Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NWA/WCW Halloween Havoc: Settling The Score 28/10/1989 Match 1 Part 1 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NWA/WCW Halloween Havoc: Settling The Score 28/10/1989 Match 1 Part 1 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Chosen by: Me; for 3 reasons; 1. I have never seen any of the Halloween Havoc's pay-per-views of any description, I know they are legendary by reputation from NWA/WCW or specifically much more WCW, so I was thinking it is about time I checked at least one out for myself, so I obviously started at the beginning with the first one. 2. As it is getting close to Halloween itself this second reason is pretty self-explanatory and 3. I wanted a quick turnaround from my previous pay-per-view review of WWE/ECW One Night Stand 12/06/2005.

Briefly things to know:

* Intro: Horror/Halloween theme; excellent artistic visions

* Jim Ross & Bob Caudle: Commentary welcoming us and talking about what they have on night.

* Gordon Solie: interviewer tells us what he has coming up tonight [once again excellent horror backdrop here, it isn't real and for the younger generations, you may find this to be cheesy at minimum, but I appreciate it because it shows they were trying to get in the spirit of Halloween and as it goes it achieves its objective by creating an atmosphere and tone.]

* Jim Ross & Bob Caudle: Commentary to talk about tonight's main event in the Thunderdome Match.

* Chris Cruise: Interviewer Cruise does the same as Solie, but he also interviews them before they entered the ring as well and basically copy and paste what I said in the Solie paragraph about the excellent horror backdrop here as well. Finally he introduces the world's best ring announcer Gary Michael Cappetta.

* "The World's Most Dangerous Announcer" Gary Michael Cappetta: Ring announcer introduces our first match.

Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects

Match/Stipulation: Captain Mike Rotunda vs. Z-Man; Singles Match

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 8/10

Match Storyline: 8/10

Crowd Participation: 9/10

On Commentary: Jim Ross & Bob Caudle 8/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 8/10

Recommend Watch: 8/10

Match Total: 49/60 - this match is excellent

Comments: this is one of those opening matches/match slots which sets the tone hopefully for the rest of this pay-per-view, there is one guy at some point shouting out boring or a close something like that. We have one of those organic/natural moments in wrestling, where a good percentage [clearly] the audience in attendance decided to boo this match outcome, because the heel put in a dominating performance, but because of smooth wrestling and no heel tactics he got stuck. Now just to cover my back I can clearly hear some cheering as well, but for those long-term wrestling fans out there,it is a perfect example of heel heat on a noticeable scale if this individual was a heel or going to be a heel, I don't think it was in the plan at all for this crowd to react somewhat like this; but one thing is for certain they are a lively audience that can make up their own minds.

Basic Result: I know I have pretty much indicated that result, but I still have to do the admin; Z-Man picks up the win

Briefly things to know:

* Replay of the closing stages with the winner's entrance music playing [at this specific point just to cover my back,] I am going to say I think so, based on these competitors  started in the ring so no entrances, I have just realised there was no entrance music playing at the end of this match either. As I have just watched the second match with the same replaying thing but with their background music playing over this replay, I'm going to assume that this was Z-Man's entrance  music playing over.

* Chris Cruise: Interviews Bruno Sammartino as he is the Special Guest Referee for tonight's main event the Thunderdome Match.

* "The World's Most Dangerous Announcer" Gary Michael Cappetta: Ring announcer introduces the next match; stipulation Six-Man Tag Team Match

Jim Cornett Manager: introduces his team on the mic of; "The Toughest Man in the World" "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, " The Greatest Combination in Wrestling" The Midnight Express; "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton & "Sweet" Stan Lane.

* "The World's Most Dangerous Announcer" Gary Michael Cappetta: Ring announcer introduces their manager Jim Cornett and then moves on to their opponents with their manager "The Big Kahuna" Sir Oliver Humperdinck The Samoan Squad Team; Fatu, Samu & The Samoan Savage. Obviously I haven't seen this match/match slot yet, but if I had to have a guess this upcoming section should be fun, technical wrestling mixed with a hard-hitting and warning fire being used in the next match entrances