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Credit goes to MikeWG from the MLW board: "Show opens with Corino vs. Funk in barbed wire match. Before the match, commentator Eric Gargiolo (sp?) is introduced and takes his place at the announcing table near the ring. Show opened with barbed wire because it's faster to put back up the ring ropes than it is to put up the barbed wire. Great match, tons of blood, Funk piledrove Corino through a table. JJ Dillon was at ringside, but didn't get involved at all. At one point, Funk rubbed Corino's head against the barbed wire, and a bloody clump of hair was left hanging off the barbed wire. Horsemen interfered, and finally Corino attacks the ref. Ref recovers, and ends the match, giving the win to Corino, despite the fact that Funk never submitted. Ref had to end the match because Funk was about to pass out but wouldn't give up. Gary Hart hits the ring, yelling at Funk, saying that he has too much pride to submit and that it's time for him to hit the pasture and leave. 10 minute intermission while they take down the barbed wire and put up the ring ropes. Winner: Steve Corino Underground TV has new theme music, which was introduced to the crowd both tonight and last night. Stephen DeAngelis comes out, and introduces SoCal Val as the timekeeper, and ring girl Jennifer. Puma vs. Chasyn Rance vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Jack Evans Awesome match, tons of action. A good part of the match had Rance and Evans feuding on the outside, while Puma and Dutt wrestled in the ring. Chasyn Rance had much more opportunity to shine in this match than he did in his match last night. Same for Jack Evans. Dutt wins after a near-missed Hindu Press had Dutt's head hit Puma right in the chest. JJ Dillon was on co-commentary during the match. Winner: Sonjay Dutt Fabulous Texan Chad? vs. Rich Criado This match was a follow up to their argument last night over who won the match. I hate to admit it, but I'm liking Criado more and more each match. He plays well to the crowd, and he's the loser that you can't help but like. Didn't help here though, because he lost. Still not sure if Chad was his name announced, still couldn't catch it. Winner: Fabulous Texan Los Maximos vs. Julius Smokes and Norman Smiley Amazingly, Los Maximos were total heels here, completely hated by the crowd. Well they got a nice pop coming out, but not like that of Smokes and Smiley. Smiley got the wiggle in, of course. Funny spot in the match was Maximos had Smokes sitting in their corner. Jose would stomp him 5 times, tag, Joel would stop 5 times, tag, 5 stomps, tag, 5 stomps, for what felt like forever. Ironic part is that Smokes just sat there and didn't sell anything, causing the crowd to go nuts yelling at him. Winners: Los Maximos Chris Hero, PJ Friedman, and Mike Modest vs. Matt Martel (with Persephone), M Dogg 20, and Bobby Quances Interesting matching of people. Match came out a lot better than the individual matches probably would have been. Martel continued his dancing gimmick, and got M Dogg 20 dancing along with Persephone. Once in the ring, Martel brings Persephone, Jennifer, and SoCal Val to dance with DeAngelis and then again with the ref. Good back and forth action, with the heel team taking the win. Winners: Chris Hero, PJ Friedman, and Mike Modest SoCal Val and Jennifer get in the ring to throw out T-Shirts. They argue about who throw the shirts better, and have a mini cat fight. Nice. Corino comes out to do co-commentary, which he does for the rest of the night. Teddy Hart vs. Jerry Lynn I loved this match. Great back and forth action. At one point during the match, Teddy Hart does a backflip right over Jerry Lynn to rub it in his face. End comes when Hart does a his main move, the twisting 450 off the top rope. Arrogent pin, which Lynn reverses for the win. After the match, Jerry Lynn leaves the ring and Teddy Hart wants to do his somersaults off the top rope. Lynn tells him not to and leaves, but he does one anyways. Lynn rushes back to the ring, and tells him to stop. Hart promises he won't do it, but then says "F%&k you!" and does it anyways. Lynn and Hart get into a major brawl, with Lynn hitting the cradle piledriver and leaving. Winner: Jerry Lynn At the commentary booth, Corino holds up his sheet of paper, and on the back is written "IDIOT", I'm assuming directed at Hart. Hart actually points at Corino and yells challenges him before leaving the ring. Stampede Bulldogs vs. Pete Wilson/Dark Fuego vs. Havana Pitbulls The Bulldogs were introduced first. Wilson and Fuego come