Jump to content
Pro Wrestling Only

KB8

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1526

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by KB8

  1. KB8
    Definitely thought this was a better match as a whole than the first one, even if I thought the dives in the first were a bit better. Still, the dive train at the end was pretty spectacular, especially Winners' whatever-the-fuck-that-was that probably broke his face. Misterio also takes a couple really nasty face-first bumps into the turnbuckle. There's one where Heavy Metal blindsides him with a pump kick to the back and Rey just goes flying into the corner; it doesn't even look like it was intentional on his part, so I'm wondering if he actually knew it was coming. A little later all three rudos give him an irish whip and just launch him face-first into the turnbuckle, feet off the ground and everything.
  2. KB8
    I was kind of dreading this when I saw how long it was (almost 30 minutes of Konnan is not my idea of a good time), but Cien Caras riling people up is always something I can get a kick out of. Plus I'll watch anything with Eddie in it. Still thought K-Dawg was pretty awful, but there were some neat enough moments from the others. The last couple minutes with everybody sliding all over the place and Cien Caras punting everybody in the dick were pretty fun, too.
  3. KB8
    Probably the best Takada performance I've seen in a while (certainly in terms of matwork). Total underdog versus established top dog, which is a story I always dig, and I thought both guys were pretty great in their roles. Tamura's sell of the ribs after that kick was awesome, topped by his dead on his feet sell of the final flurry. This and the Yamazaki match Ditch mentioned might be an interesting comparison. I don't remember a whole lot about the Yamazaki match other than liking it a lot whenever I last saw it, but I imagine the story would be similar to this.
  4. KB8
    That opening punch was glorious.
  5. KB8
    Eddie's another really great tag wrestler. Not necessarily up there with Morton, Eaton, Arn -- the "top tier" guys -- but I've watched everything on Will's Eddie set and the guy was always pretty terrific in tags. I guess Los Guerreros was the only "real" tag team he was a part of in the US, but I thought they were by far the best of the three "Smackdown! Six" teams in 2002 and Eddie was really awesome the whole year, to the point where I'd say he has a strong case for being the best in America that year. When Chavo gets injured he starts teaming with Tajiri briefly and it's probably one of my favourite makeshift teams ever. Great FIP; always so animated when he's not in the ring (though not in a way that distracts from what's going on inside it) to the point where I'd say he's one of the best apron workers ever; could work well with virtually anybody; great whether he was babyface or heel; TONNES of shtick, again whether he was babyface or heel; crazy bumper; always had really good offense...if Marty is in the discussion then I think Eddie deserves to at least be floating around there (and I love Marty, btw).
  6. KB8
    I'd still say Michaels is one of the better tag wrestlers in US history. I don't dislike him as much as most people (around here, anyway) do in singles, but a tag environment "covers" for some of the things he's normally called out on in a singles environment. Rockers are the best team in company history for me and there's a shit ton of Rockers matches that I love; think the Cliq tag from that '94 Action Zone episode is terrific; the No Way Out '07 main event is one of the better "lead in" tags I can ever remember the company running...great FIP (thought he was a better FIP than Jannetty while Jannetty was better working the apron/coming in off the hot tag), really good chickenshit douchebag, isn't Bill Dundee in terms of shtick but has a huge bag of bumps (I know some people are iffy on that, especially as a heel, which I understand) and "hijinks", etc. Wouldn't say he's a Morton/Steamboat level FIP or an Eaton in terms of versatility and being able to work well with pretty much anybody (within a tag setting), but I'd say he ticks more or less all he boxes required to be in the discussion.
  7. KB8

