King Kamala

As is "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and Sgt. Slaughter standing side by side way towards the back. Whatever the name was of their short lived tag team reunites to pay tribute!

Geeze David's gotten really chubby since the last time I saw him.

Greg "The Hammer" Valentine!

1. I'm not sure if Hogan appeared live in The Manhattan Center but IIRC, he did do some promos hyping the Mega Maniacs/Money Inc match at WrestleMania IX and I'm sure he did some for his match against Yokozuna. I know for a fact that he never wrestled on RAW until his comeback to the WWF/E in 2002. 2. Diesel and Razor Ramon teamed up on the house show circuit against Jeff Jarrett and Shawn Michaels leading up to WrestleMania XI. Here's an MSG card with said match. WWF @ New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden - March 19, 1995 (15,000; 10,000 paid) Erik Watts & Chad Fortune defeated the Heavenly Bodies Henry Godwinn defeated Barry Horowitz WWF Tag Team Champions the Smoking Gunns defeated Tatanka & Kama Bob Backlund defeated Adam Bomb The Undertaker defeated Bam Bam Bigelow via count-out WWF World Champion Diesel & Razor Ramon defeated Shawn Michaels & WWF IC Champion Jeff Jarrett Hakushi defeated the 1-2-3 Kid Bret Hart & Davey Boy Smith defeated Owen Hart & Jerry Lawler

Where's goldengreek when you need him?

This is more reminscent of Strike Force's reunion/breakup at WrestleMania V where ten minutes after they reunited, Martel turned heel and left poor Tito Santana to get the shit knocked out of him by The Brainbusters. Hey they won! Forget everything I just said.

My prediction; Tonight, London and Kendrick EXPLODE!

I won't argue with Diesel being the worst WWF World champ of all time but I'm going to have to disagree with the group that said Diesel was undeserving of the WWF World title. When he turned face back in November '94, he was immedietely the hottest babyface they'd had in a couple years. Maybe they gave it to him a little bit earlier than they should have but it's not like Bret was lighting the arena box offices on fire. The biggest crime they did as I said earlier was change him to a do gooder, superhero Hulk Hogan type. Nash is at his best as a baby when he's basically playing a toned down version of himself (minus the shoot comments).

Eh, the only shows worth seeking out are SummerSlam and Survivor Series. Though WrestleMania and Royal Rumble that aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. They're both the kind of show with a lot of matches in the **-*** range but nothing in particular sticks out.

I may be in the minority but I enjoyed him hawking Amway products to The Barbarian and the luchadors during Russo's first stint in WCW.

I won't let this die- even if I become synonomous with it like Dandy is with his Town Halls in the WWE Folder. This was the year that nearly drove me away from wrestling for good. In fact, sometime shortly after King of The Ring that year I stopped watching for about a year. So the stuff I have seen from the second half of the year was through the magic of video tape and WWE 24/7 online. I know that many will argue that this was WWF's worst year (and rightfully so) but I'd argue that WCW was worse, at least until around the time Nitro started. WWF was boring shit, WCW was absurd shit. Amusingly enough, I was such a WWF loyalist as a mark that I pretty much stopped watching WCW once Hulk Hogan signed because I thought he was a traitor. ECW was completely off my radar at the time. We didn't get it way up here in Maine and I don't remember hearing much about it outside of the occassional PWI article until some of the guys appeared at In Your House:Mind Games a year or so later. So with that said, I'll weigh the pros and the cons of the WWF that year since that's the company I was watching most at the time. Pros Shawn Michaels. He came out of the year relatively unscathed. While Bret Hart was inexplicably stuck in lame feud after lame feud (Jean-Pierre Laffitte, anyone?), Michaels basically carried the company work-rate wise. Like him or not (and I know the majority of the board falls into the latter category), the man stole nearly every PPV he was on. SummerSlam '95. I'll forever defend this show. Perhaps the most underrated SummerSlam of all time. Sure, the main event is indistuably a negative star affair but for the most part, it's a solid affair. Besides the ladder match, you've got a neat Hakushi-123 Kid opener, a decent Barry Horowitz-Skip match, Bret Hart carrying Issac Yankem to a *** match, and a surprisingly watchable Undertaker-Kama casket match. Survivor Series '95. Best PPV of the year and the last great old-school Survivor Series. All of the elimination matches are fun with the exception of The Darkside Vs The Royals and Bret Vs Diesel is a classic. Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett doesn't belong anywhere above the upper mid-card but for my money, he made a damn fine midcard heel and in a year of incredibly lame heels, he shined. His feud with Razor didn't produce any classics but it could always be counted on to provide a solid *** affair. Bret Hart. God bless him, even though he was stuck in many lame feuds with many lame opponents, he almost always managed to have a decent match. Cons Diesel's World title reign. I don't disagree with Diesel being champion at the time in theory but once he won the title, they stripped away everything about the character that made it great and transformed him into Hulk Nash. It didn't help that he was stuck with a myriad of lame opponents. Do gooders bodyslamming hosses might have worked in '85 but not in '95. The Million Dollar Corporation. If not for the Dungeon of Doom, this would easily have been the worst stable of its times. DiBiase was obviously half-assing it during his managerial run in the WWF and the stable itself was the biggest collection of hasbeens and never weres this side of...uh...The Dungeon of Doom. The only memorable moment invovling this group was DiBiase's constant beratement of a destitute Nikolai Volkoff (the memory of Volkoff wearing the same tights as DiBiase except with a cent sign instead of a dollar sign still makes me chuckle). The never ending parade of lame, new characters. I can't think of a period where more awful characters were introduced in the WWF than '95 and the first half or so of '96. It seems like they were trying to compensate for a lack of talent by saddling people with "zany" gimmicks...that lack of talent leads to- Monthly PPVs- the company barely had enough talent to pull off doing five PPVs (See the '95 Royal Rumble match) that year let alone ten. The '95 Royal Rumble match for reasons already explained. King of The Ring PPV. We all know the story with this one. Bret Hart being saddled with lame feuds. Did Bret's grudge with Vince start earlier than we once thought? That's the only reason I can explain him being involved in feuds with a French Canadian pirate that stole his jacket and an evil dentist (Whatever happened to that guy anyways?). The Undertaker. '95 may have been the low point of his career, Foley came along at the perfect time. Basically, 'Taker was the antithesis of HBK that year. Whenever he was in a PPV match that year, you could almost guarantee it would be the worst of the night. It's a pleasant surprise to see how much he's improved since, I'm still not sure whether the improvement can be attributed to a much higher quality of opponents or Taker himself improving. Probably a combination of both. The only good thing that came out of that year for him was that bitchin' Phantom of the Opera mask he rocked after Mabel broke his face. King Mabel. Worst King of The Ring ever. Billy Gunn was bad but at least he didn't main event the second biggest PPV of the year. I could go on for longer here but for my own sanity and for yours, I'll stop. So what are your thoughts on 1995? Worst year in pro wrestling? Underrated ('95 apologists, you can come out of hiding!)?

