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We’ve got some more SummerSlam opening matches for you today and I’m actually excited for a couple of them.
Mike Reviews Every WWF/E SummerSlam Opening Match – 1993 to 1997
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Mike Reviews – WWF In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks
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I decided to watch this one today as it not only happened 27 years ago to the day, but I was also interested to watch the Jeff Jarrett Vs Shawn Michaels match again as it’s famously very highly rated. The Main Event here is Diesel Vs Sid in a Lumberjack match, but hopefully the rest of the card is good enough to make up for that.
Mike Reviews Every WWF/E SummerSlam Opening Match – 1988 to 1992
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I did a series where I looked at every opener for WrestleMania so I decided to do it for SummerSlam as well. SummerSlam was always the pay per view I looked forward to the most in my younger days, and it usually had some of the better matches of the year on it. This week we’re covering 1988 to 1992, with every match being under tag rules. I guess they liked starting SummerSlam off with a tag match back in the day?
Mike Reviews – Massacre On Queens Boulevard (13th April 1996)
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This is another ECW DVD that I have in my collection so I decided to give it the review treatment. We’ll probably get to Doctor Is In next month at some stage, which is a good show from memory.
The Main Event on this one is Sandman and Scorpio taking on Da Gangsta’s and The Head Hunters in a three way dance, whilst Sabu takes on Mikey Whipwreck and Raven defends the ECW Title against Damien 666 of all people in the under card. We’ve also got Taz Vs Chris Jericho, but I don’t think that one is as good as it sounds.
Mike Reviews – WCW Thunder #99 (9th February 2000)
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I did an episode of Thunder last week and realised that the following weeks show was uploaded to a certain video streaming website, which meant it would have the real music and what have you seeing as it was the original airing from 2000 as opposed to the edited and dubbed one on the WWE Network, so I decided to give it a watch as some of the matches sounded interesting.
Let’s see if those matches are indeed interesting or if this show is an utter disaster like Thunder usually was during this timeframe.
Mike Reviews – WCW Bash at the Beach 2000
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It’s been 22 years to the day since this infamous event took place, so I decided to set the way back machine to the summer of 2000 and give it a review. The big storylines coming into this one were a newly Heel turned Goldberg taking on Kevin Nash for Scott Hall’s contract, whilst Jeff Jarrett defended the World Title against Hollywood Hogan.
The latter match ended up being quite newsworthy…
Mike Reviews – WCW Thunder #98 (DDP Vs The Machine episode)
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I’ve never actually watched this episode of Thunder before but I was reminded of it by recently listening to the audiobook version of The Death of WCW. Modern WWE sometimes reminds me a lot of this era of WCW, so I thought I’d set the way back machine to 2000 in order to watch this episode.
WCW was flatter than a pancake at the time as they were between Vince Russo stints and were mostly focusing on the New World Order of Jeff Jarrett, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner and The Harris Brothers taking on Sid Vicious atop the card, whilst the undercard was filled with a lot of feuds and storylines that weren’t over.
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Mike Reviews – New Japan Best of the Super Juniors XI (2004)
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I’ve had this one sitting in my collection for a very long time and have never got around to watching it, so for the want of something to review this weekend I thought this tape would be as good a pick as any. I got this from High Spots Home Video a while back, although tracking it down now might prove to be a bit more difficult.
For those not au fait, Best of the Super Junior is an annual tournament that New Japan holds where they get the Junior Heavyweights together to see which one of them is the best (clue is kind of the in the name there my dudes). The tournament is not to be confused with the Super J Cup, which is a straight single elimination tournament whilst BOSJ has a round robin group stage first, not unlike the G1 Climax.
This tape has 11 matches on it, so not every match in the tournament is covered, with the last match on the tape being the tournament final. The tape is pretty much just a compilation of matches without much connecting tissue. It looks like they just took televised matches from the tournament and stuck them all together in one collection
The main combatants covered on the tape are The Heat, Tiger Mask IV, Jushin Liger and Koji Kanemoto, with guys like American Dragon and Ultimo Dragon popping up at points as well.
The tournament took place in the Spring/Summer of 2004, starting on the 22nd May and ending on the 13th of June.
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Mike Reviews – New Japan Pro Wrestling Fantastica Mania 2015 (18/01/2015)
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I watched some Lucha a couple of weeks back and was thinking of watching some more, so I decided to combine my love of Japanese Wrestling with some Lucha Libre by watching one of the Fantastica Mania shows on New Japan World.
For those not au fait, Fantastica Mania was when New Japan would bring over some guys from CMLL in Mexico and pit the Lucha stars against some of the native New Japan guys whilst also holding some matches between the Luchadores as well.
I’ve never actually watched one of these shows in full, so I thought I’d give this one a go just to see if I would enjoy it or not. Why not read along with my review to see whether I did or not?
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Mike Reviews Shows Considered To Be Stinkers – WWF King of the Ring 1999
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We’re back again with another Stinker Review, where I look at a show with a bad reputation and see if it’s deserved or if the show is really just misunderstood. Seeing as its June, I thought I would go back and look at one of the more notably bad King of the Ring efforts from the WWF. 1995 is the one that usually gets the most press, but 1999 was pretty rubbish too, especially when you consider the fact it took place during the Attitude Era, one of the hottest periods in company history.
The WWF had been thrown into disarray to a certain extent due to the tragic death of Owen Hart, and things weren’t helped by them building up a mystery over who The Undertaker’s “Higher Power” was when they didn’t actually have an end game in mind, leading to them panicking and going with Vince McMahon and basically resetting things. This all set up a Main Event between the freshly Heel Vince and his son Shane against Stone Cold in a Ladder match for control of the company.
Meanwhile, in the King of the Ring tournament itself, the plan was to elevate Billy Gunn by having him get a big push, whilst X-Pac was due to make a run to the Finals. X-Pac ended up suffering a legit injury prior to the show, but the WWF decided to stick with the plan of him going all the way to the Final even though it would mean he couldn’t put much time in during his matches. Thus the tournament was hamstrung on one side of the bracket with Gunn making it to the Final when the crowd didn’t really want to see that, whilst the other side of the bracket had walking wounded X-Pac doing his best to gut it out when he didn’t really need to.
But hey, maybe my memory is overly harsh and when I watch the show it will have aged well?