Ryan's Dive into '95 - Part 52 (12/24-12/31)
We put 1995 to bed with WCW Starrcade, ECW Holiday Hell, and AAA tag action.
If you haven’t read it already, please check out my introductory article that explains what this series is all about. As a reminder, footage is sourced from the Goodhelmet 1995 Yearbook unless otherwise stated.
How ya now?
We made it, kids. After a long, fulfilling journey, we made it to the last week of 1995. Peeking at the line-up for this week, we are definitely not going to go gentle into that good night. We have an absolutely insane tag match from AAA on Christmas night, WCW Starrcade ‘95, a title match on Nitro, and we cap off the year with ECW Holiday Hell 1995.
Well…
DECEMBER 25th
AAA Television
Dark Barbed Wire Street Fight Death Tornado Tag Team Match: Psicosis & Halloween vs. León Negro & Ultraman 2000 - This one is brought to you by the magic of handheld. I believe this was a dark match at a TV taping in Tijuana. I get some mild enjoyment about a dude named Halloween wrestling on Christmas. Halloween would actually get some mild fame in WCW as Ciclope. León Negro (who comes out to “Tootsee Roll” by the 69 Boyz) would eventually assume the Psicosis name after the original left AAA. Ultraman is actually Damien 666, who we saw in the opening match of the 1995 Super J-Cup.
Psicosis marks yet another wrestler to use “Thunder Kiss ‘65” by White Zombie as entrance music, not that I’m complaining. He comes out bearing a Neil O’Donnell Pittsburgh Steelers jersey. O’Donnell led the Steelers through a successful 1995 campaign and to Super Bowl XXX, but ended up choking like CM Punk at All In. O’Donnell coughed up a couple of key interceptions en route to a loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
Naturally, it’s a four-way fracas to start, with Halloween getting his mask caught in the wire. No barbed-wire teases here; everyone ends up tasting it right away. Ultraman and León get near-falls off of hurricanranas, but they both end up getting ground into the wire. Ultraman’s mask is nearly gone at this point. Halloween gets shredded in the wire and his mask torn asunder by Negro. León bites away at a busted-open Halloween, but Psicosis kicks him in the coinpurse to break that up.
A chair is introduced, which Psicosis uses to bash Ultraman’s head in. They each try Arabian Facebusters on each other, but miss, then Psicosis just biffs the chair across the ring, not hitting anyone. Ultraman smashes Psicosis’ face as the guys continue to get wired. Psicosis rips off Ultraman’s shirt and tries to light it on fire, but Ultraman puts a stop to that. Psicosis gets Tree of Woe’d on the cage, so León and Ultraman whip Halloween with a belt and hit him with a electric chair facecrusher onto a chair!
León submits Halloween with a rear clutch, then Ultraman insists on finishing off Psicosis, so León leaves the cage. This doesn’t go well as Halloween is handed a barbed-wire bat and whacks Ultraman with it. He then lights the damn thing on fire and smacks Ultraman in his bare back! Whoa.
Halloween goes to blow fire onto Ultraman, but he ducks and Psicosis gets burned! Ultraman pins Psicosis for the win!
However, the rudos continue to assault Ultraman with the flaming bat. Psicosis then hits a legdrop OFF THE CAGE THROUGH A TABLE ON THE FLOOR! Good lord.
Psicosis continues living up to his name by hurling chairs at the cage while León gets dragged to the back of the arena for an attempted hanging by a cabal of rudos. Halloween wallops León’s defenseless head with a chair!
Rey Misterio, Jr. and Konnan thankfully make the save before León got Big Bossman’d. Rey hits a tilt-a-whirl headscissors and everybody brawls while “A Little Respect” by Erasure plays over the speakers! Halloween gets double-powerbombed onto the platform by Konnan and León! Konnan and Rey cut firey promos…then a catfight breaks out between two females (I’m not really familiar with who the ladies were; please send me a message or leave a comment if you know).
Halloween is an ungodly mess once the house lights come up. “November Rain” by Guns ‘N Roses plays while he’s getting carried out on a backboard. That’s hilarious to me for some reason.
**1/4 - The stuff that happened from bell-to-bell was a bit dull and awkward when they weren’t lighting each other on fire or tearing away at each other’s faces with the barbed wire. However, all of the absolute batshit insanity that happened after the match really elevates this as an overall package. I'd probably have it in the ***1/2 range if I bundled everything together.
