soup23 Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 http://placetobenation.com/where-the-big-boys-play-90-slamboree-93/ Chad and Parv return to look at Slamboree 93: A Legends' Reunion [0:02:31] Wrestling Observer round-up: All the news from February to May 93 in a monster round-up including WCW's UK tour, Tully Blanchard contract wranglings, and the origins of the WWE Hall of Fame. [1:31:35] Review of Slamboree 93: who is sexier Bischoff or Missy Hyatt? Lots and lots of genuine bona-fide legends of the business. Dory Funk Jr! Paul Roma: Horseman! The Prisoner! Mike Atkins's tache: wow! Rude's tache: back! Ox Baker's tache: OMG! [2:35:49] End of show awards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 This is the WCW matches that made Loss's Top 500 matches of the 1990s list. 500. Fabulous Freebirds & Badstreet vs Young Pistols & Dustin Rhodes (WCW Saturday Night 06/15/91) 498. Goldberg vs Sting (WCW Monday Nitro 09/14/98) 494. Steve Austin vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Saturday Night 03/12/94) 490. Steven Regal vs Fit Finlay (WCW Uncensored 03/24/96) 487. Chris Jericho & Eddy Guerrero vs Meng & Barbarian (WCW Monday Nitro 02/24/97) 476. Barry Windham vs Brian Pillman (WCW Pro 04/06/91) 473. Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton (WCW Worldwide 03/24/90) 472. Rey Misterio Jr. vs Psicosis (WCW Bash at the Beach 07/07/96) 470. Rick Rude vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW SuperBrawl II 02/29/92) 462. Rey Misterio Jr. & Juventud Guerrera vs La Parka & Psicosis (WCW Monday Nitro 12/15/97) 460. Vader vs The Boss (WCW Spring Stampede 04/17/94) 458. Eddy Guerrero vs Chris Jericho (WCW Fall Brawl 09/14/97) 452. Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs Steve Austin & Brian Pillman (WCW Clash of the Champions XXII 01/13/93) 447. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson & Sting vs Great Muta, Buzz Sawyer & Dragon Master (WCW Power Hour 01/26/90) 444. Barry Windham vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Saturday Night 01/09/93) 440. Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs Jushin Liger & Kensuke Sasaki (WCW Philadelphia 12/29/92) 435. Barry Windham vs 2 Cold Scorpio (WCW Clash of the Champions XXII 06/16/93) 434. Ric Flair vs Brian Pillman (WCW Saturday Night 04/13/91) 428. Ric Flair vs Hulk Hogan (WCW Bash at the Beach 07/17/94) 427. Brian Pillman vs Johnny B. Badd (WCW Fall Brawl 09/17/95) 420. Chris Benoit vs 2 Cold Scorpio (WCW SuperBrawl III 02/21/93) 417. Barry Windham & Arn Anderson vs Doom (WCW Starrcade 12/16/90, Street Fight) 410. Vader vs Dustin Rhodes (WCW Clash of the Champions XXIX 11/16/94) 407. Sting, Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes vs Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton & Larry Zbyszko (WCW Saturday Night 02/22/92) 405. Sting vs Cactus Jack (WCW Power Hour 11/23/91, Submit or Surrender) 404. Rick & Scott Steiner vs Tatsumi Fujinami & Tayayuki Iizuka (WCW Wrestle War ‘92 05/17/92) 402. Barry Windham vs Steven Regal (WCW Worldwide 04/17/93) 401. Ric Flair vs Bobby Eaton (WCW Main Event 01/07/90) 396. Arn Anderson vs Dustin Rhodes (WCW Saturday Night 01/04/92) 395. Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Saturday Night 05/14/94) 390. Nasty Boys, Dusty & Dustin Rhodes vs Arn Anderson, Bunkhouse Buck, Terry Funk & Col. Parker (WCW Fall Brawl 09/18/94, War Games) 389. Steve Austin & Brian Pillman vs Marcus Bagwell & 2 Cold Scorpio (WCW Worldwide 05/08/93) 384. Ric Flair, Roddy Piper & Kevin Greene vs Scott Hall, Kevin Nash & Syxx (WCW Slamboree 05/18/97) 382. Jushin Liger vs Brian Pillman (WCW SuperBrawl II 02/29/92) 378. Rey Misterio Jr. vs Dean Malenko (WCW Great American Bash 06/16/96) 376. Rick & Scott Steiner vs Nasty Boys (WCW Halloween Havoc 10/27/90) 368. Dustin Rhodes vs Bunkhouse Buck (WCW Spring Stampede 04/17/94, Bunkhouse Match) 320. Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes vs Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (WCW Saturday Night 10/03/92) 317. Rey Misterio Jr. vs Psicosis vs Juventud Guerrera vs Blitzkrieg (WCW Monday Nitro 04/19/99) 281. Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes vs Steve Austin & Larry Zbyszko (WCW SuperBrawl II 02/29/92) 277. Arn Anderson vs Steven Regal (WCW SuperBrawl IV 02/20/94) 247. Cactus Jack & Kevin Sullivan vs Nasty Boys (WCW Slamboree 05/22/94, Street Fight) 236. Steven Regal vs Larry Zbyszko (WCW Saturday Night 05/28/94) 217. Rey Misterio Jr. vs Ultimo Dragon (WCW World War 3 11/24/96) 197. Chris Benoit vs Booker T (WCW Great American Bash 06/14/98) 191. Vader vs Sting (WCW Great American Bash 07/12/92) 133. Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko vs Ricky Steamboat & Dustin Rhodes (WCW Clash of the Champions XVII 11/19/91) 132. Sting vs Diamond Dallas Page (WCW Monday Nitro 04/26/99) 127. Vader vs Sting (WCW SuperBrawl III 02/21/93, Strap Match) 124. Ric Flair vs Vader (WCW Starrcade ‘93 12/27/93) 106. Midnight Express vs Rock N Roll Express (WCW Wrestle War ‘90 02/25/90) 100. Eddy Guerrero vs Rey Misterio Jr. (WCW Halloween Havoc 10/26/97, Mask vs Title) 94. Midnight Express vs Southern Boys (WCW Great American Bash 07/07/90) 75. Ric Flair, Barry Windham, Larry Zbyszko & Sid Vicious vs Sting, Brian Pillman, Rick & Scott Steiner (WCW Wrestle War ‘91 02/24/91, War Games) 59. Vader vs Sting (WCW Starrcade 12/28/92) 57. Ric Flair vs Lex Luger (WCW Wrestle War ‘90 02/25/90) 55. Rick Rude vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Beach Blast ‘92 06/20/92, 30-Minute Ironman Challenge Match) 21. Sting, Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes & Nikita Koloff vs Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko & Bobby Eaton (WCW Wrestle War ‘92 05/17/92, War Games) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 That's 58 matches, breaking down as follows 1990 - 8 1991 - 6 1992 - 12 1993 - 8 1994 - 10 1995 - 1 1996 - 4 1997 - 5 1998 - 2 1999 - 2 I had tried to think after SuperBrawl 3 if there were many really high end WCW matches for the rest of the decade, with only Havoc 1997 immediately coming to mind. There was a bit of chatter along those lines here http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/35772-where-the-big-boys-play-88-superbrawl-iii/ ...so it's interesting to compare/contrast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Sorry folks--for once, I have no off-the-top-of-my-head information on what happened to Scott Norton here. I believe it was just usual bullshit over money, and/or not doing the job, with or without possible NJPW involvement. Norton *did* already lose the Dontaku match by blood stoppage, IIRC, so maybe he actually had a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrainfollower Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Scott Norton refusing to put someone over or sell? Wonders never cease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 I know, knock me over with a feather. Since I don't have hard info on Norton, I'll provide this bit of Meltzer-ian humor from the WCW brass: the Prisoner was announced as being from Green Bay, Wisconsin, because that was the site of the TV taping where he attacked Vince McMahon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrainfollower Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 hahahaha. That is funny. And the odds of the one person who would be annoyed if he heard it watching Slamboree 93 would be 6,325,000 to 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Russian Daydream Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 Just listening through this and got to the bit regarding Vader vs Cactus. Although Meltzer wasn't there, he was right that the version of the first match which aired on TV really didn't capture the impact of what actually happened. There was another version of the match with the close ups of the blows and blood left in on one of Mick's DVDs and it really has a lot more oomph when watching it. When you do the TV episode you really should track that version down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outsider Posted December 21, 2016 Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 I remember seeing the Sheik on the promotional poster when I was 10 or 11 years old. I was always fascinated by him from the stories and crazy pics in the magazines. I eventually got to see him at Havoc '95 and he didn't disappoint. The sheik had to be super old by then. Funny thing is that their greatest legend Ric Flair wasn't there. And it was almost impossible to know who they were because wrestling is like local news every region has their stars but outside of their region they are unknown. And even if you had the Internet, it was slow as hell until the 