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: 1994-01-22 WCWSN

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today, 2020-02-13, we are going back in time to 1994 to watch the Jan 22nd edition.  We are building to the Clash of the Champions and I am sure we will hear from Flair and Sting at least.  Enough talk its time to build that WCWSN cyborg!

• I love this version of Missy, I think I say that every time we see her
• Why is Missy wearing jeans, it looks weird
• They are really letting Starr shine
• CLUBBERING!!!!
• If it taking the Nastys this long to beat Oates and Starr they have no chance against Cactus and Maxx
• Listen to the crowd!  They are hot to trot!
• He is on every show, it is like his dad in charge or something!
• Seriously I would have Dustin on every show too because he is one of the best they have
• Why is Dustin getting 15 minutes?  TV Title time limit is supposed to 10.  Obviously, someone is out against his Lordship
• Another great Rhodes match!
• He does NOT speak for me Mean Gene
• TC was a hell of a bumper
• Ron Simmons is the mystery partner!
• We will see Ron Simmons with a cigar a lot in the future
• Is Steel trying to be Jimmy Snuka?
• Look at Bob's hair!
• The Thesz Press is a horrible looking move.  I mean...um....well it looks like they are having sex!
• Really?  Vader is talking about Flair's wife?
• Burton and Scorpio were not in sync there
• Was Austin drunk?  He was making weird faces during the entrance but also during he interview earlier
• What is up with the good guys and their weird long-delayed entrance
• That was the highest reverse atomic drop I have ever seen by Rude and the Boss!
• I think the way the Boss went over the top is one of my favorite bumps
• Sting with a Ron Simmons style powerslam to the man himself

Strangely as I went to post this I did not put any notes of my thoughts for the show so it is just the results!

RESULTS

• Brian Knobbs/Jerry Sags (WCW Tag Team Champions) def. Ron Oates/Mark Starr
• Segment:  Col. Robert Parker
• Interview:  Ric Flair (WCW Champion)
• Dustin Rhodes def. Ricky Tango
• Interview:  Dustin Rhodes
• WCW Control Center
• Segment:  Shanghai Pierce
• Ron Simmons def. TC Carter
• Segment:  Ice Train/Ron Simmons
• Interview:  Col. Robert Parker & Steve Austin (WCW US Champion)
• Jim Steel def. Bob Starr
• Vader def. Al Philips
• Interview:  Vader & Harley Race/Rick Rude (International Champion)
• Marcus Alexander Bagwell/Too Cold Scorpio def. Bill Payne/Tom Burton
• Interview:  Brian Pillman
• Ric Flair/Sting/The Boss def. Rick Rude (International Champion)/Ron Simmons/Steve Austin (WCW US Champion)

2020-01-03 ROH Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you found this entry.  Today, 2020-02-13, we are going back to the first of the year to check out the first ROH show of 2020.  I have not followed ROH steadily so it will be interesting to see what we have.  Let us go to the ring now!

• Man the ROH title is almost as ugly as the AEW title
• What is that with Kenny King....is she part fish?
• Why do so many wrestling shows have sex/dick pill commercials
• Man I love Silas
• Black looks like Bo Dallas!
• Draper is the 2019 Top Prospect?  Really?
• Nice Belly to Back by Ali, I mean picture perfect
• Listen to that massive crowd of like 20 people responding
• Good grief what is what wrestlers and their goof faces these days?
• Really?  Wasteland is your finisher?  Weak finisher and it always has been
• Is Lethal morphing into 2 Cold Scorpio?
• I do like Brian Zane
• I like Jeff Cobb and I wonder if WWE has given him a call
• I like Marty at first but his gimmick wore out pretty quickly for me
• Why was Marty outside the ring or so long?
• If that does not finish the match nothing can
• The young lady left side of the hard camera does not look like she is enjoying herself at all
• This match is going way too long

Honestly, that show was not that good.  The main event went through three segments and should have been cut in a third.  Draper and Ali were okay but again too long.  A LOT of PCO which is okay I guess since he is the pushed monster at the moment.  But, if I can be honest, I was bored.  The entire time I was bored waiting to write this and watch something else.  Not a great re-introduction to ROH let us hope it gets better in the future!

RESULTS

• Segment:  PCO wins the ROH Title
• Segment:  PCO (ROH Champion & (ROH 6 Man Champion)) & Marty Scurll (ROH 6 Man Champion) & Flip Gordon & Brody King/RUSH & Kenny King & Dragon Lee
• Segment:  Josh Woods & PJ Black/Silas Young/Brian Johnson
• Dak Draper def. Shaheem Ali
• Video Recap:  Vincent & Matt Taven
• Recap:  ROH Unauthorized
• Segment: Brian Johnson & PJ Black
• Segment:  Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham (ROH Tag Team Champions)
• Top 5:  Final Battle
• Marty Scurll (ROH 6 Man Champion)/PCO (ROH Champion & ROH 6 Man Champion) def. Jeff Cobb/Dan Maff 

Classic Wrestling Review: 1994-01-22 USWA

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you found this entry.  Today, 2020-02-13,  I am going into the way back machine again this time to Jan 22nd, 1994 and going now to Memphis for some USWA action.  I have a feeling we will see at least one Lawler if not more!  Perhaps a Gilbert or two as well!  So lets go down for some old school territory WRESTLING!

• Koko, Gilberts, Lawlers and Skull Von Krush!  What a show!
• Oh right I forgot about Big Business Brown
• Triple B looks very awkward in that shirt and tie.  Probably should have a jacket on if you are "Big Business"
• Del Rios has a great body but horrible gear
• He pulled his ear hair!  I SAW IT DAVE BROWN!
• SABU IS HERE!  Oh, wait never mind it is a weird wizard of some kind.  
• The Great Mephisto was the wizard...okay that was strange
• Seriously?  He was shot?
• I wonder where Eddie would be right now had his "demons" not caught up with him.  
• What is with Anthony's gloves?
• Eddie has a point, you cannot go over the top rope, its a DQ!
• I wonder if this is before or after Gaylord attacked Eddie in the GWF, I assume after
• Jeff, of course, is well known for a series of bank robberies in Colorado years later
• Triple B should learn you do not actually choke them on the ropes, you pull them down on the ropes to choke them
• He picked that chain up AFTER the match.  This is horrible!
• Look at those trunks Brian has on!  Nothing says mid-90's then that
• Does Lawler ever age?
• Ah you gotta love live TV
• More Great Mephisto stuff?
• I love that Koko is still in his High Energy gears several years later
• Koko being very aggressive.  Not the Birdman we remember
• Did Koko just say Jap?  WOW!

Lawler can just talk you into the arena!  I want to go watch this Texas Deathmatch!  Brian was not that bad either.  You throw in some great Eddie talking and a solid Del Rios match and this was a fun show.  Again the USWA shows were all about getting you to come to the big Monday show each week but when it was good it was good.  The Great Mephisto is so weird.   Also what is up with Koko repeatedly saying Jap?  Very odd!

RESULTS

• Interview:  Skull Von Krush & Big Business Brown
• Skull Von Krush def. Del Rios
• Interview:  Del Rios & Bert Prentice
• Interview:  Eddie Gilbert
• Jeff Gaylord/Mike Anthony (WING Jr. Heavyweight Champion) def. Doug Gilbert/Eddie Gilbert via DQ
• Segment:  Eddie Gilbert
• Segment:  Ron Harris & Don Harris/Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson (SMW Tag Team Champions)
• Segment:  Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson (SMW Tag Team Champions)
• Interview:  Eddie Gibert & Doug Gilbert 
• Segment:  The Great Mephisto
• Brian Christopher def. Wolfie D via DQ
• Segment:  Eddie Gilbert
• Interview:  Brian Christopher & Jerry Lawler
• Segment:  The Great Mephisto & PT Steele
• Koko B. Ware def. Tony Williams
• Interview:  Wolfie D & Big Business Brown
• Interview:  Koko B. Ware

