Hunter's Torn Quad

Darkness Dragon, Genki Horiguchi and Susumu Mochizuki vs. Kennichiro Arai, Super Shisa and Ryo Saito – T2P, January 20th 2002 Notes: These guys move so fast and so fluidly, no matter if they’re on the mat, in the air, or wrestling in the ring. It’s amazing to watch. One of the heels, Horiguchi, ties up Saito on the mat like he’s about to do the Muta Lock, but instead stands atop Saito and pretends like he’s surfing. Super Shisa has a Shiryu-like mask on, with the feathered top, and the heels keep ripping at the feathers and even throw them into the camera. One neat spots as Saito down by the heels corner and the heels take turns to tag in, bodyslam Saito, then tag right back out. The heels stun Arai with a move, drag Saito in, double suplex him up into his partner, and this forces Arai to powerbomb his own partner, and Arai looks aghast. Shisa does this great spot where he hits the ropes, backflips over them to the floor like Misawa does when he comes into the ring, and takes one of the heels over in a head scissors. You really have to see this one for yourself. Shisa and Darkness Dragon have this battle over Shisa trying to use a natural bridge. Shisa snap mares Dragon over, jumps over Dragon to roll him up, but Dragon rolls backwards to a standing position, so Shisa does the same, and Shisa hits Dragon, I think, and snap mares him again and this time gets to roll Dragon up with the natural bridge. Rating: ***1/4 My notes may make it seem like not a lot happened here, but that isn’t the case. There was so much going on in this six-man as the action never let up for a moment, and there was always something happening. This was very entertaining match, and while it isn’t an all-time great, it’s still one worth seeing just for the pure entertainment factor.

Keep all talk of what exactly happens on the shows in here until they air on Spike.

That came across as an incredibly pathetic cry for attention.

It might even drag them down, because CSI gave Raw a great lead-in audience, and USA has nothing on Mondays that gets anywhere close to what CSI gets.

Survey says:

Whatever helps you sleep at night I guess. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The lack of oxygen to his brain helps with that.

He could win, but we're saying he shouldn't. He shouldn't get the belt because it's too soon and they can still build towards Fujita vs. Lesnar and make a ton of money.

He shouldn't have anyway, but at least now he doesn't have to do the job. Fujita should pin Chono, no matter what the status of Lesnar is. Then, if Lesnar is in full-time, they can build to Lesnar vs. Fujita in January.

