WCW Starrcade 1995 Review | Wrestling With Wregret
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- It's the WORLD CUP OF WRESTLING as the stars of WCW take on the stars of New Japan Pro Wrestling ... and oh yeah I guess the WCW Title is also on the line! It's time for STARRCADE 1995! Nominate classic shows on the Patreon page! / wrestlingwithwregret
03:32 Chris Benoit vs. Jushin Liger
06:33 Alex Wright vs. Koji Kanemoto
08:03 Lex Luger vs. Masahiro Chono
09:51 Johnny B. Badd vs. Masa Saito
11:39 Eddie Guerrero vs. Shinjiro Otani
13:26 Randy Savage vs. Tenzan
15:14 Sting vs. Kensuke Sasaki
16:46 United States Championship (DARK MATCH): Kensuke Sasaki vs. One Man Gang
17:41 Ric Flair vs. Sting vs. Lex Luger
21:04 WCW Championship: Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair
22:52 Final Thoughts
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Jesus Christ, how thin does your roster have to be to have Sting, Luger, Savage, *and* Flair all do double-duty on a PPV where you bring in seven wrestlers from another company?
I don't know if it was thin, but on TV, the justification is that since they want their big stars in the World Cup, they also want the title match, thus all 4 of those guys should have to pull at least double duty to make it an even playing field. Savage is in the World Cup and is working hurt, so Sting and Luger and Flair have to go through each other to get the shot. If they just made it Flair vs Savage, it's not fair to Savage for Flair to just come in fresh. So Luger and Sting and Flair have to also work matches in the name of fair play.
AJ Lee thin.
They just brought in Malenko, Benoit, Eddie, Disco a few months before too. No Hogan and Dungeon Of Doom, I think Anderson and other regular midcarders were missing too, since WCW guys here were only faces iirc. No Renegade either lol
@@attiepollard7847 seemed more like a Bischoff side project. Guess it flopped at the box office and he stopped this story
WCW's roster was actually bulbous in late 1995. The dilemma was more that Bischoff wanted to have his best wrestlers on the show instead of putting on another Craig Pittman/Cobra or Big Bubba/Jim Duggan that would annoy the audience. Though, ironically, you do need those kinds of matches to make the others feel even bigger in hindsight.
Oh snap the beard is coming back!
The original American Male.
Yes! Dude I'm telling you the classic PPV segments are my favorite wrestling content on all of YT. I legit couldn't tell you 3 current wrestlers, but stuff like this is incredible. Thanks Brian!
Well, to be fair to Flair, Dolly Parton is pretty much Tennessee's only child we're unequivocally proud of. Pretty much everything and everybody else we've exported has a big asterisk after their name.
Just from Memphis alone: Jerry Lawler? Flair himself? (Yes, he was born in Memphis! And actually was victim of a baby trafficking ring, but that's another story entirely...) Aretha Franklin? Sputnik Monroe might not be a native, but what he did for desegregation in Memphis surely is worthy of great praise and an honorary title as a Memphian?
Gotta use that noodle!
Tennessee is ALSO PROUD of Conway Twitty Eviltwindumbass
The late great Tina Turner comes to mind (she was born in Nutbush TN iirc)
Too Many Superplexs, Too Many Roll Up Victories… Damnit D’Lo.
Remember, though, that at the beginning of the '80s the superplex had won Maneuver of the Year and still regularly got huge pops in the '90s. Companies actually do pay attention to shit like that.
@@Feve5 It should be a finish, dang it!
IT'S A MOVE FROM THE TOP ROPE. It is the *highest* a person can get in a match, falling on their back.
It should be a finish i hate everyone.
@@Eidenhoek "It's still real to me, dammit!"
FINALLY KOTR 2001 will be reviewed!!!!! Shane vs Angle is in my top 3 matches!
I've been desperately waiting for the invasion pay-per-view review though...
Most of the promotion for this show was done on the Saturday morning TBS show (Pro). They had an angle where Bobby Heenan ‘sold’ the show to New Japan. They brought in the NJPW workers to a Disney taping so all matches were on Pro, not Nitro.
