MADCAP Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I watched the Ted Dibiase/Ric Flair match that featured DiBiase's face turn on the Mid-South dvd I bought yesterday. The matches on the disc are crystal clear and for the first time, I noticed a bunch of ladies that were freaking out and screaming as they were getting sprayed with blood after every chop Flair delivers to a gruesomely bloody DiBiase. At one point, the one lady, who is holding a little girl gets up and runs off. This ultimately was more captivating to me than the match. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsplash Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Wait what was wrong with that House Of Hardcore show? I was there and it was a blast live... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I watched the Ted Dibiase/Ric Flair match that featured DiBiase's face turn on the Mid-South dvd I bought yesterday. The matches on the disc are crystal clear and for the first time, I noticed a bunch of ladies that were freaking out and screaming as they were getting sprayed with blood after every chop Flair delivers to a gruesomely bloody DiBiase. At one point, the one lady, who is holding a little girl gets up and runs off. This ultimately was more captivating to me than the match. not sure if that's more captivating than the young kids in the front row as Sullivan brutalized Kanemura in SMW. But always fun to see Mid-South finally brought the ladies aboard... and gave them a bloodbath. The whole situation around that was superb. Didn't they put a good portion of TA/Wrestling II on that DVD too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADCAP Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I watched the Ted Dibiase/Ric Flair match that featured DiBiase's face turn on the Mid-South dvd I bought yesterday. The matches on the disc are crystal clear and for the first time, I noticed a bunch of ladies that were freaking out and screaming as they were getting sprayed with blood after every chop Flair delivers to a gruesomely bloody DiBiase. At one point, the one lady, who is holding a little girl gets up and runs off. This ultimately was more captivating to me than the match. not sure if that's more captivating than the young kids in the front row as Sullivan brutalized Kanemura in SMW. But always fun to see Mid-South finally brought the ladies aboard... and gave them a bloodbath. The whole situation around that was superb. Didn't they put a good portion of TA/Wrestling II on that DVD too? Yeah. They had two vignettes about the two and two matches: TA/II vs Midnight Express and TA vs II for the Mid-South title. I'll have to re-watch the Sullivan thing again and check out the crowd, but I'm telling you, the 4 ladies probably never sat front row again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 TA/Wrestling II is also great because you know there was a segment of the audience that got behind TA purely because they hated their HS football coach and they thought they got f'd over like how TA got f'd over by II. One rule of wrestling that applied all the way to WM30. If the face comes down with a giant bandage/taping over some part of his body, that protection will get removed at some point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Guess I'm gonna have to go back and check that DVD again then. I still haven't seen the whole TA/Wrestling II stuff yet either, so why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 just watched Nitro from 4/14/97 (yeah, a day late, i know). this has to be one of the best Nitros ever. point #1: they're live from Philadelphia. matches: Benoit vs Barbarian. short but vicious. Dean Malenko © vs Hector Guerrero. not sure if this is for the US title. hector is totally underappreciated, even for his WCW stuff. Ultimo Dragon © vs Lane Carlson (later known as Lenny Lane). for the TV title. better than you'd expect. still the weakest match of the bunch, and that's a compliment. Syxx © vs Prince Iaukea (iaukea lost his TV title last week to dragon). one of Iaukea's best matches to date. Public Enemy vs High Voltage in a street fight. TPE is SO GODDAMN OVER that it's ridiculous. it's the best they've ever looked in wcw. Giant vs Big Al. Big Al is 911 and he gets squashed. a small but vocal boo at the chokeslam. you have to know this is Bischoff fucking with ECW fans. Harlem Heat vs Mongo & Jarrett in a surprisingly good match. main event: Lex Luger vs Kevin Nash. show ends with Sting, Luger, DDP, and Giant in the ring with baseball bats. first time we've seen WCW united like this. the next PPV isn't for another 4 weeks, but i would totally buy it if it was tomorrow. THIS is the reason i'm watching all the Nitros in order again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I've been watching some more USWA 1994 and up to mid June 1994. A lot of guys have left like Eddie Gilbert, Rotten Brothers and the Spiders. The Spiders lost a loser leaves town match vs the Eliminators when Bert Prentice turned heel. Bert is now managing the Eliminators and Spellbinder. Spellbinder doing magic as a heel looks bad ass. The main feud continues to be Brian Christopher vs Doug Gilbert. Lawler was feuding with PIper around this time so he wasn't in Memphis much. He faced Bam Bam Bigelow in a few matches. Doug Gilbert has formed a stable with Dream Machine and the returning Tommy Rich. They are managed by heel ref turned manager Scott Bowden. Scott got burned by Lawler so he wears a mask. PG-13 has returned as babyfaces and are feuding with the Eliminators. It started out with Wolfie D returning by himself and teaming with Spike Huber. Spike no showed at MSC show and Wolfie replaced him with JC Ice. USWA was in a holding pattern around the time it seemed. One of the best moments was Lance Russell taking a bump. Doug Gilbert was doing a interview and Brian comes out and just flies into Doug. Doug falls and hits Lance who falls back. Lance had to be in his 60s around this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLcXhZH8JCw For some reason I had never seen this and caught it yesterday. Truly intense, this may be the benchmark for boneheadedly ignorant stiffness. The Diet Butcher (sporting an uncharacteristic and manly growth of beard) eats about a dozen lariats from Ikeda that are just brutal. His fighting spirit in coming back from all those might turn some off but I think it works in the context of BattlARTS: where only the toughest fight and anyone could win from a