There was a certain logic to the tournament, e.g. Savage wrestling four matches while Ted DiBiase only wrestled three due to a bye in the semifinals. Same was done at King of the Ring 1993 where Bam Bam Bigelow got a bye while Bret had to wrestle three matches in one night.

But as a whole, it was a cumbersome, unwieldy mess. It was the first PPV I'd seen which had me looking at my watch.

There were some good moments on the PPV. I like the Warrior/Hercules match. I like the battle royal. And Jesse Ventura made me smile. After Hogan had been disqualified, and celebrated, Ventura shouted, "I've never seen a guy so ecstatic about being knocked out of a tournament!"

Mostly, though, the PPV doesn't work for me.

According to what I heard from Bret Hart that Goldberg did hurt him in the way that gave him a bad concession and all and knowing that he wanted to get out of professional wrestling because of that. I had a friend that saw Goldberg in WCW and he's so brutal that he was shocked to see it. The others ... that you listed I don't know a thing about it.

In another interview from the Hit Man, that Bret thinks that Goldberg should not be in the Hall of Fame because of the nature of Goldberg's wrestling style and all that ... this is all I know and I just don't care for his spear of his and now I just having doubts about him.

The Vader thing is not true. He did injure a prelim guy, though not a broken back.

The Rockers paralyzed a prelim guy in the WWF and had a rep for sloppiness.

Ahmed Johnson was also known for sloppiness and hurt people.

The Steiners were notorious for beating up prelim and Japanese wrestlers, particularly "young boys" (rookies). They tossed them like sacks of potatoes, with no regard to protecting them.

In most cases, injuries occurred from mistakes, rather than intent. "Stiff" varies according to who is defining it. Some guys laid it in, to make it look real, while others knew how to work and could make the most brutal looking punches actually feel like a gentle tap.

Nature Boy Buddy Rogers was notorious for taking liberties and he got his comeuppance from Karl Gotch and Bill Miller. They cornered him backstage, he tried to slip past and got a door slammed on his hand.

Akira Maeda was known in Japan as a cheap shot artist. He kicked Satoru Sayama in the groin (actually the inner thigh, based on the footage I've seen) and was DQd in a match where he started shooting. He hit Riki Chosu in the head with a stiff kick, breaking the occipital bone and getting himself fired from New Japan. He and Andre had a match where Andre stopped cooperating with him, so he started throwing shoot kicks, before it was broken up (and Andre killed him).

Bret was injured by Goldberg; but, he may have suffered another concussion after, adding to things. He did an angle in a car and I thought I read in the Observer that he may have suffered further injury shooting the angle. he certainly was erratic in the shooting. Can't remember if he crashed into something or was just swerving.

Sad was what happened to Darren Drozdov, aka Droz, in the WWE. He and D-Lo Brown were in a match and Brown went to do a running powerbomb and his foot slipped on the mat and Droz came down on his neck, paralyzing him.

Mexican luchadors Oro anf Perro Aguayo Jr both died in the ring, after sustaining head and neck injuries in botched spots. Japanese women's wrestler Plum Mariko died after taking a Ligerbomb in a match. She had suffered multiple concussions in matches and shouldn't have been working; but, it is believed she had developed and abscess, which was triggered when she took the drop and resulted in a full hemorrhage. She died in the hospital, after the match.

Kensuke Sasaki allegedly killed a young trainee in the New Japan dojo. The wrestler had done his workout and there were higher ups visiting, so Sasaki, to impress the bosses, had him run through things again, and started yelling at the guy when he was exhausted. He supposedly threw him around the ring and the guy landed badly and was killed. The incident was hushed up as a training accident, though similar things have occurred in sumo dojos.

Didn't King Mabel injure (or almost injure) Diesel at SummerSlam 1995?

Regarding wrestling moves looking real, I was always impressed by Randy Savage's elbow drop. How on earth do you do that and make it look real?

Sadly, I don't know a thing about Savage's Elbow Drop, King Mabel is somewhat an unknown to me, and Bret Hart Single Push to Intercontinental and World's Titles was somewhat engineered by Vince McMahon until Shawn Michaels came along. I think that Bret was a hard man to deal with and took pride personally and that's led to the Montreal Screwjob and Michaels became WWF darling and all that. When, he went to WCW ... his career took a nosedive ... figure of speech and I did not care his appearances in WCW.

Well, before he was jacked to the gills, he could execute it perfectly.  Basically, he took a side bump with the elbow coming down after he hit the mat, so the impact was on his body, not his opponents.  However, when he came back to WCW, after an injury, he was all roided up and could not execute it properly and injured ref Charles Robbins in an angle, when he pretty much landed with the elbow first, and his bodyweight behind it.

Before he got so jacked, Savage could move like a cat and could pretty much hit any part of the ring he wanted.  He started using steroids, at least, in late ICW, when he got involved in a bodybuilding contest (Rip Rogers beat him, in their division), but was noticeably bigger by the time he was in the WWF.  However, it was that last stint in WCW where he had really bulked up, which probably contributed to his heart attack,.