RIPPA Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 http://youtu.be/53IWZNpfo_E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 The Problem of Bam Bam: His best match was in his rookie year with Jerry Lawler. There are people out there who think that an incredibly damning thing. I do not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 This one? http://youtu.be/rOsdmkc-hEg http://youtu.be/voQ7FeUols8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Aw man, I have all these Vader/Bigelow tags from NJPW on my external hard drive and just watched a really good one of them vs. Chono/Hashimoto, but it's not online. I found these though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovvsp98fleI http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3u3o4_doom-vs-big-van-vader-bam-bam-bigel_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x207mu7_ecw-living-dangerously-1998-bam-bam-bigelow-vs-taz_sport I have to post this because of THE SPOT. Remember listening to the scrambled PPV feed and wondering just what the hell happened. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28ohfy_bam-bam-bigelow-vs-bret-hart-wwf-world-tour-barcellona-4-24-1993_sport Selected by Bret for his DVD collection so you know it's good. The Oklahoma Roll still looks so cool when done on Bam Bam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Can't make 100% sure now, but I'm pretty certain this is it: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrews_lawler-vs-bigelow-texas-death-match_sport #9 on the DVDVR Memphis Poll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 Okay - that would make more sense because I was like "Okay - Matt is clearly doing a bit now..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 It's alright, if I was going to say that, I should have at least grabbed the damn match. I didn't even have to go to Russian youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6iWv1tb3y8 I had no idea Bammer worked an All Japan tour; here he is against Dangerous K. There's also a Bam Bam/Davey Boy vs. Miracle Violence Connection tag that is too sad for me to post with all four guys being, ya know, dead. Bam Bam saved a woman from a burning building, remember that folks. Wrestlers do some awesome stuff sometimes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I saw very little of his non-WWF stuff...have always meant to pull up more of his Japan work, especially the tags with Vader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a6qp7_steiner-brothers-vs-bam-bam-bigelow-vader-new-japan-6-26-92_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9x6lz_vader-bam-bam-bigelow-vs-great-muta_sport http://youtu.be/WCMM08rk9Eo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Always dug Bammer. Never reached the heights everyone expected of him, but he had a pretty fun career. Back in 2002 or so, Ray and I went down to Seaside Heights for an outdoor JAPW show where he worked Shane Douglas. Before the show I bopped up and down the boardwalk taking photos of everything, and as I was uploading them a few days later I suddenly noticed he was in a bunch of the shots I took. He was just hanging out there with his son and I never even saw him since his head tattoo looked like regular hair from a distance. Pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1a6qp7_steiner-brothers-vs-bam-bam-bigelow-vader-new-japan-6-26-92_sport Gotcha! Even the best of us make mistakes sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 vs Andre The Giant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JEMHIb9APM vs Razor Ramon vs Earthquake w/IRS vs Tatanka and Doink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI79btaFf0Y vs Undertaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Bigelow was awesome. Seriously underrated wrestler. He had one of the best celebrity matches dragging a blown up LT to a good match at Mania. And I was about 5 people down from him and his old man on a fishing boat out of Belmar one Father's Day. Fucking awesome dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 vs Sabu vs Goldberg vs Goldbrg vs Kevin Nash vs Buff Bagwell vs Goldberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafkonia Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 One of the wrestlers where I often think "I hope he gets another run", and then remember that he's dead. Depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 My first exposure to Bigelow was in the WWF and I could tell he was a talented guy but never came off as a real threat. He was big and could move, but always got treated as a bigger than average JTTS. Then he showed up in ECW and was like a totally different person. I don't know if it was Heyman or not, but they really got him there and booked him like the (mostly) unstoppable monster that he had the potential to be. Even when he was putting Taz over he managed to make Taz look great without looking weak in the process. Then he went to WCW and, well, it was latter-day WCW. I think he and Mike Awesome are two of the biggest missed opportunities the WWE could have had post-invasion. Didn't Bigelow have issues with the kliq that really hampered him? I remember some guy on czwfans telling a story about him way back when- Apparently the guy was still a teenager working the concession stand at some indy card that was featuring Bigelow against some local guy in the main event. He had been told by the boss that everyone, even the wrestlers, had to pay for refreshments or it would come out of his pay. The local guy in the main event apparently came back there and bullied the guy into giving him some free snacks. He said Bigelow came by shortly thereafter and noticed he was clearly upset about something, and he mentioned the issue with the other wrestler. Bigelow said he'd take care of it, then stiffed the hell out of the other guy in their match. I don't know if that story was true or if the details are right, but I wanted to believe it because based on other stories about how he was personally, it sounds true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I know Nash has said something to the effect of "we didn't get along with him, but he could go in the ring so we were all cool working with him." But it's Nash, so... Lord only knows how many grains of salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 First memory of Bigelow was when he pretended to be Russian ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP30sqjaOnE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 It's alright, if I was going to say that, I should have at least grabbed the damn match. I didn't even have to go to Russian youtube. Is there where his Crusher Yarkov matches are posted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I think the problems between Bam Bam and the Kliq are at least in part due to his friendships with Shane Douglas and Chris Candido, who had their own issues with the Kliq. I'm bummed that I didn't appreciate Bam Bam enough while he was still alive. I didn't see any of his ECW run until a few years ago. Holy hell, what a great big man he was. That three-way dance with Sabu and Taz was a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Bam Bam and Big Van Steinering the shit out of the Steiners is the greatest thing. This is cool too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHoK7yNA18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 vs Nikolai Volkoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I think the problems between Bam Bam and the Kliq are at least in part due to his friendships with Shane Douglas and Chris Candido, who had their own issues with the Kliq. I'm bummed that I didn't appreciate Bam Bam enough while he was still alive. I didn't see any of his ECW run until a few years ago. Holy hell, what a great big man he was. That three-way dance with Sabu and Taz was a blast. The Kliq stuff started before Bam Bam even got into ECW. After his post-Mania 11 face turn, Nash and HBK *might've* fucked his run up just a tad, depending on who you listened to. Certinally had an impact on him leaving WWF a few months after coming up huge in a Mania Main Event he needed to carry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Bigelow, Douglas and Candido were all in the WWF in 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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