About the NWA title match: The problem wasn't that the mustache was the source of Rude's power, it's that Chono broke his neck a month earlier and had no business returning to the ring this fast. You know that time Steve Austin broke his neck with a piledriver? Yeah, this was that. It's a shame, since the last Rude/Chono match before this was really good.
12:33 Remember that classic ECW review where you were confused as to why Elektra was dissing Paul Heyman for being a "man, man, man" after joining Lou E's Dangerous Alliance? Here's why.
The sidebars being Sting and Roberts shooting eye lasers was already perfect, the obvious sidebar choice. But "The FreeHorse Express" line sealed it, new favorite classic review.
From what I've heard, nobody wanted to lose to Simmons, and that forced them to dig deep into the roster to make his reign look legitimate. So kudos to Foley and Barbarian, at least. And Vader, too.
The mini-movie was way better than the actual match. I mean, come on. Jake and Sting with laser eyes and Cheatum the Freaking Evil One-Eyed Freaking Dwarf! You can't beat that.
You are just totally nailing my days of buying PWI magazine and reading about these events! Thank you so much, its interesting now seeing these cards from an older (not necessarily wiser lol) viewpoint.
The "Prince of Darkness" match was Kevin Sullivan's version of a blindfold match. I remember he and Jimmy Garvin having one at the 88 Crockett Cup. So it could have definitely been worse than the Coal Miner's Glove match.
A Prince of Darkness match is clearly where they cut off all the lights in the arena and do karaoke to their favorite Prince songs. then the crowd votes by applause.
Wouldn't it be ozzy on a forklift Ala Judy Bagwell on a forklift? Or because Judy was a full figured woman that's the only thing that would hold her? 🤔
If nothing else, I have to admire the commitment in going with the "Coal Miner's Glove" match. Still can't fathom how it ended up on the wheel to begin with though hehe
Watts was a notorious old-school guy with all his weird rules he institutes when he took over WCW. Brian did say the match was popular with the old-school fans. Watts probably didn't realize that modern audience wouldn't care about such a match.
@@fattiger6957 That's pretty interesting. I wouldn't have thought that it was a somewhat established match with a history. On paper, it just sounds to me like the kind of thing they made up because they needed to fill the wheel
@@jayonnaise6105 don't remember if was Jim Cornette or Dutch Mantell, but either of them explained in their podcast that the origin of the coal miner's glove match is simply that in mining cities the glove used to be a common object in the same way in Texas the bullrope was common, hence the gimmick.
My uncle (who was ahead of the curve at the time) used cable PPV and a VHS (remember those?) to record this PPV and give it to me as a gift. I can still remember the whole Coal Miner's Glove match
Whats a VHS? Is it one of those things where you have to rewind and fast forward to get to where you want? Just kidding. I remember it. OH GOD IM GETTING OLD.
Fans recognized the STF because Eric Watts was also using it as his finisher at the time. It was just nice to see someone who knew what they were doing use the move.
I do remember as a 13 year old kid being psyched about this triple main event! It might not have delivered in the ring, but I remember the build up being pretty solid!
@SteeleZack It was Bill Watts stepping into the time machine again and being his control freak self. They wanted to show that they were "tougher" than WWF by removing the mats in the event someone tumbled outside the ring, and it was also designed to keep the action inside the ring because that's where the match belonged anyway.
I just love how people still remember Saints Rows. I know the remake is quite new, but most of the franchise was ps3/xbox360 era & people still talk about them. Great games! "As you wait a loose flagstone falls from the ceiling. It lands on your head and breaks your neck."
My Dad was WAAAAY ahead of the curb. He always called generic/"Great Value" things "white label" because off-brand groceries used to come in a white label. Z-Man he always called a white label wrestler, Johnny Gunn white label Z-Man, and Douglas was white label Buddy Landel. Even at 10 years old, I couldn't root for the white label dorks and my Dad was over the moon because I was pulling for Arn Anderson. One of my all-time favorite wrestling moments was when Madusa jumped Paul E, then Vader and Harley both noped out right away. That was actually when I started to root for Vader and he eventually became my favorite wrest(and still all-time fav).
