Donnie watches WWF 1988

[BigVanDonnie]

Randy Savage (c) w/Miss Elizabeth vs Bad News Brown (WWF World Heavyweight Championship-10/10)
Hell yeah, love to see this finally make tape after weeks of fun promos. Randy rushes him for something new for News, and the big man is sent running for the first time in his WWF run. News uses Li to goad Randy to the floor and then chops him in the throat and beats the shit out of him, and we get some wonderful Savage selling right off the bat. News shows he can hang as a big scary brusier beating up the champ as he lays down a hell of a beating. Savage fights from underneath as News keeps shutting him down and hitting him worse and harder. NEWS HANGS HIM UPSIDE DOWN AND HEADBUTTS HIM IN THE GUTS TO DROP HIM ON HIS HEAD. GODDAMN. News stays on him and shuts down a few attempted comebacks, but he never actually goes for the pin as he's too wild. Randy ducks the Blaster and backdrops him to the floor and hits the axe handle and then another on the inside. They brawl on the outside where News uses Liz as a shield and throws her at Randy, and runs back in to win by countout.
**3/4

Post match, News steals the title and parades around with it until Savage runs in and attacks to him to get it back.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88


WWF Superstars of Wrestling
October 15th, 1988
Indianapolis, IN

Match#1 Rick Rude w/Bobby Heenan vs David Isley
Another good 60 second for Rude as he gets screwed for time again. He wins with the RA.
*

Post match, Rude kisses another woman.

WWF Update-
-Gene covers the latest WWF Magazine and all the happenings as of late.

Match#2 The Blue Blazer vs Joe Cruz
Sick 3 minutes from Owen as he breaks out his wild array of offence that still stuns Jess and Vince, and the crowd is white hot for all of it. Owen hits the tope to the floor to crush the kid against the steel rail, and then follows up with the Moonsault to win
**

Match#3 The Big Boss Man w/Slick vs Jim Evans
Jesse lays right into Vince as a born again republican that should adore law and order, and Vince is left scrambling to give him a proper response and can't find one. Anyway, this is far too short in a bullshit call for our Boss, and now i'm mad. He wins with his Slam.
1/2*

Post match, Boss cuffs and beats his ass.

WWF Events Center-
-Bravo for sure says words along with Frenchy.

Mr Perfect plays chess perfectly.

The Hart Foundation debut their proper theme.

Match#4 The Hart Foundation vs Rick Gantner & Tom Stone
HF now get 3 minutes in another tremendous squash. Anvil throws a kid into the corner and Bret murders him with a dropkick right to the face to knock his head off, and then Anvil batters him with elbows!!. They keep doing great stuff, and it's just another one that everyone needs to watch and enjoy. The boys with a gross looking Hart Attack.
**

WWF Events Center-
-They now replay Bobby's promo about how big Andre is.

Bobby and Taylor come out to the ring where Bobby formally changes his name to THE RED ROOSTER. LMAO HOLY SHIT.

Match#5 The Red Rooster w/Bobby Heenan vs Lanny Poffo
Bobby coaches and yells at him a lot to not fuck this up, and Rooster puts for a fine little angry squash. helps that Poffo is more than willing to eat tons of shit to make it work, but Rooster holds his end up to his credit. Rooster wins with his bad looking Deathlock.
*1/2

The Brother Love Show-
-Duggan runs out like a big jerk, so Love rightly points out that he doesn't love his country or flag like Mr Bravo does.
-Hack gets very grumpy and yells, but Bravo comes out and stares him down as Love sings his praises. Bravo says Hack and America both STINK, and Duggan tells him to leave it like a bully. Hack gets his board and chases them off the stage and leads a USA chant.

Match#6 Ron Bass vs Mike Richards
Short and not much as Bass is sort of bad and lazy now that he's stuck with Beefcake, and yeah fair enough. He wins with the pedigree.
1/2*

Post match, he uses Betsy to hang the kid.

Match#7 Hercules vs Barry Horowitz
Babyface Herc is dogshit as he was a heel, so this is really bad. Ted has a cut in swearing revenge on his slave not working for him. Herc wins with his rack attack.
1/8*

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF Wrestling Challenge
October 16th, 1988
Louisville, KY

Match#1 Akeem w/Slick vs Bob Emery
Sweet 2 minutes for the now fat long haired dancing man. i miss OMG, but he's still fucking rad and makes it work through force of dance. Akeem wins with the 747 and a massive splash.
**

Mean Gene-
-Jake Roberts is the guest this week.
-Jake repeats the last 4 months of promos against Rude, and no new ground is broken there. He at least says he's going to bring his wife to ringside with him from now on so she can slap Rude after he DDT's him.
-PLEASE end this feud.

Match#2 Ted DiBiase w/Virgil vs David Isley
Ted also gets 2 minutes and is still a violent pissed off squash guy, and i assume it stays this way until he gets broken down and stops giving a shit. He batters the kid on the floor and in the ring, and it's wonderful. Heenan says Hercule needed to shut up and be happy, but he's an idiot. Ted wins with the MDD.
**

Post match, he shoves the cash in the kids mouth.

