[1994-05-14-USWA-TV] Brian Christopher kendo stick demonstration

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Brian Christopher and Doug Gilbert have a kendo stick match coming up at Mid South Coliseum, and Christopher wears protective gear and takes a shot from an expert to get the gimmick over. I guess wrestling loved the headlines in '94 -- Singapore caning, Tonya Harding, OJ Simpson -- because we saw them all exploited at some point.

[Kevin Ridge]

I was waiting for this to be a set up with the guy cracking Christopher in the back of the head. Gilbert is in a split screen and his reaction is pretty funny to seeing demonstration. There is talk of buttocks being exposed and a lot of pain. Yikes.

[Exposer]

This was really amusing to me. Especially the uncomfortable comment by the "expert" at the end of the segment. Quite amusing stuff.

[soup23]

Wrestling in 1994 was really desperate to keep up with the times Law and Order style. I loved how Gilbert's expression changed after the kendo shot. Overall I think this is a good semi main angle.

[PeteF3]

I never liked the USWA dumping the Southern championship name so it could have a "Unified World" title and a USWA Heavyweight title. There were three major stories dominating the news in the first part of '94, and they're the ones Weird Al sang about in his Crash Test Dummies parody. Mercifully no company saw fit to run a John Wayne Bobbitt angle. Yet.

 

Dave Brown doesn't seem all that comfortable with this. I wonder if he or Bob Caudle was easier to "break." Christopher brings out a caning expert to demonstrate the power of the Singapore cane on a fiberglass kidney protection device. Gilbert is laughing and smirking his way through this until he hears the smack, and then he's suddenly pretty worried.