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WWE Vintage Collection Report: July 22nd 2012
By Shaun Best-Rajah.com Reporter
Hosted by: Mean Gene Okerlund
This week’s “Best in the World” showcase goes all patriotic as Superstars from the Red, White and Blue of the USA take centre stage.
WWE SmackDown: August 15th 2002
Kurt Angle vs Mark Henry
Henry powers Angle down to begin. Then again. Angle slips down from Henry’s shoulders, but gets elevated with a flapjack. Angle rests in the ropes. Henry crashes through him with a running spike to the floor. Henry favours his ankle coming back in. Angle sidesteps a corner charge and kicks at Henry’s leg. Angle goes to work with two chopblocks and a running tackle to the front of Henry’s leg. Henry kicks free from a leglock, ducks a clothesline and grabs a waistlock. Angle quickly reverses into an ankle lock. Henry kicks Angle over the top rope. Angle targets the leg again. Henry fights back with clotheslines and a press slam (which his leg holds out for.) Angle wriggles out of a slam, chopblocks Henry and re-applies the ankle lock. This time, Henry taps out. Winner: KURT ANGLE. Rey Mysterio would attack Angle after the bell to hype their upcoming SummerSlam match. Henry would disappear off TV and re-emerge later in the year on Raw with Teddy Long and Rodney Mack.
WCW Clash of the Champions: November 16th 1994
WCW Tag Team Titles: Pretty Wonderful (Paul Orndorff & Paul Roma) vs Stars ‘N’ Stripes (The Patriot & Marcus Alexander Bagwell)
Both teams had recently traded the titles and the Patriot’s mask is also at stake in this match. Bobby Heenan speculates on the Patriot being Al Gore underneath the mask. Roma showboats to begin, floating over and backflipping Bagwell, before catching him with a cross body. Bagwell comes back with a clothesline, hiptoss and dropkick. The Patriot intercepts Orndorff running in as Stars ‘N’ Stripes clear the ring.
Orndorff jams a knee into Patriot’s gut to turn the tide. Roma punishes Patriot with a triple backbreaker and catches him with a flying fistdrop. Patriot comes back with a couple of atomic drops and a thesz press. Bagwell comes in all fired up, only to get hung up on the top rope with a double stun gun. Orndorff holds Bagwell against the guardrail, as he drives several knees into his gut. Orndorff snaps Bagwell’s neck across the top rope and works him over with elbows. Roma follows up with a dropkick and powerslam, but covers nonchalantly. Bagwell counters Orndorff’s snapmare attempt into a backslide, then catches him with a sunset flip for nearfalls. Patriot tussles with Roma in the ropes. Roma flips Patriot out to the floor. Pretty Wonderful set Bagwell up for their version of the Powerplex. Orndorff suplexes, as Roma heads up top, but Patriot recovers to push Roma off the top rope. As the referee counts both Orndorff and Bagwell’s shoulders, Bagwell rolls his across at the last second to sneak the win and reclaim the titles. Winners: STARS ‘N’ STRIPES. Harlem Heat would dethrone Stars ‘N’ Stripes at the end of the year and the tandem wouldn’t regain the belts.
WWF Sunday Night Slam: March 26th 1995
Steel Cage Grudge Match: Lex Luger vs Tatanka w/Ted DiBiase
These two had been feuding since SummerSlam, when Tatanka swerved Luger and joined the Million $ Corporation. The cage match was set as a way to keep the rest of the Corporation out. We join the match in progress. Luger hits three clotheslines to send Tatanka begging off. Luger beats Tatanka down in the corner, then throws him into two sides of the cage. Luger misses an elbow drop, but grabs a leg to stop Tatanka crawling through the door.
We skip ahead to the closing stages. Luger absorbs chops to fire up and land several punches. Luger hits a running bulldog, suplex and powerslam, but can’t put Tatanka away. Tatanka goes to the eyes and hits an inverted atomic drop. Tatanka attempts to climb out. Luger catches him in the act and throws him to the mat. Luger climbs to the second rope and knocks Tatanka out cold with the forearm of steel. 1-2-3. Luger would form the short-lived Allied Powers tandem with the British Bulldog before jumping back to WCW. Winner: LEX LUGER.
WWF Prime Time Wrestling: July 6th 1992
WWF Tag Team Titles: Money Inc w/Jimmy Hart vs Hacksaw Jim Duggan & Sgt Slaughter
We pick this up to see IRS sidestep a Hacksaw corner charge. Money Inc work him over. Hacksaw survives a DiBiase chinlock and IRS front facelock. Hacksaw rolls clear of DiBiase’s fistdrops to make the hot tag. Slaughter takes the fight to Money Inc and applies the Cobra Clutch to DiBiase. IRS breaks it up and we get a four man brawl. Referee Joey Marella gets caught in-between everyone. During the melee, IRS brings in Hacksaw’s 2×4, but Hacksaw wrestles it free and uses it on IRS in full view of Marella. The outcome is predictable. Winners via DQ: MONEY INC. Pure filler.
WWF Raw is War: July 28th 1997
Bret “Hitman” Hart vs The Patriot
Shawn Michaels is on commentary ahead of his refereeing duties for the Undertaker’s SummerSlam World title match with Bret just six days later. Bret had attacked Patriot from behind while the American national anthem was being played. As Michaels runs down Bret, the Hitman works Patriot over in the corner. Patriot backelbows Bret out of the ring, then back inside, hits a Patriot missile (flying tackle) from the top rope.
Back from a commercial break and we recap Bret applying a figure four around the ringpost. Bret hits Patriot with his patented backbreaker, side Russian legsweep and second rope elbow. Patriot ducks a swing and locks in a Full Nelson. Bret runs up the corner, both men tumble backwards and take out referee Earl Hebner. Bret plants Patriot with a piledriver, then tries to revive Hebner. Bret gives Patriot a legdrop and low blow. Michaels pulls Bret off of a cover and taunts him. Bret turns to confront his nemesis and Patriot rolls him up for a slow 1-2-3. Winner: THE PATRIOT. As Kurt Angle’s future music plays, Bret kicks Hebner out of the ring and motions it was three on one. Michaels climbs onto the announce table to taunt Bret, who has to be restrained. The Patriot left the WWF around the time of Survivor Series after a torn biceps put him on the shelf. He was replaced in the Team USA vs Team Canada match by Steve Blackman.
Next week, we take a brief hiatus from the “Best in the World” showcase to commemorate 1,000 episodes of Raw.
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