Loss Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted December 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 I *think* '96 was the first year that entrance music accompanied ring entrances. This is the last few minutes of the Rumble, starting with the entrance of #25. Austin gives Michaels this amazing clothesline and then does the Shawn pose. There is no heat for much of this unless Michaels is going at it with Owen, Davey Boy or Jannetty, and there is a huge pop for the finish. Pretty obvious why they saw Michaels as the guy of the future when you see the way the crowd reacted to him compared to pretty much everyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kronos Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Austin also points with his fingers in a way that suggests his flipping off everyone in the near future. It's a pretty dull rumble ending until the last moments. I liked Shawn v Marty. Kane and Davey Boy have excellent finishes, and I love how they realize Shawn would not be believable eliminating Nash unless he pearl harbor's him. Good finish. Loss mentions the crowd response. I was just thinking how tired I was of Shawn's poor beat up underdog near eliminations. But even I was excited by the end. There might be something to this Michaels kid. Think he'll go far? I know I am predisposed because I like Nash, but the self-indulgent hi-five bit at the end was kind of cool. Whereas the striptease sequence was not cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_Briscoe_Is_My_Hero Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 The WWF has always prided itself on its top notch production values. There were two eliminations (one involving a huge name in Owen Hart) missed with 10 men remaining. They didn't even show a replay of the Hart elimination, where Michaels could have been eliminated instead. Michaels winning was a major moment for me as a kid. I loved Michaels with the Rockers, went sour on him during the split, then started loving him again after the Sid incident almost a year before. The race was on to WM 12 and the wrestling fans in the class were debating the impending Michaels/Hart match. Rewatching this I am surprised by the lack of heat. Truth be told looking at who is in the final 10 (which included an Issac Yankem and Fatu I didn't remember being around in 96) there isn't a lot of star power. Diesel and Shawn are the only two that one could see (or want to see) headline WM 12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Always thought Mr. Perfect made a major contribution to this match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Vader was the best part of the match. Him fucking up the Headhunters was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 The fans popping for Jake Roberts' return (and him bringing Lawler out from under the ring, a subtle start to their infamous feud later in the year) was great. And Vader is hyped like a beast, and brings it. Just too bad where it ended up for him later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted May 29, 2011 Report Share Posted May 29, 2011 I *think* '96 was the first year that entrance music accompanied ring entrances. They tried it in 1990 but after a few guys in, it stopped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbaugh Posted May 27, 2013 Report Share Posted May 27, 2013 A Rumble match where there are only 2 guys who can feasibly win definitely led to a tepid crowd. The pop for the finish was nuts though. This is my first time watching any WWF from this period, as I quit watching wrestling for a few years. I get why Michaels the performer is over, but the male stripper gimmick being so over doesn't really make any sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 This Rumble had more random guys than the 93 version. Here we had The Headhunters, Dory Funk, Omori and Doug Gilbert to fill out the ranks. Triple H had the big run as far as lasting a long time but didn't really eliminate anyways. I though Savio Vega was great taking some king sized bumps and big moves from everyone. Droese might be the worst 30th entrant for the Rumbles. The camera work on the eliminations was terrible as they would have too many guys in the ring and miss guys being thrown out. Monsoon would have been very confused. Shawn Michaels was so annoying in this. He eliminates both Vader and Yokozuna with ease! Shawn runs around and is hitting everyone with punches. He press slams 1-2-3 Kid (I know) over the top rope. Michaels was looking way too dominating when he shouldn't be like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenjo Posted October 4, 2013 Report Share Posted October 4, 2013 Just in the JIP version here Shawn flying over the top rope and holding on got real old. He was like a human pinball. The crowd was as dead as I've ever heard in the latter stages of the Rumble. Bad camerawork missing eliminations. Undercarders with terrible gimmicks that nobody gave a shit about. To round it off the final 4 was over in seconds with absolutely no drama. Dreadful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruiserBrody Posted June 8, 2014 Report Share Posted June 8, 2014 A long stretch early in the Rumble sees no viable babyfaces in the ring and so the crowd turns Vader face because he's kicking everyone's ass. Owen and Shawn ignore each other despite coming in back to back on the heels of the concussion angle. They even team up to beat on Barry Horowitz. All the special attractions lasted 3 mins or less except Dory jr. who they wanted to use as a talent broker for All Japan guys. Ahmed and Razor should have been entered, if only to help the roster depth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 Pretty tepid action when Michaels isn't involved--he's really the only guy in this thing who's over, though Owen and Davey Boy get over by proxy working against him. And the requisite Shawn-Marty face-off gets a nice reaction. This is marred by some horrible gimmicks in the latter stages and even worse camerawork, which is incredibly jarring considering that that's supposed to be a major WWF strength. This is definitely a strong showcase for Michaels as the top guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 I actually thought this was an underated Rumble watching all the ones from 88-02 last year, this would be top 5-6 which is surprising since the finish is pretty much a foregone conclusion. These clips highlighted the big portions of the match I liked besides Vader's destruction and we get good snippets of Owen and Davey still being in the upper mix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makai Club #1 Posted June 24, 2019 Report Share Posted June 24, 2019 This was a good rumble, for the first half of the match. There was tons of great stuff. Everything involving Lawler, Razor chasing the 1-2-3 Kid. Vader potatoing everyone and going face to face with Gorilla Monsoon. All that ruled, then the match fell into a noticeable lull after that and never got good again until the finish which was great. Michaels having to super kick Diesel before he could realize what’s happening was a good finish. It just needed a better second half. ***3/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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