Psicosis again does incredibly deranged stuff for our amusement, and the blood, fire, and chaos really made this an entertaining piece of business. Merry Christmas, you filthy animals!
We get footage of the rudos getting stitched up in the back. Halloween looks especially gory.
WCW Nitro
This episode was actually taped on 12/18 as they didn’t want to run a live Nitro on Christmas night. As discussed last week, the WWF didn’t have a broadcast in the US this week, so WCW is completely unopposed here. Canada and other international markets got replays of matches from WWF In Your House 5.
WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match: “Macho Man” Randy Savage (c) vs. Ric Flair - Interesting booking here as Flair is already in a #1 Contender’s match at Starrcade, but he gets a shot here. Maybe they just wanted a high-profile match to hook potential new viewers to their product. Jimmy Hart accompanies Flair to the ring.
After a brief Flair advantage, Savage works over the knee and slaps on the FIGURE FOUR! Finisher theft seconds into the match! Awesome. Flair makes the ropes, but Savage is slow to break. Flair comes back with an inverted atomic drop, but Savage counters a figure four attempt with a small package (kinda) for two. Flair tosses Savage for some stomping by Jimmy, then we take a break as NITRO ROLLS ON…
…and we’re back with Flair assailing Savage on the floor. Macho makes it back in where Flair continues to establish dominance, and Hart continues to interfere. Flair goes to work on the heavily bandaged arm, cheating along the way.
Savage tries a comeback with a clothesline and a backslide, then they trade blows. Flair begs off, then mule kicks Savage in the yambag while the referee is distracted. Flair pounds away as NITRO ROLLS ON…
…and we’re back with Flair chopping away at Savage, but Macho fights back with some right hands and a back body drop for two. Flair counters an axehandle with a fist in the breadbasket. Savage manages a sleeper, but Flair counters with a kneebreaker and starts to chip away at the leg. Flair slaps on the figure four and customarily uses the ropes to his advantage. Savage breaks via the ropes, then soon hurls Flair off the top rope and launches his comeback…until Flair goes to the eyes. Savage runs Flair into the turnbuckles, resulting in a Flair Flop.
Moments later, Savage comes back with an axehandle for a very close two. Jimmy Hart hops onto the apron and gets slugged down by Savage, so Lex Luger runs in for the DQ.
*** - The usual solid, fun Flair vs. Savage match from around this time, featuring trademark Flair shenanigans and generally good selling from Savage. The DQ finish is lame, but understandable given that Starrcade was two days away.
Savage and Luger scrap, resulting in Sting coming out and getting into it with Flair. The faces clear the ring, then Savage and Sting get into a shoving and slapping match as we go off the air.
In the final Monday Night War scoreboard tally of 1995, WCW edged out the WWF with a record of 6-7-2 on nights that Nitro and RAW went head-to-head.
DECEMBER 26th
ECW Hardcore TV
Pull that gold watch out of your ass, because it's time for PULP FICTION! The Sandman says that a broken hand is a small price to pay for championship glory, then crushes out his cigarette into his palm! Joey freaks out about that!
The Eliminators call out The Pitbulls! Pat Kelly of the New York Yankees tells us that we’re watching ECW, and 911 goozles him! In “A HARDCORE HOME MOVIE” (be careful if you choose to Google that), a beardless, suited Cactus Jack and his family wishes everyone a Happy Holidays! He scared some carolers by chanting “E-C-W! E-C-W!”!
Bill Alfonso yells! Joey Styles teaches 1995 Sportscaster of the Year Scott Clark how to do a proper “OH MY GOD!”! Taz encourages more Bill Alfonso yelling! Cactus Jack writes a check to Tod Gordon! Rey Misterio, sitting on the shoulders of 911, is the new big man in town!
Sandman threatens to rip Konnan’s face off! Cactus Jack’s daughter cries “Mommy” because Dad’s being weird! The Pitbulls yell at the Eliminators! Beulah talks about her box! Cactus Jack talks about being a hardcore dad! Fonzie and Taz direct threats towards the departing Public Enemy! Cactus shows his son Dewey his missing ear! Steve Austin vows to be ECW Champion! Cactus yells “EXTREME” and “WE’RE HARDCORE” while on a Ferris wheel-kinda thing! The Eliminators talk some more! 911 looks down and talks! Big Dick Dudley screams!
