The Pro Wrestling Thread (Page 4)

At this point Piper is now the Commish. Hogan comes out to talk shit. I guess it is Hogan-Piper in a cage at halloween Havoc. This must be the answer to the WWFs hell in a cell. :/

Jarret and Booker T have a good little macth

Billy Kidman is on nitro and takes on Alex Wright. Raven and Saturn watch from the crowd..

Hall and Syxx are out. Hall has his stomach taped up and says hes injured and the average man would be in the hospital but he doesnt want to disappoint the fans. lolz. Hall talks shit about Larry Zbyszko. The Larry chants get loud!

Hall then squashes Hector Garza. Hall torture racks the ref and taunts Lugar.

More dancing gimmicks :/. DDP defeats Disco inferno. Out comes Macho man on the attack! Yes, these 2 are still goin at it. Out comes the commish, Piper! Macho pushes him and Piper spits on him! Macho is about to go after him but DDP grabs Macho and diamond cuts him onto the cement! NWO come out pissy and paramedics check up on Macho.

Piper comes back out for interview time. Hogan comes out to confront him. They have their ego war. Hogan says for the past 15 years Piper stood in Hogans shadow. Bischoff kicks Piper in his bad knee. That gives Hogan the advantage but Piper fights back.

Eddie and Ultimo dragon have a good match for the cruiserweight title

BTW someone by the name of Bill Goldberg debuted a few weeks ago..

Hennig vs Benoit is the main event. Benoit takes it to him intensely early! Great match. Afterwards a few other NWO members come out and help him beat on Benoit. So At this point Hennig had turned on fliar and the horsemen and joined NWO. Flair comes out and chases Hennig all around! After the match Falir comes out for a promo. He cuts a great promo on Henning and hogan! Woo!

Great weeK for wrestling.
ECW was overall entertaining.
WWF was cray and exciting
WCW was good for wreslting matches.

If only it was like that every week

Well since ive been in dire need of a better PPV i guess Ill go back 10 years earlier to 1987 and wrestlemania III

Wrestlemania III, 1987
Liveeeeeeeeeeeeee from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac Michigan.
In front of a monumental crowd. 93,000
Good to hear Jesse Ventura and Gorilla Monsoon announcing.

The Can-Am Connection v. Don Muraco & Bob Orton
Good opener. Fast paced and I loved that ending. 2.25/5

Billy Jack Haynes vs. The Mighty Hercules (w/Bobby Heenan)
They are feuding over who has the better full nelson. Its nothin special and a bad end. 1/5

Hillbilly Jim, The Haiti Kid and Little Beaver v. King Kong Bundy, Little Tokyo and Lord Littlebrook
I cant escape the midgets!! Least it was short and painless. Cept for the midget bundy squashes. 0.5/5

Loser-Must-Kneel: King Harley Race (w/Bobby Heenan) vs. The Junkyard Dog
Another shorty 1/5

The Rougeau Brothers v. The Dream Team
We get Heenen at the table saying hes 2 for 2! More dissapointment in the first hour. 1.5/5

Hair vs. Hair: Adrian Adonis (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. Roddy Piper
Quite the brawl and an entertaining one at that. After the match Brutus the barber beefcake helps shave Adrians head. Good stuff. This was Pipers retirement....cept not as you see he is still wrestling 10 years later lolol. 3/5

The British Bulldogs & Tito Santana v. The Hart Foundation & Danny Davis
Danny Davis screwed the bulldogs out of the tag titles. Danny Davis is rather entertaining when he gets tagged in the first time. Fun match with a Jimmy Hart ending hahaha. 3/5

Koko B. Ware v. Butch Reed
Quick match and nothin to it. 0/5

Intercontinental Title: Randy Savage (w/Elizabeth) vs. Ricky Steamboat (w/George Steele)
Here we gooo. Match of the night time. Not much I can say about this. Was voted match of the year and is one of the best matches in wrestlemania history and the first perfect match in PPV history. Really, one of the best of all time and stole the show wreslting wise. 5/5

