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La Parka & Psycosis vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. & Juventud Guerrera

I love WCW, but also sorta really hate it. They would provide so much genuinely great and awesome stuff. But then never follow thru on it.



This match is a perfect example. You have La Parka who is always super over. Psicosis who is over as a foil to Rey and sidekick to Parka.



Juvi who works as a sidekick to Rey and Rey who is always awesome. They go out and have a match that blows the crowd away. Even Tony Schiavonie is losing his shit.

And there is no follow up. Rey and Juvi do not team again til late 2000. The tag belts are in purgatory.

But this match is pretty damn good. Makes me wish the Michinoku Pro guys had landed in WCW.

Mortis & Wrath vs. Glacier & Ernest "The Cat" Miller

I'll just say it, Ernest Miller was kinda awesome. Before he learned he could get by on schtick. When he was karate fighter Ernest Miller, he had some fun as hell offense.

Glacier is not really a bad work guy, he had a good look. But he never figured out how to integrate the karate into pro wrestling, like Jerry Flynn or Miller or even Steve Blackman.

Anyway Glacier and Miller are facing Mortis and Wrath in the opener to Bash At The Beach 97.

Miller and Glacier bust out fun double teams on Mortis and Wrath. Miller has about a million good looking kick variations.

Wrath gets in and I really don't know if he actually knows any actual martial arts. But he does a great job bullshitting it. Love him overpowering Miller and Glacier, flinging them into each other. They respond with a double dropkick.

Wrath does this odd looking Boston Crab variation. He does not go full pendulum on him, which is a shame.


Love the finishing sequence. Vandenberg (Mortis and Wrath's manager) puts a chain on Mortis's foot. He takes one for the team, eating the Cryonic kick from Glacier. But he turns around and takes the chain assisted super kick.

Barbarian vs Jerry Flynn

Came across this looking for Jerry Flynn matches and it kicks ass. Flynn has just started getting an actual TV push. Winning a feud with Ernest Miller and is now a protege of the monster Meng. This has made him a target of Jimmy Hart'/s revived First Family. Which is a combination of the Dungeon of Doom and his old WWF Hart Foundation.

Flynn goes right on the attack, hitting Barbarian with flurries of kicks. Barbarian fights back by being tough as hell and commences clubbering. Good intense, back and forth action. Flynn actually wins by DQ, when Hugh Morrus runs in. It was a golden age for the Jerry Flynn fan. One which never ended.

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Jerry Flynn in a Japanese Deathmatch

Speaking of Jerry Flynn, I came across this and it fucking rules. They are doing karate fighters vs deathmatch wrestlers.

Karate fighters are avoiding the wire and kicking the shit out of Goto and Onita. Deathmatch wrestlers are using headbutts and lariats.

Karate guys kick Onita into the wire and his arm is bleeding bad. He is struggling to get up and before long the karate guys Gis are covered in Onita's blood.

Onita turns a kick into a backdrop driver and this rules.

The Cat Ernest Miller vs Jerry Flynn

Jerry Flynn has become my favorite underused late 90's WCW guy. I was a big fan in 97/98 and I was right to be.

Ernest Miller is a guy I liked early on, before he realized he could get by doing Sctick. Athletically he was impressive. Using some neat Spider-Man offense.

Him and Flynn have a fun match with tons of karate bullshit and Flynn integrating mat based stuff. Miller got lost one time during a kick sequence, but recovered from it. Winning with a sweet springboard kick to the face.

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WCW ICP vs Public Enemy

I remember this match from 99. I felt bad from Public Enemy, they went from tag title contenders in the WWF to jobbing to Sid in a handicap match on Thunder to jobbing to ICP on Nitro. It is so weird seeing Violent J and Johnny Grunge next to each other.Only think weirder would be Kevin Smith meeting Violent J.

Honestly as far money mark wannabe wrestlers go, Insane Clown Posse are way better than Shane McMahon.

They have a good grasp of ring psychology, decent strikes and bump ok.

Here they do not dominate Public Enemy. P.E dominate using greater experience, with ICP only getting by on luck and outside interference from Vampiro and Raven.

Eventually P.E put Shaggy 2 Dope thru two tables. Good thing is both J and Shaggy are down for the count.

A ref bumps and Vampiro takes out Grunge with a sweet spinning heel kick. So ICP get the cheap win.

If this happened today, ICP would pin the Colons in five minutes clean with the reasoning the celeb has to win.

I'm not gonna say this is good. But for a money mark county fair main event, it is perfectly fine.

Konan vs the One Man Gang

Came across this match months ago. One Man Gang is a guy that was criminally underused in the 90s. The dude could still flat out go. Now his first two matches with Konan did not go well. Too great a styles clash. But here he finally figured out how to get a good match out of him.