2000. There were no video sites in 90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Mike Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 A correction: The Cole twins in the early 90s were not Harlem Heat. They were 2 white, blonde guys. I think they were legit twins, but who knows. They were the bottom rung on the face team ladder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 A correction: The Cole twins in the early 90s were not Harlem Heat. They were 2 white, blonde guys. I think they were legit twins, but who knows. They were the bottom rung on the face team ladder. Yup, Keith and Kent Cole. Long in a line of "why have I never heard of these guys outside of 1993 WCW?" wrestlers. Booker and Stevie were very briefly Kane and Kole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkord123 Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 I rarely post on here but Chad's tribute to that cat who passed away was really nice. Thanks, Chad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Russian Daydream Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 Listened to more of this today and a few thoughts: Regarding Paul Roma and the Horsemen, I'm guessing they wanted someone not on the roster currently to be in that position or else surely they'd never have done what they did. In that case, I believe the best person they could have gotten would have been Stan Lane. He had a Horseman vibe about him and the story about him being trained by Flair gives him a connection. He was also just finishing up with Smokey Mountain at this time being fed up with too little money and too many blade-jobs so I believe so could have been enticed. Regarding Dory vs Bockwinkel; the first time I watched this years back I really didn't like it much. I watched it again a few months back however and thought it was wonderful. The difference was that in the meantime I'd watched a good bit of 70s and 80s All Japan which featured both guys. It definitely helps to be 'tuned into' the style going in. Parv's rating was absolutely fair and on the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britwresdvds Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 Is this one of the podcasts that has finished? It would be a shame if so. I really enjoy listening to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted February 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 Not dead, just on life support right now in combination of my CPA studying, new audit responsibilities at shoot job and Parvs "retirement". WTBBP will return in due time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKWebb Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 Awesome - Looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britwresdvds Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 Glad to hear it'll be carrying on at some point. I really enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDuke Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 I really like this one too so I'm glad to hear it's returning eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted April 5, 2017 Report Share Posted April 5, 2017 After almost five years of doing the show, was lovely to meet Chad in the flesh today. Got a nice tour of some old WCW haunts also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted April 5, 2017 Report Share Posted April 5, 2017 Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKWebb Posted April 5, 2017 Report Share Posted April 5, 2017 Yeah, that's awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrainfollower Posted April 5, 2017 Report Share Posted April 5, 2017 The beginning of the new Mega Powers. You should have taken a pic of a handshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheapshot Posted April 6, 2017 Report Share Posted April 6, 2017 I want to meet my old co-host one day as well! Great that you both finally got to hang out together, hope you had a blast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted April 6, 2017 Report Share Posted April 6, 2017 Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDuke Posted April 7, 2017 Report Share Posted April 7, 2017 Hopefully you come back with some crazy stories of wild goings on together whenever a new episode comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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