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EricR

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  1. EricR

    WWECW

    Found a few discs of early years WWECW during my move that I didn't realize I had. I didn't get SyFy channel until they changed their name from SciFi to SyFy, so I've seen hardly any of the WWECW stuff from 2006-2008. I vaguely remember reading about different things, but I've only seen probably 5% of it with my eyeballs. 1. CM Punk vs. Marcus Cor Von This is all so bizarro universe to me, as I was obviously watching WWE during this same time period, but here's Monty Brown coming out to theme music I've never heard while Joey Styles talks about him. Cor Von seemed massive in TNA and here seems about 15 pounds larger than Punk, maybe. Still Cor Von (gosh this is a stupid name) works over Punk's back nicely by posting him and tossing him with a sweet overhead belly-to-belly. Punk transitions to control by dodging a Cor Von charge, and instantly Cor Von is selling as much damage as Punk so that's odd. Punk is still selling his ribs in between doing offense, which includes an awful springboard clothesline. I don't remember digging early WWE babyface punk at all, and this is reminding me why. Styles is selling Punk's "broken" ribs in that really fucking obnoxious way that Styles sells things. But holy shit Cor Von hits the Pounce and THAT move still looks great as Punk flings himself into the ropes neck first (with his neck hitting the bottom rope in a nasty way). For a 10 minute match this wasn't very good. We get Raw highlights all dealing with the Edge/Mr. Kennedy feud which is about as much eyeball poison as a person should be able to handle. If I asked you to name a shittier sounding match off the top of your head, I don't know if you'd be able to. 2. The Sandman vs. Snitsky Gene Snitsky was a guy who was bad at pro wrestling, but some people enjoyed him because he was "so bad he was good", even though "so bad it's good" isn't actually a thing. What was really annoying about all that, is a few of us who enjoyed Mark Henry around this time got lumped into the same crowd of people ironically liking Snitsky, as if we were only liking him to be kewl or something. At least 95% of those assholes know how awesome Mark Henry is now. For all I know Snitsky may have died a couple years ago. I do remember that when he moved to ECW he changed his look, which meant shaving his thinning/receding roidz 'do (and his eyebrows) and purposely making his teeth yellow and jagged. I may only remember one Snitsky match I thought was good (I think I liked a TV match against Matt Hardy) but I gotta give him credit for fully committing to a look. The dude looks gross. Oh, and this match goes 1 minute as Snitsky hits a couple clubbing blows and then whiffs on a big boot and Sandman gets zero offense. So I assume a few original ECW guys were signed to 1 year deals and this was like the end of that 1 year and they just gave not one shit about them anymore? Extreme Expose are dancing in the ring. I have never witnessed EE but it seems to be perfectly fine in a Nitro Girls type of way. The only thing I remember about them was Meltzer always harping on how bad Kelly Kelly looked compared to the other two (I assume Layla and the other one have more dance training). The crowd - to my surprise - doesn't completely shit on this, which is probably due more to them not overstaying their welcome. I'll take 2 minutes of foxy ladies dancing to "Toxic" over 15 minutes of Abraham Washington. 3. Brian Major vs. Elijah Burke Well, I have zero memory of Zach Ryder and Curt Hawkins wrestling as "Brett and Brian Major", even though they apparently had a bunch of matches on Smackdown. How is it that I can remember all the Manu matches but not these guys? The first time I remember seeing them was when they were Edge lackeys. I assumed they had never appeared on TV before that. Huh. This was a good short match as Burke stiffed Major up and Major flopped well and leaned into things. I really liked Burke's knees and he had some great kicks to the stomach. Major misses big on a crossbody and then the match ends on a weak note because instead of using his awesome Elijah Express running double knees, he ends it with what is apparently called the Elijah Experience, which is basically The Stroke. So he just grabs the back of Major's head, and throws him to the mat, but it really looks like Major flinging himself face first into the mat. Wah wah. 4. Vince MacMahon, Shane MacMahon and Umaga vs. Rob Van Dam That is great. So apparently Vince put the title on himself and proclaims himself Mr. Extreme. His strut coming out for this match is epic as he has full on Vince legs, and big swinging arms, occasionally throwing in a pimp limp. He's also wearing his all black gear and doo rag. Shane really is just the best pudgy backyarder. It seems like a miracle he doesn't blow any sequences. When you think back to how horrific David Flair was then Shane practically comes off like prime Misawa. He and RVD actually work really well together and it's satisfying seeing reckless RVD kicks catch Shane in the chin and forehead. Shane throws a couple nice elbow drops, RVD takes a big bump to the floor when Umaga pulls the rope down, and I'm digging this way more than I should be. Vince is great as a Jimmy Hart/Bobby Heenan "forced to compete" guy, except he chose to compete so has an extra layer of hubris running parallel to his chickenshit routine. He's fun running in and trying to pin RVD after Umaga beats him up, scrambling back to the apron while making Vince faces and Don Knotts mannerisms. We get a hot fake finishing sequence with Shane doing a big bump over the top to the floor, and RVD countering Umaga offense in cool ways. The MacMahons cheat to transition back to offense, and Shane actually hits a superplex! Once Umaga hits the big splash off the top and Samoan Spike, Vince freaks out wanting the "hot" tag and then struts around with the belt after the match. I couldn't really say it was a good match, but it was plenty fun for 10 minutes and peaked nicely.
