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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 14, 2014 23:49:11 GMT -4
I'll finish this tomorrow.
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Post by wildfire on Oct 15, 2014 0:16:23 GMT -4
I never watched any WCW around this time... I'm not sad about that at this time  |
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Post by tax on Oct 15, 2014 19:32:31 GMT -4
yeah I was out of WCW at this point myself.
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Post by pikemojo on Oct 16, 2014 20:41:47 GMT -4
I still stuck by WCW to the end but, admittedly, it wasn't the best. Thing is, WWF/E never won me over so wrestling in general lost a lot of my attention. I tune in from time to time with WWE and/or TNA. Nothing has grabbed me the way WCW managed to from about 1996-2001.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 22:32:16 GMT -4
Resuming 2000 with Sting vs Jeff Jarrett.
Jeff Jarrett occupies what I think is a pretty unique spot in wrestling history. He is simultaneously overrated and under-appreciated.
There are elements here, they shine through every now and then, of a really solid Memphis-style brawl. Unfortunately, it's lost in the bizarre story. Jarrett "questions Sting's heart for the business" or some such. That's why they are fighting. This manifests durring the match in the form of five different guys dressed as Sting attacking him through out the course of the match. One in black and green as "80's Sting", another in black and pink as "90's Sting", one as Wolfpack sting, one coming up through the mat as crow sting and another crow sting coming down from the rafters... Sting beats up all of the fake stings one by one then jobs to a guitar shot from Jarrett...
There are no words.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 22:39:36 GMT -4
It's Booker T and his sweet Lando Calrissian 'stache! He's the WCW champion and he's set to defend against Big Poppa Pump.
We get a Booker promo, a video package, and replay highlights of Stingfest (giving them time to repair the ring) first.
I feel it's worth noting that, for reasons that don't make a ton of sense, Booker in his promo that he requested the title match go on before the Goldberg/Kronik handicap match so that Goldberg can have extra time to get ready (there was a minor story running through this one that Goldberg might have a concussion and might not be cleared to fight). I prefere to think that, besides doppelgängers, the champ not being in the main event is also a Halloween Havoc tradition.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 22:43:04 GMT -4
I'm not sure there's ever been a more annoying combination of enterance elements than Scott Steiner's sirens and strobe lights.
Man... What ever happened to Midajah? She was the hot kind of ugly.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 22:48:37 GMT -4
Apparently, after the kick boxing match ended in a count out, the rules took the rest of the night off as Steiner hits Booker with a chair in plain view of the referee.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 23:00:10 GMT -4
After hitting Booker with a chair and putting him through a table, Steiner is finally disqualified for using a lead pipe... Apparently this match was contested under the rarely used "Parker Brothers Clue" rules.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 23:01:34 GMT -4
Here we are. The final Halloween Havoc main event: Goldberg vs Kronik...
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 23:08:54 GMT -4
Ummm.... Apparently it's an elemination handicap match? Oh, and were back to tables being legal.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 23:10:28 GMT -4
And it's over. Goldberg pins Adams after a spear and jackhammer, having previously pinned Clark after a spear through a table. Maybe five minutes? That's the last Halloween Havoc main event.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 16, 2014 23:24:31 GMT -4
Final thought on the final Havoc...
Match of the night: Jindrak/O'Hare vs Filthy Animals vs Boogie Knights. Sadly, it was all downhill from there.
MVP: Mike Awesome. His Awesome Bomb on Vampiro was really the highlight of the night.
Worst match: so many to chose from. But it think it has to go to the kick boxing match. It was bad and boring. Everything else had the decency to be one or the other.
Counter programming note: In October of 2000 WWF presented No Mercy, which saw Stone Cold fight Rikishi to a no contest, Triple H vs Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle winning the championship from The Rock, and, in a five star classic you can relive on the WWE Network for only $9.99, William Regal defending the European championship against... Naked Mideon.
Right. Dice roll for our next card please...
1989, the very first Havoc. Oddly fitting.
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Post by tax on Oct 17, 2014 6:19:50 GMT -4
I think that was the first WCW PPV I actually watched. Flair was so amazing in 89.
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Post by guiltyparty on Oct 19, 2014 15:39:59 GMT -4
89 opens with Z-Man vs Mike Rontunda. Rotundo. One of 'em.
Cap'n Mike carries z-man to a solid opener. zenk wins with a roll through on a cross body, though I'm pretty sure Rotunda kicked out.
Rotunda, btw, is still wearing his Varisty Club gear, which broke up like nine months prior.
In my galoob wrestling federation, Z-man was a top heel.
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