I think in TNA the first blindfold cage match between Dustin Rhodes and Bobby Roode was a “prince of darkness” match. The fact that the phrase “first blindfold cage match” exists is just baffling to me
@@chaospoet correct! Blindfold match just like Jake and Rick at WM7 but this was Kevin Sullivan vs Jm Garvin at Crockett Cup '88 before Sullivan started perving on Precious.
Gonna thank you for the video before I even watch it... I know it's going to be good. Glad you're continuing to pump out the material... it's always a fun watch!
Ah, Ron Simmons got the Kofi Kingston run of Big Win followed by fighting midcarders that everyone knows won't win the belt while also not main eventing anything. Excellent.
Biggest misuse of a talent. Ron Simmons had charisma, was gokd on the mic, and was damn good in the ring. It was like they only booked Ron winning the belt then afterwards was like, "Oh shit! What now!". I'm wondering though, if this was shortly before Watts got fired, and Ron became lost in the aftermath of the firing and treated as an afterthought by the booking comittee.
@@phildicks4721it was that and that Ron was green and dangerous, just like Vader, sure they both had long careers but they took countless opponents careers with them
@@SlobberKnocker316 every single enhancement talent he ever had a match with , I’m a fan of strong style I’m not a fan of dangerous throws and real punches and what not and that’s what Ron did, jbl adopted his style not the other way around like some believe
@@mrlaidback83 that the Undertaker survived 1992-95 at all is a miracle and a testament to how over his character was on its own. He had some lame opponents then. Also helped his initial heel run for that first year was really good.
I remember my dad taping this on PPV for me back then, and the damn tape ran out just as Jake took the cobra to the face. I was so pissed. My guess for the Prince of Darkness match (if there had been any possibility they booked it) would be a hood match a-la Jake-Martel at Mania VII. What a main event that would have been.
Just looked it up. It seems that you're correct. Two guys in hoods. I'd like to see a tag team Prince of Darkness match. The clownshoes energy would be amazing.
@@wtfaiwpodcast Well, that'll be my W for today then! It just sounded like the kind of showy name they would give some basic stip match. Omigod imagine the hot tags, lmao.
Most people might know Sasaki as Power Warrior in NJPW, the partner of Hawk in the Hell Raisers (version of LOD when Animal hurt his back and Sasaki replaced him)
Dustin and Barry Windham's feud is one of the first rivalries I can remember in wrestling. I was such a fan of the two of them and their break up angle ruined my lil heart.
@@billblaski9523that's Jake Roberts father and he was a serious piece of shit. There's a dark side of the ring or I think a thing on him and man the story is just yikes
So glad to hear the feared Shinonomaki make a return during the Ron Simmons vs The Barbarian match. When I got cable around 1980 my favorite heel on Georgia Championship Wrestling was The Mongolian Stomper! To 14 year old me nobody was scarier than him. I used to practice his feared Shinonomaki on my friends whenever we would wrestle against each other. I knew wrestling was "fake" but know a lot of the holds really worked if you actually put pressure on when using it. It always made me sad that I never got my friend to pass out even if I gave maximum effort. That said: Kids, DON'T be an idiot like me. You can really hurt someone. If you wrestle with your friends, remember it's a WORK!!! DON'T ACTUALLY TRY AND HURT SOMEONE!
Forgive me if this was already said, but Brian said that they barely mentioned the relationship between Butch Reed & Ron Simmons. For those who don’t know, they were previously NWA/WCW Tag Team Champions as the team Doom. Just thought that was worth a mention 😊
Doom managed by Woman then later Teddy Long. Good old days.. I remember the Simmons Vs Reed feud after they split well, Teddy in the little cage above the ring and all in one match.
The 'Prince of Darkness' match is where you have to throw your opponent through a mirror. Basically taking this from Carpenter's film of the same name.
