Yes, I'd rather have seen an Alundra Blayze-Bull Nakano rematch rather than most of the matches were got here.

Doink giving Lawler a pie in the face was cool, but I'm so sick of Dink and all the others. I wish they'd all just go away. I can at least handl Doink by himself as a comedy act.

Yeah, it's obviously Vince behind things with Diesel getting this big push.  He's got his guys he falls in love with. On Superstars a few days after this, they said that Jack Tunney made Diesel the #1 contender due to his performance at Survivor Series, but it does seem a bit rushed. I don't think King Kong Bundy has been back long enough or beaten anybody of note since coming back to be #1 contender but I could buy Bam Bam Bigelow in that role. 

Interesting that also on Superstars, they intimated a couple of times that it was Stu that threw in the towel.  Uh, no guys, it was Helen.  She took the towel from Stu, who refused to throw it in, and threw it in herself. I know WWF/WWE are bad about their own history, but they apparently can't even remember something that happened 3 days ago correctly!

And yes, I believe there's an Undertaker/IRS feud to follow.  In fact, on the Superstars a fe days after this, after several weeks of promos with IRS going to the cemetery and auditing some dead guy ("John Dough") he finally called out the Undertaker. Just what everybody was clamoring for.  It's amazing how many mediocre and/or bad feuds the Undertaker got stuck in for a period of several years.

I watched this tape maybe a year ago.  I seem to recall it was reasonably enjoyable, and the tennis stuff with Heenan and Okerland was amusing - better than most of the Coliseum filler.  And yes, it's incredible how Earthquake and Jake were buddies so shortly after Quake killed Jake's snake!  This must be a record to clean finishes in a Coliseum tape!

There’s no denying how popular Ultimate Warrior was at his peak. I’m not surprised they chose to give him a world title run. He had an energy and charisma that I’m sure some people wish they could bottle. Naturally, that meant a videotape release or two. I watched this one last night, it was 60 minutes long:






We begin with Warrior vs. Andre the Giant, from 1989 (Maple Leaf Gardens). This is pretty good as both guys tell a good story, with Warrior having to throw everything he has at Andre. Yes, it was a DQ win (for Warrior). But making Warrior the David to Andre’s Goliath meant the match was a good one by the standards of the era.

Warrior then defeats Haku in a short but entertaining contest. At one point, things seemed bleak for Warrior as Andre and Rick Rude came down to ringside, but it was good to see Warrior prevail.

For reasons I didn’t understand - then or now - we get a squash match, Warrior vs. Bob Embury. Warrior hits Embury with a clothesline that seemed very stiff. Poor Bob. I’m not sure why a 1:39 squash match was included here, we could have had a match from SNME or something.

Then we have a Weasel Suit match between Heenan and Warrior. It was what it was, but this was on another tape (I’m almost certain).

Final match sees Warrior vs. Rick Rude (post-WM V). Warrior wins by count-out, but walks away with the Intercontinental Championship anyway, which he shouldn’t have done. There’s an amusing spot where Rude is posing over Warrior, but Warrior headbutts him in the groin. But these two had better bouts.

There is nothing on this tape that is bad. It’s vintage Warrior. It does what it says on the tin. Warrior fans, and I was one, were not disappointed. The matches featuring Embury and Heenan should not have been included on here (think of the other bouts we could have been shown), but the Warrior/Andre match alone made this a worthy tape for me. And the Warrior/Rude match is at least fun.

Gorilla's obviously never seen a Fujiwara match. 

I am curious about whether these reviews are going to continue into 1995. 1995 was an all-time low for me as a wrestling fan and almost forced me to give up on wrestling for good. 

Oh, you mean the head idiot? The leading dunce-in-charge who thinks that he has his poo-ridden finger on the pulse of the wrestling community?

Picked up Bret's biography from '09 at work for a song and been reading and enjoying it. Was a bit curious about Sweet Daddy Siki (kind of envisioned him as being the progenitor for Ric Flair from how Bret worded him) but he looks fairly standard from this video taking on a VERY young Lou Albano

*edit Here's a a better representation of what I had in mind*

Just watched episode 3 of Who Killed WCW?. Do not ever try a drinking game where you drink when the word "bro" (okay, sound, since that ain't a word) is uttered; or, you will end up with blood alcohol poisoning!

