Merzbow Posted May 10 Posted May 10 I love how painfully uncool that is for 1996, 10/10 could sing it all day. It's Dok Hendrix singing, right? Quote
The Dart Posted May 10 Posted May 10 6 hours ago, Johnnyreggae said: Ah didnt realise it went that long. And pretty sure it just became wwe main event soon after? No, they both existed together for 4 years. Quote
Johnnyreggae Posted May 10 Author Posted May 10 17 minutes ago, Merzbow said: I love how painfully uncool that is for 1996, 10/10 could sing it all day. It's Dok Hendrix singing, right? I don't think it was, could be wrong though. There was actually another version that was shown on the wrestlemania 11 ppv. Haven't seen it in years though. Need to hunt it down! Quote
Chico Torres Posted May 10 Posted May 10 Never like that 1995-1996 intro with the Superstars song and it must have been a real hassle for them because every time someone left or joined the WWF they would have to redo the lyrics and record a new song. A great surprise was tuning in to superstars in September 1996 and instead of the usual show (which had become very low stakes by that point) they had a “Best of 10 Years of Superstars” hosted by Gorilla and Mr Perfect and had a lot of cool highlights. I can’t find the full show but here’s the intro with a cool montage of different intros Quote
Chili Posted May 10 Posted May 10 I mentioned it earlier, but if you can cope with watchalongs these fellas cover every episode of Superstars so far and are currently in late 1988. Quote
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted May 10 Paid Members Posted May 10 4 hours ago, Callum1993 said: For a while in the early 2010’s Superstars became a place where some of the underutilised guys got a chance to put on some really good matches. Tyson Kidd particularly stood out. I remember an angle they did where he got a different manager every week including Michael Hayes, Vickie Guerrero and JTG of all people. It started off as quite a big deal in 2009 but eventually turned into another Heat/Velocity. Yeah I really enjoyed this period. You'd have Chris Masters putting on cracking matches each week. Him and Drew McIntyre had a minor 5 minute classic one week. Quote
Johnnyreggae Posted May 10 Author Posted May 10 4 hours ago, Chico Torres said: Never like that 1995-1996 intro with the Superstars song and it must have been a real hassle for them because every time someone left or joined the WWF they would have to redo the lyrics and record a new song. A great surprise was tuning in to superstars in September 1996 and instead of the usual show (which had become very low stakes by that point) they had a “Best of 10 Years of Superstars” hosted by Gorilla and Mr Perfect and had a lot of cool highlights. I can’t find the full show but here’s the intro with a cool montage of different intros I remember this and was only just thinking about it the other day. Classic! Quote
Johnnyreggae Posted May 10 Author Posted May 10 A few other great moments included, The berserker trying to pierce the Undertaker with his sword. The Wrestlemania 9 specials from ceasers Palace featuring giant gonzalez in a suit. Jake Roberts attacking the Undertaker and ddting Paul bearer on the funeral parlour. Nailz attacking boss man Quote
Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz Posted May 10 Posted May 10 5 hours ago, Merzbow said: I love how painfully uncool that is for 1996, 10/10 could sing it all day. It's Dok Hendrix singing, right? I’m sure I read somewhere that it wasn’t Dok Hendrix singing and it was someone who was part of the short lived Raw band that appeared for around 3 episodes. However, Hendrix did add new vocals which they used when the likes of Warrior, Mercy etc. left Quote
Chili Posted May 10 Posted May 10 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz said: I’m sure I read somewhere that it wasn’t Dok Hendrix singing and it was someone who was part of the short lived Raw band that appeared for around 3 episodes. However, Hendrix did add new vocals which they used when the likes of Warrior, Mercy etc. left I'm going to take a punt it was probably the same vocalist who sang "You Start the Fire" that they used for that Bret Hitman Hart music video and those early In Your House intros. He does sound a little bit like Michael Hayes, but Hayes has a very distinctive "singing" voice. Edited May 10 by Chili Quote
SpykeDudlei1 Posted May 10 Posted May 10 8 hours ago, warrior4life said: The announcement of Summerslam at Wembley and all the shows leading up to Summerslam 92. How could I have missed this??? Quote
Paid Members Statto Posted May 11 Paid Members Posted May 11 19 hours ago, Callum1993 said: For a while in the early 2010’s Superstars became a place where some of the underutilised guys got a chance to put on some really good matches. Tyson Kidd particularly stood out. I remember an angle they did where he got a different manager every week including Michael Hayes, Vickie Guerrero and JTG of all people. It started off as quite a big deal in 2009 but eventually turned into another Heat/Velocity. There was a shockingly good run from Chris Masters on Superstars around that time too. A tremendous series with Drew McIntyre IIRC. You were always guaranteed a banger out of Trent Beretta & Curt Hawkins, especially when paired together. Just on your last point - IIRC it became a c-show very quickly (within a couple of weeks) as that was what it was likely always intended to be, but yeah they definitely bigged up the debut like it was something special - the only place weekly you could see matches from every brand, with a colour scheme to match! They just didn't say which matches you were likely to get... Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted May 11 Paid Members Posted May 11 I like obscure ones. After a couple of months of just bodyguarding, making me think he might be done as a wrestler, Sids first televised match of 95 is post turning on Shawn and joining Teddy’s crew, and took place on Superstars. It’s a squash of Aldo Montoya similar to the famous Lee Scott one, and plays like Sids greatest hits including the Whirlybird and of course a lovely powerbomb. It’s a joy to watch. There’s a great tag just before Kid turned where he and Razor wrestled Owen & Yoko, one of the final televised Owen & Yoko tags. Gunns were the champs so the result wasn’t obvious upfront, and it was great fun. The Taker vs Marc Mero face vs face one early 97 just before Marc did his knee in, where Sable started booting Taker and he responded by giving Wildman a Tombstone on the fucking floor. Blew my mind for Superstars even though it went nowhere. Quote
TheAdder Posted May 11 Posted May 11 As well as the 92-95 classic era I’ve got a soft spot for the later nineties “Canadian Superstars” variant that we also had in the UK. Basically the matches taped for Shotgun in a different order with different comms. It seemed to exist in a world of its own Tom Pritchard, Ray Rougeau on commentary. I think it also featured Gorilla Monsoon’s final calls. Quote
Johnnyreggae Posted May 11 Author Posted May 11 I actually didn't mind the attitude version. Pretty sure it was the dx band that performed it. https://youtu.be/nLpakNIhYK0?si=2ARYstueqx3OFjJv Quote
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