Jake Roberts (w/Alice Cooper) vs. The Honkytonk Man (w/Jimmy Hart)
Jimmy hart strikes again. 2/5

Gene Okerlund announces that this show has set an indoor attendance record of 93,173

The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff (w/Slick) vs. The Killer Bees
Jim Duggen makes his WWF debut and stops Nikolai from singing the russian national anthem. Match is nothing special. 1.5/5

WWF World Heavyweight Title: Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant (w/Bobby Heenan)
Massive roar from the crowd for Hogans entrance. Can barely hear the theme. Of course this match has the epic moment of Hogan bodyslamming Andre. The built to it is great. The wrestling is slow but on sheer entertainment its a 3/5

All in all this is the first great mania as they first two are iffy. In retrospect there are wayyy too many damn matched tho. And most are short and/or iffy so that knocks down some points. But it had the monumental main event and one of the best matches of the 90s in savage-steamboat.

C+

WWF canadian stampede 1997 A-
Wrestlemania III C+
Wcw Slamboree 1997: C-
WWF Summerslam 1997: D
WWF Badd Blood 1997: D
ECW Born to be Wired 1997: D
WCW Great american bash 1997: D-
WCW Bash at the beach 1997: F+
WWF King of the Ring 1997: F+

Jason debuts his "newest find," Justin Credible. Justin Credible vs Jerry Lynn being the first match. Sick bump on Justin Credible falling onto the guard rail. Pretty great stuff from these two.

Chris Candido vs Lance storm is the second match of the evening. Decent enough match. Could have been better between these two tho.

We end with a RVD and Bill Alfonso against Tommy Dreamer and Bealuh. Sabu eventually helps RVD take out Dreamer. Thyat leaves Bill Alfonso after Beauluh. Bill and Bealuh start wraslin! She kicks some ass and gets a "shes hardcore" chant! pretty awesome stuff.

Another entertaining ECW

They start by highlighting some of Brian Pillmans whacky ECW moments.

Well this seems to be a clip show from some stuff weve seen over the past months.

We finally get a match 12 mintues in. Tommy Dreamer vs Shane Douglas. We get a catfiiiight in the middle of the match to boot. Its good enough stuff.

Basically the rest of the show looks like more highlights so im not gonna watch

WCW Halloween Havoc
Liveee from Las Vegas Nevada! The MGM Grand

Yuji Nagata (w/Sonny Onoo) vs. Ultimo Dragon
Good start mat wrestling. Raven, Saturn, Kidman and someone else are shown walking through the crowd. Nagata keeps having some good reversals for Dragon. Pretty good opener and an upset. 3/5

Gedo vs. Chris Jericho
These two apparently had a feud in japan. Decent enough encounter with a painful botch. 2/5

WCW World Cruiserweight Champion Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. — —Mask vs. Title??
These two go allll fuckin out. Quick match and great stuff from both guys. This is actually a perfect match. Somethin that doesnt happen often in WCW. Awesome. 5/5

What a great fuckin first hour! Prolly all down hill from here tho. :/

Steve McMichael vs. Alex Wright (w/Debra)
Slow start. Out comes Goldberg. Spear! Jackhammer! Alex gets the win because of it. After the match Goldberg beats on Wright too. 0.5/ but at least a goldberg appearance I guess.

Disco Inferno vs. Jacquelyn
They must have gotten an idea from ecw with man vs woman. Not nearly as cool as ECW. Pretty bad. 0/5

WCW U.S. Heavyweight Champion Curt Hennig vs. Ric Flair
Woo! But fucking shitty ass announcers been talkin bout piper-hogan allll night. Fuck these other matches I guess. Stupid. Decent enough match. Crappy ending. These two could do better and have done better in the WWF. 2/5

Theres some stupid Bischoff/hogan stuff with hogan not wanting to fight if sting gets involved with the cage.

