Roy's Review: Starrcade 1999

Match 1: The Mamalukes (Big Vito and Johnny the Bull) w/Tony Marinara defeated Disco Inferno and Lash LeRoux. This was a solid match and a decent opener. All 4 of these guys were super underrated in WCW. The story was that Disco owed Tony Marinara's dad a bunch of money and The Mamalukes were the goons that were sent to collect it but had failed a bunch of times. After the match they put Disco in a body bag, carried him to the back and threw him in the trunk of a car.
6/10

Match 2: Madusa defeated Crusierweight Champion Evan Karagias w/Spice to win the title. It wasn't blatantly obvious that WCW was copying WWF by putting a men's title on a women. Despite Madusa being awful, this was a solid 3:30 match. Madusa actually took a bunch of hard bumps. Spice turned on Karagias, costing him the title.
4.5/10

Match 3: Hardcore Champion Norman Smiley defeated Meng to retain. Meng met Smiley right at the entryway and they battled to the back. Brian Knobbs and Fit Finlay got involved, attacking Meng. They beat him down and let. Then Smiley came out from under a table to get the win.
3.5/10.

Match 4: The Revolution (Shane Douglas, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn and Asya) defeated Jim Duggan and The Varsity Club (Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda and Rick Steiner). This was awful. The Varsity Club were Duggan's mystery partners. If Duggan lost he would have to denounce the USA the next night on Nitro. If Duggan won The Revolution would have to take over his janitor duties for a month. Duggan was fighting in his janitor's carhart suit. The Varisty Club turned on Duggan and beat him up allowing Douglas to leave commentary, where he spent the entire match, to get the pin.
2/10

Match 5: Vampiro w/The Misfits defeated Steve Williams by DQ. If Vampiro wins he gets 5 minutes alone in the ring with Oklahoma. Before the match, The Misfits had locked Oklahoma in a shark cage and brought it out to ringside. The DQ came when Williams attacked the referee.
1/10

Match 6: Vampiro w/The Misfits defeated Oklahoma. Awful.
0/10

Match 7: Creative Control (Ron and Don Harris) and Curt Hennig defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) and Midnight. This was bad. Whichever team won either Harlem Heat or Creative Control would earn a tag title shot. Stevie Ray didn't come out until near the end and didn't help at all. This was the beginning of his 2nd turn on Booker. Midnight got the shit kicked out of her for a good portion of the match. Hennig hit Booker with a loaded fist allowing one of the Harris Bros to get the pin.
3/10

Match 8: Jeff Jarrett defeated Dustin Rhodes in a Bunkhouse match. This was a good brawl until Curt Hennig came out and got involved. They beat the hell out of each other. The end came when they battled up the entryway, Hennig distracted Rhodes, allowing Jarrett to hit him with a guitar for the win.
7/10

Match 9: Diamond Dallas Page defeated David Flair in a Crowbar on a Pole match. Awful just awful.

Match 10: Sting w/Elizabeth defeated Lex Luger. This was terrible. If Sting won Liz would be free of her contract with Luger. During the match Liz turned on Sting and went to spray mace in his eyes but Sting had foreseen the turn and switched her mace with silly string. Later on Sting was going for the Scorpion and Liz whaled him in the head, hard with his bat allowing Luger to get the win. After the match Luger put Sting forearm in a chair and repeatedly jumped on it.
3/10

Match 11: Kevin Nash defeated Sid Vicious in a Finisher Only Match. The first man to hit the powerbomb on the other was the winner. Sid worked Nash's back for most of the match. The referee got knocked down right before Sid hit the powerbomb. Jeff Jarrett then comes out and wrecks Sid with a guitar. Nash then tries for the powerbomb twice but can't do it due to the his injured back, so he just wakes up the referee and tells him he hit a powerbomb. Awful.
2/10

Match 12: United States Champion Chris Benoit defeated Jeff Jarrett in a Ladder Match. Good match here. It was supposed to be Scott Hall defending against Benoit but Hall injured his knee so the stripped him of the belt and gave it to Benoit. Benoit didn't want to win the title that way so he put out and open challenge. Insert Jarrett. These guys beat the hell out of each other and had a good 10 minute ladder match. Benoit even did a flying headbutt off the ladder.
8/10

