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In Ring > RAW Replays
1995 > Episode 99 - 2/20/95
Episode 100 - 2/27/95
Just a few updates today:
In Ring > RAW Replays
1995 > Episode 99 - 2/20/95
Episode 100 - 2/27/95
The 2/20/95 episode features the return of Sid as HBK's bodyguard and Diesel vs. Jeff Jarrett for the WWF Championship.
ReplyDeleteEpisode 2/27/95 features Lex Luger vs. Tatanka and the continuing LT-Bigelow angle.
Episode 99 sounds more like an episode 100 than episode 100 does.
ReplyDeleteThey were lucky the WWF did not bring in Tim Horner and the Fantastics!
ReplyDeleteMonday Night War would have been Monday night massacre instead
The Pug = RATINGS
ReplyDeleteThe Goon.
ReplyDeleteThe Bug.
Salvatore Sincere
TJ Hopper.
That's a main event lineup anyhere in the country!!
The Pug = Kurt Angle, had he signed with the WWF 3 years earlier. THINK ABOUT THAT...
ReplyDeleteIs the Undertaker black and I missed it?
ReplyDeleteThose acquisitions were really strange since all of those guys ended up being enhancement talent. I remember Jim Cornette saying in an interview that the goal was to strengthen the midcard, but the WWF quickly abandoned that plan, just like they did the next year by bringing in guys for the light heavyweight division and then turning most of them into jobbers.
ReplyDeleteI do think Tom Brandi should've been given more of a push. He seemed to have the look that the WWF liked at the time, but that Salvatore Sincere gimmick was death.
Hey BOD network, how about we update the Which Shoot Interview Should Be Reviewed Next poll so that Hillbilly Jim is in first place?!?!
ReplyDeleteIf The Undertaker got people fired it was probably because they deserved it. Smothers should consider himself lucky that he avoided soapy shower fun time with JBL.
ReplyDeleteI remember his last match...He called Earthquake a hog. Earthquake as you might imagine, squashed him. Jessy's commentary as Hillbilly was doing a stretcher job, "that's a lesson kids. never call your friends hogs." I tell ya Earthquake was a scary motherfucker back in the day.
ReplyDeleteI have that shoot--it's very enjoyable, but for much different reasons than most shoots.
ReplyDeleteThey were never intended to be more than enhancement talent. Cornette brought then in when SMW folded. The idea was they would be jobbers but with gimmicks.
ReplyDeleteIt's a strategy I think was quietly brilliant and one I wish they would re-adopt now. Start weaning us off post-Monday Night Wars 'PPV quality' matches and subtly reintroduce jobbers.
With the likes of Xavier Woods you could argue of course that they already are.
Then again Smothers doesn't seem to care about politics or trying to get back with the WWE. Maybe he's just less cowardly than others, has less to lose.
ReplyDeleteIf your gimmick name is worse than your real name, you are in trouble. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWasn't there a 'lost' episode of RAW a year or two earlier? It was headlined by a Bret v Yokozuna match IIRC. Maybe that threw off their count!
ReplyDeleteFrom what I understand, Smothers is a legit bad ass, while Bradshaw is notoriously all talk.
ReplyDeleteJericho said in his book that he turned down pan offer to be yet another one of them. Judging by these careers, he made a smart move.
ReplyDeleteSmothers is reduced to delivering pizza and wrestling at indy shows to support himself at 50 years old
ReplyDeleteIf the guy is supporting himself then I don't see the problem. It's not like he ever made a ton of money to begin with. I don't know...it just seems like you took a cheap shot a dude trying to make a living.
The name was the only the wrong with the gimmick IMHO
ReplyDeleteHe is broke. I wasn't going for a cheap shot
ReplyDeleteNo shame in working any job. Just that he has had 32 concussions, 9 mini strokes and going to have to work until the day he dies