I'm glad you added that picture of the trophy at the end with the WCW vs nWo World Tour music. That is the exact shot they used after you defeated everyone in an organization.
I can attest to Liger being an amazing opener. I went to a Ring of Honor taping in Philadelphia and he was part of a 4 corner survival with Mark Briscoe, Jay Lethal, and Shinsuke Nakamura and he was super over with the theme.
Sounds like a hell of a match.
As someone who's never really seen Masa Saito wrestle, just by looking at him I could tell that he should have wiped the floor with Johnny B. Badd in just 5 seconds.
I get where you're coming from with the Luger/Sting thing, but it gets REALLY good in 1996 when they're tag champs and Luger's trying to pretend he's a good guy. Unfortunately, it doesn't get any resolution because of some other thing that happened nobody remembers, but it was fun while it lasted.
I felt pretty silly here. Heard you say the Peacock version and thought "this must be real recent" look down and it says 1 hour ago.
Really enjoy these classic ppv reviews, keep them coming sir. Thank you.
Nothing could ever beat Liger vs. Benoit as wild Pegasus in their Super J cup match.
I saw it when it happened, and to that point I had only watched WWF (since 84) so imagine the contrast....
6 Years before WWE vs The Alliance during The Invasion and Many years before AEW vs Impact Wrestling vs NJPW there was WCW vs NJPW
19:13 And I thought Hogan's and Storm's chairshots were bad.
Hogan will always be the worst 😅
I saw many wrestling cards in that venue including wrestlemania 1on big screen closed circuit when i was 7 years old good memories!
Oh wow this brought me back this was my first Starrcade it introduced me to the Wrestlers from Japan! 😊😊😊😊😊
Nice use of that N64 character select music at the end!
I’m pretty sure there was a lot more promotion of the New Japan wrestlers on Saturday Night & the syndicated shows. I remember Savage cutting a promo on Tenzan (I’ll beat Tenzan, Nine Zan, whoever”). I thought there was a segment on Nitro where Sonny, Liger & Saito were sitting at ringside scouting the competition
Correct, it's just there was none on their flagship Nitro. I remember on Nitro they would only ever mention the Triangle Match but the not the World Cup.
19:50 I’m surprised can u hear the ring over lex selling 😂 😂
6:05 Pre Latino Heat Eddie Guerrero was a precious cinnamon roll. Glad he did improve his promo skills though
When we had The Wrestling Channel in the UK (before Fight Network bought it and killed it) they used to play Jushin Liger idents going to and coming from ad breaks. Those were good days, we had TNA, ROH, World of Sport, Gaeia, New Japan, FWA, CZW, 3PW etc
That intro song can make any crappy day better.
Much thanks and safety to ya!!!
Fun PPV. My style of wrestling with the feeling of global competition.
Every time I think of Starrcade 95, I think of it as the perfect middle of the road show. A show that I picture instantly when I think of Pay Per Views I would grade a C. It had some good matches, it had some bad matches, it had some mediocre matches, and it all boils down to a show that's pretty meh. Good idea, somewhat shaky execution to put it nicely.
When I first saw the thumbnail for this video, I thought the wrestler was the Ultimate Warrior. I was like when was Warrior in WCW in 95? Then I realized its Sting leading up to him becoming the Crow gimmick. LOL!
OMG .. mean Gene advertising that wcw hotline got me in so much trouble because I used to run up my mom's phone bill like crazy calling that number. Memories 😂
Crazy to think Jushin Thunder Liger wrestled Tyler Breeze in 2015
Sonny Ono, the originator of the selfie.
It's so strange looking back on early days Benoit before he had the more colorful pants later on, you'd see blues, reds, yellows, etc, but hardly ever black so that jushin/benoit match kinda threw me. "What the hell? Benoit in black?"
Benoit mostly wore colorful tights in 1992-1993 in WCW and 95 when he first came back from Japan and ECW. It wasn't until he joined the Horsemen, he started wearing just red and black.
