Classic Wrestling: 1994-01-15 Superstars

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this blog.  Once again we are going back to 1994 this time to January 15th and it is time for WWF Superstars.  Like most of these shows, I have no idea what I will be seeing so let us get to it!

• Starting off with Flexy Lexy!
• BOOGER!  I love booger!
• Seriously I love Bastion Booger/Mike Shaw
• Guys like Booger are what is missing in wrestling. Now we do not get massive guys like Booger we get midgets like Marko Stunt
• Vince McMahon and his YES...NO call on a near fall, I miss that
• I love that they keep teasing the body slam, such great old school stuff to make the slam mean something
• Wow Flexy did not move when Booger charged the post like you expect
• Is this the best version of Vince?  I think so
• How great was Gorilla Monsoons voice?  
• I cannot imagine having to face the Headshrinkers
• DEAR LORD WHAT A DOUBLE BACKDROP!
• Bad Barry Horowitz!  Best enhancement performer?
• Weird, that armdrag was from the wrong side by Tatanka or it looked really weird
• Loss 5 million for Bad Barry
• 1994, I get see Jim Cornette on two companies shows...and that is not a bad thing!
• Wait...Virgil is going to get a squash match?  In 1994?  Really?
• Stan Lane did not say a word during that match
• The fans hated IRS but what a great performer.  I wonder why he never did any training...well that I know of
• Rest in Peace Gillberg!

A fun show with lots of memories of this time.  It was weird to see Virgil in 1994 as I do not really remember him much on TV at this point.  I think he shows up at the rumble filling in for Booger but that was about it.  I also do not remember Luger vs. Booger but that was a fun old school TV match.  The interviews though, a cocky young Double J was great and seriously I said this recently on the SMW review but is there a better person on the mic than the leader of the Cult himself Jim Cornette?  Throw in classic Vince McMahon on commentary and I had fun!

Results

• Lex Luger def. Bastion Booger
• Update:  Bret Hart & Owen Hart/Johnny Polo & Jacques and Pierre/Marty Jannetty & 1-2-3 Kid (WWF Tag Team Titles)
• Samu/Fatu def. Chaz Storm/Tony DeVito
• Face to Face:  Jeff Jarrett/Razor Ramon (Intercontinental Champion)
• Tatanaka def. Barry Horowitz
• Segment:  Undertaker & Paul Bearer
• Face to Face:  Yokozuna & Jim Cornette & Mr. Fuji
• Virgil def. Derec Domino via Submission
• Interview:  Shawn Michaels & Diesel/Bam Bam Bigelow/Jeff Jarrett/Crush/Adam Bomb/Rick Martel
• Royal Rumble Report:  Randy Savage/Billy Gunn & Bart Gunn//Marty Jannetty & 1-2-3 Kid (WWF Tag Team Titles)
• IRS def. Tony Roy
• Face to Face:  Crush/Randy Savage
• Undertaker def. Duane Gill

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)/

WWE Superstars for 11-4-12 reviews

I can't sleep tonight so I will take this time to review this weeks edition of WWE Superstars!

We start off with the Usos heading to the ring.  You know they are an important tag team when they don't even make it in the number one contenders tournament.  YES!  Matt Striker is at ringside.  He is my teacher and yours after all!  They are going to face off with Epico and Primo along with Rosa Mendes.  I am not a big fan of either of these teams but that is because we don't know anything about them really.  Josh Matthews just told us one of the Uso's added to their arm sleeve tattoo, just want wrestling needed more tattoos.  I will say that I dig the tag team moves of the Usos but the yelling of "USS", like their name, drives me crazy.  Once is okay but constantly doing it makes me cheer for the heels.  This match has probably drug on a little too long at this point.  Despite Epico and Primo being former tag champs the fans just don't care about these teams and it has been probably 10 minutes.  They ended it just in time in my opinion with the Usos hitting the old Headshrinkers flying splash.  I like the slow building of tag teams but will it still be around in a month?

Wow a really REALLY bad Survivor Series commercial starring the Miz and his "bucket list".  

Time for the Raw rebound which I won't recap as it was horrible the first time and not any better the fifth time!

Its time for some Brodus Clay and the Funkadactyles or however you would spell that are wearing much better outfits if you smell what the fat man is cooking!  He is taking on Michael McGillicutty who doesn't even have wrestling gear on.  Yeah the winner of this match isn't in question sadly.  Its amazing how much of his dad, Mr. Perfect, you see in his face.  Clay really just throwing McGillicutty around as I figured.  We come back from break and McGillicutty is working on the arm.  I'd like to say it is for his finisher but I have no clue what his finisher is!  I miss the bodyguard Brodus Clay...wow the fans are chanting "Feed me More" for Ryback during this match.  Not a good sign for the guys in the ring or that it happening while McGillicutty is in charge.  Clay is coming back and it is about over for MM and there is the splash.  Stick a fork in him he's done as Gorilla used to say.  Here come the kids to do the old JYD in ring dance party.

Time of the horrible Wrestlemania commercial that we'll have to see for the next six months and then a recap of Team Foley and Team Punk being put together for the Survivor Series....and that is it for Superstars this week.  Sadly no Scott Stanford