Posts Tagged ‘Bob Backlund’
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Here's what we call a transitional card as Vince officially went from the class stars of the 80s and 90s to a new group. Diesel, who never wrestled at Wrestlemania before, goes straight to the top of card against rising star Shawn Michaels. Bret Hart, Lex Luger and Yokozuna last year's Main Eventers, were shuttered in the undercard with Yoko making a surprise return to the ring as Owen Hart's special tag partner.
In hindsight maybe WWF would have been better off having Diesel face HBK at the Royal Rumble and getting Hart here and shuttering HBK and Luger into a feud to keep things interesting on the undercard. But I don't think Hart wanted to lay down for Diesel so he got punished with a match against Bob Backlund, who was grossly entertaining on promos but not exactly what the fans wanted to see in the ring.
Anyway, Vince looked at the card and didn't really like it so he went into his bag of crazy ideas again and have former NFL star Lawrence Taylor a healthy chunk of change to close out the show. With WCW prepared to make a legitimate charge at the WWF with many of its former stars, Vince felt like he needed to roll the dice. And while many of us were expecting disaster, the final two matches on the card delivered better than many could have expected.
Enjoy.
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Tags: Bob Backlund, Bret Hart, Four Horsemen, Lex Luger, Locke, RAW, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, Sting, Vince McMahon, WCW, Wrestlemania, WWF
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
The Netcop Rant for Royal Rumble 2000
- Live from Madison Square Garden
- Your hosts are JR & The King
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Tags: 2000, 24, Bob Backlund, Chris Jericho, ECW, Edge, HHH, Intercontinental title, RAW, Royal Rumble, The Rock, WWF
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
The Netcop Retro Rant for Royal Rumble 1996.
- Live from Fresno, CA
- Your hosts are Vince and Perfect.
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Tags: 24, Bob Backlund, Bret Hart, Goldberg, Gorilla Monsoon, HHH, Intercontinental title, Jake Roberts, Jeff Jarrett, Midnight Express, RAW, Retro Rant, Royal Rumble, Steve Austin, Sting, The Rock, Undertaker, Vader, WCW, Wrestlemania, WWF
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
The Netcop Retro Rant for Royal Rumble 95
- Live from Tampa, FL.
- Your hosts are Mr. McMahon & The King
- Welcome to the great downward slide of the WWF, as this is the first of many financially disasterous PPVs featuring Kevin Nash as World champion and a cast of characters that no one gave a crap about.
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Tags: 1994, 24, Bob Backlund, Bret Hart, ECW, Edge, House, Intercontinental title, Jeff Jarrett, Lex Luger, NWA, RAW, Retro Rant, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin, Sting, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWF
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
The Netcop Retro Rant for the Royal Rumble 1993.
- Live from the Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA, home of some basketball team.
- Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan.
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Tags: 1994, 24, Bob Backlund, Bobby Heenan, Bret Hart, Edge, Gorilla Monsoon, Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger, Locke, Randy Savage, RAW, Retro Rant, Ric Flair, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, Steiner Brothers, Sting, Terry Taylor, The Rock, Tito Santana, Undertaker, WCW, Wrestlemania, WWF
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
The SmarK Retro Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 1994
- I'm stuck with the Anthology DVD version, which at least has much better video quality than my original VHS dub, so blame that for any inconsistencies with the original review. At least that means the full PPV version and not the Coliseum edit.
- Live from Providence, Rhode Island.
- Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Ted Dibiase. This actually now makes more sense to me given the rotating color commentators on RAW after the departure of Bobby Heenan. Back in the day, it was totally random to me because I only got to watch Superstars.
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Tags: 1994, 24, Bob Backlund, Bobby Heenan, Bret Hart, DVD, Edge, Greg Valentine, HHH, House, Impact, Intercontinental title, Jeff Jarrett, Lex Luger, Locke, Macho Man, MSG, RAW, Retro Rant, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, Sting, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, Vince Russo, Wrestlemania, WWF
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
(Apparently this Bret Hart guy is all the rage right now among the kids, so here’s a repost of the DVD rant from 2004, with some formatting and spelling errors fixed)
The SmarK DVD Rant for Bret Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, and The Best There Ever Will Be.
So here's how this is gonna work -- I've of course been hit by endless requests for this DVD, but didn't get the DVD until recently. I managed to watch the documentary portion previously and posted thoughts to the blog, but everyone wanted rants for the matches included, too, and I didn't really feel like going back to take notes on the documentary portion to do the entire DVD set. So the documentary portion is going to be a guest rant by longtime blog contributor and friend of mine Princess, who covered most of what I would have written about it anyway, and then we'll hit the matches with fresh rants for stuff I haven't done before or haven't done in a long time. For time reasons and for reasons of efficiency, I copied stuff where my opinions haven't changed or where an updated version wasn't going to be different enough to warrant a redo.
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Tags: 1994, 24, Andre the Giant, Attitude, Bob Backlund, Boston Garden, Bret Hart, British Bulldogs, Canada, Dusty Rhodes, DVD, ECW, Edge, Goldberg, Hart Foundation, HHH, House, Intercontinental title, Jeff Jarrett, Lita, Locke, Lost, Midnight Express, Montreal, Mr. Perfect, MSG, Politics, Rants, RAW, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Royal Rumble, Slick, SNME, Starrcade, Steve Austin, Sting, The Rock, The Wrestler, Toronto, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, Vince Russo, WCW, Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania III, WWE, WWF
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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...)
Tags: Arn Anderson, Bob Backlund, Bobby Heenan, Booker T, Bret Hart, Edge, House, Intercontinental title, Jim Cornette, Lex Luger, Monday Night RAW, Nitro, Randy Savage, RAW, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Sting, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, WCW, WWF
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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...)
Tags: Arn Anderson, Bob Backlund, Bret Hart, DDP, Edge, House, Hulk Hogan, Jim Cornette, Lex Luger, Locke, Macho Man, Monday Night RAW, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, Randy Savage, RAW, Sting, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, WCW, WWF
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - November 8 1993
- Live from Bushkill, PA. Really? Is there also MurderObama, TX?
- Your hosts are Bobby, Vince and Macho. Ugly graphics are back again.
- Vince pimps a special poll, as next week Pierre can face either 1-2-3 Kid, Marty Jannetty, Doink or Lex Luger as a result of fan voting. Geeeeeeee, I wonder who they'll pick.
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Tags: Bob Backlund, Edge, Hulk Hogan, Intercontinental title, Jeff Jarrett, Lex Luger, Locke, Monday Night RAW, Randy Orton, Randy Savage, RAW, Undertaker
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