Yea, Though I Walk Through The Valley Of The Shadow Of Suck – Part 7 Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage v Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Kevin Sullivan, Meng, The Barbarian, Lex Luger, Ze Gangsta and The Ultimate Solution – Doomsday Cage Match, Uncensored 1996 Yes, the time has come to review the legendary three-tier cage match that everyone who has seen it can never forget, though all have tried. The rules for this thing were never clear, because it seemed that they changed from minute to minute, ever since the concept of this disaster spouted forth from the booking genius that was Hulk Hogan. A little backstory is in order, because it fills space, and means I don’t have to write so much about this match. In the months leading up to Uncensored, Hogan had lost to Flair via Screwjob pinfall, and lost to Arn Anderson on consecutive Nitro’s, via Screwjob pinfall and disqualification respectively. Now, as I’m sure we remember, this decimated Hogan’s heat, so, naturally, Hogan had to get it back. How was he to do this ? By beating Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and two others, one of whom might have been Lex Luger, in a four-on-one cage match. Randy Savage was originally going to face Chris Benoit, but when Benoit had to wrestle in Japan, this left Savage without a match. So, what did Savage do ? Why, he called Hogan, of course, and asked to get put in the main event. Hogan couldn’t turn down a request from his good buddy, and, being that Hogan had full control over everything he did, Savage was added to the main event. But how was this to effect the heel side of the match ? Simple; four more heels were added, thus making it a two-on-eight cage match. There was talk that Brian Pillman would be added as a ninth man, but despite his name being hype up through the pre-game show, and even all through the PPV right until the end of the actual PPV, Pillman didn’t appear. Another fun fact saw The Ultimate Solution originally being called The Final Solution, which saw the complaints flood in to WCW, due to that being the name of the Nazi’s master plan to eliminate the Jew’s. Why was such a name even used in the first place ? I don’t know, but I’m sure it had nothing to do with Johnny B Badd, a Jew, getting into an argument with Eric Bischoff over a new contract and quitting the promotion, with Eric refusing to even shake Badd’s hand before Badd left. Did I mention that Final/Ultimate Solution was unveiled the very week after Badd quit ? Funny how that happened, isn’t it ? The cage itself had three levels, with hatches allowing access from one level to the other, as well as a partition with a door in the second level, making for a wall of sorts. It was above a wrestling ring that was by the entranceway, while the regular ring was in its usual place. The rules, as I mentioned earlier, were never really made clear, but it seemed to involve Hogan and Savage having to go from the top to the bottom, or maybe beating all the heels, or maybe just escaping, or maybe just putting us all out of our misery and taking a swan dive off the top and into the second row. The match began with various heels in all three levels of the cage, with Flair and Ze Gangsta at the top level. Hogan and Savage came out second and climbed scaffolding outside the cage to get to the top level, and the match began with Hogan against Gangsta and Savage against Flair. At various points, we got split-screen action, because lord knows we couldn’t miss any of this classic confrontation. While Hogan and Savage battled Flair and Gangsta in the top level, the other heels pretty much stood around with their thumbs up their asses, and just looked on as the action unfolded. After some comically bad brawling, which saw nobody take any bumps, and Ze Gangsta actually apply a figure four on Hogan, powder got used on one of the heels somehow (remember this for later), and Hogan and Savage climbed down to the second level, where Luger, Meng, Sullivan, Anderson and Barbarian awaited. Amidst more horrible brawling, where, once again, nobody bumped, Hogan and Sullivan made it out of the cage, to the scaffolding that surrounded the cage. Given that no bell rang, I guess that means that escaping the cage was not a way to win. The first mildly exciting thing to happen in the match occurred here, as Hogan teased kicking Sullivan off of the scaffolding, with Sullivan halfway over the edge of said scaffolding. That didn’t last long, as a Sullivan lowblow, which Hogan sold by stumbling around like he was in desperate need to take a dump, allowed Sullivan to pull himself back onto the scaffolding. While this was going on, Savage had somehow closed the door in the partition on the second level, leaving him with just Luger to deal with. Quite how the door was closed, and why nobody could un-open it, is a mystery right now, but I’m sure there are people out there right now trying to work that one out. Sullivan and Hogan made it to the arena floor, while the heels in the second cage that were trapped behind the partition, blocked Savage from coming through, presumably because the hatch the ring was on that side. Luger was nowhere to be seen, having just walked out of the cage moments before, and quite why Savage didn’t just do the same thing I don’t know. Luger made it to the floor area, and helped Sullivan attack Hogan, but that didn’t last long because Savage had finally decided to just leave the cage. Hogan and Sullivan ‘brawled’ to the regular ring, and Luger and Savage ‘brawled’ by the cage/scaffolding. While this action was going on, the other heels presumably felt so cozy and comfy in the cage that they didn’t want to leave and help their friends. After all four men brawled, if it can even be called that, for what felt like an hour, Ze Gangsta and The Ultimate Solution showed up; Meng and Barbarian apparently having gone home for the night. Gangsta and Solution dragged Savage and Hogan back to the cage, and all four men wound up in the other ring, where upon a Hogan chant mysteriously broke out from nowhere, as fall four men squared off. In all this mess and it was a mess, Arn Anderson and Ric Flair eventually showed up, and it was now four-on-two. The non-wrestling highlight…let me rephrase that. The highlight that had nothing to do with the semi-physical action going on was a close-up of Randy Savage blading, and it wasn’t long after this that the Booty Man showed up and gave a bunch of frying pans to Hogan and Savage, and, after using the powder from earlier, which had fallen to the ground earlier in the match from way up to the cage, to blind the heels, they went to town on them with the frying pans. At this point, Lex Luger showed up, from wherever he had hidden, and attacked Hogan and Savage from behind, before pulling out a loaded glove from his tights. Flair held Savage’s arms behind him, told Luger to hit him, Luger nodded, and went to deck Savage, who ducked, allowing Luger to…stop. Luger paused, and then hit Flair anyway, for reasons I don’t think were explained, and Flair was KO’d. Hogan motioned for Savage to leave the cage with him, which Savage went to do, before stopping to pin Flair for the apparent win, and leave the cage with Hogan. Rating: In my review of Undertaker/Kane v Kronik from Unforgiven, you will have read me talk about a Vortex Of Suck™. Well, there is a much greater force out there. Somewhere out in the vast cosmos of the universe is a unique black hole. It is unique because, unlike any other black hole, it does not contain matter, anti-matter, energy, or any other space-related substance. This black hole, you see, is a Black Hole Of Suck™, in which resides the very worst that Suck has to offer. Ladies and gentleman, this match is one such instance of the very worst that Suck has to offer, and make no mistake about it; this match is at the very heart of the Black Hole Of Suck™.

