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Post by I'm The Cool One on Sept 9, 2007 2:20:49 GMT -5
Hopefully someone can help me out here. I vaguely remember something in WCW in which Heenan sold Sonny Ono WCW and there was some kind of Japanese invasion that culminated in a PPV where each WCW star fought a japanese star. This memory is so cloudy to me. Anyone have more information?
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Post by Super Nimieboo on Sept 9, 2007 2:25:41 GMT -5
All I know is that GAEA and AJW showed up and had a tourny and Akira Hokuto was the first and only WCW womens' world champ.
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Post by kidtamagotchi on Sept 9, 2007 2:32:51 GMT -5
Didn't this all culminate at Starrcade 95? Eddie Guerrero wrestled Otani, Chris Benoit wrestled Liger, and I think Randy Savage wrestled either Tenzan or Masahiro Chono. It was an awesome ppv.
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Post by Super Nimieboo on Sept 9, 2007 2:35:41 GMT -5
I've got the wrong year then. Maybe the joshi were a special.
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Post by samachine on Sept 9, 2007 2:40:43 GMT -5
I know Sonny Ono was supposedly letting NJPW take over WCW but his plans were ruined when half of them went to join the NWO and the other half were beaten by WCW stars.
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Post by Timmy8271 on Sept 9, 2007 2:44:51 GMT -5
This was around 95 because I remember Chono. Liger and Benoit being involved. I don't think it went anywhere. According to be Benoit DVD, it was to allow benoit to work a lot of New Japan dates but it never happened.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 9, 2007 2:54:28 GMT -5
For as terrible as WCW was in 1995 (see Insane War Games Promo, "It's Not Hot!", and Hogan burning the Observer), it was a pretty ballsy, cool move to have all of those WCW vs. NJPW matches on WCW's biggest PPV of the year.
Bischoff was smart in the way that he'd do stuff like that, fully knowing that Vince McMahon would never try it.
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Post by Agent P on Sept 9, 2007 3:01:49 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan sold 30 minutes of WCW Pro to New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was determined later that Heenan had no right to do that, etc... and it led to the World Cup of Wrestling at Starrcade 95.
Matches were:
Sting vs Kensuke Sasaki
Randy Savage vs Tenzan
Lex Luger vs Masa Chono
Eddie Guerrero vs Shinjiro Otani
Johnny B. Badd vs Masa Saito
Alex Wright vs Koji Kanemoto
Chris Benoit vs Jushin Liger
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Post by Chainsaw on Sept 9, 2007 3:16:17 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan sold 30 minutes of WCW Pro to New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was determined later that Heenan had no right to do that, etc... and it led to the World Cup of Wrestling at Starrcade 95. Matches were: Sting vs Kensuke Sasaki Randy Savage vs Tenzan Lex Luger vs Masa Chono Eddie Guerrero vs Shinjiro Otani Johnny B. Badd vs Masa Saito Alex Wright vs Koji Kanemoto Chris Benoit vs Jushin Liger Wow! That's one hell of a lineup! |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 9, 2007 3:35:45 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan sold 30 minutes of WCW Pro to New Japan Pro Wrestling. Thanks for bringing that part back up, I'd totally forgotten about that. What a weasel. |
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Post by Agent P on Sept 9, 2007 3:37:12 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan sold 30 minutes of WCW Pro to New Japan Pro Wrestling. Thanks for bringing that part back up, I'd totally forgotten about that. What a weasel. It took several weeks for WCW to find out. But come on, it was WCW Pro. If he sold 30 minutes of Nitro or even Saturday Night, it'd be a big deal. |
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Post by Super Nimieboo on Sept 9, 2007 3:38:25 GMT -5
Bobby Heenan sold 30 minutes of WCW Pro to New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was determined later that Heenan had no right to do that, etc... and it led to the World Cup of Wrestling at Starrcade 95. Matches were: Sting vs Kensuke Sasaki Randy Savage vs Tenzan Lex Luger vs Masa Chono Eddie Guerrero vs Shinjiro Otani Johnny B. Badd vs Masa Saito Alex Wright vs Koji Kanemoto Chris Benoit vs Jushin Liger Wow! That's one hell of a lineup! When WCW was good it was very very good. Comtemporarily speaking it used Japanese and Mexican wrestlers the best in it's good era. |
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Post by Agent P on Sept 9, 2007 3:46:49 GMT -5
It was a great line up and everything, but Starrcade did the companies worst buyrate until Fall Brawl 1999
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Post by BillyBlood on Sept 9, 2007 3:49:06 GMT -5
Despite the crap WCW pulled, there was one good thing about WCW and that they actually gave foreign talent a chance to be somebody there. Hell, some of the most famous guys who wrestled in the history of WCW up until the nWo came around originally made their marks in Japan.
but then again, for every great foreign talents that came from Japan to wrestle for WCW (Liger, Ultimo Dragon) we had tons more abortions (the terrible misuse of Yuji Nagata, Hiroshi Tenzan, and Tokyo Magnum)
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Post by Agent P on Sept 9, 2007 4:02:51 GMT -5
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Post by Mozenrath on Sept 9, 2007 4:39:32 GMT -5
Despite the crap WCW pulled, there was one good thing about WCW and that they actually gave foreign talent a chance to be somebody there. Hell, some of the most famous guys who wrestled in the history of WCW up until the nWo came around originally made their marks in Japan. but then again, for every great foreign talents that came from Japan to wrestle for WCW (Liger, Ultimo Dragon) we had tons more abortions (the terrible misuse of Yuji Nagata, Hiroshi Tenzan, and Tokyo Magnum) And that worthless sack of marbles Mil Mascaras. |
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Post by Se7en: Horse That Wrote Poems on Sept 9, 2007 16:05:22 GMT -5
i have this whole PPV in three parts on my hard drive. I torrented it because it was one of the VERY few PPVs, wCw or WWF, that i never saw back in the day. it's good, if only because it's classic wCw.
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Post by Mongo & Pepe: Back in Black on Sept 9, 2007 16:15:27 GMT -5
I didn't watch the videos yet, but wasn't that Savage's 3rd time wrestling that night? He had the match against Tenzan, a 3 way with Luger and Sting for the Title shot (which I believe was the first 3 way match in WCW history, due to the popularity of the match style in ECW at the time), and the Main Event. Is that correct? |
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Post by Agent P on Sept 9, 2007 16:19:54 GMT -5
I didn't watch the videos yet, but wasn't that Savage's 3rd time wrestling that night? He had the match against Tenzan, a 3 way with Luger and Sting for the Title shot (which I believe was the first 3 way match in WCW history, due to the popularity of the match style in ECW at the time), and the Main Event. Is that correct? It was his second time. Flair won the Triangle Match over Luger and Sting to determine a #1 Contender to Savage. Ironically the Triangle Match was Flair's first match and at the end of the night, all 4 wrestled twice. |
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Sept 9, 2007 16:28:20 GMT -5
I didn't watch the videos yet, but wasn't that Savage's 3rd time wrestling that night? He had the match against Tenzan, a 3 way with Luger and Sting for the Title shot (which I believe was the first 3 way match in WCW history, due to the popularity of the match style in ECW at the time), and the Main Event. Is that correct? It was his second time. Flair won the Triangle Match over Luger and Sting to determine a #1 Contender to Savage. Ironically the Triangle Match was Flair's first match and at the end of the night, all 4 wrestled twice. They had mentioned that in the weeks leading to Starrcade that Flair would clearly have the advantage over all 3 as he wouldn't have to wrestle till the Triangle match, so he would be rested. |
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