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February Wrasslin' |OT| Did somebody not get what they wanted?
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Smackdown has certainly been worth watching recently, not just because of the writing but because they're actually letting stuff happen on it instead of worrying people will miss the big moments.
Spider from Mars
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If a match happens on Smackdown and nobody is around to see it, did it ever happen?
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XPW, "FREEFALL", 2002.02.23
Grand Olympic Auditorium, L.A.
Show starts with the standard warning about not copying the "highly-skilled wrestlers" who will be "performing complex and dangerous manuevers" this evening. If anyone watched an XPW tape and then tried to copy what they had seen, that's just natural selection at work, as far as I'm concerned.
XPW commentator douche Kris Kloss intros the show. Seems this tape is only an hour long, so everything will be blessedly clipped short.
Kaos (c) vs Angel vs Chris Hamrick vs ??? - XPW TV Title Gauntlet Match
Right off the bat, I'm reminded how offensively bad XPW commentary is, let alone the actual wrestling. Not entirely awful chain wrestling to get things started, Kaos and Angel going through the basics before Kaos powerbombs Angel for 2. Angel goes for a crossbody, but gets caught into a powerslam. DVD from Kaos, Angel kicks out at 2, lol. Superkick from Angel, followed by a big plancha to the floor. Angel with one of the worst moves I've ever seen, see gif no. 1. Kaos pays him back by spiking him on his fucking head with a crucifix dropped into a piledriver. Fuck. Chris Hamrick's out next, the commentator pops, but the crowd doesn't. Criss cross off the ropes, Hamrick dropkicks the knee out. They trade armdrags. We cut to Hamrick doing the '1-2-3 Kid flies through the ropes' bump, badly. He lands right on his ass. He gets back up on the apron and Kaos kicks him back to the floor, Hamrick taking a frontflip to the concrete. Kaos goes for a chair and charges, but Hamrick drop toehold's him into the ring apron. Hamrick does a shitty coast to coast. Leg drop off the top for 2.9. Superplex from Hamrick for another 2. Vertical suplex into a neckbreaker, but the ref's distracted by Kaos manager. Kaos his the Kaostrophy off the top and wins the match. Apparently NOSAWA appeared after this, but we're not shown that for some reason. That match largely sucked. Hamrick was the best wrestler of the 3, which should tell you something.
Johnny Webb (c) vs GQ Money - XPW World Heavyweight Title Match
Webb does his goofy nunchuck routine, but GQ sends him to the floor with a springboard dropkick. GQ drapes him over the ropes and goes up top, he walks the ropes and drops an elbow for a 2-count. GQ argues with the ref, but Webb takes him out with a heel kick to the back of the head. Tilt-a-whirl slam from Webb. Side Russian legsweep into some shitty submission. Money makes it to the ropes. Kicks and goofy 'martial arts' strikes from Webb. The crowd is entirely silent except for one dude shouting "BORING!". GQ hits some shitty facebuster off the rop ropes. Shitty 'martial arts' exchange. Man, this is so fucking bad. Scoop slam, followed by a spinning legdrop off the top that sees GQ land knees first. Dumbass. Muscle buster from Webb. Sort-of blackhole slam from Webb, but he pulls GQ up before the 3-count and locks on a rear naked choke. GQ taps. That, was so intently bad. There wasn't even anything worth gif'ing.
