TONIGHT: the live stream has a couple of interesting shows throughout the day and evening. Elimination Chamber 2012 gets a showing. I remember the Smackdown EC match has that moment near the end where World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan made Santino Marella look like a million bucks. There's a new Old School card from 4/25/86 in the Boston Garden highlighted by The Dream Team facing Davey Boy Smith....and Pedro Morales. I assume because The Dynamite Kid was a mess in some way. Finally, the Best of RAW is the episode where The Undertaker prepares to marry his betrothed, the virginal Stephanie McMahon. I did not type that last part with a straight face. Share your enjoyment.....right here.
Wrapped up Rumble 89 yesterday...why did they think Big John Studd would have a career revival considering his style, condition and age?
ReplyDeleteStarting WrestleMania V THE MEGA POWERS EXPLOOOOOODE! Vince must have had a thing going with Rockin Robin right? It is the only thing to explain her push and her singing america the beautiful at this show. So far the Rockers/Towers match still holds up as fun Shawn bumping his ass off.
I watched rumble 89 like a week ago and thought the same thing. I was 7 when it happened amd am not going to pretend to be aton big John studd but it just seems like an odd booking choice looking back on it
ReplyDeleteAlmost 4 hour show and they give Perfect and Owen less than 6 minutes.....sigh
ReplyDeleteyou're seriously underestimating Santino there. or are you saying that Alberto Del Rio was responsible for the reactions Santino got at the Rumble one year before, too?
ReplyDeleteThe angle that kicked off the Von Erichs/Freebirds feud is in the vault now. I don't really understand the ending....unless I just wasn't paying attention, it seemed like David Manning just stopped the match.
ReplyDeleteMarty-Shawn in a classic IC title match on Raw.
ReplyDeleteUm, he had "Big" in his name...
ReplyDeleteso "THE SHARTY EXPLOOOOODES"!?
ReplyDeleteI really should have seen that one coming.
ReplyDeleteHow do we feel about the wrestlemania 6 ending?
ReplyDeleteSpecifically Hogan kicking out immediately after 3 and Hogan standing around in the ring for awhile after the match.
Hogan trying to steal the spotlight or a good passing of the torch moment
It's easy to see why Flair was so great during this match and the match that lead up to this one. Kerry looks like a million bucks and completely dominates the previous match (2/3 falls...Kerry gets DQ'd in the first one for hitting the ref, pinfall with the claw in the 2nd fall, and a weird double DQ in the third) and it's clear to everyone he should have won, so everyone shows up at Reunion Arena on Christmas to see him get his win. Flair just kept sneaking out with the belt.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember the match in question, but I always hate the "kick out at 3.25" move. It doesn't do much for the guy that pins you and when you get up and stand around, you are basically no selling the entire match and ending.
ReplyDeleteThat's my take. I hate the immediate kick out. The after match stuff is a nice touch so I don't mind it but the kick is such a no sell to the result of the match
ReplyDeleteI am just fine with it. Speaking strictly in kayfabe form, a guy thats been on top for 6 years at that point, and has seemingly been un-pinable, it should make sense that if you do pin him that its just enough to put him down for the 3. Atleast thats the way I look at thing.
ReplyDeleteGreat match, nothing bad to say about it from start to finish.
I'm no Hogan fan... but Warrior didn't exactly kill Hogan for the finish anyway. So Hogan being a little late on his usual kickout actually works for me.
ReplyDeleteNow if Warrior had done the WMVII finish to Hogan, then Hogan should not move for at least 20-30 seconds after the pin. Or just roll out of the ring to recover after a few seconds.
After ignoring the guy for the better part of a decade, I am completely stunned watching the Network and discovering what a tremendous comedic performer Santino is.
ReplyDeleteHe nails the false finish of the 2011 Rumble (while Cole destroys all of his hard work).
He is Mick Foley's equal in the 2012 Sock-Cobra standoff.
His sell of the stunner when Austin comes back to plug the DVD of The Condemned is an all-timer.
And, most entertainingly, he is working his ass off on the talking heads shows like Countdown. Go watch him talk about HHH's water spit during the Best Entrances one. "I don't want to fight a dragon." Floored me.
I'm not saying his rightful spot is anything other than the mid-card comedy role he's been in. But I am only now appreciating how good he is at it.
They should have devoted entire PPVs to Fuji. The man was a comedic genius!!!
ReplyDeleteThey had no idea what they had with the Rumble yet, certainly not that it could be used as a way to push someone.
