Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage are doing commentary, starting a new set of television tapings from Wheeling, West Virginia. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, these tapings took place on September 30 and drew a crowd of 7,500.
Bobby Heenan has to fight his way through a crowd of people in front of the studio protesting for the reinstatement of Randy Savage. He complains that a kid in the crowd stole his watch.
Sean Mooney and Heenan are tonight’s hosts. Heenan is late because of the crowd he had to fight through outside. He is incensed that Mooney started without him.
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the booth, calling the last show of the taping cycle from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.
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Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage are in the booth for the last show of the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada taping cycle.
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Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage are in the booth, broadcasting again from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. McMahon’s back is sore from last week as he winces when Savage slaps it. Piper promises to put Ric Flair in the obituary section when he catches up to him.
Vince McMahon and Roddy Piper are in the booth, starting off a new round of television tapings from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the tapings took place on September 9. McMahon tells fans that Randy Savage is supposed to join the broadcast but may not because WWF President Jack Tunney has placed him on probation.
Intercontinental Champion Bret Hart’s squash on Prime Time Wrestling is shown.
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are broadcasting today’s show, the last from Erie, Pennsylvania.
Virgil’s squash from Prime Time Wrestling kicks off the broadcast.
Lord Alfred Hayes’ Special Report replays Randy Savage’s interview from Superstars.
Vince McMahon and Roddy Piper are doing commentary, concluding the tapings from Rochester, New York. McMahon tells fans that Randy Savage’s appeal of his retirement to WWF President Jack Tunney have failed and that, in response, Savage trashed Tunney’s office.
The video montage to lead into the show has been updated to feature Sid Justice and show Virgil holding the Million Dollar Championship. The Ultimate Warrior has been scrubbed.
Vince McMahon and Roddy Piper are doing commentary, this time coming from Rochester, New York. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the taping took place on August 19 and drew a crowd of 7,000 fans.
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary, wrapping up the tapings in Portland, Maine. Jim Neidhart’s awful run in the booth is over. It is hard to notice a change in his absence since he said very little when calling matches.
Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, and Roddy Piper are in the booth, and they are live from New York City, New York. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show took place on Monday, August 26 and drew a crowd of 17,474, 15,643 paid for their tickets. The show had an estimated buyrate of 2.70 (an estimated 405,000 buys), a decline from the 3.80 buyrate (and 507,000 buys) that the previous year’s SummerSlam drew.
The opening video package has a great line from Vince McMahon, as he hypes the show’s “Match Made in Heaven” and “Match Made in Hell” as nuptials turning to napalm.
Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, and Jim Neidhart are on commentary, beginning a new taping cycle in Portland, Maine. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the taping took place on July 30 and drew a crowd of 7,756 fans.
A replay of Jake Roberts’ heel turn on Superstars is shown.
Jamison hears a radio announcement in Bobby Heenan’s dressing room that six “deranged lunatics” have escaped from the Stanford Sanitarium and have escaped on a yellow bus.
Sean Mooney, Lord Alfred Hayes, and Gene Okerlund are shown blowing up balloons for Randy Savage’s bachelor party. They are tired and complaining that Heenan, who organized the party, has not done any setup work. Gorilla Monsoon hauls Heenan onto the set, which has no audience. Koko B. Ware, the Bushwhackers, and Jamison show up, with the Bushwhackers bringing a long sub sandwich.
Welcome back to more Dream Matches! This week, I have a huge “Wait, THAT happened?” match, as the BRITISH BULLDOGS face the ROCK ‘N’ ROLL EXPRESS! In the AWA. And it goes… well, let’s see why this isn’t a tape trading legend, why don’t we?
Next up, I continue my look at Manabu Nakanishi in WCW, as “Kurasawa” takes his martial arts to the “Macho Man” Randy Savage in a pair of matches set six months apart- the latter of which when Kurasawa had definitely entered the job squad!
And finally, remember last week when I subjected y’all to Sgt. Craig Pittman vs. The Cobra? Well now they’re TAG PARTNERS, and their opponents are the freakin’ Faces of Fear! This one actually ends up great… if you want to see how the mechanics of wrestling work, because Pittman here is SO BAD that he actually throws off all three other wrestlers, none of whom seem to know what to do with him flailing around all weird. It’s one of the greatest examples of a wrestler being such a stiff that nobody can do anything with him.
THE BRITISH BULLDOGS (Davey-Boy Smith & Dynamite Kid) vs. THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL EXPRESS (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson):
(AWA When Worlds Collide, 1989)
* This is a completely wild Dream Match I had no idea existed, as the Bulldogs typically existed in the WWF & Japan while the Express were mostly in the Southern companies/NWA. The Bulldogs are shredded to the gills here, just on ALL the steroids (especially Smith), while the Express are the same doughy guys they always were, absolutely dwarfed by their opponents (neither of whom were that big in the WWF). Makes you realize why they never did a run in the WWF around this time, ya know? The Express are in black & blue tights, and the Bulldogs are in their white & blue ones with the Union Jacks on the asses. Luscious Johnny Valiant is doing commentary, putting over the Bulldogs but mentioning that the Express match their experience. Legend Pat O’Connor is the ref here.
Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage are doing commentary for the last episode from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, and Jim Neidhart call the action, still coming from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. All of them are wearing cowboy hats, something that Heenan is not thrilled with.
Ted DiBiase’s squash from Prime Time Wrestling is shown.
Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, and Jim Neidhart are in the booth, broadcasting the last show from Fresno, California.
Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage provide commentary for the last episode in the taping cycle in Sacramento, California. Savage predicts that Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior will scream for mercy at SummerSlam.
The Big Bossman’s quick squash from Prime Time Wrestling opens the show.
Vince McMahon, Roddy Piper, and Randy Savage are doing commentary, taped from Sacramento, California.
Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, and Jim Neidhart provide commentary, starting a new round of episodes from Fresno, California. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, this taping cycle took place on June 18.
