1991-01-05 Superstars Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry!  Today I am checking out the Jan. 5th edition of WWF Superstars from 1991.  Its a new year, the Gulf War is going on.  You have the Warrior as the Champion, Sgt. Slaughter is the top heel along with Randy Savage.  Mr. Perfect has just won back his IC gold and you have the Hart Foundation carrying the tag belts.  I believe your announcers are Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper and The Honky Tonk Man.  Lets go to the tape!!

• Yes, I was right about the announcers!
• Hogan making an appearance on Brother Love
• Had Kerry been able to be clean he would have been one of the biggest stars both in wrestling and Hollywood I think.  
• They never really did do that feud with Tornado and DiBiase I do not think.  I sure do not remember
• I think this was the peak of Warrior.  He looked the best.  I think he was in the best shape.  Also his out of world interviews were almost understandable
• Warlord doing his best Phantom of the Opera impersonation with that random mask
• Too bad Honky did not get into the Royal Rumble.  Also liked him
• Do you think he, the Warlord, understood how strong he really was?
• That was the biggest gut-wrench suplex of all time!
• I love the Royal Rumble theme, one of my favourites!
• Duggan was always and will always be one of my favourites.  
• WWF loved to make people make random noises for characters.  Tugboat, Duggan, Red Rooster
• OH MY GOD LOOK HOW YOUNG DUSTIN IS!!!
• They talk about the "Road Warrior" pop in wrestling, if I was a wrestler I would want the Hogan pop from 89-91
• Half the people in the Royal Rumble hope they draw number 1 yet whoever gets it is always upset....strange
• LOVE THAT RUMBLE THEME!
• I love how Quake was always hopping around during his promos 
• Do you think Jake Roberts drank a bottle of piss before each match?  
• The Big Boss Man is also one of my favourites.  I love this time of wrestling I think because it was from my initial fandom.  
• Do your job Virgil!  Who is, strangely enough, my grandpa's favourite wrestler
• THE MULKYS!  Well one of them

I love these old shows for nostalgia purposes.  However, I also enjoy them because it was when wrestling was wrestling in my opinion.  Guys being shown as stars and you had to go to the shows to see them in action against other stars.  Once a month maybe you had a Rick Martel vs. Tito Santana.  It was about getting you to order the big four PPV and go to the house shows or rent their monthly VHS tapes like Supertape or Smack'em Whack'em.  It worked on me because I rented those SOB's over and over again!  I still love wrestling and watch as much as I can because as Roddy Piper put it once it is a sickness.  But these are the days I missed, up till like 1995 when Nitro and Raw became show as much as you can and go through everything quickly.  Oh well you can not put the genie back in the bottle now!

Results

• Texas Tornado def. Tom Stone
• Update:  Randy Savage/Ultimate Warrior (WWF Champion)
• Warlord def. Donny Steel via Submission
• Event Center:  Bret Hart (Tag Team Champion)/Paul Roma/Jimmy Snuka/Brother Love & Undertaker/Davey Boy Smith
• Jim Duggan def. JT Smith
• Event Center:  Tugboat/Barbarian & Bobby Heenan/Dusty Rhodes & Dustin Rhodes
• Brother Love Show:  Hulk Hogan
• Royal Rumble Report:  Smash/Earthquake/Jake Roberts/Big Boss Man/Ted DiBiase & Virgil
• Kato/Tanaka def. Bill Mulky/Tony Mulky
• Event Center:  Luke/Mr. Perfect (Intercontinental Champion) & Bobby Heenan/Dino Bravo/Rick Martel/Jim Neidhart (Tag Team Champion)/

2019-10-31 NXT UK

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today I am check out the 2019 Halloween episode of NXT UK.  I will admit I am not up to date with the storylines or the characters but let us see what I think.

• I love me some Jazzy Gabert!  I thought she was the store of the Mae Young classic a few years ago
• This is why NXT is leaps and bounds above AEW.  All four of these ladies look like stars, can you say that about the AEW women's division?
• I already know more about these for women than most of the AEW roster because of the announcing.  Who would have thought the show with Jim Ross and Tony Schiavone would be the lesser announce team!
• Tell me that you would buy Riho against any of these four women!
• I do not like the dive in the opening women's tag match ut it is what people expect 
• Ripley will be a HUGE star on the main roster in a year for now given the chance
• How far has Ohno fallen?  He will always be a great vet but good grief remember when he was going to be the next big star
• Honestly, I think a good idea would be to put Ohno and Ceasar together as the Kings of Wrestling again since it appears Sheamus is gone for good
• A-Kid is on the smaller side but would be great on 205 I think
• Great heel move for Ohno!
• I love that Ohno is wrestling like a heel, it is rare today because everyone wants to be cheered
• I do not like that finish, makes it look like a fluke, although it appears they are going that route with Ohno, that he loses via flukes over and over again
• Well I hope Big Wavy is destroyed because he already annoys me
• Can I cheer for the ref because neither of these guys do anything for me upon first viewing
• That was weird looking driving the kid into the bottom buckle
• That was the first match I thought was just there.  Neither guy stood out or was anything "special" to me
• Who thought giving her a live mic was a good idea?
• Good grief this is bad
• I love Mastiff!  He is my brother from another mother!
• Oh, it is Finn Balor...wait...it is not?
• I love that NXT has heels that act like heels
• The way that Devlin is taking Mastiff down works perfectly.  It is almost the guys laying these matches out understand wrestling and it is not a video game
• Damn what a cutter!
• While Devlin is smaller it is still believable

