WRESTLING ON THE INTERNET NOT FROM THE NOW

[Dragon]

WWE Raw April 15, 2002

in Texas 

Undertaker, Scott Hall and X-Pac vs. Stone Cold and Bradshaw

 

[Cobra Commander]

random thing I just found out while watching the Hogan mixtape: they ran Hogan/Giant at the Superdome in January 97 and January 98 (the first in 97 being the Robin Hood match, the second in 98 was on the mixtape)

EDIT: Barry Windham standing next to Hogan post-match for a Hogan/Savage match... 1) Barry's taller, and 2) man, that would have been a fun matchup during the one window where it could have happened (1989)

EDIT 2: Sherri doing so much in the Havoc 94 cage match and it rules. Even if the plan of beating the guest ref and handcuffing him was a questionable idea for the challenger in a Retirement match. 

Edited May 5 by Cobra Commander

[Curt McGirt]

On 4/29/2026 at 12:42 PM, Elsalvajeloco said:

People talk about the Uncensored match, but people don't talk about the level of violence here with ten less minutes to work with.

People also don't talk about their (I think first) match either where Brain made an all-time crack about Dusty mispronouncing "Jeeves" at the start, and then the rest of the time it was them doing stuff like palm-striking each other directly in the nose, which made Dusty absolutely lose his shit like how only Dusty can lose his shit. 

[SirSmUgly]

The Finlay/Regal Parking Lot Brawl is easily a top-five Nitro match and has a clear argument for being the best one. 

16 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

People also don't talk about their (I think first) match either where Brain made an all-time crack about Dusty mispronouncing "Jeeves" at the start, and then the rest of the time it was them doing stuff like palm-striking each other directly in the nose, which made Dusty absolutely lose his shit like how only Dusty can lose his shit. 

The first Regal/Finlay match in WCW was that Uncensored '96 match according to Cagematch.

Dusty was magnificent on commentary in general and in this match specifically. Snipping one of my favorite Dusty quotes from this match after Regal takes time to talk shit and Finlay uses the opening to land a palm strike square to Regal's face:

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“Well, when you take out time from your busy schedule to discuss somethin’, things like that can happen. You see there? Lord Steven Regal wanted to soliloquate with him, wanna go ‘head and repetend him for somethin’, and brother, he left-hooked him and you see what’s happened now, Regal’s on the bad end of that.”

 

[Curt McGirt]

The Brain crack is Dusty calling Jeeves "Jives" and he responds "Jives? I think you mean chives. Chafes? No, that's when your shirt makes you itch." 

[Cobra Commander]

An hour of footage from Florida!

An hour of May 1996 WCW Saturday Night!

 

[Dragon]

WCW Monday NITRO  1996 May 6

WCW Heavyweight Championship 

The Giant (c) vs Jim Duggan 

 

Edited May 7 by Dragon

[Dragon]

AJPW Champion Carnival 2005

Champion Carnival 2005 Block B Match

Toshiaki Kawada vs Kohei Suwama 

Very short match

[Cobra Commander]

between the clips and the promo in the CWF video, Killer Karl Kox is the most Hal Landon Jr looking man in wrestling (Hal Landon Jr was Ted's father in Bill & Ted)

Killer Karl certainly leaned the fuck into having the look of a man accused of murdering civil rights activists

I know that his son and others would say that the on-screen stuff doesn't reflect Karl off-screen. At the very least, there's more reasons to accuse Murdoch of awful things than Kox.

Also there's a clip of a full beard Don Muraco and i'm sure he grew his beard out at times in the WWF but seeing Muraco with a beard makes me wonder why the hell he would ever go clean shaven in public because Beard Muraco looks like a killer

[Curt McGirt]

I love Manny explaining the ring psychology with Gordon of him working the arm and then Don working the inner thigh, then he blades from a freakin' thumb to the forehead (then again it's Manny's forehead, just look at it) and they go from no blood to "Manny just got hit in the face with a machete" in the footage. And not only does Don have a beard, and Manny has an afro, but look at that ref! You don't get any more '70s.

This Florida stuff is such a treat. You got DANNY HODGE vs. KHOSROW VASIRI doing "hail fellow, well met" leverage matwork with a lady yelling at them to get on with it already, haha. It's so great that whoever runs the Youtube for WWE knows that people actually want to watch this stuff and are putting it up there.

