Paid Members JNLister Posted November 21, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 21, 2012 It was a takeoff on an TV evangelist called Jimmy Swaggart. As well as being southern (and thus a redneck), Swaggart used to get very agitated and flush while delivering "sermons." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 22, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 22, 2012 You also had those Space Cadets/Vipers matches in 1997. All of them were masked and i'm sure there were a couple of atomicos/8 man tags. Â You are correct, for some reason I remember them being amazing. Although that might have been because I was 15 and impressed by MOVEZ!1 at the time. Â They filmed one eight man tag for a saturday show : Â 25/3/97 Raw taping Luxor, Super Nova, Discovery, & Venum defeated Abismo Negro, El Mosco, Maniaco, & Histeria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonworden Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Quick question thanks to a few of the guys in the Broken Hearts thread.. Â Â Jerry Lawler joined the WWF in 1992, was there any particular reason he was not featured on Wrestlemania 9 at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted November 23, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Jerry Lawler joined the WWF in 1992, was there any particular reason he was not featured on Wrestlemania 9 at all? He was supposed to be there. Press Conference over in Japan said that Lawler would be facing Tenryu at Wrestlemania 9, which would have been great. It was announced on a Wrestlemania 9 preview show, then never mentioned again. Â Like Bam Bam Bigelow vs Kamala, it didn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Paul's Bin Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 From Wiki, Rumble 97 dark match:Â Octag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted November 23, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 (edited) Jerry Lawler joined the WWF in 1992, was there any particular reason he was not featured on Wrestlemania 9 at all? He was supposed to be there. Press Conference over in Japan said that Lawler would be facing Tenryu at Wrestlemania 9, which would have been great. It was announced on a Wrestlemania 9 preview show, then never mentioned again. Â Like Bam Bam Bigelow vs Kamala, it didn't happen. Â That used to happen a lot in the mid 90's didn't it? Remember a lot of matches being dropped at the last minute with no explanation. Â Remember the proposed 10 man tag at Wrestlemania 10? Edited November 23, 2012 by garynysmon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Big Benny HG Posted November 23, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 (edited) From Wiki, Rumble 97 dark match:Â Octag Edited November 23, 2012 by Big Benny HG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacMan Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Jerry Lawler joined the WWF in 1992, was there any particular reason he was not featured on Wrestlemania 9 at all? He was supposed to be there. Press Conference over in Japan said that Lawler would be facing Tenryu at Wrestlemania 9, which would have been great. It was announced on a Wrestlemania 9 preview show, then never mentioned again. Â Like Bam Bam Bigelow vs Kamala, it didn't happen. Â That used to happen a lot in the mid 90's didn't it? Remember a lot of matches being dropped at the last minute with no explanation. Â Remember the proposed 10 man tag at Wrestlemania 10? Â The 10 Man was pushed off the show due to time constraints. The kayfabe reason given was that the heel team (Irwin R. Schyster, The Headshrinkers, Rick Martel and Jeff Jarrett) could not agree on who would be the team's captain for the match. The match was held the next night on RAW and was on the WWE 'Mania' VHS tape as well I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted November 24, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 You can probably understand why the Lawler vs Tenryu match didn't happen. Big Press Conference over in Japan. Big hype. You'd think Lawler would be winning it due to the push he'd get that Summer. Tenryu won't have came over to lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestCoastPop619 Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 When was the last time the NWA world heavyweight championship was contested in the UK? Â Just I've been reading about the current stuff with Cabana. And was just interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobystag Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 October last year. Adam Pearce was over for a mini-tour and defended against Danny Garnell and Zack Sabre Jnr on back to back tours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PacMan Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 (edited) Nevermind. Answered it myself. Edited November 24, 2012 by PacMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RancidPunx Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Anybody remember the shows like "March to Wrestlemania"? Â In the days of endless jobber matches they featured an all star card. I remember there was a summerslam one also which had a belting Money Inc Vs Steiners in a cage match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted November 25, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted November 25, 2012 (edited) Anybody remember the shows like "March to Wrestlemania"? In the days of endless jobber matches they featured an all star card. Various ones happened. "Summerslam Spectacular" in 1990. "Superstars and Stripes Forever", just before Wrestlemania 7, featured a belting Shawn Michaels vs Mr. Perfect match, IIRC. I believe they also had a few "Survivor Series Showdown"'s too.  I know for a fact that the Summerslam one from 1990 is on Youtube. I was watching Jake Roberts vs "Iron" Mike Sharpe (!) from it a few days ago. Jim Duggan vs Earthquake was also on that show. Edited November 25, 2012 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reznor Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 Anybody remember the shows like "March to Wrestlemania"? In the days of endless jobber matches they featured an all star card. Various ones happened. "Summerslam Spectacular" in 1990. "Superstars and Stripes Forever", just before Wrestlemania 7, featured a belting Shawn Michaels vs Mr. Perfect match, IIRC. I believe they also had a few "Survivor Series Showdown"'s too.  I know for a fact that the Summerslam one from 1990 is on Youtube. I was watching Jake Roberts vs "Iron" Mike Sharpe (!) from it a few days ago. Jim Duggan vs Earthquake was also on that show. That Perfect/Bulldog match made it to a VHS release too, It was notable for Shawn losing the plot with an insane dive about 5 years ahead of it's time. I remember Hacksaw/Quake as being a great big steaming turd; the most phoned-in of phone-ins. Despite not liking Duggan I was expecting something decent as he seemed to be suited to matches v big men (Vader, Andre, even Yoko), but it wasn't to be.  These specials weren't actually full of star v star matches, they tended to be more like a combination of Prime Time, SNME, and a PPV pre-show, with 2 or 3 star matches, the same number of squashes, as well as recaps & repeats from Superstars/Challenge and PPV promotion. For one of the 'name' matches, you almost always had the obligatory singles match between members of two teams facing each other at the PPV.  I think they lasted from around 1989 up until Wrestlemania X, before they switched to 'Sunday Night Slam' for a year or so when they fizzled away, probably around when the Free-For-Alls were introduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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