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Or they can go with my AMAZING Black Scorpion idea.

Not El-P, but you really shouldn't underestimate how over Lex was in early 1991. He was very over as a face. As for the cage match itself, I find it fun because it's the most heatless cage match you could imagine. It basically becomes a prop for them to steady themselves on the top rope with. What it really reminds me of is WWE-PG cage matches.

Once Luger won the belt they ran Lex vs Eaton and Big Josh for a few weeks though neither was pushed on TV at all. Then they switched to Lex vs Barry or Simmons, with the occasional tag matches with Lex + Hughes vs Barry + Simmons with Zenk as the guest ref (there was a mini angle where they took out Zenk for a while) and even Lex vs Zenk. Right after Halloween Havoc they ran some spots vs Zenk, Pillman or Kazmier (the latter of which had at least a bit TV build). The next major program however, was vs Rick Steiner at the clash. The months after Flair left still had a bunch of good TV matches with the Enforcers, the York Foundation, Austin, Cactus, etc vs Windham, Pillman, Eaton, Rhodes, Borne, Pistols, etc.

El Gigante? Bobby Eaton? Luger. Sort of. In Oct 91 Simmons was bigger then Steiner since Scott had been out for the entire summer.

His blading scars kind of make the imprint of Superman's curly hair thing if you squint.

Yeah, quite funny to see Solie as confused as the viewers. Wait a sec! JR just said he was going to talk to Barry on the 10/26/91 WCW SN to ask him why he was on that team. You've been watching all this stuff. Did that happen?

Yeah, quite funny to see Solie as confused as the viewers. JR was asking about it too during a Diamond Studd match. "We don't know why Barry has signed for that match or if he even has."

I love Solie being really confused when he first announces Windham on the heel team for the Chamber of Horrors after they pushed his face turn on TV by reshowing that segment something like four weeks in a row. There were a couple of Oz/Diamond Studd tag matches around this time that were surreal too. The initial Chamber of Horrors heel team was One Man Gang/Diamond Studd, Oz, and Windham.

http://pwchronicle.blogspot.com/2005/12/ne...0-part-one.html I think we either have the person who wrote this here or on DVDVR, but it's supplemental material well worth reading.

Martel says that he stopped Zenk from signing this 3 year contract with Verne which would have tied him up considerably.

i don't think I've reached any sort of quota there. I may be an asterix at best.

What about Moondog Rex, Dutch Mantell, and Black Bart looking for Stan Hansen?

I was about to tell you I don't, then I remembered this is my board. Genuinely funny moment. Yes, you are a bad example. I think I am the least knowledgeable wrestling fan on this site. I have tunnel vision and no blog.

Ok, I KNOW that there was a huge roster turnover between Superbrawl and the Bash in 91. I know that there is the Scott Steiner injury. I know that Flair up and leaves, but really? Flair leaving and Scotty's injury just affects two matches and they work together. Scott and Windham get taken out of the tag cage match. Windham gets put into the main. That's fine makes sense. It doesn't explain the rest of the card. Every single match on Superbrawl was built up well on TV, up and down the card. It was full of compelling match ups. Great American Bash is completely and utterly random. Only about half the matches get any build at all; there is such random crap on that card. Did the booking change in there? Dusty was already back for the Superbrawl build no?

Not any specific one, no. It wasn't a Ventura talking point. I'm trying to remember who I heard that from the most. I think it was a Tony thing actually.

I think we heard quite a bit the logic based counter argument of "it takes energy for the guy on the ground to kick out" and the counter counter of "it gives him two seconds to recover."

you'd think that the point would be that hooking the leg is a storytelling tool, one that is most useful when done often enough that when someone does NOT do it and that leads to a kick out, it can actually mean something?

Why would he go up on SD and then sandbag him on Raw? I guess they would have just edited it on SD but still.

i was there that night. we were not pleased

I'm not saying they weren't a National promotion so much as I'm implying that we might take for granted how regional they still were.

In 1991, WCW hyped three things (well four if you count the hotline). PPVs, Clashes, and Omni shows. They really hyped the hell out of Omni shows, each and every one of them. Honestly, I think more important things happened in the Omni than on PPV. If not, then close to it. I'm not saying that doesn't make them national, but it's very different than what WWF was doing at the time and what WCW would be doing later in the decade.

I remember at the time of the Fingerpoke of Doom how Nash's explanation was that it was the only way he'd ever get to be WCW and WWF champ. Weirdly, I bought it at the time.

Honestly, Brodus was a much better choice. He's relatively over. Is a threat. but Punk can beat him without it hurting anything. What're they going to do a dusty finish? Seriously, WWE needs to institute the over the top rope DQ or something.

Only here on Prowrestlingonly, folks.

Even so. Russo's pretty beyond the pale. I think his WWF stuff will be looked at relatively evenly but there's barely anything positive TO look at when it comes to WCW.