Last Wrestling Match Watched 2.0

[Crippler]

Clash of the Champions XXIII - 2 out of 3 Falls for the WCW World Tag Team Championship: ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair & Arn Anderson vs. The Hollywood Blonds

This was tons of fun up until the ending. But the Blondes can't even get a single victory which is a bit disappointing. On a side note that was kinda was a sign at the time for the Blondes that their five-month run on the tag team scene in WCW would be winding down soon. Anyways the first fall was as good as it gets. With a white hot crowd and everything the faces and heels both doing coming together in perfection. And the second fall was just as good. ****

 

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Clash of the Champions XXV - Brian Pillman vs. “Stunning” Steve Austin
Good match, but I felt they could’ve done more. but the editing basically butchered it because the audio issues were ridiculous to sit through. ***

Clash of the Champions XXVI: WCW World Television Championship: Dustin Rhodes vs. Steven Regal
Nothing wrong with the match because it was to Build Dustin into a potential challenger or just a build him up period while still keeping Regal strong as the champ. One thing i noticed about the storytelling of this match Regal just ground Dustin until time runs out or stall out on the floor if you happened to get back up on your feet. SMART MAN. **1/2

 

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Clash of the Champions XXVI - Elimination Tag Team Match: Sting & ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair vs. ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude & Vader

First off i just wanna say i'm not a fan of the way Flair and Vader were eliminated. I would of liked Vader to be DQ'ed for using the chair and Flair stretchered out or just been rendered unable to continue instead of a cheap double-countout to put over the new Commish. But after the hot start, this turned into an advertisement for the upcoming PPV matches. As for Sting and Rude, they had done way better matches in past. ***

 

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Clash of the Champions XXVII - Championship Unification Match: WCW World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs. WCW International World Champion Sting

This doesn't hold up Flair seemed really off his game here or he was really playing up to the whole Hogan coming in angle IDK, but it just didn't have that Sting/Flair magic to it. Or maybe because the match had no deathlocks, Figure Fours, death drops and that quasi-stinker of a finish?. After the match Sherri reveals that it was all a ruse to gain Stinger's trust just for her and Flair to FUCK him. Flair clips the knee and then tosses the ref as Sherri splashes Sting a few times. Sherri low blows him BUT WAIT! HERE COMES THE HULKSTER! Hogan rips the shirt off and goes for the BOOT OF FEAR but Flair bails out. Sherri goes for the purse waffle but Hogan sniffs it out. Hogan power walks her to the other side of the ring, so Sherri just smacks him and Flair pulls her out to avoid Hogan's wrath thus setting up the first major Flair-Hogan encounter ever. *** - ***1/4

 

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Clash of the Champions XXVIII - WCW United States Championship: “Stunning” Steve Austin vs. Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat

This is the match that would end up being the match that ended Steamboat’s career. Sad day for shore. But as for the match it's self i call it one of the greatest wrestling exhibitions in WCW history. It has beautiful counters and transitions. Amazing psychology which was done to perfection e.g just when you think Austin is going to escape or start being in control of the match he would be cut off by Steamboat and Steamboat counters to get back on the offense. And just when you think Steamboat is going to pull off a few high impact moves to put him away, Austin gets the knees up out of desperation. It's a formula that works and is now one of the most used formula's in wrestling today. I also loved the finish with Steamboat’s babyface comeback and the series of insane near-falls on a desperate Austin just for Austin to comeback and Steamboat finally pulling it out with a roll up like on Flair at the Chi-Town Rumble in 1989 to win the title. ****1/2 I may be overrating it but that's just the mark coming out of me.