At first I was not expecting much when Konan tried to initiate a criss cross spot with Gang. But Gang eventually did what he does best. Bumping huge for all of Konan's offense.

Konan is disliked, and rightfully so in some respects. But I really liked him before the heel turn. Partly because at that point in my life, I had not seen lucha or much wrestling outside the American mainstream.

So a lot of his stuff was new to me. Here Gang gets the most out of it, bumping big off everything. Konan knocks him to the floor, but Gang gets the advantage and starts wailing on him.

Back in the ring and he controls with leg and elbow drops. Konan does a good job throwing fired up punches.

I should add Heenan and Schiavonie were on fire here. Heenan got off some funny one liners and Tony did a good job playing straight man.

I don't know why WCW did not sign Gang up. He worked cheap, had a great unique look, was willing to bump big and job to anyone.

Jerry Flynn vs Goldberg (Thunder 26.3.1998)

This is the rematch on Thunder. Story is Goldberg asked for the rematch. Flynn comes in trying to work the same style as before, but gets over powered. Flynn goes for the arm breaker again and Goldberg powers out.

Cool moment is when Goldberg applies his own arm breaker and Flynn tries to power out but fails. So he has to use finesse and turn it into a leglock.

Later he starts using speed, hitting him with fast kicks. He finally stuns Goldberg with a spinning heel kick in the corner. He comes back in and starts kicking him again and gets Speared point blank.

Jerry Flynn was pretty damn good. I can't say he was misused, because WCW had such a deep roster. But he definitely could have been more in wrestling.

Kaval vs Eli Cottonwood

Here is a sweet sub five minute match. The 5ft8 Kaval is facing the 7 ft Eli Cottonwood. Pre match you have Josh Mathews making these analogies, the most ridiculous one is "Its the Hurt Locker vs Avatar". It rightfully amused Cole.

Match is worked perfectly, with Kaval striking at Cottonwood from every direction. Cottonwood gets bits of offense using his power advantage.  But Kaval goes back to swarming him with kicks. Finally he hits him with the Top Rope double stomp to the back of the head. Which by all rights should have ended the match.

Bill Goldberg vs Jerry Flynn 21-0 (1-12-1998)

This is how you do a one minute match. The initial Goldberg build was perfect, right up until he won the WCW belt.

The WCW roster was perfect for this. Each week he took on different guys. One week he might face a big fat guy in Roadblock. Then a guy like Glacier, or The Barbarian.

This time he is taking on Jerry Flynn. I love Jerry Flynn, man in 98 I wanted to see him tangle with Steve Blackman so bad. I was so happy when they started pushing him more in 99, and he got a spot in Jimmy Hart's First Family.

Anyway Flynn attacks immediately. Trying to take out Goldberg with a submission. A new strategy for stopping him, when he shows he is good on the mat. Flynn takes to strikes, and Goldberg out powers him.

He tries the armbar again and Goldberg dead lifts him. Flynn is desperate and goes back to the kicks. This time  Goldberg spears him and its over.

Untilted Demolition Addennum Repo Man vs. Crush

Thought of doing this as a proper Demolition write up, but decided against it. When Crush came back in 92, I had no idea he was Demolition's Crush. Reading the WWF magazine Summerslam 92 issue, they mentioned this was a battle of former tag team partners in Demolition. I had just recently learned Repo Man was previously Smash. It was like losing the leather and paint drained his powers.

I like the match does a little nod to Repo Man's past, with him doing Smash style clubbering on Crush. Crush shook it off and dismantled Repo Man.

Finally putting Repo in the vice. This was a fun PPV squash, Having watched more 93/94 Crush, I don't think the guy was bad at all. I'm not going to claim he was a great or very good work guy. But he had a great look, and a good ring presence. If he was in there with even a decent guy, he could perform.

Up until he got busted for steroids. He was never the same when he returned in 96.

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Triple H vs. Hardcore Holly

Was looking for this match for awhile. I caught the tail end of it in 2000 and always wanted to see it. It finally turned up on Youtube.

Intelligent, sane people will agree that Hardcore Holly was awesome in 99/00 and pretty good after that.

Here he has been calling out HHH for weeks and HHH finally accepted. It was cool to see angles play out on Heat with main eventers. HHH is in full faux NWA touring champion mode. Which is not too good on ppv but results in good stuff when dealing with mid carders.

Has a good narrative of HHH thinking Holly is not in his league and Holly taking Trips down a peg with clubbering. Most important thing is the match feels like a struggle. HHH can never keep the advantage because Hardcore keeps fighting back.

Best moment is Holly avoiding the Pedigree and Jericho runs in and attacks both men. Which normally I frown on but Hardcore Holly fought HHH to a Double DQ so I love it.