Sid Justice vs The Mountie MSG Jan 31st, 1992

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Little Egypt and Doll vs Matilda

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Scott Steiner vs Dutch Mantel

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Kane vs Christian 5/2/2005

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Stan Hansen vs Tsuyochi Kikuchi (All Japan February 2nd, 1992)

Found a great youtube channel full of AJPW early 90's matches. Kikuchi tries to ambush Hansen. Which is a gamble, but his only hope of winning.

Hansen beats him senseless, suplexing and power bombing him on the guard rails. Kikuchi manages to get in a good shot or two. Hansen gets pissed enough to use the Boston Crab to win.

Vladimir Kozlov vs Stevie Richards (Smackdown! 7/11/08)

Two of my favorites and two of the best at the sub five minute TV match. Stevie gets some offense and looks credible against Kozlov, before getting cut down.

Diamond Dallas Page vs Kanyon Superbrawl

This match is from Super Brawl Revenge. Very underrated show from the dying days of the WCW.

It is suppose to be DDP vs Jarrett, but DDP made an open challenge to Kanyon and Jarrett says Kanyon wants to fight now.

Kanyon and DDP have a hell of a match. It is a shame to see how Kanyon's career went and how it impacted his life.

A great wrestler who deserved better than he got.

Terry Taylor vs Jake Roberts

Both Taylor and Jake are good guys here. Well as much of a good guy as Jake Roberts can be. Jim Ross and Joel Watts on commentary, both do a good job on getting you up to date on the storylines here.

Dick Slater is North American Champion and says he'll defend against the number one contender. So we are having this match.

Taylor and Jake do a good job at setting a tempo. Early on, Taylor hits a five arm on Jake. Jake smartly gets to the floor.

Terry has the advantage once Jake is in the ring. One of the best things about Jake Roberts is he can take control of the match suddenly. Whether it be a knee lift or his short arm clothesline. Or he can hit the DDT suddenly,

Very much living up to the "Snake" moniker.

Match has a good finishing sequence that makes everyone look strong.

undertaker vs vladimir kozlov The Rematch.

This is the rematch with Taker and Kozlov. This time Taker goes full power on Kozlov from the start and it throws off the Russian.

This match is different than the first one. This is both guys dropping bombs. Kozlov does this really cool escape from Hell's Gate.

Matt Hardy vs Vladimir Kozlov in a Beat the Clock Match

This match is from late 08. They are doing a beat the clock challenge to determine the number one contender. Jeff Hardy has the best time and Kozlov is up next. He gets Matt Hardy (who is ECW Champion), Matt's main goal is to make sure Kozlov does not beat Jeff's time.

It is like a TV Title match with Matt trying to run the clock down. He does not try to fight Kozlov directly many times. Instead he picks his spots. The finishing sequence does a great job teasing the fans.

The Undertaker vs Vladimir Kozlov WWE Smackdown

Came across this on Youtube. I think Kozlov and Luke Gallows are my two favorite guys of the last five years.

Good cat and mouse game between Kozlov and Taker. Each realizing brute force can't work, so they focus on tactics.

Kozlov makes a basic headlock look like a finisher. Have not seen anybody work basic holds so effectively in a long time.

Finish is great and I am not going to spoil it.

Disco Inferno vs Brutus Beefcake October 99

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Brutus comes out in his old Barber gear to take on Disco Inferno. He looks good here and works hard. He does a nice looking cross body off the second rope.

He ends up jobbing to the Disco Stunner, which shows where he was on the pecking order.

Pillman vs Mean Mark Callous

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Came across this earlier. Very good match with Pre Undertaker Mean Mark and Brian Pillman.

Taker has the size advantage, but Pillman is so tenacious, you buy him being able to over come the size advantage.

Taker is able to toss around Pillman with ease and block anything he throws initially.

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This is a hell of a sub five minute match. Masked guys attack Nasty Boys before the bell and work over Knobbs. Dusty and Macho Man on commentary.



Stevie and Val have a kick ass match on Heat. Why the announcers actually talked about it once or twice.



