[1992-11-21-WCW-Saturday Night] Erik Watts and Kensuke Sasaki

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Kensuke Sasaki and Hiro Matsuda train Erik Watts on the finer points of the STF while Ole Anderson and Tony Schiavone narrates. Okay, so yeah, this is preposterous. I like doing stuff like this to get over submissions, but it's a little wasted on Erik Watts.

[Tim Evans]

Watts looked like he was laughing putting Bagwell in the STF. They tried but it just didn't work.

[shoe]

This could have worked with maybe a worker like Benoit, or Regal.

[Kevin Ridge]

Needed some John Cena in there. Masuda was really trying to explain how the STF works and just as he demonstrated it, Watts would not probably put it on.

[PeteF3]

From the Linguistic Milestone Dept.: this is the first instance of "tapping out" entering the wrestling vernacular, at least on a national stage.

[WingedEagle]

Sasaki & Matsuda training Watts how to execute the STF. Perhaps Sasaki also tried to teach him charisma and personality. Bagwell looks to be having a great time.

[...TG]

Since they were in Japan recently, maybe WWE should have taken the opportunity to have Sasaki give Cena a remedial course on STF application? It's looking pretty loose recently.

[garretta]

They're really trying to get Erik over here, as Loss said. I applaud the effort, but why do this with a young, unproven guy, even if he's the boss's son? This would have been fine after he'd been groomed for a few years, say in the early Nitro days, but it's way premature here. At least they should have shows him successfully applying the hold at the end.

 

I hope they let Sasaki wrestle a few times to make this video worth his while; it's a total waste to being a guy all the way from Japan for what amounts to a cameo in a two-minute video. Them again, that kind of excess is typical of WCW.