Supreme (c) vs The Sandman - XPW King of the Deathmatch Title Match
We start with Supreme on the mic. He shits all over guys like Konnan, Vampiro and Sabu who only come to XPW "for the money". Sandman comes out, surprisingly coherent, and says Supreme is a "whore for these stupid fans' money!". Spot on. Sandman says Supreme's a mark for himself and shitty deathmatch wrestling. Sandman disavows hardcore wrestling and says "I don't need this shit", throwing his cane into the ring. "I'm a superstar, I can WRESTLE!!". Supreme wants to know if Sandman still has some balls, so he challenges him to a deathmatch. Sandman accepts and this shit is on like Donkey Kong. Snapmare from Sandman into a chinlock. Lol, the crowd are fucking hating this. Non-hardcore Sandman trolling deathmatch fans is just marvelous. Supreme gets to the ropes. They lock up, Sandman almost gets backed into the barbed wire and slides out of the ring. He gets back in, but Supreme hip tosses him into one of the barbed wire boards. Supreme puts Sandman's forehead into the bed of nails. Sandman goes to the floor. Baseball slide from Supreme and Sandman rolls onto a barbed wire table at ringside. Supreme comes off the top, but Sandman moves out of the way! Sort of. Supreme blades in full view of the camera. Sandman misses a splash back in the ring and Supreme hits an ugly belly-to-belly. The ref & Supreme put the big tray of thumbtacks are put over a some chairs. He weakly slams Sandman into the tacks and goes up top. He does the Sabu pose, because he's a dick, but Kaos and some other goons come out to attack him. They hit some AWFUL 3-man cutter thing into the tacks and Sandman pins Supreme to win the title. LOL.
Lizzy Borden vs Veronica Caine - Butt Naked Match
Oh, great. Here's Rob Black, huge scumbag, to cut a promo. He's banning Kaos and his shitty stable from ringside. Black makes this a "Lumberjack Butt Naked Match", so there's wrestlers at ringside with paddels to "pound the girl's fuckin' asses". Black tries to explain this to NOSAWA by going "OOKA-BAKA-BAKA-JAP". Classy. Caine wants no part of Lizzy, but she doesn't want her ass paddled either. Shoulder block from Lizzy, before she just rubs her tits all over Veronica's face. Shitty, shitty spear from Lizzy. Veronica is stripped to her bra, then Caine rips Lizzy's top off. Veronica manages to unhook Lizzy's bra, but she covers up and some other broad invades the ring to pull Caine's pants off. Lizzy and the new broad are about to strip Veronica butt naked in the midde of the ring, but the lights go out! OMG!! IT'S STING!! Lol, not really. Veronica used the "technical malfunction" to escape the ring with (most of) her clothes still on. XPW flash up some text; "THAT WAS BULLSHIT! THE LIVE AUDIENCE GOT SCREWED, BUT XPW HOME VIDEO DELIVERS!", and then we're treated to a montage of Lizzy Borden's softcore pornos. Totally unarousing, especially when you remember that she's married to Rob Black, and a good indication of XPW's target demographic.
Vic Grimes vs New Jack - Freefall Scaffold Match
Here we go, one of the dumbest matches in not only XPW, but in wrestling history. New Jack's on the mic and says he'll quit wrestling if he can't beat Grimes and that "one of us motherfucker's ain't walking out of here tonight". LOL, some fan front row asks Grimes to gig his forehead, then flips him off when Grimes ignored him. XPW fans. New Jack wastes no time, choking Grimes with a chain and then hitting him over the head with a keyboard. The commentator notes that it's almost 1am, so the fans have been watching this shit for FIVE HOURS. Fuck. Jack forks Grimes in the forehead and, again, the cameraman does his best to catch Grimes blading. Jack breaks a crutch over Vic's back, but Grimes takes him down with a low blow. Pizza cutter to New Jack's forehead. Jack blades and then retreats to the floor. They trade punches in the crowd, until Jack grabs a flail of barbedwire and whips the shit out of Grimes. More obvious blading. Grimes starts to climb the scaffold. New Jack, on the opposite side, also climbs. They get up top and have some awkward exchanges, before New Jack pulls out an electric tazer and shocks Grimes repeatedly. Then, New Jack throws him off the scaffold. You've probably seen the bump before. It goes badly, but not anywhere as near as badly as it could have gone. Welp, that's the end of that. What a fuckin' AWFUL show from a truly AWFUL promotion.
Grand Olympic Auditorium, L.A.
Show starts with the standard warning about not copying the "highly-skilled wrestlers" who will be "performing complex and dangerous manuevers" this evening. If anyone watched an XPW tape and then tried to copy what they had seen, that's just natural selection at work, as far as I'm concerned.
XPW commentator douche Kris Kloss intros the show. Seems this tape is only an hour long, so everything will be blessedly clipped short.
