Loss Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted March 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2013 Luger and Nikita have a fun brawl with the locker room jobbers flooding the ring to break them up. Nikita ends up getting his hands on the U.S. title and nailing Luger with it before destroying the belt on ringpost. Weird that it's the old NWA belt, when I'm pretty sure the whole purpose of Nikita's debut was to present Luger with a new belt, but anyway. I really enjoyed this segment, but you'd think the heat would have been through the roof. It wasn't. RIP to my favorite wrestling belt ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 This was a great segment that really should have put gasoline on the feud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 As good as Luger has been and as well as Nikita's return was done I really can't get worked up over seeing these two in the ring. Nikita bends the (new? old?) U.S. title over the ringpost. Maybe we should have had Spivey do that and THEN bring out the new title belt, but what do I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted April 14, 2013 Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 Luger interrupts Koloff’s interview and they brawl in the ring. About a dozen jobbers come out to try separate them. Koloff then smashes the US title into the ring post a few times to dent it. A bit weird with him being after the title and then destroying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 I really liked this angle and the use of the theory that if I cant have the belt, no one can. Nikita really bent that thing to shreds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted May 12, 2015 Report Share Posted May 12, 2015 I liked Nikita's interview, but the brawl never truly got going, and I couldn't really tell that much damage had been done to the belt. It sounded impressive when Nikita banged it off the ring post, but a few dents really don't do much for me. He should have left the thing almost plateless, the way Greg Valentine did to the IC belt when he lost it to Tito Santana. I did enjoy Nikita hitting not only Luger, but several of the jobbers with the belt. That did more for me to further the feud than anything else. As far as crowd heat goes, I'm not sure how much Nikita meant in 1991; unless you'd been watching for at least four and a half years, all the way back to Magnum's accident, and were familiar with the whole story of Nikita's face turn and eventual feud over the U.S. belt with heel Luger, what would you have seen Nikita as? A marble-mouthed, bald-headed, skinny old-timer whom Luger should have no problem with. Spivey was a much more credible threat to those fans who weren't JCP loyalists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted November 1, 2017 Report Share Posted November 1, 2017 I was thinking of the Valentine segment as well. Either way, both guys are giving this 110% for not near the reaction you would hope for. Almost like 1990 killed any steam Lex might have built up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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