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Where the Big Boys Play #84 - Clash of the Champions 21


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Chad and Parv review Clash of the Champions 21:

[0:04:35] – Wrestling Observer roundup: Vadar paralyses a jobber; Tony Atlas cuts racially questionable promos; Jakes goes to rehab; Paul Orndroff comes in.

[00:45:41] – Review of Clash 21: angles galore including Paul E. Dangerously vs. Madusa and Pillman on crutches vs. Brad Armstrong; the general awkwardness of Erik Watts; Vinnie Vegas cuts one of the all-time hilariously awful promos; girls watch out … Tom Zenk is back with a new partner, Johnny Gunn; Tony Atlas wears some terrible pants; 2 Cold Scorpio flips into town; and is Rick Rude’s 1992 is all it is cracked up to be?

[1:54:56] – End of show awards

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I have to disagree with Parv on Ventura being the best color guy ever. I think Dutch Mantell is a better color guy overall.

Having watched his complete tenure in SMW I'm in full agreement with you here; in fact I think Mantel blows Ventura out the water.

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The beauty of Mantell is he gives the faces full credit for how good they are and then twists it all around to bash them a short while later. I also love how he shit talks the faces but when they come out or he interviews them he kisses their ass in the most obvious way possible.

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Another strong pod. I've also wondered about Rude's 1992 being overrated and having just recently watched this show for the first time myself, it does seem like a logical time to start to ask that question. I haven't seen enough of the rest of Rude's 1992 yet to really have a definite opinion yet. I have noticed some of things Parv commented on for Rude's weak points during this show. I'll be curious what you guys think of Steamboat's year after Starrcade. And if, say, Sting's match with Vader also impacts your opinion on Rude.

 

I haven't watched hardly any SMW, so no comment there, but I put Jessie and Bobby Heenan neck and neck as the best two color guys. Different styles but both top notch. Jesse was the more consistent, though he did fall off a bit after Hogan showed up. Heenan at his peak was just hilarious and his chemistry with Monsoon was unmatched. I also loved him in 1993 when he didn't have great guys to work with, but he was maybe at his peak in terms of one-liners, jokes, and just being extremely quick. Personally, I'll pick Heenan, but there's no denying that he fell off quite a bit and after the NWO showed up and Bischoff didn't want him supporting them he really fell off with only a few moments each show.

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Good show guys. A few things:

 

Firstly, I can completely identify with Parv's story at the beginning. As a teacher of teenagers myself, I've been very careful to not share my wrestling fan-dom with any colleagues and definately none of my pupils. There was a bizzare moment a few months back when I had cause to shout at a boy who was walking illegally across a stretch of grass, only for him to turn towards me and do the John Cena "you can't see me" wavy hand. Cheeky shite that he was. I shouted that "I can see you" only to wonder if I'd let my secret slip. It's never been mentioned since so all is fine.

 

The early 1993 "Real Event" tour was quite something. I remember it being pused heavily on TV and pestering my dad to take me to the show in Aberdeen Scotland. I have to say it was a fantastic show and I had a fabulous time. Except for Cactus Jack vs Vinnie Vegas, which was crap.

 

Rick Rude's 1992 is a weird one. It's not just the two Steamboat matches and the Chono G1 match which the legend is built on. On PPV, he was really good in Wargames and I thought the match wiere he teamed with Austin vs Williams and Rhodes at the Great American Bash may have been the best match of the NWA tag title tournament. He also had good matches on TV too, including against Dustin Rhodes in the Nintendo Challenge. You guys were right though, he went off a cliff in the Autumn. The Halloween Havoc match was absolutely rubbish and the Sting match at the clash was pretty boring too. I know that at Havoc, Chono was only a few weeks removed from his neck injury at the hands of Austin's botched piledriver, so he was really limited. I also have to wonder though, whether Rude had already suffered the injury that would eventually force him out of action in December and was just trying to work through it. He just seemed so sluggish all of a sudden. Or perhaps it really was that his mustache held all his powers.

 

Incidentally, as a boy, I hated the no mustache Rude. When he came back from his injury with the mustache back AND an obscenely hairy chest though, I thought he was the coolest man that ever lived. I can only dream of achieving that level of manliness!

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