Stevie is the king of the WWE B show. Leave him alone and he kicks ass. Here he calls out Raven and they have a really good five minute match that is all action. With Raven acting more like Johnny Polo/Scotty Flamingo than Raven.

Destination X 2008: Fish Market Street Fight #SHARKBOYWEEK

This is a really enjoyable comedy brawl. Team 3D have to be under a certain weight to wrestle X Division guys. They make weight somehow and start eating snack cakes.

This is a fish market street fight, so there are trays of fish up the aisle. They do a lot to get the gimmick over. The highlight being Curry Man using a ding dong on a fishing line to catch a ding dong by the name of Bubba Ray.

It was ridiculous, but Bubba was fucking starving. So get off his case.

Twin Towers vs Anthony Durante & Gary Wolfe - Wrestling Challenge March ...

The Twin Towers are facing the future Pit Bulls. Usually in these before they were famous matches, you can see a flash of something more in the jobbers. But the Pit Bulls were terrible here. I actually think Durante became really good and had a world of potential. But here he had trouble locking up.

But once the Towers got on offense it became good. Towers had really solid tag fundamentals. Using quick tags to wear out the Pit Bulls.

Undertaker vs Festus

My favorite active wrestler is probably Luke Gallows. Or as he is known now, D.O.C.

Before that he was Festus. It was a great gimmick, where once the bell rang he turned into Stan Hansen.

They put him against the Undertaker, shortly after Taker won the World Belt in 08 and it is a great brawl.

Festus keeps coming at Undertaker, no matter what Taker does. Really well done finish.

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Came upon this. Fun spot match with Psicosis getting a lot of offense, which is always good.

Festus Vs Vladimir

This is a fun match. Festus is working the same gimmick Curly did in an old Three Stooges short, where a bell makes him go berserk.

Kozlov is  a Russian killing machine who no one has managed to even slow down. Festus keeps Kozlov off balance initially and Kozlov takes him to the mat. Festus fights out and Kozlov knocks him out on an attempted flying tackle.

Some Raven matches

I go back and forth on my opinion about Raven. Sometimes I think he is incredibly overrated and I really hate a lot of stuff in his original ECW run.

But watching him in WCW, the WWF and his second time in ECW, I think he could be really good. He was excellent at bumping and he really knew how to lay out a match.



I don't understand why WCW was obsessed with getting rid of masked wrestlers. To me it makes even the dullest matches more exciting.

Anyway this started the Kanyon/Raven feud. Kanyon was still working as Mortis and ambushes Raven at the beginning.

Good match that makes full use of the ring and ringside area. No real wasted movement, everything counted. Only thing that bugged me a little was the referee distraction spot in a No DQ match.



This is a match from July of the same year. I will say this much, losing the mask gave Kanyon more confidence in the ring.

Kanyon set up his offense so well. It never seemed convoluted like some guys with fancy offense.

Saturn comes into save Kanyon from the Flock and accidentally Death Valley Drivers him. Then Kanyon returns the favor after Saturn puts Raven thru the table.



This is the first tag match I watched last night. I was expecting a typical TV match from the era with Duncum and Enos more or less squashed.

Instead Enos and Duncum dominate the match and there is even a second face in peril section. Some really nice sequences in this match.

Zero-One - Masato Tanaka vs Alexander Otsuka (2003)

I came across this channel with tons of early 00's Puro. I came across this match and wanted to watch it. I have not seen a lot of Alexander Otsuka matches, but have liked what I have seen.

This match was pretty cool in general. They got across that Tanaka wanted to beat Otsuka's brains in and that Otsuka was only looking to survive.

They go outside and the referee is counting. Which throws up a warning flag for a bullshit finish.

I don't mind a count out or double count out. But I can't think of a single one I have seen in a Japan match in the 90s or 2000s.

Otherwise I thought it was cool that Otsuka was willing to settle for a tie.

Road Warriors & Johnny Ace vs Jinsei Shinzaki, Jun Akiyama & Kenta Kobashi

Match I came across on Youtube. Think this is the Roadies first match after leaving the WWF in 99. First thing I notice is how psyched Johnny Ace is to be the third man to the Road Warriors. Like he has wanted this for years.

