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And for my final selection: Uncensored 1995: Strap Match: Hulk Hogan vs. Vader So mindnumbing right up to the finish where Hogan drags Ric Flair, who dressed as a woman to sneak into the building, to all four corners. Sadly, I could have easily chosen the entire card and still had a viable choice.

And King Cucaracha's last selection: Jake Roberts vs. Rick Rude (WrestleMania IV)

King Cucaracha asked me to select for him as he's gone for the weekend. His round five selection: Picture won't show up, but it's The Undertaker vs. Big Bossman (Hell in a Cell WMXV)

With mellow out of town until Sunday, I select for round five... July 14, 1991 WCW The Great American Bash El Gigante vs. One Man Gang Had to have at least one bad match from the worst PPV ever. Horrible even by WCW big man standards.

WWF Title Match: The Undertaker vs. Sycho Sid© (WrestleMania 13) This might be the worst main event in WrestleMania history. 22 minutes of sheer boredom on an already craptacular card.

LDP actually has a hell of an idea for Landon Maddix backstage skits during the show. Book it!

Sadly I like Havoc 91 as a whole, but still drafted two matches from it. I'd probably draft more 1999-2000 WCW but I missed most of the Russo stuff due to not having cable for six months.

More WCW "goodness". October 27, 1991 Chamber of Horrors Halloween Havoc 1991 I couldn't find an image of Abdullah the Butcher in the electric chair to bring home how asinine this was. On top of the "first to be electrocuted loses" stip, you also had the lever go down on its own, so Cactus Jack has to improvise a plausible way to pull the lever without making the entire scenario look like shit. It didn't work.

Isn't it mellow's pick?

FUCK! I completely forgot about that one, and I was there live. Which is probably why I forgot about it. Looks like Gert T is up with two picks.

Everybody's killing him because that match was six minutes of suck, and it had nothing to do with Estrada.

Way to put the new guy over by having a longish match against a former manager/GM who rarely wrestles.

Only one match from the Wrestling Hot Beds special actually took place in the hot bed. It took me two minutes to realize the WMIV six man is there because Bobby Heenan was billed as being from Beverly Hills, and I don't think he ever visited there aside from one TV shoot that may or may not have aired.

10/25/98: Hollywood Hogan vs. Warrior (Halloween Havoc) Shitty work with run-ins that no one wanted and a fireball that wouldn't light make a horrible waste of time. Leave it to WCW to flush a money semi-main event down the drain.

That's Mike Sharpe Sr, not Iron Mike Sharpe. But yeah, Sky Low Low's a stretch.

I believe you're the last guy King, so it's your pick again

Since I assume I can still get in on this... Oz vs. Bill Kazmaier (Halloween Havoc 1991)

Some of the AWA shows post-SuperClash III were just painful to watch. But as far as a full run goes, your probably right. I remember one episode of Thunder where four "unscheduled" matches were set up during the show to make 11 total matches, and the show went off the air five minutes early. How's that for a shitty wrestling show?

I'd have to do the Joel Gertner "weak shot and get beat up thing" if I were to wrestle though, since I know how to bump and that's about it.

And I never thought the title was ever on the line during these open challenges, so there ya go. Note that the second set of spoilers that it didnt state that Taylor won the belt. I hope she didnt actually win it as I think the novelty of someone actually beating Kong in the challenge itself is good enough without the title win. That will set up a solid actual title match, probably at the ppv, between the two, and THAT would be for the title. Its moreless like she earned her shot by winning the challenge. In the latest Observer that just went up at f4wonline.com, Meltz says "Taylor has already won the title on Impact" while adding later that "Taylor gets a title shot at Victory Road", so I don't think anybody knows for sure.

Holy fuck, I saw her wrestle in Vegas a couple of weeks ago at the CAC Reunion! She's actually a pretty good little heel.

Good action so far, but an explanation for Punk competing would have been nice.

See Benoit mentioned on a WWE affiliated website before they delete it

Surname: Hawkins Amongst the long list of British naval heroes, the names of Sir John Hawkins and Lord Hawkins (no relation), the conquerors with Sir Francis Drake of the 1588 Spanish Armada, stand almost supreme. The name itself, deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "Hafoc" meaning "Hawk", is descriptive for one who possessed that bird's ferocious instincts. The name, as a personal name without a surname is recorded in the spelling of "Havok" in the Domesday Book of 1086, compiled by William the Conqueror. In the spelling form as Hawkins, the name is a double diminutive or patronymic which translates as "the son(s) of the son (kin) of the Hawk". The surname as "Hawk" is very early, being first recorded in 1176, when Roger Havech appeared in the Pipe Rolls of Dover, Kent; as "Hawkin" the first recording is that of Roger Havekin in the Essex Rolls of 1298; and as Hawkyns, the medieval spelling, the name is recorded in the early 14th Century (see below), whilst Agnes Hawkins, who married Roger Carpinter (as spelt) at St. Peter Westcheap, London, on August 4th 1560, is an early example of the "modern" spelling. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Margery Haukyns, which was dated 1327, in the "Subsidy Pipe Rolls of Worcestershire", during the reign of King Edward 111, known as "The Father of the Navy", 1327 - 1377. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

I'm disappointed as a completist, but especially coming off of Arn Anderson's retirement and the subsequent spoof of the speech, that was about the worst blowoff I've ever seen, so we're agreed.