Loss Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 The 1996 version of the Flair-Savage feud is what boosted house shows, not the 1995 version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 There are things I like a lot about 95 WCW but they mostly involve the tag division and random Lightning Express vs Blue Bloods syndi matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheapshot Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 I remember endless Jim Duggan squashes on the syndicated shows shown over here on the German channels. *shudder* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 I remember endless Jim Duggan squashes on the syndicated shows shown over here on the German channels. *shudder* jim duggan vs. rocky mountain thunder from around this time is my personal holy grail of lost matches, or at least neck-and-neck with nailz vs. giant gonzalez in NJPW the duggan match was apparently so awful even WCW didn't air it! there's an old RSPW post about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 clawmaster had this listed: 06/27/95 Atlanta, GAJim Duggan beat Rocky Mountain ThunderJim Duggan beat Tim Richards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 I'm shocked Rocky Mountain Thunder lasted in the business, even in a minimal capacity, until 1995. I hope he got better in the ring than he was back in the late 80's when he was almost killing AWA job guys left and right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Googling "who was Rocky Mountain Thunder" is what originally led me to this board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Give me "Things posted at PWO that made Loss lose his lunch all over his keyboard" for $200, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 The best feud of 1995 is probably Raven-Dreamer, which is excellent. Can't name a single WCW or WWF feud that would come close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eduardo James Posted August 5, 2014 Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 ? The idea that someone found this place via Rocky Mountain Thunder of all people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2014 Eh, whatever works. There are a few wrestlers, both good and bad ones, that when you type their names, PWO is the first site to come up, since we're the only place online discussing them. I think that's pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 It's a shame you can only get the Paul Heyman DVD online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 It's a shame you can only get the Paul Heyman DVD online It sounds like the DVD are running out at stores all over the place. My guess is that a lot of people did the pre-order gimmick. Luckily my Best Buy had the blu ray. I know this isn't too surprising but so far this is an awesome DVD. Especially on the ECW stuff with tons of great backstage footage that I have no idea who did it. Documentary is really good and the extras are definitely worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkdoc Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 I'm shocked Rocky Mountain Thunder lasted in the business, even in a minimal capacity, until 1995. I hope he got better in the ring than he was back in the late 80's when he was almost killing AWA job guys left and right. judging from that RSPW post, he didn't. he worked small california indies before & after his AWA run as "Armored Saint", but apparently he never learned from any of that! also there used to be some interesting youtube comments on his AWA matches, which have been lost ever since that account went private or got taken down or whatever. people mentioned his real name and talked about how he used to have a sense of humor about wrestling until after his time in the AWA, when he got deeper into steroids and became a lot nastier. one of these comments said that he died some time ago... actually i just found this little gem from 1994: the comments here mention his death as well, and apparently he was in a band which i never knew pretty strange what you can learn about some people and how you learn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 I am really enjoying to Heyman DVD so far but one thing I wish I could do a fact check on is his comments about it being his idea to put Steve Austin in the Dangerous Alliance because he thought Austin should be groomed as a main event guy. It just feels like Paul trying to set himself up to take credit for Austin. I also had no idea they ran an angle where he breaks his phone over Jason Hervey's head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Flair/ Savage and Hart/ Lawler were both better and drew money. Hart-Lawler was good in '93, but by '95 they were into the "kiss my foot match" territory and Bret feuding with Lawler's dentist. Flair-Savage seems like a solid pick thought, especially up against Axl/Ian and the rest of a weak field. I've been watching all the Raws in order on the Network, and there's nothing that better encapsulates 1995 WWF like watching Waylon Mercy make his debut squashing a young jobber named Jeff Hardy. S'plain. 1995 Raw (at least up to July) is a weird time that's half goofy ass cartoon gimmicks that got pushes that went nowhere and half guys who would end up being huge stars but were jobbers/newbies at that time. The same show with the Waylon/Jeff match has the "American Blue Blood" Hunter Hearst Helmsley making his Raw debut against a short haired jobber Matt Hardy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Best Buy, Target, nor Wal-Mart even had spots for Heyman DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 I don't know why I didn't but always thought Waylon Mercy was a character in the early 90's like around 91 - 93 right after his time in WCW. Didn't know it was in 1995 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Best Buy, Target, nor Wal-Mart even had spots for Heyman DVDAll of those stores by me have slashed the amount of DVDs they sell in a huge way. The Wal Mart by me just shrunk their DVD section by 75%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintthecrippler Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Man, the behind the scenes ECW footage in the Heyman DVD was a huge revelation, that's the first I've heard of any of that stuff even existing. It looks like Heyman might have been the type of guy to compulsively tape everything he did around the arena the day of the show. Everyone focuses on the lost gem matches they would dig up if they ever got free reign to WWE's archives, but between the revelation of this stuff and a lot of the behind the scenes on that History of Wrestlemania documentary from a couple years back, I would think there's tons of this sorts of footage that I would find just as compelling as having access to every Kaz Hayashi match from Worldwide. And holy shit, actual corroboration on Paul Heyman having some sort of history with Studio 54, at the very least for the party with Ric Flair and Bam Bam Bigelow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Heyman running with a Nixon gimmick is the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Heyman running with a Nixon gimmick is the way to go. If you watched the Nixon documentary on HBO Monday and saw his view on basically every color, creed, and orientation, that is going to be a stretch of his character Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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funkdoc Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 reading older threads on here is real funny sometimes i mean, parv used to bang the drum for sting in the WON HOF and now he's solidly in the "luger was better in their primes" camp also interesting to note how much more respect, say, ivan koloff gets here now compared to a couple years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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