Kevin Ridge
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Yep. Can’t help but notice Elizabeth’s enhancement. Tony talks about Andre the Giant/Hogan from 1987. They make way too much of a deal of Hogan slamming the Giant. Heenan is freaked out when the action spills to the outside and takes another walk. Flair uses the foreign object for the win. The Dungeon runs down only to be beat up by Hogan and Kevin Greene.
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Call the WCW hotline to hear about Eric Bischoff’s thoughts on the Billionaire Ted skits. Heenan throws a fit when Pillman grabs him from behind. Bobby takes a walk to cool off and then apologizes for his language. Heenan is able to go back to broadcast journalist mode. Pillman gets the win and tries to exit the ring by the announce area which runs off Bobby again. Watch the neck.
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There’s Debra! Hogan wants the first shot at the WCW title after Savage wins it. Woman is also on the side of Savage. Like that will last. Savage wins the title and wrestling changes forever with the title change on free TV (not even the main event). Hogan was so quick to jump all over Savage’s big win.
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Shawn wants the nine guys in Syracuse to get credit for taking him out. Why didn’t they make a PPV match out of that. Cornette wants Owen to get the World title shot at next PPV over Michaels. This became normal routine on later PPVs with Rumble winner facing a random opponent over WrestleMania title shot.
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I loved when Vader debuted in WWF. They were in need of heels for the roster. Vader destroys Savio with the Vader splash. He ain’t done though and continues the beating on Vega. Vader squashes referee Jack Doan with power bomb. I remember being pissed off when Monsoon suspended Vader because of this. Monsoon with the big chops! Vader then squashes the crap out of him. Vader runs off when Michaels shows up. Ugh.
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This Rumble had more random guys than the 93 version. Here we had The Headhunters, Dory Funk, Omori and Doug Gilbert to fill out the ranks. Triple H had the big run as far as lasting a long time but didn't really eliminate anyways. I though Savio Vega was great taking some king sized bumps and big moves from everyone. Droese might be the worst 30th entrant for the Rumbles. The camera work on the eliminations was terrible as they would have too many guys in the ring and miss guys being thrown out. Monsoon would have been very confused. Shawn Michaels was so annoying in this. He eliminates both Vader and Yokozuna with ease! Shawn runs around and is hitting everyone with punches. He press slams 1-2-3 Kid (I know) over the top rope. Michaels was looking way too dominating when he shouldn't be like that.
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Undertaker actually looks human with Bret continuing to work on the leg. This is much below their 1997 efforts though. The crowd is very split at times between both guys. In the end Undertaker gets Tombstone for the clean pin but Diesel interferes. Bret don't look too good on that finish. Diesel being so cocky in giving Undertaker the finger was great.
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I've missed Otani. Great match. I loved that we get mat work in a NJPW junior's match that actually matters later on. I do agree though with Nintendo Logic after some of this mat work were they seemed to ignore what had happened Samurai should not have been jumping up so easily to top rope after having his leg worked on so much. The reversals on the mat were great though. Otani's dropkicks are so great as he hits them out of every angle. Total heatseeking type move.
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The big thing was Marlena being introduces to add to the Goldust character. Big affection being showed between the two. The Kid didn't connect correctly with the big spinning kick but his trailing leg did hit Razor in the head which Mr. Perfect picked up on. Razor was all about being in a title match at the Rumble as he was either wrestling for the WWF title against Bret or defending the I.C. title against various challengers. He never did compete in Rumble itself.
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Psicosis starts things off by launching himself back down the aisle way after getting dropkicked during his entrance. The horns did bring me back to the nightmares of 2010 World Cup. Psicosis went completely head first into that chair shot. He tries a moonsault off a ladder and lands on the floor with maybe his foot hitting the table. Ouch. He just continues the reckless bumps.
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Most of their standard stuff against each other. Luger and Hart get involved ringside and Lex waits patiently to accidentally hit Sting with the Megaphone. Flair gets a win over Sting! Funny when he had the figure four he started to use the ropes for leverage after Sting’s shoulders were already counted down.
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Doug out to tell Lawler why he did it. Memorial show for his brother Eddie that Lawler wants nothing to do. Jerry tries to explain that has a lot to do with the promoter of the show. Bit awkward bringing up a deceased wrestler as part of the angle. But felt similar to the Lawler/Snowman as far as intensity when Doug and Jerry were going back and forth.
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I still don’t think it’s got too personal yet but amusing to see references towards wrestler’s size and steroids.