-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
September Wrasslin' |OT| Almost Brings a tear to my eye
- Thread starter Sibersk Esto
- Start date
Original Famous Ray
Member
What happened? I just started watching and Mark Henry was walking with Big Show to cheers. What did Henry do?
Singularity42
Member
God damn I remember that Nitro like it was yesterday.
Sitting there with some friends saying "This Nitro kinda sucks, wtf happened? Why the hell are 2 jobbers fighting right now?"
Then boom here comes all out of the crowd. Not being a smark but a good ole fashioned mark at the time I was legit shook. That was one of those awesome moments as a pro wrestling fan that I will always remember.
Almost a year later I hit Hall with a soda at the end of a Nitro don't think it ever made TV it was right as they were going off air. Yep I was a 16 year old asshole wrestling fan, one of those shitheads chanting with 10 wacky sarcastic signs.
Still even almost 20 years later that was an awesome way to debut Scott Hall.
Sitting there with some friends saying "This Nitro kinda sucks, wtf happened? Why the hell are 2 jobbers fighting right now?"
Then boom here comes all out of the crowd. Not being a smark but a good ole fashioned mark at the time I was legit shook. That was one of those awesome moments as a pro wrestling fan that I will always remember.
Almost a year later I hit Hall with a soda at the end of a Nitro don't think it ever made TV it was right as they were going off air. Yep I was a 16 year old asshole wrestling fan, one of those shitheads chanting with 10 wacky sarcastic signs.
Still even almost 20 years later that was an awesome way to debut Scott Hall.
He read a statement hating on the fans for giving up on him because he lost to Rusev. So Big Show came in and talked Henry down saying that he is going to beat Rusev on Smackdown for him.
So setting up a turn on Friday.
LEGITSHOOK.COM PRESENTS
WCW MONDAY NITRO 5/27/96
- American Males vs Arn Anderson/Ric Flair
- Steve Doll vs The Mauler
- Sgt. Craig Pittman vs DDP
- Shark vs The Giant WCW Championship
- Maxx vs Lex Luger WCW Television Championship
- Bobby Walker vs Brad Armstrong
- Steven Regal vs Alex Wright
- Sting vs Scott Steiner
The first 2 hour Nitro. In ring, it was so-so. Obviously the story is that Razor Ramon came out of the crowd and said he was bringing the war to WCW. The fans had no idea how to react and were confused the rest of the show. Tony and Larry had no idea how to react. Bischoff and Brain had no idea how to react. At the end of the show, Hall flat out said "We are coming down here, and like it or not, we are taking over." It's almost past the point of implying the WWF is implying. It's rad.
This show also had Sting debuting the Scorpion Death Drop (as a reversal), and Regal calling Alex Wright, "Junior Adolph".
Good stuff. Sounds like a pretty blase show minus Hall. You made the Giant and Sting matches sound pretty good too.
lovely ladies
Member
I guess that will be one of the matches at Hell in the Cell then. Don't really mind the turn for Henry, good guy Mark Henry's lame.
Singularity42
Member
So much for that tag title run Henry was talking about on Cheap Heat awhile back
It's really interesting how understated it all was. There wasn't some big entrance, or an attack and crazy promo. He just sauntered out there, calmly said what he had to say, and strolled off. It was like he knew he didn't have to do all that shit because this was small time to him. It was WCW's 9/11, friends. Security was loose and they got hit. Everything changed on that day. Never forget.
Sting/Steiner had zero heat, which was really strange. The crowd just didn't react to anything. And the match itself was pretty so-so on top of it, but probably dragged down by the crowd not caring at all. Scott did try to kill Sting with a dragon suplex at one point.
It kind of felt like the fans were waiting for Hall to come back.
lovely ladies
Member
You know Hall's the man when he could make a denim vest/jeans combo seem intimidating.It's really interesting how understated it all was. There wasn't some big entrance, or an attack and crazy promo. He just sauntered out there, calmly said what he had to say, and strolled off. It was like he knew he didn't have to do all that shit because this was small time to him. It was WCW's 9/11, friends. Security was loose and they got hit. Everything changed on that day. Never forget.
