Nitro Diaries: Match # 134
Match # 134: Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 10/4/99) Harley Race introduced arguably the most famous and pimped Nitro match ever, the Owen Hart tribute match from Kansas City, the building where Owen died.
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Nitro Diaries: Match # 133
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Match # 133: Sting vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 9/20/99) Okay, we have officially entered the era where I was giving up and barely watching, but still following online. I don’t remember this match or it’s context in the slightest. Sting had apparently turned heel, which you’d think was a big deal, but there were almost [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 129
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Match # 129: Raven/Perry Saturn vs. Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko (Nitro 5/17/99) Raven and the dress wearing Saturn are babyfaces at this point. Benoit and Malenko are dastardly heels, and part of a forgotten Four Horseman incarnation of which I think I was the only big fan. The Horseman theme with the horse gallop at the beginning [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 122
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Match # 122: Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. and Billy Kidman (Nitro 3/29/99) Four of my favorite cruiserweights ever lock it up in a tag title match. And the best part? They’re in Canada!
Nitro Diaries: Match # 120
Friday, October 16, 2009
Match # 120: Raven and Saturn vs. Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko (Nitro 3/22/99) Very cool. Two of my favorite ECW transplants (well four, but I’m referring to Saturn and Raven) meet up with a great unrecognized tag team that was a part of the Four Horseman at this point. At Spring Break no less.
Nitro Diaries: Match # 104
Monday, October 5, 2009
Match # 104: Chris Benoit vs. Bret Hart (Nitro 6/22/98) This is not the famous match the two would have in late 1999 in memory of Bret’s deceased brother, Owen Hart. We’ll get there. This is a forgotten match from Nitro unearthed on this set, and I’m excited because I don’t remember it off the top [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 103
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Match # 103: Chris Benoit vs. Fit Finlay (Nitro 6/15/98) I feel like I’m in a time warp by this point, seeing more Benoit than I’ve seen since the man went crazy in June ’07. Nice to see a varied opponent from Booker. Fit Finlay should make for an excellent match up as we’ve hit a [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 102
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Match # 102: Chris Benoit vs. Booker T (Nitro 6/8/98) Benoit leads the series 3-2. Looks like Booker’s gonna find a way to reverse the Crossface tonight.
Nitro Diaries: Match # 101
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Match # 101: Chris Benoit vs. Booker T (Nitro 6/1/98) Instant rematch, which is to be expected given this was part of the great seven match series between the two men. Given that this was was put on either Benoit’s WWE DVD or a Booker release, the expectation is this is high end stuff.
Nitro Diaries: Match # 100
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Match # 100: Chris Benoit vs. Booker T (Nitro 5/25/98) Match one of the semi-famous best of seven series between these two. I’m pumped. I remember these being great. The only downside is not seeing them all, since a few matches happened on Thunder and one on PPV.
Nitro Diaries: Match # 93
Monday, September 21, 2009
Match # 93: Raven vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 3/16/98) This is from those always entertaining spring break shows at Club La Vela in Panama City, Florida. You know, where they’d put a wrestling ring in the middle of the pool. Odd moment where cool theme heels look out of place: The Flock has to sit on [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 84
Friday, September 11, 2009
Match # 84: Chris Benoit vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 1/12/98) Here’s a match-up of future tag partners, Radicalz and Horseman, and great friends that I would have liked to see more often on the set. I’ll take what I can get though, so here we go.
Nitro Diaries: Match # 70
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Match # 70: Chris Benoit vs. Curt Hennig (Nitro 10/6/97) Benoit is definitely getting over as a Horseman and babyface by this point. He comes out to a pop. Hennig’s NWO entrance definitely has more noise, one way or the other. Benoit meets him in the aisle and it’s a brawl. Hennig pulls off an [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 48
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Match # 48: Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho (Nitro 12/30/96) This is the first time Chris Jericho makes the set with a match. Benoit we know for all his matches on the set so far. Benoit worked a lot with Jericho early in his WCW run and got him ready as he went forward. Jericho actually [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 47
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Match # 47: Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 12/23/96) I wasn’t as high on their earlier Nitro matches (Match # 40 & 45) as some people because either they needed a bit more time to fit what they had mapped out doing, or they lacked the right feel for me as a fan to [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 45
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Match # 45: Chris Benoit vs. Eddie Guerrero (Nitro 11/18/96) This is break neck speed work from the onset. It’s all really good tight work, but neither guy is at the point where they are given the air time, nor do they have the experience, to fully engage the crowd in all the great stuff they [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 42
Monday, June 29, 2009
Match # 42: Rick Steiner vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 10/7/96) Benoit is full heel here and really has his intensity boots on like usual. Much of the fun of the first several minutes of the match is Steiner either throwing suplexes and/or throwing Benoit a beating. A lot of big spots in ring that pop the [...]
Nitro Diaries: Match # 40
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Match # 40: Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 7/15/96) Cute little trick that gets me right into this one: Benoit makes the ref check Eddie’s boots for paraphernalia then attacks his occupied opponent. The kind of tricks Guerrero would use later in his career in his “cheat to win” mode.
Nitro Diaries: Match # 18
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Match # 18: Randy Savage vs. Chris Benoit (Nitro 2/5/96) Oh wow. This is one of those hidden geek out moments for me because I had no idea this match existed. Early Nitro, and maybe the entire run, was so great for having newsletter/Internet dream matches for free on your TV. Especially once WCW had three [...]
4.18.09 What I Watched
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Billy Robinson – (AJPW 3/5/77) Fit Finlay & Pegasus Kid vs. Negro Casas & Eddy Guerrero (New Japan 4/30/92) These matches don’t have a ton in common other than being taped in Japan and both being around twelve minutes. I thought I’d throw in my two cents on these two together since I watched [...]
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