Scott Hall (w/Syxx) vs. Lex Luger — Special Ref: Larry Zbyszko
Ehhhhhh 2/5

After a great first hour the second hour has been craaaaap.

Randy Savage (w/Elizabeth) vs. Diamond Dallas Page — Las Vegas Death Match
Nothing like a match type with death in the title. Its really a last man standing match. Hopefully this match can pick things back up. Feels like this feud has been goin forever. Before I even started with the spring time. Match peddles along kind of slow until Elizabeth gets involved! Cracks a tray over the refs head and then chokes DDP with a camera wire. Here comes Kimberley. Catfiiiiiight! Match gets really hot after that. Out comes fake sting which im so sick of to fuck up the end. Got really good there for awhile but the damn ending knocks shit off. 3.5/5

Hollywood Hogan vs. Roddy Piper — Non-title Cage Match
I really believe they were trying to one up the hell in a cell. pfffft. There some biting? Really? :/ The match is just a fucking atrocity and the aftermath is such a clusterfuck. -1.0/5

This one is a hard one to rate because the first hour is quite good. The second hour stinks. Macho-DDp is good and the main event is one of the worst matches ever. So the perfect match and terrible match cancel each other out and the first hour and second hour cancel each other out. I can't give it higher than a D+

WWF canadian stampede 1997 A-
Wrestlemania III C+
Wcw Slamboree 1997: C-
WCW Halloween Havoc 1997: D+
WWF Summerslam 1997: D
WWF Badd Blood 1997: D
ECW Born to be Wired 1997: D
WCW Great american bash 1997: D-
WCW Bash at the beach 1997: F+
WWF King of the Ring 1997: F+

The nation of domination talk about racism in the WWF because of vandalism in their locker room. Rock and the rest of them kick Vince out the ring. They challenge the Hart foundation so out they come. Nothin like these bad guy groups like bad guy groups. Hart foundation also call out the bad DX and says theyre responsible for the problems. Nation and Hart foundation brawl after shawn says some stupid shit.

We get Goldust vs Hunter with shawn on commentary. Ehhh.

We get a Cornette rant about how every claims to be an icon. He then goes onto bury the Hogan-Piper match from Halloween Havoc the night before! bahahaha good stuff. Says it should have been the main event since the card was so good but that match wasnt. so true. He says the Undertaker, ric flair and Steve austin dont brag about being icons but are the best candidates.

Good stuff in the Ahmed and owen match. Austin comes out and stuns Ahmed so that Owen keeps the title for their match.

JR interviews Mankind about Kane. Mankind wants a match with Kane but Slaughter says no/ So Mankind attacks him.

Bret Hart defends the WWF title against Ken Shamrock. Decent. Shawn comes out and Shamrock snaps on him!

Kane and Paul bearer do their schtick

Jeff Jarret is now on Raw! He jumped ship from wcw. Jeff says in ring ability doesnt matter in WCW. Jeff continues to bury wcw from there.

Gee the war must be heated after all this wcw bashing tonight on raw.

The main event is some tag team shit. LOD are the champs. Billy Gunn and road dogg are a new team.

We end the show with Ahemed saying he is coming after Stone Cold

Pretty meh show

Liveee from San Diego

We start with Hogan and Bischoff telling how they took out Piper last night. He calls himself a god (hes a leo bahahaha) and then challenges anyone in WCW. Nobody comes out :/. They then plug Hogans newest shitty movie. :/

The new cruiserweight champion, after the great match at the PPV takes on Dean Malenko. During the match Raven and his flock come out to sit in the crowd. More great cruieserweight stuff.

DDP comes out for an interview and talks shit about Hogan. He accepts Hogans challenge from earlier!

Out comes Larry Z. He wants his match with Hall. Out comes Hall and Syxx.

Lugar beats Stevie Ray

We get a Raven promo talkin in his poem like way

They show the replay of Jericho almost dying from his botched flying hurricanrana. Jericho takes on Eddie Guerrero. These two put on an awesome match.