 

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Clash of the Champions XXXII - Hulk Hogan & ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage vs. ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair & The Giant
This was an awful attempt at wrestling all 4 guys did not care and the Las Vegas crowd tried to care until Hogan tagged in. Not even the Flair and Macho interactions could make this watchable. *

Clash of the Champions XXXIII - Match for the BattleBowl Ring: Diamond Dallas Page vs. Eddie Guerrero
This is another headscratcher for me. Eddie's the man and I'm a bigger fan of DDP than most but this is just a few minutes of moves with hardly any selling and a finisher with no build. Afterwards, DDP shakes Eddie’s hand and pulls him in for the DIAMOND CUTTER. Out goes the ref! Another DIAMOND CUTTER to Eddie. That brings out Chavo Jr as Page sets Eddie up on the top turnbuckle. As Chavo gets shoved away, DDP delivers a SUPER DIAMOND CUTTER to Eddie. *1/2

Clash of the Champions XXXIII - WCW World Tag Team Championship Triple Threat Match: Harlem Heat vs. The Steiner Brothers vs. Sting & Lex Luger
Fun while it lasted. Wrestling is sort of odd in that the more people you have involved, the less workrate you need from an individual. **1/2

Clash of the Champions XXXIV - WCW Cruiserweight Championship: Ultimo Dragon vs. Dean Malenko
This was two of the greatest cruiserweights! going at it and they did not dissapoint. Just another great outing from these two. Dean was crazy over here. ***1/2 - ***3/4

 

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Clash of the Champions XXXV - WCW Cruiserweight Championship: Chris Jericho vs. Eddie Guerrero
Jericho is champ here but still face and basically still Lionheart Jericho from ECW. Jericho had only been in WCW a year at this point. And Eddie is in full heel slezebag mode. This was a Short match and the chemmistry between these two was off here. **

Clash of the Champions XXXV - Diamond Dallas Page & Lex Luger vs. Scott Hall & ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage
Pretty solid tag match. This was sort of around the time when DDP transitioned from comedy heel into singles breakout star and from average worker to very good worker so it's a nice fragment of that moment in time. *3/4 Post-match, we get the obscenely long, director's cut of the n.W.o birthday party. The whole crew comes out now and Macho says it's the greatest night of his life. Bischoff starts playing MC and turns to Nash who says he's enjoyed the hell out of “shagging WCW rotten.” Somehow, I suspect that's either a shoot joke about money or ringrats but I'll let you figure that one out. Bischoff says it's not been the night they wanted though, because they didn't get their own TV show they deserved. BUT WAIT! THIS IS CROW STING IS IN THE RAFTERS! AND HE'S GOT A VULTURE! A pretaped recording of a child warning of an apocalyptic future for the n.W.o plays and WE'RE OUTTA TIME, TUNE IN TO NITRO!

 

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Hardcore TV 8/27/1994 - NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Shane Douglas vs. 2 Cold Scorpio

So this is reasonably famous NWA title monemt. The NWA World title was of course vacated after WCW pulling out in 1993, leaving Dennis Corraluzzo with no champion and not much of an organization either. Shane was the Eastern Championship Wrestling champion, and the idea was that Douglas would win the NWA World title and it would become the main belt for ECW, like happened with NWA-TNA. Of course, it didn’t quite work out that way. But that's for another thread. The match was upposed to be a technical exhibition to appeal to the NWA, but was basically just kind of boring and Lifeless from start to finish. Oh and after the match Douglas cut some promo. Mehh!

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oh the match was ** at best

 

[Kiffy Lube]

NWA Saturday: Shane Douglas & Ricky Santana v.s The Cruel Connection.

I can't really tell you what the name of this show is, it says WCW Saturday Night but that isn't right because this was 1988. I already saw an opener where Sting beat someone named John Savage but it was a simple squash. I looked away for about 5 seconds and it was over at one point. I didn't want to really rate it. This match here had more action was to put over Douglas and Santana as two rising stars but they weren't really a full-time team. I don't really know the Cruel Connection but they had these obnoxious green suits that looked a lot the Charlie Kelly's green man suit from Always Sunny In Philadelphia except they wore yellow trunks over it... Yeah. So we got to see a couple high impact moves from Douglas and Santana before Shane hit a nice Belly-to-Belly suplex for the victory.

