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 [...]
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!
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.
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.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Match # 79: Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 11/17/97) This is the match that was set up at the end of our last match (Match # 78: Guerrero vs Mysterio). Eddie is the WCW cruiserweight champ here, and as we begin the match the announcers are talking about the recently acquired Bret Hart. That’s right, [...]
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Match # 74: Dean Malenko vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. (Nitro 10/27/97) This is the night after a pretty famous Guererro vs Mysterio match on PPV. Rey Jr. is the new cruiserweight champ. His first defense is a tough one. Multiple time former champ Dean Malenko. These two had a classic earlier in the set (Match # [...]
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Match # 51: Ultimo Dragon vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 2/24/97) Ultimo Dragon is this hugely influential wrestler, and yet he’s sent out there with Sonny Ono to click photos for a disposable camera because “that’s what Asian people do, right?” Wrestling is so embarrassing sometimes. Maybe if the punch line was at least funnier, or he [...]
Monday, July 6, 2009
Match # 49: Dean Malenko vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. (Nitro 12/30/96) I’m still in love with the earlier match these men had at a Disney MGM Nitro back in July (Match # 39). It will take a lot to top that, but if given time I’m sure they can. This was a great mix of style [...]
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Match # 38: Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 7/8/96) This is the earliest of the classic Rey Jr. and Dean Malenko matches that I know of on Nitro. This is from one of the outdoors tapings at Disney World. You know the ones where Rey was made more famous for being a “lawn dart” [...]
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Match # 28: Dean Malenko vs. Jushin Liger (Nitro 5/6/96) This should be fun. Liger hasn’t gotten his due from me as a fan in almost a decade. In tape collecting his body of work slipped through the cracks because I was always a bigger All Japan heavys mark, and when it came to Super Juniors [...]
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Match # 16: Dean Malenko vs. Brian Pillman (Nitro 1/22/96) A future Horseman meets a current Horseman. Malenko, not far removed from his ECW days with Eddie G., takes on a fully Loose Cannon in Pillman. In fact, Pillman was only a half a month or so away from showing up at the ECW Arena himself.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Match # 7: Sting vs. Dean Malenko (Nitro 11/13/95) Here’s a bizarre match up I never knew about. You gotta love Nitro. Really interesting match ups in the deepest talent pool to that point in wrestling time. Sting has the height and size advantage, but thankfully they play this as Malenko having the wrestling skill to [...]
Friday, March 20, 2009
4.15.95 Eddie Guerrero vs Dean Malenko So Malenko lost his TV Title to 2 Cold Scorpio. Scorpio then lost it to the debuting Eddie Guerrero. Now Malenko wants his belt back, so he’s going after Eddie. Malenko is the natural heel here, and Eddie got over huge in his first match, but Eddie retains some of [...]
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
3.8.95 Dean Malenko vs 2 Cold Scorpio This is from the ECW Arena with Joey Styles on commentary. Right in my wheel house as ECW was my home promotion as a teen living only an hour from Philly. I’d forgotten that “The Sexiest Man Alive” Jason was Malenko’s manager. How do you like my new suit? [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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