I like Bret but he carried nothing. WCW overtook WWF to be #1 on Bret's watch and then when Bret goes to WCW, WWF regains the #1 spot in less than a year. Coincidence? Not a chance. Hell, Kevin Nash cites Bret Hart as a big reason for leaving to go to WCW which helped facilitate all that. Bret was an all-time great but his impact on the biz is suspect.
I also think it's the first (or ONE of the first) times in WWF/WWE history that someone takes an unprotected chair shot to the head. Sure, it wasn't as vicious as the Attitude/Ruthless Aggression era shots (nor do I think we should go back to doing that), but you can tell, Taker and Yoko were trying to make the match feel more vicious than an average casket match with it.
Call me too young but I find Art Donnovan's commentary at KOTR 94 hilarious and also felt a bit bad how Macho Man and Monsoon slowly started ignoring him due to being fed up with his questions😂
I can't say I blame them for ignoring him to be honest; it didn't seem like he put in any effort to familiarise himself with the product after agreeing to be a commentator so having to deal with him would be irritating.
@tempestfennac9687 who cares? I dont blame him for not watching that horrible product at the time. Plus he was one of the best people ive ever met. So he can do no wrong.
The one thing (above all others) that really pissed me off about The Royal Family vs. Clowns R Us was the booking. It was made clear that Doink and Lawler could only be in the ring with each other, so as soon as Jerry pinned the full-sized clown for the first elimination, Doink's team were literally unable to win as there was no-one who could legally go against Lawler.
Which makes me wonder what would have happened if Dink were the sole survivor of Clowns 'R Us and Jerry were the sole survivor of the Royal Family. A no contest?
1994 was the year i got into WWF, Royal Rumble '94 was the first PPV i watched so i loved Undertaker Vs Yokozuna Casket Match. I was 11 at the time so thought it was great...and you have to remember that my age at the time was roughly the age they were aiming this sort of thing at. Ive always had a soft spot for 1994...the Piper Vs Lawler match was good too if you watched the whole build up every week on Raw leading up to it
You forgot Bret Hart vs Bob Backlund at Survivor Series. Where Backlund won after throwing the towel similar to Thea vs Stratton, only to lose the title 8 days later at a house show to Diesel.
I was at SummerSlam '94 at the United Center (the first ever event there) at 9 years old. My two favorite wrestlers were Bret Hart and The Undertaker. It's conflicting that one put up one of the best matches of all time, and the other put up one of the worst. However, my best memory was at the hotel that night, talking to Stu f'n Hart for a good 20 minutes, mano y mano. He saw his boys put on a clinic and was so proud of them. I had just gotten to the "knowing it was scripted but loved it anyway" state, and I knew enough to impress him. Stu talked about the sport like I was someone leading a territory. We were both donning half-crooked smiles the whole time--I was in awe of him, and he was ecstatic to chat with a fan of a youth generation. Helen eventually pried him away, but I'll never forget that.
My only recollection of it was watching the Italian version of it, with the commentator not having the slightest clue of what the hell was going on after the finish. Meaning that I couldn't understand what was going on either.
The mention of Rey Vs JBL when talking about short Mania matches bright back a funny memory. Watched that Mania with a few friends, one of them went for a piss as JBL was on his way to the ring. By the time he came back, he'd missed Rey's entrance, the entire match AND JBL saying that he quit! 😆😆😆
I need to tell you three things, Mr. Pacitti: 1.The Headshrinkers as babyfaces was a huge necessity due to the Steiner Brothers leaving the WWF on very bad terms. It's kinda like what happened when the Legion of Doom left the WWF twice in 1992, causing both the Natural Disasters and the Nasty Boys to receive their respective face pushes. The Headshrinkers' title reign started off hot when they beat the Quebecers twice, then got a bit lukewarm by retaining against Yoko and Crush here, and completely cooled off with their title defense against Well Dunn on the July 17th episode of Wrestling Challenge, before dropping the gold to HBK and Diesel the night before SummerSlam. 2.The Guts & Glory/Million Dollar Team match only stank because it was sandwiched between Backlund beating Bret for the gold thanks to Owen tricking Mummy Helen into throwing in the towel, and Taker wanting to get his casket match win back from Yoko. 3.Perfect only DQ'ed Luger because Luger KO'ed Perfect at WrestleMania 9 the previous year.
The Undertaker vs The Undertaker wasn't very good but what made it even tougher to watch was that Bret and Owen faced one another in a cage match earlier that night and it was one of the best matches I had ever seen.
I love how this is really just a litany of matches I remember well from watching as a kid and not thinking they were all that bad at the time. Proof that children have no taste.
You say some companies take little people wrestling seriously and I want to know which one because I would genuinely love to watch a match or two that isn't just comedy.
The Mini division is a staple of multiple Mexican companies, the AWA had a fairly solid division (there was comedy, but also competitive matches), and there are several indies that take it way more seriously (there is one that is pretty much only little people)
Legit, The Clowns R Us vs Royal Family match at Survivor Series match is my favorite Survivor Series match of all times. Sad to see it on the list, but understandable.
I agree! It is hilarious to watch. It's even funnier now, because you know that things like this will never be seen in WWE again. A product of its time, even though it was kinda outdated then. If that makes sense. I'd rather watch something absurd than something repetitive.
