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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Apr 6, 2015 4:28:14 GMT -5
Wrestlemania VII Tito Santana v The Mountie That could be a main event anywhere in the country.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 6, 2015 5:54:37 GMT -5
Rick Martel vs. Koko at WM6 was a weird one. Martel had turned heel a full year earlier. Koko should have been his first opponent on the first SNME after WM5. Not PPV, but somewhere I have a Most Unusual Matches VHS with Martel vs. Koko in........wait for a it......a blindfold match.......Now that's random as hell.
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Post by Gummydavidson on Apr 6, 2015 17:30:41 GMT -5
The Harris Brothers vs Mikey Batts & Jerelle Clark happened at TNA Against All Odds 2005.
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Post by Mr. Medium Shot on Apr 6, 2015 19:54:33 GMT -5
Matt Hardy vs. Zack Gowen, No Mercy 2003. And Hardy did a clean job!
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Apr 6, 2015 20:27:13 GMT -5
Rick Martel vs. Koko at WM6 was a weird one. Martel had turned heel a full year earlier. Koko should have been his first opponent on the first SNME after WM5. Not PPV, but somewhere I have a Most Unusual Matches VHS with Martel vs. Koko in........wait for a it......a blindfold match.......Now that's random as hell. If memory serves, Martel did this as a warm-up for his match with Jake. How about Survivor Series 1999: Val Venis, Mark Henry, Gangrel & Steve Blackman vs. the British Bulldog and the Mean Street Posse.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Apr 7, 2015 6:39:00 GMT -5
The Rock vs. Billy Gunn wasn't a questionable match in itself, but why give it an embarrassing and ridiculous stipulation like having to kiss a large woman's butt?
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Post by Angus Mcloud on Apr 9, 2015 1:28:31 GMT -5
Not PPV, but somewhere I have a Most Unusual Matches VHS with Martel vs. Koko in........wait for a it......a blindfold match.......Now that's random as hell. If memory serves, Martel did this as a warm-up for his match with Jake. How about Survivor Series 1999: Val Venis, Mark Henry, Gangrel & Steve Blackman vs. the British Bulldog and the Mean Street Posse. Also from Survivor Series 1999, What ended up being Big Show vs Big Boss Man, Prince Albert, Mideon, and Viscera originally had The Blue Meanie and Kaientai on Big Shows team.
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 9, 2015 8:05:46 GMT -5
Most of that show was filler, though. I think the only matches that meant anything were Nash/Goldberg, DDP/Giant(should've been Bret, but I believe he may have been injured), Kidman/Mysterio/Juvi, which was followed by Kidman/Guerrero, Flair/Bischoff, and Konnan/Jericho, which qualifies solely by having been a title match, and immediately loses points for being a TV title match which was Jericho's punishment for pissing Bischoff off. The fact that I don't remember the rest of the card, outside of a Bigelow/Hall match that was promoted on the pre-show, then never happened, should tell you something. I remember something similar happened the previous month when I saw that Booker T vs. Scott Norton for the IWGP title was announced for World War 3. Even at the time, I was like "Why would that title be defended at a WCW show?" The IWGP World Heavyweight title was defend at Spring Stampede '95 by Muta against Mr. Wonderful of all people.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 9, 2015 8:14:19 GMT -5
Tomko vs Steven Richards (In Drag) from Unforgiven 2004...Yeah I know it was part of an angle at the time, but it really could have been paid off on RAW instead of forcing paying customers to sit though that fiasco. In drag? So now we know who WWE can claim had the 200+ day Divas Title reign now. Seriously, how about... - JYD vs. Rude and Jake vs. Herc at SummerSlam '88? No Jake vs. Rude blowoff then? (I know, they saved it for SNME, but...) - UT vs. Giant Gonzalez AGAIN at SSlam '93. Did Mr. Hughes quit/get fired by then? Not that it would be great, but that's what they were building towards. - Hogan/Warrior vs. Triangle of Terror at SSlam '91 (sense a pattern?) Only because it was a letdown when one would expect Hogan/Warrior vs. Slaughter/Taker. - Many of the Survivor Series '89 pairings. Hogan/Jake/Demolition was a dream team, but was always shocked Beefcake and Savage were not involved in that; instead, they revived the Hogan/DiBiase feud from 1988, and Demos/Powers of Pain that blew off in theory at WM5 that year. - Didn't Brian Adams have some below-midcard tag match at Starrcade '98?