We get Benoit against Fit Finley next. We go from the last quick paced match to this probable brawl. These two basically have the same fuckin hair lolol. Another good match tonight. Nitro is on a roll with wrestling!

Flair comes out for his promo. He is taking on Savage tonight.

Raven doesnt want to fight scotty riggs. He wants him to join the flock. Riggs wants to fight however. Raven ends up injuring Riggs eye.

To end the second hour we get the Hogan-DDP match. I like Tenay on the annouce team all night. We get more fake sting stupidity during the match. Afterwards the NWO help Hogan beat on DDP. The realll sting comes from the crowd and takes on Henning, Hall, Konnan and Norton by himself.

Hogan beats on Alex Wright and Disco. Steve McMichael tries to attack Goldberg but he gets taken down too.

Damn Hogan and Bischoff are back out. They have had enough of Sting.

Steiners put on a open challenge for their tag titles. They end up taking on Public enemy.

Hennig and Booker goes good. SOoooo sick of hearing about Hogans shitty movie tho.

Savage and Flair is the main event. Its okay.

WCW went all out for this Nitro tho! No wonder they kicked Raws ass in the ratings. Good show.

We start with Heyman showing and talking about how Rick Rude had Shane Douglas own partner in triple threat, Bam Bam Bigelow take on Douglas for the title. And looks like he may have won.

The FBI take on the tag champs. The dudleys help the FBI win the titles lolol. Match was a mess tho. New jack can go the fuck away.

We get a brawl from the tag teams after.

Since Bam Bam is no longer with the Triple threat, Candido needs a new partner for the night. He gets Lance Storm. It is Candido and Storm vs Lafon and furnas. Storm and Candido pull off a good match.

RVD and Taz is the main event. Good stuff. Sabu and Dreamer eventually get involved. Eventually Taz and Bam bam get into it but they are kept apart

This was a step down from the usual entertaining ECW shows

Theyre in Hershey, PA
Jim Cornette is announcing tonight with JR. Interesting.

Out comes Austin! The place goes nutsss. Vince interviews him about his match with Owen. Hart Foundation isnt there. Theyre watching from Canada. hmmmm. They then talk about Austin stunning Ahmed last week. Out comes Ahmed. Ahmed wants him come and officials try and stop him. Crowd is hugely behind Austin. Ahmed gets intense and wants a match with him tonight. Austin accepts.

The light-heavyweight championship tournament continues.

Goldust is pissed at Terri.

We get a recap of the shawn-bret rivalry. Survivor series is this sunday :/

Ahmed is out for his match with Austin but out comes Kane to fuck up Ahmed. Boo. Mankind comes out to help Ahmed.

Austin then challenges anyone and out comes Kama. However the Legion of Doom attack theNation. Man shit were not gonna get any matched tonight I guess.

Lawler takes Cornettes place for the second hour.

Out comes Rick Rude and DX. They talk their shit.

Marc Mero (with sable) takes on savio Vega.

Its time! Its vader time! UFC stole that shit..
Vader and Bulldog fight in a dog collar match. Lafon and furnas help neidhart and bulldog beat up Vader to help bulldog win. But Vader ends up coming back. Out comes Steve Blackmon to help Vader. They try and play it off as a fan.

Roadog and Billy gunn get another tag team win.

Shamrock and HBK is the main event. Ends with a DX beat down on Shamrock.

Another not so hot Raw. Cant say it was good. WCW is better at this point.

Liveeeee from Philly. Ecw country.

We see that the Hogan and Sting match has finallyyyyy been signed.

Eddie and Dean Malenko take on Rey Mysterio and steven regal. Good start and why Nitro is better than raw atm. Theyre actually having wrestling matches. And good ones.

Raven hath arrived in the crowd to an ecw chant.

Ill eat my words. The next 2 matches arent that great.

Saturn and Disco inferno battle. Saturn was dominant and becomes the new TV champ in just his second match.

