WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Omaha, NE
This aired on the May 13 Superstars, was taped April 26. It’s also on Coliseum’s “Best of the WWF Volume 20,” which is where I’m watching it. It’s a King’s Crown match, so Haku’s crown is on the line.
Continue reading “King Haku vs Hacksaw Jim Duggan (WWF, 5-13-1989)”
A new week! No pay-per-view extravaganzas or supercards! Just good, old fashioned televised professional wrestling — with a new show in the rotation!
IN THIS SET:
Another new week, and another one with a pay-per-view extravaganza!
IN THIS SET:
I used to do threads on Twitter where I was watching old shows in order; it started with just doing WWF TV of 1994, then obviously I couldn’t not watch the PPVs, then I added ECW, then I added WCW, and before you knew it, it was a whole thing.
I haven’t done it in about nine months, leaving off with the Nov. 4, 1995 edition of WCW Worldwide. Part of this is my wrestling watching goes in spurts. A bigger part is doing all the GIFs and video clipping and whatnot is really time-consuming; watching a one-hour show turns into two-and-a-half hours at best.
But now that I’m just doing whatever with this Blog Site, I thought I’d pick up. I didn’t want to go right from where I left off, so we will start with a new week, just two days later but skipping some B-shows on the weekend.
IN THIS SET:
WCW Monday Nitro, Des Moines, IA
Request via Ko-fi. This is something I’d completely forgotten about until I put it on. Jim Duggan had been diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 1998, but was able to return in 1999, promising to have more impact in the next few years than he had in the 20 before. This was, you know, not going to happen; Duggan’s last flirtation with anything near the top of the card had come in ’94, really, but he was a good guy for WCW to have on its roster to work the weekend shows, get a studio crowd fired up, and occasionally pop in on Nitro or whatever as a credible name for someone to face, for instance when he would to his best to sandbag a young Giant’s chokeslam but Tall Paul said, “Nah, big man, you’re gonna go up here.”
Continue reading “Goldberg vs Hacksaw Jim Duggan (WCW, 6-26-2000)”
WWF Royal Rumble, Albany, NY
Request via Ko-fi. There’s a chance I’ve watched this match more than any other match in history. When people say, “What wrestling match would you show friends who don’t like wrestling to get them into wrestling,” my answer is, obviously, “I would not show them wrestling. They have lived however long having made the correct choice to not let this ridiculous shit into their veins.” But sometimes people will suggest a long, epic match, one that we dorks largely agree is great, and people will say, “Ugh! Look at me, pay attention to me, I am extremely smart and I would not show them that match. All wrestling matches should be 18 seconds long and not have anything good, because when you think about it, that is good!” But this is a 62-minute match I might show someone if I were forced to try to get them to like wrestling, because in this one hour, you see 30 various personalities and one of the all-time great performances.
Continue reading “Royal Rumble (WWF, 1-19-1992)”
WWF WrestleMania IV, Atlantic City
Request via Ko-fi. Duggan is the first out for the big WWF title tournament, and neither he nor DiBiase have entrance music. DiBiase has Virgil and Andre the Giant in his corner. Andre is also in the tournament, but has a first round bye, as does Hulk Hogan because of the whole ordeal.
Continue reading “Ted DiBiase vs Jim Duggan (WWF, 3-27-1988)”
WWF, Fresno, CA
What a tag team encounter this figures to be. Two of my favorites, but Ricky Rude and Jake Snake could both be guilty of lazing through matches, and if there’s ever a time to laze through something, it’s a tag that also involves WWF Duggan and ’88 Andre.
Continue reading “Jake Roberts & Jim Duggan vs Andre the Giant & Rick Rude (WWF, 5-31-1988)”
Houston Wrestling, Houston, TX
This is a young Hacksaw, working heel with Buck Robley in his corner, taking on The American Dream at the Sam Houston Coliseum.
Continue reading “Dusty Rhodes vs Jim Duggan (Houston, 2-26-1982)”
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