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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 12 2005, 09:41 PM (582 Views) | |
| Scrooge McSuck | Apr 12 2005, 09:41 PM Post #1 |
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I'll get you next time, toilet!
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WWF's Greatest Champions: - This is one of the quick one-hour tapes released from Coliseum Video from what appears to be the summer of 1991, which makes me question the editing (or lack there of) in some situations. Quick Note before the review officially begins... most of the matches here are joined in progress (JIP for short, of course), but that's not the point... just a few nice matches that are a little rare to catch a glimps of, namely the final match on the tape. - Already being recycled is the theme music for the tape, which is stolen from Primetime Wrestling. Our host for the tape is Lord Alfred Hayes (oh God...), who is located somewhere in Titan Towers, in front of a wall of enlarged photos of several past and (at the time) present champions of the WWF. We start the tape out with a quick bit on the Ultimate Warrior... - More stuff being recycled, which is the recap video for the Wrestlemania VI Main Event (however, my Coliseum Video clipped out all the video packages... bastards). Highlights from the January 1990 SNME where a miscommunication after a match with the Genius and Mr. Perfect brought Warrior and Hogan to a shoving match. From the February 1990 Main Event, Hogan saved Warrior from becoming Quakeburgers. Two weeks later on Superstars of Wrestling, Earthquake butt drops Hogan before Warrior makes the save, leading to more words being exchanged. All this lead up to... - WWF World & Intercontinental Championship; Title for Title Match: Hulk Hogan (WWF Champion) vs. The Ultimate Warrior (IC Champion): From Wrestlemania VI, at the Skydome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and we are, as mentioned earlier, Joined in Progress. Warrior has Hogan locked in a bearhug, but he is noticably winded being belief, so it's not a very strong looking one. Hogan escapes the hold, which leads to referee Earl Hebner taking a nasty little ref-bump from the Warrior. Warrior comes off the top rope with a double axehandle, followed by a second. Warrior bounces off the ropes for a shoulder tackle, but Hogan side steps him, causing Warrior to eat canvas! Hogan covers... but the referee is still down and out. Hogan makes his own three count before realizing that won't cut it (didn't he learn his lesson here for Wrestlemania IX?!) and tries to revive the referee. Warrior comes up from behind like he's Mr. Ass, and takes Hogan down with a back suplex for another fake three count. Hebner finally wakes up from his nightmare of one day screwing over Bret Hart, and... very... slowly... makes a two count for the Warrior. Warrior argues over the count, allowing Hogan to school boy him for another two count. Irish whip, and Hogan nails Warrior with a back elbow, sending him spilling over the top rope. The two brawl outside the ring, with Warrior ramming Hogan into the ring post before going back into the ring. Warrior with the clotheslines and gorilla press slam... Big Splash connects... but Hogan is Hulking Up after a count of two! Hogan with three roundhouse rights, a big boot... but Warrior rolls out of the way of the leg drop! Warrior off the ropes with another big splash, and thats enough for the victory and WWF Title at 6:13! The full version of the match is around ***, and a total carry job from Hulk Hogan thanks to Warrior "blowing-up" two minutes into the match. Afterwards, Hogan presents Warrior with the WWF Championship before riding off into the sunset as Warrior celebrates with both titles. Thank God he bombed as champion. - Randy Savage retrospect now... footage from Wrestlemania IV of Savage beating Butch Reed in the first round, Greg Valentine in the quarter-finals, the One Man Gang in the Semi-Finals, and the last few minutes of the finals are shown against Ted Dibiase. No sign of the big Mega Powers Exploding Match (thank God... too much recycled filler), but here we go with the Savage match. - WWF World Championship Match: "Macho Man" Randy Savage © (w/ Miss Elizabeth) vs. Andre The Giant: From the September 29th, 1988 Madison Square Garden show, and again Joined in Progress. On the commentary team is Lord Alfred Hayes, Superstar Billy Graham, and some other guy who's name keeps escaping me. Andre chokes away on Savage in the corner, then drags him to the middle of the ring for more of the same. Andre with some chop-chop-chopping, followed by more choking, Andre's special move. Irish whip, and Savage ducks a boot to nail a clothesline, sending Andre tumbling into the ropes, and you guessed it, he gets tied up in them. Savage plays to the crowd before going to work on Andre with chokes and roundhouse rights