1994-03-05 USWA

 

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry.  We are going back to 1994 today, It's the 4th of July 2021 for me, to watch some USWA action!  

• This is a really bad copy but I am glad to have a copy at all
• OH MY GOD, I WANT THAT JINGLE FOR MY RINGTONE!  AMERICAS GREATEST SPORT!
• Lance is using the Macho Man's theme?  He does not dig it brother
• This song sucks
• Lance Russell was so good and natural
• What happened to Brian is very sad.  Gone way too soon
• I miss that crazy laugh
• King all dolled up today!
• Lawler with a brief shot there at WWF, interesting
• I love that the fans cheer Wolfie because he is a good guy.  The way it should be....even if I was not always that way 
• I love Lance arguing with people because he was the voice of the people at home

This was all about selling the Monday show.  Not worth watching unless you are going through the year like me.  

RESULTS

• Segment:  Past Openings for Memphis Memories
• Interview:  Lance Russell
• Interview:  Eddie Marlin
• Music Video:  Monday Memories by Jimmy Hart
• Interview:  Jimmy Valiant
• Music Video:  Jimmy Valiant
• Segment:  Brian Christopher
• Brian Christopher def. Skull Von Krush
• Interview:  Eddie Gilbert
• Segment:  Memphis Memories 
• Music Video:  Best of Memphis Match
• Interview:  Doug Gilbert & Eddie Gilbert
• History:  Jerry Lawler & Terry Funk
• Interview:  Jerry Lawler
• Music Video:  Austin Idol & Jerry Lawler
• HOF:  Sam Bass
• Music Video:  Sam Bass
• Koko B. Ware def. Wolfie D
• Segment:  Tommy Rich
• Phone Call:  Jimmy Hart
• Interview:  Doug Gilbert & Eddie Gilbert
• Interview:  Jerry Lawler & Brian Christopher
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1994-02-15 ECW Review

 

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you found this entry.  Today, 2020-10-12, we are getting into our way-back machine to watch ECW from 1994.  February 15h to be exact.  Thus far ECW 1994 has not impressed me thus far.  Will this episode be the episode to change my mind?

• ECW loved their music videos and they were good at them
• That DDT hurt Funk more than Douglas!
• Was this peak Sabu?  Before his body really gave out
• Mike Awesome was around more back at this point in ECW?
• Tod was hot!
• Damn Sheri was HOT HOT HOT!
• Wait...is this a match?
• I guess it is a match but who made it?
• Well, I guess it is not a match...or is it?
• Joey is a little over the top at times.  I like Joey but the yelling wears quickly
• Okay Joey brought it back a bit now from the last segment
• Uggg, Jason is so annoying in a Test/X-Pac get off my TV way
• Were the fans chanting rock and roll?
• That powerbomb looked like it was just pure strength
• What was with the old school Muta hand movements there Pitbull?
• This feels like an AEW match; going too long and no one cares because the teams are just random teams at this point
• I have to say this show is moving along fast, I am about halfway through and I am shocked so maybe that last match was not too long....or the Funk/Douglas stuff was really good
• Seriously Jason needs to get off my screen!
• I always liked Hughes for some reason, not sure why but I did.  Especially when he was a huge man like this
• Sandman in wrestling gear is so weird to me 
• Oh those damn SS tats
• The Harris Boys are tagging?  In ECW?
• How is that not a DQ?  HE IS USING A CHAIR!!!
• Is that Bill Apter at ringside?
• The Young Dragons are a hot new tag team?  Really Joey really?
• JESUS SULLIVAN MIGHT HAVE KILLED THAT DRAGON!
• How is this a match?
• This is like an old Nitro ending
• Did Johnny just steal a box of pens?

This show was better.  I did not hate it like I have other shows.  I liked most of the matches but the first tag match did drag just a bit.  I like that they had matches and then a few recaps keeping other storylines in our minds.  Paul E. could put a show together at times for sure.  

RESULTS

• Recap:  Terry Funk (ECW Champion)/Shane Douglas
• Music Video:  Three-Way Dance
• Interview:  Tod Gordon/Paul E. Dangerously
• Segment:  Shane Douglas/Sabu/911/Chad Austin
• Segment:  Paul E. Dangerously
• JT Smith/Tommy Cairo def. Rockin Rebel/Pitbull
• Segment:  Jason & Mr. Hughes
• Recap:  Jimmy Snuka & Tommy Dreamer
• Segment:  Jason
• Mr. Huges def. Hack Meyers
• Recap:  Sandman/Jason & Pitbull & Rockin Rebel
• Don Harris/Ron Harris def. Johnny Hot Body/Tony Stetson
• Kevin Sullivan/Tazmaniac (ECW Tag Team Champions) def. Young Dragon #1/Young Dragon #2)
• Segment:  Rocko Rock & Johnny Grunge

1994-02-12 SMW

 

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today, 2020-08-29, I am going back to Feb 12th 1994 and checking out SMW.  I am not keeping up with what is going on as, unfortunately, life keeps me from a steady diet of wrestling so no preview here just jumping on in!

