Back in the year of 2007 I made a Dan Severn music video.
He had been one of my favorite wrestlers for years. Ever since I saw him on the cover of Inside Wrestling after winning UFC 5 I think. He did it as NWA champion at the time and I thought that was the greatest thing ever. I was 15 and felt validated as a wrestling fan.
Well I found out that Mr.Severn had a website. I e-mailed him the video and he was really appreciative that I took the time to make it and put it on his website. The video has about 30,000 views on youtube alone and that's not counting my previous account.
Last year in an attempt to generate interest in my blog. I asked if I could interview him. I was just expecting to send a list of questions thru email. Instead he gives me his phone number. I could not pass up a chance like this. So I got a tape recorder and did it over speaker phone so the audio quality is far from perfect. Which is why a transcription never turned up. I got half of it done. Now you can understand the interview. Its just I wanted to make sure the transcribing was as close to perfect as possible.
He talked to me for about thirty minutes after I stopped recording. This was a great experience.
I have vivid memories of the match where Andre and Haku won the tag belts. It actually happened only twenty miles away. Andre and Haku destroyed the Demos with little effort and won the tag team titles. I was use to bad guys winning titles. Just that summer Demolition lost the tag titles to Bobby Heenan's Brainbusters. But in those cases the heels always cheated and pulled a fast on. In this case Andre and Haku just beat up Demolition like they were Gary Stambough and Duane Gill. For an 8 year old Demolition fan that was just scary.
When talking about Strike Force vs Demolition I said that visually Strike Force were the perfect rivals for Demolition. The Rockers fit into this mold too. But not for being white bread and plan. Here its more the youthful high energy and speed vs the brawling and power of Demolition. This match is why Pro Wrestling is the best.
Will be a big celebration of Demolition, one of the most overlooked and underrated teams ever. We will look at their best matches against a variety of wrestlers from Shawn Micheals to Andre the Giant. See you soon.
Cactus Jack & Raven promo on Mikey Whipwreck (via MAGITOXIII)
Insane promo from 1996 ECW. I sometimes wish I had never read Mick Foley's books. Just because I like imagining the Cactus Jack I saw on tv was the same guy at home.
This match had a build up that I loved. Rhino fucked up New Jack on a few occasions. New Jack had managed to get at Rhino once or twice. New Jack cut this great promo on the last episode of ECW on TNN. Where he promised that after he beat Rhino he was going to put him in a mini skirt and stiletto heels and pimp him up and down main street. Rhino had the elegant reply where he promised to tear New Jack's guts out and bathe in his blood.
Now honestly the match did not live up to its promises of male prostitution and ppv disemboweling. In fact its pretty tame fora New Jack brawl. What it does have is a finish I love.
Rhino despite being champion comes out first. Jack comes out wearing his formal wresting gear along with his good pacifier. Instead of doing his normal rush to the ring. He seems very calm. Casually tossing weapons into the ring. the match is most hitting Rhino with various weapons. With one cool spot of Jack doing his running chair attack from the apron to Rhino at ringside.
Rhino pulls the ref in front of him to avoid a garbage can. Heel ref Danny Daniels hits the ring only to be stapled by New Jack. Jack takes out the guitar to play a tune on Rhino's head.
I love what happens next. Rhino just no sells it. New Jack actually gets scared having no idea what to do now. Rhino finishes him very quickly.
Todau im looking at a match from Hardcore Heaven 1997. That supposedly bad pay per view that produced almost all good matches. From Bam Bam Bigelow killing Spike Dudley to Jerry Lawler giving Tommy Dreamer one of his best matches ever. The match im looking at is PG-13 vs the Dudleys.
Today im going to be looking at a fairly imfamous match. its Jeff Jarrett vs raven from TNA April,30, 2003. TNA was barely a year old. Raven joined the company in January after being released from WWE. In three months TNA had actually done a good job in generating interest in this match online. Something they had not managed to do before with their weekly shows. The show also made a profit, something else TNA had not been able to do with the weekly ppvs.
First post in a long time. Im changing up the format. Its going to be more like my personal blog http://legionofthedamned2.blogspot.com/ Send me some feedback if you like this or the old way.better.
First match is Tank Abbot vs Fit Finlay. They first show clips of Tank Abbot knocking out Doug Dillinger and Barbarian on Nitro. I thought it was a nice touch to show it took two punches to take out Barbarian. Abbot gets on the mic and issues an open challenge. Which brings out Fit Finlay. I miss Finlay's badass WCW theme. He gets in the ring and for about three or four minutes they have a really good hard hitting match. Finlay gets distracted by the ref for a second and get knocked down by Abbot. Just then Meng's music starts, Finlay has gotten to his feet and knocks Abbot out of the ring and Meng attacks Abbot. We then cut to Sid and Hulk Hogan brawling in the back. Gene Okerland comes to the ring to interview Finlay. Finlay says he will beat respect into Tank Abbot. Now Sid and Hogan are brawling to the ring. Security separates them and Sid slides into the ring. Finlay shoves Sid and is choke slammed for his trouble. Hogan and Sid go back and forth and im really impressed with how Sid is heeling it up here.