So weird that they seemed to make some of the vs Japan matches on the base of matching ring gear like they were an impromptu tag team, not opponents.
You can't watch just the Nitros for the world cup build. Wcw put that stuff on worldwide, wcw pro, and Saturday night. That's where the build up is. It's not good, but it does exist.
This show's main problem was that most of the Japanese wrestlers I had no idea who they were. Chono and Liger I know who they were b/c they were big international stars in their own right, the others I didnt know and wasnt watching NJPW at that time. The other thing is and I know Eric was all about trying new things, but he really should have had a few matches that had nothing to do with the WC concept sprinkled in there. While this show did have a Flair-Savage main event, I dont think that this benefited from it. That match itself wasnt very good. Honestly I think I would have given it a C- if I was the one doing the grading, but I understand the D+, this show deserves that.
Chono, Muta and Sasaki were featured years ago many times on WCW TV/PPV though
@@smarkslowplay3512 I know Muta was a staple of Jim Crocket in the 80s. And Chono was around a lot in the Bill Watts years, but i dont remember Sasaki all that much.
@@heisensaul5538 he had a short run in 92/93 as a smiley goody two shoes babyface. Also forgot Liger who appeared in 91, 92 and 95 previously in pretty big spots
@@attiepollard7847 It was Kurasawa who broke Hawks arm not Yuji Nagata. They had a match at Halloween Havoc 95.
@@attiepollard7847 If I remember correctly, Yuji Nagata's move was like an arm bar submission and Kurasawa's move was more like a break over his shoulder.
Edit: After looking into it, I guess they did have the same finishing move. But Kurasawa (Manabu Nakanishi) was there in 1995-1996 and Yuji Nagata was in WCW from 1997-1998.
Love these videos
I think you vastly underrated this PPV, as I'd give it at least a B-. It's not great, but what worked, really worked. In particular, I thought the triangle match was pretty well-worked, at least for the era. It was a very interesting bit of psychology with Flair as the clear heel, Sting as the clear face, and Luger as the tweener. Flair/Savage was one of their weaker matches, but it was still decent enough. And I enjoyed most of the WCW/New Japan matches, especially Benoit v Liger and Guerrero v. Ootani.
Things got much better in WCW the next year.
Funny how if any US promotion did something like this today. That the New Japan guys would get just as big of a pop if not an even larger one then any of the guys in the US promotion. I would imagine bigger for most every case seeing how they would be guys that the audience would hardly ever get to see live if ever. Only way they wouldn't get a bigger pop is if they were a heel that was amazing at their job of getting heat compared to the cool heel like most are who can get heat in Japan due to a different crowd but would get cheered here. Or if they were just a lower card guy, young talent or facing someone in the promotion that was over as fuck.
@@attiepollard7847 I mean that's what I said towards the end of my comment. That if they were a lower card guy or just someone who isn't that popular then the home promotion talent would get the bigger pop. My main thing was just thinking about like say they had Hang Man Page vs Okada. That despite Hang Man being very much over with the AEW crowd. That Okada would get the bigger pop due to how popular he is and the fact that the AEW audience rarely ever gets the chance to see him live. Compared to back then when almost none of the WCW fans had any clue who these NJPW guys were. And then add in the fact that WCW promoted the NJPW as the heels trying to take over.
Correct me if I'm wrong... but
A. didn't "Sunday @ 7p" only become the Stock PPV Day & Time in 1996 as both Companies expanded to Monthly PPVs with Several pre-1996 PPVs falling mid-week
B. I think the Formatting of the Triple Threat/Three Way Dance was because WCW hadn't booked many such matches so they (and their Talent) didn't know how to work it...
@@attiepollard7847 just looked it Up
Starrcade 83-87 were all Thursdays in November... Vince sandbagged them by Putting Survivor Series the same Night... and leveraging Mania with the PPV Providers (remember PPV was essentially a Single Channel at this point )
They moved to December Tuesdays for 88 & 89
90 & 91 were Sundays
92 & 93 was on Monday
94 was on a Tuesday
No Idea about the rest of their Line Up
WWE was similar in that Survivor Series was either Thursday or Wednesday for the first few years
Great review as always
You're correct there was no build-up however i liked njpw being involved with wcw
Please let Liger be in 2k22. Would immediately buy it based on that alone
What was the song that was playing at the end of the video. I can remember it. Wasn't it from a game?
