Author Topic: Matches You Didn't Think Existed (Read 27311 times)

Fall of Epic · « **Reply #100 on:** December 31, 2013, 04:42:52 AM »

I'm pretty sure Savage didn't make another appearance in WCW after the match with Rodman in Road Wild '99 but was under contract. He made that quick cameo on Thunder during the Millionaire's Club/New Blood feud but that was it.

According to the description of the video I posted, he worked a random house show against Sid Vicious in 2000.

Why didn't WCW use him during that hiatus anyway?

Firmino of the 909 · « **Reply #101 on:** December 31, 2013, 04:58:15 AM »

Quote from: Epic Reindeer on December 31, 2013, 04:42:52 AM

I'm pretty sure Savage didn't make another appearance in WCW after the match with Rodman in Road Wild '99 but was under contract. He made that quick cameo on Thunder during the Millionaire's Club/New Blood feud but that was it.

According to the description of the video I posted, he worked a random house show against Sid Vicious in 2000.

Why didn't WCW use him during that hiatus anyway?

1999 he didn't like the booking, and wasn't under contract. 2000 he wasn't under contract.

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #102 on:** December 31, 2013, 11:47:29 AM »

Quote from: Epic Reindeer on December 31, 2013, 04:42:52 AM

I'm pretty sure Savage didn't make another appearance in WCW after the match with Rodman in Road Wild '99 but was under contract. He made that quick cameo on Thunder during the Millionaire's Club/New Blood feud but that was it.

Looking at Cawthon's site, Savage made one more appearance on WCW TV in '99 after that. He returned the night after Halloween Havoc '99 and cut a worked shoot on Vince Russo and talked about how The Powers That Be wouldn't hunt him down like they did to Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan. He also mentioned he was looking to pass the torch to the next Macho Man. Then he never appeared again because lolVinceRusso.

Subtopic: Let's discuss who could have been Vince Russo's hilariously bad choice for Macho Man's replacement in '99 WCW?

Dobbs3K · « **Reply #103 on:** January 01, 2014, 01:02:16 AM »

Quote from: King Kamala on December 31, 2013, 11:47:29 AM

Subtopic: Let's discuss who could have been Vince Russo's hilariously bad choice for Macho Man's replacement in '99 WCW?

Chuck Palumbo. Seriously.

Monsoon Classic · « **Reply #104 on:** January 01, 2014, 02:51:52 AM »

Worldwide was just full of odd matches like this . . .

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #105 on:** January 01, 2014, 09:48:19 AM »

And this one!

This one too!

Oh yeah! This one too! Thanks for posting all of these obscure WCW matches, Monsoon Classic! You're the greatest!

Monsoon Classic · « **Reply #106 on:** January 01, 2014, 11:17:15 AM »

Thanks. I plan on posting some more in the coming days / weeks. We may even see a Krusher Khruschev appearance from 1999.

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #107 on:** January 01, 2014, 11:22:02 AM »

Barry Darsow's Worldwide exclusive "confused over which gimmick he's playing tonight" gimmick is finally making it to YouTube???

Monsoon Classic · « **Reply #108 on:** January 01, 2014, 12:56:44 PM »

Here's a preview . . .

I was going to have one as the Blacktop Bully, but the VQ on that was complete trash.

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #109 on:** January 01, 2014, 01:07:15 PM »

You're off to a good start this year, friend with this monumental upload and getting retweeted by Scotty Riggs!

Also watching said Scotty Riggs Vs Gangrel match that you posted/Riggs RT'd and I was dying at the commentary at the beginning due to A. how loaded Heenan is calling these D show matches and B. Uncomfortably laughing at how much Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan's legit disdain for each other in the commentary for these shows.

Monsoon Classic · « **Reply #110 on:** January 01, 2014, 01:09:06 PM »

Check out the 1st little bit of this video to hear Schiavone want to strangle Heenan . . .

Monsoon Classic · « **Reply #111 on:** January 03, 2014, 01:14:58 PM »

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #112 on:** January 06, 2014, 02:30:20 PM »

Manager confrontations you didn't think existed!

Brodypedia · « **Reply #113 on:** January 14, 2014, 05:41:52 AM »

Brock vs Mr Perfect!

Brock and Waterman vs APA (Somewhere Vince and JR were masturbating)

tekcop · « **Reply #114 on:** January 14, 2014, 06:38:14 AM »

I really love "before they were stars" dark matches like that.

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #115 on:** January 19, 2014, 04:28:39 AM »

SWS/WWF interpromotional Tag-Team Gauntlet match featuring; Power & Glory, The Rockers, Randy Savage and Genichiro Tenryu, Haku & Yoshiaki Yastsu, and Ishikawa & Great Kabuki.

