The SmarK Rant for Coliseum Video presents WWF Wrestling’s Fan Favorites

The SmarK Rant for Coliseum Video presents WWF Wrestling’s Fan Favorites

Originally written 05.20.26

This one showed up on the Vault a few days ago and it’s another one I don’t think I’ve ever reviewed, one of the oddball hour-long tapes that came out around 1992 for sale rather than the rental market.

https://youtu.be/0Zwy6IU0joI?si=hEyzBTKazLdcQ1no

Hosted by Sean Mooney, with the gimmick being that he’s sorting through mail from fans, who are requesting matches.

Ultimate Warrior v. Earthquake

This is a dark match from a TV taping in Fort Myers and Warrior doesn’t have a belt at this point, which puts it as their match in February 1991 according to Cagematch. Also it appears to be recycled from WrestleFest 91. Warrior blitzes Quake and sends him to the floor to start, but Quake works Warrior over in the corner and beats on him with clubbing forearms. Quake goes to the bearhug and drops an elbow, but it only gets two. Warrior hulks up and makes the comeback with his clotheslines and then slams him and pins him at 5:24. Well that was certainly a TV dark match. *

Randy Savage v. The Berzerker

We jump all the way ahead to February 1992 this time, with another dark match from a TV taping that was already featured on Battle of the WWF Superstars 92. Berzerker starts beating on Savage with forearms immediately and hits him with a piledriver for two. Out to the floor for a slam on the concrete, and back in for a kneedrop that misses. So then Savage makes the comeback, but the ref is bumped thanks to Mr Fuji’s interference. But of course Fuji tosses the RACIST SALT and misses, and Macho hits Berzerker with the cane and drops the big elbow at 3:55. DUD

The Mountie & The Beverly Brothers v. The Undertaker & The Legion of Doom

Up to May 1992 for this one, with another dark match. Genius does a poem and even heel Alfred busts on it for being so lame, accusing him of writing it on the way to the ring. The LOD clears the ring to start and we get a bunch of stalling as Beau poses and then runs away from Hawk. Finally we get actual contact made at 4:00 into the match and Beau throws some punches on Hawk, but Hawk rams him into the mat and follows with a press slam. So the heels run away again as even the LOD are looking bored with this match while standing on the apron. Over to Undertaker and the heels all run away from him before Mountie finally decides to come into the ring. Oddly, that’s a combination we never saw outside this one match. Weird how some people just never crossed paths. Undertaker hits him with the clothesline and Mountie runs away again and hides in the corner. Over to Blake and he bounces off an incredibly bored Hawk a few times before Hawk finally hits the post on a charge to put the heels on offense. Blake with a legdrop for two as Hawk sleepwalks through the heat segment. Blake goes up and misses a diving headbutt and it’s hot tag Animal, and he actually shows a little bit of fire while running wild. But the Bevs cut him off, so Animal DDTs them both for two and it’s BONZO GONZO, allowing the LOD to hit Beau with the old school version of the Doomsday Device and pin him at 13:39. Undertaker was barely even in the match and I don’t even think Hawk knew what city he was in. *1/2. On the bright side, this was the only match on this tape that wasn’t just recycled from another release, so there’s that.

Intercontinental title: Bret Hart v. Skinner

This is straight up recycled from This Tuesday in Texas / Supertape 92. Bret works the arm to start and hits him with an atomic drop to put him on the floor. Back in the ring, Bret goes back to the arm while Bobby notes that they’re gonna “tear down the Alamo and build a fast food restaurant” because the city of San Antonio is only concerned with the WWF right now. Granted it was a sellout, but it was only 8000 people in the building. Their announcement of “20000 people” in an arena that doesn’t hold that many is typically ridiculous. Skinner takes it to the floor and gets some cheapshots to take over, and back in for the abdominal stretch, and you KNOW Gorilla is all over that. Skinner with a shouderbreaker for two, and then he uses the ALLIGATOR CLAW OF DEATH to put him down again. How exactly is that supposed to hurt? Wouldn’t it be more painful just to punch someone with your own fist? Skinner with the choking and slop drop for two, but of course he doesn’t hook the leg and Gorilla hates that too. So he goes up with the flying nothing and lands on Bret’s foot, and Bret makes the comeback with the legsweep for two. Snap suplex gets two. Backbreaker and he goes up with the elbow for two. Skinner rolls him up for two, but Bret sends him to the floor on the kickout and they brawl out there. Bret tries a rollup on the way into the ring and Skinner blocks him, but he goes to the top and Bret slams him off and finishes with the Sharpshooter at 13:40 to retain. **1/2

The Natural Disasters v. The Nasty Boys

And we finish with one last dark match from March 92, this one recycled from the WrestleFest 92 tape. The taping notes for this one list the Disasters as subbing for the LOD, and the Nasties as subbing for Money Inc. So basically it’s just a different match. And WHAT a match! We get all the stalling from the Nasties you can handle and then Quake slams Knobs before taking a cheapshot from Sags on the apron. So the Nasties work on Quake for a bit, but he sits on Sags to block a sunset flip and then Jimmy Hart gets involved and Quake just drops an elbow on Knobs and pins him at 6:40. Really bad match to end the tape. DUD

This was a huge disappointment with a bunch of matches I’ve already seen and they all sucked, and there wasn’t any particular theme to this one either outside of Mooney doing the bookend “mail call” segments that were about 5 seconds each. You could tell this was just thrown together for the cheap impulse buyers.