out second, but then immediately afterwards the Pitbulls run out and DESTROY Wilson/Fuego in about 20 seconds. Fuego loses his mask (still couldn't see who it was) before they are thrown back through the curtains, not to be seen again tonight. Great match between the Pitbulls and the Bulldogs. Ironic that there are chants of USA, despite neither team being from the USA. Smith hits the running bulldog, and Wilson hops off the top rope with an elbow drop, winning the match. Bulldogs are now the #1 contenders for the Global Tag-team belts. Winners: Stampede Bulldogs Corino holds up another paper, this one saying "I'm With Stupid" and an arrow pointing at Gargiolo (sp?) Chad Collyer vs. Low Ki Another very good match. Gary Hart and his bodyguard come out to watch his match. Funny "Ki Low" chants erupt from the crowd, goofing on the fact that Hart missaid Low Ki's name last night. For a while, most of the moves they went for ended up in an arm bar, which the crowd began to go NUTS for. Chants of "ARM BAR!" every time another one was put on. Chants of "We Want Arm Bar" began erupting when there was no arm bar. Funny stuff. Low Ki won with the Dragon Sleeper, with help from Hart's bodyguard punching Collyer. After the match, Hart put a towel over Low Ki's face to calm him down, and the bodyguard kicked Collyer once before the three of them left together. Winner: Low Ki Vampiro vs. Raven Raven cuts a promo, saying that he didn't know what a Screwface Match was, but it obviously was named that because Vampiro's face was so screwed up. Anyways, Raven changed this match to a Clockwork Orange House of Fun match, which means falls count anywhere. Match in the ring quickly moves through the entire crowd, all over the place. Lots of them slamming each other into the walls. Match finally returns to the ring, and Raven brings a plastic chair in the ring and drops Vampiro's face on it twice. Finally asks the crowd for a metal chair and gets one. Vampiro reversed it, but the chair tipped over. Raven catches it, throws it at Vampiro but misses and hits the ref. Raven hits the Evenflow, but there's no ref. Vamp ends up getting the win. Vamp goes to the side of the ring and wants to stage dive into the crowd. Asks the crowd if it's okay, and everyone screams Yeah! except one scared girl in the front who kept begging no... so he didn't do it. He did go over and pose with the crowd though. Winner: Vampiro Samoan Island Tribe vs. Extreme Horsemen Weapons match. Samoans introduced, and they start gathering all sorts of weapons and throwing them into the ring. Includes plastic chairs (before finally finding the metal ones), plastic trash cans, and plastic beer bottles. Ended up clearing the ring of everything but the metal. Horsemen come out, tons of action. CW nails Mana in the head with three consecutive chairshots. Another spot included a table set up in the corner, and CW hitting his Anderson Slam onto Mana through the table. Corino runs from commentary and hits the ring, attacking the Samoans. All five knocked down, and JJ Dillon runs into the ring and gives a chair to CW. CW throws it away and shoves JJ Dillon, saying "We don't need you!". So JJ Dillon grabs the chair and gives it to Mana. Dillon then hits Mana in the back of the head, allowing the Horsemen to get the win. Horsemen leave but Corino gets caught and beat up before the Horsemen can pull him out to end the show. Winners: Extreme Horsemen, with JJ Dillon joining the Horsemen During the show, it was announced that Friday, February 13th would be in Orlando while Saturday, February 14th would be in Ft. Lauderdale. Don't know if this was a mistake or if the shows were indeed reversed. After the show was over, Teddy Hart came out to shake hands with the fans. Very nice, said he doesn't care if people like or hate him, he's just happy going out and doing what he loves. Seemed very sincere and the same fans that hated him during the match showed him a lot of respect, and he did the same to the fans. Good for him, looks like he has a bright future in MLW. Jerry Lynn came out for a LONG time, signing things and visiting with the fans. Overall, great night. Show was over early, like 9:20pm, but it started earlier than last night too. Very fun weekend, can't wait for next month. By the way, there never was a Awards Ceremony where they announced the results of the voting over the last month. Also, no contests - and the only Q&A with a superstar was for the Ft. Lauderdale bus trip, who met with the Extreme Horsemen. " Sounds like a fun show... the Teddy Hart stuff sounds hilarious.