WWF Events Center-
-Ron Bass is going to choke and break Brutus' awful head of hair with the help of Betsy.
-Hercules is very sad at being let down by Heenan after helping him for so long. He's no man's slave and will get revenge on everyone.

Match#3 The Rockers vs Bubba Kirk & Tom Burton
Little under 2 minutes for the boys this go, but still a lot of killer work as they're hyped and on fire and go wild with all the big hits. Shawn gets it done with a splash off Marty's shoulders this week.
*3/4

Match#4 Greg Valentine w/Jimmy Hart vs David Stoudimiere
Holy shit what an episode. Hammer does amazing Hammer things for 90 seconds, and there's nothing better for the soul after a long day than that. Figure Four gets Hammer a win.
*1/2

WWF Events Center-
-Ken Patera works here and says words.
-Heenan again says he shows respect for the king of the WWF, and it's time for Warrior and Savage to start showing that respect as the king has his eyes on their titles. LONG LIVE THE KING.

Match#5 The Ultimate Warrior vs Brian Costello
Rough one for Warrior as his offence looks extra shitty and bad, and he's lost and terrible and can't cover for himself. He wins with the combo.
1/4*

WWF Update-
-Lord Hayes recaps the birth of Red Rooster.

Match#6 The Young Stallions vs Sandy Beach & Mike Sharpe
Perfectly ok outing for the young pretty boys doing their fine ass basics, and well not much else. Roma wins with a Dropkick.
*

Match#7 Dino Bravo w/Frenchy Martin vs Tommy Angel
Nah

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF Superstars of Wrestling
October 22nd, 1988
Ft. Wayne, IN

TONIGHT; HULK HOGAN ON THE BROTHER LOVE SHOW,

Match#1 King Haku w/Bobby Heenan vs David Isley
Haku is given 2 minutes to unload a murder with kicks and elbows and awesome power stuff, and it's a fantastic time and then some. He wins with his Superkick.
**

The Brother Love Show!
-I LOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. When you lose love you lose everything, and his guest had love for four long years. But then he lose that love, and he lost control as a result. His guest has no love and therefore no control, Hulk Hogan. He comes out a big pop, but not quite the wild ones of even a few months ago. (Something in that)
-Love says he proved he had no love the last time he was on here and he's out of control as he put his hands on him. His benefactor wants him to spread that love so he's given him some protection against Hogan, AND THE BIG BOSS MAN AND SLICK WALK OUT. OH SHIT. Love says they have love in their hearts and can stop Hogan from losing control.
-Slick calls him an ex champion and says Boss is going to put him behind bars. Hogan shoves him and says all the fans know he's the judge and jury and he's going have him singing the Hulkamania prison blues. He's not a caged man as he's free, and there's no way you can control that.
-Slick laughs and says this fool is out of control and he's going into solitary confinement AND BOSS MAN HITS HIM IN THE FUCKING FACE WITH THE NIGHTSTICK. YES KILL HIM DEAD. SLICK SPRAYS HIM IN THE EYES WITH SOMETHING, AND BOSS ATTACKS THE RIBS AND BACKS WITH TONS OF WICKED SHOTS AND KNOCKS THE LIFE OUT OF THIS PIECE OF SHIT. HE CUFFS HIM TO THE BARRICADE AND KEEPS HITTING HIM. HE STARTS CHOKING HIM WITH THE STICK. Sadly, Hogan has the balls to no sell and kicks Boss in the dick and chases them off with his hands still cuffed in the rail as he runs after them.
-Amazing angle up to the point Hogan just has to be fucking Hogan. Done with this piece of shit as of right now.



Match#2 Tito Santana vs Porkchop Cash.
Holy hell, Porks in the WWF. Killer 2 minutes as Tito is Tito and works as hard as he can, and Cash bumps and sells his ass off to make it even better than normal. Tito gets it done with the Forearm.
**

WWF Events Center-
--The Ultimate Warrior says this package did not come naturally, for he was sent in a capsule from a place long from here and he came here for one reason. TO ATTACK AND KEEP COMING. NOT TO WANT, BUT JUST TO GIVE. NOT TO WANT, BUT JUST TO SEND. SEND THE POWER OF THE WARRIOR DOWN THE THROATS OF EVERYONE IN THE WWF UNTIL THEY BECOME SICK OF IT. BECAUSE THIS FREAK OF NATURE RIGHT HERE IS JUST BEGINNING TO SWELL AND WHEN HE GETS BIG ENOUGH BROTHER, THERE WON'T BE ROOM ENOUGH FOR ANYBODY ELSE BUT HE AND THE WARRIORS, FLOATING THROUGH THE VEINS IN THE POWER OF THE WARRIOR.
-News says when he wins the title he's going to have the biggest party you've ever seen. He dares everyone to come down and fight him as he's not hiding, and he's going to show what meaness and anger is all about as he's going to teach them all.

In the ring, Bobby is standing by as Fink introduces the jobbers. Bobby gets the mic and says he promised the family was going to get meaner and tougher, SO HERE IS TULLY BLANCHARD AND ARN ANDERSON. THE BRAIN BUSTERS. OH MY FUCKING GOD.