  2. I'm watching an old WCW Saturday Night and it's sponsored by a Nintendo 64 baseball game, and the player featured in the ad is Ken Caminiti. You cannot pick a more fucking appropriate baseball player to be featured in a commercial during a pro wrestling program.
  3. That's because Will buried Abby/Wajima from the public.
  4. I think Park should be bumped up to Excellent Also think Hector Garza should be added to the bottom category, along with Cien Caras and Mascara Ano Dos Mil. Javier Llanes is hard to rank as I'm pretty sure there are only like 12 matches of his to make tape.
  5. Out of guys Jimmy Redman mentioned, I would rank it Cena>Khali>Tanahasihi>Edge in terms of offense. Tanahashi's offense may be distractingly bad, but Edge had maybe the worst offense I have ever seen in main event pro wrestling. Nothing about that guy was believable or good or watchable. Not only did he execute every single move worse than any other worker I've seen (meaning that every move he attempted, looked worse than any other worker I've seen attempt the same move) but his facials are the most annoying thing I've seen within the context of pro wrestling. So you combine awful looking wrestling with a man who you can't stand looking at... Fuck I have no idea what this really has to do with Tanahashi, only that I rarely like Tanahashi but would gladly watch him over Edge.
  6. Never compare AJ to Taco. AJ looks like a petulent teenager. Taco is awesome.
  7. Flipping through the channels right now and the biker (?) stable was all in the ring and man it was pathetic. Bischoff's son didn't look tough in the least and read lines about as woodenly as Linda MacMahon. And whoever the short guy with the long hair is who just tried to mean mug the whole time? We could not stop laughing at him. And then Anderson and good lord we couldn't last two minutes.
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  9. I imagine I live closest to Dave out of anybody here. Now that I have a house with plenty of garage space I'd be more than willing to truck a whole mess of stuff back here. That is if he ends up wanting someone to deal with any of it. Just throwing my participation hat in the ring.
  10. You forgot to mention that the Goldberg heel turn was pushed on TV by Bischoff as a huge surprise at the PPV and it was "something that Vince MacMahon couldn't stop if he tried!" And everybody online guessed it was going to be Goldberg turning heel, so much that Bischoff even said that it was going to be Goldberg turning heel in a pre-PPV interview. They actually pushed a guy turning heel as a reason to spend money on a PPV. "We're writing this good guy as a bad guy instead now! You should pay us money to watch our creative vision!"
  11. Well, they DO push themselves as a different type of product. The problem is that whenever they con people into watching, those people instantly notice that it's a worse version of WWE's product.
  12. Wasn't Stevens reported to be a much better wrestler pre-leg break? And there isn't very much pre-leg break footage of him?
  13. I didn't get into Henry until 2003, but as I've gone back and watched Youtube stuff I have no idea what the hell I was missing. There's a 2000 match against Viscera that was insanely great, with Henry taking this lunatic bump into the steps that should have made me fall madly in love when it happened. I think I was pretty early to the Henry love party, but it feels like I was several years too late.
  14. I've told girls more unbelievable stuff than that to get in their pants.
  15. In April 2000 I met the girl that would end up becoming my first serious girlfriend. We went on a couple dates and it came out that I was obsessed with pro wrestling. I went out of town for a week and when I got back she said that she had been curious about wrestling since she had seen hardly ever seen it and I was so mad for it. So she sought some out and watched a little bit. The segment she watched, as her introduction to pro wrestling? That fucking Sting/Vampiro graveyard segment.
  16. Cherry had a couple of my favorite TV matches that year.
  17. Pete Rose signs any object you want, with whatever you want it to say, for $75. There are numerous accounts of people having him sign betting stubs and magazines featuring his "scandal" with things like "I illegally bet on baseball" or "I cheated the game". Robert Blake has also signed menus from the restaurant where he (likely) had his wife murdered.
  18. Todd Morton's backdrop bumps are incredible.
  19. I do not have high hopes for the unearthed Flair vs. Taylor match. One thing I don't remember thinking during those endless clunkers was "Man I wish this had another 10 minutes tacked on".
  20. Even if he had gone to WWE and failed, he then could have signed with TNA for even more money and be pushed even harder as a "former WWE star".
  21. He also had a giant dick drawn on his face for a long time.
  22. I keep it secret as I only like watching wrestling when I'm jacking off to scat porn.
  23. Dean Ambrose is my favorite wrestler in the world right now.
  24. EricR

