Showing posts with label facemask. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facemask. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Match of the Day - It's Time! It's Time! It's... Paul Bearer Time!?!

Kane vs. Vader - Mask vs. Mask - WWF Over The Edge (1998)


Kane and Vader go mask to mask in this match that marks Vader's decline into jobber status. After losing to Kane even after using that wrench that came with a lot of Kane action figures back in the day to wear the big red monster down, Vader gives a very unforgettable speech about making the biggest mistake of his life and then proceeded to call himself "a big fat piece of shit" before storming off into the back.

Since Kane had previous destroyed Vader's face with that very same wrench we see make its return in this match, Vader had to get surgery on his face, therefore giving this who mask versus mask stipulation a little more believability considering Vader usually ditched his mask halfway through every match anyways.

After Vader loses his classic face mask to Kane's tombstone piledriver, Paul Bearer puts the sweaty jockstrap looking face wear and announces into the camera that, "It's Time! It's Time! It's Paul Bearer Time!" after The King jokingly says Paul Bearer's line moments beforehand. The mask was never seen again on Paul Bearer's ugly complexion known as a face again and neither was Paul Bearer Time.

Vader did however reappear wearing his signature face mask again after this match but the lose at the hands of Kane here at Over The Edge 1998 was really a metaphor for losing his career, since, like I mentioned above, this was really Vader's last match before becoming a glorified jobber and losing to all the young up-and-comers from Mark Henry to Bradshaw to Edge on Sunday Night Heat (his last televised match in the WWF).

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Match of the Day - The Big Bad Booty Daddy makes short work out of Harvard Chris

Scott Steiner vs. Christopher Nowinski - Raw (2003)


Long before WWE gave us Cody Rhodes and his crushed face gimmick and Jennifer Hudson's Harvard grad husband, WWE gave us Christopher Nowinski who, mind you, already had all of those things. Including Jennifer Hudson.

That's a lie of course.

But hey, it gives this match a little more life...