Collette Foley tells husband Mick that he’s hardcore! Sign Guy Dudley holds up a sign! Buh Buh Ray Dudley will beat someone like a red headed stepchild while Big Dick Dudley smacks him with a crutch from off-camera and yells! Fonzie slaps El Puerto Riqueño!
Foley was again in his absolute bag here, making it his mission to make the hardcore wrestling lifestyle ridiculously uncool. I also get a tremendous amount of amusement from Big Dick Dudley in these things.
DECEMBER 27th
WCW Starrcade 1995
The biggest show on the WCW calendar has arrived, and… it really doesn't feel like it. There's some lovely-looking matches on paper, but the World Cup of Wrestling concept would have been better-served on a different PPV. Plus, the build was really poor, with the Japanese contingent being lazily presented as evil foreigners.
Stuff that happened:
Diamond Dallas Page defeated Dave Sullivan in a pre-show dark match.
The American Males beat The Blue Bloods in another pre-show dark match.
Jushin Liger pinned Chris Benoit after a Kevin Sullivan distraction in a pretty good match to open the PPV proper.
Koji Kanemoto defeated Alex Wright with a jackknife pin in a solid outing for Das Wunderkind.
Lex Luger submitted Masahiro Chono with a Torture Rack in a dull match.
Johnny B. Badd defeated Masa Saito via DQ after Saito tossed Badd over the top rope.
Eddy Guerrero vs. Shinjiro Otani - This is another match in the World Cup of Wrestling. The graphics have Otani listed as “Ootani”. Good job, guys! We’re currently tied 2-2 in the series. These guys have experience with each other due to Guerrero’s time in NJPW as Black Tiger.
We get some delightfully mean grappling from Otani to start, but Guerrero fires back with an enzuigiri and a face rake. Both guys exchange athletic maneuvers until Eddy sends Otani packing with a Frankensteiner. Moments later, Eddy hits a beautiful dropkick and a slingshot hilo. Guerrero lands a nasty powerbomb on Otani for two, then a gorgeous brainbuster for another near-fall. After a bit of domination from Eddy, Otani flips out of a corner charge and lands his awesome springboard dropkick, then follows with a springboard plancha to the floor!
Back in, Otani hits a dropkick and grinds away at Eddy until Guerrero lands a Saito suplex for two. Otani hits a beautiful German suplex for two, then pastes Eddy with a springboard spinning heel kick. Eddy soon hits a top-rope Frankensteiner for a close two as the efforts of these two starts to rouse a fairly sleep crowd.
Eddy hits the Black Tiger Bomb, but Otani kicks out! Otani soon snatches Eddy in an anklelock, but it’s broken up via the ropes. We hit ringside where Guerrero slams Otani onto the floor and hits a HUGE slingshot rounding crossbody! Otani suplexes Eddy back into the ring and absolutely drills him with a springboard dropkick to the back of the head. Eddy hits a ‘rana, and we get a sweet pinfall reversal sequence that ends with Otani on top for the three!
**** - Otani really showed out here against Guerrero, hitting all manner of impressive offense and doing a great job of heeling it up. Eddy was crisp and precise with his maneuvers, and they worked a smart, brisk match that got the Nashville fans heated by the end.
“Macho Man” Randy Savage then defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan via a top rope elbow in a match that featured Savage mostly selling until his big comeback.
We pick it up at the finish of Sting vs. Kensuke Sasaki in the last match of the World Cup of Wrestling, with the series being tied at 3-3. Sasaki's US title was initially set to be on the line here, but in storyline, he refused to defend it on American soil. The US title situation will take a weird turn, which I’ll get into later.
Sasaki goes for his own version of the Scorpion Deathlock!
The Stinger powers out, but Sasaki hits a dragonscrew. Sting fights back with an enzuigiri, then soon hits his comeback. Scorpion Deathlock ends the match and the series, with WCW winning 4-3. The WCW contingent comes out to celebrate and accept the World Cup of Wrestling.
“Mean” Gene Okerlund puts the World Cup of Wrestling on the same level as the Ryder Cup and the Stanley Cup. OH COME ON!
Triangle Match: Ric Flair vs. Sting vs. Lex Luger - This is different than other three-way/triple threat matches in that it’s two guys in the ring at once while the third guy waits on the apron and can tag in and out. The winner gets an immediate WCW title match against Randy Savage.
