From: robert@askinc.ask.COM (Robert McMullen)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: SlumberScam SUCKED
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:43:29 GMT
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Inc.

Anyone else feel raped after forking over $32.50 for SlumberScam?  IMHO,
this was the WORST PPV I've ever seen (except Herb Abrams' UWF Beach 
Brawl).  Here are my reasons:

1) NOT Mc$'s fault, BTW--my cable company (TCI in San Carlos, CA) 
   told me I'd get both the 5 pm and 8 pm replay for the low, low
   price of $32.50.  First, there was a "communications problem" 
   getting the broadcast to subscribers in Redwood City, where I live,
   which is one city south from San Carlos.  At 5:15, still no PPV, then
   it cut in with the last couple minutes of the LOD/$ Inc. matchup.  I
   was pissed and called to complain, but the #'s were busy off the 
   hook.  So I taped the rest of the first broadcast and also set the
   VCR to tape the second show in case there were more "communications
   problems".  I went to work and came back with an hour left in the
   replay.  IT WAS SCRAMBLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm in the process of
   trying to get a full refund as I NEVER got the first 15 minutes.

2) Some of the so-called "action" in this event (which I of course 
   watched on tape) was enough to make me embarassed to admit I'm a
   rasslin' fan.  The Michaels/Martel match was abso-fucking-lutely
   ridiculous.  The tag title match was pathetic.  The entire WWF title
   match was predictable in outcome (Savage gets injured by Flair to
   set up a quick drop of strap against Flair).  Worst of all, to me,
   was the Undertaker/Kamala match (ugh).  Virgil/Nailz SUCKED.  Hart/
   Bulldog was GREAT, though, to give them *some* credit.

   BTW, during the Michaels/Martel match, I was hoping the rigging above
   the ring would give way and crush Michaels, Martel (R) *and* Martel (S).
   Shit, didn't happen...       :-@

   I also kind of liked Crush/Repo.  Brian Adams has great intense 
   facial expressions, doesn't look roided, and has a somewhat 
   painful looking submission finisher.  I think he'll be the one
   taking Flair's strap at WMIX, but then again, unless I get a LOT
   of friends to chip in with me on that...I'll never see it.

3) My girlfriend Lori, who is not much of a wrestling fan but sees more
   WCW than WWhiFf, thought the announcing of McMahon and Heenan was
   pathetic and the wrestling was much worse than WCW.  This is good
   for WCW--VERY, very good--if a "casual observer" thinks WCW at all
   superior to WWF.  In Lori's words, "WCW at least resembles sports,
   but WWF comes off as all 'Saturday morning cartoons'."

PREDICTION:  Big week for WCW, and perhaps the biggest Clash ever since 
Mc$ has basically given Watts the chance to show up his PPV with a cable 
TV special two nights later.  Unfortunately, the WWF devotee marks won't 
watch WCW, but those fans that "straddle the fence" are almost 
*guaranteed* to prefer the WCW show.


QUESTIONS:

1) Was there a televised match before LOD/$ Inc.?  If so, it must have
   been a short squash.  I could've sworn that Santana and/or Shango
   were supposed to appear.

2) Think Bret'll show up at the Clash?  Or DiBiase?  I'd love to see
   the two of them show up as a face team.  Or Bret and Chris Benoit as
   a face OR heel team (if it's those two, who cares--they'll be 
   awesome!)?

I would say "just my $.02", but looking at the line count it's more
like "just my $2.00"...;-)       Later,

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