Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted January 29, 2025 Paid Members Posted January 29, 2025 Mr Perfect vs Brock Lesnar. I knew of this match but I’d never seen it before. Shame we’ll never see footage of the rematch they had on the old Plane Ride From Hell a few months later.
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted January 29, 2025 Paid Members Posted January 29, 2025 If Curt Hennig was a footballer, you'd be saying "his legs have gone." Poor guy didnt look at the races by this point.
TheScarlettChad Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 Brock with a jobber theme and blue pants, amazing. Weren't Lesnar and Curt mates from this run? And Brock helped Curtis Axel?
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 29, 2025 Paid Members Posted January 29, 2025 46 minutes ago, wandshogun09 said: Mr Perfect vs Brock Lesnar. I knew of this match but I’d never seen it before. I thought you were one of my reliable regulars. woundshogun09, more like. On 2/3/2023 at 11:46 AM, air_raid said: I know you’ve seen this… 17 minutes ago, TheScarlettChad said: Weren't Lesnar and Curt mates from this run? Yes. When Brock was training for the move from amateur to pro, Brad Rheingans introduced him to Curt as he was local. Brock credits Curt with helping him a lot, and short of a certain flare up on a certain plane, they were close. Brock took his death pretty badly according to his book. I think Perfect was one of those guys that had at least one fight over a rib gone too far with everyone that called him a mate.
wordsfromlee Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 A decent quality version of the match is bound to end up on the WWE Vault at some point.
WyattSheepMask Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 The best quality version of that match is on Brock’s second DVD/BluRay set ‘Eat Sleep Conquer Repeat’. As with most Dark Matches that get released on those kind of things the picture is a little fuzzy, as they were still recording to tape, but it’s slightly better than that rip
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted January 29, 2025 Paid Members Posted January 29, 2025 5 hours ago, air_raid said: I thought you were one of my reliable regulars. woundshogun09, more like. I even liked your post in there which gad that match embedded! I’d definitely never seen the match though. Must’ve been a case of me meaning to get around to watching it and then forgetting about it.
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted January 30, 2025 Paid Members Posted January 30, 2025 Look how happy he looks!
DavidB6937 Posted February 1, 2025 Posted February 1, 2025 To be fair, he's wise making firefighter friends with that pyro.
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 1, 2025 Paid Members Posted February 1, 2025 Don’t know anything about La Fiera but I see so much Eddie Guerrero in him and not just the Frog Splash. Even the way he bumps and especially this… Eddie took it exactly the same way, flying into the air and almost into the ropes on the other side. Maybe it’s common knowledge and been talked about before but he had to have been an influence on Eddie, right?
SaitoRyo Posted February 1, 2025 Posted February 1, 2025 @wandshogun09 Eddie was inspired by La Fiera! Mentions as much in his 2001 RF Video shoot interview. I've always enjoyed watching La Fiera stuff from when he was in his prime. He was so naturally talented and could have great matches in a variety of styles. Sadly, injuries and drugs were his undoing and he died after being stabbed in what police believed was a drug-related incident.
Paid Members gmoney Posted February 2, 2025 Paid Members Posted February 2, 2025 On 2/1/2025 at 4:59 PM, wandshogun09 said: Don’t know anything about La Fiera but I see so much Eddie Guerrero in him and not just the Frog Splash. Even the way he bumps and especially this… Eddie took it exactly the same way, flying into the air and almost into the ropes on the other side. Maybe it’s common knowledge and been talked about before but he had to have been an influence on Eddie, right? I fucking love that All Japan ring as well. Bring it back, someone.
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 2, 2025 Paid Members Posted February 2, 2025 13 minutes ago, gmoney said: I fucking love that All Japan ring as well. Bring it back, someone. I remember ROH had a red and black rip-off version around 2003/04. Always assumed that must’ve been a tribute to the red and blue All Japan one.
Tamura Posted February 3, 2025 Posted February 3, 2025 4 hours ago, gmoney said: I fucking love that All Japan ring as well. Bring it back, someone. Short-lived Japanese promotion King's Road did just that. They only ran five shows in total but you can see one of them here and another one here, the others might be online somewhere I know at least four aired on TV as I had them on DVD. There's also a decent article on the promotion here, which is probably more interesting than the shows they did....
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