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[1997-01-06-WWF-Raw] Shawn Michaels and Sid
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in January 1997
When SID was born, HE WAS BORN THE MAN!!! SID has been the best character in WWF. Total proto-Stone Cold while Stone Cold is right there. Shawn dancing on table is the bullshit that Shawn haters hate the most But all those people have huge sticks up theirs asses. Shawn was out to prove he didn't give a fuck but in doing so he clearly did give a fuck. So did Bret. The problem isn't that they were so different it is that they are both really similar in that are very sensitive men. Shawn was being a try hard. SID doesn't give a fuck and HE IS THE MASTER & THE RULER OF THE WORLD!!! -
[1997-01-11-WWF-Shotgun Saturday Night] Fondle Me Elmo
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in January 1997
Watched this again. Still hilarious! Probably my favorite wrestling vignette of all time. Sunny is just out of this world hot. I watched this episode of Shotgun Saturday Night. Vince shilling Sunny home sex video in his usual babyface announcer voice like Koko Ware vs Ron Bass was next up made this all the funnier. Incredible stuff!- 14 replies
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He comes from a place where you can't drink the water. He's not much taller than my two year old daughter. Hey! Masacrita! OMG dying laughing. Sunny was so ridiculously hot here doing the Macarena. Masacrita and Mini Vader have a blowaway great exhibition. Some of the best wrestling I've seen recently. There Cornetter gets humiliated when they pants him. Awesome pro wrestling segment. Sunny dancing on a table to close out! I need a time machine pronto
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[1997-01-04-WWF-Shotgun Saturday Night] Bob Backlund and Goldust
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in January 1997
I guess Marlena exposing herself didn't make the set but yeah the precursor to Debra. Sunny being all jealous and catty was great. Sunny pointing out how she was surprised how well Sultan was faring even with his lack of experience goes to show that Sunny wasn't all gimmick and she could have been a phenomenal commentator. Sunny promises a hot, erotic home video in response to Marlena's reveal well just tickle me pink with excitement 😋- 10 replies
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Sunny is the most underutilized talent in wrestling history. Backlund talking about banning Saturday night is funny. Vince is fucking hilarious in this setting. He is such an uncool dad but it works. His line about Mothet Smucker with a name like that she must be good referencing the food brand had me rolling.
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Anti-climatic. Shawn Michaels does his sarcastic fuck you shit which is fun and fine. Bret deserves it because he is a sanctimonious hypocrite. All the Bret bullshit that Shawn is a nancy boy and poses in Playgirl is so lame. I wanted Shawn to kick Bret's teeth down his throat for going on and on. SID! YES! YES! YES! POWERBOMB THESE TWO CRYBABIES TO HELL!!! Sid is by far the coolest muthafucka on RAW. Austin is a dangerous, sadistic prick. I cant get behind that. Sid is cool. Sid/Taker/Vader brawl. Good to see Vader in the mix.
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I have been enjoying the Karate Fighters tournament. The best part was Sunny getting DQ'd for using bubble gum to her toy on this allowed Sable to make the finals. Lawler is facing Sable in the finals. Sable has her husband, the Wildman so Lawler brings out Triple H. Lawler throws fit after he loses to a woman. They beat up Mero. Goldust saves. Lawler is confused why Goldust would care if Triple H made a pass on Marlena if he is you know...Goldust says "what?" Lawler stammers you know and finally says Queer. Goldust says No and punches him. That is how you turn babyface by asserting your heterosexuality. Lame. Original Goldust gimmick was so fucking good. Babyface Goldust was so lame. Don't feel like making threads for the followup. Goldust keeps watching HHH's matches from the arena. Marlena is ridiculously hot. When you have Sunny, Marlena and Sable that is just an embarrassment of riches. HHH beats Mero after Mero misses the Merosault and hits the Pedigree. After being treated like shit, surprised to get HHH get the straight, clean win. Next week, HHH faces Flash Funk and again HHH has a forgettable but solid performance if it was not for connections I don't see why he got pushed. HHH clobbers Funk with the title to win but Funk still gets to hit the 450 splash. I am disappointed Lawler/Goldust only got like two minutes. Goldust/HHH brawl after HHH kidnaps Marlena caveman style. HHH throws Marlena to Mero, who is trying to stop him and Goldust runs over Marlena and Mero by accident. HHH kicks his ass hey HHH does get some heat on Goldust which he needed. It is weird but HHH has been the most prominent of these RAWs wrestling more frequently than the main eventers and having more storyline progression.
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This thread was created solely to tell everyone to watch this match to see Sunny's entrance. Damn! I MEAN DOUBLE HOT DAMN! WOW! Sunny has had her eye on young Rocky. Lots of good innuendo. Sunny is really good on commentary. In the first Rocky/Sincere match about a month ago, Sincere kissed Rocky and she said "Now Im jealous" the way she said had me laughing out loud. These two have your basic, wrestling 101 match, but Sunny kills the game here.