Match 13: WCW Champion Bret Hart defeated Goldberg in a No DQ match to retain. This would have been a decent match if not for the shitty booking. First off there are no rope breaks in a No DQ match unless its WCW booked by Vince Russo. Secondly 3 referees were knocked down. What the hell is that. The end came when Roddy Piper came out to be referee #4 just as Bret was locking on the sharpshooter. All Piper did was call for the bell and declare Bret the winner. They were building a good story and Bret was doing as great working of Goldberg's leg but the horrible booking flushed all of that down the toilet.
6.75/10

Horrible, just horrible booking. I wanna get the Nitros and Thunders that lead up to this PPV to see just how bad those were too. 

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AWA Super Sunday

I recently was looking through the vault section of WWE Network in the AWA and found four of their supershows, including the only AWA PPV just listed in the TV section.  The shows are this one here, WrestleRock 86 and Superclash II & III.

Super Sunday

April 24, 1983

St. Paul Civic Center

St. Paul, Minnesota

Commentator: Rod Trongard
Ring Announcer: Gene Okerlund
Duration: 2 hours 13 minutes

Brad Rheigans vs. Rocky Stone
1 Fall 20 minute time limit
As with most off all of Rheigans matches that I have seen, it's very formulaic.  They trade control of the match, Rheigans takes the heat for a while, makes his comeback and gets the win.  This time with a gutwrench suplex.  9 minutes 34 seconds.  Post match in ring interview with Gene Okerlund.

"Mr. Electricy" Steve Regal vs. "Rock N' Roll" Buck Zumhofe
1 Fall 20 minute time limit
Decent match, started out pretty standard then picked up at the end with Zumhofe getting the win after a body slam and a vader bomb. 11 minutes 5 seconds Post match in ring interview with Gene Okerlund.  The primary focus of the match for the commentators and post match interview was about Zumhofe's upcoming Junior Heavyweight title match in May with Mike Graham.

Jerry "The King" Lawler vs. "Golden Greek" John Tolos
1 Fall 20 minute time limit
Lawler was very over with the crowd. Tolos jumps him before the bell and it's pretty much non-stop action.  At one point it looked like Tolos was disqualified for throwing Lawler over the top rope.  The bell even rang, but the referee waved it off.  Lawler came back in the ring, dropped the strap, fist drop, and a minute later a piledriver for a three count. 8 minutes 24 seconds.

For those that don't know John Tolos played Mr. Perfect's manager Coach in the WWE.  I had never seen him in the ring before that I can recall.  He was 53 at the time of this match and looked good in the ring.

NWA Women's Tag Team Champions: Texas Cowgirls: Wendi Richter & Joyce Grable vs Judy Martin & Velvet McIntyre
1 Fall 45 Minute time limit
No comedy match here, straight up wrestling with 4 ladies who could go in the ring.  I don't think Velvet McIntyre gets the credit that she deserves for just how good she was in the ring.  Two very tough ladies in the match in Grable and Martin.

Really good match with a lot of quick tags and great offense by both teams.  After 15 minutes and 28 seconds the Cowgirls retain the titles with their finish.  Velvet comes off the ropes and Wendi back body drops her onto Grable who powerbombs McIntyre then getting the pin.  Post match interview with the Texas Cowgirls with Gene Okerlund

Wahoo McDaniel vs. "Dizzy" Ed Boulder
1 Fall 20 Minute time limt
Boulder is a blond haired mustached Brutus Beefcake.  Wahoo basically beat the crap out of Boulder who wasn't selling very much for McDaniel. Awkward moment in the match was when Boulder was doing the classic choke your opponent with your shin but the referee wasn't recognizing it and just attempted to count Wahoo's shoulders down three times.
Terrible match the mercifully came to end with a chop and then elbow drop at 9 minutes 4 seconds.

