Jump to content
Pro Wrestling Only

PeteF3

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    10285

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by PeteF3

  1. PeteF3
    Apparently the Genius raided the remnants of Chris Champion's hair that had been cut off. They're still pushing a Genius/Beefcake feud--I guess it's a placeholder for the summer but it still seems like an odd program for a guy ostensibly being groomed to take the IC title.
  2. PeteF3
    Terrific match, actually I'm not overly convinced that it wasn't as good or better than WrestleWar. It's a little heel-in-peril-ish but the HIP stuff is so fast-paced and executed so well that it doesn't matter. Zenk is still an albatross around the other 3 guys' necks in any given match, but Pillman is excellent here. Pillman does a blind cross body and eats the tennis racket, setting up the Midnights for a title match at Capital Combat.
  3. PeteF3
    Hansen, apparently upset that Tenryu's getting this title shot and not him, unloads on Tenryu before the match, hanging him against the turnbuckle and knocking him silly with a Lariat. Jumbo runs off Hansen, but when he checks on Tenryu and gets slapped, he decides, "Fuck this sportsmanship shit" and instantly tries to put Tenryu away. Tenryu weathers that storm but it's pretty much Jumbo's match, as Tenryu sort of shoots his wad by hitting the power bomb early and seemingly the tide turns in the opening minutes when that fails to put him away. Totally agreed on Tenryu's departure being timed right in retrospect. Knowing how slowly AJPW liked to elevate people, they needed something to force their hand and get behind the future Four Corners. Tenryu is already becoming a forgotten man as he's quickly ushered to the locker room after his defeat and Hansen and Jumbo mix it up again after the match. There would still be occasions to come in this decade of Hansen going nuts on people before and after the bell, but this is is about the last time we'll see a prolonged, extended pre- or post-match angle in an All-Japan ring.
  4. PeteF3
    What a coup for the USWA to get Yahoo Serious at the height of his Stateside fame to cut a promo for them.
  5. PeteF3
    And here I thought there was far more aggression in Anjoh/Takada. I'm getting to the point where I don't even know what I'm watching anymore when it comes to the UWF. The upset finish was nice but this was clearly the #2 match of the night and only marginally better than Maeda/Nakano, which is not a knock per se, I just liked the other two matches a lot.
  6. PeteF3
    I think there's a Savage/Bad News match with the same dueling airplane spin spots with Savage in the opposite role. He definitely used it in Memphis a few times as well.
  7. PeteF3
    Christ, I'm finding these discrepancies comical at this point. Shave five or so minutes off of this and it's a legit MOTYC. Yeah, I said it. The stand-up strike exchanges were dynamite with Anjo throwing great palm strikes and Takada having the advantage when he kept his distance by throwing kicks. Takada even lands a VICIOUS spin kick that is worth preserving as it's probably the only time in his professional career that that ever happened. Some great "near falls" on the mat, but also a lot of LONG stretches where one guy or another is in a pro wrestling-style lateral press position and nothing much is happening--hence the length being an issue. Finish also sort of comes out of nowhere even by shoot standards. Still really good, and for the record my favorite Anjo singles match is still the one with Tenryu.
  8. PeteF3
    Hah! I'm just going to be the shootstyle maverick forever and ever. I think one of many issues I have with the UWF is the perception that the top guys are all interchangeable in terms of push and star power--it makes every match more or less inconsequential and the equivalent to a die roll, because I don't get any sense of anyone being elevated or not. Well, now we have a match where a top guy is facing someone clearly underneath him, and Mr. Underneath is going all out fighting for his life. Love the headbutts from Nakano and loved how behind him the crowd was. Maeda wins relatively quickly...but he SHOULD win quickly. He's the Top Guy, not Nakano. Great sense of impending dread as Nakano is about to go up for the capture suplex, and he's done after that. Fun way to get the bad Japanese indy taste out of my mouth.
  9. PeteF3
    In retrospect, I should have seen the result coming with the title vs. title stip. Can anyone seriously imagine Finkle saying, "The winner, and NEW Intercontinental Champion, Hulk Hogan!"?
  10. PeteF3
    Jesus Christ, seriously? She's practically in Nicole Bass territory here.
  11. PeteF3
    Billy Jack is certainly unhinged enough that you can buy him snapping by seeing Larry holding a trash can, video evidence be damned. BIG JUICE and LITTLE JUICE? I knew about the Juicer gimmick but holy fuck. Haynes goes nuts afterward, blaming Oregon for not supporting him or his gym. He says "SHUT UP" a few too many times but gets in a dig at the little Juicers--"You like midget wrestling, huh?"
