The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - February 7 1994
- Taped from Bushkill, PA.
- Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Bastion Booger. Mike Shaw is a funny guy, but I don't see this turning out well.
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The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW – February 7 1994
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Eddie Gilbert Division: Round One
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Polls close at 11:59PM Monday night, so get voting!
Dream Tag Team tournament: Round one begins!
Sunday, November 1st, 2009OK, 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!
24/7 Review : The Big Event
Monday, August 24th, 2009WWF Big Event (Review by Brian Bayless)
8/28/86
Live from Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, ONT Canada with your announce team of Gorilla Monsoon, Ernie Ladd, and Johnny Valiant
The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW – August 2 1993
Monday, August 17th, 2009The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - August 2 1993
- Live or taped or whatever from somewhere in New York outside of the usual Manhattan Center. Alexandria Bay, apparently.
- Your hosts are Vince and Bobby, as Randy Savage is wrestling this week.
SmackDown 4/24
Friday, April 24th, 2009The 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.
Wrestlemania Repost Countdown: 2
Monday, March 30th, 2009And that rhymes with NEW, as in new version.
The SmarK Retro Rant for WWF Wrestlemania 2
- So while reading over the old WM rants in preparation for the reposts, I couldn't help but notice that my original rant for this show (from the Coliseum video version) was due for a redo. So here's the full PPV version, which comes from the VHS releases that came out in 97 or so. Good thing: Completely uncut PPV version complete with ORIGINAL MUSIC. Bad thing: It was recorded in EP mode on low quality tape, so I made sure to only watch it one time, when I recorded it to DVD. Yeah, I could just spring for the Anthology versions, but they'd probably overdub Nikolai Volkoff singing the Russian anthem because they couldn't afford the music rights. The match lengths appear to be the same, but the interview order is all switched around from the Coliseum video. Anyway, for those who haven't heard the story a million times, this was the very first wrestling show I ever watched by my own choice, as we rented it for my 12th birthday because the other kids were into wrestling, and then I checked out the weekly TV show as a result and Paul Orndorff like, totally turned on Hulk Hogan, and I was like "Um yeah, I'm watching this for the next 20 years or so unless it really starts to suck or too many people die."
Wrestlemania Repost Countdown: 3
Sunday, March 29th, 2009The SmarK Retro Re-Rant for Wrestlemania III: Championship Edition
- This is another one that needed a redo, and with the "digitally remastered" version playing on 24/7 right now, this is as good a time as any. This version has pop-up video facts and cut-in interviews with the people involved, which is pretty neat and is something lacking on their DVD releases, especially historical ones. And hey, I work cheap and would gladly do text commentaries for all their catalogue releases in my spare time. At any rate, this is the complete PPV version, rather than the more briskly-edited Coliseum version most of us old farts are more familiar with.
RAW
Monday, February 23rd, 2009The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Monday Night RAW - December 8 1997
- So it's the night after the DeGeneration X PPV and big stuff is afoot…
- Live from Portland, Maine.
- Hour 1 is hosted by Jim Ross & Michael Cole & Kevin Kelly. My dream team! Actually they're not so bad here because their entire role is to read pre-scripted bits of the conversation in between JR's actual points. Like they're going over the Shamrock-Michaels title match and Kelly's bit will be "Indeed the match was a mixture of speed and technique" and you won't hear him again. I can deal with that.
Best WM
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Uh oh, WM time means LISTS...
I thought a nifty way to get hyped up for the 25th Wrestlemania by waching the 25 best WM matches for 25 days up 'til the PPV. What do you think of this list for best WM bouts?
Hulk Hogan and Mr. T vs. Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff (I)
The Dream Team vs The British Bulldogs (II)
Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat (III)
Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan (V)
Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior (VI)
The Ultimate Warrior vs. Randy Savage (VII)
Roddy Piper vs. Bret Hart (VIII)
Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (VIII)
Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart (X)
Razor Ramon vs. Shawn Michaels (X)
Diesel vs. Shawn Michaels (XI)
Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels (XII)
Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin (XIII)
Kurt Angle vs. Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit (XVI)
The Dudley Boyz vs. Edge and Christian vs. The Hardys (XVII)
The Rock vs. Steve Austin (XVII)
The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan (XVIII)
Kurt Angle vs. Brock Lesnar (XVIV)
Triple H vs. Chris Benoit vs. Shawn Michaels (XX)
Shawn Michaels vs. Kurt Angle (XXI)
Money in the Bank 1 (XXI)
Mick Foley vs. Edge (XXII)
Shawn Michaels vs. Vince McMahon (XXII)
John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels (XXIII)
Edge vs. The Undertaker (XXIV)
Well, in for a penny, in for a pound, I guess. Your list, although thought-provoking, provides no challenge. How about picking the best match from each Wrestlemania and watching THOSE? Here's mine...
1: The main event, I guess, although I've seen that match way too many times to appreciate it anymore. I guess it's the best of a middling bunch.
2: Everyone's all "Bulldogs-Dream Team" all the times, but I'm like "No way, man, they had way better matches at MSG shows. Tito & JYD v. The Funks is the true diamond in the rough on this show and it gets better every time I watch it. Why? Because Tito fucking owns, man." That's how I ROLL.
3: Obvious pick here.
4: Randy Savage v. Greg Valentine wins by default, I'd say.
5: Savage v. Hogan by default.
6: Clearly Hogan v. Warrior here.
7: Clearly Savage v. Warrior.
8: Either way you, it's a daring call. I prefer Savage v. Flair because I was world's hugest Flair fan at the time and even I was booing him when Mr. Perfect pulled out the ref. However, Roddy Piper didn't lay down for no one, so it was pretty huge when Bret beat him clean. Either way is defendable.
9: Steiners v. Headshrinkers is a watchable enough match, so's Shawn v. Tatanka, either will do.
10: No fair picking both classics. I'm sick of the ladder match so I'm going with Owen v. Bret.
11: Diesel v. Michaels is a pretty clear choice here.
12: Another easy call with the Iron Man match, although really I don't ever want to watch it again.
13: Again, Bret-Austin is an easy choice, but I'm tired of watching it.
14: I find Shawn v. Austin to be very fascinating with the mix of Shawn's fake selling and then suddenly VERY REAL selling.
15: Rock v. Austin is pretty good for the time.
16: The triangle ladder match of course stole the show here and is the only match worth remembering.
17: The Hardyz can jump off all the ladders they want, they can march up and down Times Squares and have a big ladder parade for all I care, but Austin bashing Rock's head in with a chair and then pinning him to a giant face pop still gives me chills.
18: I'm gonna go off the beaten path and say Undertaker v. Flair here. My opinions of Rock v. Hogan vary too much to call it the best match of the show.
19: Actually kind of a hell of a show. If Brock hits the shooting star press, then yeah, but fuck him because I'm going with Rock v. Austin again.
20: I'm going with Eddie v. Angle instead of the other contender, for obvious reasons.
21: God, I barely remember this show. But I DO remember the movie theater going nuts for Shawn Michaels tapping to Kurt Angle, so there you go.
22: Foley v. Edge stands out as the best of an off-year, although now we're getting into the point where I can hardly remember these shows.
23: I've long since come to grips with the fact that I loved Batista v. Undertaker much more than Cena v. Michaels, so we'll go with that one.
24: Edge v. Undertaker I guess, although it kind of got overshadowed by Flair's retirement match and doesn't really get the love it deserves in the grand scheme of things. Luckily they had 18 rematches that year to make up for it.
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