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[1997-01-04-WWF-Shotgun Saturday Night] Bob Backlund and The Sisters of Love


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Welcome to Shotgun Saturday Night, a creative and very brief WWF experiment in running seedy shows in hole-in-the-wall venues to create a sleazy television show. Bob Backlund warns us of all sorts of nefarious activities taking place inside the building before the show opening and a cut to hosts Vince McMahon and Sunny. They are confused that nuns are in the ring to wrestle. (It's the Headbangers.)

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The parental advisory graphic is awesome.

 

Backlund starts us off with Shotgun Saturday Night and he is disgraced by the actions of the show. NYC should be Banned! This has such a different feel to anything else going on and feels like a different world from just 5.5 years earlier with where I am at in 1991. It even feels different from the 1994 yearbook stuff. Vince and Sunny run down the card. Sunny looks great here and this looks like a Evolve show in the bar. The nuns are in the ring which is weird.

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The parental advisory graphic is awesome.

 

Backlund starts us off with Shotgun Saturday Night and he is disgraced by the actions of the show. NYC should be Banned! This has such a different feel to anything else going on and feels like a different world from just 5.5 years earlier with where I am at in 1991. It even feels different from the 1994 yearbook stuff. Vince and Sunny run down the card. Sunny looks great here and this looks like a Evolve show in the bar. The nuns are in the ring which is weird.

Love the Evolve reference - was watching some of these early Shotgun shows recently and you're spot on. I love when they show guys on their way to the ring and they get passed by waitresses with trays of drinks.

 

This is pretty much Sunny at her PEAK when it comes to hotness.

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I loved Shotgun Saturday Night. Awesome idea, looks totally different from anything else. Backlund being batshit insane is always fun. Actually he should have been used more.

The Flying Nuns, although, was an atrocious gimmick. Reeks of the crap early TNA would put on. Who the hell came up with it ? The Head Bangers already had their identity in SMW, there was no need to change them.

One thing interesting in the credits, you can see Taker looking more or less like The American Badass.

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From a looks and execution standpoint, the WWF actually knocks this out of the park. So rare to see this kind of outside-the-box thinking from the company at any point in time. Backlund harassing a taxi driver and holding up traffic in the intro is pretty funny. And hey--BikerTaker is in there! Todd Pettingill fills us in on Sister Angelica and Mother Smucker, the Flying Nuns, out of a Tibetan Order in the Himalayas...okay, call it a home run that's turned into a double upon replay review.

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This is hilarious. Backlund is losing his mind over the debauchery of Shotgun Saturday Night. A pair of nuns standing in the ring to open the show really is a surreal visual & in a lot of ways the perfect way to kick off this show. It lets the audience know that this is going to be a wild show from the start.

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Mr Backlund is losing his shit so naturally I'm on board. Vince as goofy chinos-wearing dad was also my first thought. I haven't seen any of these shows in forever, but based on this it feels like maybe he'd be able to let his hair down a little and probably enjoy himself (if he continues with announcing duty, anyway).

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