Strangest PPV's

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Savio made sense at the time if I'm remembering correctly. Wasn't he (and the other members of Los Boricuas) unofficially aligned with DX at the time? DX didn't really have a lot of options and I think Michaels was only officially replaced on the night. If anyone thought it would be Goldberg (in DX no less), they were an idiot.

Savio did make sense yeah. The Boricuas assisted HBK in his casket match at Royal Rumble vs Undertaker and I think they were paid off for it.

As for Goldberg, well not specifically him but the way they were bigging it up suggested an outside star could come in and the internet wasn't as wide spread back then so it felt like anything could happen. Another name doing the rounds at the time was Kurrgan, who was in a monster role at the time under the tutelage of the Jackyl. Don Callis felt his in ring game wouldn't have been up to scratch at the time, or so I've read. I reckon they could've used Chyna myself, she had yet to wrestle afaik and would've been a cool pay off as a novelty. X-Pac was still a month or so away from signing and was still under contract to WCW.

Just another unusual note from that PPV, The Godwinns took on The Quebecers in a rare (and bloody heatless) heel vs heel tag team match with no build up. The Quebecers were around for about a month in early 1998 and did absolutley nothing. An odd signing.

It was also the last time Ahmed Johnson was featured in a prominent match in WWE.

Ah Ahmed - I was full sure he was gonna be the next big thing. He was my favourite for a while there. Used to be flat out deploying the Pearl River Plunge!!! (that sounds soooooo wrong!)

I think some of the PPVS WCW did warrant a mention too. Like the PPV they did where it overran by 15 or 20 minutes, but the cable company killed the feed immediately after the 3 hr time mark was up. IIRC, they aired the Main Event (DDP vs Goldberg), the following night on Nitro, for free, prompting thousands to demand refunds.

After reading this thread I decided to watch the uncensored 1996 main event. What the actual **** did I just watch ? Ze gangster ?it sounds like a bad german rapper and he was clearly a shocking wrestler, and the the other guy should have been called the missing link not the ultimate solution.

And lex Luger bugged me with his shouting when he was hit. Stop it. All in all it was an utter mess. And the commentators asked "what has wcw become ?" A cluster**** it appeared. I can't unwatch that.

Not a PPV but this is beyond weird.

ECW vs USWA on WWF Raw.

There was an interpromotional feud going on between ECW and USWA called the Civil War of the 90's. Jerry Lawler ran the USWA in Memphis (it's his son Brian Christopher here competing) and Paul Heyman ran ECW in Philly.

At the time, Vince was bank rolling Paul while allowing some of his WWF talents to get some experience. Also before this time, Vince was doing a bit of business with the USWA and from what I remember, actually had debuted a prototype Mr McMahon evil owner gimmick way back then! Also, in 1996 USWA had a Royal Rumble match where the winner got a spot in the WWF 1996 Royal Rumble. It went to Doug Gilbert, he lasted about 47 seconds.

So in essence, WWF was doing a bit of business on the down low with both these smaller feds and was kind of a quasi-host for both of them to feud with WWF and each other. A mad time.

From WWF to USWA you had the likes of Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart.
From ECW to WWF you had RVD and Sabu.
From WWF to ECW you would get Jerry Lawler, who was also USWA aligned.
You would get PG-13 from USWA working against ECW teams and then also being in WWF's NAtion of Domination, who got their start in Memphis.

It was weird!

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Those were great, but confusing times! Pre Internet really. Hadn't a clue what ECW or USWA was.

Remember when Jim Corbett brought in the New Midnight Express, didn't they have some NWA belts?

They did. They had the NWA tag team titles which they lost to the Headbangers on Raw. Headbangers lost them back due to a rule whereby if you throw your opponents over the top rope, you get DQ'd and lose the belts.

Corny also had a loose stable built around Jarrett, the Rock n Roll Express and Barry Windham. Jeff Jarrett defended the NWA North American title on a previously mentioned PPV, No Way Out of Texas. He would defend it on a Raw also. Here's a look.


After that, they brought Dan Severn in and he had held the NWA Heavyweight Championship for literally years aswell as being the UFC Superfight Champion and he had a tag belt also I think. Looked weird on WWF TV. Edit, it appears he has 4 titles there as JC is carrying two also.
Here's a shot:

For the earliest Mr McMahon promo, go to 20 seconds in. It's mad to think he was a few years away from embracing this. The smarmy git. He was as whitemeat as you could get on TV at the time.

Ageyev wrote: »

Another utterly weird and baffling thing wqs Goldust in bondage gear reading out a Dr. Seuss poem.

Omackeral wrote: »

Oh sweet Jesus, I managed to blank that from my my mind, thanks for reminding me. *shudder*

Not this segment per say but I thought the TAFKAG gimmick was great