February 1994

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WWF World Tag Team Champions Quebecers vs Razor Ramon & 1-2-3 Kid - WWF RAW 2/21/94 Fun fact, if I had to pick the best WWF match that did not involve Shawn or Bret between 1993-1997, I would pick the Kid & Jannetty vs Quebecers match that was a couple weeks prior to this one. Quebecers are a great old school Southern tag team. They feed, bump and stooge with the best of them and they have sick Midnight Express-like offense during the heat segments. This was supposed to be Kid & Jannetty, but Jannetty was either suspended or injured. Real-life best friend Scott Hall jumps in. I mean this in the nicest way, Hall might have been the King of *** match.…

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Holy Demon Army vs The Patriot & The Eagle - AJPW 2/24/94 I have always been interested in All Japan's midcard especially wrestlers like Patriot & Eagle (Jackie Fulton, Bobby's shoot brother). They just seem so different. I always thought the Patriot has a cool mask, like one of my favorite actually, Eagle's mask is good too. Patriot is a big dude. I am surprised it took Vince until 1997 to hire this guy. He looks perfect for WWF. Great dropkick too (good height and power), athletic, powerful. I thought he was expressive even under the hood. Eagle definitely had some brother in him. After the double dropkick, that was definitely a Bobby Fulton like celebratio…

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4 tubby guys beat the fuck out of each other and it rules, what else is new? The opening minutes were really fun logical pro wrestling. Fuyuki was fired up, ready to take down Tenryu and kick Kitahara's ass. He also looked shockingly good doing sympathetic selling as he got awkwardly kicked in the chin and face repeatedly etc. Kitahara loves demolishing other dudes with kicks but ends up having his leg taken out in a simple spot that looked great. His leg selling was very good as his kicks became mostly useless. Tenryu's hot tag was really fun and different as Fuyuki just bitchslapped him out of the ring and proceeded to kick Kitahara's ass some more. Tenryu then hands ou…

What a joy to watch these two dick each other around. Yamazaki sets the stage by attacking Anjo in the corner, and Anjo immediately being the king shit he is by taunting Yamazaki. Whatever negative stigma Anjo has, he's one slick cat on the mat when it comes to turning a strike into a takedown and transitioning into holds. At one point, he takes Yamazaki down into a dope armtrap face crank, which Yamazaki is able to escape out into a single leg crab hold. Of course, Yamazaki is no slouch - I loved his standing facewash to set up the leglock early in the match. But in the end, Anjo takes it by destroying the ankle with a short legwhip and then tapping him with the knee bar…

As a side note, Sakuraba’s entrance theme is very dope. This was a perfectly solid opening contest. Nelson's one of the better white boys in the company. Nice fireman’s carry and after getting armwhipped, Nelson does a good job of blocking the follow-up armbar attempt. I liked Sakuraba fighting for the German suplex and when Nelson drops down in defense, Saku grabs the rear sleeper. Saku picks up the kicks late game and Nelson goes to down with the rolling leglocks, eventually grabbing one, albeit poorly, and tapping Sakuraba for the win.

This is what you paid for - two of the feistiest going at it on the mat, supplemented with Slappy Kaki's signature slapfests and Tamura landing a few hard kicks to stun Kaki. They really worked and fought for every hold and counter. It really would've been an interesting sight had Kakihara followed Tamura to RINGS, as he's got the agility, strikes and colorful trunks to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Yamamoto, Naruse, TK, etc. After playing a little chess on the ground, Kaki's able to snag a toe hold to send Tamura scrambling. He tries to follow up with a dropkick and misses, which allows Tamura the opportunity to kick him in the head. Tamura's able to avoid the armbar a…

UWFi tags are rarely anything but decent and this was no exception. Some cool moments peppered throughout but not a very good tag team match. The exchanges between Sano/Severn may have been the highlight. Sano's good suplex fodder as Severn takes him down with a sweet belly-to-back into the rear naked choke. And Sano fighting for the STF was a cool moment of struggle. Takada gets to "shine" vs. Severn, blasting him with a high kick to the cheekbone to open the match and kneeing him a couple of times in the gut to close the match. Nothing special.

Not bad. Takayama’s wild opening minute is always great and sloppy as he forces Nakano to take the defensive with smacks and knees. At one point, Takayama gets hung up on the ropes with a missed kick and Nakanko takes advantage, targeting the leg, and he gets so into kicking Takayama’s leg that he falls down. Like chopping down a mighty oak. Shitty finish with the poorly executed takedown into the half ass submission from Takayama.

Decent match-up with Miyato working on top for much of the match, going after legs, kicking, suplexing, armbarring, trying whatever he can to get rid of Kanehara and Kanehara as the underdog is always a treat. Miyato eventually wins with a scarf hold.

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God bless Ishikawa for actually getting this match over. Not to say that Jacobs isn't the worst big guy working shoot-style I've seen, but he isn't exactly astounding quality-wise, what with his bad club/slaps to the back and lackluster mat-work. This is mostly a size/technique matchup, with Jacobs playing the stronger and taller guy who could literally squish Ishikawa with sheer physicality alone while his opponent was the more technically skilled kind who had to use smarts to create openings. He actually dominates for a few minutes here as Jacobs' pushes on the mat only lead to having to slap on a rope break when Ishikawa counters his stuff. Jacobs isn't amazing but he …

WWF Champion Yokozuna vs Randy Savage - WWF RAW 2/28/94 Surprised this didn’t make the 1994 yearbook, a World Title Defense on RAW, Yoko’s last defense, Savage’s last WWF Title Shot, and it is a pretty killer match to boot. Bret vs Yoko from MSG 93 is still the best Yoko match I have seen, but this is a definite second place match. I think Cagematch has this as the #1 Yoko singles match and I don’t blame them. We are a couple weeks out from WrestleMania X and winner defends against Both Luger and Bret at Mania. Savage jumpstarts the match before the bell attacking before Yoko disrobes. Savage EATS a hard elbow but moves on the elbow drop. Go Macho Go! Quick…

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