    IWA Mid South

    It should be noted that the crazy "Merosault-->slip-up-->catch leg in ropes" bump is a semi-regular trademark bump that Hamrick does. Crazy.
  25. EricR

    WWECW

    8/11/09 1. Zack Ryder vs. Shelton Benjamin This feud was set up last week when Ryder jumped Shelton while Shelton was singing a Hootie & the Blowfish song. Although Matt Stryker explains that it's all about the traditionalist throwback wrestler in Shelton Benjamin taking on the modern style of Ryder. Yep, the first thing I think about when I watch Shelton Benjamin matches is how much of a throwback he is, just he and Ole Anderson bitching about when guys REALLY knew how to cut off a ring. I do think Ryder works better as a heel, but we have problems as Benjamin doesn't really know how to work as a face. Ryder hits a nice dropkick off the 2nd rope and we hit a weird moment in the match where both guys start selling like they've been in a war 90 seconds in, even though only 3 moves have been done. Then a neckbreaker happens and I genuinely can't tell who was giving the neckbreaker and who was taking it, and I don't know if they know either as they sell it exactly the same. This seems to be something that happens in Shelton Benjamin matches, where I rewind moves and I can't tell who is supposed to be taking what, and who is doing what to whom. Ryder did a vertical suplex, Shelton flipped over and landed on his feet...and then they both fell to their backs and sold. I have zero fucking idea who did what to whom. Match only goes like 3 minutes so it's not like that was the one thing holding this back from being good. 2. Vladimir Kozlov vs. Kevin Brooks Fans chant "You Can't Wrestle" at Kozlov and boy is that still really annoying. Kozlov and Zeke continue to try and shatter jobber vertebrae and slam the poor little guy around a bunch, whipping the back of his head off the mat in the process. These really need some Chris Nowinski "The More You Know" type stats comparing back bumps to car accidents. 3. Paul Burchill vs. Yoshi Tatsu This was really fun but then ended 2 minutes in when Katie Lea interfered. It was a really fun 2 minutes and they squeezed a whole lot of damn moves into 2 minutes, but a 2 minute match ending in interference is what it is. Burchill had an awesome double knee drop, Tatsu threw some nice kicks and a cool elbow drop, and then it all stopped. Hurricane returned and attacked Burchill post-match. I totally forgot he came back and was still in WWE this late. 4. Tyler Reks vs. Tom James This match gets 75 seconds, so we've had 4 matches that have been given a total of 7 minutes on this episode. Fuck that noise. 5. William Regal vs. Tommy Dreamer Once I saw the match announced I immediately assumed it was the infamous elbow match, but this was actually a different yet also completely awesome match. I'll level with you, this may have been the single greatest individual Tommy Dreamer performance I've ever seen. The whole match I was waiting for and expecting the moment where his elbow starts to swell to alarming levels, cringing every time Regal would slam Dreamer's arm into the post or stomp on it or whip it into the mat, knowing that Dreamer's selling wasn't *really* as good as it looked since his arm was going to blow up at any moment. But when it never did I was faced with the realization that Tommy Dreamer just sold his arm better than most human beings have ever sold an arm. The match really is incredible. Dreamer comes in with a taped up arm and Regal just goes off on that fucking thing. He yanks it and twists it in all sorts of gross ways, stomps on it, works a bunch of cool holds on it (some of Regal's best matwork in his WWE career). Things roll to the floor and Regal kicks it against the ring post and good lord did that look painful. Dreamer fights back in really nice, convincing ways, as Regal is fixated on putting him away with the Knee Trembler but Dreamer keeps ducking out of the way of it. Every time Regal misses it allows Dreamer to control for a bit, until Regal invariably grabs him by that arm and tries to dislocate it from Dreamer's body. There was a great punch exchange towards the end that was real quick with really nice shots from both guys, with Dreamer even mixing it up with right hands and body shots!! This match was just incredible. Really a career performance from Dreamer, and one of Regal's absolute best career performances. Something you could show anybody with a passing interest in either guy, and they'd then be convinced each was an awesome worker.
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