The Nightly: July 9th, 2021 By Metal Matt on Jul 9, 2021, 11:01pm EDT 200
Battle royal:
The winner would be the number 1 contender for the new IC champion, Razor Ramon. After an intense final battle with Owen Hart and Marty Janetty, Owen got the win.
Avatar vs. Brian Walsh:
Alundra Blayze vs. Bertha Faye for the WWF Women’s Championship:
Solid match, Blayze would regain the title.
Nitro:
Solid tag team match.
Lex Luger and Sting vs. Harlem Heat:
Decent tag match, after the match, chaos would ensue, as a brawl between Dungeon of Doom and Hogan and friends would ensue, before a mysterious figure busted out of a block of ice…
The Nightly: July 5th, 2021 By Metal Matt on Jul 5, 2021, 11:00pm EDT 76
Smoking Gunns vs. Owen Hart and Yokozuna for the WWF World Tag Team Championships:
Solid match, Smoking Gunns would finally dethrone Owen and Yokozuna and they won the titles.
Undertaker vs. British Bulldog:
Nitro:
Okay match.
Okay match, Kurasawa was impressive.
Randy Savage vs. Kevin Sullivan:
Decent match, but not much to it, as it was more about the post match angle with The Giant laying out everybody.
Meng vs. Lex Luger:
Bit of a dull match, Luger was attacked by the Giant after Savage/Taskmaster and Meng used a spike to defeat Luger.
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This past Sunday night, A&E aired the latest Biography episode that looked at the life and career of Shawn Michaels.
During it, The Undertaker recalled his first memories of The Rockers (Michaels and Marty Janetty). );
“I met Shawn in 1990. [Shawn and Marty] were fun loving guys. They tested me a little bit with their antics. They were both pretty much peckerheads. I gotta call a spade a spade,” said Undertaker.
“They were definitely innovators, doing tandem moves together and such a cohesive unit. The fans were nuts for them, especially the women. The long hair and all that.”
Editor s Note: This column appears in the April 28 edition of ESPN The Magazine.
If Vince McMahon ran the NBA, the Shaq-Kobe alliance would have ended abruptly last June, in the locker room, as they celebrated their third championship together. Imagine the stunning, WWE-style turn of events: Kobe inexplicably cracks a steel chair over Shaq s bald noggin; teammates react in horror, Kobe dances over Shaq s motionless body. Through it all, Bob Costas screams, Nooooo!!! What is Kobe doing? My god, Kobe Bryant has lost his mind!
If Kobe would ve hit Shaq over the back of the head with that bottle, things would be much more interesting.
I’ve never felt personally inspired by The Bushwhackers before… and yet, here we are.
While recently rating the cousins Luke and Butch as a unit, I mentioned how I would theoretically dig them if they were an act today. And I confessed how great I thought their finishing move, The Battering Ram, was.
Inspiration was struck, and I was determined to make a list counting down some of the best tag team finishing moves in wrestling history! If I were to make such a list, would The Battering Ram place?
Tag Team wrestling… is what it is in the current environment. AEW showcases it. NJPW loves multi-man matches, to the point where strict two-on-two encounters get overshadowed a bit. And WWE just kind of begrudgingly still has tag teams because some universal law insists that they must. People don’t like to admit it, but WWE is actually doing BETTER with tag teams now than they were, say, a decade ago, when most of their tag “teams” were two randomly chucked together guys who w