Since I'm not stupid enough (ok, that's a lie) to review every single SNME (besides, I'm missing 3 of them), I'll just do a running commentary for the episodes I do watch up until the SNME tomorrow night. Since this won't be a "review", I thought the "Back in the Day" folder could use some traffic.

for those who care (no one), the episodes I don't have are the 1/86, 10/87, and 3/89 episodes. I have random matches from all 3 shows, but that wouldn't be fair to the other 28 episodes and the 5 Main Event specials.



Edit: 5/85 SNME was pretty fun, but not the best in terms of wrestling. The opening 6-man between Rotundo/Windham/Steamboat and Sheik/Volkoff/Steele was good for what they had to work with, and the George Steele face turn must've been really shocking back in '85, considering he was a "monster heel" for like 25 years before that.

Hogan/Orton gets the same opinion as the previous match. Too short, but this was free TV, so you expect that. Richter/Moolah sucked of course, and JYD/Doherty was the usual "shitty/squash match" to end it, since the late night schedule meant all the big guns came on first.

Throughout the show, they were doing mothers day stuff, and Hogan's promo had the funny "I dedicate this match to my mother, brother" line that sounds funny to probably only me. Also there's the first of 2 kickass "Goonies R Good Enough" Music Videos, featuring Cyndi Lauper (duh), Lou Albano, Roddy Piper, Sheik, Volkoff, Moolah, Richter, Fred Blassie, and the kids form the Goonies minus Andy.



Edit #2: Skipped over the 10/85 Show, which featured a decent Hogan/Volkoff Flag Match, Andre the Giant & Saba Simba vs. B.J. Studd & K.K. Bundy, and the Wedding of Uncle Elmer. The only highspot of that was Piper's rambling in the aisle for about 45 seconds.


11/85 was their special Halloween Edition, and it's one of the more entertaining episodes I thought. Matches include Funk vs. JYD, Hogan/Andre vs. Bundy/Studd (set up from 10/85), Santana vs. Savage, and Steamboat squashing Mr. Fuji. None of the matches are that good, but all are entertaining in their own way... and we see clips of Funk beating the shit out of Mel Phillips before his match.

Most of the backstage segments are Halloween Themed, including a series of contests., between the babyfaces (Hogan, Hillbillies, Lou Albano, JYD, and others) and the heel team of evil foreigners, Savage & Liz (looking REALLY hot as Jane, with Savage as Tarzan), and of course, the late substitution in the form of Roddy Piper. Corn-ball contests include a pie eating contest (not THAT pie, you perverts), bobbing for pumpkins (Heenan beats Cousin Whoever!), and the Pumpkin Pass (with Jesse Ventura obviously cheating for the heels).

However, the highlight of the episode has to be the at-home video with Roddy Piper. He's wrapping up bowling balls as Candied apples and bricks as chocolate bars, and spends most of the 5 minutes rambling incoherently and trying to steal childrens candy. Fun waste of time says I.

I was diggin the Macho/Tito match up. Also, when ever you watch SNME's where Funk may be on.............usually he's ALWAYS beating the shit out of everyone. GREAT shit there.

3/86 - Really good Bulldogs/Dream Team match with a pretty cool finish. Since this is 20 years old, I don't think I'm spoiling it. A collision between Valentine and Dynamite leads to Valentine falling on top of him (on his leg, actually), and that wins it.

Rest of the show is not so good. Hogan/Muraco was OK and set up the WM 2 main event, but JYD/Adonis sucked, the "Boxing Match" was a joke (as usual), and Bundy squashed an Indian into an ancient burial ground.

10/86 - Pretty fun episode from the workrate department. The show opens with a good (for TV standards) Hogan/Orndorff title match and Steamboat/Roberts (featuring the appearence of Steamer's Kamodo(sp?) Dragon). There's also another good Dream Team/Bulldogs match. Piper beating the crap out of the Sheik is also worth the 90 seconds it takes to watch. The only downside is the squash at the end, but at least Lanny Poffo was a talented Jobber.


1/88 - Not much in workrate here. Hogan/Bundy was a follow-up to a 11/87 match that had Bundy win by CO. Strike Force won a rather crappy 2/3 Falls against the Bolsheviks, and Koko/Valentine and Roberts/Sika both sucked. This episode I think was the last to use Animotion's "Obsession" for the opening.



Edit: I shouldn't have watched so many episodes last week, cause now I'm burned out. Last episodes I'm watching... er, watched, are 11/86 and 11/89.

11/86 - One of my personal favorites ever. Starts with a swank Roberts/Savage IC Title match (heel vs. heel, surprisingly for 1986). Hogan/Hercules is OK, but the footage shown before the match with Slick selling his contract to Heenan was funny and cash only. Bees/Foundation was the usual good match, but unlike the opening promo, it was NOT an elimination match. Piper was gold as usual, and seeing Ware win a match is always cool. Then you have Muraco and Mr. Fuji singing to mock the Rebel Dick Slater.


11/89 - Warrior/Andre has to be the worst SNME match ever. Just fucking awful, with nothing to say "ok, that was cool" like when Warrior would slam Andre, and it sure as hell was 30-seconds like most of their matches. Hogan/Genius was crappy for a wrestling stand-point, but the Genius' queer antics are good for a laugh. Rockers/Busters 2/3 Falls was good, but they had a better match on the 3/89 SNME. Bossman/Rhodes and Rooster/Perfect were both meh. Speaking of Perfect, this was the episode where he smashed up Hogan's World Title, which eventually became the Hardcore Title, but with duct tape on it.