Sirs - Impostor from Sirs EP (2013)
It has come to my attention that Purchase, New York power poppers, Sirs will be calling it quits soon. The worst part is they just released a really wicked self titled EP that I'll never get to hear live. Or anything of their's for that matter.
Bummertown City, USA.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Match of the Day - La Parka defeats the macho one?!?
Macho Man Randy Savage vs. La Parka - Monday Nitro (1997)
Macho Man Randy Savage gets more than he bargained for when "the Chairman" La Parka diamond cuts him out of no where in the middle of the ring and reveals to everyone that he was a certain arch-nemesis of the virus that was nWo.
Who was it? I'll give you another hint: It was that self high fiving yoga guy.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Match of the Day - Matt Striker teaches us how to be Sabu in 3PW
Matt Striker as Strikebu vs. Damian Adams - 3PW (2004)
Before Matt Striker was everyone's favorite former-teacher-turned-wrestler-turned announcer/commentator, Striker had a case of missing identity in Blue Meanies short-lived promotion, Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling or 3PW (since the latter doesn't sound like some kind of Hank Hill wet dream promotion). Each match Striker would come out to the ring as a different wrestler - and thus, the shenanigans ensued.
On this particular night in South Philadelphia, Striker dressed up as an all-to-familiar suicidal, homicidal, genocidal maniac to the former ECW arena, Sabu. Striker, err, Strikebu, had it all: the baggy pants, the lights-out entrance, the triple jump moonsault botch. Strikebu even had his whistle blowing manager, Bob Al-Eckos (played by Rob Eckos AKA Robbie E)!
The impersonations don't stop there... Striker would also imitate Rick Rude, Goldberg (as Strikeberg), and even Hakushi, through the course of the match. Unfortunately for Striker, his imitations did not pay off as well as he had hoped and ended up losing the match to Damian Adams after Strikebu's attempted "from parts-unknown" face-buster onto a slanted table went awry.
I always wished that Striker would bring this missing identity gimmick with him to the WWE. Instead he played the teacher gimmick as he really was a high school teacher in New York before making it into the business full-time. Of course, he was fired for taking too many days off to go wrestle because he didn't know the difference between a sick day and a personal day.
This sort of "different wrestler each week" gimmick was however given to Charlie Haas before his last run in WWE.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Match of the Day - The Stinger fights his past, present, and future selves at Halloween Havoc 2000
Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett - WCW Halloween Havoc (2000)
Jarrett and Sting have had a long running history together not just in TNA but also in WCW. And while Sting was still the cornerstone and backbone of WCW after all the NWO business settled and WCW was running out of steam, Jeff Jarrett, who was always jumping ship sort of just rose to the top in 2000 - now all the sudden was WCW's "Chosen One". Jarrett's main eventing status at this time may have merely been do in part by the lack of talent, talent that WWF and its impending Monday Night War victory was picking up by the truck loads. Don't get me wrong, Jeff Jarrett is one of the greatest heels in professional wrestling, but it took him forever to get over and when he did, he didn't even have to do anything for it. I mean, now that I think about it, did Jeff Jarrett really ever get anything in his career by actually earning it? And yet here he is in 2000; the king of the mountain while Sting is at the bottom of the barrel trying to earn US title shots and doing gimmick matches with Vampiro.
So what better way to honor Sting and his amazing commitment to a company that was once on top of the world and now on its way out the door faster than a Flair blade job? By making him face impostors of himself from better times than 2000. Yep, instead of wrestling Jeff Jarrett in this match which would have been decent at best, Sting really ends up fighting five guys who dressed up like him during different points of his career.
The first Stinger we see is a light green pants-ed late 90's Sting (Tenay says he's the sting from Halloween Havoc 1989 but Sting wore black that year) who gets a Scorpion Death Drop delivered to him on the entrance way. The next Sting is the 1990 World Heavyweight Champion Sting in bright pink who also receives the Scorpion Death Drop on the entrance way. After that we get Wolfpac Sting with red face-paint who, yep, gets Scorpion Death Dropped on the entrance way (I'm guessing to dispose of them faster?), and then when we think that all the Stings are gone, we get Crow Sting, maybe circa '97, who cuts his way through the mat and drags Sting down into the hole to "hell". Luckily our hero, the real Sting, makes short work of this black and white Sting as he throws him out of the ring to get back to Jarrett. But wait! Here comes another black and white Sting - this time it's rafter-repelling Sting who gets his wig taken off to reveal that he is actually "Sting from the year 2525"; 70 year old Sting is then Scorpion Death Dropped on the announce table.