My lord Eddie Guerrero could work. What a shame man RIP
...as a regular NJPW watcher....I think Tenzan has only visibly aged five of the twenty six years between now and then...
Your memory is just fuzzy Z-Man there was never truly video packages. The whole scheme on air was supposed to be Bobby Heenan making deals with Sonny for new Japan. Heenan handled all the hype surrounding the NJPW guys
I don‘t understand contracts like Hogan‘s. Especially on PPVs the biggest moneymakers have to be there.
When you say he only has xx Nitros to appear on, it‘s okay. But not missing a big event.
Should cover tna world cup ppvs
FUTURE REVIEWS: WCW SLAMBOREE 1994 , WARGAMES 94, NITRO'S SPRING BREAK EPS, WWE( F) RAW EP BEFORE 9/11, OR WCPW❗
Pillman looks like The Loose Cannon Chad Kroeger in that pic
Wcw starrcade 1995 same day as my birthday december 27 1995
I love you. That is all.
Review g1 climax 2016 roh supercqrd of honor 2018 roh best in the world 2018 when the bucks face the briscoes
As someone who watched this show in 95 .... the majority of us loved it. I'm laughing that modern eyes don't like it but whatever. I hate modern wrestling so to each is own.
It is surprising that Hogan was not in the show and I know he was suspended but I mean he is a U.S.A guy
@11:40 from late 95 to mid 97 was the best version of Lugar ever. WWF never knew what to do with him (at least after he dropped the Narcissist gimmick) and before that he was too new to everything, and after losing the championship after a week in 97 he just couldn't get back, but this is starting to get to peak Luger IMHO.
I would have much preferred Hulk Hogan vs Mr. Saito rather than Johnny B Badd vs Saito
i think cross promotional shows and matches are cool when done right i never seen this one though aew does them right in my opinion
15:58 Odd change off sound.
wait so Johnny be bad wins with an over the rope dq but Sting doesnt get Dq'ed for it? was it because ohno was involved?
So two problems on behalf of WCW. To get revenge against the Horsemen.... Kevin Sullivan who I believe was booker at this point. Screws over WCW.... What!!! Also lot of going over the ropes but only dq when convenient. What!!!!
Ric Flair: I knew how to beat Sting, I knew he would do this and that and he is not fast a cat
Was he as big as a bull though? Oh, and did he like his honey and The Rock? I don't need to ask about him helping friends though as, his entire storyline at this point involved friendship. lol
@@BrettStormXWP He's no John Cena that's for sure.
Maybe he's some kind of karate.
Does he hit him with a bat?
He does this and he does that.
The drop in audio quality shows how the quality off ppv dropped
🤣🤣🤣
Flair had so many girls around him he couldn't possibly remember all their names *woo*
Fun fact: the reason Sonny specifically mentions Iowa is because he's lived there for many years. It was through martial arts tournaments in the Midwest that Sonny and Eric met and became friends. He ran a karate dojo for a long time in Mason City, Iowa.
I don't know what it is with Japanese managers and wanting to live in the midwest when they live here in the US because Akio Sato currently lives in KCMO.
One of the few reps from my home state, we don't get a lot we'll take anyone
As someone who’s lived in Iowa my whole life I never knew this
@@phatshotsgaming7578 I only really know because I, myself, am from Mason City. When Sonny signed with WCW, it was reported on in the local newspaper.
Did he teach Eric the famous Front Left Back Kick?
Liger/Benoit can't be a bad match. Impossible. Bad finish or not.
yeah, he even says stupid finish aside excellent match.
So Kevin Sullivan directing his anger at Pillman towards Benoit would eventually lead to Sullivan "booking his own divorce"? Is that what you're trying to tell us, Zane?
