A look back at two matches from the year 2000: Goldberg faces Steiner at WCW Fall Brawl and Rhino takes on The Sandman on ECW TV.
Category: A Blast from the Past
The steel cage: at one time the biggest stipulation match in wrestling. It was the feud decider. Two enemies hate each other? Lock the suckers in a cage and let them fight to the death. It was usually designed to hinder the poor innocent heel because he couldn’t get out and no one else could get in. That was supposed to be the whole point of the cage anyway but then someone came up with the ‘escape over the top or through the door’ rule that I dislike…
Terry Funk: former World Champion, hardcore icon, living legend and one hell of a model Texan. You look up the word ‘tough’ in a dictionary you know what’d you see? No, not a picture of Terry Funk, that’d just be silly, you’d see a definition of the word tough which is what Terry Funk is. He was a guy that was 20 years ahead of his time, a so called ‘sports entertainer’ before so called ‘sports entertainment’ was cool and a guy that could get over in any era in any promotion…
A look at three matches from three different shows. The first is a steel cage match featuring Triple H vs. Mankind from Summerslam 1997. The 2nd is another cage match but this time from Starrcade 1985 featuring Magnum TA vs. Tully Blanchard. The last match is from Over The Edge 1998 featuring Steve Austin vs. Mick Foley…
Like bad BBQs, syringe and beer can covered beaches, fat ladies in bikinis, another crappy Hollywood blockbuster starring Tom Cruise (you know, those things that used to make a boatload of money before everyone finally realised Cruise was out of his damn mind*) and rain drenched caravan holidays in Scarborough, Summerslam is a Summer tradition dating back to 1988. Memorable moments and memorable matches. This ‘Blast from the Past’ will cover three of the matches from Summerslam history…
A look at three matches from The Great American Bash; the first is Wargames from 1987, the 2nd is Sting vs Ric Flair from 1990 and the final one is Eddie Guerrero vs JBL from 2004…