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March 15th, 2020, 8:58 PM
#21901
I'm on my own personal Corona-cation so I've been devouring some random, old wrestling on the Youtubes.
This match is a fantastic time capsule for wrestling.
- Blitzkrieg - The Canadian "luchador", who seemingly materialized in WCW out of thin air, who had a ton of talent and ability - Who only wrestled long enough to make enough money to put himself through computer programming school, and who quit the business like a year after this.
- An unmasked Rey Mysterio, wearing more denim than a pair of Jeans wearing another pair of Jeans. With the "Slim Shady" haircut that used to be "cool".
- The Filthy Animals before Torrie Wilson joined. When Torrie used to accompany Rey to the ring, she looked like the hot soccer mom taking her kid to play in the park.
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March 15th, 2020, 9:09 PM
#21902
Nothing to do with Romford’s earlier rant, but Becky has become one of the most obnoxious faces of all time. There’s being tough and defiant but also being obnoxious and arrogant. Done with the Becky reign.
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March 15th, 2020, 9:23 PM
#21903
'Nother fun match, from a big 'ol patch of 'member berries.
- Remember Chris Adams? "Gentleman" Chris Adams might have been one of the more underrated talents on WCW's bloated roster. He had to suffer the indignity of a feud with Glacier over who had the best kick.
- Remember wife-beater and long-haired Kidman? Before he cut his hair, started wearing regular trunks, and put on a bunch of store bought muscle, William Kiddle Man (his real name), could fucking go. He was the token white guy in his division, until Evan Courageous/Karageous/Karagis/Karajus/Coure-A-Geis/Karajis debuted to botch everything he tried and then try to bang Madusa.
- Kidman used a Flying Elbow drop as the finish for two reasons; One - This might have been after he almost killed William Regal with the Shooting Star Press and Two - Kidman had a segment on an episode of Nitro where Randy Savage killed him and gave him flying elbow drops until he suffered "internal injuries". So this might be Kidman "sending a message" to Randy Savage.
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March 15th, 2020, 9:46 PM
#21904
One of the nicer things about the bloated WCW roster were the random "dream matches" that only happened once and then never again.
Case in point; Randy "Macho Man" Savage vs. The Ultimo Dragon.
Its only 5 minutes, but Savage gives Dragon quite a bit, bumps around for him, and then shuts him down and beats him clean. Its wild stuff. Savage was always one of the more "giving" veterans in his time in WCW. Compared to him, Dragon is a legend in Japan, but in WCW he's a nobody. He could have planted Dragon like a tent stake in two minutes and been done with it. Instead, he made him look damn good.
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March 15th, 2020, 10:32 PM
#21905
Hey look, its a TNA Dream Match! Elix Skipper- best known for tight-rope walking the top of TNA's famously flimsy and unsafe looking Six-Sides Of Steel Cage, while teaming with Christopher Daniels, to nail James Storm with a flying headscissors. And then he joined up with Simon Diamond. Yay?
And Elix "I Live On In Impact Wrestling Highlight Packages Until The Sun Burns Out" Skipper is taking on John Hugger- who might have the worst name in wrestling history. How can you be intimidated by a guy named "Hugger"? He just wants a hug. He's less of a Hugger than babyface Bayley, but only by a little. Hugger is the future Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli - the guy who had his WCW "highlight" when he literally broke his ass on Nitro, doing a springboard flying leg-drop on Terry Funk, on the floor. Even though he hit the move, Funker's face wasn't enough to cushion the blow.
Oh, and Stamboli and Bradshaw were the first two wrestlers to directly interact with Eric Bischoff on RAW, after Bischoff was announced as RAW's GM. Stamboli was a splotch on the floor.
Oh, and in TNA Stamboli was Rellik. Did you know that Rellik is "killer" spelled backwards?
Last edited by Spudz Mackenzie; March 15th, 2020 at 11:45 PM.
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March 18th, 2020, 2:01 PM
#21906
I always appreciated Johnny the Bull's balance. The WWE's FBI stable wasn't terrible either, fit right in the midcard.
And I have to agree...WCW had such a huge roster that you would get these random matches that 20 years later and you look back wondering how some of this shit happened. Like Savage v. Ultimo Dragon. Or even something like Goldberg v. Mortis.
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March 19th, 2020, 3:01 AM
#21907
Sort of funny how it took a wrestling company, at least a major wrestling company, three years to get a Bart Gunn/Doctor Death match on a major TV show. And even then, it was in Japan.
I know Bart knocking out Doc made him persona non grata in WWF, chiefly because the Head of Talent Relations happened to be Doc's best buddy. But Bart had an upside. Even if Butterbean punched him so hard his headless corpse later had to be reanimated in Japan, he and Doc had a pretty solid match here.
That back-suplex Doc gave Bart on the floor, where Bart felt it appropriate to take it all on the guard rail, while trying to use his head and face (and nothing else) to cushion the blow, felt... gratuitous... at best.
It was like Bart suddenly decided he really missed the comforting feeling of Butterbean's toaster-sized fist liquefying his brain into a fine soup, so he decided to try to replicate the feeling.
And then he kicked out of Doc's big finish.
And then Doc killed him with a top rope belly-to-belly suplex, and like three more of those crazy head-droppy back-suplexes.
Does it get anymore "Japan" than that?
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March 24th, 2020, 8:06 PM
#21908
I miss D’Lo Brown and Test
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March 25th, 2020, 3:01 AM
#21909