PeteF3
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The problem is Austin's mass-destruction act doesn't work with a guy as laid-back and too-cool-for-school as Nash. He just comes off as a sociopath instead of someone perpetually angry. Madusa: "YOU BIG NEANDERT'AL PIECE O' LOOKIN' CRAP!" Did Madusa *ever* successfully get through a promo without a blown line?
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Bischoff has the chutzpah to say, "This is classic" as a Cloudy impersonator walks out. So apparently the idea here is that Savage thinks Nash is a woman, am I getting these last few weeks of brilliant storytelling correctly? Bischoff's comments about Mona are the most offensive thing (among many) about this, and honestly as bad or worse than the "Molly has a big ass" stuff later on in WWE. Miss Madness is a guy because she can do a top-rope huracanrana, apparently.
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Curt does throw himself into this, really getting you to believe he's willing to fight over musical opinion. All the babyfaces wearing Astros gear was kind of eye-rolling and deservedly called out by Hennig.
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Still not really sold on Koji as any kind of superworker but he looked far, far better here than in his other recent matches that were pimped heavily. Maybe it's because he concentrated on submissions instead of unleashing his mostly mediocre High-End Offense (except for the moonsault). And of course Liger is a master.
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"One can't grieve forever," as Jerry Lawler said after the Hawk suicide angle. The WWF had a title change scheduled at Over the Edge, and we can't have anything getting in the way of that. Undertaker rebuts Austin's promo with a possibly unintentional Police lyric. The Greater Power hype is now in full force, and no question, it was a compelling mystery. -
I'll give them credit for making the flaming table out to be a big deal--and even done with psychology, since it pays back Balls burning Joel Gertner, Bubba Ray and D-Von really sell it as a convenient set of circumstances that they ended up with the lighter fluid available to use, and the bump is sold and put over properly.
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Does any footage or photos exist of Dynamite Kid in IWE?
PeteF3 replied to SPS's topic in Pro Wrestling
There's one IWE match of his circulating, against Ashura Hara. It's on one of the IWE commercial box sets, I believe. -
What in God's name was the point of this? Wait, don't answer that--we close with a rather cheap and gratuitous shot at Chastity.
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Gordy looks kind of gone while Hayes is talking, but he manages to get his point across in his promo. Hayes with a little nod to history, pointing out what he did previously in Jonesboro to Randy Hales.
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Memphis wrestling pays tribute to a former Unified World champion.
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Thunder is now very much a "go out and wrestle and fill 15 minutes" show, as we've seen in post-buyout UWF, 1984 New Japan, and other promotions nearing death's door. It doesn't lead to ratings or a hot product but it can lead to really, really good matches like this. I knew they wouldn't deign to have Benoit actually beat Page by pin or submission but I was actually okay with the finish, since it put Benoit over that DDP needed "saving" from him. I have no idea why Flair and Benoit are enemies now, though.
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What was the date of this pls? 5/10/86.
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The Macho Mid-Life Crisis tour continues, oooh yeah. It may say something about the state of 1999 wrestling in general, and WCW specifically, that I have to give this promo some relative props because it's mostly, "On June 13 at the Bash I'm gonna take Nash's title." I have no idea what the point was of Gene trying to pole poll the ladies, though.
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In terms of putting heat on the bookers, the WWE has done itself no favors in that regard by basically portraying itself as a heel promotion for the past 19 years.
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Sigh. Sadly the WWF would get more practice with this in the coming years. Many of the testimonials are sincere, especially the two seen here, but the cynic in me still detects a sense of deflection and spin from the WWF as a whole, and maybe some individual members of the roster.
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Eat your heart out, Riki Choshu. This is how you book yourself selflessly. Nash's line about George's box seems to fly completely over the audience's heads.
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The debut of the Mulkey Brothers in the WTBS studio, getting brutalized for almost ten minutes by an enraged Midnight Express out to send a message after the James Boys hogtied and dragged Jim Cornette. Tony: "That young man might not get up--..." Cornette: "I DON'T CARE!"
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Hennig seems out of it, fumbling less-than-perfectly with his headset and calling Schiavone "Tenay." Schiavone hypes the "hip, new relationship" between WCW and Tommy Boy Records. Hip and new--that's Tony, all right. And what better choice to head up the West Texas Rednecks than Minnesota's Greatest Athlete? (Not that there aren't rednecks in Minnesota.) Some guy for Tommy Boy declares that this is the first time that wrestling, in its long history, has merged with music. Oh come ON--no company who so shamelessly courts 1980's WWF fans should be letting that one slide. Raven expresses his like for Afrika Bambaata in a desperate attempt to lend this some credibility. Konnan comes out to spark a brawl with Hennig due to Curt's heinous and inflammatory remarks that he prefers Willie Nelson to rap. Fightin' words indeed.
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Eubanks is there to plug the wrestling match on the Tonight Show that won't happen. Other clips follow of what appears to be very much a poor man's Hard Rock Cafe.
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DDP jumping Sting during the video-game-playing was kind of amusing. Leaving aside the giant elephant in the room here, Bret's focus is all over the place. In three segments he's made noise about a feud with Goldberg, Nash, and now re-starting his feud with Sting.
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Tony seems to be choking up. Good for WCW.
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A surreal night for me. I met some friends at a bookstore for a semi-formal debate on various school issues, then came home to enter the WWF AOL chat to get caught up on the PPV. Owen had already fallen and his death would be announced in probably another half hour. I still wasn't 100% convinced it wasn't a work until my 11 o'clock news had their own coverage. Meanwhile my brother, who hates wrestling but shares my love of cinematic cheese, was providing some needed levity with details on the Jesse Ventura TV movie.
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As does this meth-head announcer's mullet. "Well, he beat the Fabulous Rocker to win that title..." "He DID? Well I'M impressed!"
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I'm not really aware of a long past between the Freebirds and Samoans, but what the hell--another sterling promo for Hayes, throwing a new twist to the feud.
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Lots of urgency all throughout this, equally spread throughout the stand-up and mat portions. I can't say that I was super-emotionally invested but this was great work with some pretty compelling strike exchanges, leading to one of the better shootstyle matches of the year.