Wrestling Results - December 19, 1998

[Joe Neglia]

Unidentified Promoter - Convention Center, Hamilton, Ontario

Eric Young defeated Carlos Ortega
Chico Rodríguez defeated Lance Malibu
Sid Summers defeated Brent Stumpf
Frenchy Lamonte defeated Tiny the Terrible
Geza Kalman Jr. defeated Danny Johnson
Tatanka and Joey War Eagle defeated Brian Fury and Alexis Machine
King Kong Bundy defeated Duke Droese
Butch Miller and Luke Williams defeated Samu and Fatu
NWA World Heavyweight Title Match - Dan Severn (c) defeated Bruiser Bedlam by disqualification

Yes, that Eric Young.

Brian Fury would go on to have a single ROH match nine years later.

This quickly goes from typical Canadian indy to Heroes of Wrestling 2 toward the end.

Bedlam is the same from Cornette's SMW and has one of the higher bodycounts for wrestlers-turned-murderers. I'll say I'm not a fan and leave it at that.

CWA - Festzelt auf der Bürgerweide in Bremen, Germany

CWA World Junior Heavyweight Title Match - Karsten Kretschmer defeated Super Loco (c) - TITLE CHANGE!!!
CWA World Tag Team Titles Match - Joe X-Legend and Rhino Richards (c) defeated Rico de Cuba and Ulf Herman
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Ice Train ended without a winner as a time limit draw
CWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Match - Tony St. Clair defeated Robby Brookside (c) - TITLE CHANGE!!!
CWA World Middleweight Title Match - Franz Schumann (c) defeated Christian Eckstein
CWA World Heavyweight Title Match - Rambo defeated Big Titan - TITLE CHANGE!!!

Super Loco = Super Crazy

Joe X-Legend = Joe E. Legend/Just Joe

Previously noted, but Rambo = Sniper of the Truth Commission

Big Titan = Fake Razor Ramon

OPW (Oklahoma Pro Wrestling) - Riverlanes Bowling Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Rocco Valentino defeated Shrapnel
OPW Oklahoma Tag Team Titles Match - Romeo Studley and Snap Studley defeated Sin City Assassins (Vito Casanova and Jack O'Toole) (c) by countout
OPW Oklahoma Light Heavyweight Title Match - Grunt defeated Tarantula - TITLE CHANGE!!!
OPW Oklahoma Heavyweight Title Match - Great Bolo 2nd (c) defeated Ian St. James
Loser Leaves Town Match - Bull Schmitt defeated Vinnie Valentino

Bull Schmitt and Rocco Valentino would get a dark match in 2000, and Schmitt would get a TV dark match teaming with another of the Valentinos (Romeo Valentino)

Vinnie Valentino = Brent Albright/Gunner Scott

Lot of Italian names on the card, and most of them are actually related to Albright.

DDT - Komazawa Olympic Memorial Park Gymnasium in Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)

Naoshi Sano defeated Kengo Takai (4:36 minutes)
Mitsunobu Kikuzawa and Yuki Nishino defeated Daisaku and Yusaku (9:21 minutes)
Chotaro Kamoi and Yuichi Taniguchi defeated Exciting Yoshida and Love Machine X (11:21 minutes)
Phantom Funakoshi and Tsunehito Naito defeated Kurokage and Tanomusaku Toba (9:37 minutes)
Kendo Nagasaki and Lee Gak Soo defeated Koichiro Kimura and Takashi Sasaki (12:24 minutes)
Sanshiro Takagi and Kyohei Mikami defeated Super Strong Machines (Masao Orihara and Takeshi Ono) (15:55 minutes)

Love Machine X = Jungle Jim Steele

Nagasaki, I know, the rest...not so much. Some of these guys have dozens of alternate gimmick names.

WCW - Springfield, Missouri

Chris Adams defeated Vincent
Perry Saturn defeated Fit Finlay
Four Horsemen (Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko) defeated Dancing Fools (Disco Inferno and Alex Wright)
Booker T defeated Chris Jericho
Konnan defeated Eddie Guerrero by disqualification
nWo Wolfpac (Lex Luger and Konnan) defeated Brian Adams and Eddie Guerrero
Bill Goldberg defeated The Giant

I can't imagine that first match being worth a damn. Adams was too far gone with the drugs and alcohol, and Vincent was Vincent.

