1994-02-13 Main Event

 

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry. Today, 2020-10-03 I am going back 26 years to 1994 to Valentine's Eve, Feb. 13.  I would have been in 8th grade if my memory services correctly and, shockingly enough, I do not think I had a girlfriend.  But that was then and this is now....and I still do not have a girlfriend....I have a lovely wife so suck it 1994!  Sorry got distracted.  We are one week from SuperBrawl so the final build-up is upon us!  Enough waiting it is time to get to the Main Event!

• Of course, the match is re-instated!  No one thought the match would not happen, did they?  
• Avery moves so weirdly
• Is this the best shape Traylor was ever in?
• Is Larry one of the most underrated announcers?
• It is odd that DDP looked better a few years after this.  
• I always thought Taylor was underrated especially in the early 90's and his team with Greg Valentine
• Best TV Champ ever....sorry Double A
• Giving the future DOGG a TV title shot
• Sorry got lost in this match, the D O Double G is actually wrestling with his Lordship and I am surprised
• Regal with a sunset flip?  I do not remember seeing Regal do that before!
• A dropkick from Armstrong!  Wow!
• Oh, I love the slaps from Regal.....WHAT THE HELL IS SCOTT ARMSTRONG DOING!  He should be fined and fired!
• Exactly typical bloody Americans
• That building must have been extremely hot, Regal and Boss both were just covered in sweat
• Was this laying down the groundwork for the Regal & Zbyszko feud?  
• Could that mask be any tighter on the Assassin's face?
• Where did the Assassin go?  He just suddenly stopped managing Pretty Wonderful.  Guess I will find out if there was a reason as I go on
• I cannot believe how much offensive Roma is getting; shows the skills of both men

This was a really good show.  When you have Double-A and Regal on the same show you are in for a good one.  I am excited for Superbrawl.  I had it as a tape trader back in the day but I do not know if I ever actually sat down and watched it.  I assume I have since it was for that match specifically.  However, two really good matches and a squash for the Boss, and this was a very effective show in my opinion.  Until next time, as always, Abyssinia!  

RESULTS

• Recap:  Saturday Night
• The Boss def. Fred Avery
• Interview:  The Boss
• History:  Ric Flair (WCW Champion) & Vader
• History:  Diamond Dallas Page & Z-Man
• Interview:  Diamond Dallas Page/Terry Taylor
• Steven Regal (TV Champion) def. Brian Armstrong for the Title
• Interview:  Steven Regal (TV Champion)
• SuperBrawl Control Center:  Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags (WCW Tag Team Champions)/Cactus Jack & Maxx Payne
• Arn Anderson def. Paul Roma
• Interview:  Arn Anderson

Classic Wrestling Review: 1994-01-23 WCW Main Event

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today, 2020-03-06, we are going back to 1994, the Jan. 23rd edition of WCW Main Event.  We have Z-Man against DDP, The Nastys and Harlem Heat is taking on the team of Maxx Payne and Cactus Jack!  Let us go our open contest involving the tag team champs!

• I love Missys hair like that!
• That was almost clubbering, 3 fists but not 4
• I wonder if anyone now or even back then remember when Pez was a mainstay of Crockett
• Knobbs calling someone ugly is crazy!
• Hardwork Bobby Walker is on for the first time I remember!
• Austin's hair cut was awful back at this point
• That was an ugly stungun!
• Look how trashy DDP looked at this point.  Looked like he just got off the road after driving truck for a week
• Z-Man a contender for the World Title?  In what world there Tony?
• That was a really sloppy match, you could tell DDP was still finding himself.  
• Boy that was a messy tag team match.  I have noticed that these two teams do not mesh at all
• Who did not see the Nasty Boys attacking?

This was not a good show at all.  Honestly not one match was good and that is weird to say with Austin on the show.  I cannot suggest this show.  Nothing worth watching here.  

RESULTS

• Brian Knobbs/Jerry Sags (Tag Team Champions) def. Brad Anderson/Pez Whatley
• Interview:  Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags (Tag Team Champions) & Missy Hyatt
• Steve Austin (US Champion) def. Bobby Walker
• Interview:  Steve Austin (US Champion) & Robert Parker
• Clash of the Champions Control Center
• Diamond Dallas Page def. Z-Man
• Interview:  Diamond Dallas Page
• Segment:  Sting & Ric Flair (WCW Champion)
• Cactus Jack/Maxx Payne def. Kane/Kole 
• Interview:  Cactus Jack & Maxx Payne 

Classic Wrestling Review: 1994-01-22 Worldwide

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry. Today, 2020-02-22, we are going back to 1994 once more to check out the January 22nd edition of WCW Worldwide!  We are going to see HOGAN in action for the first time in 1994....well his brother Randy Hogan.  Too Cool and Marcus Bagwell are here.  The Nastys are in action as are the Cole Twins and others.  So enough chit chat lets go down to Disney and the spinning ring!

