One
of the awesome things about WWE Network is they have all the Clash of
the Champions available to watch. As much as I watched wrestling
growing up I didn’t watch all the Clashes. Sadly
I’ve been burning through them and only have 6 left to watch.
At
this stage I’m in the Hogan years of WCW where, in my opinion WCW
started taking a turn for the worse because you had Hogan in the main
event and he was bringing in all his buddies like
Beefcake and Avalanche to work with taking the WCW product which had
always been superior wrestling and making it cartoon wrestling. I mean
sure parts of the show were excellent, but once you got to the main
event it just wasn’t enjoyable to watch. Sure
as a kid I loved Hogan, but at this time I wasn’t a fan of his style of
wrestling.
I
was watching Clash of the Champions XXIX from Jacksonville, Florida
November 16, 1994 and there were 6 matches on this card and only 1, in
my opinion, was worth watching and that was “Natural”
Dustin Rhodes vs. Big Van Vader.
Dustin
was really on top of his game at this time I was and am a huge fan of
this time of his career as “Natural” Dustin Rhodes. The tone of the
match was set in the opening moments when
Vader pushed Rhodes into the corner and unloaded with a STIFF right to
the face. Moments later Vader backs Rhodes into the corner again, but
this time unleashes a left to the body and then another wicked stiff
shot to the face. Vader took a step back and
showing huge disrespect for Rhodes spit in his face.
Rhodes
quickly retaliated double legging Vader taking him to the canvas and
just unloaded relentlessly with rights and lefts to the face, even
ripping Vader’s mask off and continuing the assault.
For
the next 10 minutes the match didn’t let up putting a fast paced hard
hitting strong style match that I have now watched 3 times.
I
cannot emphasize enough that if you are a fan of wrestling you need to
watch this match. It should be a pre-requisite for anyone that wants to
call themselves a wrestling fan they have
to watch this match!
What’s
truly amazing if you watch Dustin in the ring now as Goldust, 20 plus
years later he’s still fantastic in the ring putting on some of the best
matches on the card.
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