Wrestler's You've Flip Flopped On

[artDDP]

Is this the Andre vs. Warrior match in question? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cONoP4jKQ8c

 

That's hardly a clean job.

 

And there seems to be a rematch from September 30th 1989 which goes longer than 10 minutes:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Wzf_KEUkU

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ajKcC1zZc

 

DQ finish.

 

Now another match, this time SNME from October, this time more like 7 or 8 minutes:

 

DQ finish.

 

Did the squash matches only happen on house shows?

I remember those minute-long squashes getting mentioned in "PWI" at the time and blowing my young mind.

[Victator]

Warrior was the one who pointed out Andre hating Savage. Saying if Andre hated him, there was no way in hell he would allowed Warrior to slam him every night.

 

I think you can compare it to the Jake feud too. Where Andre did not give Jake shit in their matches. Compared to the Warrior feud.

[Strummer]

Is this the Andre vs. Warrior match in question? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cONoP4jKQ8c

 

That's hardly a clean job.

 

And there seems to be a rematch from September 30th 1989 which goes longer than 10 minutes:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Wzf_KEUkU

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ajKcC1zZc

 

DQ finish.

 

Now another match, this time SNME from October, this time more like 7 or 8 minutes:

 

DQ finish.

 

Did the squash matches only happen on house shows?

I remember those minute-long squashes getting mentioned in "PWI" at the time and blowing my young mind.

 

 

I can remember PWI ragging on Andre pretty hard around 88/89 saying he needed to get out of main events and how the company should give other wrestlers chances on top.

 

of course they said that in kayfabe terms

[khawk20]

Looking at his stuff in the late 80's and he was pretty good. I saw him in a tag from the late 70s and he was really good. I think he gets shit for being Verne's son. Jim Ross said it right. He should have went to another territory and changed his name.

I think he likely would have done even worse had he done that. I think he was just too small for anyone but his Dad to push.

 

He likely would have done worse for the simple fact that the High Flyers were one of the most over, best drawing and best working tag teams of the 70s/80's and it's highly unlikely that degree of success would have been replicated elsewhere no matter what his degree of talent.

 

One of the great problems with Greg is that his work from 85-90 is abundantly available and has been seen by most people with some sort of AWA exposure. His best stuff was from the era that there is very little film available for by comparison, that being 1974-83.

 

People have a hard time believing Greg was ever over based on how they saw him in the last few years of his career. It's a problem that won't go away anytime soon and it inherently brings down any talk of the High Flyers being a "great" team.