It is so cool to see the Roadies kick some ass again. That second WWF run was brutal with LOD being treated like regular guys. Here they are full fledged ass kickers, giving Kobashi, Akiyama and Shinzaki what for.

JPN team are very good in this obviously, doing a great job eating offense and hitting their own stuff.

Highlight of the match is the three man Ace Crusher.

Roadies are a bit rusty, but they go full speed the entire time.

Umaga vs RVD 2007

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I remember watching this back in 07 and it catching my attention. Umaga was my favorite wrestler in the world and I have always liked Rob Van Dam.

I liked the work they did with the sleeper and Umaga hitting a sweet reversal on the outside. RVD was really effective in using the hit and run offense and the finish was great.

Sandman vs Kevin Nash

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Here is a match I completely missed in 99. I loved Sandman's run in WCW, I think he was the highlight of Nitro most weeks.

Now I was expecting this to be a complete squash. But then Nash takes the first table bump, he spends almost the entire match putting over Sandman and doing a convoluted run in to protect him.

Nash puts him thru the table and that is it. Nash in charge seems to be pretty giving when facing undercard talent.

Trevor Murdoch vs Viscera - Heat, 15 January 2006

This is from the best run Viscera ever had. He was working the C shows with his giant lover act and was really good as a babyface. It helps that he was working with a guy like Trevor Murdoch.

Really smooth work, with Murdoch hitting a big move or two to credibly keep Vis down.

Vis humps and spanks Murdoch and Murdoch decides its best to leave.

Though really I think the worst has happened.

Kane and The Boogeyman vs William Regal and Dave Taylor

This is a great performance from Kane. Most people's first instinct would be to give credit to Regal and Taylor.

They played a big part in making this good. Having credible mat based offense keep Kane on the ground. But when dealing with a monster like Kane, it was on him to sell for Regal and Taylor while retaining his aura.

It was basically worked as a handicap match. Boogeyman did not tag in til the end. He almost tripped up cleaning house, but at least the two handed chokeslam looked good.

CM Punk vs Dr Stevie Richards

Another good performance from Stevie. Punk came in with his ribs injured and Stevie stays on them the entire time. Really good finish too.

ECW 8/28/07 Kevin Thorn vs Stevie Richards

Came across this match online. I remember watching it on TV and really enjoying it. This is from the period when Dusty Rhodes was booking WWECW and was giving Stevie a push. He beat Kevin Thorn three times in a row and this was the final match.

Did this neat bit where Stevie seems to have his number and Thorn starts attacking Stevie's neck, knowing he had a broken neck in 97.

They do a bunch of nice near falls with Stevie nearly beating Thorn again.

Really good match that illustrates how good Stevie was.

The Colony vs. The Young Bucks from CHIKARA's "High Noon"

Came across this on Youtube and it is an amazing match. A Victator match of the year candidate.

I was never impressed with the Bucks in TNA and Chikara always turned me off. Since I have never been one to go in for "Wink, Wink" cutesy wrestling. So I never really watched it.

But this was a great match with tons of neat looking double teams and spots. The most important thing is it always looked like both teams were trying to win. They did a good job merging M-Pro style tag wrestling with traditional southern style.

All of the big move were properly sold. Even when one particularly nasty double team was survived. The victim was knocked loopy for the rest of the match.

I am going to seek out more Chikara now.

Owen Hart Vs. Ken Shamrock Lion's Den Match

Decided to look this match up and it is really fun.

They did a great job at using the cage for maximum effect. I loved the work around they did for running the ropes. Shamrock got slammed into it and then staggered into a spinebuster.

Later he does a springboard elbow by jumping off the wall of the cage. Even doing a Tornado DDT and it all flowed naturally.

It gets overlooked because it is on a stacked card, but it is worth checking out.

PG13's WWE debut 1995

This is a great squash. PG-13 looked amazing here with crisp double teams and good taunts. They even got the fans to cheer the jobber comeback. This is a Midnight Express level tag squash.

Why the hell did they not sign them? Its fucking 1995 WWF, like they had options or something.

