The Princess Rant for Summerslam Main Events: Summerslam ‘89
From The Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J.
Hosted by Tony Schiavone and Jesse “The Body” Ventura
The Princess Rant for Summerslam Main Events: Summerslam ‘89
From The Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J.
Hosted by Tony Schiavone and Jesse “The Body” Ventura
The Netcop Retro Rant for Royal Rumble 1989.
- Live from Houston, Texas.
- Your hosts are Jesse and Gorilla.
- Zen wants it noted that this is his first PPV. This is more notable, however, because it's the first Royal Rumble on PPV.
OK, these are all runaway victories, so let’s call it now and move on:
- Eddie & Chavo Guerrero (71%) cheat and steal their way over Strike Force (29%), as Eddie bribes Martel into turning on his partner with promises of giving him the low-rider. Of course, Eddie steals it back afterwards.
- RVD & Sabu (72%) handle the Fantastics (28%) without much trouble, as they finish off Fulton with Rolling Thunder to advance into the Sweet Sixteen. They got a REALLY lucky draw thus far, I’ll say that for them.
- The British Bulldogs (74%) manhandle the Dudley Boyz (26%), as D-Von gets the tables, but Dynamite comes off the top with a sunset flip to pin Buh Buh Ray in the meantime.
- And in the biggest rout of the bracket, Tully & Arn (80%) squash Haas & Benjamin (20%) after a spirited go by the World’s Greatest Tag Team.
So the next round will give us:
- Eddie & Chavo Guerrero v. RVD & Sabu
- The British Bulldogs v. Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson
And that final round of sixteen begins NEXT!
A couple of more upsets and close races this time, but nothing that went down to the wire.
OK, so after giving this about 5 minutes of total thought, here’s my 64 team field for the first annual Scott’s Stupid Dream Tag Team Tournament. This is not in any particular order, it’s just 64 teams I could think of off the top of my head who are pretty cool and probably deserve slots here. If there’s any more deserving you can think of, now is the time to nominate them. I’m just gonna end up randomly seeding them and letting people vote in a poll to determine the winner. The criteria will be entirely up to you. Vote for your favorite, the ones who were the best workers, the ones you’d think would win a real fight, whatever.
The nominated teams:
WWF MONDAY NIGHT RAW
Vince hypes the IC title match between Dean Douglas and Razor Ramon as well as Marty Jannetty vs Sid. Also, Shawn Michaels’s “personal physician” Jeffrey Unger will update us on the condition of HBK.
Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler (more...)
WWF MONDAY NIGHT RAW
11/27/95
Replay of HBK incident from last week.
Your announcers are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. They plug Bret Hart interview with Brother Love and the main event, which is Kama vs Undertaker (more...)
WCW Clash of the Champions XXIII
6/17/93
From The Scope in Norfolk, VA
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone and Jesse “The Body” Ventura
The announcers play up Ric Flair’s return to the ring, and inform us that Paul Orndorff is injured and unable to compete against Ron Simmons tonight in the Television Title match. (more...)
WWE Raw Recap, August 31, 2009
Live from Detroit, Michigan
By Alexander Coleman
-WWE intro.
-Raw intro.
-Pyro. Your hosts are Michael Cole and Jerry “The King” Lawler.
The SmarK Retro Rant for WWF Wrestlemania VII
- Yeah, this is a kind of a random choice, I know, but I've been meaning to do the full Anthology version of the show for months now and this is as good a night as any. Since we didn't have PPV in Edmonton at the time, this is the first time I've ever seen anything besides the heavily edited Coliseum version of this show.
- Live from the Los Angeles Coliseum LA Sports Arena
- Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon and a rotating cast of color commentators, mainly Bobby Heenan. First up is Hacksaw Duggan, introduced with entrance music dubbed over where he had none previously. I don't get that.