to the huge target that is Andres forehead. More choking from Savage, followed by boots to the midsection and some more punching. Andre fights free of the ropes, but Savage kicks him in the face then works over the midsection some more. Andre fights back, and sends Savage out of the ring silly with a giant headbutt. Savage won't stay down though, and beats on the Giant with some double chops. Savage goes up top, and connects with a double axehandle, dropping Andre. He goes back up to the top rope, but misses the elbow drop (and thank you for the horrible camera work on that spot, MSG!). The action spills outside, where Savage continues dominating by ramming Andre into the broadcast table. Andre stumbles around like he's drunk and grabs ahold of Elizabeth, which pisses Savage off, and leads to a Double Count-Out at 4:38. 1/2* Not entirely worthless for a Savage match, but Andre was pretty much incapable of putting on any kind of entertaining performance after 1985. - Next feature is on the Hart Foundation. Footage from the Winter of 1987 where the Hart Foundation basically steal the Tag Titles from the British Bulldogs thanks to evil referee Danny Davis. We follow with footage from Summerslam 1990, where the Foundation finally won the titles backafter three years from Demolition in a 2 out of 3 Falls Match. This all leads to... - WWF Tag Team Championship Match: The Hart Foundation © vs. Power & Glory: From the December 13th, 1990 show from the London Gardens in London, Ontario, Canada, and we are once again Joined in Progress to Hart applying an armbar to Hercules. To make my day, we have Sean Mooney and Lord Alfredy on commentary... excuse me while I throw up. Irish whip, and Hercules catches Hart in a cross body attempt with a slam, followed by some punching. Roma tags in and comes off the second rope to get a fist to the midsection from the Hitman. Hart rams Roma into the boot of Neidhart, and tags him in to continue the beating. Neidhart clobbers Roma for while, and applies an armbar. Roma escapes with punches, leading to a bunch of nothing where Roma dropkicks Neidhart out of the ring. Hercules comes off the apron with a forearm across the back, and Neidhart continues getting his ass kicked outside of the ring. Back inside the ring, and Hercules with a series of knees to the midsection of the Anvil. Lots of cheating, but nothing interesting going on. Neidhart gets worked over in the corner, leading to a series of choking spots from Roma, first with the tag rope, and then with the top rope. Roma applies a front facelock, which just screams for a false hot tag... and the screaming was accurate. Irish whip, and Power & Glory connects with a double clothesline to Neidhart. Hercules continues working over the Anvil with nothing, and covers for two after a bunch of punching. What an exciting match this turned out to be! Hercules applies a reverse chinlock to keep the match hot (sarcasm alert!). Anvil fights free, but Hercules catches him in a drop toe hold to prevent a tag being made. Heel miscommunication leads to Roma accidentally hitting Hercules with a dropkick, allowing Hart to get the tag into the match. He hammers away on Roma with rights and connects with a back elbow. Hart with a dropkick to Hercules, followed by mounted punches on Roma in the corner. Hart with a cross body press from the position onto Hercules for more punches, and Anvil comes in with a double slingshot tackle to Roma and Herc'. A small package leads to the sequence of tag partners reversing it, ending with Hart on top for the three count to retain the titles at 7:33. DUD I never thought I would give this match a horrible rating when seeing it on paper... then realized Anvil sucked, Hercules sucked, Roma was a legend in his own mind, and Hart wasn't capable of carrying three people. - Mr. Perfect is next on the list of Champions to go over. We get the closing moments of his matches against Jimmy Snuka and Tito Santana in the Intercontinental Title Tournament in the Spring of 1990, followed by footage from Summerslam and Superstars of Wrestling when Kerry Von Erich and he traded the Intercontinental Title (with Hennig coming out on top to end the feud and send Von Erich to Jobberville). - WWF Intercontinental Championship Match: Mr. Perfect © (w/ The Coach) vs. The British Bulldog: From the June 18th, 1991 Television Taping, and this is also available (in full) on Rampage '91, with Mooney and Hayes back on commentary. Long sequence with a test-of-strength, and Perfect actually screams out "son of a bitch." Bulldog with a sloppy crucifix gets a two count. Perfect with a sunset flip gets a two count of his own. Perfect stomps away but soon is on the recieving end of the ten times rammed into the buckle manuever. Perfect turns the pendulam of momentum his way with a low-blow and applies a Boston Crab. I thought using another wrestlers finisher (in this case, Rick Martel's) as