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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jun 4, 2018 2:09:40 GMT -5
Bash at the Beach 2000 Vince Russo's promo on Hogan As I've said before, I could have been there.... and at that time I 100% agreed with Vince Russo. To a point I still do. My best friend and I were bigger fans of Booker T and Jeff Jarrett than we were of Hogan, and this was before I did a lot of internetting about wrestling. Unfortunately, a lot of what VinneRu says here is for naught going by his TNA track record. It was a good attempt at trying to save WCW, but alas, too little too late.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jun 4, 2018 2:21:39 GMT -5
Bash at the Beach 1996 Hogan's promo after he turned heel Covered when I covered the match for you Had this promo been scripted, we would have never gotten "Austin 3:16" and the billions of t-shirts it has sold since then. Austin's promo is a little on the shoot-y side regarding Roberts (and the shape he was in IRL) but it fit in with the rest of the boasts Austin had for the rest of that locker room... and judging by JR's comments post match, this was the plan even before that catch phrase became iconic. If you went solely off crowd reaction at the end of the match (wasn't loud, perhaps even the crowd was stunned), Austin wouldn't have gone anywhere.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jun 4, 2018 2:45:22 GMT -5
Well done to the original post for keeping his going. Good work. Oh yeah - and here is a match I love recently added to the Network that was part of my blossoming love of wrestling: Bret Hart vs Dynamite Kid from 1986 I found a match from 1987(Prime time Wrestling) on the network, but it's labeled 9/27/1986 on DM.... Weird to see Bret in NO pink whatsoever. I know these two are great wrestlers but even they can't make me like the catapault. Dynamite's snap suplex is still pretty. It impresses me that in this match who are both technical wrestlers but diversify their movesets so that even if I didn't know who there two were, I know who the good guy and bad guy is in this match. I would have given Dynamite the win on the flying knee. Dynamite wins on a leverage move, and the post-match beatdown was JUST enough to give us a taste what would come from both of these teams.
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Post by repomark on Jun 4, 2018 3:10:09 GMT -5
Well done to the original post for keeping his going. Good work. Oh yeah - and here is a match I love recently added to the Network that was part of my blossoming love of wrestling: Bret Hart vs Dynamite Kid from 1986 I found a match from 1987(Prime time Wrestling) on the network, but it's labeled 9/27/1986 on DM.... Weird to see Bret in NO pink whatsoever. I know these two are great wrestlers but even they can't make me like the catapault. Dynamite's snap suplex is still pretty. It impresses me that in this match who are both technical wrestlers but diversify their movesets so that even if I didn't know who there two were, I know who the good guy and bad guy is in this match. I would have given Dynamite the win on the flying knee. Dynamite wins on a leverage move, and the post-match beatdown was JUST enough to give us a taste what would come from both of these teams. The finish was perfect in my view (other them not cutting back in time from an action replay to see it live). I agree the knee drop looked brutal due to outstanding selling from both, but it wouldn’t have worked to have been the finish at that point in terms of the narrative of the match. Dynamite needed to look vulnerable again and not win decisively to lead into what was to come. Also: the cross body block into the ropes from Bret is still fantasically ouch-tastic looking.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jun 4, 2018 3:12:36 GMT -5
WrestleMania 31 Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar I think this is very underrated I've commented before WM34 that this match wasn't bad and people only credit Rollins' cash-in as the "Good part" of this match. Poor Roman would have had a bigger, better reception if this was happening a year previous (winning the 2014 Rumble instead of Batista).... or perhaps there'd be similar grudge with the Daniel Bryan story going on then. This time I spotted some of Roman's family on the hard cam side. Your ref for this title match: Mike Chioda, as it should be. See, Brock knows more than suplexes and F-5s. And Roman knows more than Superman Punches and Spears. Roman busted up Lesnar in a couple of places, showing that he had a fighting chance against Lesnar. Admittedly methodical in its pace, but that allowed for Lesnar to keep his breath through the match Lesnar trying not to look impressed when Roman kicked out of F-5 #2. Then Roman makes fun of Lesnar for punching a Samoan in the head! JBL: "We saw John Cena take one hell of an asskicking from Brock, it looks like Roman's gonna get the exact same one." Wouldn't surprise me if the two matches were similar, except that Roman's allowed to stick through this. I like the amazement Reigns has on his face when Lesnar finally falls down after the third Superman punch and that he needed two spears to knock Lesnar down. He's still scared near the end. Rollins crashing the party woke the crowd up, and he would have been hailed as a hero regardless of who he pinned. The "Heist of the Century" is still one of the best moments in Wrestlemania history, but the story Lesnar and Roman was telling was good regardless of how you felt about either one of them.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jun 30, 2018 23:54:13 GMT -5
WrestleMania 9 Crush vs Doink the Clown I'm not normally scared of clowns..... Brain: Hey [JR], do you have a newspaper in Oklahoma? JR: Yes we do, it comes out every Friday. Savage: Crush needs to stay away from that umbrella [...] it might be a chainsaw! These two weren't on the same page, and commentary struggled as the match continued. Savage: (to Heenan) Close your mouth and give your EARS a chance! Heenan: Doink just flows between personalities Savage: So how many people are Crush wrestling right now? Two best moves in the match - Crush reversing the blockbuster and Twin magic done right. Not a match you'll see on a "Best of", but serviceable.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jul 1, 2018 0:25:13 GMT -5
Great American Bash 1987 Dusty Rhodes vs Tully Blanchard GAB 1987 doesn't exist according to the Network..... Joey Styles shooting on WCW before the match is worth it alone. Joey: "Sabu respects Terry Funk! Can you imagine how much more dangerous this would be if Sabu HATED Funk?" This statement is an easy way to cover for the limited barbed wire spots to start. I see this match has been edited down a bit so we likely miss a few of the juicier moments.... ...but they kept when Sabu ripped his bicep open and TAPED it back together. Then the real fireworks with the barbed wire begin, where two sides of the ring are completely unstrung and Fonzi is trying to cut BOTH Funk and Sabu out. Heck, Fonzi's bleeding too. Fun for the whole family! Sabu victorious, but that is one hell of a price to pay. Being re-sensitized to the actual damage being done here make for uncomfortable viewing. but from a historical perspective, this is a torch passing, and Sabu earned it through blood, sweat and ..... Tears. As in "torn up skin and clothes"
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Post by bob on Dec 25, 2018 21:30:56 GMT -5
my Christmas gift to Nikki Heyman is to eliminate everything in this thread I recommended except Jinder Mahal vs Baron Corbin and The Demon Finn Balor vs AJ Styles from from TLC in 2017
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Post by noah29 on Dec 25, 2018 22:28:44 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar vs The Rock 2002 Summerslam.
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