Flair and Sting begin things with a “WOO”-off, then Sting asserts dominance with a press slam and a Scorpion Deathlock attempt. Flair works the arm for a while, then Sting no-sells a chop and goes to town. Flair eventually dodges a dropkick and reassumes control. He goads Luger in for a distraction, allowing him to hurl Sting over the top with impunity. Flair drops a knee and gets many two-counts off of that. Sting no-sells a suplex and lands another press-slam and a superplex. Luger looks to break the pin, so Sting confronts his friend.
Flair knocks Sting into the corner, and Lex tags in and HITS THE POSE! Flair powders, but Luger carries him back into the ring. Luger continues to power through Flair's attempts at offense and hits his own press slam. Luger pounds away at Flair until an eyepoke creates some space. Flair begins the attack on the leg, including a chairshot (kind of) to the knee. Flair hits a knee to the dick while Sting has the referee distracted, then we get the Figure Four! Flair uses the ropes and gets a couple of two-counts…but LEX FLEXES!
After it's broken up, Luger suplexes Flair for another near-fall, then hurls him off the top. Luger powers through more stuff, so Flair tags in Sting.
The friends observe the Code of Honor, and we get some clean breaks from Sting. Luger takes advantage of Sting’s clemency and beats away at him. Sting mounts a comeback, so Luger stalls to halt the momentum. We get quite a bit of back-and-forth, with Luger getting a big clothesline and Sting getting a crossbody for two. Vader Bomb from Sting finds knees, allowing Luger to pummel him with elbows. Sting goes for a Scorpion Deathlock, but Luger blocks, then uppercuts him in the wiener.
Sting gets a couple of flash pins for near-falls and mounts a comeback with a Stinger Splash, but he misses a second. Lex gets the Torture Rack, but the ref gets bumped along the way.
Flair sneaks in and clips Luger. Luger falls out of the ring, and Flair tosses Sting over the top. The ref counts both guys out, giving Flair the win!
**3/4 - This definitely had some stuff going for it. The Flair/Luger portion had the strongest dynamic, and the Flair/Sting portion was pretty fun, albeit repetitive. I also enjoyed Luger going from classic babyface against Flair to shithead heel against Sting.
However, the Sting/Luger portion really drags things down. Those guys are BFFs in real life and worked quite well as a tag team, but they had less than zero chemistry as opponents. It also went nearly 30 minutes with not a whole hell of a lot happening. The crowd pretty much died until the ending brought them back to life.
WCW World Heavyweight Championship: “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair - Jimmy Hart again accompanies Flair for this one.
Savage pounds away at Flair while a neckbraced Paul Orndorff watches from the aisle. Macho fights off a Figure Four, but Flair catches Savage with a fist to the guts to counteract an axehandle. Flair works him over outside the ring and back in, with attention being paid to the damaged arm.
Savage mounts a comeback and slugs Flair down, but Jimmy tosses the megaphone to Flair. However, Savage snatches it from Flair and bops him with it! That busts Flair WIDE open, and Savage hits the flying elbow…but Brian Pillman and Chris Benoit run interference! Savage dispatches both guys, but Arn Anderson nails Savage with a foreign object. Flair pins for the three and the title, resulting in a babyface pop. This is Flair's 12th world title reign in kayfabe, but it's at least his 14th in reality.
*3/4 - Not much to see here, other than a rare bladejob from 1995 WCW. It was little more than a truncated version of their Monday match, with a circus of run-ins at the end.
After the PPV went off the air, we got an odd piece of business. A WCW United States Heavyweight Championship match between Kensuke Sasaki (c) and One Man Gang was taped for a later episode of WCW Saturday Night. The Gang pinned Sasaki after a splash (despite Sasaki kicking out) and won the title. However, we got a Dusty finish with another referee coming down to apprise the original ref of the kickout. The match was restarted with Sasaki going over, presumably retaining the belt.
However, when the match was later shown on TV, the footage stopped after Gang got the initial pin, thus he was recognized by WCW as the United States Champion. It was thought that WCW did the restart to appease New Japan while moving the title along to someone else, but everyone just… kind of moved on, I guess. I liked Gang just fine as a worker back in the day, but having him hold the secondary singles title going into 1996 did not bring the hands together.
Much like the WWF December offering, WCW didn’t garner very much in the way of buys for this show, netting approximately 75,000 purchases. That was the lowest for a non-Collision in Korea WCW show since the ridiculously-inconsequential Battlebowl ‘93. The previous year’s show did 130,000 buys, even with an abysmal Hulk Hogan vs. The Butcher main event. The time of year, increase in PPV saturation from both companies, lack of Hogan, and the central concept of the show were likely the contributing factors to this show’s commercial failure.
