Sunday, April 17, 2011

THINGS I WATCHED!!!!!

Undertaker vs Justin Hawk Bradshaw Monday Night Raw April 1st 1996



This match is from the night after Wrestlemania XII. They are playing up that Taker is hurt after his match with Diesel, so Bradshaw might be able to win. Bradshaw tears into Taker. Hitting some nice looking power moves. Anytime Taker starts to get asny momentum Bradshaw mows him down. Taker hits the Tombstone on Bradshaw but is attacked by Mankind setting off their feud. They must of had plans for Bradshaw because Taker did not pin him. Really good sub ten minute match.



Great Muta vs Ric Flair December 89


This match is setting up the Round Robin tourney at Starrcade 89. The Great Muta is still undefeated at this point. The announcers get across that Flair is more aggressive because he wants to be the one to finally defeat Muta.

This is Flair wrestling as a good guy so the match is a lot different. Muta keeps control of the match. Forcing flair to the mat and switching up submission holds. I love how quickly Muta flows from one submission into the next. No lag time which is what separates the men from the boys on submission wrestling.

I love how Flair makes comebacks. Not superman comebacks like Hogan and Warrior or even Sting and Lex Luger. He just starts firing off before getting taken down again. He is doing a cracker jack job of selling the knee while getting offense. A really nice balance. I should mention I love the WCW commercial bumpers. They take me to a warm and fuzzy place.

Muta wins another exchange hitting a spin kick. Flair tackles Muta with a running double knee into the corner. I guess the proto Elijah Express. Flair starts working over Muta. Attacking the knee and hitting multiple atomic drops. Before Flair can lock on the figure four Dragonmaster attacks for the DQ. Flair puts him in the figure four on the ringside floor. Muta sprays Flair in the eyes with the mist.

Sting vs Scott Hall Uncensored 98
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Three months after Starrcade 98 we finally get Sting's first title defense. Four months after he won the WW3 battle royal Scott Hall gets his title match.

Hall takes the belt and holds it up. Sting snatches it back and starts hitting him. Hall does a great job bumping and selling for Sting. This is a good back and forth match. With Sting getting the best of Hall in every exchange.

Unfortunately it does not feel like a World Title main event. It feels like a nice mid card match. The announcers going on about Hogan and Savage does not help.

Dusty Rhodes is in Scott Hall's corner. Heel Dusty Rhodes attacking Sting is so strange. The biggest near fall Hall gets is when dusty hit the bionic elbow on Sting. The ref was down after getting stinger splasheed by accident. the ref's expression was something. A "Aw hell" then slump to unconsciousness.

Hall goes for the Outsider's edge but Sting reverses to hit the Scorpion Deathdrop.

Sting vs Randy "Macho Man" Savage


Now we have Sting's final defense. This is a no disqualification match. The story here is Hogan not wanting any nWo member himself to be champion. Guess he figured Hall had no chance of actually winning.

I figured Sting and Macho Man would have chemistry and they do. Some nice brawling as they destroy the barn yard set. Tony Schiavonie is becoming disenfranchised as he talks about how dangerous the wagon wheel is and that ot could be used like a discus. Though you could brain a guy with it so the point stands. Sting hits Savage with a bail (is that the way its spelled?) of hay. Tony merntions how it could irritate the skin and sinuses which could affect the wrestlers stamina in the high altitude of Denver. Which I think is a good outside the box observation. Even they never mention a bail of hay is fucking heavy.

Back in the ring you get more back and forth brawling. Sting is working the match like a heel. In a nice call back Sting nearly Stinger splashes the ref but stops himself. Only for Savage to throw him into the referee anyway. Not sure why a no dq match needed a ref bump. Sting then accidentally Splashes longtime the Macho Man's long time manager Miss Elisabeth in the corner.

Sting being a good guy tries to revive her. Only for Macho Man to take out Sting with a chair. Before he can hit the flying elbow Hulk Hogan knocks Savage off the top. Liz is being carried to the back and Savage is concerned. Sting is up andf hits the Scorpion Deathdrop on Savage. We get our second run in when Kevin Nash power bombs Sting and Savage pins him to win the title.
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