"Where's the Black Scorpion, we need him now!" - Mark Madden
Taking out what Sting thought was the last of his mirror-image impostors was not the end of the match, however. Sting tries to go back in to finish Double J off with the Scorpion Deathlock, but the Sting from under the ring reappears and smashes a guitar over real Sting's real head. Luckily though, Sting no-sells the guitar shot and Scorpion Death Drops the fourth Sting, who now has blood all over his face. Sting putting away bloody Stinger gives Jeff Jarrett time to find another guitar to use on Sting. Jarrett succeeds in smashing the guitar over Sting's head, all the while, the ref (Slick Johnson, of course) is off somewhere looking for more Stings and doesn't notice the shards of wood in the ring as he returns to give Jarrett the three count.
So yeah, this was a clusterfuck. A big heaping pile of Vince Russo shit clusterfuck.
The best - I say best because it's funny to me - part of this whole bad idea gimmick is that Jeff Jarrett, whose grudge with Sting was a combination of Sting losing his heart (a classic feud saying which means nothing at all except to bring in heat), refusing to retire, and not being as good as he was in his hey-day, is the fact that Jeff Jarrett would do this again in TNA (when Sting was returning to action in 2006) with Eric Young as 90's Sting (he also portrayed The Great Muta against Mr. Anderson Sting 5 years after), knock-knock who's there? Braden Walker (Chris Harris) as the black and white Sting with James Storm (a man who would eventually be champion of the company 6 years later) in a chicken suit as The Crow, Sting's mascot, and last but definitely not least, Monty Brown as the black daddy Sting with a little Stinger baby. Boy oh boy, do I love when history repeats itself...
A bonus to the 2006 TNA Sting impersonation gag was that Chris Harris, who portrayed a very spot-on black and white Sting, was also one of the impostor Stings in the match above. I'm not sure exactly which Sting he played but I'm almost positive it was bloody black and white Sting.
That's all I got.
Jarrett and Sting have had a long running history together not just in TNA but also in WCW. And while Sting was still the cornerstone and backbone of WCW after all the NWO business settled and WCW was running out of steam, Jeff Jarrett, who was always jumping ship sort of just rose to the top in 2000 - now all the sudden was WCW's "Chosen One". Jarrett's main eventing status at this time may have merely been do in part by the lack of talent, talent that WWF and its impending Monday Night War victory was picking up by the truck loads. Don't get me wrong, Jeff Jarrett is one of the greatest heels in professional wrestling, but it took him forever to get over and when he did, he didn't even have to do anything for it. I mean, now that I think about it, did Jeff Jarrett really ever get anything in his career by actually earning it? And yet here he is in 2000; the king of the mountain while Sting is at the bottom of the barrel trying to earn US title shots and doing gimmick matches with Vampiro.
So what better way to honor Sting and his amazing commitment to a company that was once on top of the world and now on its way out the door faster than a Flair blade job? By making him face impostors of himself from better times than 2000. Yep, instead of wrestling Jeff Jarrett in this match which would have been decent at best, Sting really ends up fighting five guys who dressed up like him during different points of his career.
The first Stinger we see is a light green pants-ed late 90's Sting (Tenay says he's the sting from Halloween Havoc 1989 but Sting wore black that year) who gets a Scorpion Death Drop delivered to him on the entrance way. The next Sting is the 1990 World Heavyweight Champion Sting in bright pink who also receives the Scorpion Death Drop on the entrance way. After that we get Wolfpac Sting with red face-paint who, yep, gets Scorpion Death Dropped on the entrance way (I'm guessing to dispose of them faster?), and then when we think that all the Stings are gone, we get Crow Sting, maybe circa '97, who cuts his way through the mat and drags Sting down into the hole to "hell". Luckily our hero, the real Sting, makes short work of this black and white Sting as he throws him out of the ring to get back to Jarrett. But wait! Here comes another black and white Sting - this time it's rafter-repelling Sting who gets his wig taken off to reveal that he is actually "Sting from the year 2525"; 70 year old Sting is then Scorpion Death Dropped on the announce table.
"Where's the Black Scorpion, we need him now!" - Mark Madden
Taking out what Sting thought was the last of his mirror-image impostors was not the end of the match, however. Sting tries to go back in to finish Double J off with the Scorpion Deathlock, but the Sting from under the ring reappears and smashes a guitar over real Sting's real head. Luckily though, Sting no-sells the guitar shot and Scorpion Death Drops the fourth Sting, who now has blood all over his face. Sting putting away bloody Stinger gives Jeff Jarrett time to find another guitar to use on Sting. Jarrett succeeds in smashing the guitar over Sting's head, all the while, the ref (Slick Johnson, of course) is off somewhere looking for more Stings and doesn't notice the shards of wood in the ring as he returns to give Jarrett the three count.
