Paid Members BomberPat Posted September 16, 2020 Paid Members Posted September 16, 2020 Low-Ki fought Essa Rios on Metal, and it fucking ruled. Bryan vs Cena was on Velocity. Just Joe was a Sunday Night Heat Original.
Magnum Milano Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 10 minutes ago, Tommy! said: From what I recall Velocity was often main evented by a cruiserweight match no agent thought about beyond "you've got 8 minutes", so often had the odd fun little match. It had a few one shots too at one point didn't it? Didn't Bryan, joe, Loki and others turn up to make noble, Kidman or tajiri look good, or am I thinking of heat? Edit: I might even be thinking of metal, where even just Joe was a star. Low Ki was a semi-regular on Metal in 2000/1 wrestled Essa Rios a few times, Crash Holly twice, a tag match against Dean Malenko & Perry Saturn and even Raven the once. Samoa Joe wrestled Essa Rios too. A whole host of Indie names would show up on Metal back then, the likes of Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, Donovan Morgan, Scoot Andrews, Chad Collyer, Shawn 'Hotstuff' Hernandez etc.
SaitoRyo Posted September 16, 2020 Posted September 16, 2020 I used to love watching Velocity, because I was a massive fan of the cruiserweights between 2002 and 05. Some belters I remember were a really good Jamie Noble/Rey Mysterio match, the Akio/Paul London series, a surly Hardcore Holly/Kurt Angle match, Benoit/Regal and a four-way between Rey, Kidman, Nunzio and Akio.
The Gaffer Posted September 17, 2020 Posted September 17, 2020 Yeah, Velocity was a proper little smart mark niche around 2002-2003 that'd usually be part of your weekly WWE intake back in the day. The house that Shannon Moore built.
The King of Old School Posted September 17, 2020 Posted September 17, 2020 16 hours ago, Tommy! said: From what I recall Velocity was often main evented by a cruiserweight match no agent thought about beyond "you've got 8 minutes", so often had the odd fun little match. It had a few one shots too at one point didn't it? Didn't Bryan, joe, Loki and others turn up to make noble, Kidman or tajiri look good, or am I thinking of heat? Edit: I might even be thinking of metal, where even just Joe was a star. I remember Crowbar showing up on Velocity once and just thinking how out of place he looked, even though it was only two or three years after WCW closed.
Paid Members Statto Posted September 17, 2020 Paid Members Posted September 17, 2020 As well as all the Paul London/Akio/Noble etc goodness on Velocity, there was also the wonderful period where Ernest Miller was on commentary.
Paid Members CleetusVanDamme Posted September 17, 2020 Paid Members Posted September 17, 2020 7 hours ago, Statto said: there was also the wonderful period where Ernest Miller was on commentary. This and a semi-regular dose of Kanyon kept me watching through 2003. C.W. Anderson randomly popping up to have a cracker with Spike Dudley is everything a C-show should be.
Paid Members BigJag Posted September 21, 2020 Paid Members Posted September 21, 2020 WWE are putting a fair bit of WCW Saturday Night And Clash of Champions on the Network feed. Clash 13 is on at 1705 tonight.
The Dart Posted September 21, 2020 Posted September 21, 2020 The episodes of Velocity going up today are just random episodes it seems, rather than any kind of chronological selection. I guess for a show with no real storylines it doesn't really matter, but seems like an odd decision to have made.
SaitoRyo Posted September 21, 2020 Posted September 21, 2020 I think they'll eventually add them all over time. This is the first batch. So the first few and then ones with noteworthy matches, like D-Bry against Noble and Cena, the aforementioned banger between Noble and Rey etc.
LWOLeN Posted September 25, 2020 Posted September 25, 2020 That Cena vs Edge doc was a fun watch. Couldn’t stand to watch any of their matches though back in the day.
Michael_3165 Posted September 26, 2020 Posted September 26, 2020 20 hours ago, LWOLeN said: That Cena vs Edge doc was a fun watch. Couldn’t stand to watch any of their matches though back in the day. Why not? They had a TLC match along the way IIRC which was bloody brilliant.
SaitoRyo Posted September 28, 2020 Posted September 28, 2020 The Broken Skull Session with Kurt Angle is great. Most of it is looking at Angle's first WWE run and Kurt is very open and honest about things. A lot of familiar ground but some really cool stories and details I hadn't heard before, too. It's clear at the end that he now sees himself as an ex-WWE guy and he really wasn't pleased with his comeback. Loved going into the Hall of Fame but is obviously gutted he didn't get to wrestle more, wasn't fussed about being made GM and obviously wanted a different sendoff to the Corbin match. Interesting that they spend a lot of time talking about how good he was and what a great career he had but Kurt himself was surprised to get the Hall of Fame and even more so to headline it. Well worth checking out. It's an hour and forty five minutes but it's a breeze to either watch or listen to.
Paid Members air_raid Posted September 28, 2020 Paid Members Posted September 28, 2020 On 9/17/2020 at 1:54 PM, Statto said: As well as all the Paul London/Akio/Noble etc goodness on Velocity, there was also the wonderful period where Ernest Miller was on commentary. Velocity was great for the occasional appearance of an Indy guy as others have stated but my favourite was Matt Hardy V1 wrestling an unsigned Paul London, and giving him a competitive match, far more give and take than most enhancement matches. Really good fun.
RoryFice Posted September 28, 2020 Posted September 28, 2020 2 hours ago, air_raid said: Velocity was great for the occasional appearance of an Indy guy as others have stated but my favourite was Matt Hardy V1 wrestling an unsigned Paul London, and giving him a competitive match, far more give and take than most enhancement matches. Really good fun. There's a similarly good Perry Saturn vs Paul London match out there (on Metal, not Velocity) from probably a year or so before that.
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