Wednesday 5 April 2023

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW Fall Brawl: War Games 17/09/1995 Match 5 Part 5 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WCW Fall Brawl: War Games 17/09/1995 Match 5 Part 5 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/blood warning.

Match/Stipulation: "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson vs. "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair; Singles Match

Match Attributes:

Match Quality: 9/10

Match Slot Storyline: 7/10

Crowd Participation: 10/10

On Commentary: Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel" 8/10

Satisfying Conclusion: 8/10

Recommend Watch: 10/10

Match Total: 52/60 - this match is excellent

Comments: as you can clearly see this match slot lives up to its expectations. To begin with we have the commentary building this match up including pointing out wrestlers and on-screen character that are in the crowd to watch this match, here is two we get to see wrestler such as Big Bubba and on-screen character such as Col. Robert Parker and yes the crowd finally wake up and remember they are here to watch some wrestling engaging with Flair at one point or another, but then again if you can't get up for this match slot there is something seriously wrong with you.

But unfortunately there is this potentially massive botch, I only classify it as a potentially massive botch Our Referee for this match is [Randy Anderson;] Arn is on the canvas holding on to Flair's hand/arm in between his legs so Arn's pushing up using his legs/feet which Flair falls back onto the canvas with Arn still holding on arm bar submission pining combination which because both Flair's shoulders are on the canvas Randy begins the pin-fall it is either 2.99 or 3 or even 3.1 and then Flair gets his far shoulder up and absolutely nothing is indicated in the match, but what I can tell you is Randy's hand does come down for the 3 count so at most as I have already clearly indicated we are a very fine line here. I'm speculating here, but mixing with what is said next on commentary. Schiavone says "Brain you're wrong, there's a one count" and on a quick side note they even screwed up on the subtitles because when  Schiavone says there's, someone has put here's. But switching my main focus back to this pin-fall. Firstly Schiavone on one hand there is more than a one count, but on the other hand I get if this is intended to cover this up, it is either Randy's fault for maybe counting a little bit too quickly and yes before the hard-core community of people I even took into consideration Randy's knees could have possibly hit the canvas before counting, but now I have said that I would like to now put the flames out on that idea as the knees make no sounds so as I have already said his hand hits the mat three times or Flair for not paying attention to the count or to be fair it looks to be a mixture of both, but as I have seen this on replay so many times at this point I would say it is unclear so consequently there is a little bit of controversy here.

Basic Result: "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson picks up the W. Just for the record I know I said earlier there is a little bit of controversy, this is still valid even though he went over here still.

Basic walk-through of this event: you have two choices here; you can either watch all of this or take a toilet break, because let's just say there is a lot of admin here.

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary talk about what they had just seen over video replays with Arn Anderson's theme music playing WCW Arn Anderson 6th Theme With TitanTron. Our commentary duo appear on-screen; Schiavone more about what we have just witnessed and then literally a second about the main event before a video package cuts in going on about the main event.

* First video package: from The Dungeon Of Doom's leader The Taskmaster Kevin Sullivan; warning flashing effects/other effects/electrocution

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary appears on-screen again, with Schiavone telling us what happened earlier today in a nutshell Hulk Hogan was given a motorcycle for only The Dungeon Of Doom's TheGiant to run it over in a monster truck [we see footage of this heinous act including even interrupting.]

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary appears on-screen again, with Schiavone telling us more with essentially Heenan desperately wanting to get in a edge ways; Schiavone in short "We don't have time." He sends us to another video package.

* Second video package with voice-over: recapping the feud and how we got to the main event; excellent quality of video package with voice-over.

* "Mean" Gene Okerlund: interviewer, interviews the Hulkamanics: the WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan [with "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart,] the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Sting, Randy "The Macho Man" Savage & "The Total Package" Lex Luther as they build up to the main event which is imminent including Hogan making reference to a new stipulation to this match if his team wins tonight Hogan will get 5 minutes alone with The Taskmaster Kevin Sullivan.

* Michael Buffer: Ring-announcer; introduces us to this main event; warning flashing/other effects when the cages come down.

* Tony Schiavone; Commentary; talks about WarGames and at some point & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel" comments

* "Mean" Gene Okerlund: interviewer, takes us through the rules of this stipulations of this match with voice-over and the rules on-screen: War Games: Official Rules

. There are 7 periods Wargames

. First period lasts for 5 minutes all other periods last for 2 minutes

. One man from each team enters during the first period

. After the first period ends the head referee flipped a coin the team that wins the toss sends in second its man

. After second period ends, the other team sends in its second man - making Wargames 2 on 2

. After the third period ends, the team which won the coin toss sends in its third man

. Teams alternate during remaining periods until all 8 men are in the rings

. Surrender or submission is the only way to win

. No pinfalls Countouts or Disqualifications

. Official time is kept at ringside Head Referee has final say in Wargames.

* Michael Buffer: Ring-announcer; with a major announcement for the crowd which we already know the stipulation added; if the  the Hulkamanics win The Taskmaster Kevin Sullivan must face Hulk Hogan one-on-one tonight [I know these two references are not the same, I am just dictating what I am hearing and I will be using Buffer's description based on the grounds he is reading it off paper in front of him.]

Michael Buffer: Ring-announcer; introduces these two teams similar to either American High School or College sports teams for the upcoming season with this drammatical entrance music; first team; The Dungeon Of Doom; "The Man from Ying and Yang who walks in Darkness and Light" Zodiac, The Man-Eater from The Great Barrier Reef Sherk, The Ugandan Warrior from Deepest, Darkest Africa, The Man Known As Kamala, A Member of Royalty From The South Pacific of Tonga Meng "The Face of Terror" & The Leader of The Dungeon Of Doom from The Iron Gates of Fate The Taskmaster [but I am going to go with his full name of The Taskmaster Kevin Sullivan, just because it covers me if they should use a variation of this name either The Taskmaster or Kevin Sullivan or something like just plain Sullivan, I don't know I haven't seen the next and final of this pay-per-view.]

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary talk about things as it relates to this main event

Michael Buffer: Ring-announcer; team two ladies and gentlemen from the WCW Galaxy of Stars; presenting the Hulkamanics' from Sarasota, Florida one of the famous names in wrestling Randy "The Macho Man" Savage, from Venice Beach California, the 5 times Heavyweight Champion and the current WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Sting, from Chicago, Illinois, another great superstar of professional wrestling, he's "The Total-Package" Lex Lugar and finally in the company of his manager "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart we have The King of Hulkamanics, The Living Legend of Pro Wrestling the WCW Heavyweight Champion of the World Hulk Hogan; yes I have missed out all their weights, but I just wanted to give you a taste of when I said earlier about them coming out as a High School or College sports team for the new season.

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary talking about this main event again

* Michael Buffer: Ring-announcer; finishes off speaking a little bit more and signs off with his legendary and classic "Let's Get Ready To Rumble!"

* Tony Schiavone & Bobby "The Brain" Heenan/"Wiesel": Commentary Schiavone is keeping us up to date on things around ringside and then they talk about who's it going to be that kind of thing; so first for Hulkamanics' it's the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Sting and for The Dungeon Of Doom its Shark for the first 5 minutes.

 

 

 

 


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