Robert S
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Today's repost of a 94 newsletter contains a great satirical rant. Somebody wrote a letter asking "Is it true that The Ultimate Warrior died from a heart attack three years ago and that the WWF found a look-alike to replace the original?" Dave's reply contained such gems as "I think that Warrior rumor got started when someone played the album 'Bad Street USA' backwards and heard Michael Hayes say, 'Buddy is dead. I buried Buddy.'" and "I think people just assumed Ultimate Warrior died when they would regularly overhear WWF officials in 1990 when he had the title phoning the office after house shows saying, 'You should have seen the house tonight. Warrior is dead.' Either that or he was the only one bare-footed in photos for the 1991 Official WWF Calendar."
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Interesting that they showed Dillon. Was he visible more often on WWF television?
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In this version here you can cleary see Shawn argueing with Hebner while he is in Bulldog's chinlock.
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Someone should check on Dave, he may have suffered a stroke.
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I hope this set contains some of the absolutely random on air tryout matches WWF did to find some guys for their lightweight divison.
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This is the first thing on the set I was wondering why it made it. It's a seven minute version of their usual stuff to no crowd reaction.
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Is my memory playing me a trick or was the 95 Vader-Takada match the poorly-shot one? There are a few New Japan matches, that you did not list either in "nominations" nor in your "assuming that will definitely make the list" lists that should definitely be on this set: - Sasuke/Black Tiger vs. Pegasus/Ohtani (10/16) - great all-action jr. hv. match - Sasuke vs. Pegasus (J Cup finals) - maybe Sasuke vs. Samurai (J Cup 1/4 finals) - Sasuke vs Liger (7/8) - on the level of their J Cup match
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Did the announcers really talk about the Cruiserweight title tournament still ongoing? I knew this tournament was a joke and mostly used to do a b show feud between Dean Malenko and Brad Armstrong but this is still ridiculous.
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[1996-03-17-NJPW-Hyper Battle] Jushin Liger vs Shinjiro Otani
Robert S replied to Loss's topic in March 1996
There is so much to love about this match. I think I haven't seen it in about ten years and I am usually really bad at remembering details of matches but I could still remember Otani's celebration of the top rope dropkick and the complete despair when Liger was too close to the rope's at the second dragon suplex. Of course those were trademarks of Otani at this time period, but I don't think he ever displayed them so great as in this match. There was other stuff to love which I did not remember: - Liger selling his arm while in offense during the early parts of the match is a thing of beauty. - Otani's counter for Liger's plancha by moving and slapping Liger in his face at the same time was brutal. - Otani seems to have learned from the Samurai match as he tries nearly the same spot the Samurai used to beat him: When Liger pulls himself up at the ropes Otani jumps at Liger's injured arm with the springboard dropkick and immediately goes for the armbar. -
Does he write anything about the internet meltdown that led him to take down his own site?
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That was not as bad as (using your terminology) NJ fanboys going gaga when Nakamura beat Ignashov in his second try.
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The way the woman was trying to calm down the kid I would guess that the kid was not comfortable with this at all. By the way: The sign "Dean - overpaid, overpushed babysitter" by sign guy went way over my head. Can someone explain that to me?
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Pillman really seems to be batshit insane here.
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What was up with the UWF guys wearing masks before the match? Were they trying to mock Hirata?
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[1996-02-26-WWF-Raw] Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels & Roddy Piper
Robert S replied to Loss's topic in February 1996
The Michaels and Bret stuff here was dying a horrible death, a five minute tirade of two guys saying "I respect you, but I think I am a bit better than you" is not what sells PPVs (or even keep TV viewers). Piper at least brought some fire into this, though I would not say he saved the segment. -
I found it strange that they announced Huckster as "Terry from Tampa", if Billionaire Ted didn't explain that this was the Huckster this may have gotten over the head of half the audience.
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Spending two years in prison probably did not help his career.
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[1996-02-11-WCW-Superbrawl VI] Ric Flair vs Randy Savage (Cage)
Robert S replied to Loss's topic in February 1996
The production of this is great. Apparently WCW cannot show blood at this point, so from the time Flair begins to bleed on they try not to show Flair's head at all. So this means it's all lower body shots of Savage and Flair fighting or wide angle shots. They also cut away when Flair is doing his full-moon spot. They last five minutes this turned into a radio broadcast. Oh yes, let's not forget about Michael Buffer: "He is accompanied to the ring by a woman." -
Tiger Mask's phantom bump for Shiryu's clotheline is one of the funniest thing I have seen in a pro wrestling match in quite some time. It's also funny see all the English senior citizens in a crowd for a M-Pro match.
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Back then on German TV they only showed the first four of these skits, which seem pretty harmless compared to the press conference stuff here. Around that time WWF lost their TV station and had to switch to the same station WCW was one. Amazingly WWF and WCW existed for two years on the same station till WWF quit in early 98. The really heavy shots like the whole Billionaire Ted skits were cut though.
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The way they worked it would have been better if they had done a normal 2 vs. 2 tag team match (Nagata & Ohtani vs. Kakihara & Sakuraba, for example). Some guys like Ka Shin were hardly in anyway.
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The way the introduced Woman here seems a bit strange to me, six women in evening gowns accompanying Savage, five being random girls and one being Woman, not even immediately recognized by the announcers. Hogan was booed pretty heavily when he demanded the title shot. It's obvious why because he again acted like a dick. Also this promo made me realize that the Bockwinkel line from the Hogan-Savage promo the week before was not some strange AWA shoot but a refence to Bockwinkel being some WCW figurehead.
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I am a little bit surprised about how hard they (well, basically Vince) attack Okerlund in these segments.
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Often when I watch Lucha there are some small things that confuse me a bit, here during the third fall I did not have the slightest clue what was going on (as in who is interfering why, why is the ref ignoring everything, why is Psicosis trying to kill himself again and again etc.). There was quite a big bunch of dangerously missed spots which made me appreciate the relative safeness of WWE TLC matches (at least in recent years).
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[1996-01-21-NJPW-New Year Special] Shinjiro Otani vs El Samurai
Robert S replied to Loss's topic in January 1996
I think this was the first time I have seen this match in a complete form. I don't have much to add, though I wanted to say that this was maybe the best and most intelligent finish I have ever seen in a juniors match.