So yeah, this was a clusterfuck. A big heaping pile of Vince Russo shit clusterfuck.
The best - I say best because it's funny to me - part of this whole bad idea gimmick is that Jeff Jarrett, whose grudge with Sting was a combination of Sting losing his heart (a classic feud saying which means nothing at all except to bring in heat), refusing to retire, and not being as good as he was in his hey-day, is the fact that Jeff Jarrett would do this again in TNA (when Sting was returning to action in 2006) with Eric Young as 90's Sting (he also portrayed The Great Muta against Mr. Anderson Sting 5 years after), knock-knock who's there? Braden Walker (Chris Harris) as the black and white Sting with James Storm (a man who would eventually be champion of the company 6 years later) in a chicken suit as The Crow, Sting's mascot, and last but definitely not least, Monty Brown as the black daddy Sting with a little Stinger baby. Boy oh boy, do I love when history repeats itself...
A bonus to the 2006 TNA Sting impersonation gag was that Chris Harris, who portrayed a very spot-on black and white Sting, was also one of the impostor Stings in the match above. I'm not sure exactly which Sting he played but I'm almost positive it was bloody black and white Sting.
That's all I got.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Match of the Day - "The Original Screwjob"
Wendi Richter (c) vs. The Spider - WWF Madison Square Garden (1985)
In what was scheduled to be a regular title defense by the Women's champ at the time, Wendi Richter against The Spider Lady at MSG turned out to be the very first (recorded at least) "Screwjob" in WWF history. As the story goes, Wendi Richter was unhappy about her pay at the time in the company and Vince McMahon, being the true villain he is I guess, decided he would just screw Richter out of her title that she had just won back from Leilani Kai at the first Wrestlemania in March of that year. You know, because that's easier than just paying a female the same as the boys.
The screwing was done by dressing the former champion of 28 years, Fabulous Moolah up as The masked Spider Lady (usually played by Glenn Dean according to Richter in her shoot interview in 2005) and having her win after a fast count by the referee that was "not in the script". Despite the blatant kick out, the bell is rung and The Spider is announced the winner.
Wendi Richter was so genially upset by the decision of the match that she continued to wrestle with The Spider Lady, removing her mask to reveal Fabulous Moolah and then proceeded to hit Moolah with the belt until she (Richter) walked out of the arena "wrestling gear and all". Richter would never return to the WWF or speak to Vince McMahon until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010. I don't think she ever spoke to or reconciled with Fabulous Moolah again as Moolah passed on in November of 2007.
To cover up this incident, Fabulous Moolah told Mean Gene Okerlund in an interview on WWF TV that Wendi Richter was dodging her out of a title shot so she disguised herself as The Spider to get back what was rightfully hers.
Similar incidents where superstars have come back under masks to wrestle for one reason or another like Moolah include: The Miz as The Calgary Kid to defeat the returning Eugene in a contract on a pole match after he was fire for some reason due to John Cena on Raw one time... another incident would be when Edge & Christian brought back Los Conquistadores in their feud with The Hardy Boyz where Edge & Christian lost a championship match to The Hardyz and could no longer wrestle for titles again as long as The Hardyz were champs. So, E&C dressed up as Los Conquistadores and defeated The Hardyz at No Mercy for the titles. One of the doubles that played Los Conquistadores during scenes with E&C was played by Christopher Daniels who also dressed under a mask to return to action after being fired in TNA as Curryman.
The list just goes on and on - but the real story behind this match is definitely the undeserving screwjob that Wendi Richter received during her time in the WWF.
In what was scheduled to be a regular title defense by the Women's champ at the time, Wendi Richter against The Spider Lady at MSG turned out to be the very first (recorded at least) "Screwjob" in WWF history. As the story goes, Wendi Richter was unhappy about her pay at the time in the company and Vince McMahon, being the true villain he is I guess, decided he would just screw Richter out of her title that she had just won back from Leilani Kai at the first Wrestlemania in March of that year. You know, because that's easier than just paying a female the same as the boys.
The screwing was done by dressing the former champion of 28 years, Fabulous Moolah up as The masked Spider Lady (usually played by Glenn Dean according to Richter in her shoot interview in 2005) and having her win after a fast count by the referee that was "not in the script". Despite the blatant kick out, the bell is rung and The Spider is announced the winner.
Wendi Richter was so genially upset by the decision of the match that she continued to wrestle with The Spider Lady, removing her mask to reveal Fabulous Moolah and then proceeded to hit Moolah with the belt until she (Richter) walked out of the arena "wrestling gear and all". Richter would never return to the WWF or speak to Vince McMahon until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010. I don't think she ever spoke to or reconciled with Fabulous Moolah again as Moolah passed on in November of 2007.