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 9, 2015 8:16:28 GMT -5
Wrestlemania VII Tito Santana v The Mountie Did Heenan say that the Mountie was just trying to make sure that Tito didn't try to sneak into Canada? If not, he really should have. Via a Buick no less.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 9, 2015 8:19:32 GMT -5
Matt Hardy vs. Zack Gowen, No Mercy 2003. And Hardy did a clean job! To be fair, that was a hilarious feud in some regards. I remember Matt Hardy cutting some promo and saying something to the effect of "Who could forget Zach Gowen's amazing moveset? He's got the dropkick, and the dropkick, and also, dropkicks." Would have been pretty accurate about Maven for most of his early WWE run, really, as well.
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Post by agent817 on May 21, 2015 9:14:09 GMT -5
I don't see Stevie Richards vs. Tyson Tomko mentioned here, which was questionable and random. Then again, it was an impromptu match.
ECW in 1999 and 2000 was infamous for having impromptu matches.
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Post by auph10imitated on May 21, 2015 13:18:41 GMT -5
The original version of the 1991 Survivor Series Match Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Texas Tornado, Ricky Steamboat and The Anvil vs Col Mustafa, Big Bully Busick, Skinner and The Bezerker. Based on the fact that this was probably one of, if not the first traditional elimination match that pretty much had no feud relevance like previous years were opposing teams usually had people who had beef with each other. Other than Hacksaw/Mustafa loosely beefing over USA vs Iraq, none of the others in the match had any kind of angle/beef/storyline in place right?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 13:26:30 GMT -5
Adonis vs Uncle Elmer
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Post by jason1980s on May 21, 2015 14:27:12 GMT -5
The original version of the 1991 Survivor Series Match Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Texas Tornado, Ricky Steamboat and The Anvil vs Col Mustafa, Big Bully Busick, Skinner and The Bezerker. Based on the fact that this was probably one of, if not the first traditional elimination match that pretty much had no feud relevance like previous years were opposing teams usually had people who had beef with each other. Other than Hacksaw/Mustafa loosely beefing over USA vs Iraq, none of the others in the match had any kind of angle/beef/storyline in place right? That is one of my favorite SS matches considering just how random it is and also the several changes that occurred between original advertisement and show (heel team-Busick and Barbarian were replaced and face team saw Anvil and Dragon out). The match resembles the 1996 Free For All, to me, with the random lower card wrestlers. I always enjoyed seeing the lower card guys randomly appearing to fill out a Survivor Series or Royal Rumble roster.
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Post by bigalbass86 AKA Smokin Vokoun on May 21, 2015 14:41:04 GMT -5
Lief Cassidy vs Flash Funk was an odd one. I know late 1996 was the best for the WWF in terms of roster depth, but.....really?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on May 21, 2015 14:48:45 GMT -5
a good portion of ECW PPVs had matches that weren't announced prior to the card Also I think on at least a few ppvs they did that thing Ecw did a ton towards the end where there is one match then a run-in leading to another match followed by yet another run in leading to another match. Sometimes the pair from the first match had nothing to do with the guys the segment ended with. I actually thought some of those segments were really fun, but a bit odd for a ppv.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on May 21, 2015 16:06:15 GMT -5
JBL vs. Matt Hardy for Armageddon 2005. The feud was set up two days before for this very random match-up.
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Post by FHgrad99 on May 21, 2015 17:30:44 GMT -5
What about Superbrawl 1? There were 12 matches on the card. Here are matches 2-6:
-Dan Spivey vs. Ricky Morton
-Nikita Koloff vs. Tommy Rich
-Dustin Rhodes vs. Terrance Taylor (This is the lone exception)
-Big Josh vs. Black Bart
-Oz vs. Tim Parker (who?)
Out of all of those matches, the Rhodes vs. Taylor match was the only one that went over 4 1/2 minutes.
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Post by BarmPot on May 21, 2015 19:56:08 GMT -5
How about matches that made no sense? Why the hell did Marc Mero face Droz at Breakdown 98? Why did Val Venis face Jeff Jarrett at Fully Loaded 98? He was in the midst of a feud with Kaientai, why didn't he face one of them? Those two were filler matches, but the only thing that went with the angle Val went through as that Yamaguchi-San was on color commentary during that match, but it didn't make sense and maybe it was the work of one mastermind: Just a random tidbit, Fully Loaded 98 was, I think, the first PPV I ever watched. I had it on tape and remember watching it quite a lot (I swear it wasn't because of the bikini contest, honest)
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