Here's a review from some guy on Amazon.com, doesn't sound too great: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...?v=glance&s=dvd "The Best of Wrestling slams is nice mix of 10 old school wrestling matches from the early 90's featuring famous veterans as well as some of today's stars as younger rookies. Overall, the matches, while not great, notable or must-see, are decent for an evening's entertainment. The DVD also features some un-noteworthy special features. In all, it's a nice ride down memory lane if nothing else. Here are the contents of this DVD: THE MATCHES: 1. Lightning Kid vs. Dapper Dan: Kid of course went on to become the 1-2-3 Kid who went on to become Syxx who evolved in WWF's X-pac. Dan went on to nothing. Decent match. 5 minutes. 3 stars. 2. Crash vs. Doink: Crash (the Terminator) became WCW's Hugh Morrus. Doink is of course the famous WWF early-mid 90's gimmick. Squash match featuring a post-match run-in by Koko B. Ware of WWF 80s fame. 3 minutes. DUD. 3. "Cowboy" Bob Orton vs. Tom Lodly (sp???): From the NAWA. Orton, recognized a superior technical wrestler, made a name in the 80s WWF. Orton puts on a wrestling clinic against his jobber opponent. 5 minutes. 3 stars. 4. Baron Samidi (w/ Bob Orton) vs. Lynn Wagner: From the NAWA. Samidi became Papa Shango in the WWF who became Kama who became the Godfather. Basically another jobber squash. Tons of power moves. 8 minutes. 2 stars. 5. "War Eagle" Chris Chavis vs. Dr. X: From South Atlantic Wrestling. "War Eagle" (definitely ripped at this point) went on to become the WWF's Tatanka in the early-mid 90s. Decent match. 6 minutes. 2 stars. 6. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs. Johnny Z: From the NAWA. Steamboat, of course, is a legend in the business and a noted technical master noted for his classic matches against Ric Flair and Randy Savage. Jobber squash. Decent match. 5 minutes. 2 stars. 7. The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Saggs) vs. Rusty Stevens and Rick Starr: NAWA. The Nastys were among the top tag teams around the world in the late 80s and early 90s with stints in the AWA, WWF and WCW. Decent back and forth action between the two teams. 13 minutes. 3 stars. 8. The (New) Fantastics (Bobby and Jackie Fulton) vs. Tommy Landell and the Enforcer: From South Atlantic. The Fantastics (originally Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers) were a top tag team throughout the South and the NWA territories. After the team split, Jackie Fulton, Bobby's brother, took Tommy's place and both achieved minimal success. One of the best matches of the DVD with tons of great tag action from the Fantastics. 5 minutes. 4 stars. 9. The American Bulldogs (Spike and Rex) vs. Colt Steele and Tommy Landell: Decent match and action from the Bulldogs. 7 minutes. 3 stars. 10. "Simply Irresistible" Jeff Jarrett and "Maniac" Matt Borne vs. Cactus Jack Manson and Sheik Braddock (w/ General Skandor Akbar): From the legendary USWA promotion in Texas. Jarrett and Jack of course of wrestling legends and former Heavyweight champions "Chosen One/Double J" Jeff Jarrett and "Best-Selling Author/Hardcore Legend/Mankind/Dude Love" Mick Foley as young rookies. Borne had brushes with greatness as WCW's Big Josh and the original Doink the Clown. Akbar is a Texas managing legend. Overall, this is a great brawl/action-packed tag match with future great stars. 13 minutes. 3 ½ stars. THE DVD FEATURES: Nothing to see here as the special features two things: 1. A list of wrestler's finishing moves. 2. A FAQ regarding wrestling. THE VERDICT: Well, the DVD itself is INCREDIBLY cheaply produced with the match access looking really horrendous and the DVD features outright laughable. The DVD itself comes with no inserts mentioning the list of matches or anything of the like. The matches themselves are not keepers or noteworthy but are decent for a time killer. Overall, the real value for this again, if you do want to buy, is if you are into old school wrestling. The matches are decent, if nothing else, but again are not noteworthy or must-see. The value again is seeing some of the great old-timers like Orton or Steamboat or the Fantastics and Nastys in action or some of the stars of today as rookies (Foley, Jarrett, Godfather, Hugh Morrus and X-pac). Otherwise, this DVD definitely goes into the... Recommended Collector's Box (for nostalgists/wrestling historians) Recommendation to Rent (for the average wrestling fan) Pass Otherwise (for most people in general"