Hayabusa Hayabusa was a great flyer, but he lacked a lot in the way of psychology and matwork, so he needed to be in against great worker to have a truly great match. It could be done, though, as he and Jinsei Shinzaki had an excellent match against Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue in All Japan at the end of 1997. Mr. Gannosuke Not the best of workers, but a great heel.

From SSS At least if Lesnar isn't getting the belt, which he shouldn't at this stage, he doesn't have to do the job. The only logical finish here now is for Fujita to beat Chono.

Get TotSC. Look on eBay and you can get it, or both it and BG1 really cheap. It'll be worth it. As I said earlier, playing BG1 as is when you've just played BG2 really makes the first game seem old. With the Mod, BG1 plays so much better.

3.2 is still a bad rating, no matter what you think of the person calling it a bad rating.

If they can work that out, that would be good.

Don't forget about the tri-annual pre-emptions.

It's called BG1TuTu and you can get it from here BG1TuTu I've tried it, and it certainly makes BG1 a better game to play. You need to have installed BG1 and BG: TotSC, as well as BG2 and BG2: ToB to play it.

But they always talk about him having heart and guts. What they would do, though, is just call him "Dudley" with no mention of his first name, similiar to that bizarre SD angle last year when the Dudleys joined up with Heyman. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just rememeber that you're talking about a guy who wanted to bring out someone in a Panda costume on a UK PPV and beat him up just because he lost a lawsuit against the World Wildlife Fund.

I wonder if Vince will bring back Spike Dudley for one night and have him get destroyed just so the announcers can talk about 'Spike' not having heart or guts.

From Meltzer.

Amazing Red Spotacular. Masahiro Chono In his prime a great worker, Chono is still a great heel. Just a shame his booking doesn't seem to match his talent inside the ring. Aja Kong Ouch! Aja was my favorite wrestler in AJW. She would kick your ass and make you love it. WWE Women's Division They have a Women's Division?

I liked Rip. He was a pretty decent worker, and was always entertaining to watch.

I'm in the mood to shoot, people.

That finish was so badly contrived it was ridiculous. You knew exactly what was going to happen the second that Kurt went to the apron, and when you add in that Kurt never goes to the top rope for anything other than to miss a moonsault, it told you right away that the finish was about to happen.

There is a story on PWSpyware that Lesnar and WWE are working on a settlement. If you want to know exactly what the story says, you'll have to risk your own computer to find out.

Can you please expand on this? He seemed like he was a pretty down to Earth guy every time I've seen or read something about him. Thanks. Not sure if you missed it when it was originally posted, but I was just curious when or how he turned into a complete asshole. Thanks. There was a charity show back in 2002 for some kids, at the old ECW Arena I think, and one of the matches was Bigelow against Taiyo Kea of All Japan. The finish was meant to be Kea winning clean, but Bigelow refused. The show got held up while they were arguing about it, and Vampiro wound up stepping in and agreeing to do the job so they could get on with things.