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CM Punk vs Kane SMACKDOWN 6/1/12

So after the great Daniel Bryan/CM Punk match at the ppv, there was a lot of caterwauling about Kane being added to the match. With two complaints

"Triple Threat matches suck"

"Kane sucks"

Now neither statement is really true. I have never understood the hate of Triple Threat matches. At worst they are generally fun and with a good build they are great. As long as you go by the Rock,Paper,Scissors format.

Kane is as good as he wants to be. If he is motivated, he is as good as anybody in wrestling. But if he feels like dogging it, nobody can get anything out of him.

This match proves me right. Kane and Punk put out a very good match.

Punk goes in trying to weaken Kane's arm and keep him from building momentum. He does a good job of picking his spots. Slowly the match builds in intensity, until the fans are buying the near falls.

Close to the end Bryan makes his inevitable run in. It makes sense though since he would rather Punk be champion than a monster like Kane.

Show ends with Punk and Bryan double chokeslammed with an intriguing Triple Threat set up at the PPV.

Kurt Angle vs Sgt. Slaughter 3/2/2000

This is a fun TV match. Sarge did not look like an old retired guy, he just seemed like a brutish older wrestler.

It is the same match Sarge always has with younger guys, but it is a damn good formula. Angle's escape from the Cobra Clutch looked painful. With Angle snapmaring Sarge on top of his head. Then Sarge took that crazy corner bump to the floor, he always did.

Heat 09/13/98 - Ken Shamrock vs Vader

I must have talked about this before. But this is a neat little match in Vader's lame duck WWF run. Shamrock and him do some cool little sequences bouncing off the ropes and Vader was free to lay the blows in harder than normal.

Of course JR and Shane McMahon can't be bothered to discuss the match. Instead talking about things that have nothing to do with Ken Shamrock. This is why nobody cares about wrestling B shows, because the company themselves do not care. As a fan it is insulting since they are telling you "Why are you even watching this. We do not care at all. You should just wait for Raw or the Pay Per View."

Barry Windham vs Mighty Wilbur

This is from NWA Main Event in May of 1988. Barry was just starting his United States Title run. This was when I first got into wrestling, so in my mind Barry is the best U.S Champ ever. I remember so much of 88 NWA clear as a bell. While a lot of WWF from the same period is so foggy.

Probably because so much of the WWF Syndicated stuff bleeds together and I was rarely allowed to watch Prime Time Wrestling. Because Mama put me in bed at Eight PM.

Wilbur is a big dude and an interesting take on the hillbilly gimmick. Instead of the typical ethnic slur hillbilly gimmick. With guys who care barely speak English, dance barefoot and carry pigs. Wilbur is a simple grape picker from California who got into wrestling after stopping a mugger.

His intro was some really good stuff. For months Paul Jones bragged about his latest find. A wrestler called "The Mighty Wilbur". He was a huge mountain of a man and would be the man to lead his army to greatness.

Then Wilbur appears and he is a hillbilly. He is as strong and powerful as Jones claimed. But he has no mean streak. He simply does enough to win. He even shakes the referee and wrestlers hands.

Wilbur finally turns on Jones, after Jones slaps Wilbur. Later Paul Jones explains what happened. That months before, his former tag team partner, Red Bastien called and told him about his protege. He offers him to Paul Jones and Jones accepted. Only to realize Bastien wanted rid of Wilbur and still held a grudge toward Jones (the team had a sour break up).

Wilbur had a solid lower card face spot but broke his leg in a battle royal. Poor dude came back in May and had gained a lot of weight.

He takes on Barry here and it is a great Barry Windham performance. Occasionally people try to slight Barry by saying he never "carried" anyone. I think that is stupid, since if you put together anybodies best of list, it will be with great wrestlers.

Initially Barry bumps around for Wilbur. Until Wilbur gets a hold of him and does this falling suplex. It looked a house of cards falling. He gets Barry in a headlock and Barry hits a side suplex that shakes the ring.

He goes to work on Wilbur, pummeling him and trying to keep him from getting back on offense. Barry takes the time to bodyslam him. Barry had this awesome way of slamming Wilbur that got across how huge he is.

