Team UWF has exploded! This is during the UWF invasion of New Japan that inspired the WCW/nWo angle in 1996. Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Kazuo Yamazaki were part of the invasion, but now they have left the UWF crew and vying for the IWGP tag team titles held by Team UWF leader’s Nobuhiko Takada and Akira Maeda! If you’re NEW to Japanese wrestling, expand your horizons and check it out!
More Nitro and Raw ’97 recaps coming tomorrow!
I am totally in the mood for some puroresu.
And it continues! (more…)
Anyone who uses Dailymotion anymore knows they have constant commercial interruptions and I just don’t want to put you through that in order to enjoy this edition of the mixtape. I’m sticking with loyal YouTube that doesn’t succumb us to commercials for wrestling matches because no one can become a partner unless you own the material. Anyways!
So Owen Hart wins by a landslide. Not surprising, but no one even came close. (more…)
WCW Starrcade 1996
December 29, 1996
Nashville, TN
Municipal Auditorium
The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Hollywood Hogan (8/10/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Vacant (11/25/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: The Outsiders (10/27/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lord Steven Regal (8/20/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (10/27/1996)
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan, and Dusty Rhodes. (more…)
WWEClassics on Demand Showcase
June 2009
Best of WCCW
Winner gets a shot at Flair’s NWA world title. (more…)
WCW Starrcade
December 27, 1995
Nashville, TN
Municipal Auditorium
The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Randy Savage (11/26/1995)
WCW U.S. Champion: Kensuke Sasaki (11/13/1995)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Harlem Heat (10/28/1995)
WCW World Television Champion: Johnny B. Badd (10/29/1995)
To set this concept show up and it is pretty simple, a stereotypical Japanese guy named Sonny Oono (one of Bischoff’s real-life kickboxing buddies) entered WCW a few months back as an international consultant and told everybody that the athletes from Japan could beat American wrestlers any day of the week. WCW (more…)
NJPW/WCW Collision in Korea
April 28-29, 1995
Pyongyang, North Korea
Pyongyang Stadium
(Shown on US PPV 8/4/1995)
Even crazy North Koreans love the NATURE BOY! WOOOO!
Your hosts are Eric Bischoff, Mike Tenay and Sonny Oono. Possibly the most boring announce team ever. Bischoff and Oono make some elitist exchanges for their country throughout the show. It seems unnecessary considering this is supposed to be an exhibition for peace.
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