Match#3 The Brain Busters w/Bobby Heenan vs Tommy Angel & Bob Emery
BB have a cut in saying they're the smartest and they're going to complete the dynasty. This is amazing as Tully messes around on the mat and acts like a massive dick, and Arn is a viscous and grumpy old bastard that destroys an arm like no one else. Maybe the best 80's team of them all when it's said and done. They kick the holy shit out of them as Arn hits the Spinebuster, and Tully finishes the job with the Slingshot Suplex.
**

Survivor Series Update-
-Gene explains how the teams work along with eliminations.
-The Mega Powers will co-captain a team against Big Boss Man.
-Brutus & Warrior will co-captain a team against HTM & Bass.
-Jake & Hacksaw will co-Captain against Bravo & Andre
-POP will lead a team against Demo and their team.
-Buy it on PPV.

Match#4 Jake Roberts vs Barry Horowitz
The great squashes continue as Jake gets 2 minutes to give a shit again, and really shows that with some nice arm work along with his offence. Jakes wins with the DDT.
**

WWF Update-
-Gene covers the issues between Bravo and Hacksaw.

Match#5 Akeem w/Slick vs Scott Hudson
Vince is very mad and says Hogan could come out here and beat everyone up if he wasn't in the hospital. Fuck off. Akeem also gets 2 minutes and kicks and dances up a storm with a super fun squash on this amazing episode. Akeem fat man murders this fool and wins with his epic fat dude squash,
**

Mr Perfect plays golf perfectly.

Match#6 The Powers of Pain w/The Baron vs Larry Stevens & Bob Blackburn
Jesse makes fun of Baron for being the ugliest man he's ever seen in his life! Barb carries the load once more and does amazing Barb things, and Lord is fine enough. Barb wins with his Headbutt.
*1/2

INCREDIBLE EPISODE

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF Wrestling Challenge
October 23rd, 1988
Toledo, OH

Match#1 Honky Tonk Man w/Jimmy Hart vs Jim Evans
Fine enough angry HTM work for 2 minutes. He's still not amazing or built for it, but he's ok enough to make it mostly watchable. HTM wins with the SSR.
*

WWF Special Report-
-They once again cover Hercules turning face.
-Ted says he's going to beat him into submission and get his slave back.
-Hercules belongs to no man, and Ted will pay.

Match#2 The Blue Blazer vs Gene Ligon
Owen has some new light blue tights on and they look really sick. This is another great 2 minutes as he's a house of fire breaking out all different types of takedowns and cool offence. Owen wins with the Moonsault.
**

WWF Events Center-
-Demo love to fight and beat people up, and they don't give a hoot whose going to fight them. it's picnic time whenever they get to hurt someone.
-Jake rambles a lot about Rude jumping in the wrong water and drowning for it.

Match#3 Bad News Brown vs Tom Wolfe
News is all amped up now that's feuding with Randy, so this is way better than normal as he beats the dog shit out of the poor bastard to send a message. News wins with the Blaster.
**

Match#4 Sam Houston vs George South
Awful 2 minutes for this goofball. His offence looks terrible and lame, and he's just a massive level below so many people. It actually makes me angry to see him. He wins with his shitty looking bulldog
1/3*

Match#5 Ron Bass vs Red Tyler
Also 2 minutes, but actually good as Bass hits hard and acts like a wild cowboy going after some loser in a saloon that looked at him wrong. He breaks out some gross knees and strikes and puts the boots to the kid. He wins with the pedigree.
**

Stage Interview-
-Demolition & Fuji are the guests.
-Fuji says his men train and fight hard, and they're ready for this. Smash says you've got to be rich, or beat someone's brains in. Fuji made them who they are today, and they can all bring it on and maybe not even make it to SVS, Ax says in the definition of demolition is to win at all costs. THEY'RE WINNERS.

Match#6 The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers w/Jimmy Hart vs Chris Zarna & Bill Bowman
Tremendous 2 minutes from the best team to never win the big one, Sick strikes and rad double teams along with stooging and stalling, just a great time by all. They're also throwing these nasty looking forearms to the back that have a wicked sound to them, and it's awesome. They win with the Seated Senton.
**

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF Madison Square Garden-24/10