Saturn/Finlay sounds like a damn fun time.

ECW - ECW Arena, Philadelphia, PA

Nova defeated Steve Corino
Yoshihiro Tajiri defeated Antifaz del Norte
Full Blooded Italians (Tracy Smothers and Little Guido) defeated Roadkill and Danny Doring
3-Way Elimination Match - Lance Storm defeated Rex King and Wolfie D
Spike Dudley defeated Skull Von Krush
ECW World Television Title Match - Rob Van Dam (c) defeated Balls Mahoney
The Dudleys (Buh Buh Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley and Big Dick Dudley) defeated Mike Lozanski, Rod Price and One Man Gang
3-Way Elimination Match - FTW World Heavyweight Title Match - Sabu defeated Justin Credible and Taz (c) - TITLE CHANGE!!!
ECW World Heavyweight Title Match - Shane Douglas (c) defeated Lance Storm

I really can't put my finger on what it is, but something about this card just looks unappealing.

ICW (International Championship Wrestling) - Eglise de la Nativite in Montréal, Quebec (Canada)

3-Way Match - Spoiler defeated Ludger Proulx and Tony Stallone
3-Way Match - Johnny Primo defeated Serge Proulx and Steven Cyr
3-Way Match - Big Rookie defeated Mr. USA and Ranger Boy
3-Way Match - Lucky Ranger defeated Francis Proulx and Mike Patcheko
3-Way Match - Franky the Mobster defeated Candyman and Domenic Manson
Steven Cyr and Ludger Proulx defeated Ranger Boy and Mr. USA
Battle Royal - Big Rookie defeated
Francis Proulx defeated Mike Patcheko
ICW Heavyweight Title Match - Big Rookie defeated Johnny Primo (c) - TITLE CHANGE!!!

Definitely not Jardine as the Spoiler, nor Brad Armstrong or Tony Todd as Candyman.

Wait...Lucky Ranger and Ranger Boy? Hmm...

MPPW (Memphis Power Pro Wrestling) - Memphis, TN

Brian Christopher defeated Erin O'Grady
Shawn Stasiak defeated Blade Boudreaux
Mic Tierney defeated Mark Gordy
MPPW Young Guns Title Match - Lance Jade (c) defeated Derrick King

O'Grady = Crash Holly

I wonder if Mark Gordy was supposed to have some connection to Terry. It's not Ray.

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Doesn't look much different from the PPW show we saw 6 months earlier. Hell, Jade vs. King was on that show too! (Also, Beau James on the undercard. At least we saw a main event of Bill Dundee vs Billy Joe Travis.)

If you've never seen a live event in the South, it's quite an experience.

[BlackoutCreature]

From that German show, I'm assuming that Rhino Richards is the same Rhyno from ECW and WWE? Ulf Herman from that match also had an ECW run. I actually remember him being in ECW for a good amount of time but I don't remember a single one of his matches making it to ECW TV.

And every ECW card from around after early 1997 looked unappealing on paper. But between Heyman's booking and the crowds being really hot, they usually made them work. Well at least until like late 1999-early 2000, when money, the talent pool and Heyman's creativity just bottomed out.

I actually remember this ECW Arena show getting a lot of press at the time. The previous one had apparently been a big disappointment with stale storylines, sub-par matches and a main event angle that fell flat. Heyman promised a return to form with this one and brought in a bunch of new talent to try to liven things up. If I'm correct this was the ECW debut of Corino, Tajiri and Antifaz. This was also around the time of Reckless Youth's very brief ECW run (only a match or two I think).

[Joe Neglia]

Dec 20, 2018 22:08:45 GMT -5 BlackoutCreature said:

From that German show, I'm assuming that Rhino Richards is the same Rhyno from ECW and WWE? .

Yep, dunno how I forgot to mention that. He and Joe were part of that THUG Life crew with Edge and Christian in those years.

[thegame415]

Sniper vs Fake Razor Ramon - A main event anywhere in the country!

[BlackoutCreature]

Dec 20, 2018 22:27:39 GMT -5 thegame415 said:

Sniper vs Fake Razor Ramon - A main event anywhere in the country!

I guess it depends on the country.