Loss Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Purple and black? Come on, Ric, you being color coordinated is a staple of wrestling! We depend on it! Besides, it was Christmas, why not do red and green? These two work their asses off here and have a much better match than I expected they would. I like Flair taking it to the mat and doing the hammerlock pinning combo. He's also pretty aggressive with the punches and chops and the Jimmy Hart interference spots work well, and the post-match stuff with Sting and Luger was really fun and set up Starrcade really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Bischoff calls Savage WCW's "ironman". Was that a shot at Shawn Michaels? And wasn't this the last wrestling tv show to be live on Christmas Day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted November 28, 2013 Report Share Posted November 28, 2013 Good solid match. These two really had a nice chemistry. Flair going for the arm at first was a nice touch, but sadly he reverted back to the figure-four later on. Savage's selling is always a pleasure, he looks in so much pain. Every time he attemps a pinfall looks so urgent too, which is somewhat of a lost art. Yeah, they did a really strong job building to the Starrcade main event between those four, which was needed since the entire PPV was basically WCW vs NJ which had no build on TV basically except a few terrible Sonny Oono's vignettes. And it's so refreshing not to have Hogan around to fuck things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Nitro's unopposed this week so Savage and Flair get to do more of a meat-and-potatoes match. This gets in danger of going all over the place at times, with Ric focusing on the knee like good Nature Boys do while also having to pay lip service to Savage's arm injury. Jimmy is *really* good at ringside--this heel turn has had him more energized than he has been in years. Eventually Savage goes after Hart, which brings out Luger. Then Sting comes in, but it's left ambiguous as to whether he was going to help Savage or Luger, because Flair cuts him off. We go off the air with Savage and Sting staring each other down. Really hot closing segment, and it's nice not to have Hogan involved or to have the babyfaces yelling at each other while Okerlund moderates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted December 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 I love that Hogan got suspended "for the rest of the year" on the December 18 Nitro, which is why he wasn't on this show. He was given the holidays off as punishment for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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