Six Man Tag Team Match
High Flyers: Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell and Rick Martel vs. The Heenan Family: Ken Patera, Jesse Ventura, & Black Jack Lanza
Martel and Patera started the match.  Long match, lots of tags, no one really holding the upper hand for any length of time, the match broke down several times with everyone coming in the ring, then calming down again, and breaking apart.  I've never seen so many tags behind the referee's back that the referee forced the guy to leave the ring before.  The match breaks down again with all competitors in the ring when Patera gets the pin on Brunzell at 17 minutes and 3 seconds.  The faces beat up the heels after sending them running. Okerlund then interviews the losing team in the ring.  Brunzell claims Patera used a foreign object to gain the win.

World Heavyweight Champion: Nick Bowckwinkel w/ Bobby "The Brain" Heenan vs. Hulk Hogan
1 Fall 60 minute time limit special referee Lord James Blears
Huge reaction for Hogan. He was in great shape, wicked cut and not all bloated like his WWE run.  Super slow paced match but the crowd didn't seem to care.  The popped for Hogan when he was on offense and chanted "Hulk" when Bockwinkel had the upper hand.  Botch false finish where Blears just stopped counting after 2 before Bockwinkel kicked out.

After near 20 minutes of plodding action we get a ref bumped when Bockwinkel had the sleeper on Hogan and Hogan flips him off his back onto Blears.  Then a second ref bumped when Bockwinkel has the sleeper on Hogan and Hogan backs him into corner crushing Blears.  Then Hogan accidentally sends Bockwinkel out over the top rope, he brings him back in with a suplex, leg drop of doom 1-2-3 new champ!  The crowd went nuts!  Okerlund even announces Hogan as Champion.

Verne Gagne then made the biggest mistake and what I think was the beginning of the end of the AWA when right after that President Stanley Blackburn reverses the decision disqualifying Hogan.  The crowd started chanting bullshit and throwing debris in the ring.  Hogan then beat up Bockwinkel and Heenan up to save a riot.

I wonder what would have happened if Verne would have run with Hogan as champion.  Would the AWA still be around, because clearly he could have carried the company like he did the WWF.

Main Event
Mad Dog Vachon & Verne Gagne vs. Adnan Al-Kaissie & Jerrry Blackwell
They didn't do introductions, made a point of announcing they were not going to do introductions and then did  brief introductions any how.  This was terrible.  Adnan had a cast on his hand and must have hit Mad Dog Vachon a hundred times with it, other than getting busted open it didn't seem to bother him.

To his credit Verne was incredible over and it didn't matter to the crowd everything he did the crowd loved.

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Limitless Wrestling: Who Watches the Watchmen results 10/29/2016

Once again the troops rallied for another pro wrestling adventure.  This time around Canaan, Alex, Mikey and Myself headed north to Orono for Limitless Wrestling's Who Watches the Watchmen.  This show was part of the Bangorefest Horror Convention so instead of the usually American Legion Hall it was at the University of Maine Orono campus.  Roy, Josh, and Cheryl met us there.  An added bonus was that JD made the drive from Vermont.  I hadn't seen him since Boston Pro Wrestling Marathon back in 2015.

"All Good" Anthony Greene vs. "Slyck" Wagner Brown
I first saw Slyck back in 1998, but the last few years only sporadically.  SWB still looks good in the ring as he and Greene had a great match.

The opening was explosive as SWB hit Greene with a face bump splash mountain as Greene was posing to the crowd during his entrance.  Solid match with great back and forth action.  Greene picked up the win to continue his undefeated streak in Limitless Wrestling.

House of Glory Champion: Anthony Gangone vs. Xavier Bell
Started off as a methodical mat based match with both men exchanging holds.  Action picked up along the way and Bell got a three count to win the title.

After the fact the ref saw that Gangone's foot was under the bottom rope and restarted the match, which lead to a low blow and a win for Gangone.

 Good match, I like both of these guys but I'm a huge fan of Xavier Bell.  I want to see them both come back.

Anything Goes
The Tenacious Two: Scotty Wild & Johnny Torres w/ Maximum Mecca vs. Maine State Posse: Aiden Argo & Danger Kid
Wild Texas tornado style match with action spilling all around the ringside area.  Over the last year the Posse have worked so hard to improve and get better in the ring.  I would say they are the two top new talent in Maine.  Wild and Torres got the win when Wild was holding both members of the Posse and Torres nailed a double foot stomp.