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I fast forwarded to the finish. Never heard of this and was totally surprised. Interesting. Billy takes a hot shot and sells it as a stinger, temporary paralysis. Wives rush the ring as does the medical team. This has Russo's fingerprints all over it. Novel idea to waste on a midcard match. Billy's selling was pretty good. Bart was atrocious. But by doing it on a midcard match makes it feel like it could happen anytime. I don't know. The follow up the following week was weak and to really sell it they should have had all the heavy hitters talking about it and make the repercussions felt in other storylines. That is the downfall of Russo booking, no follow-up.
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[1996-12-16-WWF-Raw] Interview: Bret Hart / Steve Austin vs Vader
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in December 1996
Thus begins the Bret heel turn. I don't know if that was the intention, but that's how the promo feels. Bret is pissed at Austin & Shawn for fucking around in his match with Sid the previous night and costing him the belt. I agree with what Bret says in his book that the commentators were quasi-burying on RAW. He was wrestling fucking Fake Razor and Vince was all like I don't know if he will get another chance at the title. Austin/Vader was great in the same vein as Austin/Mankind not quite as good as that. Austin is so energetic at this point in his career. A bull in a China Shop. He is such a miserable son of a bitch too. Vader gets into it and starts clobbering him. Bret swears up and down he wont interfere, but he does. So much for being a role model, but that was the point. Bret gets a modicum of revenge by applying the Sharpshooter.- 11 replies
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[1996-12-15-WWF-It's Time] Bret Hart vs Sid
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in December 1996
WWF World Heavyweight Champion Sycho Sid vs Bret Hart - WWF It's Time 1996 Shawn is definitely at a low point in his life, but goddamn if he doesn't come up with some real gems on commentary. Shawn mocking Bret as the Moral Judge of the Universe and calling Sid the biggest piece of luggage in history because he has to carry him everywhere is lol-worthy. Bret is not as good as carrying Sid to a great match because he forces Sid to wrestle his match. Bret is a grinder and he just grinds Sid into the ground forcing Sid to sell (yuck!) and work underneath. Stupid! Sid is a badass. Bret is a great seller! It could have been great. Just a dumb match from Bret that shows he didn't trust Sid at all. Lots of shades of grey booking in the main event. Sid seems to be straddling the line. Shawn is all over the place. Bret seems like a babyface, but wrestles this match as a heel, but Bret wrestles as a heel more often than not. The finish was great with Austin clipping the knee. Bulldog saves, but Owen is arguing. So that's interesting and definitely was Austin/Bulldog for Mania 13 before Shawn left. They take too long to get into finish losing some of the momentum. Shawn lets Bret have the chair. Sid decks Bret and is pissed at Shawn. Pie-faces him. Shawn takes exception to it. Gets on apron. Don't get on the apron in a Sid match! Sid throws Bret into Shawn and Sid powerbombs him for the win. The Master & Ruler of The World! ***** booking, pretty average match though. Bret by the numbers. -
They call Hunter, Triple H in the video package. 1996 is such a cool year in the WWF. I feel like everyone had a distinct and interesting gimmick. The sadistic Greenwich snob that uses people vs the Macho Man/Liz reboot for the 90s is actually a good contrast. I think in terms of characters/gimmicks in WWF, 96-97 is the peak. This match unfortunately is not very good. They kinda skip the shine which is silly because Mero is over for two reasons: Sable and his moves. GIve the crowd something to invest in! HHH focuses this match on lots of cutoffs because he doesn't have any offense. There is not a whole lot of emotion in this match which is a problem with most HHH matches. I really liked the transition of HHH grabbing Sable using her as a human shield and then cheapshotting Mero. That's good heel work. But after that there is no gas. Mero does get to hit his cool moves. On commentary they informed us that Helmsley hit on Marlena. Thus beginning the babyface turn of Goldust, BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Just as Goldust was healing up they cut his balls off by turning him. Goldust should have had a main event heel run. Sad! Goldust attacks both men with the title. Mero wins by countount and is pissed and hits the real Shooting Star Press (see JR that's a Shooting Star Press!). Nice they send the crowd home happy with that finish. HHH looks like a chump two weeks in a row squashed by Sid on RAW and then this. Internet fans would be so pissed nowadays lol. HHH does need to get some heat in this Goldust feud. Meh match.
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Squash match! Helmsley gets no offense. Eats a POWERBOMB! He rolls out for a countout loss. Vince's bitching out of the IC Champion was happening as early as 1996. Did it happen earlier than that? I feel like the prestige dropped when Jarrett/Razor were feuding and when Shawn dropped it due to Syracuse was the last straw. Interesting match. Also the opener which continues the trend of WWF not starting with promos but with big names in big matches (Bret/Owen, Austin/Mankind and now the World Champ).