Kaos (c) vs Angel vs Chris Hamrick vs ??? - XPW TV Title Gauntlet Match
Right off the bat, I'm reminded how offensively bad XPW commentary is, let alone the actual wrestling. Not entirely awful chain wrestling to get things started, Kaos and Angel going through the basics before Kaos powerbombs Angel for 2. Angel goes for a crossbody, but gets caught into a powerslam. DVD from Kaos, Angel kicks out at 2, lol. Superkick from Angel, followed by a big plancha to the floor. Angel with one of the worst moves I've ever seen, see gif no. 1. Kaos pays him back by spiking him on his fucking head with a crucifix dropped into a piledriver. Fuck. Chris Hamrick's out next, the commentator pops, but the crowd doesn't. Criss cross off the ropes, Hamrick dropkicks the knee out. They trade armdrags. We cut to Hamrick doing the '1-2-3 Kid flies through the ropes' bump, badly. He lands right on his ass. He gets back up on the apron and Kaos kicks him back to the floor, Hamrick taking a frontflip to the concrete. Kaos goes for a chair and charges, but Hamrick drop toehold's him into the ring apron. Hamrick does a shitty coast to coast. Leg drop off the top for 2.9. Superplex from Hamrick for another 2. Vertical suplex into a neckbreaker, but the ref's distracted by Kaos manager. Kaos his the Kaostrophy off the top and wins the match. Apparently NOSAWA appeared after this, but we're not shown that for some reason. That match largely sucked. Hamrick was the best wrestler of the 3, which should tell you something.
Johnny Webb (c) vs GQ Money - XPW World Heavyweight Title Match
Webb does his goofy nunchuck routine, but GQ sends him to the floor with a springboard dropkick. GQ drapes him over the ropes and goes up top, he walks the ropes and drops an elbow for a 2-count. GQ argues with the ref, but Webb takes him out with a heel kick to the back of the head. Tilt-a-whirl slam from Webb. Side Russian legsweep into some shitty submission. Money makes it to the ropes. Kicks and goofy 'martial arts' strikes from Webb. The crowd is entirely silent except for one dude shouting "BORING!". GQ hits some shitty facebuster off the rop ropes. Shitty 'martial arts' exchange. Man, this is so fucking bad. Scoop slam, followed by a spinning legdrop off the top that sees GQ land knees first. Dumbass. Muscle buster from Webb. Sort-of blackhole slam from Webb, but he pulls GQ up before the 3-count and locks on a rear naked choke. GQ taps. That, was so intently bad. There wasn't even anything worth gif'ing.
Supreme (c) vs The Sandman - XPW King of the Deathmatch Title Match
We start with Supreme on the mic. He shits all over guys like Konnan, Vampiro and Sabu who only come to XPW "for the money". Sandman comes out, surprisingly coherent, and says Supreme is a "whore for these stupid fans' money!". Spot on. Sandman says Supreme's a mark for himself and shitty deathmatch wrestling. Sandman disavows hardcore wrestling and says "I don't need this shit", throwing his cane into the ring. "I'm a superstar, I can WRESTLE!!". Supreme wants to know if Sandman still has some balls, so he challenges him to a deathmatch. Sandman accepts and this shit is on like Donkey Kong. Snapmare from Sandman into a chinlock. Lol, the crowd are fucking hating this. Non-hardcore Sandman trolling deathmatch fans is just marvelous. Supreme gets to the ropes. They lock up, Sandman almost gets backed into the barbed wire and slides out of the ring. He gets back in, but Supreme hip tosses him into one of the barbed wire boards. Supreme puts Sandman's forehead into the bed of nails. Sandman goes to the floor. Baseball slide from Supreme and Sandman rolls onto a barbed wire table at ringside. Supreme comes off the top, but Sandman moves out of the way! Sort of. Supreme blades in full view of the camera. Sandman misses a splash back in the ring and Supreme hits an ugly belly-to-belly. The ref & Supreme put the big tray of thumbtacks are put over a some chairs. He weakly slams Sandman into the tacks and goes up top. He does the Sabu pose, because he's a dick, but Kaos and some other goons come out to attack him. They hit some AWFUL 3-man cutter thing into the tacks and Sandman pins Supreme to win the title. LOL.