Lest we forget edgehead69's thread where he said that we all can agree that WrestleMania 23 was the worst of all time. IMHO, the last bad WrestleMania was XV (yes, I'm the guy who really enjoys WrestleMania 2000)

Finding out that goldengreek is 35 is one of the most depressing things I've read here since I found out that JN News is 26. And another thing, can't some people wait more than a couple minutes after WrestleMania before declaring it the worst ever?

What the hell did I do? And for the record, The Marvin/WP feud was during one of my semi-frequent absences from the board.

Agreed- this is shaping up to be the worst feud in TSM history but I can't help but be riveted by the whole thing.

Uh...EHME is one of the least popular posters here.

Uh...Rolling Stone gave it five stars when it came out and called it "art rock's crowning masterpiece" (Review here).......I got nothing.

I got 21. Decent for someone who hasn't gotten into a fight since he was 12 and is totally uncoordinated.

OK- I know it's almost a month old news now but I just realized goldengreek wasn't in the Worst Poster tournament either. IMHO, he may be the worst poster in the WWE folder currently. He should have been nominated if only for the fact that a good portion of his posts are all in caps and he calls people "bro".

The dead crowd from WrestleMania XV shocked the hell out of me. It's in Philly and it's arguably one of the deadest WM crowds outside of the Trump Plaza ones.

Certainly an album can have more than one unintentional comedy song, especially in the case of a Michael Jackson album. I don't 100% get the Off The Wall > Thriller argument. I will say that the former has higher lows than the latter and the first five tracks off the former are untouchable but I still think Thriller has the higher peaks.

or "The Lady In My Life"? At least "The Girl Is Mine" is ripe with unintentional comedy. I have a lot of nostalgia for that one. But it's no "Say Say Say".

I think the change from WWF to WWE really was the death knell for the Attitude era, even though everything from X-7 up till then was basically Attitude Lite.

Even though I'm a slightly bigger fan of Jacko than Prince's and I consider Thriller to be his best work, I agree with you. There isn't one track on Purple Rain that is less than great. Thriller has the inane "The Girl Is Mine" (If "Say Say Say" were on Thriller, I would pick it. I've always loved that god damn song for some reason) and "The Lady In My Life". In retrospect, a better question would have been Off The Wall or Thriller.

Federation Era: WrestleMania IX, for reasons explained in the thread about it in the WWE 24/7 show. Great atmosphere and absolutely nothing else. This is the only WrestleMania besides the first that doesn't have a match that breaks the *** barrier. Attitude Era: WrestleMania XV. Terrible show, just represents the worst of the Attitude era. Rock/Austin is fun but they'd go onto much better matches with each other and Shane Vs X-Pac is kind of fun but outside of that, you got a lot of Russorific crap. Current Era: Hard to say. The last four or five WrestleManias have all been at least decent. If I had to choose, I'd say 22 is the least good of the. But I don't think I'd even put it near the Bottom 10 of all time. FWIW I classify the eras as; Federation Era: WrestleManias I-XII Attitude Era: WrestleManias XIII-X8 Current Era: WrestleMania XIX-present