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[1996-12-15-WWF-It's Time] Flash Funk vs Leif Cassidy
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in December 1996
I wouldn't say it is specifically this match, but I think 1996 in general shows the shift in the WWF landscape. These type of matches used to be the domain of WCW. Two random good, hard working midcarders having a workrate match. Here it is on WWF TV with the announcers extolling it for just that. I actually enjoy the Flash Funk gimmick quite a bit. The jumpsuit was shit, but the coat, hat and dancing is fun. I think wrestling fans just don't like fun sometimes. The babyface shine in this sucked and Scorpio seemed off. Snow doing a bunch of cool moves is so 90s. Overhead belly to belly to the floor was an impressive bump by Scorpio. By the end Scorpio gets a bunch of cool moves in and they are great. His moonsault may be the best ever. Jim Ross blowing the call of the 450 Splash as the Shooting Star Press after being such a prick about Vince not being call moves is rich. It is too bad Vince didn't know to correct him because that would have been great. Fun match, more interesting as a paradigm shift in WWF booking more than anything else but nothing extraordinary and pales in comparison to Rey Jr, Eddy and Benoit at the same time.- 10 replies
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Sunny, HOLY SHIT! Good God in Heaven! Skipped most of the match. Caught the end and there was a total holy shit bump. They were going for a superplex and both of these muthafuckas just tumbled from the top rope to the floor. It looked scary as fuck. Of course because there are two bad muthas they no sell it and do some lame finish I cant remember. I don't care if that was not planned, they should have sold the hell out of it. Ahmed Johnson is rover like over getting the crowd to chant thunderously "Youre going down" at Faarooq.
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[1996-11-18-WWF-Raw] Steve Austin vs Mankind
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in November 1996
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Mankind - WWF RAW 11/18/96 The beginning of this match is fucking awesome. This is how you do an organic, out of control, chaotic brawl! Nothing feels rehearsed and everything feels earned. They are great at looking uncooperative with one another. Austin is just a total unhinged, loose canon psychopath. He is madder than a fucking hornet and is a total bull in the china shop. Him cutting out all that passé technical bullshit was the best thing that ever happened to him because he is so much more interesting here. Mankind takes a bunch of nutty bumps. I love Austin just kicking a field goal in between Mankind's legs at one point to stop his momentum. The match does peter out once it becomes a more conventional heat segment with Mankind working on top and eventually the Executioner (Terry Gordy) comes out to run interference. Definitely watch the beginning because it is incredible and demonstrated proto-Stone Cold brawling. ***1/2 Interesting on how these RAWs they tend to run the main events as openers kinda like the SNME's front-loading the show. I wonder when that changes.- 18 replies
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Dustin vs Windham in 96 is SAD! Really should have gotten a blowoff to the DUUUUUUUUUSSTIN heel turn by Barry in late 92 with a badass series of matches in early 93.
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Same RAW as Austin/Pillman gun angle. Sid is way cooler than Shawn here. Sid has crazy charisma. He is hilarious as a bully picking on Michaels. if Donald Trump was a wrestler, he would be Sid. Tons of charisma, but no talent. Sid calling Shawn little man felt fucking hot as hell. I thought this was a great heated segment. We see these type of lame orchestrated confrontations all the time, but I thought they did a good job making this feel uncomfortable with the shots each one was taking at each other and actually leading to getting psychical in an organic way.
