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  1. Kevin Ridge
    I barely knew what Parker was even babbling on about. Austin brings things back into focus talking bout Pillman who was the reason they lost the belts.
  2. Kevin Ridge
    It is fascinating just to watch Prichard and Del Ray in full constant movement playing off each other in between taunting the crowd. They don't just stand there as Cornette talks.
  3. Kevin Ridge
    Tammy is impressed that Margee knows how to turn on the sink faucet on. She does remind Margee to shave her face.
  4. Kevin Ridge
    I have not been impressed with Barr so far. He may be a heat magnet but not enjoying him actually wrestling in the ring. He was a bit better here and at least he did not do any dumb crap to get his team disqualified in the third fall. When Worlds Collide was much better to me. This went too long. WWC match had little things like a faster referee count, more vocal crowd and Octagon got taken out of the match. I did enjoy Santo celebrating here before Octagon got the three count on Barr.
  5. Kevin Ridge
    That bump Hashimoto took off the missed wheel kick was great for someone his size. I seem to remember somebody using that as a signature bump. Maybe Savio Vega? Back and forth at the end was top notch. Some excellent timing by all.
  6. Kevin Ridge
    It is nice to hear folks not completely burying Hogan versus Andre from WrestleMania. I don't see a whole lot of good things being said about it normally. Would have loved to hear Monsoon doing commentary looking back at matches he refereed himself. Well he was consistent at least in his bias towards good guys for both in the booth and as a referee. That fast three count was awful. Another miscarriage of justice. MSG match was still the better of the Hogan/Andre matches from 1980. Blassie was a riot during the interviews. Was funny to hear them refer to Vince's jacket as canary yellow. A shout out to Parv. I had to take a time out during the Toots Mondt discussion as was laughing so hard. Loved the idea of him being a gangster but gambling all his money on wrestling while picking the jobbers to win. Vince Sr. would have played that one well in gaining control. Great stuff on the Unification matches. I did not know that WWF was back under the NWA banner at this point. Would have loved to seen Bockwinkel versus Backlund one. Watched the 8MM clipped matched first and sat there wondering what the big deal was since it was so edited. So did check out the full thing on Daily Motion. Probably the worst part of the very long headlock was that Daily Motion has 30 second commercial breaks every five minutes so it felt like it was dragging things out even more for me. Race got so little sustained offense in match. He could maybe piece together two moves before Backlund went back to the advantage. That ended being my biggest problem with the match. Harley dropped a wicked knee right to Backlund's head and only got a quick one count out of it. My unofficial score card had Backlund making 22 pinfall attempts to only 8 from Race. There was enough action in the later part of match but still ends being below average. I agree with most of Parv's points and sounded like others especially Pete did too. But not the point about the MSG crowd. You can watch old matches, read bios and history around the match. But you can't put yourself in the crowd unless you were there at the time. These fans loved seeing their good guys like Bruno and Backlund look strong and beat the crap out of the rule breaker. Were some excellent points brought up about this match not even airing on MSG. This match was strictly for the paying MSG crowd to see their champion look the best guy out there with the belt. I'll miss not having Race around due to Johnny's great impressions of him. The unspecial show planned sounds very interesting!
  7. Kevin Ridge
    Just checked out the match thread for Bret/Owen in yearbook and amazing to see how evenly people thought it was great versus those who disliked it. Count me as someone who is a big fan of it. Thought Owen and Bret were great in it. There are people just do not like the WWF blue cage and the escape rules. So they will be down on this one too. No blood allowed at the time so they had to wrestle the match different. I do contend they started the climbing stuff too early in match with it going over 30 minutes. But I loved the drama with the escapes in it. The finish is fantastic. I do not do star ratings but if I did I would not go the full five though. My issue with the rating of the match is that their WrestleMania one was given a lower rating. I have that one much higher than cage match.
  8. Kevin Ridge
    Haven't listened to show yet but can I assume you guys went out and watched the full version of Backlund/Race match and not the silent film clip job that was included on set?
