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SmartMark15 Not sure if you've seen this, but one of my favourite matches of 2013: I hope you like a mat classic!

I picked up the 10 volume AAA Classics, which essentially covers mid 92 till the end of 93. Might as well hand out some thoughts along the ways. Volume 1 Mascarita Sagrada, Octagoncito, & Angelito Azteca vs Pirata Morgan, Jerrito Estrada, & Picudito (7/3/92) Yes we start with minis, so this set is perfect for me! Morgan and Estrada are pissed at each other and Picudito has to try to keep the peace with the rudos. Sagrada doesn't give a shit and goes right in there, hits a dropkick then a somersault plancha. The other two tecnicos do hurrancanranas to pin the other two. Sagrada gives a nice little slap after to end the first wonderful fall. As with most minis, the rudos are the larger team and that is essentially how they take advantage in the second fall. Estrada is holding up Sagrada for Morgan, but he refuses to do shit due to the fight with Estrada. Luckily Picudito is there to help out. I love that Estrada wrestles in the vest. Can we all just agree Sagrada is fucking great? Whether it's his selling or his amazing offence, he can deliver. They get to the floor and Estrada is choking out Octagncito with wires, and Azteca makes the save with a fucking broom. I like the switch up of a short first fall and a longer second fall. Estrada and the rudos use the broom and dickishness to win the second fall. Third fall picks up the pace and brings the comedy of the rudos just fucking up and Estrada and Morgan accidentally nailing each other over and over. The match just kind of ends or the footage does, no idea what the ending is here. Really fun for the length of time it got. *** . Psicosis, Picudo, & Heavy Metal vs Winners, Super Calo, & Thunderbird (8/14/92) We get entrances and each one is glorious! Winners coming out to Rocky music. Psicosis with some bad ass imperial march thing. Thunderbird dancing with a fan. It's all fucking awesome! Super Calo coming out last to his awesome rap and a girl dancer wearing face paint was the best! Although Calo without the hat isn't as cool, he does have the glasses though. Heavy Metal and Winners start off with some good matwork. Metal looks so much younger and cooler here compared to 1996. WTF happened? They get a lot of time, until we get Winners off an Irish whip just slapping Psicosis and them going to the floor looking to kill each other. They get separated and then Metal does the same to Calo before everybody tags out giving us Psicosis and Thunderbird. Classic behind the refs back cheating by the rudos, but it seems like Thunderbird and Psicosis are pretty even. The crowd is fucking hot for this. The Calo and Picudo segment picks everything up and the rudos get the first fall which ruled! During all of this the middle ring rope broke. During the rest period they just take off the middle rope all together. We start the second fall with everybody in the ring with a rudos beat down and they freaking do a Shield power bomb spot. Finally we get a bit of a comeback thanks to Winners taking over and Thunderbird having some great fire. Psicosis takes a huge face first bump into the steel post, twice. Just savage. Calo tries to take off Picudo's mask and essentially does it off a whip into the turnbuckle. Tecnicos get the win. Did I mention Winners slaps Piscosis really well? Just damn! Lots of nearfall attempts in the third fall Psicosis does an atomi drop which Calo either fakes or was low blowed, he sold it huge none the less. Tirantes doesn't believe him regardless, so the match continues. A lot of the break up attempts on submissions are really stiff here. What's shocking about this to me is how great Psicosis was already and how green Calo was. So, everybody takes turns bumping to the floro with Psicosis taking the biggest one, and now the dives come. Each dude just killing himself. I loved that the dives were saved up till now, but they ruled. Everybody is getting counted out, and keeps getting pulled back outside, but Winners sneaks in for the win for the tecnicos. I fucking loved this! It built well to a tremendous finish and everybody worked mega hard. Afterwards we all shake hands and raise each others hands, except Psicosis who says fuck this shit and walks away. That's when the Calo rap group comes to the ring and dances with Calo! ****

