Darth Pipes

Yeah, I heard that too. I remember during 1999-2000, HHH had a bad tendancy to call audible spots during his matches. When he regained the WWF Championship from the Big Show on January 3rd, 2000, you could plainly hear him call out "Side slam, Paul!" as he proceeded to run into a Big Show side slam. Classic.

This was a good, hot show following the Great American Bash. Interestingly enough, July 9th, 1986 was the day that Dusty lost the title back to Ric Flair. On this show, he's still champion and we see highlights (beginning and end) of him facing Ric Flair in what appears to be a midget ring. Dusty wins with a clothesline (Flair jobbing to a clothesline? You'd think Dusty is Hulk Hogan or something) and then gets a beatdown by Tully, Flair, and JJ. Flair is in studio and gives a great, manic promo. I've noticed that the rare times Flair appeared on this show without the title (Garvin's 1987 reign) led to him cutting super intense promos. The Rock N Roll vs Andersons feud is heating up too. God, they weren't kidding when they said Robert Gibson mumbled his way through promos. He sounds like Boomhauer from King of the Hill.

Actually, it makes sense that Tuesday Night in Texas would be in December since it was a December PPV. Jake cuts an awesome, super-creepy promo after slapping Elizabeth.

I think Wrestlemania VII has about 13-14 guys who are dead. There are entire matches full of dead guys. Kerry Von Erich vs Dino Bravo. Curt Hennig vs The Big Bossman w/Andre the Giant. One half of LOD and one half of Power and Glory. Both women involved in the Warrior/Savage match are dead. Hell, through various means Andre, Von Erich, and Bravo would be dead two years later.

I've said this before but I would pay good money to hear Gorilla and the Brain annouce just one more time. Thankfully, there's a ton of shows that they worked that you can enjoy on 24/7. But like the Don says to Michael in The Godfather "There just wasn't enough time." What I remember most about Survivor Series was seeing it over my best friend's house. I met my best friend at my cousin's house during WMVII earlier that year. What was cool about this PPV was it was on a Wednesday before Thanksgiving so there was no school the next day. That's the only thing I hated about WWF PPV's...you had to go to school the next day.

Raw cards up until like 1999 featured little in the way of great wrestling. You would have a very good main event but the undercard would be terrible. Once the decade drew to a close, the quality of the in-ring product picked up dramatically. Raw was storylines, promos, and angles. Memorable though.

No, I understand what you mean. I just think Flair's wrong on that. I think Dusty is Flair's greatest opponent in terms of rivalry, box office, importance, promos, etc. But greatest opponent as in in-ring rival...not even close.

I think I remember that now. Thanks for that update.

Yeah, I don't know what happened there. Weird.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Sid originally going to captain the Bossman/LOD team but with Savage on the verge of being reinstated, he dropped out?

Flair and Dusty should be there from a history standoff. Flair called Dusty his greatest opponent on his DVD but I strongly disagree. Dusty was his greatest rival and while the two were always entertaining together, Dusty is one of the only guys who could consistently drag Flair below a three-star match.

I remember being stunned when Taker dethroned Hogan. Was not expecting that. It's a testament to how much they thought of Taker that they had him defeat Hogan and their faith in him paid off.

But we're approaching the beginning of the end of his title reign with Dibiase wanting to buy his title reign. Love how crazy that made the Brian. Beefcake/Valentine was pretty good too.

- WWE is set to release a 2-disc Best of Saturday Night's Main Event DVD on 02/10/09. That was from pwinsder. Jesse Ventura did almost all the commentary for Saturday Night's Main Event so that means they'll be paying him for this release. I'm hoping they do the couple series on DVD.

This week's show starts off with David Crockett at an empty Fulton County Stadium with the Bash coming for a close. Tony is handling things in the studio and it's mainly a lot of long interviews with wrestlers and footage from the Bash, some of it already seen and some of it new, like Dusty/Flair and Valiant/Jones. Ivan Koloff has a funny bit where he's reading hate mail and says he can't say one of the words the writer called him. The highlight is seeing Dusty Rhodes cut an interview as the NWA World Champion. It's a rarity on this show to see anyone but Flair hold the title. I'm surprised the Dusty promo wasn't on his DVD.

Looking forward to seeing Flair/Luger. The Road Warriors vs Arn and Tully is a really good match featuring both teams at their peak.

I haven't seen that one yet but they have the match before this one on his DVD and it starts off with a stoned and burned-out Graham cutting a promo.

Cool. I like old-school ECW.

Vince gave the Attitude promo on a December 1997 Raw. This was the one that included them playing poker and/or laying waste to the Road Warriors with the Outlaws.

That was the end for The Powers of Pain. They were really over with the crowd but any type of long-term future for them as big stars pretty much ended. But Demolition became big-time faces so it was worth it. Speaking of kayfabe reasons, I love how Gorilla keeps saying that it was Beefcake who left the Dream Team when all three members of the Dream Team left Brutus Beefcake in the ring by himself after their WMIII match.

88 also has The Rockers and Hart Foundation as faces (a rare Shawn and Bret team-up!). I recall Shawn taking an awesome looking spinebuster from Arn Anderson. It also has a crippled Dynamite Kid which isn't all that fun. It did set up the Demolition / Powers of Pain double turn though, so I give it the slight nod. Both are good though. If only Shawn/Bret were feuding now. They would be teaming up every other week and going over the current Tag Team Champions. It is also worth mentioning that the Rougeaus were eliminated early to get them away from the Bulldogs and out of the building in order to avoid any further altercations between Jacques and Dynamite. I've heard about those problems between Jacques and Dynamite. Dynamite was a total psycho. Watched the first half. Honky takes a great ***-kicking from Savage, Steamboat, and Roberts. It's funny how all three of those guys had major issue with him during that past year. Survivor Series addressed major feuds like Hogan/Andre and Savage/Honky but were able to successfully continue them and leave things totally unresolved. Might be another reason why the event was covered much on WWF television afterwards. One little note...I thought the brief chop fest between Hogan and Andre was pretty cool. Nobody chopped like Andre and that must have felt like your chest was collasping on you.

I'm pulling for the Clash, strictly to see the Horsemen vs The Midnight Express.

Yeah, I despise those video packages they've thrown onto the DVDs from the most recent PPVs. It's just plain lazy on their part although I guess it saves them money. It annoyed me that they clipped the Flair/Hennig match and then don't even bother to put the full version on the Mr. Perfect DVD. I think, but I'm not sure, that Bret/Kid is in its entirety.

I'd imagine it was good. Funk could get an entertaining match out of a lot of guys.

Yeah, Hogan was a crybaby. He didn't even allow Andre one second to celebrate. The moment he got the three, you could already hear the audience and knew that he was coming. This is 1987 so the fans loved it. By 1992 (Royal Rumble 92 to be exact) the fans finally started to turn against it. I love how Joey Marella made Hogan leave the ring because he had "tagged" Patera. Jesse was correct again, Marella was trying to protect Hogan.