Hall takes his NWO survey and then talks about Big Kev. Then talks more shit about Larry. That gets the Larry! chants louder. They reshow Hall Helping Bichoff beat on Larry at the PPV. Jericho is Halls opponent for the night. Jericho upsets Hall with a sweet roll up! Hall beats on him after tho. Good segment however. Good segment.

Larry Zbysko says his peace.

Giant kills a ring of some mexican cruiserweights. Meh. Hes tryin to prove somethin to Nash I guess.

Alex Wright takes on the natureee boyyy, ric flair.

We're losin steam in the second hour.

Philly Street fight with steiners and public enemy.

The main event is Lex Lugar vs Curt Hennig. boringgggggg. and flair attacks henning.

Ehhh. An okay Nitro. Still better than Raw tho.

A lot of Shane Douglas and Franchine stuff to start. Shane goes onto say that since he lost the title her cant....cant get hard! lolol oi. He continues his tirade.

We finally get a match. A 3 way dance. Douglas vs dreamer vs sabu
This match goes on almost the entire show. And it really just doesnt do it for me.

Show ends with sparring Bam Bam and Douglas promos

Was okay. Just wish the match was better.

Before watching survivor series 1997 i wanted to watch the bret hart documentary, wrestling with shadows again (so that the PPV can leave an even worse taste in my mouth. So i did.

It can be seen at this link http://wrestling.insidepulse.com/2010/01/04/watch-bret-hart-wrestling-with-shadows-full-movie-video/

Alright guess Ill try and watch this

WWF survivor series 1997
Liveee from Montreal Canada

We get an intense bret vs Shawn video preview to start.

The Headbangers & The Blackjacks v. The Godwinns, Billy Gunn & Road Dog
This is a classic survivor series elimination match. This match is not classic however. Its just bad. 1/5

The Truth Commission & Jackyl v. The Disciples of Apocolypse
Oh boy. Another elimination style match. No wonder this concept eventually died with shit like this match. 0/5

Steve Blackman, Marc Mero, Vader and Goldust v. Doug Furnas, Phil LaFon, Davey Boy Smith & Jim Neidhart
This is billed as team USA against Team canada but only one member of team canada is from canada lmao. Decent match. Finally a result the crowd likes. 2/5

Kane v. Mankind
Ehhhhhhhh 1.5/5

Faarooq, Kama, D-Lo Brown & The Rock v. Ken Shamrock, Ahmed Johnson & The Legion of Doom
Match was decent but the crowd didnt quite give a shitttt other than to chant Rocky sucks a lot.
2/5

Intercontinental title match: Owen Hart v. Steve Austin
I assume Austin was still hurt here cuz this was quick and to the point. 1/5

WWF World title match: Bret Hart v. Shawn Michaels
Well here it isss. Shawn starts the match rubbin the canadian flag over his taint. Classy. They brawl into the crowd. Just as the match is startin to get good....down goes the screw job! 2.5/5

Well here it was. The moment that went down in controversy and infamy. The Montreal screw job. It would create the Mr. McMahon character that would propel the WWF into the the main stream and put on more competition with WCW. As a whole this moment is shitty from all angels. This PPV as a whole is really bad to boot so it will get an F from me.

WWF canadian stampede 1997 A-
Wrestlemania III C+
Wcw Slamboree 1997: C-
WCW Halloween Havoc 1997: D+
WWF Summerslam 1997: D
WWF Badd Blood 1997: D
ECW Born to be Wired 1997: D
WCW Great american bash 1997: D-
WCW Bash at the beach 1997: F+
WWF King of the Ring 1997: F+
WWF Survivor Series 1997: F

Im not gonna watch the Raw after survivor series but just in case someone happens across this thread and wants to, i shall post it

Raw did have a good bump in the ratings after the survivor series controversy. Nitro also had a bump however as people may have been wondering if Bret would show up there.