I remember hearing Dustin Rhodes talking about the Prince of Darkness Match years ago and appearently they had a black medieval mask/helmet (something like in the count of Monte Cristo) and in order to win, you would have to put your opponents head into the helmet and close it with a padlock.
You give the crowd an all-star tag team and expect them to boo them? Not gonna happen. Even as heels Anderson, Eaton, and Hayes always drew at least the respect of the fans who appreciated wrestling. Free Horse Express was guaranteed to be over.
Whenever I think of a "Prince Of Darkness Match", I am always remembered of that terrible one TNA did at Lockdown 2007 between Chris Harris and James Storm. They had an absolutely awful Prince Of Darkness Six Sides Of Steel Cage Match where the hoods/blindfolds kept coming off and, apparently, the ones that were ready to go before the show were so awful that Johnny Devine made new ones and those were the ones used in the match...... at least Harris and Storm had an amazing Texas Deathmatch a month later at Sacrifice.
Brian, I'm stopping at the end of the opening 6-Man, because what you said reminded me of something from the 1st H Havoc, also in Phily, in the World Tag Titles match, the Freebirds vs the Dynamic Dudes. When the Birds got a hot tag and Hayes hit one of the Dudes w/ his left the fans went wild. Then when they cheated and hit the DDT for the win, the Phily fans blew the roof off the arena. Now here I'm not sure if it's fallout from that match or the Phily fans in general (look at the soon to becoming ECW) or the hatred of the Dudes, or the respect Hayes, AA, & Eaton had across the board, or maybe a combo of everything, but it's understandable. Back during the MEX vs DD feud WCW toured here to the Buffalo, NY and during their match the MEX were heels but we fans were on their side and when you 'father' popped one of the Dudes w/ his racket we almost blew the roof off of the old Aud, so it's not just the Phily fans I suspect. I can only imagine if in the 6-man if the Horsebird Express won how loud the fans would have gotten
Was Terry Gordy not here because of that flight he took and mentally never came back? Corny used him in Smokey Mountain Wrestling, but the Freebird just wasn't the same..... Terry's work in Japan was of Legend Lore! Brought that southern style of wrestling to Japan and learned some "new" tactics overseas.... World Class promos were spot on.. Did a super vignette with PS Micheal Hayes using his pimped out kick ass van in the background... thx for the post, i know I didn't comment on the matches I just had an epiphany when u mentioned in the beginning about Terry bo showing...... RIP Terry
Ah, the Coal Miner's Glove match: the match so exciting that when people asked Sting what he thought about it, he answered by talking about a completely different match.
I’m with you on wanting just a regular match between Jake & Sting. As a 11 year old I remember being disappointed and I was a big fan of both. Even at the end of his WWF run I was cheering him in Indy at WM 8.
It's funny looking at Rick Rude in WCW after his long and brilliant mullet was cut off. He just looks so different. He moves the same, has the same great look and all that but his long hair jus made him look so much different and so too did his moustache. Love his work and always have but my mind just can't figure it out when he's wrestling in the early 90's WCW XD
About the NWA title match: The problem wasn't that the mustache was the source of Rude's power, it's that Chono broke his neck a month earlier and had no business returning to the ring this fast. You know that time Steve Austin broke his neck with a piledriver? Yeah, this was that. It's a shame, since the last Rude/Chono match before this was really good.
That explains the excessive rest holds
And Chono was still taking piledrivers 😳
everybody want's ric flair.
@@KHLB516 tell that to Kurt Angle 💀
@@KHLB516 sure you can lmao what
Whoever played that rib on Teddy Long, bravo. Great rib.
It doesn't matter what company JR works for, he has always enjoyed his passive aggressive jabs at the competition.
Didnt he go to work for WWF just the following year? LOL
Jr made his debut with the war in April 1993.
Jake and Sting shooting eyebeams at each other are hilarious.
Hilariously bad-ass and cool.
Cool enough for WCW/nWo Revenge to lift it for their intro, with Sting and Hollywood Hogan shooting lasers at each other.
that's some superhero b.s.
@@DasNordlicht91 IKR? Although I'm pretty sure that THQ/AKI did this bit totally coincidental.
I was dying when they did that💀
12:33 Remember that classic ECW review where you were confused as to why Elektra was dissing Paul Heyman for being a "man, man, man" after joining Lou E's Dangerous Alliance? Here's why.
Dammit, that's some deep seeded lore right there
Long term booking? xD
@@erikstorm8935 It's ECW, the place that managed to unite chatroom nerds with jack-ass frat boys under one banner.
@@thepassingstatic6268seated
The sidebars being Sting and Roberts shooting eye lasers was already perfect, the obvious sidebar choice. But "The FreeHorse Express" line sealed it, new favorite classic review.
Lol Brian's impersonation of Bill watts was spot On awesome Review Brian
From what I've heard, nobody wanted to lose to Simmons, and that forced them to dig deep into the roster to make his reign look legitimate.
So kudos to Foley and Barbarian, at least. And Vader, too.
A real one step forward two steps back scenario. Fuck anyone who didn't want to job to Simmons.
The Saturday Night match where Dustin and Barry win the unified titles is amazing.
The Rude vs. Chono match was The Finals of the 1992 G1 Climax for those wondering.
That was a much better match, they actually tried in that one.
@@DoncoEntAgain it's hard to "try" when one of the participants has a serious neck injury, tho.
@@tomtanaka841 Thanks to Mr. Steve Austin, the guy who WHINED and BITCHED about Owen Hart who did that to him five years later...
The mini-movie was way better than the actual match. I mean, come on. Jake and Sting with laser eyes and Cheatum the Freaking Evil One-Eyed Freaking Dwarf! You can't beat that.
They set the expectations too damn high!
they had me at one eyed midget
WCW discovered CGI.
fascinating.
that's some DBZ mess.
bill watts is a madman.
You are just totally nailing my days of buying PWI magazine and reading about these events! Thank you so much, its interesting now seeing these cards from an older (not necessarily wiser lol) viewpoint.
Speaking of PWI....THE BARBARIAN, A WORLD TITLE CONTENDER?!!?
The "Prince of Darkness" match was Kevin Sullivan's version of a blindfold match. I remember he and Jimmy Garvin having one at the 88 Crockett Cup. So it could have definitely been worse than the Coal Miner's Glove match.
Yeahhhhh...Wrestlemania 7. Jake's blindfold match. Ooof....
A Prince of Darkness match is clearly where they cut off all the lights in the arena and do karaoke to their favorite Prince songs. then the crowd votes by applause.
A Prince of Darkness match is an Ozzy on a Pole match, obviously.
Wouldn't it be ozzy on a forklift Ala Judy Bagwell on a forklift? Or because Judy was a full figured woman that's the only thing that would hold her? 🤔
Bro.
The prince of darkness match is where you pick an ozzy record of your choice and just headbang until the opponent can’t take it anymore
@@kevin2400 Is Viagra on a pole also involved?
Well, duuuuuuh 🤷♀️
I’m assuming “Prince of Darkness” would be some sort of fancy, spooky name for a Blindfold Match.
as done by Jimmy Garvin and Kevin Sullivan at the 1988 Crockett Cup
The way Cactus says "I'm not a manager" just cracks me up
Evil Cactus Jack (aka Paul Bearer) be like: "I'm not a rassler"
If nothing else, I have to admire the commitment in going with the "Coal Miner's Glove" match. Still can't fathom how it ended up on the wheel to begin with though hehe
Watts was a notorious old-school guy with all his weird rules he institutes when he took over WCW. Brian did say the match was popular with the old-school fans. Watts probably didn't realize that modern audience wouldn't care about such a match.
@@fattiger6957 That's pretty interesting. I wouldn't have thought that it was a somewhat established match with a history. On paper, it just sounds to me like the kind of thing they made up because they needed to fill the wheel
@@jayonnaise6105 don't remember if was Jim Cornette or Dutch Mantell, but either of them explained in their podcast that the origin of the coal miner's glove match is simply that in mining cities the glove used to be a common object in the same way in Texas the bullrope was common, hence the gimmick.