a resting manuever was a huge no-no. Bulldog someones the power of the...mule kick, and that sends Perfect outside. Back in and Perfect with a dropkick sends Bulldog out, and here comes Coach to give him some Bobby Knight type criticsm. Bret Hart comes out now to make it a fair fight, and the action heads back into the ring. Perfect with a snapmare followed by the neck snap for a two count. Perfect applies a sleeper hold while Coach keeps blowing on his whistle. Bulldog powers back to his feet and rams Perfect into the corner. Bulldog crotchs Perfect across the ropes and shakes him around for a bumpy ride. Running clothesline by Bulldog, and in 1991, we get Earl Hebner to take a ref bump. Perfect no-sells, applies the Sharpshooter and...oops, wrong match. Hebner stays down for a while as Bulldog reverses the Perfect-Plex with an inside cradle, but there's no referee. Coach comes in but is taken out faster than Ron Artest after saying he wanted to pimp his new "rap" album instead of playing basketball. Hart comes in, and counts the fake three...and Bulldog celebrates?! Perfect attacks Hart, so Hart hands him his ass...except the referee sees this, and gives Perfect the win by DQ at 7:18, while Bulldog and Hart argue...a year before it actually meant anything. *1/2 Worse than the first time I reviewed this, and seemed like Hennig was just going through the motions, which is just a horrible thing to see, especially when in a match versus someone not as good as he is. - Last and certainly not least, is everyones favorite WWF Champion, Hulk Hogan. We get Real American playing with highlights from his title victories over the Iron Sheik on the 1/23/84 MSG and Randy Savage from Wrestlemania V for his second title reign. We get the closing few minutes from Wrestlemania VII, where Hogan defeated Sgt. Slaughter for his 3rd of six WWF Championships, which leads to... - WWF World Championship; Desert Storm Match: Hulk Hogan © vs. Sgt. Slaughter (w/ Gen. Adnan): From the June 3rd, 1991 show from Madison Square Garden. On commentary is Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, and Jim Neidhart, who was in between doing stuff as an actual wrestler, and he wasn't too bad on commentary. We are Joined in Progress with Hogan grabbing a steel chair and smashing Slaughter across the back with it. Quick visuals... Hogan is wearing his Camoflauge outfit, Slaughter is busted open, and weapons scattered around the ring looks like a leather belt, a riding crop, and Hogans red white and blue bandana that he usually stuffed down peoples throats. Hogan with a series of roundhouse rights, but Slaughter rakes the eyes and takes him down with a side russian leg sweep. Slaughter staggers around blindly and pounds away on Hogan, the nails him with a chair in retaliation for earlier in the match. Slaughter works over the back of Hogan, and applies a half-hearted Camel Clutch, which Monsoon actually notices as being just a reverse double chinlock. Hogan fights free of the hold, ramming Slaughters shoulder into the ring post in the process. Slaughter continues fighting away though, working over the lower back of Hogan while selling the blood loss quite nicely. Slaughter goes up to the top rope, but slips and lands on his head. He tries going for a second time, but Hogan is back to his feet and slams him off into the middle of the ring. Good selling from both parts so far in this match, but it's nowhere near as good as the Slaughter/Patterson Alley Fight from a decade earlier in the very same building. Slaughter finally gets back to his feet, and quickly a double clothesline spot puts both men down. Slaughter starts taking off his boot and aims to nail Hogan with it, but Hogan throws a fireball in his face in retaliation! At least it went off better than against the Warrior at Halloween Havoc '98. Hogan starts Hulking-Up and rips off the shirt, then bashes Slaughter in the face with his own boot three times before rolling him onto his stomach and applying the Camel Clutch! Adnan leaves the ringside area, and comes back producing a towel, which he throws in to end the match at 6:03, giving Hogan the victory and to retain the championship. *1/2 Not too bad of a match from what was here, but not even close to being as good as their Wrestlemania match (which I found to be shockingly good). Afterwards, Hogan throws powder in Adnans face, and throws him and Slaughter over the top rope to end the tape. Final Thoughts: If you are looking for a lot of excellent, workrate filled matches... just take a pass. All of the matches are JIP, and several of them are poor selections for ring quality. The only reason I got a copy of this was for the footage of Savage vs. Andre and Hogan vs. Slaughter, so that right there shows how much I was looking foward to this tape. Easy Recommendation to Avoid if you don't care about those two matches. |
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