  9. Kevin Ridge
    I did not get what they arguing about. Greg Valentine? Sherri needed to be doing more of the talking. I would say that Sherri is the face in on all this as Madusa came off like she made no sense and was just complaining.
  10. Kevin Ridge
    The setting was cool with using the torches around the ring as the only light. Whole think looked really dangerous from guys hitting each other with torches to the ring mat that looked slick as hell where someone could have wiped out. Crazy finish with the power bomb on fire. I though they grabbed some random fans jacket to try put the fire out on Kanemura's back.
  11. Kevin Ridge
    I really, really like Shawn versus Sid from Survivor Series. So I would put this much below that one but it may not be far from the Royal Rumble effort. More heat would have helped but Flair being more aggressive is good here. I wish he brought that against Sting in their recent match against one another. Parker ends up costing Sid the match. Oh, so the stabbing incident had occurred by air date. If Sid had stuck around and won the title I wonder what that would have done for Flair. He seemed to have the confidence back after winning the title with a great start to 94 until the Hogan show came to town.
  12. Kevin Ridge
    Does not matter who is Rude's partner. He only needs them to wipe the sweat off his brow. Shorter and more efficient production from WCW.
  13. Kevin Ridge
    They should have at least stretched out the turn over a couple weeks. Austin too easily turned on Pillman when things looked fine between them.
  14. Kevin Ridge
    Well that heavy set kid did say his only choices were to be a pro wrestling or a piece of playground equipment. These segments just make wrestling even more uncool.
  15. Kevin Ridge
    Was weird to see DiBiase wrestle in such a small time looking show. Not that some of the audiences for WWF were huge at their tapings. Some back and forth chops but not much else in the match.
  16. Kevin Ridge
    Cornette talks up bad things about the Bruise Brothers that you would want to see them kick Bodies and Cornette's ass. But it is the Bruise Brothers. Dirty White Boy has ditched his Yankee ways and embracing the Tennessee way. His promos as a face through 94 were great.
  17. Kevin Ridge
    Blaze went flying into the water and yeah it did look very dirty. He chases Candido off over the hill. Blaze must have been stalking Candido to find him in that location.
  18. Kevin Ridge
    Please stop Margie!!! That was unsightly with her doing jumping jacks.
  19. Kevin Ridge
    Announcers bring up that the beat the champ championship started when DWB put a bounty out on Smothers. Ron Wright rises out of the chair! He gets a nice punch on Lee but Brian decks him. Then two big knees off the top rope. DWB is beside himself after as he holds on Wright. Really good way to turn those guys face.
  20. Kevin Ridge
    Midget D is a midget not a dwarf. Dwarfs are cartoon characters. So says JC Ice. He is pretty funny during the commentary on match complaining about every single move Christopher does and claiming they are illegal.
  21. Kevin Ridge
    Christopher was very hellish. Short promo overall with Jarrett looking for all challengers whether from USWA or WWF.
  22. Kevin Ridge
    Borga no sells a back suplex by Tatanka and pops up like he is Hogan! Chair shot to Tatanka and Borga pins him by only using one finger. Love the visual though do not think Tatanka was beat up in a way that he was completely knocked out to get pinned like that. Anyways, the long winning streak is over and Borga is the man to do it. Yokozuna squashes Tatanka out of the Survivor Series match. Luger tries to make the save but Quebecers delay him briefly. Good build up for that match.
  23. Kevin Ridge
    Really small glasses with short shirt to match. Lawler using the props to take shots at both Savage and Helen Hart. The green screen was popular in wrestling back in the day.
  24. Kevin Ridge
    It was one of those lethal drug cocktails maybe that Barr threw in Metal's face. Heavy and Barr brawl after and Santo plays peace maker for some reason. And then Octagon just starts laying in shots to Barr as everyone was calmly talking. Wonder what was said to spark that outburst from Octagon.
  25. Kevin Ridge
    Is Batista returning full time? The Royal Rumble is special still so it does not make sense to have him as the winner is he is not going to stick around full time. You need to elevate other people on full time roster instead. Sucks if Bryan is legit injured to miss out in at least wrestling in Rumble. Should have kept Lesnar/Show in the Rumble to add big names to it.
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