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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 22, 2019 11:56:33 GMT -5
I'd say that Joe vs. Punk III was the blow off to that feud; it pretty definitively ended with Joe standing tall after their two draws. Granted, Punk got to pin Joe during that final four-way for the ROH title, but it wasn't the same feud at that point.
Dusty vs. DiBiase also could be argued to have gotten its blowoff at Rumble '91; no, there was no final, definitive PPV singles match, but Dusty/Dustin vs. DiBiase/Virgil transitioning into the DiBiase/Virgil feud marked it as an end.
And yeah, WWF circa 1992 is a sea of uncompleted feuds given the rapid turnover, the steroid issues, the move away from Hogan, and unforeseen complications (e.g. Savage's divorce impacting his ring work and probably leading to him dropping the title early).
I know that ROH eventually had the two bury the kayfabe hatchet on screen, but it irked me for years that they didn't give a full resolution to Alex Shelley vs. Austin Aries after Aries won the title and kicked Shelley out of Generation Next. Had Shelley not signed with TNA around that time there's every chance he could've been a top choice to unseat Aries, but once that situation changed things shifted to GeNext turning face, Shelley turning heel and joining The Embassy, and that becoming the featured feud rather than the singular story of Shelley working his way up to challenging Aries one-on-one, outside of their Manhattan Mayhem 2005 title match.
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Post by Zen411 on Mar 22, 2019 12:27:06 GMT -5
Dusty Rhodes and Ted DiBiase As I recall, they had several matches and Dusty just could never get the job done. What feuds did wwe spend months building with no significant blowoff match or maybe no match at all? A heel getting his comeuppance or a satisfying end to the feud at least on tv if not a ppv? Hogan vs flair 1991.
Big bossman vs rick rudeThoughts on these or what else do you think? Both of these pairs had their blowoffs in WCW, if that counts. I don't count the wcw matches as the Hogan flair one was like three years later and not connected to the same feud. Boss vs flair..didnt know that happened but I guess it wasn't connected to making fun of bossmans mama? Dibiase vs dusty didn't have a satisfying end as dibiase moved on to Virgil and dusty went away. I wanted something on tv. What about dibiase vs bossman? Cody vs Goldust or stardust vs goldust?
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Mar 22, 2019 12:44:09 GMT -5
Jeff Jarrett vs Doink from 1994...What? Jerry Jarrett thought it was a significant enough feud that he dedicated almost an entire episode of Action Zone to it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 13:03:56 GMT -5
When Bossman showed up in WCW, he went right after Rude and it was understood that he was attempting to settle the score from their WWF feud. I would say that the Hogan/Flair feud was the same, because both were basically "I'm the greatest and you live in my shadow". I always saw Bash at the Beach '94 as the climax of what they started in '91.
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Mar 22, 2019 13:40:08 GMT -5
Champs / Gargano, even though it SHOULD have been over with, looks like it’s done for now without that final payoff.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 22, 2019 18:20:38 GMT -5
Did Flair and Dusty ever had a final battle?
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Mar 23, 2019 5:05:52 GMT -5
L.O.D. vs. DEMOLITION
Steve Austin vs. Booker T after the grocery store brawl.
Undertaker vs Berzerker after Berserker tried to stab him with a sword (!)
Undertaker vs. Nailz it was on the cover of WWF Magazine. I assume it was the original plan before Nailz got fired so they had to call in Giant Gonzalez.
Did Cody vs. Goldust have a proper ending in 2014 or 2015? I remember one ppv match and then the feud was just dropped and they reformed again which was the birth of Statdust? (WHEW!)
Does Bret vs. Shawn count?
Jake vs. Earthquake. Quake turned Damien into snake burgers and got zero comeuppance.
Alundra Blaze vs. Aja Kong.
I don't know if these count but whatever TNA was building towards with Jackie Gayda before she announced she was pregnant and was never seen again.
Whatever TNA was building towards with Gail Kim and her "sister" right before Gail left for WWE.
AJ Styles vs. Shannon Moore. I think Shannon might have pinned AJ then immediately ran back to WWE before AJ could get payback because Moore was working without a contract that whole time. 🤦♂️
Did Titus vs. Darren have a blow off? Much like Cody vs. Goldust they had one ppv match then reformed just because.
Matt vs. Jeff in 2009. Won one ppv match each, Matt got sick and returned a few months later with them basically saying "brothers fight"🤷♂️ and forgetting that Matt burned down his house and killed his dog.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Mar 23, 2019 7:45:43 GMT -5
Most TV feuds prior to like 1993-94 did not have proper blowoff matches. Wrestlemania would blow off a few, but even Summerslam would mostly have random matches to save the real feuds for house shows. Many of the big feuds of the era did have matches on Coliseum Video, but they would come out well after the issue had been dropped or resolved on TV.