@@ilGardo01 Fair enough. That's more reason than I would have thought there'd be
One of my friend's parents bought this PPV. When the wheel was spun, my buddy's dad asked, "What the fuck is a coal miner's glove match?"
My uncle (who was ahead of the curve at the time) used cable PPV and a VHS (remember those?) to record this PPV and give it to me as a gift. I can still remember the whole Coal Miner's Glove match
Whats a VHS? Is it one of those things where you have to rewind and fast forward to get to where you want?
Just kidding. I remember it. OH GOD IM GETTING OLD.
Fans recognized the STF because Eric Watts was also using it as his finisher at the time. It was just nice to see someone who knew what they were doing use the move.
Brian casually dropping a pitch perfect Jesse the Body impression at 3:30 is amazing.
That was such a random thing Jesse said
I do remember as a 13 year old kid being psyched about this triple main event! It might not have delivered in the ring, but I remember the build up being pretty solid!
Agreed. I was 11 and the hype was real.
The Bill Watts impression of killing off the LHW division had me dying hahaha
I never got the shoot reason for no mats outside the ring.
@SteeleZack according to him mats are for pu**ies real men take drops on the ground
@SteeleZack It was Bill Watts stepping into the time machine again and being his control freak self. They wanted to show that they were "tougher" than WWF by removing the mats in the event someone tumbled outside the ring, and it was also designed to keep the action inside the ring because that's where the match belonged anyway.
5:07 great Bill Watts impression!
Crazy timing. The same bump that ended Nikita Koloff's career in this PPV, just injured Adam Page last night.
Koloff said he got a neck hernia during the match trying to lift Vader. It's in his Hannibal TV shoot.
I was just looking to see if anyone else said this
You really need to have a Jesse Ventura character on your show. Your impression of him is wicked good.
Thank you!
The FreeHorse Express....that's gold Brian! 😀
6:35 Teddy Long , rocking the saints row, struggling with names. Priceless! 😆
Struggling? He nailed it! Konsuke Sasaki and Mr. Chono.
I just love how people still remember Saints Rows. I know the remake is quite new, but most of the franchise was ps3/xbox360 era & people still talk about them. Great games!
"As you wait a loose flagstone falls from the ceiling.
It lands on your head and breaks your neck."
The "Flying Nothing" line gets m every time.
I am really enjoying your early nineties WCW Reviews. Keep 'em coming!
My Dad was WAAAAY ahead of the curb. He always called generic/"Great Value" things "white label" because off-brand groceries used to come in a white label. Z-Man he always called a white label wrestler, Johnny Gunn white label Z-Man, and Douglas was white label Buddy Landel. Even at 10 years old, I couldn't root for the white label dorks and my Dad was over the moon because I was pulling for Arn Anderson.
One of my all-time favorite wrestling moments was when Madusa jumped Paul E, then Vader and Harley both noped out right away. That was actually when I started to root for Vader and he eventually became my favorite wrest(and still all-time fav).
I think in TNA the first blindfold cage match between Dustin Rhodes and Bobby Roode was a “prince of darkness” match. The fact that the phrase “first blindfold cage match” exists is just baffling to me
I thought it meant blind fold match as well. That was my first thought anyway.
Yes it's a blindfold match. Named after Kevin Sullivan. He had one with Jim Garvin at the 1988 Crocket Cup early in their feud.
@@chaospoet correct! Blindfold match just like Jake and Rick at WM7 but this was Kevin Sullivan vs Jm Garvin at Crockett Cup '88 before Sullivan started perving on Precious.
The prince of darkness match ends with Vince coming out and saying “It was me Austin.” and Austin saying”What?”
How can only 1 person request this glorious ppv?
16:37 At least Cactus Jack admits to not having a manager’s license.