Match#1 Demolition (c) w/Mr Fuji vs The Rockers (WWF World Tag Team Championships)
OH MY GOD YES. Ax makes mincemeat of Shawn off the opening bell as he catches him and clubs him to death, but Shawn shows heart (break) and takes the fight right back to him and sends him running back to his corner for Smash. Marty gets in and takes Smash down with a dropkick and then Shawn gets in and they hit a great double one to drop the big man on his ass to make him super pissed. Rockers tag in and out as they work an arm and get very far with it as they're beating the life out of it, and Smash's selling rocks. THEY DO THE SAME TO AX WHEN HE GETS IN AND NOW THEY JUMP OFF THE TOP ROPE TO THE SHOULDER. Ax manages to headbutt Marty right in the face to take over, and Demo blast the shit out of him after being shown up. They club and hurl him around with zero regard for his life, and Marty shows off his insane bumping skills. He gets a hail Mary dropkick to get free and gets Shawn in for the tag, BUT SMASH PULLS THE ROPES DOWN AND SHAWN FALLS BACKWARDS TO THE FLOOR AND HE'S DEAD. Demo now get a full control seg on him to beat the fuck out of him, and it's perfection as they attack the back with clubs and holds and batter the shit out of him, and it's so amazing. Shawn shows his chops as a FIP underdog as he's always trying to fight out and when he gets shut down, you feel the air being sucked out of the room when it happens. Demo wreak his back with clubs and bearhugs, but Shawn gets free and hits Smash with a gross running knee and gets Marty in for a motherfucker of a hot tag. He lights everyone up and all hell breaks loose as a result. Demo gets pinballed with dropkicks and double teams, and even Fuji gets punched for his troubles. Marty hits a splash off the top, but Ax saves it. Everyone keeps fighting and Ax slips in a Lariat to the back of the skull to knock Marty out cold to steal the win out of their ass.
***1/4

Match#2 Randy Savage (c) w/Miss Elizabeth vs Andre The Giant w/Bobby Heenan (WWF World Heavyweight Championship-Savage Loses Title on Count-Out)
Love that stip as it makes this even more of an uphill battle for Randy against such a goddamn force of human nature. Andre takes it to him with body blows and a giant kick to the guts as he smothers Randy He keeps doing it, but Randy will never die and throws fire back at him as he targets the ribs and body. Andre again throws an insane knee to the body and stretches him out now that's he hurt and angry. Andre uses his head to beat him down as well, and it's such a cool series of different attacks. Savage gets free once more and kicks him in the balls and tries to drop him, but Andre refuses to go down and it takes Randy breaking out a gross Ax Handle to the face to do it. He misses the elbow as Andre moves, and they brawl to the floor. Randy tries to get in, but Bobby grabs his legs to stop him, but the ref sees it and DQ's Andre.
**3/4

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF Superstars of Wrestling
October 29th, 1988
Ft. Wayne, IN

Match#1 Demolition w/Mr Fuji vs John Latu & Mike Richards
Woooo, this is how you kick off a show. They get a little under 2 and once again just put on a pitch perfect squash that no one could ever dislike. Tons of slams and clubs through the mat as the jobbers die and die some more. They win with the Decapitation
**

The Brother Love Show-
-I LOOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE YOUUUUUUUU
-Love is gratitude and his guest doesn't have that and therefore has no love. He was being guided by one of the greatest brains in the world in Heenan. He was giving the chance to stand in servitude to the most generous men in the world, Ted DiBiase.
-Hercules comes out as Vince gushes over his body as you know why this turn happened. Herc says he served Bobby because he wanted to as he trusted him, but he was sold out by that man. He says the chains stand for courage and strength, and no amount of money can take that away from him.
-Randy Savage's music now hits and he makes his way to a massive pop alongside Liz. He says he's been reading about Hercules and what he means, and he shows the zillons of people around the world that he had no price, he would like to shake his hand!! They shake hands as the crowd loses their minds.
-Awesome angle even for a nothing like Herc.

They air an ad for a Boston show.

Match#2 Greg Valentine w/Jimmy Hart vs Scott Casey
Vince says Hercules will team with the Powers, Koko & Hillbilly at SVS!! Real good shit from Hammer as his wonderful year continues with yet another stellar beating from him. He kills the kids legs and wins with the Figure Four.
**

WWF Events Center-
-The Baron shouts a lot about how POP will overcome the odds and beat Demo's team

Match#3 The Rockers vs Sandy Beach & Brian Costello
Rockers get 3 minutes now as they're trusted to give us nothing but bangers, and this is that as they're all coked up and wild as hell with everything they try looking fantastic and brutal. Shawn holds a jobber up for Marty to kill him with a crossbody off the top to win.
**

In the crowd, Gene hangs out with some fans.

Match#4 Red Rooster w/Bobby Heenan vs Reno Riggins
Rooster puts forth a basic boring squash to fit the gimmick of him being a fucking loser, and he wins with the deathlock now dubbed "COCK OF THE WALK"
3/4*

WWF Events Center-
-Warrior and Brutus speak. Brutus says they're coming for all out war as the ultimate test and they're looking down throats. Warrior says he's not feeling pressure as his back is getting stronger and he's slapping doubts down into the gutter. Bite off what you can chewwwwwwwwwww
-HTM says they're in charge of the greatest team ever. Bass says his spurs want to get another piece of Brutus, and Warrior is going down as they're the real survivors.

Match#5 Bad News Brown vs Red Tyler
News jumps the kid with a punch to the head and reigns down a beating of knees and big slams as he very angry and has no pals in his life. He wins with the Blaster.
*1/2

WWF Update-
-Gene recaps Hogan being attacked last week.
-YOU KNOW BIG BOSS MAN YOU WERE DUMB ENOUGH TO THINK TINY HANDCUFFS WOULD WORK ON HIM. YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT BIG SHACKLES TO CAGE HIM UP. HE'S GOING TO PUT HIM IN A CAGE THIS TIME.

