Dylan Waco Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Duggan's best stuff in WCW was with Fidel Sierra. Also that match v. Somers is more than just okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 The best post-Mid-South Duggan match I've seen is vs. Vader at Starrcade 94. I think Duggan was reasonably good around that time, he's probably in the best shape he had been for a decade and I want to say he had a good match with Bossman in WCW too, but can't quite remember where or when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Will, have you paid your taxes? I note he dodged this. Very suspicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomk Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 I still feel guilty that i never did that Craig Pittman project. There was a NC indy around 99 or so that headlined with Pittman v Demolition Axe if you wanted to tie projects together. Duggan's best stuff in WCW was with Fidel Sierra. I actively like the Pittman v Duggan match, and some of the Regal stuff is amusing (although you watch and just wish Regal was working someone else). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Craig Pittman is actually growing on me a bit after two fun matches with Brad Armstrong and Tim Horner. The Horner match is *really* fun. Duggan vs Regal was amusing indeed for Regal's antic and the way he reacted to Duggan, but that's pretty much it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Most of the Pittman matches I was going to use for it have been taken off of youtube ages ago or are private now. I had a pretty good list at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 What are people's views on the Rick Steiner match from Chi-Town Rumble? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 What are people's views on the Rick Steiner match from Chi-Town Rumble? Would rather watch paint dry. Made show grind to halt for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 This week's podcast should be interesting because I think it might be Rotunda's career match Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 Also that match v. Somers is more than just okay. Yeah, I just watched this. Very pleasantly surprised. Did Somers piss in Mike's Cheerios or something? Rotundo just seems pissed at him. More fire than I've ever seen out of the dude. He really stiffs the shit out of poor Douggie here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack2k Posted July 21, 2013 Report Share Posted July 21, 2013 I am in the middle with Rotunda....his Florida stuff is good for WRESTLING...and I like the IRS character and didnt mind him in the tag team with Dibiase as Money Inc...for that timeframe he was fine. His TV Title loss to Sting is decent (and its the first match from Center Stage on WCW, the first not to be in the TechWood studios..if someone mentioned that already..sorry, didnt read page 1.) and I also enjoy his title win over Nikita Koloff in '88 BUT, the one thing that really REALLY bothers me about Rotunda is his sweating...that dude sweats like a motherfuker in his matches and when he's not in IRS gear, he looks like he has a hose on low and its going everyhwere...its disgusting...probably why WWF put him in the full gear, as when he came back to WWE in 1991, production values were better and that shit would be everywhere on camera....seriously, if you dont remember go watch his matches in just trunks...its nasty..the singlet helped, but not a ton.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted July 23, 2013 Report Share Posted July 23, 2013 I read the above post before I watched the following match and did not know notice him sweating profusely compared to Barry Windham in fact it looks like Shieky Baby is quite the sweaty one. Then again the video quality was not that good. WWF World Tag Champs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff w/"Classy" Freddie Blassie vs US Express (Mike Rotundo & Barry Windham) w/ Capt. Lou Albano They would stick Albano with just any tag team whether he fit the demeanor of the tag team or not. Albano with the All-American boys is just weird. Sheik/Rotundo do a good amateur sequence with Rotundo getting the better of Sheik. Sheik does a great begging off for both Windham & Rotundo and really makes them look good. It always takes me by surprise when Sheik busts out his somersault and misses it. I just never expect to see him do it. Volkoff comes in and gets his arm worked over with a series of quick tags. Volkoff hooks the ropes and Windham crashes and burns on a dropkick. Volkoff is not as good as I was expecting. Sheik is hilarious as he attempts to put on one of the most awkward abdominal stretches given that Windham has like 8 inches on him. Between this and Zuhkov ab stretch, Volkoff matches are the place to go to see poorly executed ab stretches. Sheik hits his gutwrench for 2. WIndham is able to hit a vertical suplex to get the hot tag. Even Rotundo is inspired by this molten MSG crowd and is fired up to deliver some dropkicks. In the fracas, WIndham rams Sheik's head into the steel posts busting him wide open. The US Express realizing how useless Rotundo is actually has him give the hot tag to Windham (literally like a minute after the last hot tag), Windham starts unloading rights on the Sheik's cut. This is brilliant. Windham is playing face in peril and the hot tag in the same match how did Ricky Morton not think of that! Windham hits a bulldog and Volkoff sensing the end is nigh makes the save. Rotundo jumps him and it devolves into a donnybrook and a double countout. I liked this match a good deal. It was very energetic and moved along briskly. Windham and Rotundo played babyfaces really well and Shekik & Volkoff are such classic heels you could not go wrong. I would have enjoyed a little more work from Sheik & Volkoff who have impressed me in other matches. I did not think anyone stood out or anything stood out, but it is just good classic wrestling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack2k Posted July 28, 2013 Report Share Posted July 28, 2013 Watch his NWA stuff.....he sweats a TON..maybe its when he was a few years older...I dont know.. But I clealy remember how sweaty that dude was every time I watched him...its dripping off him in rest holds...and a lot....so much that I vividly remember it bothering the match to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted November 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Don't ask why or how, but this is my hypothetical 1-disc "Best of Mike Rotunda" comp. 1. US Express vs. Dream Team 08/10/1985 WWF MSG 2. Mike Rotunda vs. Doug Somers 04/28/1986 AWA 3. Mike Rotunda vs. Rick Steiner 12/26/1988 Starrcade NWA 4. The Varisty Club vs. The Steiner Brothers 07/23/1989 GAB NWA 5. Captain Mike Rotunda vs. Iron Sheik 07/071990 GAB NWA 6. Mike Rotunda & The Natural Disasters vs. The Big Boss Man & The Legion Of Doom 11/27/1991 Survivor Series WWF 7. Money Inc vs. Natural Disasters 10/13/1992 Challenge WWF 8. Money Inc vs. The Beverly Brothers 04/12/1993 RAW WWF 9. Money Inc vs. The Steiner Brothers 08/16/1993 SummerSlam Spectacular WWF 10. IRS vs. 123 Kid 08/30/1993 Summerslam WWF EXTRAS: - IRS decks Beefacke with a briefcase - Tax tips with IRS #1 - Tax tips with IRS #2 - Tax tips with IRS #3 - IRS wins Battle Royale on RAW and then Ted pays him off Are there any really obviously better Rotunda matches that I've left off? If so, what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Lacelle Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 I'd throw in the WWF syndie 6 man of Money Inc. teaming up with Doink versus The Steiners & Tatanka. As an extra, the introduction of the Michael Wallstreet character. In those vignettes he played smarmy quite well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Rotunda v. Sting for the tv title is better than every match on there except for the Somers match Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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