Remembering WM IX, 20 years later.

[Dolph'sZiggler]

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Wrestlemania IX. What can be said about Wrestlemania IX that hasn't already been said about Chyna and X-Pac's sex tape? Most of us have tried to block both from memory, pretending they never happened, but that doesn't mean we can't go back and watch the horror and share a few laughs.

First off, I just want to say that IMDB should not be allowed to rate wrestling PPVs. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252102/

6.1, really? I mean, I realize IMDB has better shit to do than logically rank PPVs from 1993, but damn, how did this get OK'd?

Let's start with the set. Bobby Heenan, what did you think about this set?

Enough said.

The show featured Heenan pulling up backwards on a horse, but it was all downhill from there.

One last pic of Heenan, because his face in these photos says more about the show than I ever could:

Interesting note on this Mania, it had matches from both HBK & Taker, and both men arguably had their worst Mania match ever at this event.

It opened with Tatanka vs Michaels for the IC belt. Tatanka is just a large bloke who can't do much, or do it for very long. A slow, tedious match that made HBK look pretty weak.

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I'm sure most of you have seen this shit

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Just for Leo C, Bob Backlund jobs to The Bad Guy

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My favorite match (by default) of this card was Luger vs Perfect

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There was other fuckery that included Steiners vs Headshrinkers, multiple doinks vs Crush and a lengthy tag team titles match featuring Hogan and Beefcake. But the biggest bit of fuckery in Mania history happened after a boring ass main event between Hart and Yokozuna



Can anyone think of a more cringe worthy wrestling PPV? I'm sure WCW has some that can compete, lol.

 

[seabs]

As this was supposed to be the biggest show of the year I don't hink anything can compete lol.

 

[Senhor Perfect]

Hogan's return ruined it. If he hadn't, Bret would've went over Yoko, them we would've had a Bret vs either Michaels/Taker/Perfect. All much better than Hogan vs anyone.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Hogan's return ruined it. If he hadn't, Bret would've went over Yoko, them we would've had a Bret vs either Michaels/Taker/Perfect. All much better than Hogan vs anyone.

Even without Hogan the Hart/Yokozuna Mania MEs were slow and boring as fuck.

 

[Senhor Perfect]

Even without Hogan the Hart/Yokozuna Mania MEs were slow and boring as f*ck.

Yoko was well over 400lbs he shouldn't have been anywhere near a main event. No ones fault but Vince on that one.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Yoko was well over 400lbs he shouldn't have been anywhere near a main event. No ones fault but Vince on that one.

Nobody here is shitting on Bret, calm down Sparky.

 

[Nano]

Oh, this WM was the best one IMO

 

[Senhor Perfect]

Nobody here is shitting on Bret, calm down Sparky.

Didn't take it as such. Still bothers me today that the fat fuck was main eventing while Razor and Perfect weren't.

 

[seabs]

Uncensored 1995 took place on March 19, 1995 from the Tupelo Coliseum in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