DECEMBER 29th
ECW Holiday Hell ‘95
To kick off the final show of the year, Joey Styles welcomes us to ECW’s New York City debut. Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie come out to interrupt as the crowd showers them with unflattering chants.
Stevie goes on about how everybody came to see him, then he and the crowd trade homophobic and transphobic insults. Stevie and Joey spot Missy Hyatt in the crowd. Stevie chats her up, but Missy claps back by calling him a “clueless putz”. Stevie brings up the letters he used to write to her when she was in WCW, and offers to take her out after the show. Missy laughs her ass off, so Stevie then offers to get her a date with Raven. That was apparently enough as she takes her jacket off and makes out with Big Stevie Cool. She says “take that back to Raven”.
This whole was just weird, but Joey dejectedly going “I know Raven, too” after the kiss was pretty funny.
ECW World Television Championship & ECW World Tag Team Championship: 2 Cold Gold Scorpio (c) vs. Mikey Whipwreck - Yes, Scorpio is not only defending his TV title, but he’s also defending the tag titles held by himself and The Sandman in a singles match. Kind of a raw deal for Scorpio since Mikey isn’t putting anything on the line. If Mikey wins, he gets to pick his championship partner.
The fans are supremely into Buffalo’s Mikey Whipwreck as we get some fun grappling and reversals to start us off. Scorpio seems to be putting his size advantage and recent European catch-style experience to work before hitting a baseball slide dropkick and a clothesline into the railing. Scorpio DRILLS Mikey with a bicycle kick, but a fast-paced sequence allows Mikey to land a flying headscissors and some dropkicks to send Scorp to the floor. Mikey follows with his own baseball slide and a somersault plancha to the outside! Seeing those New York-mandated “pretty blue mats” on an ECW arena floor is a tad jarring.
Back in, Mikey whiffs on a crossbody, allowing Scorp to regain the upper hand. Mikey escapes a powerbomb and builds a comeback, but Scorpio punts him in the dick to cut him off. Scorpio hits a flipping slam, but uncovers Mikey after a one-count. Scorpio hits a tombstone piledriver and lands a GORGEOUS moonsault, but again releases the cover. Scorpio hits a powerslam and continues to tease acrobatics before landing a powerbomb. Scorpio DROPS THE BOMB (a moonsault legdrop), but he AGAIN pulls Mikey up. Mikey is BLASTED with a Superkick, then Scorpio SPITS ON HIM.
Scorpio goes back up, but Mikey cuts him off and hits a super FRANKENMIKEY for two! Mikey gets a roll-up for another near-fall, but Scorpio ends up booting both Mikey AND the ref down at the same time, then mistakenly splashes the ref from the top rope!
Scorpio lands another superkick and hits a big rounding splash. Scorpio hits a backbreaker and another powerbomb, then heads upstairs. Cactus Jack (and his amazing sweater) runs out and pushes him off, then plants him with a double-arm DDT! Jack puts Mikey on top, tosses the ref over to count the pin, and we have new champions! Jack helps himself to one of the tag belts, which Mikey initially refuses. He tries to give the tag belt back to Scorpio, but Jack takes him out.
***1/4 - Despite them foreshadowing a Mikey upset to the point of near-parody, this was really good. Mikey got to look resilient while Scorpio looked like a killer. A cocky killer that kept playing with his food until it came back to bite him, but a killer regardless. The execution was strong and Scorpio’s aerial moves are always a sight to behold. The ref bump was also well-done and didn’t come off as contrived or hackneyed.
We pick up at the finish of The Sandman (c) vs Raven for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship. Raven had defeated Tommy Dreamer earlier in the evening (with some chicanery) to earn this title shot.
Stevie jumps The Sandman, but Woman canes him in retaliation. She whacks Raven in the head, but he doesn’t flinch. Raven procures the cane and smashes Sandy with it while Richards holds him in place. The ref is bumped, so nobody’s there to count the pin. A naturally bloody and bandaged Tommy Dreamer comes out and pummels everyone with the cane, especially Sandman.
Beulah runs in, so Dreamer piledrives her! Cactus Jack hits a double-arm DDT on Sandman, but he kicks out of the cover! Sandman blocks a superplex and bulldogs Raven off the top for the three to retain! Sandman celebrates with a victory dart.
