Loss Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted March 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Eric Bischoff, who is a pretty bad narrator, tells us that Vader beat Ron Simmons at Baltimore Arena on December 30, as we see still pictures of them on the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benj Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 I miss things like this, being 14 years old and saying "Oh shit Vader won the title!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Bischoff got the story of the match over in his special report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Vader beats Simmons to become new WCW champion. No clips or photos from this mach? Maybe it makes the whole idea of anything could happen on house shows but there has to be someone ringside who could have snapped a couple photos of a big title change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Vader beats Simmons to become new WCW champion. No clips or photos from this mach? Maybe it makes the whole idea of anything could happen on house shows but there has to be someone ringside who could have snapped a couple photos of a big title change. The title change was actually scheduled to take place the night before in Philly. Bill Watts was there, a camera crew was sent...and Simmons no-showed the card. That necessitated the change in Baltimore (symmetry!) instead, and if the dwindling gates under Simmons' reign as champ wasn't enough to knock him out of the top babyface spot for good, that little stunt surely did. So, yeah, we get Eric Bischoff breathlessly reciting play-by-play of the match over still photos of Simmons and Vader. Underwhelming, but WCW simply couldn't continue with Simmons as champion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Bischoff reports Vader beat Simmons for WCW Title a few days after Starrcade. This needed Gordon Solie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted November 30, 2014 Report Share Posted November 30, 2014 Kind of a weird way to announce a new world champion even by 1993 standards but this did convey a good Breaking News feeling to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted February 17, 2016 Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 They actually did a nice, subtle job building up Simmons' vulnerability: the Rude medical report "controversy", plus getting distracted by things like the arm wrestling tournament and too many other people's battles, like helping Dustin vs. Barry. In the finish, which we see next week, Vader wins with a shoulderbreaker off a caught crossbody attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Arm wrestling contest? I just finished the '92 Yearbook, and no one ever mentioned Simmons participating in an arm wrestling contest. Could someone please explain? The finish was a nice tie-in to the whole thing Rude brought up about Simmons' bad shoulder. One question: If the cameras were in Philly the night before, why didn't Watts simply take them to Baltimore? I understand that Turner probably didn't want them trailing Simmons until he finally decided to show up, but one more short trip wouldn't have hurt much. If he still doesn't show and you have to bring the cameras home, simply make up an injury, declare the title vacant, and have a match between Sting and Vader on the spot for it. You can go whichever way you want on the booking, since they'll be meeting at SuperBrawl anyway. It's going to be interesting to see where Simmons' career can possibly go after such a public act of unreliiability. I don't think you'll see him hold even a minor belt ever again, so what could there be left for him except a permanent upper midcard "gateway to the title" role similar to the one that guys like Jake and Beefcake filled at various times for Hogan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 Arm wrestling contest? I just finished the '92 Yearbook, and no one ever mentioned Simmons participating in an arm wrestling contest. Could someone please explain? Sure. Jesse ran the Body's Strongest Arm contest, Simmons participated, got beat in the finals by Van Hammer (who also went over Vader in the semis). They referenced it occasionally as a distraction that the world champion really didn't need to take on. None of it would or should have ever made the Yearbook, ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted June 7, 2016 Report Share Posted June 7, 2016 So this was all a plot by Jesse to distract the World champion, huh? Damn that Ventura! Seriously, they used a contest like this to give Van Hammer a rub? You'd think it would have been a cakewalk for the World champion, who still needed to prove himself as the cornerstone of the company and number one babyface. Od course, this is WCW we're talking about, so I guess we're lucky that they didn't put over Lee Scott or Zan Panzer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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