[Cobra Commander]

also the match list for the May 1996 WCW Saturday Night video

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From May 4th:

• Steiner Brothers vs. State Patrol
• Alex Wright vs. Billy Kidman
• The Giant vs. Marcus Bagwell

From May 11th:

• Steiner Brothers vs. Fire & Ice
• Earl Robert Eaton vs. Eddie Guerrero
• Sting vs. VK Wallstreet

From May 18th:

• Sting vs. Meng
• Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Steve Doll
• DDP vs. Billy Kidman
• “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan vs. The Barbarian

From May 25th:

• Steiner Brothers vs. American Males
• Sting vs. Lord Steven Regal

the matches left out:

5/4: Barbarian vs Benoit (obvious reasons)

5/11: Hardrock Bobby Walker vs Lex Luger (match ended in under a minute), Public Enemy vs Gambler and Steve Doll

5/18: Chris Benoit/Kevin Sullivan vs Rick Fargo/Mike Hayner (very obvious reasons)

5/25: Booty Man vs Gambler (very quick), Men at Work vs Harlem Heat, and a nonmatch between Barbarian and Randy Savage due to Savage's suspension angle

[Dragon]

AJPW Real World Tag League 1999  11 20

Johnny Smith, Mossman, and Vader vs Akira Taue, Stan Hansen and Kikuchi

 

[zendragon]

6 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

I love Manny explaining the ring psychology with Gordon of him working the arm and then Don working the inner thigh, then he blades from a freakin' thumb to the forehead (then again it's Manny's forehead, just look at it) and they go from no blood to "Manny just got hit in the face with a machete" in the footage. And not only does Don have a beard, and Manny has an afro, but look at that ref! You don't get any more '70s.

This Florida stuff is such a treat. You got DANNY HODGE vs. KHOSROW VASIRI doing "hail fellow, well met" leverage matwork with a lady yelling at them to get on with it already, haha. It's so great that whoever runs the Youtube for WWE knows that people actually want to watch this stuff and are putting it up there.

Brian Solomon said on his podcast that he knows the guy who runs WWE Vault and that's he's a really big wrestling fan. So that's  one thing the 'E has going of it.

[zendragon]

 

[zendragon]

 

[SirSmUgly]

I watched a random episode of WWWF Championship Wrestling from 1978 in which Bob Backlund looked uncomfortable on camera (again) and I saw my first ever Spiros Arion match, among other things. 

 

Edited May 8 by SirSmUgly

[Cobra Commander]

the Bruno vs Arion stuff had the real feel of a street fight between competing ethnic groups

and here's 2 hours of Road Warriors/LOD

 

[Cobra Commander]

Nick Bockwinkel vs Curt Hennig (6/14/1984):

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Oh this match rules from the start (which you'd expect from the contestants considering they had multiple very good matches after this). Nick offering a handshake only to be turned down. Multiple ropebreaks before Nick cheapshots and takes an advantage. Nick with awesome looking bodyshots that he insists aren't punches. Nick with some vicious crafty vet offense to let Curt sell. Audio might be a bit low but AWA commentators kinda stink anyway. Hennig and Bock making an armbar look vicious. Commercial break moves us to a different part of the armbar. Babyface Curt with his selling dialed back a notch is lots of fun. Bockwinkel with some great selling of moves where Curt jumps to the floor. A near fall on a hiptoss makes me think that would be a good "I totally did a move to earn this pin" move if you hit someone with a weapon behind ref's back and then hiptoss their lifeless body for the pin. Bock running Curt's face into the ring apron with Bock in the ring and Curt on the floor is a neat spot. They're getting so much out of Bock not allowing Curt back into the ring. Nick wins with a snapmare over the top rope (and cheating and a missed foot on the rope). This was lots of fun and they would do this some more in the years to come.

If you believe CageMatch, this was the first Bockwinkel vs Hennig singles match

[The Green Meanie]

14 hours ago, SirSmUgly said:

I saw my first ever Spiros Arion match, among other things. 

 

Wrestleme did an amazingly entertaining episode about him:
 

 

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[Cobra Commander]

MX vs Fantastics!

 

[zendragon]

 

[Dragon]

NJPW IWGP & WWF Champion Series 1985 06 12

Andre The Giant and Hulk Hogan vs Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi

 

[Cobra Commander]

this week on Saturday Night: Ric Flair still wants to fuck Precious and the New Breed debuts

 

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