Main Event match: Alex Wright defeated Mark Starr (2:44)
Wright pinned Starr.
Main Event match: Steve Austin defeated Tim Horner (1:27)
Austin pinned Horner.
Main Event match: Stars and Stripes (Marcus Alexander Bagwell and The Patriot) defeated Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck (9:34)
Bagwell pinned Slater.
The Blacktop Bully defeated Dustin Rhodes in a King of the Road match
The match took place in the caged-off trailer of Blacktop Bully's 18-wheeler truck, as it was driven (supposedly) around nearby roads. The object of the match was to climb to the top of the trailer's cage and sound a horn positioned there.
Bully sounded the horn to win.
This match was actually taped days earlier outside of Atlanta, Georgia and was heavily edited due to WCW's strict no-bleeding policy in place at the time. Rhodes and Bully were fired for blading during the match.
Meng (with Col. Robert Parker) defeated Jim Duggan in a martial arts match (7:04).
Sonny Onoo served as the Special Guest Referee.
Meng pinned Duggan.
Johnny B. Badd (with Roc Finnegan) defeated Arn Anderson (with Col. Robert Parker) in a boxer versus wrestler match (0:22 4th round)
The match was billed as having ten three minute rounds, with a rest period of one minute between rounds. Anderson's WCW World Television Championship was not on the line.
The rules stated that Anderson (as "the wrestler") could win by pinfall or submission, whereas Johnny B. Badd (as "the boxer") could only win by knockout.
Badd knocked out Anderson.
Randy Savage defeated Avalanche by disqualification (11:44)
Avalanche was disqualified when a "fan" (Ric Flair in drag) attacked Savage.
The match ended in disqualification, despite the match and event card repeatedly being billed by announcers as no disqualification.
Big Bubba Rogers defeated Sting (13:43)
Rogers pinned Sting.
The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags) defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (with Sister Sherri) in a Texas Tornado match (8:43)
The match was fought under Falls count anywhere rules. Harlem Heat's WCW World Tag Team Championship was not on the line.
The match ended up in the concession stands, where the participants attacked each other with cotton candy, soft drinks and other nearby objects.
Knobs pinned Booker.
Hulk Hogan (with The Renegade) defeated Vader (with Ric Flair) in a Leather Strap match (18:21)
Hogan's WCW World Heavyweight Championship was not on the line.
Before the show, Jimmy Hart had been kidnapped and tied up at an undisclosed location by Vader and Flair. During the match Hart escaped and joined Renegade at ringside.
During the match a masked man appeared and attacked Renegade, before returning to the back.
Hogan was given the win when he dragged an interfering Ric Flair and touched all four turnbuckles (despite Flair not being the legal opponent in the match).
After the match, a masked man appeared again, seemingly siding with Vader and Flair, before unmasking to reveal himself as Randy Savage and embracing Hogan, Renegade and Hart. Savage had tied up the first masked man backstage, who was then revealed to be Arn Anderson.
Referee Randy Anderson was assigned to referee the match but as he was putting on the leather strap on Vader. Vader push Randy Anderson and the force of it would lead to no referee to call the match.

Good old WCW seems to be pushing it here, notice the NO DQ match which ended in a DQ due to a dragqueen Flair, Anderson under wrestling rules while Badd can win under boxing rules only.

 

[seabs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R298XAYUyBA&feature=player_detailpage#t=748s

This is incredibly bad.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Didn't take it as such. Still bothers me today that the fat f*ck was main eventing while Razor and Perfect weren't.

I've never seen a Yokozuna match that didn't consist of at least 75% rest holds. And Vince wonders why the WWE was losing popularity come the mid 90s :mad2:

but yea, you have Perfect jobbing to Luger, HBK in the mid card and Razor squashing the fossils of vanilla midgets. And people act like Vince just recently lost his mind :

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R298XAYUyBA&feature=player_detailpage#t=748s

This is incredibly bad.

Heenan- "THAT'S no lady, that's your wife!"

 

[Lockard 23]

Didn't take it as such. Still bothers me today that the fat f*ck was main eventing while Razor and Perfect weren't.

It made sense. Yokozuna fell under the category of Big Man Draw and going up against him helped Bret utilize the role of the underdog more. Of course, Vince thought it wise to put the belt on Hogan and job Bret out, but they made up for it the following year with Bret going over.

I think Hogan passing the torch to someone like Bret at this here event would have been best but what do I know. The fact that they held this outside and dressed it up in roman clothing and stuff just made it worse. A very unpredictable rainstorm would have been the perfect to top this whole shitpile off.

 

[seabs]

I can't stop laughing at it, was all early WCW this awesomly random? Flair in a dress, Harlem Heat and The Nasty Boys hitting each other with Cotton Candy, Dusty fighting in a truck it just seems like someone gave Russo some acid and told him create this show.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

I can't stop laughing at it, was all early WCW this awesomly random? Flair in a dress, Harlem Heat and The Nasty Boys hitting each other with Cotton Candy, Dusty fighting in a truck it just seems like someone gave Russo some acid and told him create this show.

WCW went through so many different bookers in a very short amount of time in the early 90s that, yea, a lot of the time it became a mess to the point of being sideshow esque, much like late 90s/early 2000s WCW became

I always remember hearing about crazy shit they tried, this for example: