Hi Scott:
Just in case you had an extra $7500US you didn't know how to spend:
- Ben
You know, the really sad thing is that those are REPLICA belts, not the real thing. I wonder if Barry Darsow would play a round of golf or repo your car for you as a part of the price, too?
- So this is it for WWE 24/7, as the plug gets pulled by Sasktel at midnight and this will be my last rant (winner of a poll on the blog). I'll stuff as much as I can in here before it's gone, though.
So tomorrow is the last day for 24/7 as Sasktel’s new channel lineup takes effect on April 30, and oddly enough they updated 24/7 tonight, one day before it departs. Weird.
Anyway, here’s what’s currently available to me, as the question becomes “What’s the last show/match I review on the channel tomorrow night before it goes away at midnight?”
- Film Room featuring Jack Brisco.
- Assorted Gorilla Monsoon matches and the Hall of Fame special (already watched it last time he was up on the Hall of Fame section, nothing special)
- A Diesel Coliseum video from 1995 (runs about an hour, not sure if it’s complete matches or not, probably not). Matches listed include Diesel v. Owen Hart, Jeff Jarrett, Shawn Michaels, King Kong Bundy and Bret Hart.
- “Large and in charge matches” including Brock Lesnar v. Big Show from Survivor Series (Show wins the belt), Kevin Nash v. Sid Vicious from Nitro in 2000 (Nash wins the belt, I think), The Bashams v. Rikishi & Scotty from Smackdown in 2004 (2 Cool wins the belts), Natural Disasters v. Money Inc. from Wrestling Challenge in 1992 (Disasters win the belts).
- ECW TV September 24 1996
- World Class June 25 1983
- WWE No Mercy 2004 (JBL v. Undertaker in the “last ride” match for the title, horrendous PPV that I’ll repost if people REALLY want to read about it again).
- MSG April 30 1990 (Hulk v. Quake, Dibiase v. Bossman)
- MSG September 25 1985 (Andre v. Bundy in the Colossal Jostle. Already did this one in the early days of having the channel, will repost if people want.)
Buddy Rose this time.
http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/9146/
Unfortunately his legacy will probably end up being stuff like Blow Away and his later years as a comedy wrestler, but the Rockers feud had some hellaciously good matches and I always enjoyed his work.
RIP.
I don’t think it’s any huge secret that House hasn’t been setting the world on fire this season, especially with the stupidity of Kumar’s suicide a few episode ago, but the re-addition of Amber (albeit as crazy House’s subconscious) has re-energized things, at least for one episode. “A House Divided” instantly ranks as one of my favorites, from the wild bachelor party (“Ever see Caligula?”) to Chase’s “reluctant” participation to an interesting Patient of the Week for once…fabulous stuff. I still don’t think the Emmy is ever gonna go Hugh Laurie’s way, but episodes like this one make good bait for it.
I caught Backlash in the theater tonight rather than ordering the PPV, and it ended up being a hell of show, actually. Full rant to come later in the week, but here’s my initial impressions and ratings:
- Christian d. Jack Swagger to win the ECW title with the Killswitch / Unprettier. Solid stuff with Swagger doing the Lesnar-ish power matwork for the majority of the match, and Christian being smart enough to time his comebacks properly. Good finish with both guys pulling off the turnbuckle at the same time, and Swagger missing a charge to set up the Killswitch. ***1/4
- Edge and Christian finally had their long-awaiting meeting backstage after Christian wins the title, and this has gotta lead to something, right?
- Chris Jericho d. Ricky Steamboat with the Walls of Jericho in a match that was pretty good for what it was, but still kind of sad. I wanted more chops and Steamboat was trying to work a modern match, and it didn’t work as well as he probably would have wanted. They still managed to get in the skin the cat spot and bodyslam reversal from WM3 (which the announcers totally missed after referencing that match for the whole time), but I don’t think it ended up being quite what they wanted. I was pretty happy with it, all things considered. **1/2
- Kane d. CM Punk with the chokeslam. Better than expected, with Punk working the arm in between bumping for Kane, and it had a hot finish with Punk throwing all sorts of kicks and a spinning backfist before Kane caught a high kick and finished him clean. Since Punk went over on RAW this was the usual expected even-steven booking.
- Jeff Hardy d. Matt Hardy in the “I Quit” match in another one that was good but not up to the level you’d expect from two brothers. In particular the finish was really overdone, with Jeff duct-taping Matt to a table and then tying him up with rope before having a family discussion with him. Matt quit rather than suffer the legdrop off the ladder, but then Jeff did it anyway. Kind of slow most of the way and focused on fighting for the figure-four and stuff. ***
- Santina d. Beth Phoenix to defend the Miss Wrestlemania crown in a total trainwreck involving Great Khali and a wacky misunderstanding about an alleged affair between Santina and JR. Whole lot of stupid time-killer here.
- Randy Orton/Ted Dibiase/Cody Rhodes d. HHH/Shane McMahon/Batista to give Orton the WWE title when Orton pinned HHH after the punt. This started weird with Orton seemingly abandoning his team to leave them 3-on-2, but once he returned to the match it turned into a hell of a deal, with Shane getting the heat and the crowd going nuts for it. They went long (about 20 minutes) and built and built to the hot tag, with HHH wanting to control his own destiny, and he ended up getting distracted by Batista wielding a chair and get RKO’d and punted to lose the title. Great stuff here with Shane rocking the old school tag team finishers, Batista mouthing off at the Legacy (“Don’t worry, you’re next!”) and a super hot crowd. ****
- Edge d. John Cena by KO to win the World title in the Last Man Standing match. As good as the six-man was, this topped it with hard work and the usual crazy reactions from Cena crowds. They kept throwing big moves at each other and neither would go down until it was 20 minutes in and the place is going crazy for them, wondering what it’s going to take to keep someone down. The answer: Big Show chokeslamming Cena through a giant spotlight by the ramp. Yeah, that would do it. Say what you want about Cena, he brings the goods and fires up crowds. ****1/2
So a definite strong thumbs up, absolutely check out the replay here.
(Edit: Thinking about a bit, I lowered the six-man a bit and raised the Last Man Standing because I definitely liked the Edge-Cena match better)
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Scott,
I've been reading your stuff for over a decade - including all of your books - and when we started this wrestling discussion show, The Wrestling Roundtable, nearly a year and a half ago you were nice enough to give us a plug on your blog. I'm wondering if you'd be generous enough to do it again as our biggest show segment to date is online right now, a discussion of the topic Women In Wrestling, and joining us on the panel is Ring Of Honor & Shimmer womens wrestler, Daizee Haze. It's a good discussion, and I'd hope that your readers, whose comments I'm always checking underneath your post, might be interested in watching/joining the discussion. Thanks a lot for your time :http://www.youtube.com/user/WrestlingRoundtable
Good luck!
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Primetime Wrestling - February 11 1988
- OK, so apparently THIS is the last Primetime. So sue me.
- Your hosts are Gorilla & Bobby. Bobby wants to talk about what happened on the Main Event, but it was during the "gag order" period after the show where everything was taped beforehand and Vince wasn't telling anyone the finish, so Gorilla prevents him from talking.
The Princess SmackDown Rant (and her personal DVD) for April 24, 2009
The temperatures in Central Florida will be approaching 90 degrees so if I don’t get this done tonight I won’t until Sunday because I’m beaching it up this weekend.
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Maple Leaf Gardens - August 18 1985
- Taped from Toronto, ON
- Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon & Jesse Ventura
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