ReplyDeleteThe winner of the 1989 Royal Rumble got to be a special referee in an undercard match at WrestleMania V. That's prestige!
Yes but Lord Alfred was there to suck the fun out of this segment.
ReplyDeleteThis crowd is dead dead dead. Its like Japan, unless they are cheering a move you could hear a sneeze from the back of the room.
ReplyDeleteHis work on the Countdown shows is amazing.
ReplyDeleteForget airing Main Event live on Tuesday nights! The Network should be airing Tuesday Night Titans every Tuesday, just like the 6:05 showings of WCW Saturday Night.
ReplyDeleteFuji Vice and Fuji General should be on regular rotation.
I don't mind it as much as HBK telling Bret to "get the F out of the ring" at the end of the Mania XII match.
ReplyDeleteI think that comment led to the greatest 18-month-or-so build of a feud ever.
ReplyDeleteThis I can get behind.
ReplyDeleteThe 2012 Elimination Chamber is such a random PPV to throw on the live stream, especially as it opens up with CM Punk's title defense.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember much from this show, should be interesting to watch. The opening Chamber match is a lot of fun so far.
Sometimes, it doesn't seem like they actually are as vindictive at the WWE as we imagine them to be...
WWE needs to give somebody the Girls in Cars theme. ...maybe give it to Boo tista.
ReplyDeleteSeth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Xavier Woods and Big E sighting in a vignette on this PPV? Kind of cool. Although, Rollins and Reigns not attacking Cena confuses me...
ReplyDeleteI don't know if the Old School show is edited in any way, but I just looked up the card and the main event is Steamboat/JYD/Haiti Kid vs. Dory Funk, Jimmy Jack Funk and Jimmy Hart. The undercard has Tony Garea, so I'm thinking Mr. Bayless will be reviewing this one. The same day, the Joe in Detorit got a Hogan-Savage main event. So I guess this was the B card on that particular day.
ReplyDeleteI finally got to watch that match after hearing about it for so long. I always assumed that the match ended with Gordy the cage door into Von Erich's head and then Flair pinning him. I don't understand that ending at all.
ReplyDeleteThis dude has uploaded a bunch of PPVs from the network to Pirate Bay. The problem is that it is all 1999 WCW.
ReplyDeleteWow just looked up the card for Starrcade 1998 because I forgot everything besides Goldberg/Nash. No wonder it is filled with nothing but mid carders and jobbers.
ReplyDeleteanyone know why they edited Piper getting rid of brother love? Love is in the ring, Piper looks at Downey and then Love is suddenly gone. I don't remember what happened.
ReplyDeleteHe pulled off Love's kilt and Love ran away trying to hide his underwear, right?
ReplyDeleteHulk Hogan is a damn liar. He promised the Trump Plaza was going to be destroyed two years in a row.
ReplyDeletelooked wiki and you are correct. Wonder what about that they felt needed to be removed.
ReplyDeleteSame here. I may have seen it shortly after it happened b/c I got WCCW TV, but I was only 7 or 8 when this all went down. I thought that it ended with the door slam as well.
ReplyDeleteWhat I remember most about this show... 2 Chamber matches (where the champ is at a major disadvantage), and both CM Freaking Punk and Daniel Freaking Bryan came in as champs, and left as champs. But all people did was complain that Cena vs Kane went on last, and poor Zach Ryder. Incredible.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the Pirate Bay doesn't subscribe to the Geneva Convention... that's a war crime if I ever saw one.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing that the WWE could run two and three tours at once back then, and SELL OUT all of them... while today they sometimes struggle to get one sellout.
ReplyDeleteIt turns of structuring a card, I agree that one of the TWO world title GIMMICK MATCHES that fit the name of the frigging PPV should have main evented, but Cena was the guy, so I understand the logic (although the match was stupid, just saying).
ReplyDeleteI honestly never cared about burying Ryder. He didn't have the potential of anything more than a midcard comedy act, and the fact that he had a chance to hang out on screen with Eve, who was pretty god damned hot, should really be enough for the guy.
Watching the end of the Smackdown elimination chamber match, with Wade Barrett as one of the final 3, I can not believe they could never find a way to elevate that dude. He's a good worker with a good look. Put him over people, let him win high profile matches and go from there.
ReplyDeleteBarrett is a much more offensive casualty of 2012 WWE stupidity than Zach Ryder.
You mean Smiley vs Iaukea doesn't get you going?
ReplyDeleteit's pronounced Smil-Lay
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