Monday 27 March 2023

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW Fall Brawl: War Games 17/09/1995 Match 1 Part 1 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW Fall Brawl: War Games 17/09/1995 Match 1 Part 1 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Chosen by: Me; I have been watching some episodes of WCW Monday Night Nitro on TNT, in fact I have been working on some content for that as well.

Basic walk-through of this event:

* A engaging and well presented a video package combined with voice-over of what this has to offer including a reference to “The Total Package" Lex Luger and his previous employees the WWF/WWE

* Competitors enter the ring

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary talk about everything relating to with tonight's main event picture of Wars Games

* Michael Buffer: says welcomes us all to this pay-per-view, stipulation and introduces the opponents

Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/biting/shooting

Match/Stipulations: Flyin' Brian vs. "He's A Bad Man" Johnny B. Badd: Singles Match to Determine the #1 Contender for Sting's WCW United States Championship

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 8/10

Match Slot Storyline: 7/10

Crowd Participation: 4/10

On Commentary: Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel" 7/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 7/10

Recommend Watch: 7/10

Match Total: 40/60 - this match is good.

Comments: the crowd participation is baffling, because this match/match slot is of high quality. Okay it does go up and down throughout the gears as it relates to the tempo and there are clash botches, but they aren't botches, they are just meant to look like them as they feed into the match storyline and Brian ever so slightly undercuts flying out of the ring as it is referenced on commentary by Schiavone [the steps side,] but there isn't anything majorly wrong with this action. It just irritated me that generally speaking there is some sound from the crowd, but no way as much as they should be with the quality of action taking place, I have to be honest the crowd really sucks out the energy out of this match, it's like as I have already said it is a high quality match, but because of the crowd it feels really long and don't get me wrong it is in its entirety slightly under 30 minutes, but any long-term fan would know this is one of those matches/match slots that the crowd can make a situation feel like a big deal in trust me I would be a little bit more understanding if this crowd were onside for a big chunk or chunks of this match, you know something a bit more positive like " We are here for this match, but we can't keep it up." And I would even go fair enough it is the first match of the night on this card and maybe they don't want to burn themselves out, but in fairness and balance this would be their fifth match of the night if they have watched the previous four pre-show matches, depending on if they have watched them or not. But either way this match should have been given a lot more reaction than what it gets, okay I am going to leave it there, because that is how much it has annoyed me.

But for a bit of comedy a camera picked up a sign that indicated Heenan for President and they discuss this on commentary and on top of that they discussed the very old and for the younger generations you will have to do is believe me a rule about suplex your opponent on the apron to the outside, but Brian was trying to bring Badd in, so the technicality of him simply reversing this move saved him from being disqualified and yes as of this content I am heading into my 40's that is how old I am.

Basic Results: Draw

But wait!

Referee [Nick Patrick] has been given the power to make this decision, so he informs the Ring announcer [Michael Buffer] but in a nutshell and paraphrasing here; we are heading into sudden death, because we need a #1 Contender for Sting's WCW United States Championship.

Basic Results: "He's A Bad Man" Johnny B. Badd is your new #1 Contender for Sting's WCW United States Championship.

Basic walk-through of this event:

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary talk about what they had just seen over video replays with "He's A Bad Man" Johnny B. Badd's theme music "Don't mess with Johnny B. Badd [with Torn.] Commentary pair on-screen within the commentary section talking what else is to come up on this pay-per-view here's a brief list by Schiavone; the main event War Games, the WCW Television Championship, WCW World Tag Team Championship and Flair vs. Anderson. Where Heenan joins in with his thoughts on the subject. Schiavone brings up our next match Cobra vs. Sgt Craig " PitBull" Pitman: Singles Match, with someone in the audience clearly irritating Heenan [this is speculation on my part based on it comes out of nowhere so it could be in kayfabe, but as I have already illustrated as it comes out of nowhere and really sudden, I didn't hear anything but Heenan has a quick retort "Hey same to you kid, a moment later as Schiavone is handing it over to Okerlund Heenan continues " Talk to me like that." I am paraphrasing with Okerlund apologising to Schiavone that he has to work with Heenan tonight, he says this in a serious professional tone. But anyone that has lived through this time in history knows they had priceless chemistry on-screen whenever they worked together in any promotion.

* "Mean" Gene Okerlund: interviewer, interviews "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair about his match later on tonight.

* David Penzer: Ring announcer says the stipulations and then introduces the competitors.

 

 

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