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WrestleMania VII: Stars and Stripes Forever

Max-mas Power said:
I'm shocked at how many people hate the main event. It's one of my favorite Hulkamania matches ever. Me as a kid had never seen Hogan bleed like that and I was convinced he was losing.
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I like the main event too even though it's a tad too long.

A lot of people don't like but I actually enjoy the storyline of "Slaughter knows he can't beat Hogan fairly so he's going to try and get himself DQ'd or counted out." It made the match feel less predictable to me (and apparently, only me).
 
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Venkman said:
Was that also held in a cage?
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It was. The Storm/Harris feud had the distinction of having probably of the worst match of that year one month only to put out one of the best matches of the year the very next month.
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Easily the biggest quality gap between match and rematch in wrestling history. They should be watched back to back just because if it. They go from negative stars to four plus. It goes back to what I always say...James Storm is quietly the king of the deathmatch/last man standing match
 
I really like LOD vs. Power and Glory. P&G screwed LOD out of the tag title match, LOD promises to destroy them... and they do.

Savage's Mania arc is pretty weird... he loses a retirement match, wins the world title, then does colour commentary before getting one more moment on the midcard (though very honestly, Savage vs. Crush was a match I may have been anticipating even more than Shawn/Razor).
 
King Kamala said:
Max-mas Power said:
I'm shocked at how many people hate the main event. It's one of my favorite Hulkamania matches ever. Me as a kid had never seen Hogan bleed like that and I was convinced he was losing.
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I like the main event too even though it's a tad too long.

A lot of people don't like but I actually enjoy the storyline of "Slaughter knows he can't beat Hogan fairly so he's going to try and get himself DQ'd or counted out." It made the match feel less predictable to me (and apparently, only me).
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I was a young mark at the time and I absolutely ate up jobber squashes. I saw Slaughter do so many jobber squashes that I thought he was unbeatable.

Of course I also always wondered how Hogan was going to beat Zeus, a man that felt no pain!

I also remember being mad that Demolition (my favorites) lost to these stupid random Japanese guys. Now that I look back years later I'm like "It's Tenyru!!!!!!"

But seriously, why did the Demos job there?
 
That was pretty much their swan song - if you check out Smash vs. Steamboat from the June 91 MSG show you can see Darsow really stopped caring. Smash was never the most toned guy yeah, he was on autopilot until getting the Repo Man re-packaging.

Also Tenryu doesn't come to the US to job.
 
WrestleMania VII was the first PPV my family ever ordered. Good memories of that event, I wore that tape out.
 
I'm surprised somebody's questioning the decision to job the Demos. They were on their way out and like Venk said, they're not gonna fly Tenryu and Fred Kitao over from Japan just to have them lose to a team that's being rapidly pushed down the card.
 
Well I questioned it because I thought they were a hot tag team (didn't realize this was the era when they were on their way out) and I didn't think Vince was ever too keen on jobbing his guys to outside talent.
That and as a child I was a huge Demos mark and just so PISSED they lost that match. I guess it still strikes a chord with me.
 
I think WrestleMania VII might have actually been the very last time the Demos teamed in WWF. I looked it up on Cawthon's not long back.

*goes to Cawthon's*

Yeah, Smash & Crush teamed up on the post WM tours of Japan & Europe but this was definitely their last televised match in the U.S. Though as Venk mentioned, there was that weird period where Smash was a glorified singles job guy for a few months after Mania.
 
Demolition never survived the change from Ax to Crush. Even as late as Wrestlemania VI, they were huge stars, two of the most over wrestlers in the company, and got to defeat Andre the Giant in his last match. By the fall, they were nothing. It just didn't work without it being Ax and Smash.
 
I always liked Crush more than Ax, but that was just me as a young mark. I'd have to look back on it now to see.
 
Kahran Ramsus said:
Demolition never survived the change from Ax to Crush. Even as late as Wrestlemania VI, they were huge stars, two of the most over wrestlers in the company, and got to defeat Andre the Giant in his last match. By the fall, they were nothing. It just didn't work without it being Ax and Smash.
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The three man rotation aspect was interesting in theory but it turned the announcers into blathering idiots who all of a sudden couldn't differentiate Ax and Smash and Ax barely if ever wrestled anyway after Crush debuted.

By the time, it was Smash and Crush, they were glorified cannon fodder. They even jobbed to the Bushwhackers!
 
Had the Road Warriors and Demolition feuded in 1988 or 1989 instead of 1990 it would have been huge.
 
Had the Road Warriors-Demolition feud been Hawk/Animal vs. Ax/Smash it would have been huge, even in 1990
 
LIMA DELTA said:
I've never seen so many women with bad hair and ugly sweaters cry so hard over something not related to their bad hair and ugly sweaters.
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Maybe their shoes were too tight?
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
LIMA DELTA said:
I've never seen so many women with bad hair and ugly sweaters cry so hard over something not related to their bad hair and ugly sweaters.
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Maybe their shoes were too tight?
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Must've had the chili dog with onions!

I think it's safe to say this is prob. the most quotable WM ever
 
I still think VIII is the most quotable Mania since we have a couple matches here with Lord Alfred and Duggan on commentary, that are rather forgettable quote-wise.

Though it was always jarring to hear "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan be semi-articulate and in character. Even when he was on this year's Royal Rumble pre-show, I was like "He can form a sentence!?"
 
Thank you for finding that clip, I was looking for it yesterday and was getting pissed I couldn't find it.
 
Rewatching this since it is Mania season, does anyone know how much of the Warrior-Savage match was edited out of the CV release? I'm pretty sure all of the scenes of Sherri getting beat up were left in so while I'm sure it was probably done for time on the VHS I was surprised they edited parts of the match.
 
wow those posts were exactly two years apart.

I haven't watched this since I posted about it two years ago itt. One of my favorite Manias, I may watch some of it again today. I really like the shorter minor matches as far as the booking and 'fun' aspect of it.
 
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