The Distorted Kiwi's Wrestling Reviews Blog

The Great American Bash , 1991 Well, I've put it off long enough. Time to hold our noses and dive into a WCW Pay-Per-View.  I'm taking us back the fateful year of 1991, as the tactical genius known as Jim Herd was running WCW. Two weeks before The Great American Bash, Herd stripped Ric Flair of his WCW title and declared it vacant, Flair's crime that warranted this punishment? Dropping the belt to Lex Luger. Oh, and refusing the shave his head and start playing a gladiator called "Spartacus". At a reduced pay rate. While being dropped from the main event spot. Flair was in WWF so fast he must have left a dust trail out of Georgia. He also left with the WCW title belt, as business genius Herd refused to pay back the $25,000+interest deposit Flair had paid for it. And so, two weeks later, WCW put on a pay-per-view in front of a... well, let's say, DISPLEASED audience.  We are LIVE from The Baltimore Arena! And is that a scaffold I see before me?  Yes, it is. It...

Saturday Nights Main Event, January 5th, 1986. Let's dip back into the SNME archives, coming to us tonight from Florida. Right off the bat, my eyes are assaulted with fluorescent yellow as Hulk Hogan makes a smoothie for Mean Gene. Gene reacts in such a way I suspect I know what Hulk's "secret ingredient" is.  "Mmm, you can really taste the steroi.. vitamins!" Meanwhile, Rowdy Roddy sunbathes and spies on Hillbilly Jim through binoculars. Not my personal peeping choice, but each to their own. First up tonight, a "Peace Match" (Exsqueeze me? Baking powder?) between Corporal Kirchner and Nikolai Volkoff. Alos tonight, The Junkyard Dog is wrestling AND has a Waterslide Contest against Jimmy Hart. My butt is officially in my seat, Vince. Later, George Steele vs Macho Man, and Hogan defends the title against Terry Funk.  Vince's commentary partner interjects and HOLY SHIT, I am going to have to blatantly steal a picture from fellow Someth...

Nitro, August 3rd, 1999 Time to self-flagellate myself with another WCW Nitro, this one on request from fellow Something Awful goon Exploding Mummy. Well, you never know, it could have been suggested becuase it's a great show! I'm an eternal optimist, I know. We slam straight into a cold open of Macho Man, Gorgeous George and... great, Dennis Rodman. Thanks bundles, Exploding Mummy.  A bunch of rapid-fire stuff happens, including Nash tapping Hogan with the lightest chairshot of 1999, before we are LIVE from somewhere or other. Two weeks until Road Wild. So, let's have a second recap of Kevin Nash slamming people, Kevin Nash winning titles and just plain footage of Kevin Nash. At Road Wild, Nash vs Hogan for the title! Strange, I though Kevin Nash has STOPPED booking WCW by this point. Scott Hudson and Bobby Heenan are at the commentary table. More recpappery, as Harlem Heat reunites on the previous Thursdays Thunder. Pretty sure Stevie-Ray was all over that booking decisi...