Agreed the fight was hilarious as a little kid but also there was real moves that only little people can pull off during their brief physical prime. Like I believe it was Lawler who threw one of the little people high in the air soaring above head level and he hit the ground with this perfect somersaulting roll. That's an amazing feat. And what do you do with the guys who get too old to be thrown around? Cast them aside or let them work the comedy angle ? I say let them do their thing as a little kid they had me laughing but also they made me believe in magic with their acrobatics
@@voiceofreason2674 I just read the guy who played Dink is still wrestling at nearly 70 years old. So he was in his late 30s in this match. Long and successful career, for sure! Which is rare for someone with those challenges.
That's a very....interesting favorite to have. I get it to a point if you just turn your brain off and watch. But I personally can't get over the fact that it was expressly said that Lawler and Doink could only fight each other. And then Doink was the first eliminated, meaning Doink's team had no way of winning from that point on as none of the tiny wrestlers could legally pin Lawler. Meaning the match is completely pointless
Pretty ironic that people complained that the WWF Championship didn't main event Summerslam 94 but complained when it did main event Summerslam 95. Granted the IC Championship ladder match should have main evented 95
I will defend this theory till the end of time; we have NO reason to believe that Paul Bearer's Undertaker at Summerslam was the real undertaker, simply because up until that point he had never wore purple. In any other media an imposter has SOMETHING subtley different about them. Ted's Taker was the real one!
I see a parallel between the Taker vs Taker '94 and Taker vs Sid at WM13. They were both boring matches and before them were classic ones featuring Bret Hart. I also think that if Mabel had not been in WWF the years 1994 and 1995 would probably not be half as bad... he really did stink it up that much. The Yoko vs Taker matches were funny but I really liked watching Yoko squashing 1-2-3 Kid. I used to watch those fights on Colosseum videos back in the 90s. It was a cool time to watch wrestling back then...
You take that back Pachitti , Taker vs Faker to 10 year old me was a classic , The million dollar corporation was a fantastic idea it just wasn't executed well , that faction needed a few main event players and it would of killed it
Earthquake vs. Adam Bomb was just an afterthought but it didn't hurt. In contrast to everything involving face Doink, Men on a Mission and/or The Bushwackers. Uuuugh!
Rumor has it that Bret vs Owen in a cage went long so the Taker vs Taker match was cut short. Imagine how bad it would have been it was another 5-10 minutes longer.
@@acidmack1041 I heard them say it on OSW but I don't think they mentioned that they heard it from Pritchard. That makes it even more likely that it wasn't actually Marty.
The Undertaker literally has a match on almost every list of "bad matches" but people constantly consider him one of the best of all time. I get the gimmick and longevity being a big playing point, but I can literally only think of two or three matches in his entire career than really stand out as good.
Throughout the 2000s, he had a classic after the other. As a performer he was always good imo, but in the early 90's his gimmick forced him to always limit his own athleticism in the ring. He starte picking up speed in 1997, but in 1999 he got hurt and it took him years to recover.
What about doink and ding vs bam bam bigelow and Luna vachon from wrestlemania X? That match was also horrible as it wasted the talent of bigalow and Luna for cheap comedy.
No fair putting the Undertaker vs. Yokozuna Casket Match on this list. Taker was legit injured going into the match and would require surgery, that's why he lost the match.
The thing about the Undertaker vs. Underfaker feud is that it only works if you're a kiddy wink, if you were a kid and watched this, you may have been very entertained because as a kid, you'll believe and enjoy anything the WWE serves you, when you watch it as an adult, the match comes off as a pile of squat because as an adult, you don't believe every single thing the WWE puts on TV
No, the Wrestling isn’t bad in the women’s match in the beginning of this just that they didn’t have enough time? I don’t think that it should be on the worst of list because of that.
Saying that undertaker vs undertaker is the worst show closer in the history of summerslam is way considering no one almost got paralyzed during said bout unlike diesel vs mabel
1. Art Donavan commentary is god tier, and anyone that sh*ts on it is a blasphemous heathen. 2. Undertaker vs Yoko at Royal Rumble is just something everyone retroactively hates now cause its cool to hate on. I love how people complain about it being too far fetched. Because the undertaker gimmick is so grounded in reality. 3. Complaining about the Team Doink vs Team Lawler match being just a comedy bit is so dumb. Its not like there were all these classic catch as catch can performers there in 94. If you dont like the match, fine. But dont like it wasnt exactly what it was supposed to be.
I think 12 is fine if they're the right ones. Gimmick pay-per-views like Hell in a Cell or TLC water the concept down making it basically meaningless, and having Survivor Series be the one time a year where anyone gives a shit about what night of the week they wrestle on (when they've all wrestled on all of them within the last year anyway) is really dumb. Change those up and 12 is fine. 4 or 5 a year just leaves a company spinning their wheels most of the time with no real culmination to any stories.
Speaking of Harvey Whippleman ... Congrats to the Whippleman family for being the first father/son pair to hold the wwe womens title. Most people dont realize that they see his son on tv every week. Harvey "Reah Ripley" Whippleman Jr. Edit: they arent "little people" they're midgets. Im not a big person, I'm normal sized.
