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[1993-08-18-WCW-Clash of Champions XXIV] Flair for the Gold: The Shockmaster


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Yeah, Sid saved this segment on the mic. Add that to the list of sentences that have never been said before.

 

Bulldog cracks me up during this. "Everybody's cooking! The Clash is cooking! Flair for the Gold is cooking! Sting's cooking!" ....I saw Emeril, he was cooking! My wife is in the kitchen, she's cooking! I turned on The Food Channel, they were cooking!

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This segment is famous for all the wrong reasons, but what I think we overlook is how bad this entire thing would have been anyway. I mean, you've got the Bulldog cutting one of his typical stupid promos (up there with the "I'm bizarre" line at the Royal Rumble), you have Harlem Heat showing up behind Sid without ever being introduced on TV before, and not being introduced on the segment either, and you are supposed to be excited about a fat guy with a glittery stormtrooper hat talking like the Black Scorpion being Sting and the Bulldog's partner at the up coming War Games match, which nobody even talked about before. WTF ? It was terrible anyway, easily one of the worst Flair for the Gold segment, and it says a lot. The fact the Shockmaster fucked up badly kinda make it better actually, and it saved WCW from having fucking Typhoon pushed to the main event scene by his brother in law. What were Ole and Dusty smoking ?

 

And yeah, bless Sid for doing his best to cover up.

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I had forgotten all about this until just now....so painful in every single way. His falling over is not even the worst part. It's probably the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen in wrestling - worse then Robocop or the Gobbledy Gooker. What were they thinking....

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I think about how non fans make fun of why wrestlers are shouting during their promos. You had some over the top yelling by Bulldog and Sid during this. Anyways, Sting and Bulldog have themselves a tag partner for War Games and introduce the Shockmaster. The crashing through the wall, falling over and losing the glitter stormtrooper helmet is hilarious. But what put it over the top for me was the really awkward and long pause as he got to his feet and waiting for Ole's voice over promo to kick in. Then you had very audible "Oh, Gosh" while all this was going on. Fun to look back at now but I can only imagine how I would feel if was watching this live at the time.

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I'm surprised the voiceover intro didn't blurt the identity of the mystery guest off the bat.

 

Like all Flair for the Gold segments, this is a total mess--even discounting the infamous debut of the Shockmaster. Everybody's screaming over top of each other, and it's all--in the immortal words of James Brown--"people talkin' loud and sayin' nothin'." Also get a load of everybody in the fucking room standing with their backs to the camera--except for Sting, who's naturally completely blocked out by Davey Boy. Shockmaster makes his grand entrance, and whatever was left of the segment completely dies. He cuts his promo and then we just awkwardly fade out with Sid screaming.

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If I recall correctly, Harlem Heat had been on TV prior to this (I want to say on Main Event) but they were relatively unknown. I chuckled at the time that a mere three days previous WCW was in Linton, Indiana at the un-air-conditioned National Guard Armory (Chris Benoit put Erik Watts over clean that night). Anyway, yeah, this was really bad. WCW, at the time, had this horrible habit of throwing us head first into programs that nobody knew were going on. Not one person on WCW had so much as mentioned Fall Brawl much less the War Games or that their would be a mystery partner to War Game with.

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I don't have a hell of a lot more to add to what's already been said. How many different ways can you call stupidity stupidity? There wasn't a thing good about this in either conception or execution, and how Ole thought he could get away with using the Sonovox again when everyone who'd watched wrestling for longer than a month knew exactly what his voice sounded like, I can't even begin to say. I don't have a problem with Ottman being in a match like this, or even possibly getting a push against Vader had it come to that, but to use this gimmick to do it? I'd have rather seen them use the Tugboat gimmick in some form or other.

 

Incidentally, I heard Bruce Prichard on a podcast the other day say that Ottman/Tugboat was going to be the original recipient of the Iraqi sympathizer gimmick that Vince ultimately gave to Slaughter. It seems that either way, Fred Ottman just wasn't meant to have a long wrestling career. Given the choice of what gimmick I would choose to kill my career between those two, however, the Shockmaster wins in a landslide.

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