Lizzy Borden vs Veronica Caine - Butt Naked Match
Oh, great. Here's Rob Black, huge scumbag, to cut a promo. He's banning Kaos and his shitty stable from ringside. Black makes this a "Lumberjack Butt Naked Match", so there's wrestlers at ringside with paddels to "pound the girl's fuckin' asses". Black tries to explain this to NOSAWA by going "OOKA-BAKA-BAKA-JAP". Classy. Caine wants no part of Lizzy, but she doesn't want her ass paddled either. Shoulder block from Lizzy, before she just rubs her tits all over Veronica's face. Shitty, shitty spear from Lizzy. Veronica is stripped to her bra, then Caine rips Lizzy's top off. Veronica manages to unhook Lizzy's bra, but she covers up and some other broad invades the ring to pull Caine's pants off. Lizzy and the new broad are about to strip Veronica butt naked in the midde of the ring, but the lights go out! OMG!! IT'S STING!! Lol, not really. Veronica used the "technical malfunction" to escape the ring with (most of) her clothes still on. XPW flash up some text; "THAT WAS BULLSHIT! THE LIVE AUDIENCE GOT SCREWED, BUT XPW HOME VIDEO DELIVERS!", and then we're treated to a montage of Lizzy Borden's softcore pornos. Totally unarousing, especially when you remember that she's married to Rob Black, and a good indication of XPW's target demographic.
Vic Grimes vs New Jack - Freefall Scaffold Match
Here we go, one of the dumbest matches in not only XPW, but in wrestling history. New Jack's on the mic and says he'll quit wrestling if he can't beat Grimes and that "one of us motherfucker's ain't walking out of here tonight". LOL, some fan front row asks Grimes to gig his forehead, then flips him off when Grimes ignored him. XPW fans. New Jack wastes no time, choking Grimes with a chain and then hitting him over the head with a keyboard. The commentator notes that it's almost 1am, so the fans have been watching this shit for FIVE HOURS. Fuck. Jack forks Grimes in the forehead and, again, the cameraman does his best to catch Grimes blading. Jack breaks a crutch over Vic's back, but Grimes takes him down with a low blow. Pizza cutter to New Jack's forehead. Jack blades and then retreats to the floor. They trade punches in the crowd, until Jack grabs a flail of barbedwire and whips the shit out of Grimes. More obvious blading. Grimes starts to climb the scaffold. New Jack, on the opposite side, also climbs. They get up top and have some awkward exchanges, before New Jack pulls out an electric tazer and shocks Grimes repeatedly. Then, New Jack throws him off the scaffold. You've probably seen the bump before. It goes badly, but not anywhere as near as badly as it could have gone. Welp, that's the end of that. What a fuckin' AWFUL show from a truly AWFUL promotion.
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Mr. Enigma
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In the Forever Hardcore documentary, New Jack said he botched it on purpose to get revenge on Vic Grimes for shattering his face during a botched spot back in ECW. "My only regret is that the motherfucker actually hit a table on the way down." He pretty much said he was trying to kill Grimes and knew he could get away with it by just saying, "It was a spot we agreed on that just went wrong".
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Spider from Mars
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She has been on Raw like 6 times in the last couple of months. That is approximately infinite% more than JTG
British Monsoon
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Yeah, I'd heard the rumours about the spot before and New Jack does seem like the sort of scumbag to try something like that, but I've always felt it's safer to take everything New Jack says with a very large pinch of salt. He seems like a huge mark for himself and his dangerous reputation.
Yeah, because without fail they repeat every worthwhile match spot for spot on Raw.
darkside31337
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Did anybody actually want to see OTE 99 though? Like its not really parallel to the Benoit stuff because with Benoit you're literally talking about decades of matches people want to see in spite of the tragic events that took place, and editing a person out of that many events over that many years harms the rest of the product. With Owen Hart its a PPV nobody actually wanted to see and could have understandably been skipped over with pretty much zero complaints.