• The Godwinns on the way to the ring
• Seriously what kind of tattoo is that that Brian James has?
• Plus with his hair like that he looks so much like his daddy Bullet Bob
• The Godwinns are a guilty pleasure of mine, I always like them either as hog farmers or the Texicans as The Body says
• Why are the people in the background doing the Public Enemy wave?
• It did not look like Sandlin did not help with that suplex
• Is it weird that Sting took his new finisher from a lower mid-card tag team in WCW?  I am sure others did the move but the first people I saw do it was this duo
• I never did like Pillman's interviews
• They decide to recap this feud?  Z-Man and DDP?
• Poor Erik, never got a chance because of his name.  He was not bad but pushed way too quickly by daddy
• Uggg, I hate that underhook arm drag
• That STF looks as good as Cena's....not sure if that is a good or bad thing
• The Cole Twins just never clicked did they?
• Really?  That is their finish?
• Where is Missy...oh there she is...how did I miss those....er....her
• The Nastys are just that are they not?  I wonder how much working was done with them back in the day
• Look at that old lady dance!
• Jesse with quite a few AWA references
• Wait....they just did the Cole Twins finisher!  Did they not watch the other matches?
• That suplex was not quite perfect!  BAM!
• THERE HE IS!  THE NOT IMMORTAL HOGAN!!
• Why did they bill him from LA and not Venice Beach?
• Dear lord look at that strength by Vader!
• HOGAN KICKED OUT!  WATCH OUT FOR THE BOOT VADER!
• HOGAN KICKED OUT AGAIN!
• Interesting, it was not quite the moonsault
• Why is Flair in the back?
• Wait....Fifi is there?  But Mean Gene just teased on the Hotline that Fifi had disappeared
• Ummm, the World does not have corners Naitch!

A very good show this week minus the Cole Twin match.  Sorry they were just very basic.  It shows that the 1994 WCW Roster had amazing tag teams.  Also, is this the best we ever saw Vader?  That 1992-mid 1994 Vader was amazing.  He could move, he could talk, you had Harley out there with him.  I would love to pluck that Vader and put in here in 2020 and let him be him.  Damn that would be amazing with some of the athletes we have now in wrestling!  Overall nothing to seek out but the Vader match is fun because it is Hogan ;)

RESULTS

• Tex Slazenger/Shanghai Pierce def. Brian Armstrong/Scott Sandlin
• Interview:  Brian Pillman
• Recap:  Diamond Dallas Page/Z-Man
• Erik Watts def. Bill Payne
• Superbrawl Control Center:  Vader/Paul Orndorff & Steve Austin (US Champion) & Rick Rude (International Champion)
• Keith Cole/Kent Cole def. Bob Cook/Bill Tyree
• Recap:  Ron Simmons/Ice Train
• Brian Knobbs/Jerry Sags (WCW Tag Team Champions) def. Ken Kendall/Frank Rose
• Interview:  Ricky Steamboat
• Marcus Alexander Bagwell/Too Cold Scorpio def. Nasty Ned/The Claw
• Vader def. Randy Hogan via Countout
• Segment:  Ric Flair (WCW Champion) & Fifi

Classic Wrestling Review: 1994-01-09 Main Event

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this post.  Today I am going to try what I did a year ago and watch wrestling from 1994!  That is right back for the first week or so of shows in the archives but I am picking up where I left over, with the main event from Jan 9th.  I have no idea what is going to be on the show or who is hosting or anything so no preview today just jump into 1994 WCW...maybe my favourite time in WCW!

• It is Tony and Larry as the hosts
• Shockmaster, the Cole Twins, Pretty Wonderful and others today
• For being as big as he was, Shockmaster was in pretty good shape at this point
• However, that weird Bearhug slam thing was a horrible finisher
• Larry is an extremely underrated announcer I think
• This copy of the show has commercials...and they were not better back in the day!
• See 1994 Missy Hyatt makes me wonder who would hotter in their prime, Missy or Sunny
• Its Road Dogg and Scotty Riggs!
• 1994 was awesome for tag teams in WCW and this team, and I mean the Pauls, were a foundation
• What in the blue hell is Road Dogg wearing?
• It was a weird thing to have the Assassin as the manager beyond when Orndorff was feuding with Rhodes
• The assassin needed a bigger mask!
• Good grief aside from Orndorff none of those guys can talk!
• Awesome, figure skating was on after this back in 1994
• I loved the game genie, make things SO much easier to cheat
• I love the Godwinns/Tex Slazenger & Shanghai Pierce
• I also thought Shanghai was a very underrated performer.  Surprised he never got a singles title run over the years
• I think if Shanghai came along now he would be in a top spot like Baron Corbin 
• Is Zenk one of the biggest underperformers in modern wrestling?
• My first time watching Bryant Anderson, he had a good look
• SUPERKICK!  Obviously, the Z-Man would be a star in AEW
• I will say Zenk was not a horrible promo, when it was kept short
• This was as Steve Austin started to find that "attitude" 
• It is also weird to think in about a year Austin was gone from WCW I believe
• STUN GUN!  I loved that move, I feel like Austin should have used that more in his WWF run

A good show with some good action on it.  As I said above I loved this time in WCW especially their tag teams.  Saw several of them on this show but throw in the Nasty Boys and Harlem Heat and you had one hell of a tag team division!  Then you have the singles division with Rude, Rhodes, Austin, Vader, Sting, Flair, Pillman and Arn along with others at the top and middle of the card I love this time in WCW!  The next classic review will be of the Jan 10th episode of Raw so stay tuned!  Until next time, this is the fat man himself saying....Abyssinia!

RESULTS

• Shockmaster def. Chris Sullivan
• Recap:  WCW Saturday Night
• Paul Orndorff/Paul Roma def. Bryan Armstrong/Scott Studd
• Interview:  Paul Orndorff & Paul Roma & Assassin/Marcus Bagwell & Too Cold Scorpio & Teddy Long
• WCW Control Center
• Tex Slazenger/Shanghai Pierce def. Keith Cole/Kent Cole  
• Interview:  Diamond Dallas Page
• Z-Man def. Bryant Anderson
• Interview:  Z-Man
• Music Video:  Sting
• Steve Austin (WCW US Champion) def. Larry Santo
• Interview:  Steve Austin (WCW US Champion)/Robert Parker