The SmarK DVD Rant for Macho Madness: The Ultimate Randy Savage Collection
- Hosted by Matt Striker & Maria…why?
Posts Tagged ‘George Steele’
Macho Madness
Sunday, July 12th, 2009Wrestling Challenge #2
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009The SmarK Legacy Rant for Wrestling Challenge #2 (September 14 1986)
- Classics on Demand is DEAD to me, so welcome WWE Legacy! Wrestling Challenge and RAW should keep me busy for a while. As a bonus, I don't have to wait for them to update.
- Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon, Johnny V & Ernie Ladd
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Primetime Wrestling – February 11 1988
Saturday, April 25th, 2009The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Primetime Wrestling - February 11 1988
- OK, so apparently THIS is the last Primetime. So sue me.
- Your hosts are Gorilla & Bobby. Bobby wants to talk about what happened on the Main Event, but it was during the "gag order" period after the show where everything was taped beforehand and Vince wasn't telling anyone the finish, so Gorilla prevents him from talking.
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Prime Time Wrestling – February 1 1988
Sunday, April 19th, 2009The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Prime Time Wrestling - February 1 1988
Man Scott, no Primetime rant? I remember you used to do them, i'd always come here and find out how long the match was because you time it, plus i like to hear your views on them. And since your cable company is taking it away at the end of April, Could you do one last rant of Primetime? thanks in advance, keep up the good work.
Sure, I rarely get feedback on what you guys like/dislike with the 24/7 rants so I kind of assumed that the general silence on Prime Time meant that people weren't reading them. But to close out the series, here's one final Prime Time Wrestling rant!
- Hosted by…Vince McMahon and Bobby Heenan? That ain't right. They're got a slightly bigger set than I'm used to as well.
- They discuss Royal Rumble from the previous night and we're off…
The SmarK Rant – Best WM Matches EVER
Monday, April 6th, 2009The SmarK Rant - Best Wrestlemania Matches EVER
- So yeah, Undertaker v. Shawn Michaels ruled, but just how hard did it rule? For sake of comparison, here's my listing of my current Top 10 best matches in Wrestlemania history.
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.
Wrestlemania Repost Countdown: 4
Saturday, March 28th, 2009The Netcop Retro Rant for Wrestlemania IV
- Live from Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Your hosts are Jesse Ventura and Gorilla Monsoon
The SmarK DVD Rant for The Best of Saturday Night’s Main Event
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009The SmarK DVD Rant for The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
I have been waiting anxiously for this one for a while now.
Disc One
- Hosted by Mean Gene
- So let us take you back to the Rock N Wrestling era in 1985, as SNME replaces SNL reruns once every few weeks…
The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Tuesday Night Titans – The Final Episode
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009The SmarK 24/7 Rant for Tuesday Night Titans - The Final Episode (September 24 1986)
- Just for fun, as TNT comes to a close on WWE 24/7 and gets replaced with Mid-Atlantic, let's hit the last episode ever and say goodbye to it.
- Hosted by Mean Gene and Lord Alfred.
- First guest: Jake Roberts. He and Gene are immediately trading dick jokes ("You wanna see the REAL snake? No scales, I promise.") and we go to a match from MSG between Jake and Ricky Steamboat. Now, I'm not the kind of guy to insinuate that a good, clean-living family man like Steamboat would take illegal performance-enhancing substances, but let's just say that he looks like he's been in the gym for two weeks straight. Jake continues his filthy, filthy interview ("Sometimes people just have to swallow it, and if they don't like the taste that's their problem!") and Gene's playing along and trading perverted barbs right back. You've gotta look this up on YouTube, it's something else for 1986. Apparently sometimes snakes will grow when you hold them. What the FUCK were these guys taking before the show?
- We take a break and return with audience questions for Jake. A guy wants to know when Jake's gonna put Ricky Steamboat out of his misery, and he draws a FACE POP for it! Jake notes that he'll smack Ricky around like a woman who's outlived her usefulness. Jake is just so laid-back and funny here, he's gotta be REALLY high. Crowd loves him and it's no wonder they turned him shortly after.
- Let us take you back to George Steele's electroshock therapy back in the day. Still a funny bit, with Steele turning intelligent long enough to say "How now brown cow?" before falling back into idiocy again. So this brings out Steele for more interesting conversation with Gene ("Have you seen Jake's snake, George?" "Captain eat.") and he fondles a WWF magazine with Elizabeth on the cover.
- Back from the break and Gene notes that George is in the men's room after seeing the magazine. Oh, going out with a filthy whimper, I see. Next guest: Freddie Blassie and SLICK~! Blassie introduces him as the half-owner of Sheik & Volkoff's contracts, and Gene asks if he's ever managed wrestlers before. Slick says yes. Gene asks if he's managed women before. Oh, TAG. This show is tremendous. So we get a clip of Hercules v. Tony Atlas and I didn't even know Atlas was still around at that point. I certainly don't remember him being on TV when I was watching the shows back in the day. Atlas suplexes Hercules into the ring, but Slick whacks him on the knee with the cane and Herc gets the pin. Blassie explains that he and Slick had a "go-between/come-between" and the place goes crazy. Were they all smoking the really good shit before the show or something?
- And now to really ramp up the insanity, we add Sheik & Volkoff to the show. Sheik notes that everyone in wrestling, from Hollywood to Rikidozan (!?) knows that he's the best. This show is a wonderful, wonderful trainwreck. We get Sheik & Volkoff v. Killer Bees from a house show, and this is so worth it if only for the announce table in the background, featuring monitors that appear to be 20" RCA cabinet TVs from 1971. That is GHETTO. Back to the interview, as Slick's banter isn't quite to the level of pimpdom it would achieve in later months, as he's just kind of talking like a normal person. Gene asks Sheik if Volkoff's ugly suit bothers him, and Sheik's like "Well, I'm sick and bothered by it myself, but it's the custom for the country." Everyone's having a rough time not cracking up completely here.
- Last break and now Nikolai brings out his pet -- a black bear cub. 300 million points to the WWF production crew, who put a graphic saying "Bear" on the screen, in case it wasn't clear. That confirms it, everyone was doing mushrooms, they had to be. Slick notes that the bear at least had the sense to be born black, which gets a big laugh. Gene and Blassie just unload on each other with zingers as everyone tries not to lose it. And of course Sheik gives us the poses one last time, and that's Tuesday Night Titans.
Well, they certainly let it all hang out for the last episode, I'll give them that. Look up the Jake portion on YouTube because it's hilariously filthy.
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