From: evan@fsg.com (Evan L. Marcus [Fusion Systems Group, Ltd.])
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Summerslam commentary
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:33:03 GMT
Reply-To: evan@fsg.com

Continuing with a family tradition that I still don't understand, my Mom
bought the PPV, supplied dinner, and had me, my sister, and brother-in-law
over to watch SummerSlam.  (My wife refuses to watch Pro Wrestling.)
She gets all the WWF PPV's (except Survivor Series).  

Anyway, the show had its high and low points.  I'm going to use a previous
writeup from which to make my comments...

>1) Nasty Boys and Da Mountie .v. The Bushwhackers & Hacksaw Duggan. OH
>my god, wake me up, Duggan over Mountie after 14 minutes. Dud.
I am **SO** glad this was a dark match!!

>The Fink introduces us to Angelo Poffo, Larry "The Ax" Hennig, Classy
>Freddy Blassie, Lord Alfred Hayes and .........Pat Patterson. Other than
>Hayes nobody knows who the hell they are.
How can Vince expect a crowd of marks (who even dress like the wrestlers)
to know who these people are, if he doesn't acknowledge the colorful
history of the "sport".

>2) Papa Shango .v. Tito Santana. Shango with the shoulderbreaker. 6
>minutes *
Wasn't this match supposed to be on the PPV?  Doesn't sound like we missed
much...

>3) MOney Inc .v. L.O.D. DiBiase is dressed in white! Ellering, Animal
>and Hawk come to the ring on Harley Davidsons! LOD win when Animal pins
>DiBiase after about 15 minutes. **
Yeah, Ted got pinned.  Who thinks he's outta here (to WCW)?  Hard to say,
actually; he didn't get squashed, and actually looked pretty good.

>4) NAILZ .v. Virgil. Wot no Bossman run in?. NAILZ in 4 minutes. *
Yeah, what was the point of this match if BBM didn't run in.  Zzzzz...
But, boy, isn't Nailz ugly!!

>5) Rick Martel .v. Shawn Michaels with Sensational Sherri. For pure
A riot!  Very funny, and really quite entertaining.  It was pretty clear
that Sherri was faking, but that the fake was in the script.  I was hoping
that she would actually make a choice during the match, or its aftermath,
but that didn't happen.  The wrestling wasn't bad, but it definitely wasn't
the high point.

>6) Disasters .v. Beverly's. Earthquake pins Beau (I think) in about 11
>minutes to retain the straps for his team. *1
Again, what was the point?  No title change, no angle.  I found myself
absolutely uninterested in this match.

>7) Crush .v. RepoMan. Check how Crush struggles to gorilla press Repo,
>and how much work Darsow does to get himself elevated. Lots of No Sells
>from Crush, wins with compacter after 4 minutes *
Only interesting in a marginal way because it was the reunion of
Demolition.  I was sort of hoping that Vince would use this, but I guess I
should know better.  History?  What's that?

And that head squeeze has to be the stupidest finishing move since the Leg
Drop of Doom!  Unless someone's head pops like a zit.  Then it'd be OK.  :^)

>8) Warrior .v. Savage. Neither walks that aisle with Flair and Perf.
A good match, and one worthy of being the main event.  Neither UW or MM
looked bad, or came out as the true loser, so no in"vince"ability was lost.

UW got up strongly after being hit with brass knucks; is that a first?

A fairly typical MM match, in that he got seriously hurt, and limped for
awhile, but then miraculously recovered.  A fairly typical UW match in that
he "Ulted Out".  Those make their matches interesting, though, and pretty
reasonable PPV fare.

I enjoyed the interference this time, because it wasn;t entirely clear what
was going to happen.

That Warrior bodysuit is an interesting concept.  The painted on muscles
actually work.  They make him look bigger.

>9) Kamala .v. The Undertaker. Mark arrives on the back of a hearse,
Great entrance for UT, lousy match.

>10) Tatanka .v. Berzerker. Why should somebody who received quite a push
>to get a headline series against The Undertaker have to job so
>conclusively to somebody as lame as Tananka. Tatanka with the Write-Off,
>or whatever he calls it in 4 minutes *
This match didn't make the PPV.  Probably just as well.

>Hot Rod performs on the bagpipes.
I guess Piper's Pit will be back, huh?  If he was going to feud, we might
have seen a run-in.

>11) Davey Boy Smith .v. Bret Hart. Either Smith's knee is fine now or he
>was dosed up with something quite powerful. I want to watch this on TV
>to see if it's  really as good as it seemed. All sorts, 2 counts galore,
>Smith  in about 28 minutes ***1/2.
A fine closing match.  One of the more exciting ones I've seen.  Once it
was pretty clear that Shango wasn't going to interfere, and that BBD's leg
was OK, we could actually sit back and enjoy some quality wrestling.  I
don't understand, though.  Where has this BBD been?  We've seen statue
matches on TV with him.  He can't even move.  Suddenly there's this!  Let's
hope he's going to return to his old days of working hard.  He'll make a
good IC champ if he does.


Other comments:
- Did Lord Al have a face lift, or at least get his eyes done?
- I'm surprised Lord Al didn't play a bigger part, seeing how the show was
in London.  (Not that I'm complaining, mind you...)
- I used to think Sherri was cute under all that make up.  I no longer
think so.  But I do like her tush.   :^)
- Three title matches, one title change.  It was pretty obvious to me that
BBD was going to take the title, since there weren't any other changes.

All in all, not too bad, and not nearly as bad as I'd feared.

Thanks, Mom!  :^)
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