Sting/Steiner had zero heat, which was really strange. The crowd just didn't react to anything. And the match itself was pretty so-so on top of it, but probably dragged down by the crowd not caring at all. Scott did try to kill Sting with a dragon suplex at one point.
It kind of felt like the fans were waiting for Hall to come back.
Singularity42
Member
Is it more of a functional trend rather than a fashion trend? I know I've heard a few times that wrestlers will wear gloves because it helps with their grip and their hands don't get as beat up.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Wolfpac Sting....no,,,Fake Wolfpac TNA Sting.
Macho Madness
Member
LEGITSHOOK.COM PRESENTS
WCW MONDAY NITRO 5/27/96
The first 2 hour Nitro. In ring, it was so-so. Obviously the story is that Razor Ramon came out of the crowd and said he was bringing the war to WCW. The fans had no idea how to react and were confused the rest of the show. Tony and Larry had no idea how to react. Bischoff and Brain had no idea how to react. At the end of the show, Hall flat out said "We are coming down here, and like it or not, we are taking over." It's almost past the point of implying the WWF is implying. It's rad.
Truly the biggest night in this great sport.
I'm being serious this time, guys.
They tried turning Kofi into the spot-creator for the MitB matches too but none of them were as exciting as some of the things Shelton Benjamin was doing in the ladder matches. Not near the athlete. Kind of stupid he never got to win one or get a decent chance above the midcard in the later 2000's.
slightconfuse
Banned
BIG spotlight on TMF on the ECW Monday night wars
British Monsoon
Member
British Monsoon
Member
You'd love Danny Cannon, stro. Imagine a Low Ki/Sydal/Davey hybrid who's about five feet tall.
That sounds about as bad as anything I've ever heard
British Monsoon
Member
Could be worse, could've been an unholy combination of Konnan and Hayes.
If he really need to leap off from there, he should have just thrown himself at him through the front instead of leaping with his back turned to the guy. Would have been safer for him too. No bueno. =/
I keep expecting him to turn into AR Fox.
British Monsoon
Member
newdayrocks
Member
The boootaaaay special
That one's pretty cool.
Half-confirmed card for King of Pro-Wrestling next month - New Japan look like they're trying hard to sell out Sumo Hall with a line-up like this;
NJPW, "KING OF PRO-WRESTLING", 2014/10/15
Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo
. IWGP Heavyweight Title: AJ Styles (c) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi
. Tokyo Dome no.1 Contendership: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Tetsuya Naito
. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles: TIME SPLITTERS (c) vs The Young Bucks vs Forever Hooligans
. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Ryusuke Taguchi (c) vs El Desperado
. NWA Jr. Heavyweight Title: Chase Owens (c) vs BUSHI
Ishii also challenged Yujiro, but it hasn't been confirmed if the NEVER belt will be on the line. Also, Nakamura mentioned there's "only one man left" for him to beat, presumably referring to Shibata who has a win over him from the G1 - so, Nakamura (c) vs Shibata is potentially on the cards for the IC title. Plus, Goto has been going on about the Japanese uniting to destroy Bullet Club and today Makabe said he & Honma are with him, so there may be some sort of 6-man tag against the Bullet Club.
how can i watch this
British Monsoon
Member
They've said it will available be on Ustream, but haven't announced the details as of yet.
slightconfuse
Banned
OH WOW TAZ coming. Back to take the title from Mike Awesome is well AWESOME
Who is that heading into the iMPACT Zone, Tazzzz?
You know who that is, it's Gene Embrose!
FallingEdge
Member
Taz is one of the like ... 5 things I like about ECW.
Which is funny to say considering what a joke he turned into.
slightconfuse
Banned
HOMEBOY OVER HERE
Banned
Carnby
Member
slightconfuse
Banned
Every Friday the out up the latest episode of their TV show here:http://www.rohwrestling.com/tv/current
You can watch the archives for a price . Also depending on where you live you might get it on TV
HOMEBOY OVER HERE
Banned
john cena's house looks like a place where porn is filmed
yeah i just watched that one. i might just buy the archives. i watch like one episode of RoH every three months but i fucking love it. wouldn't mind paying $15 to watch a full event
their "tv shows" are just their ppvs broken up right?
where do you think kendra lust films her videos?
Similar threads
- Poll
- x2