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Exposer

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  1. Interesting what's the local company? Always looking to find more good stuff. It's called Empire wrestling. There's a good bit of stuff on YouTube of them. Some of the names you can type in to find the matches are Drew Delight, Shaun Tempers, Kyle Matthews, Rufus Black, or of course simply just Empire wrestling. Here'a the links to the promotion's YouTube page:http://www.youtube.com/user/DelightDrew http://www.youtube.com/user/empireprowrestling
  2. Regal was phenomenal in 94. It is arguably the best year of his career. His matches with Larry Z, Pillman, Wilkes, Badd, and Flair are worthwhile too. He even has a match with Terry Taylor on the first day of the year that I like a good bit.
  3. Yes, Regal looking almost disgusted and perplexed by Davey Boys athleticism is hysterical. It's even better when Regal follows it up with a cartwheel and then panders to the crowd only to get decked by Davey Boy.
  4. This isn't much of anything. It's good but it should have been better than good. Regal doesn't real get hot in WCW till 1994 anyways.
  5. WWE and a local promotion that puts a good bit of its stuff on YouTube. I watch and pimp stuff from other places as well but don't follow them regularly such as lucha promotions, super indies, and Japan. Watch most of it on the internet.
  6. Matt Borne was tremendous in Portland. The Buddy feud is awesome. Anyways, I recall this being the typical good 1992 WCW tv match, but it is certainly novel.
  7. I feel like he had a match with Buddy Rose that was as good or better.
  8. In the WWF/E Smarkschoice poll I voted Savage vs. Warrior number 1. It is by far the best WWE "bioepic" ever and it's not even close.
  9. To be honest, there was never much of period for me after I started watching lucha where I had to "adjust to the style." I suppose I had to grasp the 2/3 falls and tag concepts but even those didn't adversely effect me. I'm not kidding when I say this. I convinced myself to watch lucha last summer after Dylan pimped it to me pretty hard. One of the first matches I watched was MS-1 vs. Sangre Chicana from 1983. That was a fucking awesome match and there was never a transitional period of "Why did they do that?" Lucha mat work never caught me by surprise either except that it is fucking incredible. I guess I never really understood the difficulties in trying to understand lucha or any type of transition period.
  10. I've been thinking on this and Dylan and I touched on it a little bit as well. Brock-Cena has the potential to be a disaster. I have really enjoyed this angle but I fear the match might not deliver. Who's to say Brock won't be lazy and just half ass it for the entire match? I mean he was pretty terrible in Japan before he went to UFC. It's very possible he could be as bad or much worse. At least he's being booked as a guy who wants to fight rather than "entertain" and "wrestle." I just fear the match could end up being utter dog shit before it's all over with.
  11. Wasn't that after Summerslam anyway? Yeah, they had the brief feud later in the year and continued it after Angle got hurt in 03.
  12. Yes, I went to school with Paul Lee's son. I had weight training with him and we used to chop each other viciously in the locker room. I have been to a few of his shows but it's been awhile. They're decent for a southern indy fed.
  13. Yeah, I have noticed that too about 80s WWF tags. The Heel In Peril is just bizarre to me and often it became too much a part of the match. I always have found that to be a overrated period of tag wrestling as far as WWF/E goes. The best team in that period was the Rockers and it isn't even close.
  14. I'm with Dylan here. Unless it's the Moondogs vs. Lawler and Fuller/Jarrett then most great tags have FIP segments. I love wild brawls too but FIP segments are the most crucial part in a tag team wrestling match.
  15. I just watched it for the first time ever about three minutes ago. Finally showed up on YouTube after two years of searching. I can't really say much about it. It's what I expected. I feel like I reached the Mecca of pro wrestling at about 4 am in the morning on a random day in April. That's my review.
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    House shows

    Sigh... There were, at most, a thousand people in the building; maybe much less. Said building was Municipal Auditorium, aka the home of Starrcades 94-96, and holds at least ten thousand people at capacity. It looked sad. I paid for a shitty seat, but moved up to a much better one and absolutely nobody cared to challenge me. I got there late and missed this. Can't imagine I missed much. It was weird, seeing a wrestler for the first time in person that I already knew from television. "Holy shit, it's really The Wall!" And three years later he was dead. Ugh. Not much to write home about with this match. Dustin tried a bunch of pandering-to-the-crowd stuff, talking on the house mic and gesturing for fan support. None of it got over, the crowd seemed to be resentful that he was trying that. There were two laughs: first when Berlyn claimed that someone pulled his hair, and then when the announcer didn't realize that this was under three-way-dance elimination rules and the first pinfall didn't end the match. No memory of this whatsoever. I recall this one being pretty disappointing. I was still a very inexperienced smark at the time, so I thought "young cruiserweights in WCW = automatically good wrestlers" and probably expected way too much outta Vampiro. Best singles match of the night. Luger played the cowardly heel role to the hilt, stooging like crazy for everything Meng did. MOTN, sadly enough. Flair/Crowbar were shockingly over live with their crazy act. Crowbar kept taking bumps for no reason, at one point even flinging himself into the ring steps just for the hell of it. This is also where my infatuation with Daffney started, cuz she was working her ass off at ringside. Oh man, this PISSED ME OFF. The whole reason I went to this show was to see Ric Flair live. I figured, how much longer could he possibly be wrestling? I wanted to see him in the ring in front of me, while I still had the chance! Sigh. The match was total crap. Nash was the commissioner at this point, and before the match started he announced that the figure-four was banned. Then he sloooooooowly beat up Ric for about five minutes, with Flair not even getting any hope spots worth a damn. Complete squash. At the end, Flair finally got a thirty-second comeback, and then locked on the figure-four. The referee was Lil' Naitch, Charles Robinson; so you'd naturally expect him to show Flair favoritism and overlook the ban and have the babyface win and send the crowd home happy, right? WRONG! He promptly disqualifies Flair. Nash gets up, and he and Jarrett stomp on Ric for a minute. Then everyone just walks to the back. SHOW OVER. Good night, everyone, drive home safe! This FUCKING company. Nash's ego wouldn't even let him do a harmless job at a goddamn house show; hell, if memory serves, he didn't even take a single bump. Gee, why did they go out of business?! What was the deal with this? This was around the time Cody got on television and was teaming with Bob Holly. I honestly don't remember in detail what this was about. If I recall Holly was making Cody impress him in matches and shit. It's very possible this could have been one of the "tests" given to Cody before they started their tag title run.
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    House shows

