Old School Shows of the Week #3!

[JoeDirt]

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

 

WrestleMania VIII

 

April 5, 1992 in Indianapolis, IN

Hoosier Dome drawing 62,167 ($1,250,000)

Shown live on PPV (2.3)

 

1. The Bushwhackers beat The Beverly Brothers (10:00). (Dark match? Pre show?)

 

2. Shawn Michaels pinned Tito Santana (10:39).

 

3. The Undertaker pinned Jake Roberts (6:36).

 

4. Bret Hart pinned Roddy Piper (13:50) to win the WWF I-C Title.

 

5. Big Boss Man, Virgil, Sgt Slaughter, & Jim Duggan beat The Nasty Boys, Repoman, & The Mountie (5:22) when Virgil pinned Knobbs.

 

6. Randy Savage pinned Ric Flair (18:05) to win the WWF World Title.

 

7. Earthquake & Typhoon beat WWF Tag Champs Ted DiBiase & Irwin R. Schyster (8:39) via countout.

 

8. Owen Hart pinned Skinner (1:11).

 

9. Tatanka pinned Rick Martel (4:33).

 

10. Hulk Hogan beat Sid Justice (12:44) via DQ.

 

Guests: Ray Combs (ring announcer), Reba McIntyre (vocalist)

 

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SuperBrawl II

 

February 29, 1992 in Milwaukee, WI

Mecca Arena drawing 5,000 ($67,000)

Shown live on PPV (0.96)

 

1. Big Josh pinned Diamond Dallas Page (7:36). (Dark match? Pre show?)

 

2. Brian Pillman pinned Jushin Liger (17:00) to win the WCW Light Hvywt Title.

 

3. Marcus Bagwell pinned Terry Taylor (7:38).

 

4. Ron Simmons pinned Cactus Jack (6:34).

 

5. Van Hammer & Tom Zenk beat Richard Morton & Vinnie Vegas (12:01) when Zenk pinned Morton.

 

6. Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes beat Steve Austin & Larry Zbysko (18:23) when Windham pinned Zbysko.

 

7. WCW Tag Champs Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton beat Rick & Scott Steiner (20:06) via DQ.

 

8. WCW US Champ Rick Rude pinned Ricky Steamboat (20:02).

 

9. Sting pinned Lex Luger (13:02) to win the WCW World Title.

[JoeDirt]

Well I guess Wrestlemania 8 was in April, but oh well. My fault. Anyways, please proceed.

[deancoles]

I really liked Superbrawl, everyone except Luger put in a lot of effort due to Kip Frye's $5000 dollars for best match thing.

[Only The Strong Survive]

Why was the WWF title match at WM 4 matches before the main event!?

[deancoles]

Because Sid's contract promised him a Wrestlemania main event match.

 

Edit: putting the Main Events back to back wouldn't have made much sense.They may have had to shorten one of the main events if any of the earlier matches had gone long.Instead Owen/Skinner gets cut down and everything goes ok.

Edited October 26, 2004 by deancoles411

[brighty]

was that Luger's last match before jumping to the WBF? - cos the thing i remember most about SuperBrawl 2 is the Sting match and the announcers really hyping up about "Sting proved beyond all doubt that he's better" and so on and so forth.

[JHawk]

was that Luger's last match before jumping to the WBF? - cos the thing i remember most about SuperBrawl 2 is the Sting match and the announcers really hyping up about "Sting proved beyond all doubt that he's better" and so on and so forth.

Yes it was. In fact, Luger hadn't wrestled at all since the 1/4/92 Tokyo Dome show.

[cawthon777]

Why was the WWF title match at WM 4 matches before the main event!?

Because Hogan had to go on last simply from the way they built the show with all the talk that he was "retiring".

[UseTheSledgehammerUh]

And, as amazing as Savage/Flair was, putting that match on shortly after Hulk Hogan's "retirement match" and the RETURN OF THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR would have been similar to the WM X-8 situation.

[Guest LooneyTune]

Except Flair/Savage actually had heat to it and Jericho/HHH was a flaming piece of garbage.

[Si82]

Well Wrestlemania VIII gets the thumbs up from me. It's one of the best Wrestlemanias and one of my personal favourite cards ever.

 

As for Superbrawl II, I remember watching the show in the run up to the event but, because I like in the UK, they never showed the event and I never got round to buying the video, so I've never seen the event but I still really want to.