On  a side note, I've seen Wild wrestle for years as both a face and a heel and I've enjoyed him in the ring. But something he did tonight was plain a simple a dick move.  When the Tenacious Two were making their entrance my buddy Alex put his fist up to them for a fist bump and Wild spit on his own hand and smacked it down on Alex's splattering his spit.  That wasn't Wild "being a heel" that was Wild being an asshole and I don't have any respect for him anymore.

Over the Top Rope and Under the Table Challenge
"Top Shelf" Troy Nelson vs. "Dirt Dawg" Jeremy Leary
Essentially in this match if you are thrown over the top rope and when both feet touch the floor, you have to take a shot.  So the after several times of them each having to take a shot Nelson threw the referee out of the ring, then Anthony Greene, then Xavier Bell, and a couple other guys, and finally the underage Skylar who all had to take shots.

Suddenly Leary grabbed the mic and demanded the music to be hit, which lead to a "Don't Stop Believing" Journey sing-a-long, the entire song.  It was pretty amazing!
My favorite part through, once they were done Nelson rolled up Leary for a three count.

Champ Matthews vs. "Tower of Power" Mark Moment
I was really looking forward to this match an unfortunately after a few minutes of action Moment wasn't able to continue and the match ended.  I guess you could call it a no contest.

There was one spot in the match that blew me away.  Matthew was on the canvas in the corner when Moment grabbed his ankles and pulled him up into a piledriver position executing the move.

Champ Matthews vs. "All Good" Anthony Greene
Because of how abruptly the previous match ended the promoter sent Anthony Greene to the ring for an impromptu match.

They went about five minutes in an fast paced match with Greene wrestling in his sweat pants and sneakers.  Greene continued his winning ways getting the win with a Canadian destroyer piledriver.

Sadly this was Champ Matthews return to the ring and his last match.  The night didn't go as he planned, but I'm glad I was there to see it.

Adam Booker vs. Ace Romero
I saw these guys battle this past May for Pro Wrestling Society in Portland and that was awesome!  This match was even better.

First off Adam Booker is so good in the ring and he needs to be booked at every Limitless show without hesitation. These two guys tore it up in a hard hitting match that spilled around the ring.  Booker hitting a german suplex on Romero is impressive as hell.

I could watch these guys wrestle time and time again. Ace got the win this go round.

Five Way: Cam Zagami vs. Tyler Nito vs. Skylar vs. Mike Graca vs. Mike Montero
This was a crazy good match that was all over the place.  I am big fan of pretty much everyone in this match.  I want to see them at Limitless more.

Skylar took a beating in this match, including sick kick from Graca. She also gave just as good as she took.  Zagami got the win.

The M1nute Men: Tommy Trainwreck & Devin Blaze vs. Todo Loco & Danny Miles
This was supposed the be the M1nute Men vs. the Super Savages, the Savages no showed and the caveat card subject to change came into play.

This turned out to be much better.  This was a very exciting fast paced match.  M1nute Men put on a tag team wrestling display with some great double team maneuvers.  Surprisingly Loco and Miles got the win.

I had only previously seen Loco at Big Time Wrestling, and wasn't impressed with him at all.  Roy and Mikey kept telling me how awesome he was in NECW when they had seen him there.  Well tonight I was very impressed.

Brian Cage vs. Brian Fury
What a fantastic match!  Cage is just friggin huge! Great back and forth action and the crowd actually got into this one.  Fury kept going back to the Boston Crab and finally got the win via submission.

Post match Fury got on the mic and thanked the crowd, he talked about how this is his final year in wrestling with November 19th being his final match in Maine.

He requested that Ace Romero be his final opponent and what stated as complimentary statements at Ace quickly changed direction to a verbal lashing which lead to a pull apart with Ace.

This will probably be the last time I see Fury wrestle as I can't make the November 19th Limitless show because of work.  His final match will be December 16th for Chaotic Wrestling.

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