Loss Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 This is AWESOME. They decide to go balls out for five minutes. Brad Armstrong is too good to have gotten so little of a push for so long. Vader gives him a lot of the match here and he makes the most of it. Really good monster vs underdog dynamic. It's also weird in that the Worldwide Arena seems to have some semblance of real heat. It's here and gone quickly, but what a ride! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Bischoff and Jesse on commentary. Ventura thinks Bockwinkel will suspend Vader so he won't be able to face Hogan. Armstrong has the crowd behind as they pop big when he goes on the offense. He gets decent amount of moves in before Vader puts him away with the Powerbomb. Fun match with Vader looking like a monster but giving Armstrong enough to make it entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exposer Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 I love this match. It's one of my favorite competitive squashes ever. Vader gives Brad Armstrong a lot and the cut off spots are tremendous. Excellent match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Glad to see I wasn't crazy for loving this and lobbying for it on the set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 Really fun showcase match for Vader with Armstrong getting just enough offense and taking some huge bumps. Nice little diamond in a rough that fits perfectly on a yearbook setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 I didn't realize Ventura was still with WCW this late into '94. Is this the last match he will call chronologically in a Yearbook? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 It appears to be the last match he called on Worldwide too, he was gone the following week. Another case of Hogan's bad influence. Too bad, I loved Ventura. Makes a great point about Hogan being a hypocrite. This is basically a competitive squash, which is sad but every Armstrong was a jobber at this point. But for a competitive squash, it's pretty great. Vader brings out urgency in BA, which is something you rarely see, and Vader himself looks thrilled to work with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted May 11, 2013 Report Share Posted May 11, 2013 Who's da man? You da man, Vader, you da man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted June 1, 2014 Report Share Posted June 1, 2014 Great 5-minute semi-squash. Armstrong gets just enough good-looking offense to showcase himself but not too much so as to make Vader look weak. This is it for Ventura, and as great as he was, he checked out so long ago that WCW really won't miss him a bit. It's funny--he won't make another wrestling appearance until just before SummerSlam '99, and that's only 5 years from this point! It's incredible how radically the wrestling business changed and then changed again in that time span. Far more than it did from '89 until '94 or indeed more than in the past decade-plus. Am I crazy or is Bischoff doing a very transparent Joey Styles impersonation through this? The tone and the cadences are eerily similar, and he even drops a Styles-esque "OH MY GOSH." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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