Since this ppv was already booked, I will give a brief recap here. Souled Out January 16, 2000 in Cincinnati, OH Firstar Center Live on PPV Announcers: Tony Schviane, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, & Mike Tenay Announcers explain how Jeff Jarrett was injured last Monday and can not compete tonight, thus the title match with Chris Benoit is off. Also, WCW World Champion Bret Hart is injured and may never compete again. The Title is vacant and Commissioner Terry Funk made a title match between #1 Contender Sid Vicious, #1 Contender for the US Title and member of The Revolution Chris Benoit, member of The Filthy Animals Billy Kidman, and member of the nWo Scott Steiner. 1. Kaz Hayashi pinned Psicosis to gain a Cruiserweight Title shot at 14:14. 2. Tank Abbott pinned Jerry Flynn w/ Jimmy Hart at 2:44. *MMA style fight 3. The Harris Brothers defeated The Mamalukes w/ Disco Inferno at 7:53. *Disco cost Mamalukes match, by mistakenly tripping Vito 4. Madusa pinned Oklahoma at 0:35. *Not for the Cruiserweight Title, since Oklahoma did not meet weight. After the match Aja Kong confronted Madusa and knocked her out with a spinning back fist 5. Norman Smiley beat WCW Hardcore Champion Brian Knobbs w/ Jimmy Hart, Fit Finilay w/ Jimmy Hart, & Meng to become the title at 11:41. *Kevin Nash says once he wins tonight, the main event will feature Steiner, himself, and The Harris Brothers for the title, because the title stays with the nWo. 6. Booker T pinned Stevie Ray at 4:41. 7. Vampiro & Dustin Rhodes beat WCW World Tag Team Champions David Flair & Crowbar w/ Daffney to win the titles at 5:44. *Vampiro picked former WCW Tag Team Champion Dustin Rhodes as his partner. 8. Terry Funk pinned Kevin Nash to disband the nWo forever, if Nash had won he would had become Commissioner at 11:35. 9. Diamond Dallas Page w/ Kimberly defeated Buff Bagwell in a Last Man Standing Match at 13:55. 10. Scott Steiner beat Sid Vicious, Billy Kidman, and Chris Benoit to win the vacant WCW World Title at 16;32. *Steiner pinned Benoit, after Kidman took out Sid with a plancha in a match where everybody had a chance to win.

I've always liked Martel from watching as a kid in Strike Force to his WCW return in 98. However, the more I go back and watch him the more I am inclined to think he's the greatest babyface wrestler in history. Rose and Martel have a technical classic here, just exchanging holds and building things up. It gets nice and heated with Martel going for the mask/wig and ripping it off for the finish. I don't think it's possible these two could have a poor match between them. It's not as blowaway as other Martel-Rose matche I have seen, but a damn good affair. *** 3/4

Even Rise has a streaming service for 5 bucks a month. You get all their shows plus the new weekly TV show. Jimmy Jacobs is booking. First episode was pretty good. Squash match for a tag team. Solid contest to get the monster heel over. Great video/promo getting over the champion and main angle. Promos by the two people in the main event. Then Kimber Lee vs Shotzi Blackheart was pretty good. Lee being an awesome heel and Blackheart getting over as the feisty babyface. Plus Impact helped produce the show, so it looks good too. I'll give them a month to see if I continue, but if it turns out the way they say (weekly shows, building to main shows with each match meaning something going forward) I may be sticking around,

Thank you. To be honest, I was trying to crib the "How did this get made" podcast, which looks at bad movies. Kind of wanted a fun, but not mean show. Glad it's working for you, it's fun to record.

Greatest thread ever?

I started reading graphic novels about 3/4 years ago. I'm 33 now. I started comics at 25.

I had it too.

