Ben Wyatt
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 5, 2012 17:40:43 GMT -5
Rockers vs Orient express might be my favorite tag team match of all time. Damn shame the Orients never got a respectable push.
Bossman/Barbarian is a criminally underrated big man match
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Jan 5, 2012 17:55:29 GMT -5
Probably my favorite rumble, certainly the one I have watched the most. Ignoring Moutie v Koko (which isn't on my dvd or vhs copy) Was this match not on the original Coliseum Video release? I know I watched that tape a lot and I have no recollection of this match whatsoever.
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andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Jan 5, 2012 19:28:00 GMT -5
It wasn't
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Post by FailedGimmick on Jan 6, 2012 13:58:24 GMT -5
Why was the WWF Title match so low on the card?
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King Koopa
He's just a Sexy Kurt
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Post by 67 more on Jan 6, 2012 14:00:31 GMT -5
Probably my favorite rumble, certainly the one I have watched the most. Ignoring Moutie v Koko (which isn't on my dvd or vhs copy) Was this match not on the original Coliseum Video release? I know I watched that tape a lot and I have no recollection of this match whatsoever. It's not on the Tagged Classics release either.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2012 14:43:39 GMT -5
Why was the WWF Title match so low on the card? I don't know for sure, but I would guess probably because of the ending.
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Post by darthobiwan on Jan 6, 2012 22:12:53 GMT -5
The title match was earlier because they figured people would be pissed that slaughter won (he was an iraqi supporter during the first gulf war) and they would be calmed down/happy by the time hogan won the rumble while waving the american flag.
The mountie/koko match was not even announced beforehand (I remember being confused when I first watched this) and was just used to debute the mountie character.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jan 6, 2012 22:15:05 GMT -5
Why was the WWF Title match so low on the card? They probably wanted time for the crowd to absorb the title change and also get pumped back up before the Rumble. Having a filler match, then Virgil's big turn allowed the crowd time to deal with Slaughter winning the title. If they had gone title match right into the Rumble, the crowd would've probably been dead until Hogan came out.
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Post by Chardee MacDennis on Jan 8, 2012 1:55:36 GMT -5
Rewatched this today. God, I forgot how awesome Martel was in this Rumble.
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Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on Jan 8, 2012 2:46:56 GMT -5
Martel was amazing. What a performance.
I know it's been said 1,000 times before when talking about these old events, but it's damn near amazing how hot and pumped up the crowd is for even the lowest tier wrestlers in the show. It's amazing how you can make people care for the guys if you put some effort into it.
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The Ichi
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by The Ichi on Jan 8, 2012 2:52:06 GMT -5
To this day, The Rockers vs. The Orient Express is still the best tag team match I've ever seen.
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Post by jimblazer on Jan 9, 2012 11:55:41 GMT -5
Watched it on Sat. Totally weird how Brian Knobbs was in the final three.
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Post by jason1980s on Jan 9, 2012 15:19:40 GMT -5
They should have had Sags in there too. It looks weird to see one Nasty Boy whith not the other. Mountie could have done it too as opposed to the match with Koko that didn't even make the video. It's cool seeing Mountie come out for the match though before the music hits and I thought "I guess he didn't have music when he debuted" but it cues up a few seconds late. Having him in the final three with Earthquake could've been cool or maybe Nastys v. Sam Houston and Koko on a dark match.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 9, 2012 15:35:01 GMT -5
Martel was amazing. What a performance. I know it's been said 1,000 times before when talking about these old events, but it's damn near amazing how hot and pumped up the crowd is for even the lowest tier wrestlers in the show. It's amazing how you can make people care for the guys if you put some effort into it. Yep, it was the era of "give 'em a taste for free, then make 'em buy the PPV or a ticket to see the good stuff". You spent weeks watching Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, and Prime Time, and in that time maybe you got 3-5 matches a month that included "name" wrestlers and not jobbers. By the time the PPV would roll around, you'd be itching to see a Koko B. Ware vs. Dino Bravo match. Funny thing about RR 91; it was the first PPV I remember seeing hype videos for, since I had just started watching WWF (I was a couple months away from my 6th birthday in March). I didn't get to order it since my parents were telling me they'd get me WM 7 as a birthday present, so eventually I tried going to the local video store to rent it. After all, they seemed to have every major WWF PPV release going back to Wrestlemania I. And yet? RR 91 was the ONLY Rumble they never had in stock. Ever. Finally YouTube came along years and years later and I finally watched it all, and it was worth the wait. Fantastic opener, great big man match, dramatic title change angle and Warrior/Savage setup, Virgil's big turn, and one of the best booked Rumbles of all time, with multiple guys staying in for 20+ minutes, or 40+ in Valentine's and Martel's cases. Like others were saying, I absolutely love that old Rumbles weren't afraid to put non main eventers in there late. It made sense: if a guy drew a late number, or had a gimmick that emphasized his endurance, agility, athleticism, etc., why the hell wouldn't he last a long time, position on the card be damned? I remember the 1994 Rumble final four including one of the Headshrinkers. They also took the Rumble as a chance to give mini-pushes to guys who otherwise might not get them; again, Valentine hitting Jimmy Hart and then lasting 40+ minutes was GREAT for him. Even if they only intended to use him as a face jobber-to-the-stars from then on, it made him look legitimate, and made anyone who beat him ('Quake at WM 7, IRS at SummerSlam) look that much better. Also great: although they did a few gimmicky things with entrance numbers back in the day (i.e. RR 89, Ax and Smash draw #1 and #2, stuff like that), they didn't stretch believability TOO badly with stuff like that, so you didn't get taken out of the moment or go "I know EXACTLY what's about too happen" too much. My cousin still orders the Rumble, and I do go to watch it just to hang out but yeah, the predictability of it and the overly scripted nature kills me. If I recall correctly last year's was particularly brutal (though certainly not as horrid as WM was).
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dav
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Post by dav on Jan 9, 2012 16:59:58 GMT -5
Just rewatching the event and during the Sherri/Warrior segment, was the crowd chanting "Nail her."?
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