  12. PeteF3
    Scotty squashes some fan in an arm wrestling challenge, and as he's gloating the crowd explodes. RODDY PIPER! Piper takes up the challenge and wins Scotty's cash. I vaguely remember seeing Piper's name in the PWI rankings for PNW, but that was unexpected.
  13. PeteF3
    A very dapper-looking Tony Atlas explains who the only ICW competitor is to dress this fine. We close with another Elmer Fudd laugh.
  14. PeteF3
    Cornette's facial reaction mirrors probably 99% of the audience. What's RoboCop "returning" from, anyway?
  15. PeteF3
    A testament to working smart over working hard, though it's not as though there isn't hard work on display here. The 'birds are out of shape and have perhaps the scuzziest, sleaziest look in the history of national wrestling promotions, but this is about as good of a match as you can hope for--especially with them going a half hour and having to work on top in three distinct FIP periods. Good lucha-esque opening fall that's mass chaos and ends quickly before we slow things down. The 'birds apparently lash the R'nRs with a leather belt after the match which Jim Ross says will not be shown in kind of a weird bit of censoring, setting up the Country Whipping Match at Capital Combat. This almost reminds me of WCW trying to hype the Hogan/Flair first-blood match without being able to say "first-blood" on television.
  16. PeteF3
    Woman is a paragon of sartorial pulchritude! The Midnight Express-as-Horsemen tease has apparently evaporated already. Great, heated segment with Luger coming off like a million-dollar star. Luger temporarily fights off Flair and an interfering Ole Anderson before Woman's high-heel shoe is used for possibly the first (but oh most definitely not the last) time. Arn, Ole, and Flair have enough time before the cavalry comes to leave Luger laying.
  17. PeteF3
    Good angle and I even liked Dusty going nuts upon making the save, as he sort of tries to channel the Cornette/Baby Doll attack. That said, it bears repeating how much at the time I hated the thought of Savage being stuck in this feud for months to come.
  18. PeteF3
    It may not have been 315 pounds but it was clearly a hell of a lot of weight.
  19. PeteF3
    "Brother Rhythm" and "Brother Blues" are set to appear on American Bandstand, MTV, and Soul Train! They make threats towards the Bushwhackers for ruining their WM6 performance.
  20. PeteF3
    We apparently caught Ole in the middle of his day job as head coach of the University of Minnesota football team. Ole assumes that Sting is going to announce his retirement from wrestling, and Sting pretends to waffle on the decision before putting Anderson in his place. Sting promises a BIG surprise for Capital Combat. I know of two surprises Sting unveiled at that show and neither of them are good.
  21. PeteF3
    So this one has its own interesting backstory, as the advertised match was Hulk Hogan vs. Terry Gordy for the WWF title. When AJPW got word that Hogan dropped the title to the Warrior, Baba was quite upset and Gordy ended up backing out of the match entirely, supposedly (according to a Meltzer post on Classics) at the advice of Stan Hansen himself. Guess who "selflessly" volunteered to step in and do a job to Hogan in order to save the show. Great performance from Hogan, who is all business and vicious aggression here, which is fitting in the face of his title loss and is something that I really wish the homogenized WWF product could have touched on at some point. Double juice and that a hot finishing stretch of countermoves before an Axe Bomber puts Hansen down.
  22. PeteF3
    Lousy match that the crowd is quite clearly shitting on. There's audible laughing during the early Warrior power spots and then it sort takes a Hack Myers ECW feel with the constant "Shah!"-ing from the audience on every move.
  23. PeteF3
    Great to see Tenryu being drawn into a WWF Sportz Entertainment match in the face of what's to come with Hogan later. Sherri is working for about 6 outside, getting into arguments with Tenryu, the crowd, the AJPW officials, and everyone else within earshot. She also has a tremendous moment where she's putting her high heels back on after clocking Tenryu with one, and she flashes a ridiculously insincerely innocent smile and wave at Kyohei Wada as she does so.
  24. PeteF3
    Bret and Misawa work like they're underwater, and the crowd shits on the ending in a major way though it seems the (in)action didn't lose them before. Supposedly the WWF policy of not doing time limit announcements was one of several factors working against this. Of interest to see that, yes, Bret and Misawa worked each other once.
  25. PeteF3
    Similar promo on Awesome as before. Lawler is somehow being forced to team with Ronnie P. Gossett in what amounts to a handicap match against Mike Awesome & Chris Champion.
×
×
  • Create New...