Matches You Didn't Think Existed

[Dobbs3K]

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.

 

[Red Baron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnPrZ8ATpv0

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]

Ric Flair vs. Mitsuharu Misawa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re_UDhCZYjI

 

[BruiserBrody]

Ric Flair vs. Mitsuharu Misawa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re_UDhCZYjI

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.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNjR61zMRFE

 

[tekcop]

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.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

http://youtu.be/EO41Kpdtdww
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]

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]

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.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

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]

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]

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]

I always forget Scott hall showed up in ECW.

 

[Mattdotcom]

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

 

[Fall of Epic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZT12g0Uso

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

 

[BruiserBrody]

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

Mega bucks 1979

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

http://youtu.be/JBRNZQsMojE
Didn't know Jerry Lynn appeared as himself during his Mr. JL run.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

http://youtu.be/SJ6pKd0rgic
Goldberg Vs The Sandman Hardcore Hak! With cameo by Riki Rachtman.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

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]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxYmfMpkuu0

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

http://youtu.be/tpkXJgCtFR8
Even though both dudes were in WCW for the last 7-8 years, never thought Ric Flair and Booker T had a match!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CZYJtgT_h5U
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).

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://youtu.be/vZzLIrfV2Gs
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.

 

[MillenniumMan831]

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZU8cmyI3ew

 

[Dobbs3K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CZYJtgT_h5U
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.

 

[alfdogg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbwJDCPH6Q

 

[Jingus]

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyg7iq5wV18



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-TQVBB832I



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1pB9Es4pOg



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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb1jqleaJlI



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_9l8AgA__U



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2KJ-g-QgMk



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyHLggWAlSk



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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bkxclbRYMI



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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogwryjawnLs



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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09E5llBUduE



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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSteagn3ySg

 

[BreakingMad]

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

 

[HarleyQuinn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUA88KMUaSg

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

 

[Suicide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYXf3x-evw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pesGr8UHr3w

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbkppf_cactus-jack-vs-rick-rude_sport

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dte25_wcw-saturday-night-1994-ricky-steamboat-vs-hunter-hearst-helmsley_sport