Matt D

Looks like Murdoch/Koloff vs Windham/Garvin is down so I'm going to run with the PR match this week. I think it's pretty much a failed experiment at this point, but since people cared to suggest matches, I'm still going to watch what i can and post for the last 1-2 depending on whether or not the other match shows back up in the next week or I can otherwise find it. I suppose moving forward, if anyone has a match that they REALLY want to immortalize this way, then they can post it here and I'll take the time to watch it and give a few talking points Otherwise, things can just peter out.

The loser has to become amish.

I wonder which of the two he'd be more offended by

I like how the specter of Mason Ryan is behind him. It's somehow fitting.

I would have never pegged you as a Brony, John.

I think Shoots are great at raising interesting questions. Then you have to come here and have them ripped apart by people who know more.

I feel a need to contribute to this note. I will watch some stuff soon.

The Paulies. Amazingly the DAs won them all.

Your buddy Millionaire Ted says that Dundee hotshot the territory and killed it off

Didn't I ask this on page one?

Pretty sure that the ladies matches are on youtube at least.

I've been watching WCW Pro Chicago. They were calling Steamboat vs Rude the main event and I don't think Steiners vs Gordy/Williams got much of any build at all on the C show. The first few months of 92 is one of my key watching times as a kid, but I stopped watching halfway through the year. I didn't realize Vader was such a transitional champion.

I'm really curious about the 92 Bash relative to Beach Blast. it was a Tag Tournament with much less heated stuff top to bottom than Beach Blast, and Vader vs Sting on top which WAS fresh and built off a strong Vader attack on Sting.

I've rarely heard guys who love Muraco back what they're saying well though.

For things that could have actually happened timewise, I would have loved heel Young Pistols vs basically any of the WWF face teams Rockers, LOD, even Bushwhackers or Slaughter/Duggan. Smothers and Armstrong were having such fun as heels at that point and they could have interfaced great with any of those teams.

Did this go anywhere really or did the onset of Watts kill it?

My dream 80s AWA angle is them turning Greg heel in frustration at Martel having the belt. They could put him with Adnan, have him feud with Brunzell, then Martel, then finally with his dad before coming back together in 85. Damn them and their conservatism.

First they have Jimmy Hart come out and ask what they do with horses with a broken leg. Then they bring in Paul Ellering. Then they use Dundee and Valiant on the face side, and let Tommy Rich be an awesome frigging heel. Then they use suddenly heel Valiant to turn Rich face by using his mother. When you end up with Bobby Eaton with a crown on his head you know you're in business.

This stuff is frustrating since Ricky's promo from a few weeks before was so good and heated and this was a terrible way to follow up on it.

The Road To Bali was on TV the other day. I suggest people track that down and watch it instead. It's not nearly as good as Road to Rio or Road to Morocco, but it's still better than this.

So at least we have 30 year old AWA right?

Man Savage was awesome in ICW and Memphis. You're a HUGE Garvin fan, right? you can't tell me you've never seen the Savage vs Garvin cage match from ICW. Youtube Savage + Garvin Cage and then tell me what Savage WWF is better than that.

There's a Steamboat promo from mid-April right after his nose got busted which is one of the best I've ever heard him give. He invokes young Ritchie and it's all pretty epic.

US Tag Champions Terry Taylor(The Taylor Made Man)/Greg Valentine vs Zenk/Bagwell WCW Pro (Chicago) 3/21/92 - Non Title match I love the idea of over the hill Valentine teaming with utterly irrelevant Taylor in his ridiculous post York Foundation Gimmick. In 1992. In WCW. Holding straps. This was a pretty fun match actually. Not a ton of Valentine, really, but his stuff looks good, both his hammy selling and his pretty stiff blows. I like 91-93 Taylor more than most people does. I think he's a little artificial in his heeling but sometimes that's not a bad thing. I wouldn't want it all the time, but he's practically mustache twirling while kicking out that gutwrench powerbomb during these years. Anyway, this has 3 FIPs, the second and third being pretty good, with the final one having a hot tag and a fairly interesting closing section. Valentine definitely still had something to offer even as late as 92.

Alright, I think interest has petered out a little bit over the last two weeks, and here I am dropping this one on you. I think it's an awesome match though, definitely the best thing I've ever seen Zenk involved in and one of the best non-straight up Southern Tag Formula stories I've ever seen in a tag match. Also, yeah, it's really something that only sort of works WITH Tom Zenk or someone very similar. I'll include my full write up from a couple of months ago later, probably when this poor bastard needs a bump, but I'll shoot out some talking points quickly. This is one of those matches where you really see Rick Martel, worthy champion, sort of like the Flair match and the Race match. Johnny's gone on a lot about how, when younger, he saw Martel as an equal to Flair and Hogan because the Mags told him so and this match is all about Martel being an equal to the two former NWA champs and Zenk absolutely and Zenk NOT being an equal to the Funks, most especially in their eyes. We get a ton of great character work: an opening segment with Martel and the Funks really wrestling as equals, the Funks taking HUGE liberties with Zenk, Martel coming in pissed and hitting some symmetry spots on what they did to his younger partner, the Funks desperately trying to calm their peer down, an impending sense of double-cross now that they know he's not of a like mind when it comes to such things, and Martel being prepared for it and responding with a ton of heat and fury. It was a really nice surprise when I first saw it and I hope that who does watch it likes it.