The SmarK Rant for Monday Night RAW – 11.20.95
LAST NIGHT! Diesel Power runs out of gas for good, as Bret Hart wins his third WWF title to put a merciful bullet in the reign of Kevin Nash.
LIVE from Richmond, VA!
Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jerry Lawler.
The SmarK Rant for NXT – 08.05.20
Not gonna lie, they’re gonna have a tough time topping Dynamite this week. Hopefully it’s a 2-for-2 week!
Taped from the Performance Center
Your hosts are Mauro, Beth and some homeless guy who wandered in off the street. Tom? Tim?
April 22, 1995
From the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, NY
Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Dok Hendrix
This week, Jeff Jarrett defends the Intercontinental Title against Aldo Montoya as we get a video package hyping the rematch after Montoya beat him two weeks ago by getting his arm up when Jarrett used a bridging suplex.
In a question about RVD, you mentioned the so-called World Title presented to Triple H on Raw in 2002. I feel like I’m missing something. This was right before a pay-per-view. Couldn’t WWE have thrown together an eight, or hell, even four man tournament on Raw then properly crowned a champion with the final at Unforgiven, rather than just giving the Title to HHH?
Let’s have a look, as requested in a previous review, at some tag team wrestling from World of Sport.
NXT UK
Date: August 6, 2020
Host: Andy Shepard
It’s more of the same around here as the vault stays wide open. That usually doesn’t mean much with this show as they have to be running out of interesting things to show. I’m not sure if WWE is ever going to do anything about that as this show isn’t very high on their list of priorities, but it is still working well enough at the moment. Let’s get to it.
(Author’s Note: I’m mixing up the intro this week. For those who don’t care, skip it and go straight to the comments. The rest of you? See you after the jump.)
Read moreThe Thursday Night Prime Time Chat Thread: August 6, 2020
April 17, 1995
From Falenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. This drew a sellout of 13,000 fans.
This is fan-cam show thus no commentary. And, the main event of Diesel & Razor Ramon vs. Jeff Jarrett & Psycho Sid was not included. Sid & Jarrett lost that match via countout per
How over was RVD during the Invasion? If WWE pulled the trigger on a title run in the three way with Austin and Angle rather than in 2006, what was his ceiling? How “high” could he have gone and what would his career had looked like in WWE if the run had happened at his peak in popularity?
Seemed like Heyman was hellbent on getting these 3 back (Shane and Sabu were two of his biggest stars I guess) on his show ASAP.
Why didn't Heyman try to snatch up talented underused disgruntled guys like Bigelow, Pierre or Al Snow immediately during this time? Were Heavenly Bodies, Jason Knight and Dances With Dudley the future of ECW?
He basically just pushed Sandman, Public Enemy, Raven, Cactus Jack and Mikey even harder. That's why ECW was able to survive for so long, by making their own stars and not relying on disgruntled WWF guys.
Tomorrow I’m going to do a tag team turmoil review, with matches including the likes of Owen and Bruce Hart, William Regal and Robbie Brookside, and Rocky Moran and Fit Finlay, but today I thought I’d have a look at this documentary featuring Finlay and his family talking about their history in wrestling.
Happy birthday to my one and only child, who is 10 years old today, going on 25.
Girls get easier to deal with once they’re teenagers, right?
NXT May Have Its Next Big Thing
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/nxt-thinks-next-big-thing/
Dexter Lumis Out Of Takeover, Replacement(s) To Be Named
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/dexter-lumis-takeover-replacement-set/
Women’s Title Match Set For Takeover: XXX
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/new-title-match-set-nxt-takeover-xxx/
Geez, Tommy, what’s with all the NXT content in the headlines? Here’s an AEW video for some fair and balanced coverage here on the blog.
NXT
Date: August 5, 2020
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Mauro Ranallo, Beth Phoenix, Tom Phillips
We’re coming up on Takeover and that means it is time to continue with the series of triple threat matches on the way to the North American Title match. Tonight it’s Ridge Holland vs. Damian Priest and Oney Lorcan. We probably need to set up some more stuff for the card and we might get there tonight. Let’s get to it.
The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 08.05.20
Live from Jacksonville, FL
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Jim Ross & Taz
Monday Night Raw
Date: March 6, 2006
Location: Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, Birmingham, Alabama
Commentators: Joey Styles, Jonathan Coachman, Jerry Lawler
We have less than a month to go before Wrestlemania and that means we need to get in some more build between HHH and John Cena. That being said, the bigger story going on is Vince McMahon vs. Shawn Michaels, which is likely to get a lot more time tonight. That and maybe some more Money in the Bank setup. Let’s get to it.