    Matches of the Month

    KB8 replied to Loss's topic in 1993

    Finished January a couple days ago. I didn't watch anything for about 2 months before starting disc 2, though, so I'd probably need to re-watch some stuff just to jog my memory. 1. Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai vs. Takako Inoue & Yumiko Hotta (JWP 1/15/93) 2. Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs. Hollywood Blonds (Clash 1/13/93) 3. Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu (NJ 1/4/93) 4. Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs. Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (AJ 1/30/93) 5. Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs. Hollywood Blonds (WWW 1/30/93) 6. Eddy Guerrero & El Hijo Del Santo vs. Jerry Estrada & Espanto Jr. (AAA 1/22/93) 7. Ric Flair vs. Bret Hart (Iron Man Match) (Boston 1/9/93) 8. Ricky Steamboat & Dustin Rhodes vs. Barry Windham & Brian Pillman (WWW 1/2/93) 9. Eddie Gilbert vs. Terry Funk (I Quit Match) (Battle of the Belts 1/23/93) 10. Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJ 1/24/93) 11. Rock & Roll Express vs. Heavenly Bodies (SMW 1/30/93) 12. Barry Windham vs. Ricky Steamboat (WCWSN 1/9/93) 13. Cactus Jack vs. Paul Orndorff (Street Fight) (Main Event 1/10/93) 14. Barry Windham vs. 2 Cold Scorpio (WCWSN 1/23/93) 15. Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs. Akira Taue, Masa Fuchi & Jun Akiyama (AJ 1/8/93) 16. Rick & Scott Steiner vs. Hell Raisers (NJ 1/4/93) 17. Ricky Steamboat vs. Dustin Rhodes (WCWSN 1/23/93) 18. Ric Flair vs. Mr. Perfect (Loser Leaves the WWF) (RAW 1/25/93) 19. Great Muta vs. Masa Chono (NJ 1/4/93) 20. Tracy Smothers vs. Dirty White Boy vs. Killer Kyle vs. Jimmy Golden (SMW 1/16/93) 21. Jushin Liger vs. Ultimo Dragon (NJ 1/4/93) Looking at that, I suspect there's some stuff I'd switch around if I watched them again. I don't really remember anything about the 1/8 All Japan six man. Big fan of the top four matches. Rally looking forward to seeing the Tenryu/Choshu rematch, and the Misawa-Kawada/Williams-Gordy match at the end of the month definitely got me geared for the AJ stuff still to come, a lot of which I haven't seen in years but recall being terrific. And that Steamboat-Douglas/Austin-Pillman tag from the Clash of the Champions was fucking boss; totally caught me by surprise.
  8. KB8
    "Look, he's so tall the top of his head is sticking out through his hair." Cornette was amazing here. I mean, shit, everybody was great, but Cornette especially. Then we get a "greatest hits" impromptu match that rules hard on top of everything else.
  9. KB8
    Holy shit at that Fink promo. Totally caught me off guard and I thought it was easily better than the Hennig promo from January.
  10. KB8
    Wrapping Undertaker's knee around the post even though he's already unconscious was pretty weird, yeah, but I thought Taker's sell of it was awesome; like a zombie whose leg's just been pumped with a sawed-off. I can't remember the last time I actually watched an early 90s Undertaker match, but I thought he had that gimmick down pretty perfectly in terms of selling.
  11. KB8
    The finish looked like it might've been a little botched to me, but it was still cool as shit because it's as if Pillman just torpedoes himself at Douglas' head with the intention of connecting with *some* part of his body. Douglas also takes a head-first shot into the turnbuckle at one point, and it either legit rung his bell or it's the best sell job of a turnbuckle shot I think I've seen.
  12. KB8
    Yeah, this was super fun stuff. I sat up for the Eaton run-in at the end, but there was a bunch of great stuff even before that, like the already mentioned ref' bump, the RnR's early run on top, the nutty finishing run with bodies everywhere, etc. Pretty much everything I want in a TV match.
  13. KB8
    There's a Freebirds/Austin Idol segment on Will's Gordy comp from...I want to say Georgia, maybe in '81, where Hayes does the same thing Cornette does and shoots himself in the foot by mentioning the four flat tires. Doesn't really make much difference to this segment, but that Idol segment was amazing and it's what this one reminded me of. Also gotta love Eaton taking three or four crazy bumps out on the floor after being there for all of about five minutes.