• Where did Corny find those suits?
• Candido did a hell of a piledriver!
• I cannot imagine a match with these two teams!
• Basically the Southern Version of an ECW match
• It is so basic what they did to continue the feud between the RNR and Corny

Not a lot to say about this show.  A recap of all the storylines going into Sunday Bloody Sunday.  Until next time Abyssina!

RESULTS

• Recap:  Chris Candido & Tracey Smothers
• Segment:  Chris Candido
• Segment:  Tracey Smothers
• Music Video:  Bruiser Brothers
• Recap:  The Moondogs
• Segment:  Jim Cornette/Tammy Fitch & Chris Candido & Brian Lee
• Segment:  Mike Furnas & Doug Furnas
• Recap:  Jim Cornette & Ricky Morton
• Segment:  Terry Funk & Dory Funk Jr. 
• Interview:  The Bullet
• History:  Dirty White Boy & Brian Lee
• Segment. Ron White
• Highlights:  Dirty White Boy def. Brian Lee
• Tammy Finch def. Dirty White Girl
• Segment:  Dirty White Girl
• Segment:  Tammy Finch & Brian Lee
• Interview:  Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson/Dirty White Girl & Tracey Smothers & Dirty White Boy

Classic Wrestling Review: 1994-02-01 ECW

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today, 2020-04-03, we are going back to the beginning of February 1994 to check out the next edition of ECW TV.  Will we follow up on Paul Diamond and the devastating spiked piledriver?  Lets find out!

• Oh right, the Shiek is coming in to fight with Pat Tanaka...because...um....why not
• Now we know the first concussion that Mikey got, that first chair shot from the Taskmaster
• A tag in an ECW tag match?  Weird
• Did anyone take a better ass-kicking than Mikey?  Maybe the Mulkey Brothers
• Uggg, I hate those front row morons at the ECW Arena
• It is weird to see this good looking version of Tommy Dreamer.  I am used to the 1998+ version, more hardcore and beat up version
• Really nice Powerslam by Tommy!
• I love the GIANT headset that Joey is wearing.  
• Could Johnny wear those trunks any higher!
• What about the match that is happening?  Did I miss the pin?
• Look at Jason's horrible haircut
• Jason is annoying, and not in a good wrestling kind of way.  Very much in a I want to change the channel way
• This version of the Public Enemy is not that entertaining

Once again another blah show in my opinion.  The matches are not good typically and the interviews are not either.  I get that at the time they were very different than WCW or WWF but that does not mean good.  Maybe I am wrong but so far ECW has been my least favourite shows of 1994

RESULTS

• Music Video:  The Sheik
• Tazmaniac/Kevin Sullivan (ECW Tag Team Champions) def. Mikey Whipwreck/Keith Scherer
• Highlights:  Shane Douglas def. Tommy Dreamer
• Interview:  Shane Douglas
• Music Video:  Shane Douglas
• Johnny Hot Body def. Chad Austin
• Interview:  JT Smith  
• Interview:  Jason
• Interview:  Tod Gordon
• Interview:  Rockin Rebel
• Interview:  Tazmaniac/Kevin Sullivan (ECW Tag Team Champions)
• Interview:  Sandman/Jason
• Interview:  Paul E. Dangerously
• Segment:  Joey Styles/Matty in the House
• Segment:  Tod Gordon
• Segment:  Jason
• Segment:  Rocco Rock/Johnny Grunge
• 911 def. Duane Gill
• Segment:  Paul E. Dangerously
• Music Video:  Sabu & Shane Douglas & Terry Funk (ECW Champion)

Classic Wrestling Review: 1994-01-25 ECW

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry.  Tonight, 2020-03-26, we are going back over 20 years to 1994 once again.  We are going to the future ECW Arena to the 1994-01-25 ECW Hardcore TV show.  We will see Terry Funk taking on Pat Tanaka, Tommy Dreamer and the Public Enemy in action as well.  I will be honest I had not heard of ECW at this point back in the day so all of this is new to me.  So enough "talking" because it is time to get....