Even a Sonny Onoo on a pole match?
The match was great. And the finish was kind of hokey, but it wasn't really as bad as Brian made it out to be.
@@jd9119 He gave the match 4 stars lol
Ono is such a dastardly heel, wanting to turn Iowa Japanese
One thing I will never forget is the feeling I had when I was getting ready to watch Clash of the Champions with my dad thinking how lucky we were to get this special for free. Good times
Free? Your dad never paid the cable bill?
@@martyklestadt6766 lol, I meant not having to order the Pay per view
Damn not used to seeing Eddie's early generic babyface subdued mild mannered promos
Sonny's 'evil Japanese manager' persona was a stereotype but he played that character so well. Curtain jerkers are important to start your event off right and nobody did it better than Liger. Legend.
I always liked Chono. He had cool tights.
I thought Mr Fuji had that gimmick down pat in the WWF, too.
It's true. Sonny knew exactly what the WCW audience wanted in a stereotypical Japanese heel manager and he leaned in hard. I remember sometimes he's bring a camera along and take selfies with whoever he was managing on the way to the ring because Japanese folks love cameras. right? He'd cut promos about trying to buy everything (that being a big bugaboo at the time). He'd cut promos about trying to buy wrestlers' contracts, buy whole WCW shows, etc. The man helped get some heat on a legion of otherwise boring, interchangeable midcard heels. What a boss.
Also racist that he sued WCW and Time Warner.
Yokozoooooonaaaaaah numbaaaaaaah one! aaaaaaaaahhhh haaaaa aaaaah
Any Lex match gets a bonus half star for that amazing selling.
OOAH!
@@jeffreydrozek-fitzwater4649 GUAH!
Fun fact Lex Luger was actually part of a PWI Match of the Year for 1991 at Superbrawl 1- Luger and Sting vs. The Steiner Brothers. The next time they say Lex can't YOU TELL THEM HE'S THE BEST WORKER EVER AND WON MATCH OF THE YEAR BY HIMSELF ALL ON HIS OWN.
Ahh
Lex Taking Bump
Eddie was a baby face cause of that fabulous mullet, how can you be bad with that hair? 🤔
Plus he was so happy to be here, and he told us a million times in one promo!
That mullet belonged in the Louvre.
@@JMFabiano Was he also nervous? Because according to OSW Review, being nervous yet happy to be there would make him a bitch.
Forget the squeaky ring, it's all about listening to Luger whenever he's involved! "OHH!" "AHH!" "OHH!"
Luger's grunts makes Shamrock's grunts sound quiet.
OW! MAH GAHD! OOH AHH! REH! EH!
Check out osw review, that have a whole thing about Lugers selling
Ud want watch osw review ard number 53 they slate him up till ard then except one there 3irish lads and now they love lex and his loud selling
Oh sumone already said sorry didint even look didint think sumone would of know us Irish podcast 👊👊💯💯🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
It’s a shame that Jushin thunder Liger couldn’t used his anime theme song
Liger was originally a manga by Go Nagai.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 Yes, same as Tiger Mask. Koji Kanemoto was actually Tiger Mask III before losing his mask to Jushin Liger.
Let’s fighting love
@Wrestling With Wregret Your comment about Liger being the Ultimate opening match wrestler is spot on. He was in the opening match with Tyler Breeze for the first ever NXT Takeover Brooklyn in 2015 on SummerSlam Weekend. That PPV was the one I credit for putting NXT on the map to the broader audience it's gained since.
Kinda funny that Hogan contractually limited himself to working only 4 PPVs a year and thus prevented him from participating in Starrcade, WCW's Wrestlemania. We're talking about the same guy whose "retirement" angle closed Wrestlemania VIII instead of the WWF title match and whom insisted on an impromptu title match in IX that robbed Bret Hart of an establishing champion moment. The man never saw a limelight he didn't want to steal. But at least it saves us from most of the Dungeon of Doom nonsense and put the focus on the other performers. It really felt like the WCW was divided between Hogan's cartoony BS and everything else going on at the time.