Raw starts with the NWO coming out...and they come out holding canadian flags...They then bring out Kevin Nash. Nash wants Giant to enter world war 3 with him. The 3 ring circus...Bichoff then tells Bret Hart they have surprise for him and the NWO start to sing the canadian national anthem. hahaha. They say hes the newest member of the NWO..

The first match is Regal and Taylor against Harlem heat. Its an upset but ehh

Disco Inferno against Chris Jericho is next. Raven and the flock make their way through the groud during the match. End with an Liontamer! After the match Jericho yells at the camera that disco is dead! lmao.

We get a Scotty Riggs and the flock stuff after that match.

Glacier and Barbarian match. Crowd hates glacier as they should. Meng fucks him up after the match to cheers.

Raven gets into the ring and Raven cuts a promo on his band of misfits.

Been an iffy first hour.

Second hour begins with Bischoff and Hogan. They bring up how Sting is doing a movie. They mock him trying to break into Hogans industry, :/ blah blah blah

A Saturn and Benoit match is next. This looks good. Intense stuff but they dont get much time. Fucking stupid that they didnt get more time. Was the best part of the night tho.

Out comes the natureeeee boy. He gives one of his crazedddd interviews with meannnnnn by god gene.

We get an Eddie and Rey rematch. For the title too. Not enough time to be as great as their match at the PPV but still some awesome stuff. Eddie regains the title. Malenko comes out and gets in Eddies face.

DDP vs Curt Hennig. Good stuff before the ending.

Lugar against Flair is the main event. Hennig ends up coming out but Lugar throws flair on Hnening and flair beats him down.

Hogan and Bischoff are back out to close the show. They call out Sting. They mock him but he does end up coming out! They get in each others face! But out comes the entire NWO! They gang up on Sting and take him outtt. Hogan drops some leg drops of doom on him.

First hour wasnt so hot but the second hour was good. All in all better than Raw I'm sure.

We start the show with Justin Credible kickin ass in a match. Justins manager, Jason comes out and ridicules the rookie Justin beat. Jason comes out a brags and challenges anyone in the back to a street fight. Out comes the Blue Meanie. Meanie ends up getting a quick win after a "testicular claw"

Rick Rude comes out to a loud you sold out chant! And then a you fucked chyna chant! lmao. He brings out the ECW champions Bam Bam Bigelow. Chris Candido and Lance storm attack Bam Bam from behind and fuck him up! He will apparently need stitches.

Taz cuts a promo in how he knows the WWF watches this show and he tells vince he want a match with the worlds most dangerous man, Ken Shamrock.

Shane Douglas comes out with Francine in her slutty clothing. He talks about the new triple threat with Lance storm and how they took out Bam Bam. Rick Rude comes back out. Candido and Storm come in to get in Rudes face with Douglas but Bam Bam comes in and attacks the new triple threat.

The main event is Dreamer and Taz against Sabu and RVD. That fucking whistle. God I hate that fucking whistle. During the match Taz ends up brawling out of the arena with the pitbulls leaving Dreamer 2 on 1. They successful beat him down and go after his injured heel and want to end his career. Theyre about to light his foot on fire....the lights go out...its sandman!

Another entertaining show.

So since the trend of bad PPV/events continued with Survivor Series, I am going to go old school again. I watched Wrestlemania 3 last time. I would watch Wrestlemania 4 but it is not that great. And WCW(then NWA) did something smart. They put on a cable show the same night as Wrestlemania 4 to detour fans from buying it and watching their show instead. So I give to you all that event. Clash of Champions 1!

NWA/WCW clash of champions I
The sound on the video is annoying.

Liveeee from Greensboro North Carolina.
Tony Schivone and Jim Ross are your announcers. Its like the voices of the future Monday Night wars. :O

NWA World Television Champion Mike Rotundo (w/Kevin Sullivan) vs. Jimmy Garvin (w/Precious)
This is a match with 3 rounds I guess. Sullivan and precious end up getting involved. Was short and kind of strange. Not a good opener. 1/5

Well this sucks cuz the sound on the recording is atrocious so guess ill watch on mute.

