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A Blast from the Past: Goldberg vs. Scott Steiner, Rhino vs. The Sandman

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.

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A Blast from the Past: Jimmy Snuka vs. Don Muraco, The Andersons vs. Rock N’ Roll Express and WarGames 1991

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…

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A Blast from the Past: Clash of the Champions IX – Funk V Flair

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…

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A Blast from the Past: Summerslam 1997, Starrcade 1985 and Over the Edge 1998

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…

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A Blast from the Past: Summerslam 1992, 1996 and 2002

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…

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A Blast from the Past: Great American Bash 1987, 1990 and 2004

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…