I really think that his absence explains that of Mutoh.
Why else their World Champion be absent from the ‘World Cup?’
Hogan worked more than four PPVs in 1995:
Superbrawl: Defended WCW title against Vader
Uncensored: Faced Vader in a non-title strap match
Slamboree: Teamed up with Savage to face Vader & Ric Flair
Bash at the Beach: Defended WCW in a cage match
Fall Brawl: Was on the most lopsided War Games match in history (Hogan/Savage/Luger/Sting v. Meng/Zodiac/Kamala/Shark)
Halloween Havoc: Lost WCW title to Giant (plus the Monster Truck contest)
World War 3: Was in the main event 60 man battle royal.
Ya and than you just had idiot Flair go over in the main event here when he did that in almost every Starrcade prior like Hogan at Mania, fucking dumb, Sting should have won the title in the main event here
@@Vicsongwriter something tells me that the Horsemen where on to big things in 96 before Pillman left the company and that’s why they were giving Ric the belt here
@@TimTE01 My guess its because this was in december and the january 4th show was near. He had a giant rematch with Takada coming and they prolly didnt want to to risk it.
7:44 those sonny onoo thumbnails killed me lmfao
Don’t know if anyone else mentioned it, but, according to Flair, Savage bladed him without his permission. You can see Savage fumbling for the blade and Flair react after it happens.
I heard that too, I think Flair also mentioned he was not too happy with this title win because there was too much outside interference, funny I know. I also remember reading the blade was actually taped to the megaphone which is why it was such a nasty blade job, Flair looked gross afterwards
This HAS to be false.
Flair bleeds on command. He don't need no blade job.
@@Eidenhoek I was very close to the ring for that match and Flair did not have help getting busted open and it was DEEP! His hair turned red FAST!!
@@DLRX This is 100:correct. It was awesome! Had to be the highlight of the ppv.
15:52 If Brian Zane ever does a Botchamania video on Wrestling With Wregret. :)
He's done an intro for Botchamania alongside The Colossal Connection, and he's done one of those segments where wrestling UA-camrs/podcasters read wrestler's auto/biographies about botches.
@@mrsejanoz523 No, I mean if Zane ever does a Top 8 Botch Moments in Wregret history.
10:45 Just wondering... At what point was the over-the-top-rope DQ rule officially rescinded in WCW? By the time the nWo angle was in full swing, I don't remember seeing anyone DQ'ed for that reason ever again.
Even at this point it was done completely randomly. There's definitely matches around this time where it happens and there's no DQ.
Surprisingly, the rule was in place until February 1998 when they announced off hand on a Thunder that they had waived the rule completely. Up until the rise of the nWo and cruiserweight division, it was more of a regular occurrence though still sparse.
You'd maybe see it once or twice in a month at best. The announcers would at least still call it out sometimes if someone was thrown over and the match didn't end but many times would cover saying it was their own momentum that took them over or the ref didn't see it etc. By 98 it was surprising they even brought it up to officially waive the rule as it was used so rarely that it could have been phased out without even mentioning it.
Team USA with a Canadian, a German and a Mexican American hahaha
Then again, WCW had a Team Canada faction in 2000 where everyone but Lance Storm (and PCO & Jacques Rougeau for about a week) was American.
@@DasNordlicht91 true they had 8 members and 4 were American and 4 were Canadian lol
well they couldnt call it team everyone who isnt Japanese lol
@@heisensaul5538 are u talking about Team USA or Team Canada lol? Sorry I got confused
@@JCLopez209 I was talking about Team USA on this show lol
What a surprise.....Benoit and Eddie had the best matches of the night.
I am suprised brian did not mention when Bobby and dusty was making fun of tony for calling the boot "the mafia kick"
Long before I ever knew what NJPW was, I knew who Jushin Liger was. Because WCW knew who he was and understood how much of an influence his style was having on the younger talent on the roster. So of course they brought him to our shores (or at least our screens ) when they could. Why wouldn’t you try to showcase the most influential performer of his generation if you had the chance
Why the heck would you ever decide to have your biggest PPV of the year on a WEDNESDAY?
