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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2014 12:32:41 GMT -4
Also a really good Perfect/Doink match to qualify for King of the Ring. Which was a rematch to a few 'time limit draws' they had on TV and if I recall, that match actually goes longer than either draw did. That match is one of my favorites from the early days of RAW. It was my favorite match on the old Raw: Prime Cuts tape and I'm glad it found its way onto the Raw 93/94 DVD. |
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Post by Peter F on Apr 14, 2014 23:42:59 GMT -4
The Jannetty vs. Doink 2/3 fall match might be the best WWF match of 1993. At worst, it's in a cluster at the top with Hart/Perfect, the Hart/Lawler/Doink Summerslam deal (which almost defies a traditional match rating), and the Jannetty/Michaels "instant replay" match.
Jannetty, Bret, and Doink were the three best workers in the company at the time. Marty was *clearly* ahead of Shawn at that point from a pure working ability perspective, he just never got his head on straight.
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Post by maddog1981 on Apr 15, 2014 11:47:55 GMT -4
Michaels really struggled on offense a lot. Those Duggan matches were good but they had a good chemistry and Duggan brought his working boots for those.
I'd put Perfect above Doink but Doink is still easily top 5 for that year. It's a shame they wasted him on Crush for Mania.
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Post by maddog1981 on Apr 15, 2014 11:50:17 GMT -4
Episode 17 is still probably one of the best Raw episodes I've ever seen. They just packed so much into it with the Kid and Jannetty stuff.
Going back to Crush. He's my least favorite WWF wrestler ever.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2014 12:20:11 GMT -4
Going back to Crush. He's my least favorite WWF wrestler ever. Crush's theme song > You. |
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Post by Peter F on Apr 17, 2014 14:11:10 GMT -4
Michaels really struggled on offense a lot. Those Duggan matches were good but they had a good chemistry and Duggan brought his working boots for those. I'd put Perfect above Doink but Doink is still easily top 5 for that year. It's a shame they wasted him on Crush for Mania. Episode 17 is still probably one of the best Raw episodes I've ever seen. They just packed so much into it with the Kid and Jannetty stuff. Going back to Crush. He's my least favorite WWF wrestler ever. The WM match is a disaster, great finish aside. I doubt if it's on the Network, but they had a blowoff match on Superstars that I think has to be the best singles match of Crush's career. I mean, no one's going to confuse it with 6/3/94, but it's a testament to Doink's greatness that the WrestleMania match didn't show. Crush had cool music and a--what's a gesture version of a catchphrase? He had one of those that the crowd was into, too. But other than that, yeah, he had absolutely nothing. Couldn't talk, and couldn't sell worth a crap which is a really bad thing if you're a babyface. The intro vignettes they had for him in '92 are probably the worst ever as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 14:34:57 GMT -4
Crush was a big, agile guy who could be lead to a good match (March to WrestleMania X with Bret is an example of that, though I won't argue Crush had a long list of good matches) and his promos weren't that bad.
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Post by maddog1981 on Apr 17, 2014 20:41:12 GMT -4
That's what makes him one of my least favorite WWE wrestlers. He had some tools and just never did anything over a fairly long run in the WWE. There have been worse wrestlers that are more forgivable than he is.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2014 7:01:24 GMT -4
That's what makes him one of my least favorite WWE wrestlers. He had some tools and just never did anything over a fairly long run in the WWE. There have been worse wrestlers that are more forgivable than he is. I'm sorry, were you trying to shit on Crush? I couldn't hear you over the sound of this theme song. |
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Post by wildfire on Apr 18, 2014 13:52:22 GMT -4
That is a sweet theme song, but I wasn't a fan of him either... I think they pushed him too hard for me to really like him.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2014 14:06:22 GMT -4
Pushed him too hard?! He got jobbed to Doink, was made to look like a total moron, got smashed by Yoko, came back, turned heel and lost to Randy Savage before being put into a tag team with Yokozuna that lasted only a few months. It's not like he was pushed in Luger's spot.
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Post by maddog1981 on Apr 18, 2014 18:43:38 GMT -4
Doink beating the shit out of him with a fake arm was really the highlight of his career.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2014 19:00:43 GMT -4
Doink beating the shit out of him with a fake arm was really the highlight of his career. Pretty sure this was the highlight of his career: |
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Post by maddog1981 on Apr 18, 2014 19:36:41 GMT -4
I should see how many times I can get you to post that in this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2014 19:46:05 GMT -4
Then you should probably change the thread title to "The Kona Crush theme song memorial thread" before we get going.
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