Match#6 Brutus Beefcake vs Gene Ligon
Nah

Mr Perfect plays basketball perfectly.

Match#7 Honky Tonk Man w/Jimmy Hart vs Tom Walsh
Short and pretty bad. HTM wins with the SSR.
1/2*

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF SATURDAY'S NIGHT MAIN EVENT
OCTOBER 29TH, 1988
BALTIMORE, MD
BALTIMORE ARENA

-Jake kisses his wife and says pleasures and pain. Rude will know everything there is about pain, and he wants to know if he can take it like a man.
-Rude shakes his ass as Bobby says Jake's wife wants to be near him. Rude says Damien is going to be wrapped around Jake's neck, and Cheryl will be wrapped around his.
-Slick says he's going to unveil America's best weapon in the war on crime, the Big Boss Man. Boss Man says the harder he hits you, the harder you'll land. Bossman says you have the right to suffer and feel pain, and if you wish to have an attorney present, he'll hurt them too
-HF will be the champions once again as they're hell bent on reconstruction.
-Demo laugh and say they're going to leave them to the point where they can never be reconstructed again. Jimmy says he's going to show why they'll never get the titles back without him in their corner.
-Hogan rants about King Haku treating others like dirt, but he has the lovely Liz to help him reset the crowd and knock him off the throne. Wait, why are you with Randy's wife, you shithead.

Long recap of the Jake/Rude feud. Hope this ends tonight as i'm pretty numb to it at this point.

Mean Gene-
-Rude is still swinging his hips with the tights on, and he says nothing new about Jake or his wife.
-Same shit from Jake.

Match#1 Jake Roberts w/Cheryl Roberts vs Rick Rude w/Bobby Heenan
Jake goes right after the arm because changing a thing is scary and could kill him, i guess. Rude of course sells his ass off and gets the best out of it, but FUCK ME MAN CHANGE SOMETHING OR FUCKING GO AWAY. Rude slips out of the DDT and they move into their normal boring but good fight. Jake gets posted and Rude attacks the shoulder and does some good work on it and the control and selling is all top tier. Jake comes back and finally nails the DDT, but Heenan attacks for the DQ.
**

NEVERMIND THAT SHIT, ANDRE WALKS OUT TO THE RING AND ATTACKS JAKE. He knocks his face off with a headbutt and checks on Rude and Bobby, BUT JAKE GETS DAMIEN OUT AND ANDRE IS SCARED TO DEATH

ANDRE BEGS BOBBY FOR HELP AS JAKE CORNERS HIM AND ANDRE GETS MORE AND MORE AFRAID AS HE GETS CLOSER. JAKE THROWS DAMIEN ONTO ANDRE'S FACE AND IT CHOKES HIM OUT AND ANDRE FALLS TO THE MAT AND CLUTCHES HIS CHEST AND LOOKS LIKE HE'S GOING TO DIE. Jake stands over a now dead Andre as the crowd cheers for death. Bobby rushes back in and rips Andre's shirt open and starts pounding on his chest like Jack in Lost did, and he beats him and beats but Andre is stiff as a board. Jesse shouts he should give him mouth to mouth, and is very mad about all of this.


We come back from the break to find EMT's helping Andre in the ring, and he finally comes too and needs to be helped out of the ring. Incredible angle.

Mean Gene-
-Neidhart says they're sick of Jimmy Hart and his hyena voice. Bret said they got the titles for themselves and Jimmy Hart lost them the titles. Bret says they rely on speed and teamwork and there's no secret Jimmy Hart can tell Demolition. Neidhart says the only way Jimmy Hart can hurt someone is to manage them and then laughs his amazing laugh.

In the back, Jesse interviews Jimmy Hart, Demolition, and Fuji. Jimmy says the Hart Foundation was nothing before him and they're nothing without him. Fuji says knowledge his power, and Smash says he learns fast, and Ax says they win faster. Jimmy Hart then says his Fabulous Rougeaus will also be there to observe several broken Harts.


Match#2 Demolition (c) w/Jimmy Hart & Mr Fuji vs The Hart Foundation (WWF World Tag Team Championships)
Anvil shows no fear again as he overpowers Smash with a suplex and lays a beating, and Bret joins in with his great arm work to grind him down. Smash comes back with a lariat and hurls Bret into the corner chest first to isolate him. Great control seg as they destroy his neck and face for something new and gross, and Bret is again a hell of a face in peril for the fellas. Bret gets free and gets Anvil in for a wild as hell tag as he throws these fuckers around with scary ease. Things break down as HF move ahead, and we see the Rougeau's at ringside. Anbil goes after Jimmy, and one of the brothers throws the megaphone to Smash to use on Anvil's skull to get the win.
**1/2

In the back, Gene is with Heenan and Haku. Heenan says this match was made because King Haku decreed it and after what Hogan did to their friend Harley Race in March, Haku made a royal oath that he would avenge it. Gene asks Haku, and Heenan says he doesn't talk to peasants with low life blood, so leave him alone. Gene asks if Hogan wins, if he'll bow. Heenan asks him to show him to bow, so Gene does, and Heenan laughs and says even a humnoid will bow for them. DEAD.

