JHawk

A house show on the same night as a TV taping? What would be the purpose of that?

WWE Hall of Fame

Do you have the Hallmark Channel? They show MASH like 274 times a day. Hard to miss it.

It wasn't unexpected in the sense that nobody thought it possible, but I think most people figured it would happen at Starrcade or possibly a Clash rather than some random house show. The Vince McMahon came calling, and the rest is history.

When I picked up hall of Fame today, they had "Chris Benoit July 2004" listed in the coming soon section. So either it's coming out in the US or they're teasing us.

Was this the spectacular 2 out 3 falls match? No. This was one fall, and Demolition lost by DQ but kept the titles. The best of three falls match was two months later

Raw from JHawk's Beak (5/31/2004) In with a bang, out with a whimper. Or something.

Um... JYD/Slaughter vs. Iron Sheik/Nikolai Volkoff from the Spectrum (October 1984). Granted, that was from Slaughter playing face-in-peril for 12-15 minutes, but it counts.

Oh? I could've sworn that someone mentioned on the KFM board JYD/Race was WM III. Either way though for Andre/Studd it will probably suck. Damn my weak sources. That could be right too. Either way those two matches suck ass.

I was under the impression that they were using the Race-JYD SNME match (which still sucks) and an Andre-Studd match from April 1983 (which probably still sucks since one of their Spectrum matches around that time literally consisted of Studd holding Andre in a headlock for ten minutes). Still, the alley fight and three or four hard to find title changes should make it worth a pickup.

They were basically construction workers. They wrestled in blue jeans, wore hard hats to the ring, and I remember Kanyon actually using a tape measure to measure the ring on Saturday Night once or twice. And the Starr/Kanyon combo was actually a pretty good team. Had there still been US Tag Titles at that point, they could have had a nice run with them.

1)Austin vs Rock wm 17 33)angle vs shane kotr 01 16)hhh vs foley rumble 00 17)flair vs steamboat chi-town rumble 8)hbk vs foley mind games 25)austin vs angle summerslam 01 9)angle vs benoit rumble 03 41)spanky-low ki-williams-danielson 7/27/02 4)bret vs austin wm13 36)steiners vs sting/luger superbrawl 1 52)hogan vs warriar wm6 45)blanchard vs magnum ta starcade 85 5)bret vs owen wm10 28)flair vs funk clash 9 12)savage vs warriar wm7 21)bret vs perfect summerslam 91 3)rey vs eddie halloween havoc 97 34)bret vs benoit 10/4/99 50)hhh/austin vs benoit/jericho 5/21/01 19)sting vs vader superbrawl 3 7)savage vs steamboat wm3 38)rock vs foley rumble 99 11)hhh vs rock judgement day 00 42)bret vs buldog summerslam92 22)10 man tag canadian stampede 10)92 rumble 39)flair vs windham worldwide 1/20/87 6)hhh vs hbk vs benoit wm20 47)owen vs buldog 2/26/97 51)rey/edge vs angle/benoit no mercy 02 30)bret vs perfect kotr 93 2)bret vs austin survivor series 96

I did go out for a while tonight and wanted to stay in the hotel with my lady. But Kylie Minogue only likes doing it once a night.

Check out the intro to the tag title match at Barely Legal and you'll be able to make out a huge "Fuck you D-Von" chant.

Which brings up an interesting question, actually. Most of the time in the WWF, the steel cage match was won by climbing the cage. The notable exception was Bob Backlund, who almost always escaped through the door. Can anybody think of any non-Backlund W/WWF/E cage matches that ended with the door escape?

IIRC, the kayfabe reason they created the blue bar cage was because they were afraid that with 460 pounds of King Kong Bundy hitting the cage that it might collapse and give Bundy the cheap victory. Obvious bullshit, as Andre the Giant had done cage matches with Kamala and Big John Studd before that. In reality, it was used under the belief that the wider bars would make the match come off better on TV.

Bruno's first reign: May 17, 1963 through January 18, 1971. Bruno's second reign: December 10, 1973 through April 30, 1977.

Probably not, since LOD's debut was at a June taping and they were basically kepy apart until SummerSlam. They were building toward the Rude-Bossman feud, but Rude's contract ran out and he didn't re-sign, so Jack Tunney "suspended" him. Can't remember the source I got it from, but I want to say they were married in December 1984. As far as I remember, Jimmy Hart simply announced Tugboat was now Typhoon on Prime Time Wrestling. Not much fanfare at all. There was no official breakup, although it was teased at the 1993 Royal Rumble. WCW circa 1998, right? I can't remember where it became official (I want to say injuring Rey Misterio Jr.'s knee at Souled Out was the clincher), but he'd been throwing temper tantrums after a series of losses. He'd usually destroy Dave Penzer's suit, buy him a new one as an apology, then destroy that suit after the loss. Then came Souled Out.

It's hard to say exactly how much Watts hated Cactus since Cactus was injured for more than half of Watts' run. Remember, Cactus was Ron Simmons' first challenger at a major show after Simmons won the title (Clash XX in September -- which is where Cactus was injured). It was also in Watts' run where Cactus initially turned face, and the face turn didn't bomb until Bischoff took over and approved the "Lost in Cleveland" skits.

Not to mention the whole "live crowd" thing. They've only been doing that for 100 years. Not tired at all. Nope. Actually, the AWA tried that during the Team Challenge Series. You saw how well that turned out.

I've been anti-Laker ever since Kobe elbowed Bibby in game 6 of the conference finals two years ago and Bibby got charged for the foul because he didn't move his face out of the way in time. You could argue that Kobe's elbow two years ago was worse than what Malone did on Sunday, so you all should have known nothing was going to happen. Either way, this sets a double standard, and even if you're indifferent to the NBA and kind of casually follow the playoffs, you have to be thinking to yourself "How the hell can that happen" right now.

Raw from JHawk's Beak(5/24/2004) Yep yep.

Trust me, it would be at least a month or two before I got the barebones of it up, but I think I could have at least some sort of prototype up by around July 1 if I got started on it right away. I've got the next two days off work, so I'll start by using what info's already on my hard drive and go from there.

If i read the updated preview correctly, it looks like Edge vs. Ric Flair and Eugene/William Regal vs. Garrison Cade/Jonathan Coachman tonight.

Just a thought that may or may not get shut down. While we have said that we'd like to see this site follow the NWA and WCW, it becomes confusing with the JCP to Turner switchover, especially once we hit late-1990 and early-1991 when Flair's both NWA and WCW champion but never acknowledged by WCW as such. Would it be better to keep the WCW history focused on the timeframe between Turner purchasing JCP in November 1988 through the sale to Vince McMahon in 2001 (and through that year's Survivor Series) and starting a separate NWA site (which I would consider working on, possibly with help). That NWA site could focus on all the territories lumped under the NWA banner as well as the NWA after 1993 (which tends to get ignored).