Glad you liked the Stardom match, I thought it would be something you've never seen, but be up your alley. SUPER PORKY vs UNIVERSO 2000 Two guys I rather enjoy! Hey it's a title match, which is an odd fit for Porky. Some fun technical stuff in the first fall, but boy is it awesome when Porky get control and squashes Universo for the win. Into the second fall and damn do I LOVE Porky working holds. There is something about a bowling ball applying a STF that is just fun. It's all a technical battle with Universo getting the submission. These two exchanging holds i not what I expected, but it was a treat. Final fall now! More matwork which leaads to the contest picking up a lot of steam. Porky stomach bumping Universo out of the ring then hitting a SUPER splash to the outside ruled! The ending shocked me with Universo countering a slam into an inside cradle for the win. Overall this was tons of fun and a great watch! Thanks Matt!

I know, wtf? One Man Gang was in the freaking match, just use him!

https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/wbt8 Steven Graham (@StevenGrahamTWS) & JR Goldberg (@wrestlingbubble) are back to talk listener Tyler Beach's request of WCW World War 3 1995. We discuss this three ring, sixty men, battle royal with a giant in each ring.

Stupid Americans. You should follow the greatest living American Auston Matthews who dragged himself out of the desert of Arizona to become the best hockey player in the world and be a fan.

You really think Austin spraying people with a beer truck is a way to show someone wrestling? Somehow that is better than a vicious brawl (for someone who likes Mortal Kombat)?

Thanks Stacy. People laughing with us, without being mean spirited is the goal of the show. I guess your theory could make sense too, but it remains the execution was so awful that who knows what they were actually thinking? I can't recall the show, just going with the WON voters. Two matches on the worst of the year list is pretty bad. Although worst match, we are learning, is kind of a bad category.

Loves games like mortal kombat and stuff. Got 5 or so minutes to impress her with wrestling for the first time so need something good. I'm just guessing picking something with austin would be a good idea as he was super over with the crowd be it a part of a match or a angle. An angle would need too much context. 99 is a terrible time too, because it's trash and it will turn anyone off. Plus, you'd probably want something relatively current or what are they going to do, watch old tapes as a newcomer? Do something like Brock-Cena from Extreme Rules or something along those lines.

Never show him WWE 1999 if you want him to actually like it or watch it ever again.

I started from January 1995 and am up to February 1996. It's such an easy show to watch. Angles are great, amazing promos and the occasional awesome match to boot.

Not that I can see.

That's really dumb on Shimmers part. They're already 2 years behind on shows. They should really work on getting volumes 80-100 out so you can actually know what's going on with the promotion. I'd rather watch from the beginning, to be honest. Shimmer is odd, because it's already two years behind or whatever, so what does up to date even mean? What number was their last show? That's up to date. 104 is taped, but the last one released on DVD is 79.

That's really dumb on Shimmers part. They're already 2 years behind on shows. They should really work on getting volumes 80-100 out so you can actually know what's going on with the promotion. I'd rather watch from the beginning, to be honest. Shimmer is odd, because it's already two years behind or whatever, so what does up to date even mean?

Will this stuff be deleted or stay up? Did all the previous hidden gems stay or are some gone? Excited for this when I get home tonight. I love that the RVD-Jericho match comes out exactly in line with my watch through of ECW. Liger-Eddie, Piper-Valentine, fuck this is awesome shit to watch.

It's hard to have the right people involved. First that they will continue to post and second that people don't get completely unrealistic (pushing guys way too early before they are ready, or way too late when they are over the hill).

The Moon. The Moon would be a better place to start. Or, maybe, Mexico. In 1995. Shit, the moon. Yeah, that was some whacked out shit and more of a story with chapters and stuff. It's COMPLETELY different. Maybe I'll try to write some of that as well. Weird mentioning Mexico, because I was figuring out Mexico in 93 in LA using the IWC name, but went to WCW instead. I think I just want to book La Parka. The problem with Mexico is that it was so good already, how can you make it better? While WCW was THE UTTER SHIT, so it's an actual issue.

I can say again how cool it is to have The Faces of Fear in AJPW in the 90s?