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Post by fg on Mar 23, 2019 8:59:45 GMT -5
Not quite the same but I wish that Tatanka/Luger cage match had been on PPV rather than a random Raw. It seems to get forgotten despite being a big storyline. Given the participants WWE hasn’t been keen to release it on any anthology sets or anything either unless I missed something. It wasn’t on Raw. It was on the March To WM 11 special in 1995.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 9:02:58 GMT -5
Bullet Club OGs vs The Elite
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Post by theresalwaysanegon on Mar 23, 2019 9:23:19 GMT -5
Bullet Club OGs vs The Elite So many things about this story line were frustrating, but I really hated that the Elite just dropped the Bullet Club name and acted like it wasn't a big deal.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 23, 2019 9:41:03 GMT -5
Dibiase vs dusty didn't have a satisfying end as dibiase moved on to Virgil and dusty went away. I wanted something on tv. Again, Dibiase and Virgil definitively defeated Dusty and Dustin at the Royal Rumble and the Rhodes then disappeared. It wasn't a happy ending no, but I'd definitely call it satisfying. More notable from around this time was Dibiase's feud with the Texas Tornado. For those that don't remember Dibiase helped Mr. Perfect win back the IC Title from Tornado. After that Kerry would regularly be presented as an ally of the Rhodes against Dibiase and help them out whenever Dibiase tried his sneak attacks, but I don't remember this leading to any big televised match between the two and was forgotten about by the time Virgil turned face. Maybe Kerry's personal problems scuttled those plans.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Mar 23, 2019 10:58:47 GMT -5
Dibiase vs dusty didn't have a satisfying end as dibiase moved on to Virgil and dusty went away. I wanted something on tv. Again, Dibiase and Virgil definitively defeated Dusty and Dustin at the Royal Rumble and the Rhodes then disappeared. It wasn't a happy ending no, but I'd definitely call it satisfying. Not only that, but even VIRGIL beat Dusty on several house shows. In 30 seconds. (Heels decisively winning feuds can be its own topic) Regarding Jake vs. Quake...not only was it not resolved, but Jake had Earthquake on his Survivor Series team before he'd be suspended for the night.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Mar 23, 2019 18:14:15 GMT -5
Again, Dibiase and Virgil definitively defeated Dusty and Dustin at the Royal Rumble and the Rhodes then disappeared. It wasn't a happy ending no, but I'd definitely call it satisfying. Not only that, but even VIRGIL beat Dusty on several house shows. In 30 seconds. (Heels decisively winning feuds can be its own topic) Regarding Jake vs. Quake...not only was it not resolved, but Jake had Earthquake on his Survivor Series team before he'd be suspended for the night. Wow I had no idea Virgil was beating Dusty at house shows much less in 30 seconds! Vince must have been furious that Dusty was leaving. Also never noticed back then that Jake and Earthquakes were intended to be Survivor Series partners just a few months after their fued.
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Post by Celexa Bliss on Mar 23, 2019 18:27:12 GMT -5
Not only that, but even VIRGIL beat Dusty on several house shows. In 30 seconds. (Heels decisively winning feuds can be its own topic) Regarding Jake vs. Quake...not only was it not resolved, but Jake had Earthquake on his Survivor Series team before he'd be suspended for the night. Wow I had no idea Virgil was beating Dusty at house shows much less in 30 seconds! Vince must have been furious that Dusty was leaving. Also never noticed back then that Jake and Earthquakes were intended to be Survivor Series partners just a few months after their fued. Could have easily been explained... Jake: Earthquake saw what I couldn't see. He realized that Damien made me weak. I didn't know it at the time, but Earthquake was helping me. By exterminating Damien, he set me free. And now I know who I can trust. And know Quake trusts me...
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Post by petef3 on Mar 24, 2019 10:44:55 GMT -5
If guys had blowoff matches around the loop, that *was* your blowoff. Jake-Quake and Undertaker-Berzerker absolutely had blowoffs, they just weren't televised.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Mar 24, 2019 10:50:51 GMT -5
Again, Dibiase and Virgil definitively defeated Dusty and Dustin at the Royal Rumble and the Rhodes then disappeared. It wasn't a happy ending no, but I'd definitely call it satisfying. Not only that, but even VIRGIL beat Dusty on several house shows. In 30 seconds. (Heels decisively winning feuds can be its own topic) Regarding Jake vs. Quake...not only was it not resolved, but Jake had Earthquake on his Survivor Series team before he'd be suspended for the night. In my head canon, it was Quake squashing Damion that caused Jake to turn totally evil.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 10:08:40 GMT -5
Not only that, but even VIRGIL beat Dusty on several house shows. In 30 seconds. (Heels decisively winning feuds can be its own topic) Regarding Jake vs. Quake...not only was it not resolved, but Jake had Earthquake on his Survivor Series team before he'd be suspended for the night. In my head canon, it was Quake squashing Damion that caused Jake to turn totally evil. Not so much evil, as just....changing his viewpoint a bit. Jake was always a guy who did the exact same promo, face or heel. He just decided one day to change who he did the promos about. Though I do really like the death of Damien being the moment that made him......turn his head a bit and see what was really going on. I mean, damn, that really is something I never though of. It's totally an anchor to his heel turn/change of mind.. I wanna read up on his 1991 career before betraying Warrior & going after Savage now to see how it went....
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 25, 2019 11:44:55 GMT -5
In my head canon, it was Quake squashing Damion that caused Jake to turn totally evil. Not so much evil, as just....changing his viewpoint a bit. Jake was always a guy who did the exact same promo, face or heel. He just decided one day to change who he did the promos about. Though I do really like the death of Damien being the moment that made him......turn his head a bit and see what was really going on. I mean, damn, that really is something I never though of. It's totally an anchor to his heel turn/change of mind.. I wanna read up on his 1991 career before betraying Warrior & going after Savage now to see how it went.... It kinda makes sense, before Earthquake it was his feud with Martel, where though he'd won in the end he'd suffered his lowest point in kayfabe, being blinded for ages, then losing his, perhaps only friend. You can read a lot into it.
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