Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: wcw Saturday Night TV Tapings
From: pmbarlow@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Candy Guru)
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:04:42 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <70147@hydra.gatech.EDU>, mb20@prism.gatech.EDU (BRANCH,MICHAEL B) writes:
>   Here are some highlight as best remembered from last
>   night's tapings:
>   Windham and Rhodes were scheduled to go against Pillman/
>   Austin, but the work was that Windham was "missing", so
>   Rhodes had Brad Armstrong as a partner. This of course
>   meant that on occassions we saw good wrestling as long
>   as the BRB's (big ridiculous blondes) were on the outside.

Say... the Big Ridiculous Blondes... Rhodes and Austin... if they let Dustin do
the heel turn instead of Windham, this could be a great name for a team.

>   Anyway... Windham arrived (with ponytail) and argued with
>   Dustin, slaps were exchanged and then Dustin climbed into the
>   ring, to be pounded on by Austin and Pillman. Windham then
>   made the save (Armstrong had been thrown out of the ring). So
>   it's still a teaser as later during an interview Windham went
>   into the standard "There's always controversy on winning teams"
>   type explanation.

Yeah... right.  IMHO, Austin and Pillman are two bad choices for World tag team
champions.  They would not be nearly as good of a single+single championship
team than any of the other teams given in that one posting about Watts taking
two guys, putting them together, and giving them tag gold.

While I'm thinking about it, yeah, Sting and Gilbert managed to win the UWF tag
titles a few years ago, but the titles were lifted from them because, if memory
serves me correctly, Gilbert used a foreign object to get the pin.  They
weren't really two singles guys just up and put together, though... both were
members of Gilbert's "First Family", which also included Rick Steiner and Missy
Hyatt.

>   The BIG news for me was that Cactus Jack has a new wrestler to
>   advise... none other than the MAN Tony Atlas. Atlas is still
>   playing the monster heel, and if Watts' lets him, he'll be 
>   awesome. Atlas came in and wrestled a squash with the Barbarian
>   against a jobber team, then later wrestled against Larry Santos
>   and was real stiff. The jobber had some difficulties leaving.

Atlas always WAS better as a heel, I think.  IMHO, the Saba Simba thing in the
WWF was a joke... and a big step backwards for him.

>   The best match of the night, easily, was Pillman against Shane
>   Douglas. Pillman's got to be one of the two or three best wrestlers
>   in North America. He simply amazes me more and more at how hard he
>   works to sell his opponent.

Which is funny, because I've never felt that way about him.  Even when he was
going for Luger's US belt, I thought he was a loud obnoxious punk, who had
problems selling HIMSELF, much less his opponents.

>   Other moments... Vinnie Vegas beat the living daylights out of Bagwell,

No big surprise... I think a prereq for wrestling in WCW is that, in your first
few months or so, you've got to beat the snot out of Bagwell.

>   Scotty jobbed for Zenc, then beat a jobber named Johnny Stewart, who 
>   weirdly came to the ring wearing an indie race car suit and helmet???

Makes more sense if you remember an Indy car driver names Jackie Stewart.

>   Oh, and Watts had an announcement for Rude. Paul E. (missing tonight,
>   thankfully) had signed an open contract for Rude to defend his US
>   title at Halloween Havoc, so Watts told Rude that he had to face
>   Nikita, as well as battle Chono for the NWA belt. Also, for the NWA
>   match, both Rude and Chono will choose a "personal referee".

Rude's choice will, of course, be Madusa Micelli.  Who Chono will pick... only
he knows.

Even so, Rude's got his hands full... or at least the marks will think so. 
Look for Rude to drop the first of the two matches, but rally to win the
second.


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