2018 Pro Wrestling thread

Twenty years ago today. Hell In A Cell.

Need I say more?

 

I remember seeing that live, just because it was so weird and random. I had an old 13-inch TV in our computer room and it had the dials on it. This was also in the age of scrambled signals, so if you turned the dial to Channel 2 instead of 3 and tweaked the dials you could often watch PPV stuff.
Yeah, it was mostly useful for porn. But also for wrestling PPVs.
So anyway, for whatever reason I went to do that -- I can't even recall why; I was more into WCW at the time than WWE and had no idea of any of the storylines. Why I would do it for a relatively random WWE show escapes me -- but the signal was already perfect when I turned it on to the PPV channel. We hadn't ordered it, it was just random free pay per view.
It was also right at the start of the Foley-Undertaker match. It was perfect timing to see this iconic match in its entirety.
Years later, when I got the Network, it felt right that this also had to be the first match I watched.

 

It was like a car wreck. You could not look away.

 

Same here for the first part. My parents' TVs would have the UHF channels and I would put it on there to "watch" WWF PPVs with scrambled signals. Yeah, my parents thought I was nuts.

I didn't see Foley's bumps, but at that time, I would go to my local library nearly every day to log on to the Internet to read (my, how times have changed)

Various wrestling sites were going crazy the next day when I went on them, calling it the greatest match ever. Eventually, a guy I knew had it on tape and loaned it to me. I must have watched those falls a half dozen times.

 

Not to change topics, but I remember watching Over the Edge live. I did not see Owen fall, however, it was all surreal.

 

His entrance wasn't going to be televised, which made the whole thing even more stupid. It would have been just for the live crowd.

I saw a Russo shoot recently, and he was doing damage control, saying that the entrance wasn't originally planned at all until they got a call a few days before the show. He also claimed Owen never told him that he was nervous about it, and if he had, Russo would have been fine without the entrance because it was a late add to the show. Whether or not he's telling the truth, well, who knows?

Supposedly, there is footage of the fall from other cameras they had set up. Rumors range from Owen's widow being given the footage to it being locked in their archives with a note never to show it.

What's also forgotten is that in a previous Raw, they hooked him up and had him swinging around the arena, and being lowered occasionally so a babyface (I think it was Shamrock) could take shots at him.

 

Been away dealing with family affairs (dad passed on Father's Day), hope you didn't miss me too much.

 

Sorry for your loss.

 

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

RIP and fuck cancer.

Matt Cappotelli dies after brain cancer battle

 

Interesting tidbit from the Miz...