It's Russo's chance to defend his record and it's pretty much what you would expect: spin, no responsibility for failures, complete ignorance of the point of the show and a complete lack of understanding of storytelling, beyond an individual scene.

He claims that Tony Sciavone pitched David Arquette winning the title. That has never come up before his recent claims of that. No one ever pointed a finger at Tony for that. Tony isn't interviewed for this, so no confirmation or denial from him; but, to use the words of Gorilla Monsoon, "Highly unlikely!"

Even in interviews, he is fixated on ratings, which tanked completely. He clings to the brief bump they got, at the start. A blind monkey could have gotten that bump, as it was just curiosity, fueled by the mistaken belief that since he was a writer for the WWF, he had to be the one responsible for their resurgence. Boy did Russo clear that misconception up quickly. There is some back and forth and then Brad Siegal is asked about it and he said they "went up a little, but it didn't affect the advertising money." That's the part Russo never got; it's a business and business is about making money. He seemed to think that a slight improvement to the ratings meant he was doing his job. If they can't sell more advertising, based on those ratings, then he accomplished nothing. The tv didn't translate to an increase in ticket sales and PPV buys went down. The point of wrestling tv was to sell that product. It didn't make people want to go out and buy their merchandise. They weren't getting paid huge amounts for their show........Warner and Turner had pretty much gifted the show to TNT, so advertising, live events, merch sales and PPV buys were their main revenue streams. Those got worse, the more Russo's stuff bombed with the audience.

He brings up the "casual audience," which gets the response from Konnan, who said "Why would the casual audience want to see Judy Bagwell on a pole?"

He tries to claim that Bischoff had Hogan's ear and that's why Hogan wouldn't trust him. He even claims that if Bischoff had been gone, then he and Hogan would have gotten along fine. Not buying that one.

Basically, Russo is not responsible for any of the failures and when challenged with putting himself all over the tv, he claims he was better than 80% of the locker room and his job was to write a tv show. So, if you are hired to write Star Trek and you put out episodes of I Love Lucy, with yourself in place of Lucille Ball, you've done your job?

He claims that Kevin Sullivan & JJ Dillon conspired behind his back to get creative away from him and that he went home, refusing to work on a committee, not that they relieved him of his duties and suspended him. No one backs up Russo's claims, though no one outright calls BS on that. Bischoff is brought back to oversee Russo, according to him, Russo claims otherwise but he was determined to do his job. So, he goes from claiming he had full creative control, contractually to agreeing to work with Bischoff, because he wanted and not because he was compelled to do so.

He tries to claim he championed Booker T and the racial discrimination lawsuit brought by Sony Ono and other WCW wrestlers is not brought up, at all, when most insider accounts said that the lawsuit led to them deciding to put the belt on Booker T, as a deflection of the racial issue.

Russo makes the claim that Benoit, Guerrero, Saturn and Malenko left because he went home....not because Sullivan was put in charge. His presence had nothing to do with it. Sullivan's had everything to do with it, as they went to Bill Busch and said they couldn't work with him, specifically, especially Chris. Russo was never in the picture.

He claims Goldberg deliberately tried to hurt him, when he speared him through a gimmicked part of a cage. To which Goldberg responded that if he wanted to hurt Russo, he wouldn't be breathing. Or he would have had a career-ending concussion, Bill. Russo is full of it; but, Goldberg still comes across as an A-hole.

Nash is so baked in this episode that he should have a recipe card attached to his forehead. They show him the footage of them trying to drop blood on him, from above, and missing. he claims there were multiple tries and it was the same old story. I had long given up, by that point, so all I have seen is the clip they showed. Did they actually try it several times live or is Nash in THC land? Well, he is, but I mean his memory.

Next episode is about the end; so I assume talk of Bischoff trying to put together a group to buy it, which dies when Jamie Kelner announces the cancellation of the tv show and Vince getting it for peanut shells (didn't even cost him the peanuts).

The most ridiculous thing said is by Russo, where he says he hates wrestling, yet he keeps trying to beg jobs in it or related to it. Guess that degree in journalism hasn't helped much. Or managing a video store.

This documentary trailer is pretty cool.