3/4*

 

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ECW Hostile City Showdown 4/15/1995: Tommy Dreamer vs. Raven

Before the match, Richards cuts a promo on Tommy Dreamer. The whole Raven/Dreamer feud had just started, so Richards (Who had just debuted his new look that night) runs down the history of the backstory (Summer Camp and fat Beulah) and sums up the feud thus far. This was one of the many super intense brawl from these two. I was not a fan of the DQ finish but the match was good fun. The post-match events of Raven not even caring about Beulah's well being summed up the great characters of ECW. **1/2

 

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NWA Saturday: The Sheepherders v.s The Lightning Express.

This was a continuation of an already good feud, well at least match wise. The Lightning Express is Tim Horner and Brad Armstrong for those that haven't done their research. This was a good, old school type tag match but with The Sheepherders you usually get some unique, unorthodox actions thrown in so the contrasting styles was a lot of fun here. Had a classy beatdown on Brad at one point and his comeback was awesome as it just escalated perfectly from each move he'd hit he'd get just that much closer to tagging out. At one point I think it was Luke Williams that hit this sliding headbutt to Armstrong outside the ring. It was like a baseball slide with his fuckin' head and it actually looked legit which I would expect would be hard to get enough momentum just to accomplish it. Near the end of the match we got nice crossbody by Horner that lead to a nearfall. Quickly followed by both hitting the ropes again with a shoulder tackle which Horner actually got the advantage of. If you saw it you'd see how great it was because it set a hell of a nearfall that you'd never see nowadays. It was shortly after this The Sheepherders flagbearer Johnny Ace got involved and cost them the match. This is probably a match nobody here will ever see which is sad. At times it was kind of awkward though but that should be at least a little expected seeing how different the two teams are. Also, if it wasn't for the DQ finish I would have even went higher on my rating.

***3/4

WWE should produce a Sheepherder set.

 

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Heat Wave 07/15/1995: Dean Malenko & 2 Cold Scorpio vs. Tazz & Eddie Guerrero

This is, the debut of the "new look" Taz, with a haircut and wrestling boots and everything. Also this is the the full version of the match cause the original video has it edited to 9 minutes total. First off i disliked the finish of Eddie dives on Dean outside, but Paul hits Scorpio with the phone and Taz pins him with a suplex just to have Fonzie runs in on behalf of the forces of LAW AND ORDER and declares that the match must continue. So the heels go for the cheap pin and Fonzie counts both of them and gives them the win. And the reason i don't like it cause Fonzie screwing over Guerrero/Taz when he was technically right about the cheating. Anyway this was really sloppy at time but i do forgive them because the building was over a hundred degrees and obviously it'd taking something out of them. **1/2

 

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NWA Saturday: Curtis Thompson & Cody Starr v.s The Midnight Express.

Jobfest. The Midnight Express got their main stuff in and that was about it. Jim Cornette was hilarious on commentary, though. This show also has him cutting a promo before and after the match backstage.

1/4*

 

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King of The Ring 1999: Stone Cold Steve Austin versus Vince & Shane McMahon

This was a ladder match with the title of CEO on the line. It was nothing more than a bonafide squash with Austin just ripping into the McMahons for about 15 minutes. I'm ok with that part because from a realism standpoint you can't expect a 53 year old man and his son to stand a legit chance aganist Steve Austin. I didn't like the finish though. Austin had the briefcase in sight after delivering a Stunner to both McMahons only to have someone in the rafters pull the briefcase out of Austin's reach. Shane would eventually come to knock Austin and the ladder down before retrieveing the briefcase for a McMahon victory. Ehh match, entertaining in a sense because the McMahons do a good job of selling, especially Shane. Not a lot of high spots for a ladder match, but let's face it, none of these three guys were taking big bumps. And 13 years later, I still don't know who pulled the briefcase up.

 

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NWA Saturday: 2 more Jobbers v.s Barry Windham & Lex Luger.

I tried catching the jobbers name but they aren't worth remembering anyways. This was just like the last match except Luger and Windham are faces instead of heels. Windham hit some crisp suplexes and a great jumpin' Lariat to finish it off.

1/2*