Once again NXT does not disappoint!  Aside from the Conners/Johnson match every match felt important and every match delivered without having 40 superkicks, 30 dives and 20 false finishes.  Heels acted like heels, cheating when they needed too.  Rays interview started off rough but got better.  I am interested in who Killer Kelly is and how she is going to start a fight....although those slaps to her face were not very believable.  Overall an excellent show and one that makes me want to see next week which is the goal!

Results of the Show

• Piper Niven/Rhea Ripley def. Jinny/Jazzy Gabert 
• A-Kid def. Kassius Ohno via Countout
• Interview:  Killer Kelly
• Joseph Conners def. Roy Johnson
• Segment:  Kay Lee Ray (NXT UK Women's Champion)
• Segment:  Mark Coffey/Wolfgang (NXT Tag Team Champions)/Joe Coffey
• Jordan Devlin def. Dave Mastiff 
• Segment:   Ilja Dragunov/Alexander Wolfe

1991-01-05 Power Hour Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  Tonight I am checking out the first WCW Power Hour episode of 1991.  The main event is Bobby Eaton taking on Ricky Morton.  Midnight Express taking on the Rock N Roll Express....even though neither of these teams are active at this point.  Let us go to the show!

• The video on the compy I currently have is really bad so this might be a very short review
• Pillman got up there to get Cazana on the top rope
• Its funny, I always remember Z-Man as average in pretty much every way but he would be above average nowadays
• Who was it in WCW that was obsessed with Little Richard?
• Wait...is Jericho in AEW copying Hayes with is weird makeup and such?
• What is with Hayes pant?  
• Remember when the DDT was the end all be all and not an opening segment move?  I 'member
• It is weird to think that Rick Steiner now sits on a school board in Georgia I believe
• Rick was always stiff-looking in the ring; always looked believable
• The Black Scorpion could have been so cool
• Sting never could cut a good promo
• Watching Taylor in this era I am reminded that he could have been a star if not for the Red Rooster.  I truly believe that.
• It is weird that all the "job guys" are bigger and better than a lot of the "stars" of today
• Taylor always needed a better finisher than the "five" arm
• Did Paul Heyman try to channel Roddy Piper at times?  Never noticed that before 
• Michael Wallstreet is one of the best wrestlers never to be the man for a major promotion I think
• Heyman and Ross had some of the best chemistry as announcers
• It is weird to see Terri without certain...um....assets
• Hardrock is a big boy!
• Was there a better technical wrestler than Wallstreet?  I can not think of one
• Both of these guys need to straighten their hair!
• Well, Sid is not getting paid by the hour!  Wait...no powerbomb?
• This match is already going too long
• Bill Fralic played for the Falcons?  I thought he was a Detroit boy only!
• Name a more underrated wrestler than Beautiful Bobby?  I do not think you can!
• If I was a wrestler I would be watching Eaton, Morton, Double A, William Regal and Wallstreet to find out what wrestling is supposed to be like!
• I would pay to watch these guys go at it today more than I would most of the AEW and WWE main roster!
• Who has the better mullet between these two?  I am going with Bobby personally
• I do not like that finish at all!
• GOOD GAWD LOOK AT MISSY AT THIS POINT!!!

Another fine WCW show.  It is funny that people hated this era of WCW but look at the roster.  I know the storyline were not very good but compared to today...anyway while the storyline sucked the action itself was fine.  Great performers and some legends on the show!

Below are the results

• VQ: VERY POOR
• Brian Pillman/Z-Man def. Ed Brock/Joe Cazana
• Jimmy Garvin/Michael Hayes def. Tommy Angel/Rob Morgan
• Rick Steiner def. Chuck Coats
• WNN:  Sting/Ric Flair
• Terry Taylor def. Brian Carr
• Michael Wallstreet def. Rick Hardrock
• Sid Vicious def. Dave Perry
• Ricky Morton def. Bobby Eaton via DQ
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