From: jsteeves@ac.dal.ca (Jason Steeves)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Superstars of Wrestling
Date: 12 Dec 92 23:51:41 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <Bz5qws.BC4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, fippjc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Fipp) writes:
>   To start the show, Heenan announces that Jerry "The King" Lawler
> will be joining them.  Jerry does a heel announcer.  Saya he is above
> everyone here in the WWF, etc., etc...

I thought Lawler did really well in his little self-introduction thing,
but as a commentator, his stuff was much worse. Looks like he'll be
doing color commentary for Superstars for a little while. Hope he improves.
If Savage isn't going to wrestle, why not let him commentate on Superstars?
He did alright after his "retirement" at WM7 (IMHO).

>   Update:  Main Event at Royal Rumble will be Bret Hart vs Razor Ramon.
> More importantly: The winner of the Royal RUmble gets a world title shot
> at Wrestlemania.

>   Marty Jannety vs Dwayne Gill.  Jannety with fist from top rope.  Clown
> nails Jannety with water, Heenen and Lawler laugh.

Heat for this match was REALLY canned. The audience looked really dead.
In fact, the audience looked more enthusiastic during Lance Cassidy's
match (sad, indeed). 

As much as i hate to say it, the clown was entertaining for the two
"dump confetti/water" shots. Both Bigelow and Jannetty looked like
fools. Bigelow should've beat the snot out of him, but that wouldn't
work if Doink is going to be a heel.

>   Interview with Bret Hart.  Heenen comes down and introduces Flair, then
> Ramon.  Ramon flicks Bret with his toothpick, fight, double team, Mr. Perfect
> comes out and Bret and Perfect beat Flair and Ramon off the stage.  Bret
> pats Hennig, but Hennig gives no acknowledgement of Bret, he's just pissed
> at Flair & Ramon.

Again, looked like more canned heat as soon as Bret started talking. Why?
Sounded no different than an "events centre" interview. If the whole
thing wasn't dubbed over, you'd hear Bret's echo in the background.

Another thing that bugged me was Bret's complete lack of charisma. He
may be a great wrestler, but when verbally confronted by Heenan, he
looked awkward.

Flair had a great line talking about chasing Hart all around. Something
to the effect of "I'm even in your king-sized bed with your girlfriend."
The way he said it had me ROTFL.

Perfect still does look disgusted whenever any face tries to have
anything to do with him.

>   Undertaker vs Barry Horowitz.  Undertaker wins with throat slam.

Undertaker appeared to draw pretty good heat. Few would dispute that
he's got the best gimmick, even if he won't wrestle to the best of his
ability. Makes me wonder why McMahon doesn't try to use him as a long
time World Champion. Won't get the chance at WM9 with the Undertaker
vs Nailz match keeping him out of the Rumble though.

> Thoughts:  Well, for Hogan to get a shot at Wrestelmania, he'll have to 
> win the Royal Rumble.  I first I thought that Lawler would win the RR, but
> there isn't much time to generate heat for him in the title match at
> Wrestlemania.  If Ramon wins, that sets up the winner of the RR (a face if
> Razor beats Bret) to probably take the title at WM IX.  Any ideas?

If the Rumble is last in the card, Bret loses and a face wins the Rumble.
If the World title match is last, a heel wins the Rumble and Bret retains.
There's many possibilities that could arise out of this. Come to think
of it, it wouldn't surprise me if Bret and a face both won (Bret vs Perfect
at WM9). I don't think we'll see Ramon vs Perfect at WM9 simply because
WM Main Events are generally "new" matches (ie the two wrestlers haven't
been going through a long-time feud at house shows beforehand). Perfect
vs Ramon is on the house circuit now. I can't see them still having
enough heat left in three months time for a main event.

I'm not at the point in my thinking where I can call the outcome of
Hart vs Ramon. I'm leaning towards Hart now simply because there's more
possibe heels to win the Rumble than faces to face Ramon. Of course,
Vince still could pull a fast one on us and have the title switch hands
post-Rumble at a house show.

Possible Rumble winners: Perfect, Bigelow, Yokozuma, Backlund (except
there's not nearly enough heat for him to main event at WM), Lawler (who's
too new in the WWF to main event either).

Comments, opinions?

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