O.G. · « **Reply #116 on:** January 19, 2014, 04:38:30 PM »

Great find! Very good gauntlet with an excellent Savage/Tenryu vs Haku/Yastsu match in the middle.

Monsoon Classic · « **Reply #117 on:** January 27, 2014, 09:49:29 AM »

Crush takes on Nova Dean Bucci . . .

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #118 on:** January 28, 2014, 04:33:02 PM »

Never knew Dean Ambrose did job duty in WWE way back in '06. Or that Velocity was still on in 2006.

Brodypedia · « **Reply #119 on:** February 26, 2014, 04:07:30 AM »

The not yet New Age Outlaws in their beta match...with Honky as a manager!?!?

Dobbs3K · « **Reply #120 on:** February 26, 2014, 07:59:42 AM »

I remember that. Honky had announced he was unveiling a new protege. A lot of the online speculation was that it was going to be Disco Inferno (obviously would have been jumping from WCW). Instead we got Rockabilly.

Beer Baron · « **Reply #121 on:** March 24, 2014, 05:46:48 PM »

Odd seeing Undertaker in a Puro match against Hakushi/Shinzaki, but here it is. It's nothing special, but random none of the less.

alkeiper · « **Reply #122 on:** March 25, 2014, 01:22:27 PM »

Ric Flair vs. Mitsuharu Misawa!

Brodypedia · « **Reply #123 on:** March 26, 2014, 06:11:45 AM »

Quote from: alkeiper on March 25, 2014, 01:22:27 PM

Ric Flair vs. Mitsuharu Misawa!

I first saw that like 15 years ago after I stole a VHS tape from an dealer at a indy show. I recall being mad it wasn't the Original TM, before I understood how Japan and the NWA worked.

Brodypedia · « **Reply #124 on:** June 20, 2014, 06:24:20 AM »

tekcop · « **Reply #125 on:** June 22, 2014, 03:27:36 AM »

Al Snow vs. Osamu Nishimura from the 1/17/95 episode of Hardcore TV fits this thread for me. Fun if not a bit sloppy match, too.

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #126 on:** June 28, 2014, 04:25:41 AM »

Not only a match that I didn't know existed but a heel turn that I didn't know existed is I don't remember Highlanders as heel AT ALL.

tekcop · « **Reply #127 on:** June 28, 2014, 04:49:39 AM »

Were Duggan and Super Crazy team for like a month or did I just imagine that?

I don't remember the Highlanders turning heel either. I assume they were gone soon after.

BorneAgain · « **Reply #128 on:** June 28, 2014, 04:53:03 AM »

Duggan and Crazy were a team for a bit on Raw, trying to get the catchphrase of "HO!" Si!" over.

I wanna say the Highlanders turned heel on Londrick (as they're the only babyface team from that period I can remember) but I could be wrong.

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #129 on:** June 28, 2014, 05:04:53 AM »

I thought Duggan and Super Crazy were a team for a little while. But then I just remembered that they were in the Tag Team Gauntlet at New Year's Revolution '07...and the match I just posted was from the day after the last PPV of '07 so they must have been a team (off and on) for a year!

Baby Shoes · « **Reply #130 on:** June 28, 2014, 06:00:34 AM »

Crazy/Duggan were a recurring team for a surprisingly long team. Mostly on Heat but they were together maybe like a year and a half.

BorneAgain is right. Highlanders turned heel on London/Kendrick due to "never getting opportunities". Feuded with those guys on Heat, really stayed on the B shows because one got injured, the other one had the "Impact Incident" shortly after and they were sparingly used before being Future Endeavored.

Dobbs3K · « **Reply #131 on:** June 30, 2014, 12:48:31 AM »

re: Undertaker/Hakushi(Shinzaki), what was the deal with Shinzaki acting like he was "dead" for half the match? Was that part of his gimmick at the time in Japan?

Also, the Luger/Vader teamup is something I had never heard about at all before. I didn't realize Vader played a face really at any time in his WCW run, other than turning on the Dungeon of Doom shortly before he was fired.

BreakingMad · « **Reply #132 on:** July 02, 2014, 04:11:26 AM »

I always forget Scott hall showed up in ECW.

"Dot Com" Matt Postin (heel) · « **Reply #133 on:** July 02, 2014, 10:21:00 PM »

Scott Hall did o e of his famous jobs/notjobs for Tanahashi in 2001

Fall of Epic · « **Reply #134 on:** July 03, 2014, 01:14:35 AM »

Kurt Angle and HHH have a match in MCW in 2000 complete with interference from Daniel Bryan and Brian Kendrick.

Brodypedia · « **Reply #135 on:** July 06, 2014, 11:54:07 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4ur6HgaIo&feature=youtu.be

Mega bucks 1979

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #136 on:** July 19, 2014, 05:44:53 AM »

Didn't know Jerry Lynn appeared as himself during his Mr. JL run.

