IMPACT Wrestling LD for 09.15.11

[klunderbunker]

Ok I might check it out. I've never seen a match that's taken place before I was born.

Oh dude there's some GREAT stuff in the 80s. You also might want to check out Savage vs. Steamboat from 3/29/87 at Mania 3.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

I haven't figured out why people want to judge a match like this on pure wrestling as if both of the competitors were on the AJ Styles level. Sometimes you have to appreciate something for what it is instead of complaining because it isn't something it was never going to be to begin with.

+1.

This is about story, not ring ability.

 

[George Steele's Barber]

Do yourself a favor and watch their match from 3/27/88 at COTC 1. It's 45 minutes but feels like it's about 20 and it's probably the best they've ever had. Probably the Match of the Year also.

Was that the one with Jason Hervey and 4 others voting on the winner?

 

[klunderbunker]

For a year, yes, but A1 was brought in as muscle. He came in in 2005. Team Canada started in 2004.

I know. And while Roode was there and A-1 wasn't, Roode was called the muscle of Team Canada. They split in 06 so A-1 wasn't there for about half the time.

 

[Rising Savior]

Ok so apparently Earl Hebner doesn't give a fuck anymore.

 

[hatehabsforever]

Yep. I was 53 days old and Hogan had just lost his first world title about 7 weeks prior.

I wonder if I would be able to find a VHS tape of this match, so I could put it in my VCR and watch it

 

[klunderbunker]

Was that the one with Jason Hervey and 4 others voting on the winner?

Yeah, none of which were wrestlers. it's also the textbook definition of a rub.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

This isn't anywhere near as bad a match as the "not suitable for television" bullshit that hyped it.

This is totally fine for a main event.

 

[Rising Savior]

I don't know what to make of this match so far.

 

[klunderbunker]

I wonder if I would be able to find a VHS tape of this match, so I could put it in my VCR and watch it

It's on DVD and I think it's on Hulkamania Volume 3 (GREAT tape and easily could be turned into a 9 hour DVD with a few matches being extended). It originally aired on February 5, 1988 in Indianapolis Indiana on a live special called the Main Event (not to be confused with Saturday Night's Main Event) on NBC and it still holds the record for the highest rating ever for a wrestling broadcast at a 15.8.

 

[klunderbunker]

This isn't anywhere near as bad a match as the "not suitable for television" bullshit that hyped it.

This is totally fine for a main event.

I don't know if I'd say fine but no it hasn't been unwatchable. Bad yes but not unwatchable.

 

[klunderbunker]

"Hey Ric, thanks for sitting down up there so I can superplex you."

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Super plex on Flair! MARK OUT!

 

[Joe's Gonna Kill You]

HOLY SHIT FLAIR just took a SUPERPLEX

 

[klunderbunker]

Yep it's a Russo match.

 

[The Man They Call WMD]

THe run ins reminded me of a scooby do cartoon

 

[It's Damn Real!]

The knucks!

 

[Rising Savior]

This is similar to Hogan's mcw except replace the midgets with old people.

 

[Vincent Michaels]

Kind of irrelivent to the match discussion, but I love when people talk about how Sting's in such good shape. He's only 52. Flair looked pretty good when he was 52 too. Now he's only 10 years older and looks 10x worse.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Fuck match quality. This is a great main event.

 

[Mailman]

People on here can't be happy about this being the longest match on Impact in a very, very long time.

 

[Remy LaCroix]

What did it for him was passing out instead of tucking in his son. it.

I thought it was him eating all the cookies with his son? Not trying to knit-pick.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

I'm all about it. This is good shit.

Sting/Hogan. Fuck yes.

 

[The Man They Call WMD]

What a match. Loved it. The only thing poor was the run ins. In ring was fine. Entertained the hell out of me.

 

[Rising Savior]

Sting vs Hogan at bfg. Should be awesome.