Mean Gene-
-Hogan is the guest.
-He says he's battered and bruised and was beaten like a dog, but every dog has it's day. Haku and Heenan are telling people to bow down, but no tells his Hulkamnaics what to do and he's going to knock him off the throne. He says he's got additional inspiration in Miss Elizabeth on loan from Randy. OH NO. Liz grabs his arm and says they've got a date. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. RANDY NEEDS TO LEAVE BOTH THESE SHITBAGS RIGHT NOW.

Match#3 Hulk Hogan w/Miss Elizabeth vs King Haku w/Bobby Heenan
Haku jumps this asshat with amazing chops and kicks, and Hogan's selling is really good as he cares with this being on TV. Haku gets a lot in control as he wears him down with nerve holds and other good bits of offence, but this is a post champion Hogan, so of course he comes back and runs through him like a complete ham an egger. He wins with the Legdrop.
*3/4

Post match, Hogan poses, AND THE HE PICKS UP ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE ON HIS SHOULDERS. HOLY FUCK, I HATE YOU SO GODDAMN MUCH.

Match#4 Dino Bravo w/Frenchy Martin vs Ken Patera
Awful dull affair from these two losers for 3 minutes and change. Dino wins with his sidewalk slam.
1/7*

Mean Gene-
Slick says he doesn't find men, men find him and that's because of his knowledge, ability, and mental ingenuity, now can you dig it? Bossman yells at Gene for only calling him "Bossman" and makes Gene spell Big Bossman. Bossman says to look in his eyes, and he likes to hurt people like he hurt Hulk Hogan. He says he sees no reason to change now, and Gene brings up his opponent, Jim Powers. Slick says if the brother's guilty, you never know. Gene asks what he's guilty of, and Bossman says "BREATHING!" They leave and Gene says Bossman would bring a box lunch to a lynching. AMAZING.

Match#5 Big Boss Man w/Slick vs Jim Powers
Fuck yeah, awesome squash for the fat prison guard as he beats this dude like an episode of OZ (1997). Wonderful acts of violence and fat man offence, and Powers dies a thousand times. Boss wins with his Slam.
**

Post match, Boss cuffs him ton the ropes and beats him with the stick.

In the back, Hogan says he's wearing the cuffs to remind him of being beaten like a dog so he never forget. Eventually the WWF is going to put them together and he's going to be a judge and execute him with a life long dose of Hulkamania.

In the back, Jesse is with Andre and Bobby. He asks if he's scared of snakes, AND ANDRE GRAB HIM AND SCREAMS TO NEVER SAY THAT AGAIN. Bobby loses his mind as he says no one should bring a snake to the ring ever again. Andre demands Jesse speak to Tunney and ban that word as he can't say it. Bobby keeps yelling that Jake is out of time.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF Wrestling Challenge
October 30th, 1988
Toledo, OH

They kick the show off by showing Hogan being attacked in full.

Match#1 The Rockers vs Mike Sharpe & Steve Lombardi
The best team in the WWF not named Demo meet the best jobbers in the company not named Barry, and it's a blast for nearly 3 minutes. Loads of great work from both as they show what they can do as single, and of course the double teams are hit perfectly and faster than hell. They hit a double Superkick and then Shawn press slams Marty onto Sharpe for the win.
**

Match#2 The Ultimate Warrior vs Porkchop Cash
Porky carries this giant lug to the best squash he's had in a while. He throws himself to the floor and gets his face beaten in as he dies on everything he's hit with, and it's a wonderful time. Warrior wins with the combo.
*3/4

WWF Update-
Lord Hayes runs down the SVS card.
-Duggan, Jake, Tito, JYD and Patera vs Dino, Andre, Rude, Perfect & Harley Race!!!
-Warrior, Beefcake, Blazer, Houston & Muraco vs Bass, HTM, Valentine, News & Davis.
-Mega-Powers, Hercules, Koko & Hillbilly vs Akeem, Boss Man, DiBiase, Haku & Rooster.
-POP, Harts, Bulldogs, Rockers & Stallions vs Demo, Rougeau's, Russians, Conquistadors & Brain Busters.
-Most of these are going to get switched and changed in the next few weeks, but this is what it was meant to look like.

Match#3 King Haku w/Bobby Heenan vs Scott Hudson
More great shit from our king as he's even more insane and violent now that's he's getting a massive push. So many moments that make you feel bad for enjoying such a gross ass beating, but man is it fun. Haku wins with his Superkick.
**

Stage Interview-
-Randy & that cheater Liz make their way out to be interviewed by Gene this week.
-Randy is insane and on coke tonight as he says Koko is going to make a cuckodooooooodllle do on Rooster, and Jim is going to wear Haku's crown. Hercules has proved he doesn't have a price, and he's going to make Ted pay for his debts in pain. Randy says Akeem is maybe OMG, so he's going to beat two men at the same time. He wouldn't want to be in Boss Man's shoes as Hogan is going to make him serve hard time.

