wildside tape recommendations

[Guest bababooey]

i'll keep it shrt and swt:

 

looking to order some wildside tapes from h3girl's site

any recommendations

[Zack Malibu 0]

Freedom Fight 2003, if only for the War Games matchup. I just got this last week and it's a really good match. Great psychology, storytelling and emotion.

[Guest Jay Z. Hollywood]

You can't go wrong with any of the Freedom Fights really. 2k3, as Zack said, has War Games, which I'd give six stars if the scale went that high. FF 2002, though, is awesome top-to-bottom, with the Holy Wars match, Slim J vs. Jeremy V and the best match in the Briscoe vs. Briscoe series. Also TNT vs. Lost Boyz (awesome) and a jr title 3way (also awesome)

 

If you want some older stuff, Fright Night 2001 has one of my favorite matches of all time- Jimmy Rave vs. Jason Cross vs. AJ Styles vs. JC Dazz in a ladder match for the Wildside Jr title.

 

If you want some familiarity first, Night 1 of Hardcore Hell 2002 is main evented by AJ Styles vs. Ron "The Truth" Killings, and I heard that's really good.

 

Thomas Green has a ton of Wildside stuff reviewed in his archive in the forums, all from Melanie, and I'm sure he'll chime in at some point during this thread for further recos.

[Guest bababooey]

all good sgts

right now i looking to get the best of slim j, jimmy rave and aj style vol 2

 

but i am looking for tapes with some matches with tony mamluke and jeremy lopez

[Phoenix Fury Legdrop 0]

Man, you SERIOUSLY need Freedom Fights 2002 & 2003. Just for the 2003 War Games. I know TNA's sucked in comparision, and I doubt MLW pulled something out of Court's daddy's ass good enough to compare. Proof that you can still pull off emotional, classic moments, no matter what the setting. 2002 had a heck of a main event as well (The Holy Wars cage gauntlet match) that helped elevate Rainman's status in the company, added to Iceberg's monster status, even with a clean defeat, and got a new main face over....for one night (Adam Jacobs's juice after FF 2002 sort of died out until he quit). FF2002 is probably the best total card Wildside's put on, outside of the HORRENDOUS Magnum-Carlton Kaz match. Jay Briscoe vs. Mark Briscoe's an excellent match, outside of the ridiculously stupid finisher killing at the end.

 

The FN2001 ladder match that Jay mentioned is on the Best of Jimmy Rave tape (one of my favorite comps on a certain indy wrestler), as well as some stuff with Tony Mamaluke (AWESOME I Quit match from Hardcore Hell 2002; evolutionized both characters, strong work, great post-match) and Jeremy Lopez, like you wanted.

 

Hardcore Hell 2003: Night One is good, if only for the great 4-way double elimination Jr. Title match between SAL RINAURO~!, Slim J, Jeremy V., and Kid Kool. In my opinion, it's the defining moment for Wildside's jr. division. Sal definately set in stone his position as, to steal a phrase from Shocker, "1000% Rudo", completely dicking everyone out, including making sure Slim J connected on a couple of moves with Jeremy V. outside the ring during their portion, after Jeremy had "hurt his neck", and then doing his finish on the injured V. (Phoenix Fury Legdrop, aka Viagra/Niagra Driver, aka half-nelson Ki Krusher), and completely celebrating like he'd won "King of the World" after he eliminated Jeremy. Slim got to come back and put a controversial situation that I won't go into behind him, and put over Sal and Kid Kool in the process, sort of handing off the "Jr. Heavyweight Torch" that had been handed off to him by Jimmy Rave. Kool got over by beating the then-top face in the division, and going the distance with the champ, only to be ousted by a second-rope PFL. V.'s "neck injury" shot him up the Wildside card quick, as they played off of it the next night when Jeremy replaced the no-showing Tony Mamaluke in a submission match with Rainman, and Rainman beat the tar out of the neck, yet got Jeremy over as a top guy by giving him an unofficial three-count before he made Jeremy tap.

 

If you have any other questions about any other tapes, ask.

Edited September 25, 2003 by Phoenix Fury Legdrop

[Guest ChaosTheory]

As already posted Freedom Fight 2002 was tremendous.

 

Also as already posted Freedom Fight 2003 and Hardcore Hell 2003 Night One were very good. I have not seen them on tape but was there in person.