet that always looked weird on him came out to murder these guys. After much struggling, they hit a double powerbomb on the Madman, who seemed to deadweight Sid. Tommy Rich is out as a substitute for Robert Gibson to team with Ricky Morton as the Rock and Road-Owned Express. The Freebirds are dressed as...very low-end strippers. Little Richard...MARLEY is their roadie. THIS GIMMICK SUCKS. Tommy Rich is spanking Marley, after hearing Ross talk about how he was a former world champ, this got sad. Paul E saying "this is terrible" seems pretty fitting. THIS IS LIKE MILLI VANILLI CHALLENGING THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK TO A BATTLE OF THE BANDS. Paul E rules. Garvin with the giant beard and glittery gear looks way too much like Gorgeous Jimmy, and despite looking about the same facially, looks middle-aged body-wise. Little Richard accidentally flew off the top thanks to a crutch shot into a double sledge on Jimmy because...of course, and then they lose due to a distraction. Double DDT. This sucked. At least the babyfaces had the good sense to save Marley, leading to the Freebirds attacking Gibson, but not going after the injured leg. That's sporting of them. STAN HANSEN CHEWS TOBACCO, DOES THINGS WITH A ROPE, AND SAYS HOOOOO! Pretty nothing much between the Steiners and Konnan/Rey Sr. Clips of some angle with Flair and Teddy Long in a limo... I have no idea what this was. The swastika-looking logo Horsemen shirt isn't exactly good-looking, especially with the early '90s neon pink and green look to it. The Russians are back out not even getting a polite reaction to face Muta and Saito. Holds. Holds. More holds. Scorpion Deathlock in for a sec by Saito. SAITO SUPLEX TO ZANGIEV gets the win. Doom vows to demolish the Horsemen in the street fight. Ron looks a bit odd in a belly shirt. YES LEX STILL HAS HIS NWA THEME! Hansen's out with even more chew, spitting it at the fans, and his graphic talks about him being a champion in both the U.S. and Japan. Goofy ref bump bullshit for the U.S. title match. I guess giving him a visual win was a way to appease either him or All Japan, but this finish sucked. It's time for the tag team street fight. Barry's out in jeans and chaps...OF COURSE! I love Arm sticking with logical offense here - if you've got something near you, JUST HIT A GUY WITH IT. Nice use of the belt by Ron, not just using it as a whip, but using the point of it for punches. Love Butch calling Arn a son of a bitch, leading to a chairshot to the back on Barry and the Simmons spinebuster ACTUALLY ONLY GETS 2! SUPERPLEX, sadly no floatover from Barry. Jumping DDT from Barry can't get a cover due to a chair being brought in. I love Reed blocking Barry with a chair to prevent him from helping a cover that wasn't the finish - made it feel more important. Double pin off a shitty small package from Barry and a nothing cover from Ron. YAY ANOTHER GOOFY BULLSHIT FINISH! And then everyone falls over each other on the ramp doing stuff. Fun street fight, but goddamn that finish... Tourney finals. Green mist against the pyro looks pretty sweet. Tiger Hattori is the ref and it's the Steiners against Muta and Saito - if this was in a well-lit building, it would feel like a New Japan match. Basic heel work from Saito and Muta to establish them as the heels here. SAITO SUPLEX and a spike piledriver. Paul logically points out that if Saito and Muta win, they should get a U.S. Tag Title shot. Given that this is for the International Tag Team Title, wouldn't that be a step down? Sunset flip gets the win for the Steiners. At least it had a solid finish. It's Jim Herd. Presumably, the Steiners also got a Pizza Hut coupon in addition to the trophy. Dick the Bruiser's out to ref the cage match. His ref shirt is...interesting. Dick looks like the world's toughest grandfather. The Black Scorpion's at least got a cool theme. Oh goody, a PARADE OF BLACK SCORPIONS. This is like sub-Doink. At least that's colorful. Everyone here is in a different-looking mask and outfit and it just looks so cheap. A SPACECRAFT IS LOWERING TO RINGSIDE. Paul E is angry that Jim Ross did not alert him to THE SPACECRAFT ROAMING AROUND THE BUILDING. Now it's shutting. I hope it opens and the Gobbedly Gooker comes out. Nope - IT'S THE REAL BLACK SCORPION! The others were only messengers. The cape is at least good-looking and ridiculous. Flair's jaw is way too recognizable in this getup. Flair's jumping around a lot - almost a bit like how Savage would spring around before a match. The Scorpion is at least not totally wrestling like Flair - just going for basic heel tricks using the ropes and choking. After some cage smacks, Flair's hair is now visible under the mask. Super-shitty piledriver from the Scorpion doesn't even get a count. The crowd is making...polite noise to show that they're alive. Stinger splash>deathlock combo, but Flair gets to the ropes. Cage smash leads to a mask being taken off, but he's got a silver one underneath it. Lots of cage bonks. Big throw out of the corner and a flying lariat! Crossbody off the top gets 3. This was not good. Flair as not Flair didn't work. It's 3-on-1 against the Bruiser. He's...almost possibly selling! Horsemen are out to bump for the Bruiser. OH COME ON NOW. DDT on the chair knocks Flair down because Sting's legs hit him. Flair's laying in some really shitty chairshots to Sting. Babyfaces are down to help Sting. The Steiners, unlike the B-team, came prepared and have bolt cutters. Flair got revealed, and got color. Well...goddamn that was pretty awful. Screens - 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Parts Unknown should have had a representative in that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGFanJay Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Words cannot describe how bad this Freebirds gimmick is. Holy fuck. The Rock and Road-Owned Express at least has matching gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Holy shit, this just had clips of Abdullah the Butcher brutalizing a jobber, plus Bill Watts and Dick Murdoch punching the shit out of each other before a really neat finish. (Watts had a bad leg and Murdoch worked on it until his OTHER leg went out. Murdoch whipped him into the ropes and tried a dropkick, but Watts collapsed into the ropes because of the bad leg. Murdoch missed the dropkick and Watts fell on top for the pin.) I. Love. This. Network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Where was this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Legends of Wrestling Renegades & Outlaws episode 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Watching WrestleMania V, forgot that it opened with Hercules vs. Haku My life is complete. Its also funny that Donald Trump has the same hair now as he did in 90. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Legends of Wrestling Renegades & Outlaws episode That one was great. Makes me want to see more World Class just for some Bruiser Brody @SS Beatings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Ok, that Rockers vs Twin Towers match from WM5 had two awesome spots. One, Michaels leapfrogs Akeem, who promptly stops and murders Michaels with a Japan-worthy lariat, to which Jesse commentates: "I believe he just annoyed Akeem." Second was Michaels jumped off the top to, what looks like, to Frankensteiner Bossman, who promptly powerbombs Michaels down, tags Akeem, who then casually hits the 747 for the win. I forgot how damn fun Classic Federation-era WWE was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Jesse was so awesome there. He wouldn't get off Marella's back. Jesse keeps insisting that the Rockers are cheating with the double teams. "That idiot Marella, shouldn't even be counting that!" Gorilla: "They have five seconds Jess" "It's been more than five, Gorilla!" I keep telling people WrestleMania V is a great show. One of my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Good lord, Jesse giving Gorillia shit and insisting he was hitting the "Joy Juice" in the casino during the entrances for the Rogeau/Bushwhackers match was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I always figured Jesse gave Marella so much shit to try and get Gorilla to break character and it makes it even more hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Damn, Henning and Owen are having an awesome little Proto-type NJPW Jr match here. Weird seeing Perfect come out without the Exodus theme. EDIT: HA, Mr Fuji running a 5K on the Boardwalk in his Tux. Run DMC performing at WM5... They could do this today, and still be a marked improvement on most of the shit that's been performing the past few years (Living Colour last year notwithstanding) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Oh Jesse was a master at trolling twenty five years before the term existed. He was always throwing in little things like needling Gorilla about his son. Or how he'd needle Vince about being a rich Ivy league snob knowing full well he went to East Carolina and grew up in a trailer park. My favorite Jesse bit ever was with Schiavone of all people but in a WWE ppv (SummerSlam '89 I believe). Warrior and Rude were feuding over the I-C belt. Warrior kept throwing Rude out of the ring and hitting him with stuff which got Jesse more and more angry. Every time he'd point out Warrior's cheating, Schiavone would justify it by saying they're outside the ring. Finally, Jesse just blew up and went on this epic rant saying so what, does that mean he can shoot someone as long as its outside the ring and calling Schiavone the dumbest man alive. There was like total silence from both for a few seconds - probably Vince flipping out - then Schiavone no-sells the rant and goes right back to play by play. It was GLORIOUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Yeah that was Summerslam 89 for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Jesse having a meltdown at Survivor Series 89 when the ref DQ'd Zeus, then both Powers of Pain during their match vs Hogan, essencially saving Hogan twice in the match was epic. Him constantly changing stances on Heenan's fitness to be in the final match when Gorillia was counting Heenan as half a participant was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Words cannot describe how bad this Freebirds gimmick is. Holy fuck. The Rock and Road-Owned Express at least has matching gear. I read today in an old observer from 92 that the Freebirds played a 7 song gig before a Hawks game and it was well received because the band was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazzil Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 vod refuses to load for me. the rating screen will show up and then its just endlessly watching the little circle go around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I'm watching Insurrextion 2003, pretty good little womens match to start off the show (Jazz w/ Teddy Long v Trish). Now that the Network is finally working for me, I'm going to watch all the England exclusive PPVs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I feel so bad for Tito Santana in this tag match. Of all the teams for Martel to walk out on him on, he had to go and leave him alone with Arn and Tully. That's just cruel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 So because I enjoy the comically bad shows, and I mentioned watching Spring Stampede 2000 last night, I enjoyed this portion of Hulk Hogan storming around backstage. "Where the hell is Bischoff? I'll tie him to the back of my car, and drag him around the city of Chicago until he smells as bad as Rodman, that son of a bitch." It's also pretty hilarious that they go to such extremes as editing out language on the ECW shows, but don't bother with the Russo-Era WCW ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGFanJay Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 vod refuses to load for me. the rating screen will show up and then its just endlessly watching the little circle go around. If you're watching on a PS4, exit the app then restart it - they updated it tonight to include a search function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 This old ECW episode has Joey Styles wearing the most ridiculously huge headset, a montage of Sandman showing off his wrestling skills, a cocaine fueled Snuka promo, and the promise of a Sullivan Cairo shoot fight. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Just finished Rumble 2005. Seemed like 2/3rds of the participants were or became main eventers. A few musings: - I wasn't watching when Puder was around and don't know what his deal was but god was it fun watching everyone taking turns chopping him. -Christian (unless it was dubbed in) has been using a variation of his current theme since 05. -Batista seemed taller in thus match than he does now. It looks like he shrunk. -Forgot this was the match where Vince tore his quads. He really no sold it like a champ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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