SICK MIKE MONDO. Actually he's from OVW. He has a bio up at http://www.ovwrestling.com/ sorta looks like a 5'6 brock lesner (doesn't everyone from OVW though?)

Unfortunately "the Old Roger Rabbit effect" costs TONS more to do right. Disney was pouring millions into finding out a way to get the roger rabbit effect in CGI because to do a sequel to WFRR was going to costs 100's of millions for just the animation alone. Combining live action and animation in any meaningful way (Roger Rabbit quality) is so labor intensive, where as to do it with CGI it's easier because the computer can match up the camera shots and get the right angles, lighting, etc, on the characters without an artist having to figure it all out by hand. Wow, didn't realize that.... I never knew it was that expensive.

Interesting show look forward to seeing this stuff on TV, Glad to see Bobby Quance really didn't join the Navy afterall! and I still find it hard to believe that a Chris Hero match would be the worst on the show.

Hmm, that poster seems to be missing someone....

Honestly, I never could watch the show because Hank reminds me too much of Beavis & Butthead character Tom Anderson.. only not as funny. "Large fries, pie, large coffee.. got me good buddy?" - genius.

This should be good because the RevPro workers always deliver. But it'll be very interesting to see how this shapes up... some great potental match ups here.

I don't think there will be much interaction between the CG Garfield and the real dog Odie. Really... how can there be without the animal rights people having heartattacks?

It was done by a female. But still the character was supposed to be a male with a cute voice... as mentioned above sorta like Tweety Bird in the Warner Brothers cartoons. Oh, any word if Nermal will be CG or not? or if it will be "PC" to have Garfield send Nermal's ass to Abudahbi in the movie?

Yeah true but if they did it right, they would have appealed to both kids and us 20 something geeks. That would mean more money which would be win-win for them. But instead they will get another weaks kids movie with limited staying power. Like the still laughed punchlines that were the Rocky & Bullwinkle, Scooby Doo, Popeye, He-Man, Super Mario Brothers ETC movies of yesteryear. Can't blame us for not wanting our childhood favorites pissed on.... yet again for the sake a quick buck. But... if it does lead to the old stuff on DVD, I guess it'd be worth it IMO even if Garfield sells his soul.

My god, when I first heard about the movie I knew it would suck... but that trailer made it look even worst than I could have imagined. forget Odie, THAT'S NOT GARFIELD! geeze the old Roger Rabbit effect would have worked just fine! The CG crap looks awful. Looking on the bright side, hopefully they will come out with alot of the old Garfield cartoons on DVD in sorta a cross-promotional deal. Garfield and Friends season sets would rule.

Ok, sounds interesting... but exactly how much Super Dragon is on this DVD?

It has got to be Jacqueline. Despite being on the roster for years she gets no heat or pop peroid. Watch any her of her intros.. you can hear a pin drop. No one else in the WWE right now is that heatless.

Hey now... That match would work out perfectly fine in PWG. Although I don't think a singles meeting will happen there... a tag meeting in the tourney though is highly possible however. Other Chris Hero matches I really want to see are Hero Vs. Samoa Joe and Hero Vs. Super Dragon. Both those could be truly amazing.

Tough one it would have to be "Eat It" or "The Rye or the Kaiser" Although my favorite Weird Al song in general isn't a parody at all, it's the 11 minute epic "Albuquerque" for some weird reason.

Hero can't come to ROH soon enough.. imagine all the great potental matchups. I'd love to see Danielson Vs. Hero too, hopefully they hook up sometime in PWG's tag tourney later this month...

That's good news, the more Lynn the better IMO.

I watched it, very very funny stuff. Sucks that Brak was canceled though. Anyway, for those who missed it I'm sure they will replay it on sunday like they did with last year's New Year's special.

Very true, Around here it's just another reason for people to get drunk and shoot guns. As if that didn't happen enough on every other day of the year....

I've hated Kidman since he left the Flock. He just annoys me. Also if he does get fired Paul London can use his SSP again!

Nah, to truly be the worst movie ever it needs to first have some intention of quality. Manos doesn't have that. My worst movie ever is still the 2001 Planet of The Apes remake... pure crap. Alot worst than Manos or Plan 9 because the filmakers actually thought it would be good.

Cool, I love these things. my favorite TZ ep would have to be "5 characters in search of an exit" great stuff. Stooges are on too? great.. I didn't know that.

A Day In The Life Golden Slumbers Eleanor Rigby

They fought at a few ECW House shows in what were pretty good matches and in WCW at the last Clash of Champions in 97.