    WWE (Raw) @ Chattanooga, TN - McKenzie Arena - August 19, 2007 (matinee) (3,500) Cody Rhodes defeated Johnny Jeter Cody Rhodes defeated Jay Bradley Cody Rhodes defeated William Regal Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas defeated Robbie & Rory McAllister Snitsky defeated Super Crazy WWE Women's Champion Candice Michelle defeated Beth Phoenix WWE Raw Tag Team Champions Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch defeated Paul London & Brian Kendrick WWE IC Champion Umaga defeated Carlito Caribbean Cool WWE World Champion John Cena defeated Randy Orton Source: thehistoryofwwe.com The main event was excellent. Better than the Summerslam match. I'll never forget the pop when Cena kicked out of the RKO. That was at a time when Randy was getting a giant push and the RKO and punt were becoming a lethal finishing combination. The tag title match was I'm sure pretty good, although I can't remember it off hand. Literally, though the main event was one of the five best matches I saw in the company all year. Not kidding.
  18. I've never seen really any IWA Mid South at all. However, I did see a Claudio-Tracy Smothers (at least that's what my memory tells me) match from maybe 2002 on one of GoodHelmet's comps. Punk was on commentary and just spewing out obscenities and shit. That was fairly amusing. Besides that, I've essentially seen nothing from there.
  19. The Unbreakable Triple Threat is very good, though not great. There are two or three Joe-Daniels matches from early 2006 that are all very good to great including the one Dylan mentioned from the first Impact that is a tremendous match Still haven't seen Storm-Harris. I have been wanting to see if for years now. Bully Ray actually is solid. In fact, Bubba Ray has always been passable going back to his ECW days. His match with AJ was pimped a lot last year. I still need to see that. Jarrett and Sting have had some decent stuff with actually a variety of people but nothing beyond very good. Those tag matches in 2006 were pretty good too.
  20. Phil, literally just watched them. Both are being added to the list as we speak.
  21. I figure I'll go ahead and post my top 10 matches this year so far: 1. Angel Blanco Jr./El Hijo Del Solitario vs. El Hijo Del Santo/Villano IV TXT 2/25 2. Blue Panther vs. Negro Casas CMLL 3/2 3. Black Terry vs. Chico Che IWRG 1/29 4. CM Punk vs. Mark Henry RAW 4/2 5. Finlay vs. Tajiri SMASH 2/19 6. Negro Casas vs. La Sombra 2/20 7. El Hijo Del Santo vs. El Hijo Del Solitario vs. Angel Blanco Jr. (Mask vs. Mask) TXT 3/31 8. Black Terry vs. Chico Che IWRG 1/22 9. CM Punk vs. Dolph Ziggler 2/3 Falls RAW (House Show) 3/25 10. El Hijo Del Santo/Villano IV vs. El Hijo Del Solitario/Angel Blanco Jr. TXT 3/23 Scorpio vs. Walker, Punk-Bryan RAW and SD, Casas-Panther 1/27 knocked out
  22. I just watched Storm v. AJ. It was whatever and I don't see how it could be a MOTYC at all.
  23. I stopped watching TNA when Don West was removed from color commentary. That was a crime. His heel commentary was EASILY the shining spot in 09 TNA that I saw. I did go to a house show in Dalton, GA later that year and he was selling merch. I got his autograph and he was seriously the only one I cared to get one from. As far as the promotion goes, I still can't forgive them for those frightening videos of AJ attempting to get in Karen Angle/Jarretts pants by taking her around Orlando and at one point to see alligators.
  24. I've been going to East Tennessee Southern Indy promotions for 12 years. I can't remember the number of scummy looking fucks that I've seen.
  25. I've never had a true breaking point. I've only been a fan for a little over 12 years now. The Benoit stuff did affect me but the most it did was finally shut down all thoughts of ever trying to get in the business. As far as other times go, in the falls of 05 and 06 I was becoming a huge college and pro football fan and I often chose MNF over Raw. I tried to make a point in 07 not to do it again and by 08 I was involved with the SC polls for WWE and WCW. That really turned me into a ultra-hardcore fan and I haven't looked back since.
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