NWA U.S. Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express (w/Jim Cornette) vs. The Fantastics
This is good stuff. Would have been better with some fucking sound. This is good tag team wrestling tho. 4/5

The Road Warriors & Dusty Rhodes (w/Paul Ellering) vs. The Powers of Pain & Ivan Koloff (w/Paul Jones) — Chicago Street Fight
Clusterfuck. 0.5/5

NWA World Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (w/JJ Dillon) vs. Barry Windham & Lex Luger
Sounds finally alittle better. Hopefully i didnt just jinx it. Match starts hot with Lugar taking them both out with clotheslines.Man both Lugar and Winham take it to the tag champs to start. After Lugar and Windhams dominating, arn, the enforcer starts to take over. The crowd is hot throughout. Winham and Tully later do some good chain wrestling. JJ Dillon ends up getting involved but it backfires. New champs! New champs! Crowd is wild.

Another solid tag team match! 4/5
Its sad that tag team wrestling seemed to die in the early 90s. It did have a bit of a comeback in the late 90s and early 00s tho but it was never as good as the 80's again.

And now your main event!
NWA World Heavyweight Title: Ric Flair vs. Sting
JJ Dillon is put in a cage above the ring so he cannot interfere. We have judges for the match. A binch of celebrities. :/

Slow start as they are trying to feel each other out. They then go into some grappling. We also get a classic flair flop after a drop kick from sting. Back to more grappling. Sound is bad again. :/

Match continues to go down a back and forth grappling path. Continues that way until the end. Scorpion deathlock! Stings gonna do it! But no the time limit on the match runs out.

Good main event tho. 3/5

All in a ll a great show., That was for free. The youtube video sound is awful tho. But on that night while Wrestlemania 4 did have a good buyrate as Macho Man won the tournament for the WWF title, but millions were watching thi

All in a ll a great show., That was for free. The youtube video sound is awful tho. But on that night while Wrestlemania 4 did have a good buyrate as Macho Man won the tournament for the WWF title, but millions were watching this FREE main event between Sting and Flair. B-

WWF canadian stampede 1997 A-
NWA Clash of Champions 1: B-
Wrestlemania III C+
Wcw Slamboree 1997: C-
WCW Halloween Havoc 1997: D+
WWF Summerslam 1997: D
WWF Badd Blood 1997: D
ECW Born to be Wired 1997: D
WCW Great american bash 1997: D-
WCW Bash at the beach 1997: F+
WWF King of the Ring 1997: F+
WWF Survivor Series 1997: F

The ratings are still up for Raw but Nitro is still kickin their ass by over a million viewers.

We start with ol Stone Cold Steve Austin. He asks if anyone wants to see Rocky get his ass whipped give him a hell yeah. The crowd complies. He then calls Rock out. Out he comes with the rest of the nation. Rocky sends out the other 3 members to the ring and he goes to the back. D lo goes in first and gets his ass kicked. Rocky then runs in while hes distracted and steals Austins intercontinental title!

The "real" Bret Hart story will be seen tonight..

Marc Mero and Jerry Lawler have a match. Sable chant starts to break out. Brian christopher argues with sable and that distracts Mero. Sable ends up gettin in and gets Mero DQ's. Match was a dud tho.

They show a Bret Hart interview before survivor series that he said he was leaning towards goin to WCW. they show some footage from after SS. Bret destroying things. JR interviews Vince (who still has a black eye from Bret punchin him out backstage) and asks if he screwed Bret Hart. Vince says he nor shawn nor the wwf screwed bret. "Bret screwed Bret." The interview continues and the Mr Mcmahon character is startin up. Good asshole mode. Fascinating interview, really..

Midget match! Out comes Kane to fuck em up. This is a circus.

Hour 2 starts with DX. Shawn mocks Shamrock and says he ran Bret out of the company and is now going after Brets friends like Shamrock. Hunter mocks Slaughter and calls him out. Rude, Shawn and Hunter beat Slaughter down.

