From: foleye@CS.ORST.EDU ("Stilt Man" Eric Foley)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Prime Time Debut: The Kiss of Death
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:59:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Oregon State University

In article <Bvon44.12r@acsu.buffalo.edu> v070qg5d@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric M Chmiel) writes:
>
>   Terrific Terry Taylor made his debut on the WWF's Prime Time sho on USA
>Monday night.  Translation: he will not be pushed in the WWF and will
>disappear quickly.  Anyone who debuts on Prime Time rather than the syndies
>is going nowhere in the Whiff.  It's the official "Kiss of Death" from Vince.
>If you don't believe me, talk to Steve Regal, Scott Hall (although he was
>redeemed several years later as Razor Ramon), DJ Peterson, the Headshrinkers,
>Chris Walker, etc.  Just as well for Taylor.  His match was horrible.

I don't know.  Either my standards or the Whiff's (or both) have gotten very
low, but I thought that was one of the best matches on the brodcast.  When the
Whiff actually puts two low guys on top of each other, there's no pauses in the
middle for Sean Michaels to groom himself; no Savage backing away from Flair
for an entire match (although that match wasn't bad either, as far as the WWF's
screws go); no big deal about removing Virgil's face gear to hurt his nose after
Sid broke it.  As for Prime Time tryouts not going anywhere ever, I can mention
one that is now looking like the Whiff's next mega-face if they don't cede that
honor to a returning Bulk Bogus or Bob Backlund.  Who?  Why, none other than
Slim Jim himself . . .

As for horrible matches, I thought that the match between Louis Spiccoli and
Virgil was one of the best matches I've seen on Prime Time for quite a while.
That bridge suplex by Spiccoli was something I wish we could see from name
wrestlers a lot more often, and the fact that Virgil actually ended it with
something other than Million $ Dream was also good.  However, you get Michaels
vs. Birdbrain and the whole match is spent with Michaels doing his quite
boring posturing.  You get Repo Smash vs. El Santanador and the most interesting
part of the match is where Tito gets nailed with the hub cap (I wish Darsow
would have pinned him right there and put us all out of our misery).  What
about BBM vs. Papa Shango?  BBM isn't a bad worker, but Shango needs to go to
school (pardon the Slick Ric pun).  What I want to see (are ya listening Vince?
No?  Well, it's worth a shot . . . ) is a good match for about a half hour
between UW and Ric Flair, where UW actually lives up to his wrestling potential
shown in matches against Rude and DiBiase.  If Slim Jim vs. Slick Ric is worked
to its potential (from both men--LET FLAIR WRESTLE TOO, VINCE!!!!  Oh, excuse
me, got carried away . . .) it could be an extremely good match.  Even Herb
Kunze might like it.  No?  Well, I tried . . .

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