Scott's Blog of Doom

My my, you folks just keep surprising me with some of these results.  I was waiting until I had decisive results in as many races as possible before I called it a round, but one race just refused to die.  Finally it became apparent that the losing team just wasn’t going to catch up, so I closed the polls and called it for the surprise winners.  To the results…

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship VIII: David v. Goliath!

- Live from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

- Your hosts are Bruce Beck, Don Wilson and Jeff Blatnick.

- Thankfully, time limits have been reduced to 10 minutes for the tournament and 15 for the Superfight this time. And now we have judges in case it goes to the time limit, although thankfully not Cecil Peoples. They hype up Brazilian Joe Moreira as the big thing for this tournament, but the real breakout star is of course someone else entirely…

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Uh oh, the injury bug bites again, as The Young Stallions were tragically caught in the running of the bulls and trampled to death.  My original subs were Too Cool, but then Brian Christopher got caught at the border and detained, so we had a last minute change to put the current tag champs into the tournament…

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A couple of more upsets and close races this time, but nothing that went down to the wire.

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I know it's been out there for a while, but finally found it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9hVL258HKQ
Bizarre promo ranting about being a 16-time champ (no wait,  21-time
champ, yeah!) and taking Hogan's ex-wife and girlfriend.  OK...if
Flair insists on doing this type of promo, can I at least insist that
he gets some hair plugs to at least make himself respectable in a Hugh
Hefner kind of way?

 

I think Flair should read from Hogan’s book in his promo voice.  It would be AWESOME.

Polls close at 11:59PM Monday night, so get voting!

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A couple of very close, and a couple of pretty surprising results to start us out here. 

- Barry Windham & Mike Rotundo (60%) d. The Powers of Pain (29%). 

- The Steiner Brothers (94%) d. The Filthy Animals (5%).  Thanks for showing up, guys.

- Unbelievably, Steen/Generico and the Smoking Gunns garnered the exact same number of votes, so they do the old double pin spot and I flip a coin to send the Gunns to the next round with 39% of the vote. 

- Doom (69%) d. The Sheepherders (16%).  I thought this would be closer since I specified the Sheepherders and not the Bushwackers, but the people have spoken.

- The Rockers (81%) squash The Briscoe Brothers (15%).  Maybe I should have left Benoit/Jericho in there after all?

- The Rock N Sock Connection (71%) d. AMW (26%).  Another surprise to me, as I thought teamwork would win over star power, but I guess not.

- Demolition (54%) d. The Rock N Roll Express (43%).  This one started as a massacre by the Demos, but the RNR gained momentum all through the day.  They just couldn’t pull it out, however.

- The Road Warriors (87%) d. The APA (8%). 

So for our next round later this week, that’ll give us:

- Windham & Rotundo v. The Steiner Brothers

- Smoking Gunns v. Doom

- Rockers v. Rock N Sock

- Demolition v. The Road Warriors

Stay tuned tonight as I post the voting brackets for the Eddie Gilbert division!

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OK, after taking into account requests in the previous thread, I’ve subbed in a few popular choices and subbed out a few unpopular ones (mainly those with Paul Roma in them, oddly enough) and after a random seeding process, we now have a field of 64 teams.

So here’s how it’s going to work:  I’ve organized the tournament into four divisions:  The Jim Crockett Division, The Eddie Gilbert Division, The Lou Thesz Division and the Eddie Guerrero Division.  Each division has eight first round matchups, and we will proceed through each division until there’s a winner of each one.  Then it’s a four-team tournament to crown the ultimate tag team of all-time!

Seedings are entirely arbitrary and meaningless, so don’t get offended because Demolition and the Road Warriors ended up so close together, for instance. 

I decided to go with three options:  You can pick either team to win, or you can pick a draw if you’re playing armchair booker and think it would end up that way.  You can use whatever criteria you want to choose your winner, whether it be the team that’s your favorite, the team you think would be booked to win, the team that would win a real fight, I don’t care. 

The official pairings follow after the break, and then we’ll begin with the Jim Crockett Division tonight!

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The ‘Captain Hindsight’ Retro Review of Halloween Havoc 1998

By red29

This show was played on WWE Classics on Demand this past month and I remember being so excited for this Supercard back in the fall of ’98. The Monday Night Wars were still up for grabs although the tide was certainly turning to the WWF. I had been watching wrestling religiously for a year at this point (started oddly enough with Starrcade ’97 at a friend’s house). I watched this originally from my college dorm room on a live internet stream from WCW.com, using a login/password from some IRCnet chatroom I think. That was pretty big for 1998. The point of this review is to see how this holds up eleven years later using my cynical jaded wrestling eyes. . Actually I’m a pretty positive guy and I WANT to enjoy what I’m watching. Anyway, I rate matches on the typical 5 * scale with your average match weighing in at **1/2. I did not dig up Scott’s original rant on this from the 411 or Pulse archives so anything that sounds familiar is strictly due to osmosis from reading all his stuff for the last eleven years (started on Wrestline.com). Let’s cue up the 24/7 montage…

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