This is another entry I posted at my personal blog, http://legionofthedamned2.blogspot.com/. I promise to have a brand new entry for Cageside Seats in the next day or two.
While looking for Yokozuna vs Hulk Hogan I came across a match I had been wanting to watch for awhile. Sid Vicious vs Goldberg from Halloween Havoc 1999.
I wanted my first feedbag on Cageside Seats to be a big one. So i decided to do what i feel is a very important match both in wrestling history and my own history as a wrestling fan. The match is Hulk Hogan vs Yokozuna from King of the Ring 1993.
Tonight im going to look at a match I have been meaning to watch for awhile. Its Andre the Giant and "Mr Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and the Ace "Cowboy" Bob Orton from Madison Square Garden August 10th 1985.
Thats right two in one day. Well I guess not the same calendar day. Looking for the Tanaka/Hashimoto match on Dailymotion made me want to find another FMW alum match. This one from the 2003 Triple Crown tourney. Its Toshiaki Kawada vs "Gladiator" Mike Awesome
Today im going to look at an epic asskicking from Japan. Shinya Hashimoto vs Masato Tanaka. Its a match from my early and fairly brief period trading tapes. I soon got a computer and discovered you could find tons of free wrestling on the internet. I got this on a tape I bought back in that far off year of 2003.
Im going to be looking at one of my all time favorite matches today. Raven vs Terry Gordy from ECW Hardcore Heaven 1996
I have tried to show a different style of pro wrestling with each of these write ups. I thought it was time to do a ECW match. There is no more pure ECW match than Raven vs Terry Gordy.
"Tonight Genius we're gonna find out how smart you really are. when you get asked a question Einstein, Socrates and Plato could not answer.
WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN HULKAMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU!?!?"
That is a direct quote from Hulk Hogan on the teaser for Saturday Night's Main Event. He was set to face "The Genius" Lanny Poffo.
I remember being eight years old and being really disappointed I missed this episode of Saturday Night's Main Event. We did not have cable and lived in an area that made getting broadcast tv impossible. The undercard had Andre the Giant taking on the Ultimate Warrior in the blow off to their feud. Dusty Rhodes vs the Big Bossman and "Mr.Perfect" Curt Hennig vs The Red Rooster
Im going to take a break from the Vader series to give attention to a match some might overlook
Scott Norton vs the Giant Fall Brawl 1997
Fall Brawl 97 is a really good pay per view. The opening match has the late Eddy Guerrero carrying Chris Jericho to a great match. The Faces of Fear having a good tag team match with Mortis and Wrath. I remember Ultimo Dragon and Alex Wright having a good match.The main event being a really good War Games between the Horsemen and the nWo.
But there is one match on this card that would be easy to overlook. Its Scott Norton vs the Giant.
Im back again complete with amy own column name. Last time I was hear, I talked about Vader and why he was great. We looked at a match with Dustin Rhodes. Today we are going to watch another match from 1992. This time his WCW title loss to Ron Simmons.
Vader had won the title from Sting two weeks before at the Great American Bash. Naturally Sting was set to get rematches with the Rocky Mountain Monster. One of these rematches was to take place in Baltimore Maryland at the tv taping. But something funny happened that night.
Jake "the Snake" Roberts debuted and injured Sting by DDTing him into a chair a few times. Now Vader is without a challenger. Then Vice President of WCW Bill Watts decides to put the names of the top ten contenders into a bag, whatever name he pulled out would face Vader. The name pulled out was Ron Simmons.
Thats a direct quote from Big Van Vader before his tag match with Steve Austin against Ric Flair and Arn Anderson.
I was invited to write here so im going to give it a shot. I'll try to be brief since im sure you are more interested in watching the video.
I've watched wrestling since I was six years old. For most of those years my favorite wrestler has been Leon White aka The Baby Bull aka Bull Power aka Big Van Vader aka Super Vader aka Vader.
What I loved about Vader at his best was he made me believe wrestling was real. I could know for a fact the rest of the show was fake but for the fifteen minutes he was wrestling I had no doubt he really wanted to hurt the guy he was wrestling. Watching his best matches recently that has not really changed. He would deliver brutal beatings but most importantly he would take a brutal beating.
I'm going to link to a few of his matches here. The ones that give you the best idea of why Vader was so awesome.
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