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Triple X vs the Amazing Red and Jerry Lynn
I watched the most recent episode of TNA today and after watching some very poor matches like Bubba Dudley vs Homicide and A.J Styles vs Booker T I went and re-watched this classic from the early days of TNA. It really underescores is how poor TNA has gotten in recent years.
The Muta Scale of professional wrestling
The Great Muta vs Hiroshi Hase. A match so infamous that it has its own term. Owing to the amount of blood on certain websites you can find bloody matches rated on the ‘Muta scale’. If you don’t believe watch from 15.20 on. And if you don’t think watching that much blood isn’t an awful lot.. well your probably a very sick person.
While I’m posting stuff, here’s an Eddie Guerrero / JBL match that also ranks pretty high on the Muta scale and Muta himself against Jushin Thunder Liger in a pretty entertaining match Read the rest of this entry »
Hard Gay at HUSTLE
A very weird match against Yin Ling. Cian has some more weird stuff that this guy has done.
Wrestling Gone Wrong & Act-I-Vate
Two great websites that I’ve neglected to put onto my blogroll so far - Wrestling Gone Wrong is pretty self-explanatory one would think, while Act-I-Vate is a ‘webcomics collective’ featuring some truly great talents. While I haven’t had a chance to go through all the content they have, I would happily recommend ‘Kelly’ by Dan Goldman, though be warned that it is a truly fucked-up piece of work and ‘Lily McKenzie’ by Simon Fraser
Forever Hardcore
Seek and you shall find I guess. It’s interesting how in the opening clip alone, there are nearly more people than appeared in the ‘Rise and Fall’ and how people involved seem to back up Paul Heyman’s claim that he created ‘attitude’ in wrestling… Update: For example, this dvd shows up two of the main faults I have with the WWE produced stuff, there’s a proper explanation for what happend with the NWA and its championship AND they mention whats apparently the ‘first’ 3-way dance in the U.S between Sabu, Shane Douglas and Terry Funk. Now apparently its an hour long but why hasn’t the WWE put that on the ‘Rise and Fall’ disk? I mean, if it’s simply just becuase of the fact that they weren’t working for them its a bit of a blow to the fans…
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The Rise and Fall of ECW part duex
So as a few of the posts I have done before might suggest, I’m somewhat of a fan of ECW. Now, I have covered the ‘Rise and Fall of ECW’ before in the book form, but I recently picked up the DVD version of the same.
As I said in the book review, the DVD works better because wrestling is a visual medium, and the whole documentary works really well as a talking heads example of history. Now plently of the history and things that happened there are covered, though you can’t help but feel that the lack of Raven, Sabu and Shane Douglas harms the production somewhat (many wrestlers who weren’t under contract to WWE at the time were not involved in the DVD). In some ways, its an advertisement for the ‘Forever Hardcore’ documentary that Douglas did afterwards. Yet, despite the fact that it is a ‘WWE produced’ dvd, it seems to cover most of the bases pretty honestly. Many of the individuals involved are quite critical of each other, and so on, but to be honest, until I see ‘Forever Hardcore’ and see what that says about things, I won’t really know how to feel. Basically, its 3-odd hours of solid documentary and well worth a look.
There are one or two serious complaints though, both of which appear in my other reviews of ECW material produced by WWE. Firstly, as I said in the review of the ‘Rise and Fall book’ the whole ECW seccedding from NWA isn’t covered, while it’s mentioned in the book, it has no real role in the DVD. Secondly, I’m fairly sure they have the same ‘Bam Bam Bigelow VS Taz’ match on both the ‘Rise and Fall’ and ‘extreme’ dvds. Seriously! If your going to put out these dvds, try minimise overlap! ECW ran long enough that there should surely be enough good material to go around. Still though, the matches available on the DVD are quite enjoyable, with plenty ‘holy shit!’ moments so….
Even more Scott Steiner promos
Following on from these ones, some even funnier ranting and screaming ‘huh’ from Scott Steiner
Bill Goldberg V Steven Regel
This 10 year old (the realisation of which makes me feel old as I remember WCW Nitro from this era) has achieved a certain degree of infamy as Regal was apparently fired for not allowing himself to be squashed by Goldberg in this match. Regardless, its a pretty entertaining greco-roman style match and worth a look and reminds me of why I hate the ‘power wrestling’ style thats common in American style wrestling as Goldberg is much more entertaining when he’s not simply just using the ‘punch,kick,spear,jackhammer’ combo that made up most of his matches…
I *heart* Motor City Machine Guns
I have to admit that one of my favourite all-time tag teams are Chris Sabin and Alex Shelly - the ‘Motor City Machine Guns’. Partially its because the two of them are great singles competitors in their own right, rather than the oft-time situation with tag teams where its more a case of ‘couldn’t cut it as a singles wrestler’. What I especially love is how they’ve got a whole repertoire of double team moves along with their own individual moves. Anyway, this is a great match with them in Japan: