Supertape Volume 3 Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever you found this entry.  Today I am watching an old Coliseum Home Video tape, Supertape 3.  These tapes were put out monthly back in the day.  I loved renting these back in the day so lets see if I enjoy it as much today!

• Gotta love some Mr. Perfect!
• Sad we do not get to see Bobby with Perfect
• How proud did Perfect look locking that sleeper in...it was...well the perfect look
• I love that rolling neck snap of Perfect
• I miss Perfect, can you imagine how good he would be at the performance center?
• I always like Barbie for some reason, not sure why.  Especially liked him as part of the Faces of Fear in WCW
• A lot of playing to the crowd here, you can tell it was a house show
• Strange, they had Barbie use the ropes to win, guess it keeps Snuka strong in the eyes of the locals
• Future Tag Team Champions the Natural Disasters going one on one
• I hated this single for Quake
• GOOD GOD A RUNNING DROPKICK FROM QUAKE!
• Tugboats dropkick was not an impressive
• Nice way to keep both strong and have a really good match
• I know everyone says that Demolition was just LOD clones but I never felt that way.  Similar yes but clones no.  
• Also, I always like Demolition better!
• Especially Ax and Smash, one of my favourite teams that I hope will go into the Hall of Fame soon!
• LOD broke up the Demolition Decapitator!  That is rare
• This match makes me think of the Wrestlefest arcade game...man I would love to own that bad boy!
• I feel like Ax and Smash are overlooked as performers.  They were so smooth and could wrestler or brawl so well
• I hated when they changed Demolitions music
• Demolition was not the same without Ax in my opinion
• Will this be two LOD matches where Hawk does not go into the ring post?  I will believe it when I see it!
• Animal has a great powerslam.  It is Dustin Rhodes or Ron Simmons but it is damn good
• I think that Paul Roma is a classic underachiever in wrestling, had the looks, a decent promo but never got very far in the WWF.  Had a decent run in WCW as a tag team man but never stood out too far
• Interesting to see Roma use Davey Boy Smith/Warlords finisher
• Why did Herc not react at all to the backslide?  It is almost like he knew it was not over
• I love that Hercules is "shaking" the ropes while Roma puts his feet on them
• Weird to see Gorilla and Bobby at ringside but not doing the announcing
• Two of my favourites here with DiBiase and Boss Man
• Sorry I did not "Say" anything during that match, I was just enjoying it!
• Double Mr. Perfect on this tape...yes please!
• Heenan is at ringside too!
• How much piss do you think Jake drank before heading to the ring?  One bottle?  Two?

Good matches but my favourite was easily Boss Man and DiBiase.  Two of my favourites in good action but honestly no bad matches here.  From a time where there were men who were wrestlers not kids and you almost believed or could easily forget and get caught up.  When was the last time that happened nowadays?

Results

• Mr. Perfect def. Texas Tornado (Intercontinental Champion) via countout for the Title
• Barbarian def. Jimmy Snuka
• Tugboat def. Earthquake via DQ
• Hawk/Animal/Ultimate Warrior (WWF Champion) def. Ax/Smash/Crush
• Segment:  Hawk/Animal
• Hawk/Animal def. Smash/Crush
• Segment:  Call of the Action
• Paul Roman def. Marty Jannetty 
• Ted DiBiase def. Big Boss Man via DQ
• Segment:  Outrageous Hits
• Jake Roberts def. Mr. Perfect (Intercontinental Champion) via DQ for the Title

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)/

1990-11-11 Challenge Review

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, whenever it is you have found this blog.  This entry is another wrestling review and we are going into our way-back machine to 1990.  This was the year I got into pro wrestling and we are going to November 11th.  We are on the march to the Survivor Series at this point.  I have no idea what we will see but it should be Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan which means I will be entertained!  Enough guess lets go to the tape (mp4)!

• Oh yeah, this is when Bobby Heenan was bashing Boss Mans mom, great angle because it felt like something The Brain would do
• I would be lying if I did not say how much I loved this era of wrestling.  I know most people hated the early 90s but I loved them!
• Black Bart was a great hand as they say in wrestling.  Excellent in the territories and believable as a threat to a stars
• However, in this match, these two sure started off poorly
• Bart was such a throwback even in 1990
• Love that he used something other than the big splash and I miss these squash matches!
• Look how young Dustin is!  Also, how is it he looks almost the same nearly 30 years later!
• Dusty is in pretty good shape for 1990, I remember him much bigger
• Here comes Mr. Perfect!  He would be one of the biggest stars behind the scene if Curt was still alive.  I miss the Perfect One
• Shelton did not hip toss Perfect, he just went over on his own he is that good
• And now my favourite tag team Demolition!  That really is the perfect team!
• Oh, I miss the giant egg, we need more of this in wrestling!  
• Love that patch of hair on Slaughters forehead
• I miss these slower type matches.  30 seconds in now we would have 10 flips and 15 superkicks!
• Weird to see Sgt throw a dropkick
• What does it say when Kerry Von Erich is the most well-spoken on a team!
• Do you think Hawk will say.....weeeeellll
• Why does Warrior have his back to the camera
• Wait...Hawk did NOT say it?  I am so confused and scared
• I am surprised Rick Martel still is not in the Hall of Fame.  
• Also weird to think he only held the tag titles
• How long did Tito and Martel feud?  Are they still feuding now?
• Weird to see both wearing white trunks
• Maybe Martel is wearing those baby blue trunks, it is a transfer from VHS
• Ah yes, blind Jake Roberts.  Now he is just blind after drinking piss since he is the piss drinking champion of the world! 
• I hate Jake but he has a great voice
• Bunkhouse Brawl?  In the WWF?  So weird
• Did Roddy Piper feud with Earthquake?  Also, I miss Pipers interviews
• Uggg, how horrible was Saba Simba
• That kid LOVED Simbas music!
• I wonder what Tony Atlas thought when they came to him with that headdress and spear
• I love that Gorilla reminds me of my Grandpa, I think that is why we all loved Gorilla so much

I love these old shows.  It was all about getting the stars over and getting the fans to the arena.  I wonder if in 20 years people will look back at Michael Cole and company as fondly as we do Gorilla and Bobby and Jesse Ventura.  I hope so.  

This show was what you would expect, all about the survivor series...and randomly Saba Simba!  The Egg, the teams, the feuds.  It was great that they could build-up for months to see what happens with these guys.  Now three weeks and the feud is over and onto the next guy typically.  Looking at what they did with Strowman and Rollins and probably Rollins and Wyatt.  

Overall enjoyable for what it was.  The memories were great and if you watched it back in time you probably really enjoyed.  I still did now!