Cactus Jack vs. Sabu - Cactus Jack, newly-crowned tag champ and one of the MVPs of 1995, appropriately ends off the year. These guys had some fun matches against each other, including an entertaining cage match for NWC aaaalllllll the way back in Part Two.
Cactus grabs the stick and says that WCW SUCKS! He says that the awful things he said about the ECW faithful were not directed at the New York fans as he would not insult “his homeboys”. Jack tells a story about John, a wheelchair bound fan who didn’t have a ride to a show. Cactus gave him a lift, and on the way back, John said that riding with Jack was a “dream come true”. Cactus then ties this into Sabu’s “dream” of not just being seen as a hardcore wrestler, so Jack says they are going to have an OLYMPIC RULES wrestling match! Jack brings out referee John “Pee Wee” Moore to officiate.
Pee Wee runs down the rules and asks Sabu to get into the referee’s position…but 911 comes out. Emergency Services chokeslams Moore a couple of times and assumes the role of referee.
Sabu immediately grabs a chair and somersaults to the floor onto Cactus (after Jack dodges an attempt at Air Sabu). We get a hanging legdrop from Sabu as Joey’s gag of counting the points is already wearing thin. A Sabu leaping side kick gets a one-count, but Jack intercepts Air Sabu with an elbow. Jack blasts Sabu with the chair and hits a double-arm DDT for a near-fall. Double-arm on the chair gets another two-count, then Jack follows with a chair-assisted Cactus Elbow. We brawl on the floor for a bit longer, with Sabu pounding away at Jack with a chair. Back in, Cactus does his “head between the ropes” spot, leaving him vulnerable to Air Sabu!
Jack dodges a chair attack from the apron, causing Sabu to crash into the railing, but Sabu soon tosses Jack off the apron and onto the floor! Sabu sits Jack in a chair and suicide-dives onto him! Back in, Sabu lands a rebound side kick, and another one with a chair assist. Moments later, Sabu uses a chair to launch himself into Jack, putting both through a table on the floor!
Back in, Jack gets a small package for two, then Sabu chairs a supine Jack in the face with a chair. Sabu then hits a BRUTAL Arabian press, with the knees and the chair going right in Cactus’ face! That looked like it SUCKED for Foley. Jack is PISSED, beating away at Sabu, but Sabu comes back with some chairshots from the top rope. Sabu climbs up and hits an ATOMIC ARABIAN FACEBUSTER, but Jack kicks out. Jack picks Sabu up for a slam, but Sabu pushes back and keeps Jack down for the three!
**3/4 - This was another decent brawl between these two, but I preferred their NWC match over this one. I do wish Jack played more into his character by trying more amateur wrestling moves, but this had some nutty spots and an entertaining opening. The finish was a tad weak, though, given the spots that came before it.
Other stuff that happened:
Taz submits Bret Hart superfan Koji Nakagawa with the Tazmission in a squash.
Hack Meyers pinned the very Italian JT Smith after a modified facebuster.
The Eliminators defeat The Pitbulls when Saturn pins Pitbull #2 after *high-pitched Joey Styles voice* TOTAL ELIMINATION!
Tommy Dreamer was set to face Raven for the title shot we covered earlier. However, Stevie Richards and The Blue Meanie came out to claim that Raven was injured, so Blue Meanie was the replacement. Dreamer pinned Meanie in just over ten seconds with a leaping DDT.
Dreamer then pins Richards in about the same amount of time after a DDT.
Raven comes out to stop Dreamer from piledriving Beulah, and they end up having their match. Raven pins Dreamer after a DDT onto a chair and copious amounts of fuckery.
Bruiser Mastino (the ex-Mantaur) pinned El Puerto Riqueño after a powerslam. The match was littered with “MANTAUR SUCKS” chants. Rude.
Buh Buh Ray Dudley pinned The Blue Meanie after a splash in an impromptu match.
Buh Buh Ray would have been fired from Raven’s Nest if he lost to Meanie.
The Gangstas beat The Public Enemy after Mustafa pins Rocco Rock with a schoolboy roll-up.
And that was 1995 in the world of wrestling, and what a year it was. It's been a long dive, but it was an incredibly fun one. We'll have another article to wrap everything up in…
We’ll have some year-end lists and other stuff. Be on the lookout for that, and other future projects, coming soon!
Smell ya later.