Loss Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted July 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2011 Anxious to see this match, considering the love it has gotten through the years. Nice little TV match. I'm not quite sure I get all the love, but it's definitely solid stuff with a nice Nikita comeback at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Anxious to see this match, considering the love it has gotten through the years. Nice little TV match. I'm not quite sure I get all the love, but it's definitely solid stuff with a nice Nikita comeback at the end. Good, but overrated match. I think it is relevant in the sense that it illustrates just how great 92 WCW was that these two guys had a match of any length was quallity from bell-to-bell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted August 25, 2011 Report Share Posted August 25, 2011 Put me down as liking the match, but not getting the praise it gets as in after hearing about it you are expecting a 3 1/2* bout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomk Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Has this gotten a ton of "love" or been rated high enough to possibly be "overrated"?. The only people I think I've ever heard talk about it are me, Schneider and Cooke. It's a solid long heavyweight match with lots of neat transition spots, and teases of transition spots. 92 is also a year where Nikita kind of puts it together as a singles wrestler. I don't want to say it's his Luger in 89 or HHH in whatever teh 6 month period was where he looked like he understood how to fill time effectively. But Nikita is a guy who had long since figured out how to be an effective hot tag worker...but at somepoint in 92 he figured out how to be effective in a singles match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 I never heard of this match before. I don't see what's any special about it. Well, yes, there's something special about it actually since it's the first time Koloff looks decent since he came back after some putrid matches. His offense still suck, so he seems better at selling, and since Hughes is bigger than him, it kinda works. Nothing more than a decent short TV big man match though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 Was curious as to why this was included in yearbook. Hughes did take a pretty good bump when getting slammed off the top rope. Crowd doesn't seem to be completely behind Koloff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 This has a bit of a reputation, mainly from tomk pimping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Am I crazy or was Mr. Hughes pretty good? Had a great heel presence, and pulled off working in a tie and sunglasses pretty damn well. I've been impressed with him throughout the year. The finish didn't look so great. Perhaps this was good for a Nikita match but otherwise nothing so hot. **1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 Nothing special about this that I saw. Hughes daring Koloff to keep up with the shoulder tackles only for Nikita to catch him with a dropkick was a cute spot, and Hughes took some solid bumps. This was better than it looked on paper but nothing really worth preserving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 This wasn't awful, but wasn't anything especially good, aside from some decent bumps. It was better than expected, given who was involved, but that's about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 This was a decent bout for what it was, which was Hughes trying to act as a roadblock to Nikita's showdown with Vader the following night at the Omni. All I can say is that they better have shown the Omni bout at least in part the following week, because otherwise it doesn't make sense that Nikita, who's good enough to be Sting's surrogate against Vader, had as much trouble as he did with a midcarder like Hughes. Don't get me wrong; Hughes isn't a stiff, at least not now. But Nikita should have beaten him a bit quicker and a lot more decisively than he did. Where was Harley? JR mentions that Hughes has been/is being trained by him, which makes sense considering that they came in together to second Luger. But he wasn't at ringside here, which is a bit hard to fathom considering that Nikita's coming after his new star protégé unless Hughes stops him here. Could he have been fired before this taping, then brought back before the show aired? Doing something like that would be so typical of WCW it isn't funny. Where was Randy Owen? JR did solo commentary here, which either meant that this match was taken from one of the syndie shows or that Owen was so bad that they wanted to feature him as little as humanly possible. They really need to stop hyping JR's radio show so aggressively when it conflicts with a live Omni show. From the way JR talked about his interview with Zbyszko, one would think that there was going to be major breaking news. Thus, the fan's dilemma: Stay home and listen to Larry, thus forfeiting your chance to see Nikita/Vader live and in person, or go to the matches and risk falling behind on what's going on with the DA (like possible dissension in the ranks, perhaps?) It's a choice that Atlanta-area fans simply shouldn't have to make. What's wrong with giving the radio show a week off when WCW runs the Omni once a month? In case you're curious, Nikita got a clean pinfall over Vader the next night at the Omni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Perfectly good heavyweight match. Nothing reals special though. The transition with Hughes missing the rope spot and crotching himself was pretty telegraphed, but good nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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