Old school shows of the week #2

[JoeDirt 0]

Post your thoughts, memories, comments, or anything about these shows below!

 

 

Bash at the Beach 1995

 

July 16, 1995 in Huntington Beach, CA

The beach drawing 9,500 ($0)

Shown live on PPV (0.82)

 

DARK MATCHES:

1. Johnny B. Badd pinned Chris Canyon (2:03).

 

2. Road Warrior Hawk pinned Mark Starr (1:25).

 

3. Dick Slater & Bunkhouse Buck beat Marcus Bagwell & Alex Wright (3:25) when Buck pinned Wright.

 

MAIN SHOW:

 

4. WCW U.S. Champ Sting pinned Meng (15:31).

 

5. WCW TV Champ The Renegade pinned Paul Orndorff (6:12).

 

6. Kamala pinned Jim Duggan (6:00).

 

7. Diamond Dallas Page pinned Dave Sullivan (5:04).

 

8. WCW Tag Champs Harlem Heat beat The Nasty Boys and Bobby Eaton & Steven Regal (13:41) in a "triangle" match when Booker T pinned Regal.

 

9. Randy Savage pinned Ric Flair (13:55) in a "lifeguard lumberjack" match.

 

10. WCW World Champ Hulk Hogan beat Big Van Vader (13:13) in a "steel cage" match by leaving the cage.

 

 

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SummerSlam 1995

 

August 27, 1995 in Pittsburgh, PA

Civic Arena drawing 18,062 ($353,705)

Shown live on PPV (0.9)

 

1. Hakushi pinned The 1-2-3 Kid (9:28).

 

2. Hunter Hearst Helmsley pinned Bob Holly (7:11).

 

3. The Smoking Gunns beat Eli & Jacob Blue (6:10) when Bart made the pin.

 

4. Barry Horowitz pinned Skip (11:21).

 

5. Bertha Faye pinned Alundra Blayze (4:37) to win the WWF Women's Title.

 

6. The Undertaker beat Kama (16:26) in a "casket" match.

 

7. Bret Hart beat Isaac Yankem (16:08) via DQ.

 

8. WWF I-C Champ Shawn Michaels beat Razor Ramon (24:58) in a "ladder" match.

 

9. WWF World Champ Diesel pinned Mabel (9:15).

 

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Wrestlepalooza 1995

 

August 5, 1995 in Philadelphia, PA

ECW Arena drawing 1,150

 

1. JT Smith pinned Hack Myers (6:33).

 

2. Big Val Puccio beat Tony Stetson (1:23) via DQ.

 

3. Raven, Stevie Richards, Snot & Big Dick Dudley beat Tommy Dreamer, Cactus Jack, and The Pitbulls when Richards pinned Dreamer.

 

4. Too Cold Scorpio, Dean Malenko, & Cactus Jack beat Eddy Guerrero, Rick & Scott Steiner (21:59) when Malenko pinned Guerrero.

 

5. Mikey Whipwreck pinned Sandman (5:51) in a "Singapore cane" match.

 

6. The Gangstas beat Public Enemy (17:51) in a "stretcher match."

[Australian Pride 0]

When was the last time WWF/E ran a PPV where the IC title match was nearly 3 times longer than the World Title match? I guess it needed to be, and even 9 minutes was still way too much Diesel/Mabel for my liking. You had to feel sorry for Bret Hart and the Undertaker, lumped with deadweight like they were.

[Si82 0]

I love Summerslam 1995. It was one of my favourite ever shows.

 

Sure, there were a few crappy matches but most of the card was good. Hell, I think the Undertaker/Kama casket match is a good match.

 

Match of the night, and the year, has to go the ladder match betweeen Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels. I personally prefere it to the ladder match at Wrestlemania X becuase it seems a lot more brutal with Shawn getting a real beating from Razor. Good stuff.

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DARK MATCHES:

1. Johnny B. Badd pinned Chris Canyon (2:03).

 

2. Road Warrior Hawk pinned Mark Starr (1:25).

 

3. Dick Slater & Bunkhouse Buck beat Marcus Bagwell & Alex Wright (3:25) when Buck pinned Wright.

Those weren't dark matches. They aired live during "The Main Event" pre-show on TBS.

[Guest Arnold_OldSchool]

Randy Savage pinned Ric Flair (13:55) in a "lifeguard lumberjack" match.

 

10. WCW World Champ Hulk Hogan beat Big Van Vader (13:13) in a "steel cage" match by leaving the cage.

 

"Baywatch" was the first thing that came to mind

[Guest JJW]

Was Canyon a member of men at work then?

[JoeDirt 0]

DARK MATCHES:

  1. Johnny B. Badd pinned Chris Canyon (2:03).

 

  2. Road Warrior Hawk pinned Mark Starr (1:25).

 

  3. Dick Slater & Bunkhouse Buck beat Marcus Bagwell & Alex Wright (3:25) when Buck pinned Wright.

Those weren't dark matches. They aired live during "The Main Event" pre-show on TBS.

Thanks for the correction, sorry about that.

[cawthon777 0]

DARK MATCHES:

   1. Johnny B. Badd pinned Chris Canyon (2:03).

 

   2. Road Warrior Hawk pinned Mark Starr (1:25).

 

   3. Dick Slater & Bunkhouse Buck beat Marcus Bagwell & Alex Wright (3:25) when Buck pinned Wright.

Those weren't dark matches. They aired live during "The Main Event" pre-show on TBS.

Thanks for the correction, sorry about that.

Just to elaborate a little more, it was during that pre-show that the Giant came face-to-face with Hogan for the first time as he interrupted Okerlund's interview with the champion in the aisle.

[Papacita 0]

Was Canyon a member of men at work then?

Nah. It was a few months prior.

[Guest LooneyTune]

Summerslam 1995 get's too much shit.

 

Michaels/Ramon II is great, although with no real heel (I guess Ramon was the default heel) it wasn't the same.

 

Bret Hart dragged a ***-ish match out of Glen Jacobs

 

Undertaker/Kama wasn't completely crappy.

 

Hakushi/1-2-3 Kid is an under-rated match, in the *** range.

 

Skip/Horowitz is the same as the above, just shouldn't have been that good.

 

Everything else was either short or not too bad.

[Papacita 0]

Yeah, I've mentioned before that SS95 is up there for one of my favorite shows. I even get a perverse pleasure out of Diesel/Mabel. The Luger run-in is especially funny.

[Guest GreatOne]

Summerslam 95 gets love for Gorilla Monsoon's (RIP) announcement of 'This (Shawn/Sid) is not what the fans want to see'

 

Of course if it had gone on at Summerslam and Michaels/Razor II had been on RAW who knows how the Mon night wars would have begun

 

'HE DOVE OFF THE LADDER AND NO ONE WAS HOME'

[hitman2003 0]

The Shawn/Razor Ladder is one great match. I remember being on the edge of my seat the entire match. The Bret/Yankem match and the Casket match were both pretty good as well. The rest of the card is pretty bad though.

 

The 1995 Bash at the Beach was a really bad PPV. Even the Flair/Savage match really wasn't that good, and almost always good matches when they wrestled each other.