Eventually Barry misses the Yoshi elbow and Wilbur starts tearing into him with these hillbilly forearms.

Until JJ trips him up. Wilbur starts choking him on the outside and Barry locks the Claw on him. They get counted out.

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 I first saw Mike Jackson in 1992. He was promoting a show at the Decatur Fairgrounds. He wrestled a big guy called Undertaker #2. To this day I don't know who that guy was. I just know he was able to ape Undertaker's act perfectly.

I did not know who Jackson was then, but I was really impressed that night.

I met Mike Jackson back sixth grade, which would be 1993. He was signing autographs at the Walmart before a free show in the parking lot. There were maybe fifteen people in there but he put on a good show in a rickety ring.

After that I would see him at the County Fair every year. I remember him busting out stuff like Pescados on gravel and doing missile dropkicks.

Years later I found out thru tape trading that Mike Jackson had been a regular on wrestling TV shows for over a decade in the 80s. Like Barry Horowitz I hate to call him a jobber because he was a really good wrestler.

He was at the deep end of the job guy pool. If he was in a match he was guaranteed to get a good bit of offense and even get put over on commentary. If he was in a tag match, he would never take the pin.

Unfortunately he was very small by the standards of the day. One thing about modern wrestling is as guys get bigger and bigger, there is a tolerance for smaller wrestlers. I can't imagine guys like Daniel Bryan and CM Punk even being mid carders in the NWA or WWF in the 80s. Much less World Champions.

Mike Jackson was about thirty years too soon.

Edge & Christian vs The Hardys

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Here they get a lot of offense in and they are already a damn good tag team. Edge, Christian give them a lot and even do masked confusion with Gangrel on the floor.

A few months later they were WWF Tag Champs and had a fun one month reign.

Dr Death Steve Williams vs The Hardy Boyz

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So the WWF did understand how to book Dr.Death? This is kick ass for two minutes. Hardyz try to clubber Doc and it fails.

They try Poetry In Motion and Doc catches Jeff. Clotheslines Matt out of his boots. German suplexes Jeff and hits the Stampede for 3.

Albert vs Kane

Albert recently returned as Lord Tensai. After watching the Albert/Hugh Morrus match, I came across this match from 2001.

This match is for the Intercontinental title and is non stop action from bell to bell. Albert does the best DDT to chokeslam counter I have ever seen. Then Kane does a great counter to the Baldo bomb. BTW Baldo is a great wrestling name.

Albert eats the chokeslam and loses cleanly. But he ends up looking like a million bucks. Better than he did when he actually beat Kane for the IC Belt.

Albert vs Bill Demott

Fun power match from an early Velocity. Albert just recently started wrestling in trunks and Hugh was one of the WCW guys brought back from the Invasion.

Just some good old fashion demolition derby power wrestling. Both guys keep running into each other until one side gives. Hugh hits a beautiful flying elbow and misses the moonsault.

Its amazing the height and distance he gets on that moonsault. Fat guy moonsaults tend to have terrible calibration. I mean it is a big fat guy turning a backward flip. Most of his energy is spent not dieing. But Hugh always hits perfectly.

Mark Henry vs Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy is still a high level jobber and Mark Henry just became a full time wrestler. He started in 96, but was injured during training. He came back shortly before the 98 Rumble as Rock's recruit into the Nation of Domination.


Really from his rookie year, Henry showed loads of potential. Here he has some great looking power offense. Like the multiple back breakers on Jeff Hardy. The one armed power slam.

Finally hitting his big splash. Which in 98, Henry has the best big splash ever. He gets a lot of height on it. Almost a standing frog splash.

Henry's problem for years was more a booking problem than anything being wrong with his work.

The Boss (Big Bossman) WCW Debut vs Rick Rude

This is a borderline great match. I would be fine using this as a spotlight on why Bossman and Rick Rude were great wrestlers.

Bossman comes in as a dominating monster. Throwing Rude around the ring, dismantling him. Then later, Bossman plays the underdog babyface despite being a lot bigger than Rude.

