Tim Evans
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Ah yes, the never ending Vatos Locos vs Vipers feud. Vatos Locos were my favorites around this time as they were dressed like Kiss and throwing fire like it was a punch. This was a nutty brawls with weapons like they always did. Cibernetico shows up and then here comes Sangre Chicana. Not sure who won the match but it's not like it matters. Good brawl.
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I've been watching the 1999 Memphis TV wars between Power Pro wrestling and Kick Ass wrestling. Most of the footage is god awful but some gems are there which is featured in the yearbook for the year. In Power pro, the main feuds were Randy Hales vs Brandon Baxter and Shawn Stasiak vs Jerry Lawler. Hales is pretty much a C level Vince Mcmahon and Baxter is a good promo. Baxter brings in Michael Hayes to help battle Hales's Syndicate(Baldo aka Albert, Vic Grimes, Mick Tierney and Glenn Kulka). Hayes had a great first half the year between his awesome promos and ok matches. I'm up to May 1999 and by that time, Hales turned babyface and was off tv for the most part. Hayes loses to title to JR Smooth(Rikishi right before he joined Too Cool doing a heel samoan mafia gimmick). Kurt Angle had his first few matches in this promotion and you can tell from his first match he's head and shoulders above everyone else. Stasiak/Lawler was a good story and some ok matches. Stasiak and Brian Christopher terrorize Stacy and Lawler and even try to break in to Lawler's house. Then Stasiak's mother comes in to feud with Stacy. His mother is Mae Young by the way and was awesome.Shortly after that, Stasiak is gone and Stacy turns on Lawler. Stacy brings in the Fabulous ones for a short feud with Lawler and Dundee. It reminds me of the 1991 feud they had where it didn't get over very good or last long. By May, Lawler would be gone as he was running for mayor. Kick Ass wrestling is like if ECW moved down south and got hooked on meth. It's perversely entertaining. The shows are taped in a nightclub and they ran house shows at the same building Power Pro did. The main guys in the group were PG-13 with Midget D, Brickhouse Brown, Bull Pain, Terry Golden, Danny B, The Littles and Johnny Sorrow's favorite tag team of W.E.E.D(Dr. Bud Ganja and Motley Garcia with manager Shroom). Sid shows up in February and has a weird scene where he's accompanied by some skinhead bikers and takes two jobbers hostage and then powerbombs them. All the matches involve weapons and they play music over the matches. Really weird promotion to run Saturday mornings at 10 am but they moved to midnight on Saturdays so I guess that was ok.
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That would kill the business in Florida if shows are main evented by Bull Dempsey vs Baron Corbin ever week. What I think they should do is start slowly doing shows on the road. Maybe 1 weekend a month. I think NXT is gonna have a problem when guys like Zayn, Neville and Balor are called up. They need to start giving some tv time to the college athletes they signed like Gable, Fulton, Dawkins and Mojo. And not in just jobber matches either but competitive matches vs the Indie darlings.
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So Test must have turned between Raw and Smackdown cause he was with Shane during the Rock babyface turn. I kinda remember this but it feels like a Raw dark match than Smackdown.
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I loved Taker's theme music at the time. I'm not sure what to think of this. It was pretty creepy but it had a good payoff. Big show's big boot to Simmons was real bad. Austin destroys the ministry with chairshots to the head. Taker just says "fuck this" and walks out after taking a few punches. Good segment.
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Man what a shit gimmick for Stasiak. I know he wasn't the best in Memphis but he deserved a better gimmick. Also they are playing Mark Henry's theme during this. Good foreshadowing.
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I like how even though Rock is turning babyface, he still gets a shot in on Austin calling him trailer trash. This is a much better way to turn someone face than how WCW did it with Hogan.
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Wow I was kinda dreading this but man what a great match. Ikeda gets busted open early and that causes him to go crazy. Love the Sasuke dive by Ikeda and then Otsuka goes even more nuts with his plancha. I did not expect that at all. Great strikes and a mix of mat wrestling and american style indie wrestling. MOTYC for sure.
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I enjoyed this more than the Mania match but even I'm getting sick of the brawling Austin matches. I know he was injured so he had to work matches like this but the constant crowd involvement hurts the match. I liked the stuff with the cameras. Especially the stunner on the Rock. Vince helps Austin by taking out Shane when he runs off. I think this was before the black wedding though.
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I forget if this was the match that featured Kurt Angle belly to belly suplexing Vic grimes or not? Good angle with Lawler going down with a piledriver on the floor.
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