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They Horsemen were booked as tweeners for Doom and then were booked as heels after. We're talking booking, not crowd reaction, are we? Flair was consistently booked vs Sting, El Gigante and Pillman for the majority of the first half of 91.

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Flair blading in that Fujinami match is still the most pointless bladejob I've ever seen, and that's saying something. Cheap and desperate tactic to try and inject some drama into a match no one cared for

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7 hours ago, Infinit said:

They Horsemen were booked as tweeners for Doom and then were booked as heels after. We're talking booking, not crowd reaction, are we? Flair was consistently booked vs Sting, El Gigante and Pillman for the majority of the first half of 91.

this was one of my favorite periods of wrestling. I was a  young kid and seeing underdog Pillman vs the Horseman each week was great. Looking back on it as an adult is even better because the good guy didn't always get the win.  Wrestle War 91 War Games is one of my favorite matches and the heel team won!  WWF would never do something like that but WCW did and it worked. 

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Doom were Tweeners for that feud with the Horsemen too, there was even a match where Sting teamed with (I think) Ron Simmons after Butch Reed no-showed.

NWA @ Charlottesville, VA - October 7, 1990 (3,400)
The Master Blasters defeated Mike Rotunda & Tim Horner
Ricky Morton & Terry Taylor (sub. for Robert Gibson) (w/ Steve Travis) defeated Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane after Travis hit an interfering Jim Cornette, with Taylor then hitting Lane with Cornette's tennis racquet
NWA World Champion Sting defeated the Black Scorpion
NWA World Champion Sting (sub. for NWA Tag Team Champion Butch Reed, whose father was in the ICU) & NWA Tag Team Champion Ron Simmons defeated Ric Flair & Arn Anderson when Sting pinned Flair

And a match I hadn't heard about where Simmons teamed with Luger

NWA @ Roanoke, VA - Civic Center - October 11, 1990 (925)
Norman defeated the Iron Sheik
The Italian Stallion defeated Barry Horowitz
Allen Iron Eagle defeated Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker
The Junkyard Dog defeated Buddy Landell
Ricky Morton & Steve Armstrong defeated Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin
NWA US Champion Lex Luger defeated Sid Vicious
NWA Tag Team Champion Ron Simmons & NWA US Champion Lex Luger (sub. for NWA Tag Team Champion Butch Reed, who flew home to be with his ill father) defeated Ric Flair & WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson

 

 

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Broadcast WCW TV had been on an extended squash match exclusive streak for a long time until Brian Pillman started wrestling Horsemen members seemingly every week. Definitely gave me a boost as a youngun. 
 

Flair/Fujinami from SB was bad. Really bad. Not only was it pointless, Flair goofed the whole thing, and goofing up with the blade is something he never did however bad he got in a few other areas. It’s a shame to because their match from the NJPW/WCW Supershow was good. I’d go as far as to say that it’s in Flair’s top 10 postprime singles matches. 

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On 2/13/2020 at 5:06 PM, Happ Hazzard said:

Doom were Tweeners for that feud with the Horsemen too, there was even a match where Sting teamed with (I think) Ron Simmons after Butch Reed no-showed.

NWA @ Charlottesville, VA - October 7, 1990 (3,400)
The Master Blasters defeated Mike Rotunda & Tim Horner
Ricky Morton & Terry Taylor (sub. for Robert Gibson) (w/ Steve Travis) defeated Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane after Travis hit an interfering Jim Cornette, with Taylor then hitting Lane with Cornette's tennis racquet
NWA World Champion Sting defeated the Black Scorpion
NWA World Champion Sting (sub. for NWA Tag Team Champion Butch Reed, whose father was in the ICU) & NWA Tag Team Champion Ron Simmons defeated Ric Flair & Arn Anderson when Sting pinned Flair

 

 

 

I was actually at the Charlottesville show. I remember someone threw some candy or something into the ring and it hit Bobby in the face. They had to stop for a minute b/c I think he had something in his eye. Luckily he was ok and they found the idiot who did it and threw him out of the building. Had it been Louisiana or somewhere in the Mid-South territory back in the day, he would've probably have been escorted to the back to have a "talk" with one of the wrestlers.

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And I wanna say that Al Perez played the Black Scorpion that night. WIki says that Angel of Death or Jeff Ellis was the one doing the house shows but I thought it was Perez that night just because of the way he moved. I've never seen Jeff Ellis but IIRC, the guy I saw was too small to be AOD. Keep in mind this was 30 years ago and I was only 11 so I could be wrong but I thought it was Perez.

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2 minutes ago, BloodyChamp said:

https://twitter.com/HalHaneyArt/status/1225129535424823297?s=20

What is the 80s southern style mask on the right a reference to? The Scorpion? That’s the only 1 I don’t get if it’s not him.

Black Scorpion makes the most sense. 
 

is Halloween Havoc Windham as Sting on there? Couldn’t tell. 

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34 minutes ago, BloodyChamp said:

Thunder in Paradise and a made for TV movie he was in I think. 

I always thought it was stupid when Bischoff referenced the movie and showed a clip of it, when Sting was still the badass guy up in the rafters.

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19 minutes ago, PetrolCB said:

I always thought it was stupid when Bischoff referenced the movie and showed a clip of it, when Sting was still the badass guy up in the rafters.

I don't remember it, but that sounds like a Bischoff move.

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49 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I don't remember it, but that sounds like a Bischoff move.

I can't find a clip of it, but it's from the November 10th, 1997 episode of Nitro. The night after Montreal, where they all have the Canadian flags.

But yeah, totally stupid thing to bring up or show. Damaged the mystique a month before killing Sting's build all together.

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