From: hekunze@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Subject: Re: Royal Rumble Attendee
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:40:31 GMT

In article <mjenkins.727932072@cunews>, mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
> In <1jvjde$ssq@agate.berkeley.edu> srubio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Steven Rubio) writes:
> >Final notes: they have a 15-second clock so you can count down to the next
> >rassler, but they don't have a 2-minute clock.  Never thought of it
> >before, but of course that lets them play with the clock.
> We were timing them at random points during the Rumble. Every time we
> did it was exactly 2 minutes.

  My VCR has a real time counter which I reset to 00:00:00 when the bell
  rang.  They were pretty consistent with the 2 minute intervals, but they
  had lost about 30 seconds by the time they reached the last few guys. 

  Gary Will and I got together to watch the show.  I won't bother posting
  a detailed match report since, quite frankly, there wasn't much 
  worthwhile to comment on (and I've already read a few brief match 
  descriptions).  In summary, we gave the following the ratings (out of
  *****, as usual):

  Steiners vs. Beverly Brothers (*1/2)
  Shawn Michaels vs. Marty Janetty (**, one whole * for storyline)
  Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Big Boss Man (1/2*)
  Bret Hart vs. Razor Ramon (**1/2)
  Royal Rumble (***, grudgingly from Gary)

  "The Narcissist Lex Luger" bit was terribly long and terrible. 
  Heenan sounded like Pat Patterson in a boys' school locker room.
  The Caeser and Cleopatra stuff was insulting too.  And El Gigante
  looked like an idiot (more so than usual) in that costume.  Harvey
  looked good with his new image though.

  My girlfriend popped into the living room at all of the above bits
  and probably concluded that we were complete idiots for paying for
  the show.  

  The only good thing we could say after the show was that it wasn't
  the worst PPV (from WCW or WWF) of all time.  Halloween Havoc '92,
  Bash '91, and the Hogan-Undertaker PPVs would be strong competition
  for that honour.  Still, an intermission may have rivalled some of
  the matches as far as interest goes.   

  We did have some fun watching a few things on video (mostly interviews)
  beforehand.  Highlights:
   - The Fantastic Ones: Terry Taylor & Bobby Fulton brawl with Jim  
     Cornette's "dynasty" after interrupting Jim's birthday party
     in Georgia, 1983
   - An interview with Ric Flair from NWA, 1985.  Flair talks about
     people asking him to explain his philosophy on life and then says
     that a song was once recorded that explains it all very clearly.
     He then hits play on a tape recorder he brought out with him
     and mouths the words to the song "I'm a Wanderer" as it plays.
     "....cos' I'm a wanderer, I'm a wanderer, I get around..."
     I thought this was priceless.
   - Interviews from Memphis from 1986 re: tag tourney to crown new
     champs (won by Fantastics).  Lance Russell says "...and now let's
     bring in Steve Borden and Jim Hellwig, the big Blade Runners, ..."
     Hellwig goes on to say that he and Borden are "the biggest studs"
     in pro-wrestling.
   - Some Tommy Rich interviews from Southern Championship Wrestling,
     early 1989.  Rich was just hilarious.  

  But as far the PPV went...a waste of time and money.  Oh well, there's
  always SuperBrawl III.

                                                               Herb... 
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