Paid Members tiger_rick Posted November 10, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 10, 2016 Thinking about stuff that I read about and it sounded great ... and then I saw it. The World War 3 battle royal immediately jumps out. I'm a fan of battle royals anyway and when I'd read reviews of World War 3 and look at the star power (left near the end) it just sounded awesome. And then I finally saw one. And bloody hell was I disappointed. You couldn't follow what was happening, the three commentary teams were shite, the split picture was too small to see. Horrible. It might work these days with widescreen & HD but it was terrible then. So what are your Albert in Japan stories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 This has got to be Ring of Honour for a lot of people right? Came around at a time where everyone thought wrestling should be super serious and then it was mostly a bit shit at the beginning wasn't it? My memories of the first time I watched RoH are Steve Corino talking about who he was sleeping with on commentary and Jerry Lynn listening to some band and eating a banana like he was in a Carry On movie. Ring of Honour was nothing like it sold itself as at the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 CZW and most Deathmatches in general. I would mainly read about it in Powerslam. The way they presented it was so different from anything I'd seen I got really excited. The pictures told stories of dramatic blood soaked battles. Sadly it comes off better in pictures, because when you actually watch most the matches it is usually just rejects mutilating themselves in front of tiny crowds for a bit of Meth. I'm sure there are probably quite a few really good matches out there, but a lot of it just seems to be nutters trying to fuck themselves up for no reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambulance Chaser Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 The Punk/Joe trilogy in ROH, sloppy, botchy shite that became art for the sake of art and got way too cute for my liking. To add, I love both guys generally but it just didn't light my fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Has to be ECW, the original. There were all the relevant stories about how awesome it was, then followed in later years by WWE's big take on it. Going back to finally check it out, around the same time as Rise + Fall of ECW, I discovered it's total garbage of the highest order. I honestly have no idea why it was so highly praised back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted November 10, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 10, 2016 Has to be ECW, the original. There were all the relevant stories about how awesome it was, then followed in later years by WWE's big take on it. Going back to finally check it out, around the same time as Rise + Fall of ECW, I discovered it's total garbage of the highest order. I honestly have no idea why it was so highly praised back in the day. Occasionally ECW would get it right. Heatwave '98 was a brilliant show, but there were other shows from that year that were the absolute drizzling shits For me personally I'd have to say Hogan Vs Rock from Mania 18. I was never a big Hogan guy because I didn't have access to really watch him as a kid, so by the time I was being exposed to his work properly it was watching the nWo in TNT on a Friday night after Raw, I'd already been "smartened up" Watching the old Hulkamania stuff back just felt hokey following that. So a couple of friends had watched 'Mania 18 before I'd gotten chance to and told me how good that match was, and I just couldn't get into it because of my having missed that part of his career. Don't get me wrong, I understand his place in the history of wrestling and will always respect him for that, but he just isn't my bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamTH17 Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Most of the War Games matches. There has, admittedly been a few real classics, but most of them fall into the same category as Royal Rumble matches. 5% great, 95% meaningless and generic punch, kick offence to kill time until it's time for someone else to come in. 30 second shine spot, and back to plundering around for another 5 minutes. Horrifically overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 10, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted November 10, 2016 This has got to be Ring of Honour for a lot of people right? Came around at a time where everyone thought wrestling should be super serious and then it was mostly a bit shit at the beginning wasn't it? My memories of the first time I watched RoH are Steve Corino talking about who he was sleeping with on commentary and Jerry Lynn listening to some band and eating a banana like he was in a Carry On movie. Ring of Honour was nothing like it sold itself as at the start. The first segment in the serious "wrestling as sport" promotion Ring Of Honor featured a gay heel tag team snogging to illicit boos from the fans, getting clobbered by two fatties called Da Hit Squad, and a woman going through a table. ENDUT, HOCH HECH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSF Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Most of the War Games matches. There has, admittedly been a few real classics, but most of them fall into the same category as Royal Rumble matches. 5% great, 95% meaningless and generic punch, kick offence to kill time until it's time for someone else to come in. 30 second shine spot, and back to plundering around for another 5 minutes. Horrifically overrated. War Games 1992 for me. Seen loads of hype on here about it over the years and had never seen a War Games match before, so decided to give it a watch. Went completely over my head and couldn't understand why there was so much love for it. Maybe its the lack of nostalgia and the fact I was never a WCW fan, but i'm in no rush to re-watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevestryka Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Flameproof suit on... WCW...I just never got it...everything I read and the people I spoke to made it sound awesome, it had a lot of my favourite WWF guys in it at the time but I just couldn't watch it. Even now I go back to watch what people deem "classic" episodes of Nitro or PPV matches and they just dont sit right, I think it's the small ring and the general "look" and sound of everything...even the way the ring bumps. Can't quite put my finger on it. Spoiled by being over saturated with WWF during my formative years I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamaras-Tash Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 I remember occasionally buying American wrestling magazines in the early 90's like PWI etc and seeing pictures of Carlos Colon, Abdullah The Butcher and the likes covered in blood fighting with chains and chairs and thinking they must have been the greatest matches ever What a disappointment that was when I got round to seeing them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Manforce Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Joe vs Kobashi. Heard so much about how amazing it was, Meltzer giving it 5 stars, etc. It's just two blokes slapping each other. I mean, it's alright, but far from the classic it was hyped to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Joe vs Kobashi. Heard so much about how amazing it was, Meltzer giving it 5 stars, etc. It's just two blokes slapping each other. I mean, it's alright, but far from the classic it was hyped to be. That match looks even worse when you now have Nakamura vs Zayn, looked just as hard hitting and was infinitely more entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.E Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 I think the supposed point of Joe/Kobashi is: "large bloke who is ROH's King of everything vs Japanese bloke who doesn't normally travel, and is a bit bigger/harder hitting than Joe" Am I right in thinking they didn't do commentary for that match, but like on purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUM Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Styles/Daniels/Joe from TNA Unbreakable for me. I was told on the Monday after it happened how amazing this match was, I think Meltzer may even have gave it the 5* treatment, and people on here still say how good it is. I'm not saying it's a bad match, it's a decent match but the cries as if it's the best match ever aren't warranted. I don't even think it's one of the best in TNA's history never mind wrestling history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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