January 27, 201312 yr Author comment_5531159 Jim Ross narrates a clip of Vader vs Hansen at the Tokyo Dome. I like that they kept showing this to build up the Wrestle War match.
February 2, 201312 yr comment_5532630 They really are doing a good job building this match up and making it special.
February 24, 201312 yr comment_5536769 A great unique kind of build to this, making this out to be a special kind of match that can only happen once and only on PPV. Note that everyone constantly refers to this show as "the third annual WrestleWar." Real-world events had put a rather negative spin on that name and the WarGames concept as well.
March 11, 201312 yr comment_5538461 I do enjoy them showing clips of Hansen versus Vader from Japan. $400.00 per ringside seat in 1990? That’s a crazy amount. Ross lets us know that WCW will be holding an event in March in Tokyo Dome.
March 17, 201312 yr comment_5539269 I couldn't believe they showed this much footage from a NJ match. Ross just broadly mentioned injuries rather than going into specifics about the eye.
May 14, 201312 yr comment_5544642 The build up to this was really good and Jim Ross really put over the magnitude of it.
April 17, 201510 yr comment_5665138 Considering how little of this that they were able to show, WCW used the Tokyo Dome footage very well, and JR really sold the brutality of the match, which as we all saw was very much legit. I like the idea of WCW actually outbidding all the promotions all over the world, presumably including New Japan and the WWF, for the rights to the rematch; it puts them over as a real worldwide player in the wrestling business. Those of us who watched the match know that they oversold the hospitalization stuff (although Vader most likely really went to have his eye treated), but it was still an effective sales tool. Not only did they soft-peddle the war references in these segments as much as they possibly could, they tried to avoid references to blood, too. I'm sure plenty of children in the audience were rushing to their dictionaries to find out what "claret" was after they heard JR use that word. Maybe they should have just spelled it out, the way parents sometimes do when they don't want their children to know what they're saying. I can just hear JR now: "There was plenty of B-L-O-O-D in this match, ladies and gentlemen." Does anybody know if ringside seats that night in the Tokyo Dome really cost four hundred American dollars? My instinct says that WCW's inflating the price, but I really don't know for sure.
October 24, 20177 yr comment_5817691 I wondered about both the hospital and $400.00 seat stuff myself. But I'm assuming somebody bought into it.
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