knockout or submission at any time. A total showcase for Otsuka too as he gets to show off all the freaky things in his arsenal, like the giant swing and tope con hilo. A must-watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 The finish is some bullshit, but you get 15+ minutes of slick holds and European uppercuts leading up to it. This seems to be the only match online with either of these guys, and it's tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 damn you youtube! just spent about 2 hours watching dark matches from before Raws (and even a couple Nitros!) from back during the Attitude era. nothing really that great, but seeing Rick Fuller lose in WWF was a change of pace for him. Lots of Scott Vick in 2000-2001 WWF. Mr. Perfect vs Brock Lesnar (jan 2002). Louie Spicolli ahead of his Nitro debut. and then i saw Sting vs Bruiser Mastino (Kane) from some 1993 WCW, and i knew my day was complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Good lord, that made me look up how many different gimmicks Glenn Jacobs has had. The total is NINE. And then think of how many different versions of Kane we have seen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Hulk Hogan v. George the Animal Steele. This being a heel Steele match, there's your usual hide-the-object fun. And also a slightly ridiculous sell job of the salt throw. Also, Solo-Vince on commentary and the Kiel Auditorium seems small Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 I never liked Dragon Gate and never really watched Toryumon but there was a match on a Phil comp between Genki Horiguchi and Susumu Mochizuki so I watched it as background noise. Man it is weird seeing NOAH junior whipping boy Genki wearing a surfer suit and coming out to the Beach Boys. Match wasn't super fast like I expected, seemed a bit more paced from what I saw and there was a really nasty Guillotine Driver (or whatever Omori calls it). Then in the end stretch they start rolling into these multiple preposterous lucha submissions and it was pretty entertaining. Maybe I've been missing out on some of this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Crackers Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 I never liked Dragon Gate and never really watched Toryumon but there was a match on a Phil comp between Genki Horiguchi and Susumu Mochizuki so I watched it as background noise. Man it is weird seeing NOAH junior whipping boy Genki wearing a surfer suit and coming out to the Beach Boys. Match wasn't super fast like I expected, seemed a bit more paced from what I saw and there was a really nasty Guillotine Driver (or whatever Omori calls it). Then in the end stretch they start rolling into these multiple preposterous lucha submissions and it was pretty entertaining. Maybe I've been missing out on some of this stuff. I think the NOAH junior whipping boy you're talking about is actually Genba Hirayanagi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Yeah, you got me. I haven't watched NOAH in so long I forgot his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKash202 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Was referred by Daniel Bryan/Chris Jericho's conversation on the podcast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjVW0m0eH9A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PtwNQX5ZZE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKash202 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Not sure if anyone has posted/discussed this on here befofre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Yeah, we talked about it before, but I'll be damned if we don't deserve to pimp that as long and hard as possible 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuiGfbwIG4 Somehow a Kevin Sullivan tope wasn't the highlight of that 5 minutes. That Foley promo really made you forget how comically miscast Sullivan was as a good guy in the micro-feud with him and Foley. Not sure how much they really acknowledged the ear in WCW before that promo, but that was a good use of 5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 More 70's French stuff. These guys are smaller and don't lay in the uppercuts like Chaisne and Di Santo, so you get more of the lightweight stylings. Sanniez is your typical little tough nut, everything he does has a nice bite to it. Angelito is the flashier one, with the buttery smooth headscissor takedown and the tremendous set of eyebrows. At one point you very nearly get a sunset flip powerbomb to Sanniez on the apron to the floor, but it doesn't happen. The start is missing, but I don't think it's much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I rewatched the Flair/Michaels Wrestlemania retirement match at the weekend. The finish still brings a tear to my eye I vaguely remember the knock-on fued of Batista/Michaels being great after Wrestlemania too but don't have access to those matches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 This is the shit. Les Celtes are Jean Corne (with the shorter hair and sideburns) and Michel Falempin, Gonzales is the one with the slaphead/long hair combo who you just can't take your eyes off. Mid 60's I think, weak finishes are par for the course in French catch it seems, but the rest is gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm29195 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 I rewatched the Flair/Michaels Wrestlemania retirement match at the weekend. The finish still brings a tear to my eye I vaguely remember the knock-on fued of Batista/Michaels being great after Wrestlemania too but don't have access to those matches And then Michaels transitioned pretty smoothly into the Jericho feud immediately after the Batista one - it was very organically done and one of my favorite recent WWE runs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 i mentioned in the Omnibus thread, but on tonight's (6/30/97) Raw, Michael Cole debuted and interviewed the Headbangers. Jim Cornette returned with the Headhunters (i had no memory of them in WWF other than the Royal Rumble one year). and on Nitro, both Curt Hennig and Raven made their WCW debuts. this lead me to wonder if Hennig and Raven ever faced each other, and it made me sad that nothing immediately popped up on youtube. hopefully i'll find it on a random Saturday Night or Worldwide or something. my fingers are also crossed for Savage/Jericho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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