Comments on: Survivor Series 93

By: Darryl The Hitman

Darryl The Hitman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:53:48 +0000

It might be a fine set but it isn’t available until sometime next year, I guess?

By: Joe Kerr

Joe Kerr — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:39:23 +0000

As a 10 year old watching the event live I thought it was a pretty good PPV, yet was bored as hell of the SMW Tag Title match mainly because I didn’t know any of the teams and of course the Doink match was crap.

But the Knight match was a huge let down. Like you I was expecting the Knights to be somewhat ‘big’ names and thought the Harts were going to unmask them and show everyone who they really were (Bret made a comment like that in the interview before the match). Other than that I enjoyed the opening match and was going nuts for the Undertaker parts in the main event. Again I was 10, so sue me, haha.

By: red29

red29 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:11:09 +0000

Sidebar: Survivor Series Volume 3 is going to be ‘97, ‘98, ‘99, ‘00, and ‘01 (Invasion “payoff”).

That is a pretty awesome set. Especially because ‘01 is a pretty tough DVD to find ($30 used? Meh).

By: se7en62

se7en62 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:54:34 +0000

“Don’t hit him in the head- he’s a Hart!”

Bobby never showed anyone in that family any mercy.

By: se7en62

se7en62 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:53:22 +0000

I don’t know if he did for the match, or if it was just when he came out on Superstars and they announced he was replacing Tatanka. What was really sweet is that it was the old school 13 star american flag inside his coat in what is probably the coolest thing on the short list of subtle touches the WWF ever did.

Of course, once they brought in Kane and told the background story of the Undertaker it didn’t make any sense at all, but then there wasn’t much of the Kane/Undertaker back story that made any sense, really.

By: strummer

strummer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:36:06 +0000

as Scott mentioned in the RAW rants leading up to the show the WWF hyped the shit out of his PPV and me and my friends/cousins were *majorly* psyched for it back in 1993. And we were totally disappointed. Not that this is a real bad show or anything but the WWF was basically promising an all time event here and just delivered run of the mill stuff

I remember being particularly disappointed in the Harts/Shawn match as we expected big name guys underneath the Knights masks and thought something big was going to go down

all the bullshit eliminations in the main event didn’t help either

Heenan, of course, is the MVP of the show. The line about Helen/Stu’s Bruins jacket still kills me to this day. People always mention Rumble 92 but his performance here is only a tad below that in quality entertainment terms

By: Joe Kerr

Joe Kerr — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:04:18 +0000

Agreed that was some of Heenan’s best work. Of course absolutely nothing would ever top his work in the 1992 Royal Rumble. That was just classic stuff from the opening match to the ending interview with Flair and Perfect.

By: Haha555

Haha555 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:28:02 +0000

There are some matches which need to get an extra star for commentary when reviewing them. The Harts/Knights match should be **1/2 as Heenan “carried” that match. Whoever has not seen that match needs to see it just for Heenan.

By: Darryl The Hitman

Darryl The Hitman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:23:28 +0000

Don’t know but here’s an extended version from a different site:

During last night’s Iron Man match at Bragging Rights, a spot where John Cena got busted open caused a lot of commotion backstage.

The incident happened when Randy Orton hit Cena with the corner of a microphone. Vince McMahon ordered Cena to be cleaned up immediately after seeing the blood. WWE’s John Laurinaitis along with trainers rushed to ringside to clean him up, as WWE currently has a very strict “no blood” policy as part of their TV-PG programming initiative.

With their first attempt, Cena wasn’t aware what they intended to do so he played babyface and mounted offence against Randy Orton. The cut was finally glued shut and cleaned up after the next fall.

Cena and Orton were scheduled to work among the crowd and WWE wanted to ensure there was no health issue with a bloody wrestler among fans. If it were to have happened, the issue would have been taken seriously by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission and likely used as more ammunition against Linda McMahon’s senate campaign.

As the blood was unplanned, WWE decided to stop the clock during the bout as it wasn’t known how long the clean up operation on Cena would take.

By: johnson316

johnson316 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:20:05 +0000

“It’s also believed the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission could have taken issue with the blood.”

Why do State Commissions have any involvement with Pro Wrestling, sorry, Sports Entertainment nowadays?