JR interviews Mero. Mero says butterbean is stalking sable. He gets jelly and possessive and all that. Mero calls him into the ring and Butterbean gets in his face. They start a shoving match but officals break it up.

Second part of the McMahon interview. He says Bret sold out. He continues to take no blame for what happened. He ends with its too bad that a 14 year relationship was destroyed because one member of that relationship forgot he was in the sports entertainment business.

Some vader and goldust shenanigans follow that.

Gee did they forget what a wrestling match is?

Slaughter challenges Trips to a match.

Rocky vs Dude love is the main event. Not much of a match but at least some wrestling at last. Show ends with Austin chasin Rock who still has the stolen belt.

So the show is obviously in train wreck mode. Everything movie fast and chaotic. Thats one thing that brings down the attitude era. The wrestling was mostly bad during the first half of it. Until the wrestlers in the WCW jumped ship. It was an entertaining show tho. The interview made it but the Austin and Rock stuff is good too.

Liveeeee from Cincinnati.
Raw was taped by the way...
Out come the NWO! Hey yo. Hall takes his little survey. He also talks shit to Zybysko. Next is Nash. He says he and Hall are the true tag champions. He then talks shit to the Giant. The out comes Hulk Hogan. But they have another surprise guest. Its Rick Rude!....but wait hes on Raw at this very moment. But yes Raw was taped. Rude talks about the rights and wrongs in pro wrestling. He says what is wrong is Shawn Michaels claiming to be champion when he never beat Bret Hart. Whats wrong is Vince mcmahon screwing Bret. But what is right is Bret Hart to abandon the Titanic and swim to the refuge of the NWO. This was epic with Rude appearing on both Raw and Nitro on the same night at the same time. (not to mention he was in ECW at the time too!)

NWO ends up beatin down Big Bubbah.

Uh oh a Glacier match. He takes on Meng. Turns into a glacier, the cat, meng and barbarian brawl.

Alex Wright and Steve McMichael have a rematch. McMichael has a match against Goldberg at the PPV.

Jericho vs Rey Mysterio. Jericho is gettin a bit cocky. Good finally showing personality. During the match he drags Rey around by the mask. Jericho has the intensity turned on! Jericho dominates the match but Rey makes his comeback., Good stuff.

NWO do another beat down. This time on Zybysko.

DDP gets a win

Eddie vs Malenko is next. Good match. The work horses of WCW are putting on great matches.

Saturn (with the flock) takes on Scotty RIggs. Scotty continues to sell the eye injury.

Out come the steiners for a match. But the NWO do yet another beat down.

Hennig and Lugar have a boring match. Hennig tries to take him out but the Giant makes the save.

Giant and Hall is the main event. Ends with an NWO beat down on Giant. Out comes WCW wrestlers! Its a huge brawl in the ring. Like world war 3 this weekend. And were out.

Pretty good nitro. Had a good flow anyway and two good matches.

They show what happened at the end of last week with Sandman. He attacked Sabu and RVD with his stick. It will be Sandman vs Sabu at the PPV.

Also at the PPV November to Remember
Taz takes on Pitbull 2 at the PPV. Meh.
A 4 way tag match
RVD vs Dreamer is a flag match. ECW flag vs WWF flag.
Bam Bam vs Douglas for the title.

They show clips from November to remember 95.
Ugh the first half is a clip show basically.

We get a match. Some tag action. Its not that good. Turns into an all out tag team brawl.

We get some promos to end the show.

Quite the throw away show.

Posted by tiziani
Lolololololol @ the NWO and Hogan coming out with Canadian flags to welcome Hart


I'm dying. Damn I love wrestling.

lmao that was pretty fuckin hilarious

Posted by tiziani
Looool @ asking Sting to sell a legdrop from Hogan after a ten man beatdown. In 1997. Ridiculous 😛


and jeez NWO were so over with the crowd already by that point.

hahaha nothin is more deadly than that powerful leg drop. Not even a ten men beat down!