Thursday 23 July 2020

Restless In Wrestleland

Just watching random wrestling on YouTube and wwe network.
Highlights include a Gordy v Dr Death match from 86. Just non-stop 100 miles an hour, balls to the wall. Great stuff, double count out finish.

Also watched some Stampede, which is a promotion I barely watch. Enjoyed a bit of Gama Singh heeling it up. But the guy could work too, great matches v Benoit and Viet Cong Express. Then a Gama Singh music video, beautiful stuff.

Also a WWF match with a Just For Men Dino Bravo throwing around Madonna's future boyfriend, Louie Spicoli.
Louie seemed to work everywhere but never really got a big break, just crap like Rad Radford. Just an early to mid 90's guy who you hoped would be a somebody but was always in the right place but at the wrong time.
Sure I remember reading that at one time the When Worlds Collide match was going to be Art Barr (viva!), Eddie Guerrero and Spicoli vs Blue Panther, Santo and Octagon but they changed it to a normal tag match.
Watching 91 WWF 29 years on is crazy. This is the stuff I was loving as a kid, proper glued to it.

Jake's messing with Warrior's head, locking him in a casket and then burying him. But weirdly Warrior's getting over his fear of the Undertaker but also teaming with Hogan vs Sarge and his Iraqi sympathisers. Mad looking back now, thinking what the fans who saw Slaughter and The Sheik in the 80's WWF would make of all this. Some great promos but not a great Summerslam main event. As a kid I really didn't get Sargeant Slaughter and why he turned up and was a main eventer straight away. I didn't know anything about his earlier career, was proper pissed off when he beat the Warrior for the belt.
Without the Iraqi war you wonder what would've happened in 91 WWF. Big Sid got totally wasted, being a guest referee. Maybe he would've been used better, a proper singles feud with Hogan or Warrior. Maybe they were scared he'd be cheered against Hogan if their feud went longer.
And Flair's coming in too. Seriously how easy should it have been to make this great with Hogan, Warrior, Macho Man, Sid, Flair, Undertaker, Perfect and Jake around?
Haha got to say still love all this Jake/Warrior stuff.

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