Posted December 13, 201014 yr comment_5460261 Man Douglas stalls forever at the beginning of this. The opening exchanges in this are very basic but I liked them because Douglas really bumped huge for everything and did a good job making Mikey look like someone who was on his level. Test of strength spot is really awesome as it ends with Douglas isolating Mikey's arm and just crunching it with his boot. Awesome corkscrew suplex by Shane. Shane just hovering over Mikey for the cover and shit talking him was pretty sweet too. Mikey takes a nice backbreaker and bails to the floor while the wildly anti-Shane crowd chants "where's your skateboard?" Mikey takes a fucking crazy bump on his back over the security railing. Then Shane suplexed Mikey on the unbreakable time keepers table with Mikey falling on his head. Mikey comes back with a running dropkick in the corner and then throws Shane to the floor where he whips him into the steel, chops him and takes a chair to him. Mikey then hit a really nice flip plancha and paid Shane back with his own suplex on the unbreakable table. Mikey with a nice missle dropkick for a nearfall. Semi-strange spot as Mikey charges and gets got with a strange forearm blow, but counters by going low. Awesome Cactus clothesline from Mikey puts them back on the floor. MIkey with a neckbreaker, rocker dropper and DDT for nearfalls. Cool spot as he goes to get a chair and just chucks it at Douglas from the outside in. Cool finish as Douglas catches Mikey with a quick belly to belly onto the chair. These guys had several good matches with each other over the years and this is as good as any of them.
December 15, 201014 yr comment_5460419 Shane Douglas vs. Mikey Whipwreck (6/29/96) - Shane does some Larry Z level stalling early on but when he hooks in the headlock, he whips Mikey over and it looked more vicious than your typical headlock takedown. Mikey rebounds with an attack that sends Shane out to regroup. I really love this type of wrestling. Nasty Murdoch-esque stomp on Mikey’s elbow. Shit, Shane is in top form here… plenty of suplexes, jawing with the fans, cocky pins, punishing Mikey on the outside. Mikey is getting his ass kicked including a slam on a table with no give. Mikey makes a nice comeback giving as good as he gets including a receipt on the table. Mikey tresi to put him away but Shane counters and now it is anyone’s game. Too bad Mikey threw the chair in the ring because Shane drops Mikey on the chair with a belly to belly to end it. Man, this was easily good enough to make the set. No problem passing this through!
January 24, 201114 yr comment_5462874 "The Franchise" Shane Douglas vs. Mikey Whipwreck (6/29/96) Like Dylan said these two have had some really good matches over the years and this one is right up there at the top. Douglas was great stalling early and Mikey was just as great making him pay for it when he got the chance. Really good back and forth action here with both men aggressively taking the battle to each other both inside and outside the ring with Mikey especially going hard using weapons to weaken Shane. The stretch run on this was good as it had kind of a big match feel going on and I think this is a easy nomination.
