From: jkwst5+@pitt.edu (Joseph   K Wright)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Pittsburgh Civic Arena Card (1/8/93) Part 2
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:28:57 GMT
Followup-To: Pittsburgh Civic Arena Card (1/8/93)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

This is part two of my review, please go easy on the first half, it was done
very hastily.  First off, I remembered match number three:

3. Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Ty(Bu)phoon

I don't know how I could of forgotten this battle of the big men. Bigelow
came out to a very mixed reception. Typhoon got little pop at all. No 
surprises here. Bigelow dominated throughout, with Typhoon hitting maybe one
or two moves. Neither man really worked. Bam Bam won with a top rope head-
butt after maybe 5 minutes.
Rating: *

5. Chico vs. The (Repo) Man

His matadorness might as well have walked into an empty arena, with the
exception of a small, sarcastic cheer of "Chico" from elsewhere in my 
section. Repo got few boos and surprisingly many cheers, more than some fan
favorites. I tried to start a Smash chant but few people knew what I was
talking about. Just as a sidenote, there was a child, maybe three years
old, seated in front of me, and his brother of maybe ten next to him.
They were both routing loudly for faces at the start of the show, but after
I called the Nasty Boy ending (loudly) and called moves like, "Wow, he's in
a reverse chinlock, I wonder if his arm will drop twice before he gets up."
the ten year old started looking at me like I was a demigod and also started
helping me cheer for heels. Anyway, the match was much less interesting, Tito
won with the flying forearm in about eight minutes.
Rating 1/2*

6. Yokozuma vs. Big Boss Man

This was my favorite match of the night. Big Boss Man came out to a fairly 
good pop, but 'zuma's was also pretty good. I think Vince has forgotten one
basic rule, rulebreakers are rulebreakers because they break rules. I think
many fans have started to realize that big zuma doesn't. Or maybe they're
just sick of BBM too. BBM got some reaction when he started by punching
zuma to his knees, but then zuma got up and performed his patented squash
match, reverse avalanche, Hoganesque leg drop, reverse second-rope Earth-quake.
BBM probably laid still for three minutes afterward to sell it, approximately
the same length of the match.
Rating ** (1 1/2 because the BBM jobbed)

7. Razor Ramon vs. Mr. Still Perfect, but not so snotty about it

This was the main event that most everyone came to see, actually the only one
locally advertized for good reason. Both men got the pop you would hear 
dubbed in for them on a syndie, fans were legitimately excited. Amateur 
wrestling was on display early, with a series of about 14 armwringers with
reversal into armwringers and 14 hammerlock into hammerlock reversal. This
was done at a good pace and didn't look bad. Then Rrrramon took the advantage
but pretty much used weardown holds. Then Perfect came back, did all of his
typical P-plex set-ups, the necksnap, the kneedrop on the leg, and the sitting
down on the leg on the rope (out of Mr. Flair's repetoire), and then threw
Razor out of the ring instead of Perfectplexing him. Perfect bashed Ramon's
head off the steps, the canvas, the post, and the railing before crawling
back in the ring for the countout win. Ramon came back in the ring, and it
Took Several WWF Officials To Keep Them Separated<tm>.
Rating: **

Overall: *1/4 A VERY weak card, most of the points were for seeing both
         Typhoon and BBM job. The matches announced for March 13 sound
         much more promising.

Ultimate Warrior Memorabelia at Stands: 0
Ring Announcers Phone Numbers Gotten: 0 (I didn't have floor seats & the
ring announcer was a guy, not my cup of tea, but unlike Stromer, I don't
really care if it's yours)
Royal Rumble plugs: 0
Money wasted: $5

Joe Wright
Pitt

"I'm cool, I'm cocky, I'm bad" - Honky Tonk Man, first wrestler on a postage
				 stamp