Love these throwback WCW reviews! I especially love ppvs in Philly always entertaining
Gonna thank you for the video before I even watch it... I know it's going to be good. Glad you're continuing to pump out the material... it's always a fun watch!
How the heck can Rick Rude be the man's man without that amazing mustache?!
Ah, Ron Simmons got the Kofi Kingston run of Big Win followed by fighting midcarders that everyone knows won't win the belt while also not main eventing anything. Excellent.
Biggest misuse of a talent. Ron Simmons had charisma, was gokd on the mic, and was damn good in the ring. It was like they only booked Ron winning the belt then afterwards was like, "Oh shit! What now!".
I'm wondering though, if this was shortly before Watts got fired, and Ron became lost in the aftermath of the firing and treated as an afterthought by the booking comittee.
@@phildicks4721it was that and that Ron was green and dangerous, just like Vader, sure they both had long careers but they took countless opponents careers with them
@@david-468besides those no talent hacks Public Enemy, who’s career did he take?
@@SlobberKnocker316 every single enhancement talent he ever had a match with , I’m a fan of strong style I’m not a fan of dangerous throws and real punches and what not and that’s what Ron did, jbl adopted his style not the other way around like some believe
Interesting fact: The Honky Tonk Man owned the Patriot gimmick. When talking briefly talking the Patriot reminded me of it.
Never thought there’d be a PPV where Chono vs. Rude and Sting vs. Roberts would be the worst matches on the card.
Sting had a bad time in terms of weird feuds and storylines until Vader got there.
He did get eye lasers out of it though
Kinda like how The Undertaker was part of that lame ass feud against Money Inc until Mankind got there
@@mrlaidback83 that the Undertaker survived 1992-95 at all is a miracle and a testament to how over his character was on its own. He had some lame opponents then. Also helped his initial heel run for that first year was really good.
My first PPV I ever watched as a kid. Shoutout to those old school video stores back in the day.
Especially those mom n pop ones. They had all sorts of wrestling hidden gems!
A young Vince Russo was watching this and was THRILLED that the wheel landed on a "Something on a Pole" match!
"Bro, I'm telling you, that was the best match ever, bro!"
The amount of legendary and infamous names (for better or worse) that appear on this PPV is insane!
I remember my dad taping this on PPV for me back then, and the damn tape ran out just as Jake took the cobra to the face. I was so pissed.
My guess for the Prince of Darkness match (if there had been any possibility they booked it) would be a hood match a-la Jake-Martel at Mania VII. What a main event that would have been.
Just looked it up. It seems that you're correct. Two guys in hoods.
I'd like to see a tag team Prince of Darkness match. The clownshoes energy would be amazing.
@@wtfaiwpodcast Well, that'll be my W for today then! It just sounded like the kind of showy name they would give some basic stip match.
Omigod imagine the hot tags, lmao.
@@whobitmyname Good guess.
I feel like the coal miner's glove match is also a Jake thing. So it's like matches tailored to Jake.
Didn’t Kevin Sullivan and Jimmy Garvin have a series of Prince of Darkness hood matches a couple years before this?
@@BClarke dammit UA-cam, find these matches!
Most people might know Sasaki as Power Warrior in NJPW, the partner of Hawk in the Hell Raisers (version of LOD when Animal hurt his back and Sasaki replaced him)
Hey its me!! Ugh wish I could be attached to a better show but at least my match was fun. Bill Watts used to tell me I was his favorite gimmick.. lol
Dr death Steve Williams was 31 here! Lmao the man would look 50 for 30 years lol
Dustin and Barry Windham's feud is one of the first rivalries I can remember in wrestling. I was such a fan of the two of them and their break up angle ruined my lil heart.
19:00 Not also does jake the snake go to WCW at the wrong time as Bill Watts as the booker but theirs grizzly Smith as well was there too
I have been waiting for this for years. If I wasn't already subbed, I would be after this.
Great video, learnt something new from it as I often do with your videos. I also really like the new set. 😉👍🏾
WCW's fever dream before 2001.
