June 12, 201213 yr Author comment_5506342 This is AWESOME. They decide to go balls out for five minutes. Brad Armstrong is too good to have gotten so little of a push for so long. Vader gives him a lot of the match here and he makes the most of it. Really good monster vs underdog dynamic. It's also weird in that the Worldwide Arena seems to have some semblance of real heat. It's here and gone quickly, but what a ride!
June 14, 201213 yr comment_5506612 Bischoff and Jesse on commentary. Ventura thinks Bockwinkel will suspend Vader so he won't be able to face Hogan. Armstrong has the crowd behind as they pop big when he goes on the offense. He gets decent amount of moves in before Vader puts him away with the Powerbomb. Fun match with Vader looking like a monster but giving Armstrong enough to make it entertaining.
June 28, 201213 yr comment_5508365 I love this match. It's one of my favorite competitive squashes ever. Vader gives Brad Armstrong a lot and the cut off spots are tremendous. Excellent match.
June 28, 201213 yr comment_5508371 Glad to see I wasn't crazy for loving this and lobbying for it on the set
July 6, 201213 yr comment_5509304 Really fun showcase match for Vader with Armstrong getting just enough offense and taking some huge bumps. Nice little diamond in a rough that fits perfectly on a yearbook setting.
July 6, 201213 yr comment_5509314 I didn't realize Ventura was still with WCW this late into '94. Is this the last match he will call chronologically in a Yearbook?
December 13, 201212 yr comment_5522498 It appears to be the last match he called on Worldwide too, he was gone the following week. Another case of Hogan's bad influence. Too bad, I loved Ventura. Makes a great point about Hogan being a hypocrite. This is basically a competitive squash, which is sad but every Armstrong was a jobber at this point. But for a competitive squash, it's pretty great. Vader brings out urgency in BA, which is something you rarely see, and Vader himself looks thrilled to work with him.
June 1, 201411 yr comment_5605319 Great 5-minute semi-squash. Armstrong gets just enough good-looking offense to showcase himself but not too much so as to make Vader look weak. This is it for Ventura, and as great as he was, he checked out so long ago that WCW really won't miss him a bit. It's funny--he won't make another wrestling appearance until just before SummerSlam '99, and that's only 5 years from this point! It's incredible how radically the wrestling business changed and then changed again in that time span. Far more than it did from '89 until '94 or indeed more than in the past decade-plus. Am I crazy or is Bischoff doing a very transparent Joey Styles impersonation through this? The tone and the cadences are eerily similar, and he even drops a Styles-esque "OH MY GOSH."
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