Match # 131: Hollywood Hogan vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 7/12/99) Hogan is out to the NWO Wolfpack theme with an NWO T-shirt I don’t remember. At this point they could be anywhere with on the NWO timeline. I didn’t even think they were still together at this point, but Eric Bischoff is out with gray [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
Match # 98: Hollywood Hogan vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 4/20/98) What can you say about two mega-stars getting it on one more time? Past their primes? Sure. Could it be fun? Definitely. Will it be good? Macho gives a lot of effort and Hogan seems to have his perfectly decent match boots on whenever he [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Match # 96: Randy Savage vs. Roddy Piper (Nitro 3/23/98) Even though age and WCW/NWO booking will play a negative factor in the eventual outcome of this match, I’m excited for this one. Two of my favorite old 80s WWF wrestlers in a match against one another. I’m excited. Why wouldn’t I be? I had [...]
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Match # 92: Hollywood Hogan/Scott Hall/Kevin Nash vs. Sting/Giant/Randy Savage (Nitro 3/9/98) The big guns from the NWO against a bunch of WCW main event babyfaces. Cool with me. I like the personalities, not to mention Sting’s epic entrance music. Somehow Sting is the champ, the Giant has a neck brace, and Macho is back [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Match # 77: Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 10/27/97) Well we’ve certainly seen this one before on the ballot. Matches # 13, 15, 20, and 35 all contain the pairing in decent to very good matches. This probably won’t reach the heights of their early 90s run, or even the aforementioned early Nitro run, [...]
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Match # 61: Randy Savage vs. La Parka (Nitro 7/7/97) This is the third or fourth fun little match featuring Savage vs a mid carder in an enjoyable little match. I was about to sing the praises of Savage for working well with those slots on Nitro (something members of the NWO weren’t know for), [...]
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Match # 35: Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 6/17/96) A lot of brawling early. Flair cheats to win as usual. Flair has Woman, Liz, and Deborah McMichael, as usual. It’s the formula you guys know and love with these guys. Can’t believe it’s the same divorce story though.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Match # 22: Randy Savage vs. Fit Finlay (Nitro 3/25/96) Savage deserves a lot of credit for his early Nitro run. Not only did he rule in main event matches with people like Flair, but he had forgotten great matches like this one. He had done the same thing with Benoit in a match that [...]
Friday, May 15, 2009
Match # 20: Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 2/19/96) Flair is out with Liz & Woman. I feel like I’ve seen this match one too many times in the short history of Nitro. It never quite gets near the level of their Wrestlemania 8 match, but I love the dynamic of the two together. [...]
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 [...]
Monday, April 27, 2009
Match # 15: Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 1/22/96) Flair is out again with Jimmy Hart as his manager. I’m apathetic. This is coming the night before a Clash of the Champions. We’re in Las Vegas at Caesar’s Palace. This is pre-MGM Grand. Miss Elizabeth and Woman (RIP to both, sadly) have switched affiliations [...]
Friday, April 24, 2009
Match # 13: Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage (Nitro 12/25/95) These two put together one of my favorite all time Wrestlemania matches in 1992. This was both guys just passed their prime, but both guys still had so much talent and effort to give that you know it’s gonna be decent. This match is for [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
Match # 88: Jerry Lawler vs. Randy Savage (Loser Leaves Town) (6/3/85) These men actually had many matches throughout the first half of 1985 in Memphis. Savage was something of an early Brian Pillman Loose Cannon-type character at this time, terrorizing Japanese photographer Jimmy Suzuki and Lance Russell during different times at the studio show. [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Match # 85: Randy Savage vs. Jerry Oski (5/7/85) According to announcer Randy Hales this match went 31 minutes (who knows for sure), but it’s joined in progress. I have no idea who Jerry Oski is/was, but this match has gotten some praise from what I’ve read. As it stands this is for the Southern [...]
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Match # 81: Randy Savage, Lanny Poffo & Joe Lightfoot vs. Mr. Wrestling, Eddie Gilbert & Adrian Street (3/4/85) Lightfoot does a Native American gimmick, for those wondering. Not sure who is playing Mr. Wrestling here. I’m getting a little sick of Street on this set, but in a six man he’ll play his role [...]
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Match # 80: Randy Savage vs. Adrian Street (1/28/85) So, we got the Macho Man character versus the gay guy gimmick. Both wear gawdy robes to the ring, but the Madness is the good guy. Go figure. Russell starts off his call echoing the 1 fall 30 minutes by yelling “one-thirtyyyyyy”. Hilarious! Macho goes on [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Match # 74: Dirty White Boys vs. Randy Savage & Mark Batten (10/13/84) I have dug the DWB since seeing them during the Mid South Diaries. Very cool ols school heel team. Batten is just a local Memphis guy as far as I know. Savage is in this match because something happened to Batten’s partner. [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Match # 72: Jerry Lawler & Randy Savage vs. King Kong Bundy & Rick Rude (No DQ) (9/17/84) The comeback from a wild DQ finish in our last match. This time there’s no DQ, so I assume there must be a winner. We get a Macho/Lawler promo to start, just for fun. Macho is the [...]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Match # 71: Jerry Lawler & Randy Savage vs. King Kong Bundy & Rick Rude (9/10/84) This match is perfectly led into from our prior two matches, which is helpful in getting a feel for the feud and match itself. Also generally makes me like a match more. Lawler won about $7,000 dollars from Jimmy [...]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Match # 70: Randy Savage vs. Rick Rude (9/3/84) Wow! This is a preview of two guys who would go on to fame in the WWF. It’s also to agile skinny athletic guys who gassed up big time in the late 80s. Macho man is the fan favorite for this one. The personalities are there [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
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