It was a Wednesday between Xmas and New Year. Having it on a Sunday would have meant having on either Xmas Eve or New Years Eve,.
@@robfinlay8058 Still could've done it on a Friday or Saturday though.
Doing big shows during the week was very common back then. Especially when it was around holidays. I believe this was the third or fourth year in a row Staircade was specifically on the 27th.
Halloween Havoc and BATB were bigger deals than Starrcade since Bischoff took over
@@attiepollard7847 Why would they want to? The 27th is a much better day, in the run up to Christmas people are busy, by the 27th people are done with Christmas, most adults are not at work, kids are not at school, it's a good day to run a PPV on.
I rather see the 3rd guy on the apron in a triangle match instead of him rolling out the ring for 3 minutes waiting for the next spot.
Sonny Ono, the inventor of the selfie.
Brian had me curious to do some research after he mentioned Starrcade was held on a Wednesday in 1995. Turns out, that was common place for years for WCW to hold it during the week. See below:
Starrcade 1991: Sunday
Starrcade 1992: Monday
Starrcade 1993: Monday
Starrcade 1994: Tuesday
Starrcade 1995: Wednesday
Starrcade 1996: FINALLY a Sunday!
This is the closest we are going to get Brian to review a NJPW showv
I just happened to watch starrcade 96 just the other day and this might as well have been the exact same card. The under card putting on clinics and the veterans pretty much embarrassing themselves with a few exceptions.
11:42 it’s spelled “Ootani” because the proper pronunciation of the “O” in Japanese is lengthened and is normally romanized as “ōtani,” “Ohtani” or “Ootani”
This is the same company that Rey Mysterio Sr was called ‘Rey Mysterioso’ and ‘Rey Mysteric’ in.
@@TimTE01man that's tough
Well, not always, just in names/words like Ōtani
I wasn't aware Flair won at least 5 of his World Championship titles while being 46 or older. That just blows my mind.
I'm pretty sure Flair was born 46 years old
Though most of those 5 reigns were meaningless, as they were for a combined 132 days (the 4th reign was 7 days and the 5th reign was about an hour)
@@TJSpyke correct me if i'm wrong but weren't most of his world title reigns short he did have a lot of reigns but from what i can tell only one of them was for a meaningful amount of time
@@robjackson4050 depends which titles you mean. Of his 10 NWA title reigns, 6 of them were at least 400 days each. But his longest WCW title reign was 171 days (which was his first resign) and his longest WWE Championship reign was 77 days
@@wesleywiggins958 nah he was born as david flair
Excited to see what Starcade 1995 has for us and what your opinions will be. I have high-school finals tomorrow after being stuck there for more than I should’ve, so I’m worried as all hell, but I think this will calm me down a bit. Thanks Z-man!
Good luck!
@@Pensfan5919 cheers!
Good luck bro!
Good luck!
Happy to say the final went really well! Will have to wait to see the final results but excited nonetheless
King of the Ring 01 is next? That's a pretty good show if I remember. Aside from the DDP/Undertaker stuff, which was technically not a match, and Benoit's injury in the Main Event. As, I believe KOTR 01 was the one with Shane/Angle (and Angle was in 3 matches), Edge winning KOTR, Austin vs Benoit vs Jericho. So, I believe it must've been at least a good show, if not great.
I enjoyed that show, remember having Sky TV at the time but couldn't watch it live because I had school in the morning so instead just watched the repeat the next night with my Mum and Stepdad, they kinda enjoyed even they weren't into wrestling at all.
It shouldn't be too expensive to buy Iowa.
Liger is one of my favourites of all time. He wrestled on a 2 night card for my friends fed UWA in Mississauga Ontario in 2006 teaming with another one of my all time favourites Ultimo Dragon.
Do No Mercy 2007 next if you haven't done it please
Sonny Onoo was my favorite WCW manager
They did stuff on WCW Pro and Worldwide to promote the New Japan Stars. They had Sonny buy Worldwide time to feature his guys if i remember correctly.