Match#4 The Red Rooster w/Bobby Heenan vs Tommy Angel
Rooster again puts forth a boring but not awful squash that's a backdrop for Heenan to yell at him about how much he stinks at his job. Rooster wins with the cock of the walk.
*

Match#5 Jake Roberts vs Bob Blackburn
Jake's hot streak continues with a fun 2 minutes of arm work and nice looking offence as he's back to being good, thankfully. He wins with the DDT
*3/4

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF Superstars of Wrestling
November 5th, 1988
Ft. Wayne, IN

Match#1 The Ultimate Warrior vs George South
A month away has not warmed me any more to Warrior squashes in a shocking moment, as this is a super ugly and bad one with all his offence being terrible and bad looking. Hoping he gets better by the time the megapush starts with Hogan. Anyway, he wins with the combo.
1/3*

In the crowd, Gene talks to some Warrior fans.

Brother Love Show-
-I LOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUU
He brings out his benefactor, Brother Million Dollar Man and Virgil. They come out and Love says he bought a man, but a man who had no gratitude. Ted says that's right and since the first day he stepped foot in the WWF, he's always been able to get what he wanted. He says he's already bought and paid for Hercules, and he will soon understand that he is his slave. He asks who cares what Randy Savage thinks about Hercules, and Love says Hercules is now on the bandwagon of The Megapowers. Ted brings out his Survivor Series team, and it's Big Bossman, Akeem, Red Rooster, and Haku, along with Slick and Heenan.
-BL gushes over the super team and says the Megapowers will be surrounded by THIS love of a team at SVS.

Match#2 Dino Bravo w/Frenchy Martin vs Jim Evans
Very awful as is the norm for this big dopey bastard. Hacksaw has a cut in saying nothing new, so that sucks as well. Bravo wins with his Sidewalk Slam.
1/4*

WWF Events Center-
-Bass and his team shout about having no weak links to be found unlike the other team who are going to have a bad time. Davis says they're going to send them all time, and Hammer says he's right as they're all survivors and he's going to break a leg. News says he's not used to be in a crowd, but he's going to run someone over like a mack truck.

Match#3 Mr Perfect vs Chris Zarna
Holy shit yes. Perfect slaps him in the face and shouts he's not a wrestler, and then lays down a perfect as perfect can be beating on the kid for 90 seconds. Everything is smooth and rad looking on top of being mean and gross, and it's downright scary how amazing he was. Perfect hits the Fisherman Buster to win.
**

Match#4 Ron Bass vs Billy Bowman
Bass takes the kids head off with a nasty lariat and beats the tar out of him in the best squash he's giving us in a long time at this point, and gosh have i missed him. He wins with his Pedigree.
*3/4

Post match, he attack with Betsy.

WWF Events Center-
-Hogan's team is standing by as he says most of the time it's every man for himself in the WWF, but they're a team as Hercules has reached to the heavens and united them all. Koko says he's going to pluck Rooster's feathers and ring his neck. Savage says he's freaked out by all, but none more than what Jim has cooking in Mud Lick.. Herc says he's felt the powers of the oceans and they're united. Hogan says they got hit with a thunder bolt and he knows those dudes are going down.

Match#5 The Big Boss Man w/Slick vs Rusty Riddle
Woo, this episode got killer super fast. He uses the fat and power to smother and ruin the kids life as he bashes and squishes him like a bug for a minute, and it's fucking sick. Boss has a cut in screaming that he's going to make Hogan serve hard times for his crimes. (If only, big man). Boss wins with his Slam.
*1/2

Post match, he cuffs the jobber to the ropes and beats him with the stick.

NEXT WEEK; THE ROCKERS VS THE ROUGEAUS. OH MY GOD

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF Boston Gardens-5/11

Match#1 Jim Neidhart vs Raymond Rougeau
Hey, nice to see some singles matches out of this fun tag feud. Ray jumps him from behind like a big cheater and chokes him a lot, and Anvil is a fun face in peril as he's thrashing about trying to get free. He finally does and beats him up and pins him out of nowhere with a rollup. WHAT??
1/2*

Match#2 Bret Hart vs Jaques Rougeau
Well, lets hope this lasts longer than 3 minutes. Jaques stalls a lot by doing back flips and being a smug goon, and it's amazingly stupid and fun to watch. He keeps doing it and dares Bret to try his hand, but out hero knocks his face off with a sick dropkick and beats him down as the crowd gets hotter and hotter for Bret. He breaks out some knees and hard shoulder blocks, but Jaques catches him running in with a great looking back elbow to the face to knock the daylights out of him. He beats the hell out of him with a super fun control seg showing off the future greatness of the Mountie, and Bret is of course a tremendous punching bag for everything thrown at him. Jaques works the ribs with a stretch and gets far with it, but he can't put Bret away and the hitman comes back and beats him down with his punches and headbutts. He gets it going, but Ray runs down and distracts him and Jaques rolls him up with a handful of tights to steal it.
**3/4

Post match, Anvil makes the save and helps Bret hold the ring.

