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I do remember that show. They were a week or two behind in my market. You haven't lived until you've heard Dusty Rhodes moo to announce a main event was forthcoming. What was messed up is they actually announced The Giant would defend the World Title at Slamboree 1996 hours before the match he won the title from Flair in aired on Nitro.

And it still didn't matter. Gorilla was having trouble even selling it as a near fall when the bell rang.

Right now I've got Prime Time on 24/7 and watching The Young Stallions vs. The Shadows from the Sam Houston Coliseum. Take the typical TV match from the two teams at the time and add like 12 minutes to it and that's what you get here. Nothing bad, but nothing spectacular.

Jim Cornette: "I've been training hard for this match. I've done pushups, I've done pull-ups, I've done chin-ups, Ive done sit-ups, I threw up twice but I'm OK now..."

Nailz attempted to live his gimmick by assaulting Vince McMahon. When Paul Heyman called Madusa a hooker at Halloween Havoc 92, it was a shoot. The belt Alundra Blayze threw into the garbage at Nitro cost WWE 50 cents at a garage sale.

I'm not a Mascaras fan. Don't get me wrong. I love watching his offense, as even past his prime the man looked completely graceful in the ring. But even in his prime I never saw him take a bump worth a damn, and I don't remember seeing too many matches where he was on defense for any length of time.

Excellent idea, and count me among those who'd be glad to part with five bucks a month to expand the DVD collection.

Probably the most squash-tastic dvd lineup ever. The feature's probably the selling point anyway.

To say Brody wasn't a draw is insane in my opinion. I was nine years old when Brody died, and living in Ohio we got a steady diet of WWF and (on a clear day) we might get World Wide Wrestling with the rabbit ears. I never saw Brody wrestle when he was alive. But I knew who he was, and I knew of his kayfabe reputation. If I knew about him as a nine year old mark, he must have drawn pretty well, because you simply didn't hear about guys back then without the Aptermags, and the Aptermags didn't exactly focus on lifetime midcarders in those days.

Koloff pins Bruno

Ouch. Point taken. As an "original" ECW fan, yeah I'm outraged. I was grudgingly able to accept that I wasn't going to get the ECW I wanted (and there's enough good there that I was doing a good job of tolerating it), but fuck, they released guys that would have been better suited for the ECW Title than Vince McMahon. But at least he's not Justin Credible.

I would have rather ECW stayed dead if we're getting Vince McMahon: ECW World Champion out of it. Toning it down into WWECW was one thing. Pissing on the entire legacy of ECW for a Vince McMahon mind fuck ego trip is another. Yeah, I'm fucking bitter. The angle with the originals has some potential, so I won't say this is going to kill WWE or anything, but quite frankly, the history of ECW and the old World Championship Wrestling shows are the only reason I don't shitcan 24/7 right now. I really don't feel comfortable giving Vince any of my money after that.

I think that is the right issue, as they did the same thing in 1988 and made it a point to mention that Brody, having never been World Champion, was #1 two years prior.

I've actually seen people using the fact that the match went 56 minutes as a reason to hate it. "Cena can't work that long a match." I was thinking "Did they actually see it?"

On TV with commercial breaks I timed it at 55:47. Whether the commercial breaks helped extend it from closer to 30 or so I don't know. And while ***** would be an overreaction, the match was very good.

In the middle of watching that match now (had to work last night), and here's my only gripe so far... Why the hell is a NON-TITLE match getting this much time?

By the time the Monday Night Wars would have started, Brody would have been 50-52 years old. Who's to say Brody would have been wrestling full-time by then?

The cable companies were furious at Vince for saying "It's either us or them" when it came to Starrcade 87 and Survivor Series 87 to the point that they refused to allow the two companies to schedule an event on the same night. That's the reason Royal Rumble was on USA opposite the Bunkhouse Stampede and two Clashes ran opposite WrestleMania.

This is hard. I think I've changed my answers to this about six times. But anyway: 1. Light Heavyweight Title (2 out of 3 falls hold vs. hold match): The Lightning Kid vs. Jerry Lynn (summer 1991) A much-forgotten about match that I absolutely love and wish I could find on DVD. Kid and Lynn are still relative unknowns but absolutely awesome here. A hot opener to rile up the crowd. 2. Intercontinental Title: Kane vs. Albert (SmackDown 2001) Something to cool the crowd off a bit to prepare for the later matches, and one of the better big man vs. big man matches I've ever seen. 3. Extreme Rules Match: Tommy Dreamer & Terry Funk vs. Edge & Mick Foley (6/11/2006) An awesome bloody brawl to satisfy the hardcore marks. Garbagy matches need to go earlier into shows, and this is the perfect example of that. 4. Chad Collyer vs. Matt Stryker (1/11/2003) The opposite of the previous match, as it's a technical masterpiece designed to satisfy the workrate marks. 5. World Tag Team Title: Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard vs. Lex Luger & Barry Windham (3/27/1988) Using this one mostly because it's been so long since I've seen the 4/20/88 match that I remember the angle and little else. This match is fantastic, and certainly a tremendous way to begin bringing the crowd to a crescendo. 6. Women's Title: Alundra Blayze vs. Bull Nakano (8/29/1994) Another match that's fantastic but gets little to no love. And the women's match is always a good precursor to your main event. 7. World Heavyweight Title (two out of three falls): Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat My all-time favorite match to this day, and the epic match to end an awesome supercard. Combines most of the styles shown earlier in the evening and quite honestly, the only main event I can see being on the supercard of all supercards.

While for the most part I'd agree with your opinion of the Rumble itself, anarchist, I thought the Taker-HBK finish was one of the better finishes in Rumble history. Lots of teases and false eliminations that had me hoping for more. Overall though, you're right, not one I'd want to revisit.

S-H-I-T-T-Y that's shitty. I believe that's the same guy who wrote "Heaven Needed A Champion" when David Von Erich died. That song was decent at least. This one was like Wrestlerock Rumble bad.

Not long after Punk first signed with WWE he had a bad dark match with someone and HHH, HBK and the Raw agents decreed on the basis of that one match that he didn't know how to work and had a good laugh at how insiders and smart marks thought he was something special in the ring. Yeah, and how many people can have a classic four-minute match? Owen Hart vs. The 1-2-3 Kid at King of the Ring 1994 is the only one I can think of that anybody would even consider a classic.

Out of what I've seen, Danielson-McGuinness at Unified by far.