  14. This post cannot be displayed because it is in a password protected forum. Enter Password
  15. KB8
    Yeah, Heenan was pretty hilarious here totally fawning over Luger. I watched the PPV live as a kid (well, whenever it was shown on Sky Sports, so probably the next day) and have some pretty vivid memories of it, but I didn't remember Heenan being so over the top. And yeah, the Wrestlemania IX entrance was boss.
  16. KB8
    "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT, YOU LITTLE SHIT?!" "YOU'RE GOD DAMN CRAZY! YOU'RE GOD DAMN CRAZY! YOU'RE GOD DAMN CRAZY!" Man, Funk is the king. Thought his initial sell of the fireball was a little weird (as if it was a knockout blow or something), but the way he sold it when he hit the mat was spectacular, frantically rubbing at his scalp and screaming like a wounded animal.
  17. KB8
    Did Fuller call Cornette a "big mouth faggot?" Pretty sure there was a "faggot" in there somewhere. Thought this was really good. The Cornette line that Loss already quoted was also indeed great.
  18. KB8
    That Rockers v Haku/Barbarian match is a blast. The spot where Michaels nips up and Barbarian fucking murders him with a clothesline is one of my favourite spots ever. I think Marty gets steamrolled by a Bill Eadie clothesline in the Rockers/Demos match that's been pimped in this thread (which I agree is an awesome little match). That spot rules.
  19. KB8
    Yeah, noticed that not long after I asked. I guess one tends to miss simple things like that when looking at a list for 100+ hours of footage.
  20. KB8
    That Doomsday Device across the guardrail spot was ridiculous. Looked like Hawk might've cracked a rib or four. I liked this a lot. Just four big dudes that like to throw bombs throwing bombs.
  21. KB8
    Also really dug this. Execution (or bad execution, rather) never really bothers me, but the first big transition being a badly whiffed lariat was a little jarring even to me, so I can totally see someone siding with Ditch and thinking the sloppiness hurt it (the lariat wasn't the only instance of it). But they just beat the living shit out of each other for the most part and a fucking routine stomp here would've been the nastiest spot in most other matches. Whole thing just felt real gritty and nasty, so something like Tenryu losing his grip on a powerbomb attempt felt more like a result of being cracked in the head a bunch of times rather than an outright botch (although I'm not suggesting the flubbed powerbomb was intentional in order to further the story...not that I was bothered either way). Tenryu's short punts to the face are the best. What's the date for the rematch, Ditch (or anyone)?
  22. This post cannot be displayed because it is in a password protected forum. Enter Password
  23. KB8
    To add to the CMLL recommendations, I watched the 4/12 show the other night and the Atlantis/La Fiera title match is terrific and I don't recall it ever being talked about. Fell asleep during the Panther/Love Machine mask match, but I'm assuming that'd be in contention already, anyway. Pirata Morgan/Masakre hair match form 2/28 is awesome as well.
  24. This post cannot be displayed because it is in a password protected forum. Enter Password
  25. KB8
    If this is the one from 3/15 then yeah, I agree. I recall Jannetty hitting a tombstone that looked completely nuts. There's also a Shawn/Kato match on that show that I thought was even better. There's a Rockers & Virgil v Orient Express & Fuji 6 man tag on the 4/22 show that I remember being pretty fun. Virgil was on his way to a feud with DiBiase and was getting schooled by Fuji of all people in strike exchanges, but it was basically a Rockers/Express tag for the most part. Doubt it's anything anybody would go to bat for in terms of inclusion on something like this, though. Saw all of that on a Rockers comp (think it was Billy Newton that made it), and there's probably some other fun stuff on it from '91 that might be worth a look (the Rockers/Express match from the Rumble is probably a no-brainer...).
×
×
  • Create New...