What in the utter fuck was Keiji Mutoh thinking in 2000 when he was putting over (clean) the likes of Ernest Miller and Tank Abbott in crummy WCW matches?!

 

"My cheques clear."

Some of his early All Japan booking was sort of bizarre too. Mike Barton got a huge push for a while there. I get that he was thinking "maybe I can make this guy a thing", but... no.

 

That time he brought Kronik in and they crushed people and it sucked. Then poof they were gone.

 

I dunno. Muto's just one of those people you take the bad with the good and deal with it, in all things. He's certainly had an interesting ride through it all.

What in the utter fuck was Keiji Mutoh thinking in 2000 when he was putting over (clean) the likes of Ernest Miller and Tank Abbott in crummy WCW matches?!

 

You're going to pay me how much? Ok, but I have to lose to who? Can I get that check now please?

 

What in the utter fuck was Keiji Mutoh thinking in 2000 when he was putting over (clean) the likes of Ernest Miller and Tank Abbott in crummy WCW matches?!

 

"My cheques clear."

 

 

I responded before I saw this but EXACTLY!

funny little game here - you get $15 to build your survivor series dream team. i'm sure some of you will have a field day with these dollar values!

 

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lol samoa joe has a twitch stream http://www.twitch.tv/samoajoegames

 

hes actually on atm, playing watch_dogs

funny little game here - you get $15 to build your survivor series dream team. i'm sure some of you will have a field day with these dollar values!

 

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Golberg, Lesnar, Warrior, Taker & Vader seems like it couldn't possibly job all 5 guys to any other team you could make with $15.

WCW in 99-00 was such a trainwreck and they were just throwing random shit at the wall. The only explanation for Mutoh going there is money and maybe he felt like going back to the states for fun. WCW was not fun in any way at that point in time.

 

I kinda liked that "Deadpool" gimmick they briefly started with Raven, Vampiro, Muta and the ICP but it ended before it had barely started. WCW wasted Mutoh so badly, but they fucked up practically everything in those days so it wasn't a big surprise

http://www.infinitecore.ca/superstar/index.php?threadid=83023

 

Anyone know how many of those matches have made tape?

 

Flair / Martel vs. Choshu and Yatsu sounds interesting.

 

Were the Flair vs. Luger matches from 86 any good?

 

There are Flair vs. Garvin matches from Portland

Luger was very green in 1986, and I didn't really care for those matches with Flair.

So the Florida stuff is on tape?

Just one show that I know of, which was the Battle of the Belts III on October 1.

They booked the fakest "Broadway" possible with Luger.

Watching 1988 Memphis and my mind is struggling with Ron and Don Harris as clean-cut white meat babyfaces throwing dropkicks to the delight of the girls in the crowd.

The 6/4/88 CWA show has the Harris Brothers against Jimmy Golden (Bunkhouse Buck) & Rob Fuller (Robert Parker). To a fan from 1994, I think THAT would make my head explode.

I was trawling through Dailymotion and I found this...

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1r01p5_hollywood-blondes-rick-rude-vs-ricky-steamboat-sting-2-cold-scorpio-wcw-house-show-05-06-1993_sport

 

Not the greatest match ever, But it's a fancam from a house show, so it's rare, And it features a bunch of guys we like.

Because I feel it doesn't get the talk/respect it deserves, especially in comparison to RoH, I'm starting a Pro Wrestling Guerrilla project for my website. Anyone have any suggestions on what wrestlers to watch out for as I move through their earliest shows (I've only seen PWG in individual matches here and there and not much from their beginnings)?

Undertaker resurfaced at the George Strait finale in Dallas this weekend

 

He looks considerably healthier than he did prior to and during Wrestlemania this year. I think they said in the Observer this week that WWE wanted him to return for Wrestlemania next year and that he usually makes his decision by the fall.

 

Strangely, he might be able to pull off another match.

Is there any value in him doing another match?

It'll probably help draw? If drawing is even a thing anymore? It'll give him a more celebratory retirement match? I think there's probably some casual interest in "What can taker do after Brock beat the streak?" That seems like a thing Kris' friends would talk to him at the water cooler about.

They could always do the Taker/Brock rematch like Taker gave rematches to HBK & HHH this time the other way around

There's certainly value in at least doing a retirement match. That would be a pretty emotional scene.

Let him do a tag with Kane. Or maybe Wyatt will be a face by then. Just do something where he can be protected and it'll draw interest.

Sunny at SummerSlam '97 is the WWF's first attempt at being insanely over the top sexual, right? I mean, she's not even really in her top, and it is quite awesome. Easily puts Sable to shame in that segment. Funny thing is, I know the Divas and women in wrestling in general would get way more over the top, but there's something about the way that Sunny found the line in her WWF work and pushed it as far as possible that I find way more appealing than anything that came after.

the poor kid in that segment seems to be going through puberty on live TV. I can't remember WWE being so overly sexual before that. Maybe the Sunny Raw bumpers in 95/96