Rude does a great job playing heel in peril. Getting his ass kicked by Bossman and the fans eating it up. Then he does this fantastic offensive flurry. As if he is desperate, even busting out the Original Rude Awakening DDT.

He then gets control and it works perfectly because Rick Rude is the best heel ever.

Best thing is, this match has a clean finish. Of course in true pro wrestling fashion, the PPV rematch was not nearly as good.

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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.

V-Spot episode 3

 

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V-Spot Episode 2

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Hall of Pain

A 1derful Life: Paul Orndroff's Story

Free Counters

Cold Stone Crazy A Steve Austin Joint

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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.

Big Bossman Hard Time Blues

Saved By the Steiner The Maulage Years

All News is Bad News:The Bad News Brown tribute

Jerry the King Lawler vs Mark Henry 1996

This is a good debut for Mark Henry. This is really one of the only times they ever protected Mark Henry early in his career.

Million Dollar Man:Root of All Evil

Dudleyville Confidental

Kane in Masked Fury

Chicago Street Fight: A Road Warriors Tale

Sting vs Big Bubba Uncensored

Big Bubba Rogers vs Sting by TSteck160

Came across this after I awoke from my coma. Sting has a very underrated 1994/95. First he has a very good series with Earthquake. Then later in the year an awesome PPV match with Meng. In between is the series with Big Bubba Rogers.

Bubba just turned heel at the Clash. Sting spends most of the match selling his knee and does a great job. Even when he hits things like the released German Suplex and the flying splash he never stops selling the knee.

There was a neat spot with Bubba using his tie to get out of a sleeper.

Bubba gets the clean win when Sting's knee comes into play.

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One Man Gang, Barry Windham, Ric Flair and Nikita Koloff vs PN News, Tommy Rich, Brian Pillman and El Gigante

This is an odd heel line up. Seeing insane One Man Gang and Sullivan hanging with the Horsemen.

Sting comes out and is ambushed by Nikita. So the match starts with it being 4 on 3. Until PN News comes out. He never tags in or anything so no real point. El Gigante throws a surprisingly good suplex.

Nikita wipes out Tommy Rich with two Russian Sickles, but is attacked by Sting, whose head is wrapped. It goes to a no contest. Left you wanting a Sting/Nikita match so it worked.

Hello

The good Dr. Victator here invited me to contribute to his blog. This particular post lacks context, but I'm going to be joining him in talking about wrestling. Probably a lot about Hulk Hogan at least to start, and there are a few other projects I've considered and never done that will likely wind up here. So, feel free to drop in and read my inane ramblings about the pro wrestling alongside the wonderful words of the Doctor.

An American Hulk in America A Tribute to Hulk Hogan

From Russia with Club The Nikolai Volkoff Story

Hulk-A-Thon 2 Hulk Hogan Vs Nikolai Volkoff

Tonight I'll be looking at the second match on the Real American VHS. It is Hulk Hogan vs Nicolai Volkoff on an early episode of Saturday Night's Main Event. Hulk is pissed that Volkoff keeps singing the Soviet National anthem. Though he has been doing it for at least a year at this point. So not sure why Hulk just noticed. First let me point out Volkoff's swank Soviet Army jacket.

Next this is a great performance from Nicolai. I think he gets a bad rap in general. But here he goes all out. Bumping huge for everything and hitting some big moves. Real brutal looking ax handle. Great looking back breaker.

Hogan hits a sweet looking Ax Bomber clothesline on Volkoff, and beats him from pillar to post. Interesting thing here is Hogan does not really "Hulk Up". Volkoff misses a charge in the corner and Hogan hits the Leg Drop for three.

This is a really good match and probably Nicolai's best ever.




This is a match from 1988 with Hulk facing Volkoff's tag team partner Boris Zuchov. I remember watching this when I was seven and being super excited that Hulk was wrestling on free TV. I was also afraid for him. Those two Russians might hurt him.

Hulk gets in the ring and the Commies beat him down. Hulk clangs their heads together and essentially has target practice with Zuchov. Boris gets brief Rusty Brooks offense, and Hulk says enough of that and kicks the Commie's butt. Volkoff comes in and Hulk messes him up for good measure.