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #137 on:** July 28, 2014, 08:52:44 AM »

Goldberg Vs ~~The Sandman~~ Hardcore Hak! With cameo by Riki Rachtman.

Ed · « **Reply #138 on:** July 28, 2014, 11:19:23 AM »

Oh man. Rikki Rachtman. WCW hires a MTV VJ (five years after he was an MTV VJ) who doesn't know jack about the product and then he leaves a month into his gig.

HSJ · « **Reply #139 on:** November 17, 2014, 03:07:05 AM »

Dean Ambrose jobs to MNM on Velocity almost 9 years ago!

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #140 on:** February 23, 2015, 03:31:14 PM »

Even though both dudes were in WCW for the last 7-8 years, never thought Ric Flair and Booker T had a match!

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #141 on:** June 05, 2015, 09:41:55 AM »

A rare televised appearance by one of the biggest busts of the '80s, Tom "Megaman" Magee going against Arn Anderson (in what had to be one of the only singles matches of his WWF run).

Boomer Kamala · « **Reply #142 on:** July 26, 2015, 01:56:02 AM »

One Man Gang Vs JYD is a match that's happened many times before. But check out the commentary team for this one---Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Don Muraco, who both sound about as soused as you'd expect for them. I feel like these two guys calling a match was the result of a lost bet.

Monsoon Classic · « **Reply #143 on:** July 26, 2015, 07:15:00 AM »

Mr Wrestling II doing shlub duty for the WWF . . .

Dobbs3K · « **Reply #144 on:** July 26, 2015, 11:51:17 AM »

Quote from: King Kamala on June 05, 2015, 09:41:55 AM

A rare televised appearance by one of the biggest busts of the '80s, Tom "Megaman" Magee going against Arn Anderson (in what had to be one of the only singles matches of his WWF run).

Still crazy that a guy who was a taller and more athletic version of Kerry Von Erich didn't make it.

THE TUGSTER · « **Reply #145 on:** August 21, 2015, 12:35:38 PM »

Jingus · « **Reply #146 on:** August 22, 2015, 01:37:37 AM »

The sheer number of grey boxes from broken links in this thread makes me a sad panda. But we need content from something, dammit. I've been scouring the darkest corners of Youtube recently, and found a few bizarre gems:

Genichiro Tenryu is squashing the Brooklyn Brawler. Your argument is invalid.

Meanwhile, a wrestler-exchange program sends the Yonkers Brawler to All Japan.

The Giants collide. Andre versus Baba, motherfucker! Also: Stan Hansen talks!

And while we're talking about 1.Stan Hansen, and 2.ECW mainstays inexplicably working for AJPW: here's a super-young Rob Van Dam in Japan. Point and laugh as he does some Waltman-esque worked karate kicks that Toshiaki Kawada utterly refuses to sell.

Back to 'merica, here's ~~Steven~~ William Regal teaching young ~~Bryan Danielson~~ Daniel Bryan everything he will ever know.

Ric Flair. Bruiser Brody. One hour (or close enough). What do you need, a road map?

Two guys sharing the same thought: "What the fuck is this guy in the ring with me?" NASH-IMOTO HAPPENS, BABY.

Didya know Lou Thesz had his last match in the nineties? No, I said in THE nineties, not in HIS nineties (though he doesn't look too far off).

You can always count on Onita to book a bizarre list of dudes who make you go "Whoa, THAT guy did exploding barbed-wire?!" Yes, these respected old veterans of mainstream puroresu apparently decided that this was a good day to get blown the hell up.

One more random mismatch, from New Japan. Muta, check. Chono, check. Liger, why not. Sabu, sure... wait, what, SABU?

I notice that most of these matches are from Japan. That's because, well, fuck most wrestling which isn't Japanese. But anyway, hardcore fans know that the legendary tag-team rivalry of stalwart babyface Mitsuharu Misawa and his beyond-fiery partner Kenta Kobashi had the best matches ever against the "Holy Demon Army" team of the ridiculously stiff Toshiaki Kawada and his big surly stoic backup Akira Taue. So naturally that leads to... wait, what the fuck, at one point they switched partners? Uh. Okay. Still had a hell of a match.

BreakingMad · « **Reply #147 on:** August 22, 2015, 03:58:50 AM »

Dennis Rodman vs Mr Perfect happened in Australia. Was news to me.

Harley Quinn · « **Reply #148 on:** August 22, 2015, 05:10:20 AM »

Bret Hart takes on Mankind from an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night (1/25/97) with Owen on commentary.

Suicide · « **Reply #149 on:** August 26, 2015, 08:15:47 PM »

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Author Topic: Matches You Didn't Think Existed (Read 27311 times)