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[1996-11-25-WWF-Raw] Interview: Shawn Michaels & Jose Lothario
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in November 1996
I feel like Vince was way too quick to jump down Shawn's throat. Shawn was trying to convey anger about the situation but was not exactly working and I feel like Vince should not have undercut him there.- 11 replies
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[1996-11-04-WWF-Raw] Steve Austin-Brian Pillman confrontation
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in November 1996
Never seen this before but have heard about since almost Day One of being a fan. Melanie Pillman was quite distracting to me in this. ;) I thought Brian and Austin were good in this. Austin is such a great psycho. You really believe that he is completely unhinged and dangerous as fuck. The Gun thing was stupid. It was funny Vince calling this promotional stunt when he was the one orchestrating it. Great shoot comment that was supposed to be a shoot comment moment.- 12 replies
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[1996-11-04-WWF-Raw] Karate Fighters commercial
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in November 1996
I watched all the November RAWs recently as actually enjoyed these bits a lot. I love how once Sid wins the World Title, he gets too big for britches and pulls out of the tournament. WWF was killing it with the triumvirate of Sunny, Sable & Marlena. -
[1991-08-09-NJPW-Violent Storm] Jushin Liger vs Akira Nogami
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in August 1991
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Jushin Thunder Liger vs AKIRA Nogami - NJPW 8/9/91 I skipped the Benoit title defense in July, but will re-watch later when I can actually watch matches that I don't already have on my harddrive. To me I thought this was a total spotfest after the opening matwork, which is odd because I thought this was some of the best juniors matwork of this era. I loved how surfboards were not given they had to be earned. We need to see that more. After that it was just bombs away! I have no problem with that because Liger may be my pick for the greatest offensive pro wrestler in history. I loved the Akira seeking dropkick that Akira almost avoided twice, but still got nailed. Then that dive from the top rope out into the crowd was insane! Liger is the man! But still there was stuff like Liger doing a Super Butterfly Suplex (awesome spot) and AKIRA was on offense shortly thereafter. That's what this was a string of bombs. Liger outclassed Akira, but Akira was not a total slouch. It was just a great spotfest. Liger misses a moonsault and then AKIRA hits a German for two. Great nearfall! That was a good transition. The fighting over the different suplexes before AKIRA settled into a butterfly suplex with a BRIDGE!!! WOW! AWESOME FINISH! I thought it was missing long term selling and transitions, but Liger's offense was incredible and that finish was all sorts of awesome. ***3/4 -
[1991-06-12-NJPW-Fighting Connection] Jushin Liger vs Norio Honaga
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in June 1991
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Norio Honaga vs Jushin Liger - NJPW 6/12/91 Jushin Liger finally gets the monkey off his back. He does so by wrestling within himself and not letting himself be provoked into anger. As a standalone match this is good, but in the context of the matches beforehand, this is excellent. Liger got all his hate out in May and now it is time to win the championship back. He knows he cant afford another loss and this may be his last crack at his title for a while if he loses. So he cant go apeshit and leave himself open to a fluke loss. Honaga has the balls to offer a handshake, which makes me smile and Liger slaps his hand away in disgust. You see Honaga try to goad Liger to the outside or to lash out in anger by going for the mask, but Liger stays cool. Honaga definitely loses a lot of his charm without the ballshots and scumbag tactics, but he still had some good cutoffs and offense. His dive to the outside where he completely belly flops on the concrete is insane! Liger beats the living shit out of him after that. Honaga gets some offense in, but this is the best hits of Jushin Thunder Liger in one compact, badass package. He finishes with Top Rope DDT to prove that he still is The Man. Not as great as their bloody brawls prior, but as a definitive climax that showed Liger needed to stay calm, play his own game and not play Honaga's game I thought it was excellent in the context of the story. **** -
[1991-05-31-NJPW-Heavy Crush] Jushin Liger vs Norio Honaga
Superstar Sleeze replied to Loss's topic in May 1991
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Norio Honaga vs Jushin Liger - NJPW 5/31/91 I feel like no one says hey you gotta check out the Honaga vs Liger feud well they fucking should! Because this has been gold. I love how hate-filled the early 90s Liger feuds are (Sano, Honaga and Sammy) all have bloody brawls in their series. Not that mid-to-late 90s with their more technically inclined matches aren't great, but these are just superb. It really shows that the early Juniors style was more harkening back to the glory days of 70s and 80s bloody brawling. Here Honaga is more confident and is controlling on the mat. Liger seems tentative. Liger is able to use some speed and to create a Honaga mistake as he misses a clothesline. Big suplex over the top! DIVE FROM TOP TO THE FLOOR! Liger is feeling it and he wants the strap baby! Honaga gets the ballshot in when he kicks his leg up. Honaga tears the mask complete off and then just goes to town on Liger. Powerbomb onto the table again! But this time LIGER IS PISSED!!! Liger finally unleashes that can of whoop-ass we have been waiting for. He blasts Honaga repeatedly in the head with the chair. Honaga exposed the turnbuckles and Liger repeatedly sends his head into the buckles. Kneedrops and kicks to the head. Clawing at the open wound. Liger rips off the remnants of the mask and is just kicking ass. Ramping Honaga head in to hard metal and punching him with metal objects. Hell he pulls one out of my brother's playbook beating him with the turnbuckle padding. The thing is Liger wants revenge, inflict pain and humiliate Honaga, but he is not trying to put him away. That could spell disaster for Liger. Liger really needs to try to pin him. Liger goes for a bulldog and Honaga hoists him up and drops him balls first on the top rope. I love how ballshots are Honaga's way of transitioning. He doesn't get the top rope clothesline but the missile dropkick instead for two. Clothesline gets two. Did Liger really blow it? German -> 2! KAPPO KICK IN THE CORNER FOR LIGER!!! Here we go! Go for the win brutha! Liger, sunset flip in the corner, Honaga kneels down on it, hands on the ropes! Honage does it again! Liger blows it! Great progression here both booking and match execution. Liger finally gets a chance to tear into that piece of shit, Honaga, but overindulges and Honaga pulls out a cheap win. ****1/4- 13 replies