To cover up this incident, Fabulous Moolah told Mean Gene Okerlund in an interview on WWF TV that Wendi Richter was dodging her out of a title shot so she disguised herself as The Spider to get back what was rightfully hers.
Similar incidents where superstars have come back under masks to wrestle for one reason or another like Moolah include: The Miz as The Calgary Kid to defeat the returning Eugene in a contract on a pole match after he was fire for some reason due to John Cena on Raw one time... another incident would be when Edge & Christian brought back Los Conquistadores in their feud with The Hardy Boyz where Edge & Christian lost a championship match to The Hardyz and could no longer wrestle for titles again as long as The Hardyz were champs. So, E&C dressed up as Los Conquistadores and defeated The Hardyz at No Mercy for the titles. One of the doubles that played Los Conquistadores during scenes with E&C was played by Christopher Daniels who also dressed under a mask to return to action after being fired in TNA as Curryman.
The list just goes on and on - but the real story behind this match is definitely the undeserving screwjob that Wendi Richter received during her time in the WWF.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Match of the Day - The Underfaker fakes out a ham & egger
Ted Dibiase's Undertaker vs. Mike Bell - Raw (1994)
Not too soon after Undertaker's demise at the hands of Yokozuna (with the help of Mr. Fuji's men of course) in the casket match at the 1994 Royal Rumble, The Undertaker would again resurface by his new manager, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase. This Underatker was a little different than the last time we saw him however as he was now being controlled by money rather than the power of The Urn.
Eventually Paul Bearer would bring back the real Undertaker, now donning a sweet purple and black look, to destroy this impostor 'Taker and once again be WWF's only dead man.
Before The fake Undertaker or "Underfaker" took on The real Undertaker at Summerslam, he beat up a few jobbers on Raw to prove that he was definitely not the real Undertaker.
Mike Bell is the victim in this early sighting of The Underfaker played by Brian Lee who later wrestled as Chainz in the Disciples of Apocalypse (with a biker look before The real Undertaker did that too) and also as that guy who was pushed off a scaffold onto a dozen tables in ECW.
Mike Bell also wrestled in ECW under the nickname "Mad Dog". Bell can be seen in the film, Bigger, Faster, Stronger a documentary about drug and steroid abuse - a problem Bell had that led to his death at age 37.
Some may also know Bell as that guy Perry Saturn dropped on his head.
For Lee, the whole Undertaker deal didn't work out after Summerslam, but he did get to play The Undertaker in a Bollywood film called Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi where he "kills" Crush (Brian Adams) in a wrestling match on top of a building(?).
I've also heard that Brian Lee is Mark "The Undertaker" Calaway's real life cousin and that he once had an affair with Calaway's first wife. Whether or not the latter is true, Lee is a real life cousin to the Harris Brothers (who also wrestled in DOA along with Crush no less).
Not too soon after Undertaker's demise at the hands of Yokozuna (with the help of Mr. Fuji's men of course) in the casket match at the 1994 Royal Rumble, The Undertaker would again resurface by his new manager, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase. This Underatker was a little different than the last time we saw him however as he was now being controlled by money rather than the power of The Urn.
Eventually Paul Bearer would bring back the real Undertaker, now donning a sweet purple and black look, to destroy this impostor 'Taker and once again be WWF's only dead man.
Before The fake Undertaker or "Underfaker" took on The real Undertaker at Summerslam, he beat up a few jobbers on Raw to prove that he was definitely not the real Undertaker.
Mike Bell is the victim in this early sighting of The Underfaker played by Brian Lee who later wrestled as Chainz in the Disciples of Apocalypse (with a biker look before The real Undertaker did that too) and also as that guy who was pushed off a scaffold onto a dozen tables in ECW.
Mike Bell also wrestled in ECW under the nickname "Mad Dog". Bell can be seen in the film, Bigger, Faster, Stronger a documentary about drug and steroid abuse - a problem Bell had that led to his death at age 37.
Some may also know Bell as that guy Perry Saturn dropped on his head.
For Lee, the whole Undertaker deal didn't work out after Summerslam, but he did get to play The Undertaker in a Bollywood film called Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi where he "kills" Crush (Brian Adams) in a wrestling match on top of a building(?).
I've also heard that Brian Lee is Mark "The Undertaker" Calaway's real life cousin and that he once had an affair with Calaway's first wife. Whether or not the latter is true, Lee is a real life cousin to the Harris Brothers (who also wrestled in DOA along with Crush no less).
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