Dude. Your impression of Jesse Ventura is spot on!! Same as your Cap't Lou, lol.
Grizzly Smith showing up is a major yikes 😬
Why?
@@billblaski9523 He's a pedophile.
@@billblaski9523he was an absolute fucking monster.
@@edgecrusher018 And a Pedo
@@billblaski9523that's Jake Roberts father and he was a serious piece of shit. There's a dark side of the ring or I think a thing on him and man the story is just yikes
Wow. I've always heard that the Watts era was a mess, but this was insane. Seems like all of the stories just reached dead ends.
14:58 Ravishing Rick Rude chin loooock...
Your Bill Watts impression LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL😂
So glad to hear the feared Shinonomaki make a return during the Ron Simmons vs The Barbarian match. When I got cable around 1980 my favorite heel on Georgia Championship Wrestling was The Mongolian Stomper! To 14 year old me nobody was scarier than him. I used to practice his feared Shinonomaki on my friends whenever we would wrestle against each other. I knew wrestling was "fake" but know a lot of the holds really worked if you actually put pressure on when using it. It always made me sad that I never got my friend to pass out even if I gave maximum effort.
That said: Kids, DON'T be an idiot like me. You can really hurt someone. If you wrestle with your friends, remember it's a WORK!!! DON'T ACTUALLY TRY AND HURT SOMEONE!
Forgive me if this was already said, but Brian said that they barely mentioned the relationship between Butch Reed & Ron Simmons. For those who don’t know, they were previously NWA/WCW Tag Team Champions as the team Doom. Just thought that was worth a mention 😊
Doom managed by Woman then later Teddy Long. Good old days.. I remember the Simmons Vs Reed feud after they split well, Teddy in the little cage above the ring and all in one match.
Great Ventura impression Brian! 👍
Gotta mention The Blue Meanie next to the fan who threw the bottle at Vader @8:36
Nevermind. I continued watching.
Clearly, the Prince of Darkness match would've involved a giant canister of green goo, of course.
And Alice Cooper
@@VeritasAbsoluta Yes, with a bicycle.
@@martincann5052 HE'S GOT A BICYCLE
This is a really good ppv! Before Hogan came and made everything about him, wcw had a solid roster.
The 'Prince of Darkness' match is where you have to throw your opponent through a mirror. Basically taking this from Carpenter's film of the same name.
"Spin the wheel Sting! Otherwise we'll feed Lex to Damien!"
(hard-cut to Lex selling for Damien)
" *OH!* "
(Damien gently lays on Lex)
Lex: *OOOOOOAAAAOOHHH!!!*
He actually paid Del Wilkes for the gimmick rights.
Wilkes claimed Brandi stole it, Brandi claimed he bought it off Wilkes. We will likely never which if either is true.
Vader lookin like Diego meeting Derek Forreal in Blow for the first time shaking Madusa's hand 🤣🤣
We need a spooky Halloween Havoc playlist
You can search through his videos and get every HH review pretty easily.
Whoa! I had rewind to hear that Jesse Ventura impression again! That was awesome!
Jake Roberts is one of my favorites of all time, and boy is it painful to have to sit and watch his many many fails
Rick Rude without his mustache is like Andre without his black singlet or Ultimate Warrior without his face paint. It just doesn’t seem right.
Rude with body hair seems off as well. I'm not a queer but I liked rude smooth on tv lol 😆
I remember hearing Dustin Rhodes talking about the Prince of Darkness Match years ago and appearently they had a black medieval mask/helmet (something like in the count of Monte Cristo) and in order to win, you would have to put your opponents head into the helmet and close it with a padlock.
The "Prince of Darkness" match was just Charlie Murphy as special guest referee.
This is my earliest memory of Jake Roberts. Not the best, but I was 5 so...
Jake was probably so high, he thought he could actually shoot laser beams
Brian - have to say your impressions are amazing - jesse ventura wow
The most devastating move in all of pro wrestling... the flying nothing
Dang it that's staying in my head "evil evil Grizzly Smith" 😅
Is that spin the wheel, make the deal thing a Thunderdome reference?
