Kamala's Random WCW Bullshit thread

[strummer]

The Freebirds push was even stronger when Dusty returned in 91. Humperdink, DDP and the diamond dolls were all added to the act. The Birds seemed to be on every wcw show from late 90 thru all of 91

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

New internet filter at work blocks DDTDigest cause it's categorized as pornography.

What a crock!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

An Indonesian WCW TV promo from 1997 featuring Stunning Steve Austin and Honky Tonk Man.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Just found out that Mancow is running for Governor of Illinois.

Hopefully, Jimmy Hart and Three Count jump him at a campaign event.

(How has Jimmy Hart not had a podcast yet? I think he'd be one of the first people in wrestling to have a podcast. Maybe he's self aware enough to know that people might have a hard time listening to him for 2-3 hours, baby! I'd listen to Jimmy's podcast! )

Edit-

These nWo reunions keep more and more depressing.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Guy on the right looks like Dee Snider.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Dee Snider would be so mad on Twitter if you said Roger Stone looked like him!

 

[Valeyard]

Oh Mancow. I know modern times have played into his gimmick perfectly but he's always going to be the bad shock jock who wrestled Jimmy Hart and who had Stern tell him on Mancow's own show that he wanted to skullfuck his dead dad.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1537618200417820672

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

‘86 Big Bubba Rogers looks like @SFH if he went through a ska phase.

I want to see Rick Rude sell Boogie Woogie Man’s offense.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1538861538420961282

 

[snuffbox]

I still remember how excited I was for that Clash. It was in the middle of Beach Blast and GAB, all happening within about a month, but it still got a lot of promotion on WCW tv.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

For all of that ish that Bill Watts got during his WCW run (and majority of it was deserved), I did like how he tried to make it seem like a legitimate sport.

And of course, it was rendered meaningless immediately after he left when the product was literally moved to Disney but I get what Watts was trying to go for even if he maybe wasn't the right person to pull it off.

 

[snuffbox]

I'm not sure Jake the Snake and Barbarian at the top of the card really gave it much shoot credibility. And while Steve Williams was a legendary real wrestler (etc), Gordy wasn't, and he pushed two other legits out the door in the Steiners. So if that was his goal, less cartoony/more legitimate, it was kinda meaningless even before he left.

Speaking of those summer 1992 ppvs, Watts was really weird about pacing his big shows. At least during that WCW run. Instead of the awesome Sting-Cactus match or the Rude-Steamboat ironman, he closed Beach Blast with a 30 minute draw comprised of a lot more restholds than suplexes. GAB ends with heels winning the tag finals and the world title match, with a lot of unused talent (Ron Simmons, Cactus, etc).

But 30 years later I do remember he put a lot of good matches on tv that year.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Barbarian did have a sumo background and could make somebody smell their own ass in a hurry in a bar room brawl. Jake The Snake not so much but he was a K. Allen Frey signing that Cowboy was stuck with.

 

[Gert]

I'm not sure Jake the Snake and Barbarian at the top of the card really gave it much shoot credibility. And while Steve Williams was a legendary real wrestler (etc), Gordy wasn't, and he pushed two other legits out the door in the Steiners. So if that was his goal, less cartoony/more legitimate, it was kinda meaningless even before he left.

Speaking of those summer 1992 ppvs, Watts was really weird about pacing his big shows. At least during that WCW run. Instead of the awesome Sting-Cactus match or the Rude-Steamboat ironman, he closed Beach Blast with a 30 minute draw comprised of a lot more restholds than suplexes. GAB ends with heels winning the tag finals and the world title match, with a lot of unused talent (Ron Simmons, Cactus, etc).

But 30 years later I do remember he put a lot of good matches on tv that year.

I remember being mad they "wasted" Steiners-Dr. & Gordy at the Clash instead of the GAB PPV, even though there was a 0% chance of an 11 year old Gert ordering a PPV!

I had a fondness for that Great American Bash PPV because they showed Sting-Vader on multiple TV shows in July before Simmons title win in August and the idea of how awesome the Pillman-Liger v. Steamboat-Koloff match could be. It was one of the first shows I watched when WWE Network started in 2014, and MAN is that a boring ass show.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Ranger Ross has a whale of a tale

The life of Robert Lee Ross Jr. has been full of danger, triumphs, wins, losses, daring and mistakes. A high would being featured on national television as patriotic hero Ranger Ross. A low was eight years in prison for a string of robberies. The way he tells it, Ross' tale is akin to the story o

slamwrestling.net

Good article although I wish him randomly impersonating Great Muta that one time was brought up.

 

[BUTT]

Speaking of those summer 1992 ppvs, Watts was really weird about pacing his big shows. At least during that WCW run. Instead of the awesome Sting-Cactus match or the Rude-Steamboat ironman, he closed Beach Blast with a 30 minute draw comprised of a lot more restholds than suplexes.

They did this because they wanted to have Cactus’s and Steamboat’s respective matches before the angle with the two of them later in the show. But if they were putting the tag titles on last, they should have had the Steiners win. Gordy and Williams were going to beat them at the Clash and then for the titles. As it was, I don’t think the Steiners went over on them once. No wonder they left.

 

[snuffbox]

Bill Watts would've closed WM 4 with the Rude-Roberts match.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539326471730343937

These two are still less over the top to work with than David Crockett.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539709801038594052

Damn. We really missed out.

 

[snuffbox]

Man, that could've put the blowoff at Starrcade. Replace two of the world cup matches (I'd do Luger, Sting or Savage's since they have another match anyway) with Meng-Vader and that would've been a goat type ppv.

 

[Valeyard]

Have one of them "jump" and have them work a match, cut Badd/Saito and a chunk of Savage/Tenzan. Wouldn't not make sense.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

With DDP as referee.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1542484990558093312

It’s going to be hilarious when Tony Khan goes through his biker phase.

Spoiler

 

[Hawk 34]

It does run in the family

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

As much as I hate Tony Khan onscreen appearances, there should be an angle where a heel clobbers him then Papa Shahid has to come down* to lay down the law.

*preferably riding down the ramp on his bike ala early 2000s Undertaker.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1543134673441808384

Mike Awesome's the forgotten guy to go over Hogan.

 

[Fall of Epic]

I'm sure Hogan had no problem putting over his cousin. That sure would have made an awkward family reunion!

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Somewhere, Horace is blandly shaking his head

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

See that's one reason I think Hogan is actually secretly more self aware than Ric Flair (not that's a high bar to clear). At least, he knew better to work a major program with Nephew Horace.

ON THE OTHER HAND, generally speaking, there's an enormous difference between love for niblings and love for children and Hogan DID make Brooke a major onscreen character in Impact Wrestling despite her never giving any indication that she was interested in wrestling.