• Look at that headset Joey has!
• Wow, Joey taking shots at Vince and his lawsuit
• I had no idea Gillberg wrestled in ECW!
• I always forget that Rocco could wrestle
• I hate "Hat Guy" in ECW.  He was annoying as hell
• Wow that was an ugly finisher by Rocco
• Public Enemy were awful in these interviews
• Look at Tommy Dreamer here!  Good looking babyface....in three years he will not be that!
• Why is Joey yelling so much?
• I love the suspenders with no shirt look!
• Mikey don't call me Whipwreck Wippwreck making his debut!
• Mikey did an amazing job of getting his ass kicked!
• I am confused, are Tanaka and Diamond good guys or bad guys?
• Really?  Tanaka kicked out of Funk's piledriver?  
• Wait....so is Funk a bad guy?  I am so confused
• Is that suppose to be manhole cover?
• How is Sullivan not in the HoF?
• That was one of the ugliest spiked piledrivers I have ever seen

This show did not make me want to watch more ECW honestly.  Joey yelling, a confusing Funk/Tanaka/Sullivan angle.  Really bad Public Enemy promos.  Overall not a great show but there is always next week!

RESULTS

• Interview:  Rocco Rock & Johnny Grunge/Tod Gordon
• Rocco Rock/Johnny Grunge def. Don E. Allen/Duane Gill
• Interview:  Tod Gordon/Rocco Rock & Johnny Grunge
• Tommy Dreamer def. Dr. Disaster
• Upcoming Show:  Tommy Ciaro & Sandman/Kevin Sullivan & Tazmaniac (ECW Tag Team Champions)
• Mr. Hughes def. Mikey Wippwreck
• Upcoming Show:  Mr. Hughes & Jason
• Interview:  Terry Funk (ECW Champion)
• Terry Funk (ECW Champion) def. Pat Tanaka for the Title
• Interview:  Paul E. Dangerously & 911
• Paul Diamond/Pat Tanaka def. Tazmaniac/Kevin Sullivan (ECW Tag Team Champions)  
• Segment:  Pat Tanaka

Classic Wrestling Review: 1994-01-18 ECW

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever you found this entry.  Today, 2020-02-08 I am checking out the 1994-01-18 ECW show.  I have no clue what is going on in ECW at this point as I did not follow ECW till near the end.  So lets go to the ring and find out what is going on!

• How amazing was Sherri, both in talent and looks
• It is weird they have Hawk in their promo/intro and WCW is using him to promote their merchandise catalogue
• A special 90-minute episode?  Nice
• Terry Funk is fantastic.  Think about it he shows up in SMW, ECW and WCW in 1994.  How great is that!
• I like that Terry is being positive about Shane, not yelling and screaming how he is going to beat him up.  Very real sports interview back in the day
• I would tweet a picture to Taz of him back in the day but I do not want him to come beat me up!
• Love Dreamers suspenders!
• Look at that young white meat babyface in Dreamer.  What happened to you Tommy?  Oh right ECW
• Those ropes look really loose
• Why is Sullivan not in the HOF?
• Even back when it was Eastern Championship Wrestling there were no rules?  THAT WAS A LOW BLOW!
• It is weird to see Nancy at ringside.  It will be weirder when I get to shows with Benoit on it I think
• I wonder what Taz thinks when he sees Tazmaniac matches
• Nice to see some wrestling on ECW as when I was watching it was more brawling
• It is weird that Tanaka is a babyface
• Johnny deserves this, he blew it.  Sullivan and Taz would not lose!
• Look at that headset!
• Sexiest Man on Earth?  Really?  That is like me saying I am the fittest man on Earth
• Look at Jason's mullet!  AWESOME!
• Old School Sandman in trunks is weird!
• Good grief this segment is taking forever and it horrible!
• Seriously whoever thought having Jason do voiceovers should be caned by the Sandman or given chair shots by Balls Mahoney!
• I did not know Eastern Championship Wrestling had a wrestling school
• Two of the best in 1994
• Lost in this match, a good old school match that you just watch and enjoy!
• Never wanted to be a ref so much in my life right now
• I miss Paul on commentary.  The fact that WWE is not using him is sad
• Slow count by the ref here near the end, is he blown up?
• Wait...did Shane just win?  
• A second continuation?  Typical ECW Overbooking
• Are we going to see a time limit draw?  4 minutes left
• Sherri going right after Axl and he just stopped her!  GOOD GOD WHAT A HORRIBLE PERSON!

A good show minus the Jason segment.  They should have aired one of the match highlighted in that segment with Jason on commentary instead of what seeming took forever.  The main event was an excellent match and I lost track of how good it was.  If you like Terry Funk check this match out.  Until next time....Abysinia!

RESULTS

• Segment:  Shane Douglas & Sherri Martel
• Music Video:  ECW Stars
• Segment:  Terry Funk (ECW Champion)
• Tommy Dreamer/Pat Tanaka/Paul Diamond def. Johnny Hotbody/Kevin Sullivan/Tazmaniac (ECW Tag Team Champions)
• Segment:  Shane Douglas & Sherri Martel
• Music Video:  Shane Douglas
• Segment:  Paul E. Dangerously
• 911 def. Chad Austin
• Interview:  Jason
• Segment:  Shane Douglas & Sherri Martel
• Terry Funk (ECW Champion) and Shane Douglas fought to a Time Limit Draw for the Title