I honestly do not get Matt Riddle. Every single molecule of the prick is a heel, and yet hes apparantly a massive face?

Also how can he be a heel if HE HAS NO SHOES!!!

That’s a fucking good point.

Hey I watched that today randomly. Good vid.

Just caught up on BOSJ, damn that was a fun show.

...and another...

mistercrayon wrote:

Man it looked like undertaker and goldberg nearly murdered each other fucking up their respective moves.

Kinda feel the wwe should shoulder a lot of the blame on that. 2 old guys, not in active competition, 1 of whom was a bit clumsy during his short career. I know wrestlers carry on into old age but they aren't usually doing high impact moves like jackhammers, tombstones etc.

Michaels vs Vader Sumer slam 96. What a match.

Because Michaels wasn’t difficult?

Kara_Jane_Adams wrote:

Because Michaels wasn’t difficult?

Very fair point but being the guy on top is different to being the guy wanting to get on top. The something to wrestle podcast on vader is worth a listen. It definitely sounds like he didn't help himself.

I still marked for him as a wrestler though.

But then the rest of that story is Austin knew it was Shawn's last match, and he was genuinely hurt, so offered to take it easy and do only soft bumps.

Instead, Shawn risked serious injury, bumping like crazy for Austin to make him look great.

Shawn had spent the previous months bitching about how he wasn't going to drop the belt to Austin and had been trying to politic his was way out of losing.

On the Steve Austin podcast back in 2015, Steve said "It was a real pain even getting to the match and Shawn will tell you this, he wasn't in a good place physically or mentally, he had a real bad attitude on him and didn't feel like dropping the strap"

Shawn himself in an interview with Austin said "Everybody knew, you'd have to be a dummy not to know that you were coming on hot, For me and again just being 100% totally honest, it's one of those things where like you know it's cool, all of the stuff that's happening is big, but you're not a part of it and that was admittedly a tough pill to swallow, and obviously not being the great guy I am now...(laughs)"

He goes on to say "The thing is the animosity was never you, it was the situation, it was Vince, the career is over, I'm dropping the title, it was palpable that this was going to be big, there was absolutely nothing good going on with me, so I was a dick to everybody"

According to Jim Cornette the Undertaker taped his fists and waited behind the curtain ready to beat the shit out of Shawn if he didn't do the job for Austin, Shawn himself, although he leaves out the taped fists, admits that Undertaker had told everybody that if the ending didn't go down correctly, he would absolutely have pummelled Shawn as soon as the dust settled.

At the end of the match Shawn was pissed at Tyson laying the Austin 3:16 shirt on his face, which he felt was too much, so after the show he kicked open the door where Tyson, Vince and Austin were doing the press conference and when asked by Shane what he was doing, he went on a bitter tirade about how he should be treated better after all he had done for the company.

ChopperByrne wrote:

Oh yeah complete dick, but during the match he was an absolute pro who ironically, carried on the work Bret started, solidifying Austin as a star.

The only real time he wasn't a pro in the ring in a major way was the hogan match. And even, his OTT selling is very funny.

Tbf it was totally deserved by Hogan. I also can't imagine a genuine match between the two being better.

I did not know that. Makes sense with tge ITV Box Office for PPVs.

I wonder if this is good or bad for World of Sport.