Critters Attack: A Hungry Movie Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  Tonight, 2020-04-17, I finally got around to checking out last years Critters Attack flick.  This series is really the only horror series to give me constant nightmares, occasionally to this day.  Something about those furballs with blood-red eyes that get to me still!  Currently, it has 3.7/10 on IMDB with
1,527 votes.  I know Dee Wallace is back as her character from the first flick and that is about it so enough talk, I am hungry as a crite for more critters!!

• Apparently, this is a TV movie and that makes a little sad
• Starting off with the old horror trope of tripping when running away nice
• Of course, the cop is a jerk
• Why is the cop keeping his booze in a flask in his own home?
• A buffet for ALF!
• Really overpowering music thus far in the flick
• Mmmm, sushi
• Outdoor Dougie....good grief!
• What college has a security gate?
• Cassette?  Who the fuck makes and still has a cassette player?  When is this suppose to take place?
• Who knows the words to a college fight song?
• Who tells random strangers their life stories?
• Good grief this girl is more awkward than the gatekeeper
• Is that Outdoor Dougie?
• Or Backpack Doug as IMDB calls him
• The sound mixing is really bad on this flick
• So they are like Aliens now that they lay their eggs inside people, interesting
• They also now sound like Predators, weird
• They did a good job of making the crites look the same creepy way they did before
• So they just looked confused until attacked, look at them, they are creepy looking, assume they want to kill you, I would
• I cannot believe the same writer who wrote this also did Happy Death Day, which was actually well written
• The dialogue is awful in this flick, like TV movie bad....oh wait yeah it is
• Was it a baby crite?
• Oh, of course, it will be the one good crite
• Yeah...probably not a good idea to go to the ranger station
• Did they use the same models from the 2nd flick?  That was the bald one right?
• OH MY THE WIFI IS DOWN!
• Is the power out too?
• Oh shit, Aunt Dee has a PKE meter for Crites!
• So no one in towns knows Aunt Dee's story?
• Or of the town that was attacked by aliens twice?
• Wait sirens make the crites explode now?
• How are you going to be back?  
• Holy Shit there are hundreds of them 
• He is twelve?  Really?
• They have not shot anyone with their quills yet
• Also, how is Aunt Dee missing all this?
• A lot of walking for an alien outbreak
• He has to take his shirt off to run incredibly fast?
• "Its the Monster Ball" -Selena
• Really they brought the giant critter ball back?
• This is not a good pep talk Drea
• If this vans a rocking that means we are a eatin
• So they saw a giant ball of them eat a guy completely and they are going to stop and fight?
• Did they forget how to shoot quills?
• Did she just bitch slap that crite?
• What was the point of having Aunt Dee in this flick?
• The Queen?  Is she going to kill Bianca?
• When did Aunt Dee become a Bounty Hunter?  Why not just have drunk Charlie do it
• Also, where is the main bounty hunter guy, he should be here.  I need Jean Valjean in this flick!
• So the quills do nothing in this flick
• Why wait to start shooting?

Well, that was a movie for sure.  I give it a 5/10  I feel like it was the victim of really bad editing.  It had the groundwork of a good flick.  The story of an invasion and the queen coming to stop them is not bad.  You also had the story of the kids fighting to stay alive and tell everyone.  But you had the weird sushi storyline that went nowhere and the Uncle blamed himself storyline that just did not fit.  Overall if you like the Critters flicks you have to watch this one.  If you want an okay flick this is not a bad way to spend 90 minutes, plus it was better than #4!  I would be interested in hearing a directors commentary on some of the choices made for sure.  Oh, I forgot to say the main acting from the core group of young people was really good!  Drea especially considering some of the dialog was not great.