Ted DiBiase comes out and says he paid a LOT of money for Hercules and he belongs to him, and he's going to beat that into him. Herc runs down and attacks him and the match is on.

Match#3 Hercules vs Ted DiBiase w/Virgil
Herc does his best babyface work as he's throwing ok punches and hurling Ted around, and it all works because Ted is maybe the best in the US at this point and he can make it work by sheer will and talent. Virgil trips the big man so Ted can take over, and we get a very basic but fun control seg as Ted keeps it simple as he beats the idiots brains in like a big bully should do. Herc's selling is quite good for someone whose never needed to actually do it, and Ted makes sure to roughouse instead of doing limb work. Herc moves out of the way of an elbow and beats the shit out of him, but he knocks the ref down by accident. Virgil jumps off the top with a bad axe handle to knock the big guy out and Ted rolls on top to win.
*3/4

Post match, Herc gets up and chases them away with his chain.

Match#4 Randy Savage (c) w/Miss Elizabeth vs Bad News Brown (WWF World Heavyweight Championship)
RANDY JUMPS HIM AS HE'S GETTING IN THE RING AND HE'S A PROPER MAN MAN AS HE CHOKES AND CLAWS AT HIS FACE. He stays on him and holds his beard as he clobbers and knocks the piss out of him, but News knocks him down with a lariat as he runs in and returns the beating he got. He slams him down and lays in some wicked body blows to the head and ribs, and Randy's selling is fantastic as hell. News looks the best he has yet as he not only hangs with Savage, but he shows he's a goddamn beast more than deserving of a proper run at the top. He chucks Randy to the hardwood a few times, AND THEN HE SLAMS HIM DOWN ON IT AS HARD AS HE CAN, AND THE SOUND IS UNGODLY AS HE CRUMBLES ON TO IT. News throws him back in and goes to slam him, but Randy pulls out a hail Mary and hooks his legs as he goes down and manages to roll him up for 3. Fuck yeah.
**3/4

Post match, News flips out and hits the ref and storms to the back.

 

[BigVanDonnie]

WWF World Champion: Randy Savage-27/3/88
WWF Intercontinental Champion: The Ultimate Warrior-29/8/88
WWF Tag Team Champions: Demolition-27/3/88

WWF Wrestling Challenge
November 6th, 1988
Toledo, OH

Match#1 Brutus Beefcake vs Craig Brown
2026 (1988) means we can't escape Brutus any longer and we must pay the toll, but goddamn it man he's SO sucky and lame. He wins with his sleeper.
1/6*

Post match, Beefcake cuts some hair like a dickhead.

WWF Update-
-Lord Hayes covers Jake and Andre's happenings at SNME.

WWF Events Center-
-Fuji says every team is in real trouble as they're going to lose some teeth.
-Smash says they survive every day with Fuji and they're going to punch every man at the same time and get rid of them at the same time. Ax says they can demolish some people and let the others do what they do best and they can't lose. He finishes by saying he doesn't like turkey.

Match#2 The Brain Busters w/Bobby Heenan vs David Isley & Rusty Riddle
Oh shit yeah. The boys put on another killer one even in a short squash as they stooge and mess about in between giving an all time beating as they get going. Arn and Tully each get some singles work in and it's amazing, and then they hit their finishers to win.
*3/4

Match#3 Koko B Ware vs Tom Burton
Short one for Koko as well at 90 seconds, but still very, very good as he's a human fireball and his offence is hit at such a rate that a short squash sort of makes sense if you look at it in such a way. He kills the jobber with the Ghostbuster.
*1/2

WWF Events Center-
-Jake's team is standing by my man, and everyone on his team as something to offer. Blair and bees have been fighting since the dawn of time, Tito loves Thanksgiving and giving out beatings. Hack and Ken love America and have fire in their eyes. HOOOOOO.

Match#4 Mr Perfect vs Mike Richards.
Gorilla is shocked that Bobby doesn't have Perfect, and Bobby asks how he's sure that he doesn't!!!!!! Perfect gets 2 minutes now and puts on a hell of a show between shit talk and being goddamn Perfect in every respect. He has a cut in saying it's easy being Perfect. Perfect wins with the yet to be named Perfect Plex.
**

Mean Gene-
-Sick, Boss and Akeem make their way out like twin towers or something.
-Slick runs down his team and how they're all amazing and how they're going to own and smash these losers like it's not even a match.
-Akeem says Randy doesn't know how to get down as he's got no motion, but he's willing to teach him.
-Boss says he gave Hogan a brusing with his stick, and he's going to do it again at SVS.

Match#5 Powers of Pain w/Baron vs Sandy Beach & Brian Costello
POP also gets 2 minutes which means that Barb gets 2 minutes to do some of the most heinous epic shit you've ever seen, and Lord hits hard and doesn't fuck much up to his credit. Barb hits his flying Heabutt to win.
**

Match#6 Dino Bravo vs Reno Riggins
Bravo is never getting better like Brutus, so this is pointless as hell. He wins with his Slam
1/8*

NEXT WEEK. HAMMER VS HITMAN.