Spider from Mars
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There is a title change on that show and it's important to preserve it for history's sake, blemishes and all.
I'm thinking of joining in on the review and gif bad wrestling events. I have a big stack of UWA-Hardcore DVDs and the best thing that ever came out of this promotion regardless of how many Indy favourites appeared in it and NJPW and Toryumon guys that were flown in was that the DVDs were unrivalled in their art, genuinely incredible box art.
For all I care for they could have not put it up at all.
Then I think we will need pics of those covers.
PHOENIXZERO
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Alicia Fox > JTG and most of the active female roster.
That's how I feel. Now that the Owen stuff have been cut, there's not even a reason to watch for morbid curiosity. They really should have just left it off. NOTHING happens on that show to progress the story line.
Besides, watching matches from the show knowing what just happened, even if it's been edited out, would still be a pretty uncomfortable viewing experience imo.
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This sounds pretty awesome...
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Boots, you ready to watch Big Daddy Yum Yum tonight?
Karl Anderson said it best. "Who the fuck is Big Daddy Yum Yum?"
Karl Anderson said it best. "Who the fuck is Big Daddy Yum Yum?"
British Monsoon
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The 'Big Daddy Yum Yum' name is SOOOOOO bad, that I think everyone's automatically expecting his match with Kojima to be terrible.
Instead, I think it'll actually surprise people. It's Tenzan vs Michael Tarver that will likely stink up the joint.
Instead, I think it'll actually surprise people. It's Tenzan vs Michael Tarver that will likely stink up the joint.
BronsonLee
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WSU show is starting now!
... I'm bored.
*sleeps*
I wish I could play Hearthstone
... I'm bored.
*sleeps*
I wish I could play Hearthstone
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
Tarver has God on his side.
But Japan is Atheist!
Spider from Mars
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Give Tarver the mic and they wont be for long.
Look at Tarver back there. God's going to use Tarver as a vessel.
(someone find me these tapes and I will review CWF)
Master Thespian
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This was the show I tried to do first. I got a few minutes into Sandman talking about being a WRESTLER and tapped out. But I had the same gifs up to that point. I think I also had one of Hammrick doing the flip off the apron for no reason.
I can't believe there aren't promo comps for Hogan/Savage/Warrior like those Ric Flair ones.
Give Tarver the mic and they wont be for long.
Look at Tarver back there. God's going to use Tarver as a vessel.
(someone find me these tapes and I will review CWF)
Youtube to the rescue?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X8-8zfOOg4Y
Spider from Mars
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Yea, that's the only full show I found, and a bunch of short CWF tv's. I will review that show tomorrow.
Desperately hope you give the show a 6/10.
Spider from Mars
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I'm wearing a Wrasslin shirt tonight
Mr. Enigma
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Over The Edge 1999 featured a WWF Title change (The Undertaker won it from Steve Austin due to massive interference from Shane McMahon), so it is a historically significant show. The rest though is missable. The accident happened so early in the show that all the matches happening after it featured people who weren't into it at all.
slightconfuse
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Undertaker is coming back on 2/24. Hope you have your network sub !
WWE has a gallery with the worst wrestling action figures: http://www.wwe.com/classics/the-most-ridiculous-action-figures-photos
Also Cody is an idiot:
Also Cody is an idiot:
Spider from Mars
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All matches end in roll ups
Is that the Chicago Raw?
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Tarver's gonna be fine. He was the chosen one from the Nexus! I chose him!
Green Bay. Chicago Raw is March 3.
why is cody an idiot tho
Craterkick Fox tho
Because of the steel cage moonsault.
Cool was having visions of Taker striding slowly down to the ring to the sound of CM PUNK chants...
Hoping he's in decent shape.
Spirit of Jazz
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He worked the same spot at a house show, they even talked about it on TV so I'm guessing that the higher ups liked the spot. The issue is he didn't account for the fact that Cesaro could catch him because he's a wrestling machine where as Road Dogg couldn't catch him because he's a useless old fuck.
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