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What happened to the three Essex girls who loved Shawn Michaels? They didn't marry him, we know that.

Frank Casey's probably kicking himself that he couldn't afford a ticket to do his British Bushwhacker deal in front of the camera.

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Big Bubba during his Dungeon of Doom leather biker daddy era (one of his less successful runs) against John Tenta with half his hair missing and looking way beyond 50 years old in a Silver Dollar pole match featuring Jimmy Hart terrifyingly shimming up the tallest pole ever used in wrestling history. It's also really enjoyable.

The same show the nWo debuts with the Hogan turn and the preceding match on the card was Rey Misterio Jr/Psychosis. WCW had quite the variety.

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I was watching the Wrestle Me about when Larry Zbysko fought Scott Hall, Souled Out 98 I think, and they said that CM Punk is older now than Zbysko was then which was fairly mad as he alwsys seemed like a properly old man, but then I was 12 vs nearly being 47 I guess.

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A match we’ve all probably seen a thousand times but since it’s SummerSlam season and it’s a belter, I’ll watch it again. Hart Foundation vs Demolition, 2/3 Falls from SummerSlam 90…

While I’m here, over on the WCW channel, they uploaded the Arn Anderson & Dustin Rhodes vs Terry Funk & Bunkhouse Buck match from Bash At The Beach 94…

Good stuff. I actually really enjoyed that whole storyline from here to the War Games match at Fall Brawl. Arn turning on Dustin was telegraphed as shit but welcome because Double A was always better as a heel and him against Dustin was better than them teaming, Funk was obviously class as always, Bunkhouse was a guy I never appreciated in real time but I really like him watching this stuff back now. He also looks like he was plucked straight out of the Dingle family on Emmerdale. Plus you get Meng in a suit at ringside! The Stud Stable theme is a cracker as well, I think.

 

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On 7/25/2026 at 1:23 PM, Chico Torres said:

Big John is a youthful 33 here, and Big Bubba is 35. Both younger than Taylor Swift.

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Tenta and Big Bubba look like undesirable next door neighbours peaking over the fence !!

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One of the main differences between the two promotions was that WWF was the fancy metropolitan promotion in the big north east cities while WCW was firmly rooted in the southern NWA tradition and it had a more hard-nosed gritty edge without the slick polish of the WWF. And I think the Rhodes vs Stud Stable feud may be the last great feud in WCW that directly related back to that, lots of great bloody brawls and the great southern Baptist preacher fire and brimstone promo by Dusty asking to team with his son and all the southern dynasty clans like the Andersons and Rhodes and Funks and Fullers having a proper old style redneck feud. It’s symbolic that it felt like the last stand of Crockett Promotions just as the very unsouthern Bischoff achieved his dream of turning WCW into the slick Hogan-led WWF

Something I particularly love about that Bash at the Beach match is Terry Funk. Rather than settling into the boring role of dignified former world champion who’s appearing at the most watched PPV in WCW history with a lot of new eyes in the promotion and everyone on their best behaviour. Instead of having a cup of tea and an early night to get ready for the big PPV the next day, the night before he was in a barbed wire match in the ECW arena with the Public Enemy and shows up to the PPV bandaged and scarred and he’s great as always.

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2 hours ago, wandshogun09 said:

A match we’ve all probably seen a thousand times but since it’s SummerSlam season and it’s a belter, I’ll watch it again. Hart Foundation vs Demolition, 2/3 Falls from SummerSlam 90…

 

 

 

Well isnt this early 90’s wwf wrestling perfection ?

The Entrances. The Fink doing introductions. The Music. The hot crowd. The ring work. The cheating. The commentary. The interference. The finish . The Pop.

Like nothing could be better about it. 
 

 

 

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On 7/25/2026 at 1:23 PM, Chico Torres said:

Big John is a youthful 33 here, and Big Bubba is 35. Both younger than Taylor Swift.

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I don't think a wrestler has ever looked more like Just Some Bloke than Big Bubba does here. 

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17 hours ago, Chico Torres said:

Something I particularly love about that Bash at the Beach match is Terry Funk. Rather than settling into the boring role of dignified former world champion who’s appearing at the most watched PPV in WCW history with a lot of new eyes in the promotion and everyone on their best behaviour. Instead of having a cup of tea and an early night to get ready for the big PPV the next day, the night before he was in a barbed wire match in the ECW arena with the Public Enemy and shows up to the PPV bandaged and scarred and he’s great as always.

Terry was great. I remember him putting on a one man show tagging with Buck vs The Nasty Boys at Halloween Havoc a few months later.

Fighting with ringsiders, hitting himself in the head repeatedly with a chair and being finished off by getting piledriven on a pumpkin. Great stuff.
 

 

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1 hour ago, Chili said:

They've uploaded the full WCW All Nighter.

Enjoy your week @Chico Torres

 

Copied from one of the comments (I have no idea how this will format because this forum is crap):-

2:46 Stunning Steve Austin (c) v. Ricky Steamboat (United States Title match - Clash XXVIII)

24:21 Big Van Vader (c) v. Davey Boy Smith (World Heavyweight Title match - Clash XXIV)

39:20 The Gladiators v. The Mulkeys (Bonus match from WCW - 03/30/1987)

43:23 Hulk Hogan (c) v. Ric Flair (Steel Cage match for the World Heavyweight title - Bonus match from Halloween Havoc '94)

1:14:52 Stunning Steve Austin v. Flyin' Brian Pillman (Clash XXV)

1:26:15 The Enforcers (c) (Arn Anderson & Larry Zybszko) v. Dustin Rhodes & Ricky Steamboat (World Tag Team Title match - Clash XVII)

1:44:43 Ric Flair & Barry Windham vs. Ricky Steamboat & Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert (Bonus match from WCW - 01/21/1989)

1:50:31 Ricky Steamboat v. Ric Flair (Bonus match from WCW Main Event - 07/24/1994)

2:08:09 The Four Horseman promos, from WCW - 12/13 and 12/20/1986

2:15:22 Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard (c) v. Sting & Dusty Rhodes (NWA World Tag Team title match - Clash II)

2:32:06 The Road Warriors v. The Steiner Brothers (Bonus match from Starrcade '89)

2:42:36 Ric Flair v. Terry Funk (I Quit match - Clash IX)

3:09:00 Dusty Rhodes and His Gorillas, from WCW - 04/05 and 04/11/1985

3:14:27 Sting v. Lex Luger (c) (World Heavyweight title match - Bonus match from SuperBrawl II)

3:31:24 Ric Flair and Magnum T.A. confrontation, from WCW - 06/01/1985

3:44:14 Ric Flair (c) v. Sting (NWA World Heavyweight title match - Clash I)

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