flyonthewall2983 Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 Royal Rumble 92 is a great match but the Hogan-Sid stuff took away a bit from Flair's moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 Most of the forced epics over the last decade or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadaveri Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 33 minutes ago, NintendoLogic said: I agree that Cena overcoming the odds the way he did made for a better self-contained match. But from a booking standpoint, having the invading monster shooter lose clean in his very first match was an insane decision any way you slice it. It's not insane when the invading monster shooter had previously walked out on the company angrily complaining about having to lose matches, later held up another company's world title and was publicly in contact with UFC about a comeback. Pretty sensible really that Vince wanted assurances Brock would do business before putting him over his Top Guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 Angle/Brock at Mania 19? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav'oh Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Log said: I've always thought this one worked because it fit the story. It all made sense and called back to their feud. That's true. It was that Steele barely touched him and Savage propelled himself awkwardly, with the commentators having to tell us he'd clonked his head on the ringbell (iirc, it's been a long time). It was that a run-in finish on Randy's behalf would've been shitty, and a run-in is a run-in, to me. It was that I didn't like the Steele/Elizabeth storyline. It was that they needed to add Savage-Steele to Savage-Steamboat. It was that Steamboat couldn't beat Savage on his own. It's that something so great had an interference finish, even though it made sense. It was a lot of things, but if I gave out stars or scores or elephant stamps, the match only loses a tenth of an elephant stamp, so like 4.9 elephant stamps out of five. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 The George Steele stuff both was the storyline with Liz and a callback to Savage destroying Ricky's throat and George preventing that from happening again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarpetCrawler Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 Honestly Jesse Ventura's extended temper tantrum immediately after the match is what bugged me the most about Savage-Steamboat IMO. That was a prime time for both Gorilla and Jesse to shut up and let us enjoy the moment and almost immediately Ventura is going on and on and on and on and on. Steele running in to make sure Savage didn't do it again made total sense, especially after I watched the product from the 1986-87 timeframe on a weekly basis many years back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 I never noticed it at the time (I was also nine years old so I just brushed it off as the guy who roots for the heels mad that the heel lost), but yeah watching it now it comes off as Jesse trying to get Savage his heat back from losing and really did a disservice to Steamboat. It is kind of a point in Dave's favor when he says that matches can only be viewed in the time they happened, since someone watching 60 years from now would be all "why is this weird bald hairy guy getting involved in this great match?" without the context of the storylines of the time that made him being there make perfect sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 I know Steele didn't give us a lot of **** (or ***, or **...) classics, but I would argue that no one in history except possibly the Macho Man himself did as good of a job as getting Elizabeth over as he did. You could draw a line from the Steele-Elizabeth storyline all the way through the Bad News, Jake, and Flair feuds--I don't think any of those have the same impact if Steele hadn't set the tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 George Steele is one of the truly underrated guys of all time. He went from being a feared and hated heel to the cuddly Animal most of us grew up with. No one before or since could do the role he did the way he did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav'oh Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 To this day I don't know how the flying hammerlock was "worked". I'm sure Shawn Michaels would've lasted five minutes in it (Cheapshot! High-five!), but there didn't seem to be a lot you could do to support your own weight. Then again, I don't understand why the Indian Deathlock is mocked. I had Gene LeBell's Great Book of Carny Holds and it was a perfectly cromulent move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 Flair/Luger at GAB '88 is on par with any of their other standouts until the trickle-of-blood stoppage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 22 minutes ago, PhilTLL said: Flair/Luger at GAB '88 is on par with any of their other standouts until the trickle-of-blood stoppage. Lord, I'd forgotten about that. Truly the AEW Deathmatch of blood stoppages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 11 hours ago, CarpetCrawler said: Honestly Jesse Ventura's extended temper tantrum immediately after the match is what bugged me the most about Savage-Steamboat IMO. That was a prime time for both Gorilla and Jesse to shut up and let us enjoy the moment and almost immediately Ventura is going on and on and on and on and on. Steele running in to make sure Savage didn't do it again made total sense, especially after I watched the product from the 1986-87 timeframe on a weekly basis many years back. I honestly don't get the love Jesse gets. He can be really good and I enjoy his commentary. But holy shit does that guy just fucking steamroll big moments by not shutting his fucking mouth. I just watched Sting winning the TV Title and Michael Hayes is pissed on commentary but he also does that well getting out of the way and giving Sting the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 10 hours ago, PeteF3 said: I know Steele didn't give us a lot of **** (or ***, or **...) classics, but I would argue that no one in history except possibly the Macho Man himself did as good of a job as getting Elizabeth over as he did. You could draw a line from the Steele-Elizabeth storyline all the way through the Bad News, Jake, and Flair feuds--I don't think any of those have the same impact if Steele hadn't set the tone. Side topic to George Steele but we were talking about wrestlers in Oscar nominated movies and he was really great as Tor Johnson in Ed Wood. It might be one of the best roles a wrestler ever played in a film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 I'll throw one out. Kobashi/Akiyama from Departure 2004. Anazing match. Akiyama should have won. The guy had momentum and that was a potential star making moment and he lost. They struggled to ever build a star in NOAH and I think they were too deep into getting Kobashi that big run instead of going with the fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Jones Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 I don't think the finish ruins the match but I agree from a booking standpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 The finish itself is perfectly fine. That match is really the first thing that comes to mind as the wrong guy going over and I think it's such an obviously bad booking choice that it does kind of hurt the match in hindsight for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 10 hours ago, Dav'oh said: To this day I don't know how the flying hammerlock was "worked". I'm sure Shawn Michaels would've lasted five minutes in it (Cheapshot! High-five!), but there didn't seem to be a lot you could do to support your own weight. Then again, I don't understand why the Indian Deathlock is mocked. I had Gene LeBell's Great Book of Carny Holds and it was a perfectly cromulent move. Sometimes the most mundane moves are the ones that would hurt a person the most. A hammerlock is incredibly painful. I think the abdominal stretch is an old hooking hold the old timers would use in training. Richard Belzer passed out from a chinlock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 Piggybacking off the Steamboat/Savage discussion... Was Steamboat's reign the most disappointing to come after a match that's considered a classic? I'm sure there are instances where someone won a title in a classic match, but had to forfeit because of injuries or something like that. But, I can't recall a single match (let alone a great match) from his reign, just when he lost it to HTM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 His NWA reign was equally as underwhelming if you ask me. Kind of just disappears after winning the title and then loses it a few months later. I guess he had the Flair matches in the NWA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kas Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 58 minutes ago, Log said: Piggybacking off the Steamboat/Savage discussion... Was Steamboat's reign the most disappointing to come after a match that's considered a classic? I'm sure there are instances where someone won a title in a classic match, but had to forfeit because of injuries or something like that. But, I can't recall a single match (let alone a great match) from his reign, just when he lost it to HTM. Kenny Omega's IWGP reign. He won it off of Okada after one of the most acclaimed matches of all time and ending one of the most acclaimed title reigns of recent years, only to have half of his defences consist of mediocre Cody matches. He at least had the Tanahashi match though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 50 minutes ago, Mad Dog said: His NWA reign was equally as underwhelming if you ask me. Kind of just disappears after winning the title and then loses it a few months later. I guess he had the Flair matches in the NWA. Did he ever defend the NWA title against anyone other than Flair? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Log said: Did he ever defend the NWA title against anyone other than Flair? He defended it against Tiger Mask Misawa in Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted March 10, 2021 Report Share Posted March 10, 2021 I don't remember if the Ron Simmons match was for the title or not. I looked at results and it looks like he made defenses against Jack Victory and Mike Rotunda at house shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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