Loss Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 The sound mixing on this Coliseum stuff is awful. More of a novel match than anything, as I'm pretty sure this is their only match until 2002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 Surreal to watch Flair vs Taker V0.1 on Superstars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted August 22, 2011 Report Share Posted August 22, 2011 They had a number of other singles matchs in early September 1992. I can't recall if one was captured on HandHeld similar to Flair-Warrior. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted August 30, 2011 Report Share Posted August 30, 2011 The commentary was just awful in this. Between Hayes not knowing "Double Team" and Gorilla knocking the Ref to no end, it was hard to listen to. Weird seeing Taker being the first title defense over a guy like Warrior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted October 3, 2011 Report Share Posted October 3, 2011 This was pretty mediocre. A 7 minute Ric Flair world title match is wrong. Still it's so hard to get a good match out of zombie taker. I mean every move he eats he basically Hulks up on. For telling a story it's hard to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted September 23, 2012 Report Share Posted September 23, 2012 Bad match up at this time period. Flair's offense looked like it had zero effect on Undertaker. Monsoon and Hayes were a rough commentary duo to listen to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 Flair takes a few decent bumps for Taker, who basically no sells the whole way and does little on offense other than a couple power spots. Taker comes back from the dead during a figure four prompting Perfect's interference for the DQ. Nothing special here. **1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted August 28, 2013 Report Share Posted August 28, 2013 Hayes and Monsoon are pushing the idea of Perfect being responsible for Flair's success. Rpss' shills and football talk have gotten on my nerves, and he didn't sound too interested in doing Coliseum Video voiceovers either, but he beats insight like "THAT URN SURE ISN'T FULL OF GRANOLA BARS!" The match itself isn't terrible but Flair can't do much in this setting. Bret and the Warrior showed that getting a good match out of ZombieTaker wasn't impossible, but Flair didn't quite seem to know how to do that at this point. Doesn't help that he's booked as a gigantic pussy, even by his standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 There really isn't a whole lot new to say, but I want to expand on the stuff already said. Curt was just as active in this match as Flair was, if not more so, which means that it's about time for him to get back in the ring. We're back to Curt being pushed as the star of Flair's act again, which has to mean that Vince is losing interest in Flair. Not only that, but Heenan's also pushed harder than Ric is, which is ludicrous considering that he's only made a few cameo appearances in promos and spent the rest of his time safely in the broadcast booth. Once again, I'm questioning the whole thought process of not having a title change at SummerSlam, only this time I'm wondering why Warrior didn't just go over clean when they had the opportunity to book the match that way. Beating a strongly-pushed and well thought-of Savage would mean more than doing the Honky squash on a guy who supposedly owes his entire career to a couple of near-cripples, don't you think? The match itself was even less than your average Superstars main event. Curt looked better throwing chops and forearms in his suit than either wrestler did in the whole match, and I'm not kidding. I've seen plenty of angles and beatdowns that were much more heated and physical than this. Gino and His Lordship were lethargic to say the least, but their criticism of Earl was justified here. Okay, so he didn't see the knucks shot by Flair, but what kind of dummy allows himself to be pulled out of the ring while making a count without calling for a disqualification, especially when he's just going to turn around and DQ Flair anyway less than two minutes later. What's the difference anyway, except that Curt looked a lot more impressive cracking Taker in the head with a chair than he did manhandling Earl? We get the tombstone after the match when at the very least it should have been the move that caused Curt to interfere and save the belt for Flair. I loved Gino calling Flair "Tricky Ric", and I'm surprised someone in JCP hadn't come up with that nickname for him long before this. It was the one bright spot in an otherwise awful performance from Gino. I'll give Lord Alfred a pass on not being able to think of "doubleteaming", especially in the context of what's supposed to be a singles match. They never once mentioned that Taker was a former WWF champion, mostly because if they did, they'd have to mention who he took the title from and lost it back to. I've said it once and I'll say it again: Mike McGuirk has neither the voice nor the dignity to be a great, or even a good, ring announcer. I guess they couldn't have used Finkel everywhere, but surely there was someone more qualified than her to do that particular job. If this is the best match these two can come up with, I'd rather have kept my dreams of what might have been intact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 Not a fan of this either. Flair runs through his signature stuff then we get all the 'Taker no-sells and a DQ. Uninspired booking and effort really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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