Finally he beats up the Commies manager Slick, who probably did something to deserve it. Little did Hulk know this would be far from his last encounter with the Doctor of Style.

John Tenta squash

Big John Tenta in action by TSteck160

Came across this. Tenta just had his head shaved by Big Bubba Rogers. Dungeon era Bubba was really a precursor for super evil 99 Big Bossman.

Tenta gets to the ring and some hillbilly named Larry Keene attacks. Keene had some nice looking punches. Tenta puts him away with the Earthquake drop.

Hulk-A-Thon 1 vs Andre in a Cage

 The other night I was babysitting my nephews. My oldest nephew Dylan is starting to love wrestling. He really enjoys watching older stuff. So we watched the Hulk Hogan:Real American Tape AVI on the portable DVDOLA.

The tape generally kicked some ass and put me in the mood to talk about Hulk Hogan. I'll start with matches on Real American and go from there.


Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant 07.31... by swantom-bomb

This match is from the Wrestlefest 88 card in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the first and only cage match between Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant.

Me and my contributor Matt D often talk about what an amazing wrestler Andre was at the end of his career. Andre could not do much here, but he was so smart everything had maximum impact. Elbow drops and headbutts seemed like huge bombs.

I think this match really illustrates why Andre was great and Hulk too. Hogan runs into the cage and tears into the Giant, which as always proves to be a bad idea. Andre chokes Hogan out with his own shirt and beats the tar out of him.

Not being for a title, there is not the problem typical of escape rules cage matches. Neither man is anxious to leave as they want to hurt each other. They do a really good job of using the cage. He gets above Andre and steps on his throat, holding on to the cage. Being pulled down, he starts hitting Andre with elbows and punches.

They keep using the shirt as a weapon to choke one another. They do a lot to give the illusion of movement.

One cool moment is when Andre ties Hogan's throat to the cage with the shirt. He lays into Hogan with stiff chops and punches. Andre isn't escaping since it is not for a title. He just wants him to suffer. By the time he has decided Hogan has had enough, Hogan frees himself and bolts across the ring to stop Andre from winning.

One great thing about Andre is even on his back, once he lands even a glancing blow he can take control. Hogan was laying into him, and Andre landed a punch and locked on a bear hug from his knees. Hogan fights out and attempts to escape, and Andre moves surprisingly fast to stop him.

Andre drops an elbow on Hogan that seems like a small nuke. I think if he ever attempted a top rope one like Big Show did at Survivor Series, it would shatter the walls of reality.

Now they are wearing down and vengeance has given way to wanting to end things.

Hogan is stopping Andre from getting out thru the door. Andre is trying to rip the turnbuckle pad off.  He slams Hogan's head into the exposed turnbuckle. After being bitten and headbutted, Hulk is bleeding and is fading.

Andre goes for the door but Hogan has his leg. One thing I will say in favor of escape rules cage matches. There is something about a beaten and bloodied good guy desperately holding on to a heels foot that looks heroic. It would be so easy to lay there and let the guy leave. Its not like he pinned you or made you submit. He simply walked thru a door. But no the good guy refuses to stay down. He fights and pulls back in the man who hurt him.

Hogan dodges Andre's big boot and nails him with the Ax Bomber clothesline. Andre does not go down, instead doing this awesome wobbly selling. Hogan seeing he has the advantage, starts hitting Andre with chops. Andre bounces off the ropes into more chops and punches. Finally Hulk runs and hits a second Ax Bomber, finally putting the Giant down. Hogan hits the Leg Drop, but before he can escape, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan (Andre's Manager) comes in. Bobby wrestled on this card against the Ultimate Warrior. So he has his wrestling gear on, complete with sequin jacket.

He attacks Hogan, only to be flattened by a Hogan punch. Andre is now trying to climb (!!) out of the cage. Hogan takes a pair of brass knuckles out of Heenan's pocket and punches Andre in the kidney. Andre falls down and is tangled in the ropes. Hulk gives Heenan more payback and throws him into the cage.

Hogan decides to climb out of the cage, saluting his fallen foes on the way.