Maybe it was the inflection, but..."Look at that tall ass pole holding that glove up" had me lol'ing more than it probably should've. Good stuff.
I like the new back drop Brian. Nice change 👍
Prince of Darkness match = Blind-fold match (WrestleMania VII - Rick and Jake)
You give the crowd an all-star tag team and expect them to boo them? Not gonna happen. Even as heels Anderson, Eaton, and Hayes always drew at least the respect of the fans who appreciated wrestling. Free Horse Express was guaranteed to be over.
Hat guy was at most Philly shows, wwf and WCW before and during ecw. He’s also at Halloween Havoc 89 in Philly
Practically in the exact same spot too, regardless of event or arena. Thats meticulous planning to a tee.
Whenever I think of a "Prince Of Darkness Match", I am always remembered of that terrible one TNA did at Lockdown 2007 between Chris Harris and James Storm. They had an absolutely awful Prince Of Darkness Six Sides Of Steel Cage Match where the hoods/blindfolds kept coming off and, apparently, the ones that were ready to go before the show were so awful that Johnny Devine made new ones and those were the ones used in the match...... at least Harris and Storm had an amazing Texas Deathmatch a month later at Sacrifice.
I LOLd at "Jacob the Snacob."
That’s Philadelphia for you, one of the most hardcore crowds
The snake was like "gross, I don't want to eat your mustache Jake"
The Horsemen & the Midnight Express were over like God in Philly. That’s why the first match got the reaction it did, because of Arn & Bobby
Brian, I'm stopping at the end of the opening 6-Man, because what you said reminded me of something from the 1st H Havoc, also in Phily, in the World Tag Titles match, the Freebirds vs the Dynamic Dudes. When the Birds got a hot tag and Hayes hit one of the Dudes w/ his left the fans went wild. Then when they cheated and hit the DDT for the win, the Phily fans blew the roof off the arena. Now here I'm not sure if it's fallout from that match or the Phily fans in general (look at the soon to becoming ECW) or the hatred of the Dudes, or the respect Hayes, AA, & Eaton had across the board, or maybe a combo of everything, but it's understandable. Back during the MEX vs DD feud WCW toured here to the Buffalo, NY and during their match the MEX were heels but we fans were on their side and when you 'father' popped one of the Dudes w/ his racket we almost blew the roof off of the old Aud, so it's not just the Phily fans I suspect. I can only imagine if in the 6-man if the Horsebird Express won how loud the fans would have gotten
Was Terry Gordy not here because of that flight he took and mentally never came back?
Corny used him in Smokey Mountain Wrestling, but the Freebird just wasn't the same..... Terry's work in Japan was of Legend Lore!
Brought that southern style of wrestling to Japan and learned some "new" tactics overseas.... World Class promos were spot on.. Did a super vignette with PS Micheal Hayes using his pimped out kick ass van in the background... thx for the post, i know I didn't comment on the matches I just had an epiphany when u mentioned in the beginning about Terry bo showing......
RIP Terry
Ah, the Coal Miner's Glove match: the match so exciting that when people asked Sting what he thought about it, he answered by talking about a completely different match.
I’m with you on wanting just a regular match between Jake & Sting. As a 11 year old I remember being disappointed and I was a big fan of both. Even at the end of his WWF run I was cheering him in Indy at WM 8.
A prince of darkness match probably consists of facing Finn Balor with Ozzy Osborne playing in the background
Hey Z man you got some fraud trying to scam people here!
Great video!
"Stings like 'cool, see you later!" 😂😂😂😂
Amazing as always Brian, take care Sir
It's funny looking at Rick Rude in WCW after his long and brilliant mullet was cut off. He just looks so different. He moves the same, has the same great look and all that but his long hair jus made him look so much different and so too did his moustache. Love his work and always have but my mind just can't figure it out when he's wrestling in the early 90's WCW XD