This week saw a welcome return to the fold for Nineties Mike, so he went straight into the deep end and picked a match for us - 2/3 falls Demolition v Hart Foundation at Summerslam 90. Let's get to it!
Dom - Now I’m in the right place?
Pete - I think so! I'm paused on 36.56
Ninetiesmike - Where's the Boss?
Dom - Yep same
Pete - Ross always shows up at the last minute!
Matt - I'm here
Mike - LOLS
Ross - 6 mins early!!!
JCH - What are we watching? What show is it on?
Pete - SUMMERSLAM 1990 Hart Foundation vs Demolition, 2/3 falls
JCH - Bloody TAPOUT
Pete - DUH DUH DUH DUH DUHDUHDUHDUH
JCH - I’ve never been tempted to buy TAPOUT clothing. And I love merch
Pete - My dad has a tapout shirt. The old kind where they were still edgy MMA stuff
JCH - 2hr39 mins PPV. Amazing
Ninetiesmike - 36:56
Ross - Vince's larynx of steel at the start!
Pete - He doesn't watch or like MMA. Not sure how or why he has it
JCH - I’ve stopped it on 33 and Stone Cold’s head is on Snitsky’s body. OK. I’m on 36.56
Pete - If Summerslam 1990 is 2hr 39 imagine their version of an NXT Takeover. It would be like 25 mins long.
Dom - Who would have been 1990 NXT?
JCH - Ahmed Johnson
Pete - Half the free agents that come into NXT were probably backyarding in 1990
Dom - HBK vs. Shane Douglas
Pete - This young 42 year old has made quite the name for themselves in Japan! As a serious answer, Rick Martel
Ross - 38:12. Skip the promo
Ninetiesmike - nooooooooooo
Dom - The boss has spoken
Ninetiesmike - It's build-up
Matt - I was set for a promo but fine
Ross - These take ages to write up!
Pete - Welcome to Nerd Watch Wednesday. Ross the Despot in charge
Ross - You're lucky you get the entrances hahaha
Ninetiesmike - We ready?
Dom - 1 sec
JCH - Isn’t Sean Mooney Val Venis?
Pete - That's Sean Morley i think
Ross - Friend of the group
Ninetiesmike - Just waiting on Dom...
Dom - Ready
Ninetiesmike - 321 GO!
Dom - Sorry. Got distracted by Jos Buttler on the other channel
Pete - DEMO-LITION
JCH - What’s Jos playing? Thought he’d gone to IPL
Pete - These guys have a sick theme
Matt - Theme is Killer
Ross - Sex dungeon get up never bothered me as a kid... does now!
Ninetiesmike - Where's Fuji?!
Dom - Sex cauldron! I thought they closed that place down
Pete - That's what you wear to demolish buildings clearly
Ninetiesmike - Which two are starting?
Pete - Haha we got a promo anyway!
Ninetiesmike - Neidhart's hat!!!!
JCH - Love how they are wearing masks so they can’t tell which is which
Matt - Neid is sweating balls
Ross - Those glasses are the least over angle in 2018
Pete - It took me a really long time to figure out Mean Gene's ethnicity. Imagine if Nattie had 1/4 of her dad's promo skills
Ross - 2 harts beating as one...
Ninetiesmike - Phil Collins reference!
JCH - Jim Neidhart and Bret Hart are complete opposites on promo.
Dom - That promo was amazing. At least 16 cliches in 60 seconds. I’d have field day with that on the 205 lineup.
Pete - Huge fan of Total Divas Jim
Ninetiesmike - The Pink and Black Attack! God I loved these guys as a kid!
Pete - RIP
JCH - Those jackets are garish
Pete - Highly recommend watching the one where Lana puts a shotput through Nattie's car
Dom - Piper on comms?
Ross - Yes!
Ninetiesmike - Yep!
Pete - Sounds like it
JCH - I definitely preferred the Leather jacket to the army general 3rd kit
Ross - Love that ax and crush were referenced by the harts and its smash in the ring. MIND GAMES
Pete - Always enjoy the random hand fucking that happens with a slow dramatic lockup
Ninetiesmike - Full disclosure, when I first watched this in 1990 I didn't realise it was best of 3 falls, so couldn't work out why they carried on fighting!
Matt - Crowd popping for everything
Ninetiesmike - That's cos there were only 4 PPVs back then!
JCH - Is this the same venue as the Jumping Bomb Angel match?
Pete - Bret was considered a smaller guy to be the top guy, but he's still fucking huge compared to a lot of the guys today
Ross - Neidhart biting the arm of smash! areas of grey even in 1990 haha
Pete - Smash is a cool name to give a child. Is it his first name or surname?
Ninetiesmike - It's The Spectrum in Philly
Pete - The name's Smash. Derek Smash
JCH - Smash Williams
Ninetiesmike - Smash Hitchcock
JCH - One of the best fictional running backs of all time
Dom - Ooooh yeah! First name Macho, Last name Man! Diggit
Ross - Crush too strong for bret
Ninetiesmike - Smash Harris sounds like a 60's footballer
JCH - Haha
Ross - Looking forward to some hoss action when avil gets in
Pete - Smash Harris sounds like a 70s porn star
JCH - Will I have seen any of these Demolition guys later on as anything else?
Pete - Hot tag headlock! What a move
Ninetiesmike - Hot tag into a headlock!!!!!
Ross - Crush was in kronik in wcw and many eras wwf as crush. Smash was repo man
Ninetiesmike - Sort it out Roberts!
Pete - Kevin Owens was just paying tribute
Ross - And a golf jobber in wcw
JCH - So no. Haha
Pete - Isn't Crush in the Rock's first match
Ross - Yes
Pete - Get em Bret! Never slandered. Shawn who?
Dom - Also your favourite wrestler named his signature move after them
Ross - Can we talk about brets punches? Impeccable
Ninetiesmike - Also, we never see atomic drops anymore...
Ross - CLOSE COUNT from the russian leg sweep
Ninetiesmike - This crowd!
Matt - Atomic Drops should make a comeback yesterday
Pete - The crowd was so hyped for that RUSSIAN LEG SWEEP
Ninetiesmike - Yes, Matt knows
Pete - If Kairi Sane has the best elbow, that may be the opposite
JCH - Trying to think which one. Bobby Fish? Chad Gable? Kris Wolf?
Pete - COVER
Matt - Hebner is always awful. Any Hebner
Ross - Piper shutting Vince down. 1-0 DEMOLITION
Pete - That's a cool tag finisher
Ninetiesmike - Anvil was just dead and now dragging bret to the corner HA!
Pete - I bet Kyle and Roddy could do a version of that
Dom - Kyle O’Reilly
Pete - They like wrecking people with their knees and stuff
JCH - Kyle and Roddy are done Pete. The band is back together ah. Axe and Smash. Got ya
Ross - Crush with the catch chokeslam - nice
Pete - The best Undisputed Era combo will never die, James
Ross - Crowd gonna go BANANA for the jim hot tag
Pete - Bret needs to make the tag bad so Neidhart can headlock his way to an easy equaliser
Matt - Anvil is frothing
Pete - That's just the rabies
Ninetiesmike - Get up Bret!
Dom - So in the pre-match promo Bret didn’t say they were going to win the titles. He said “we will Make flatlines of Demolition.” I heard him say, as a baby face he never promised a victory if he knew they were losing because he didn’t want to make the fans the think he was a liar.
JCH - Demolition’s gear man.
Ross - This is classic tag action
Ninetiesmike - YES!
Ross - Great shout dom
Pete - I thought the ref wasn't going to see the tag there
JCH - No Spoilers Dom!
Pete - Nice slam
Matt - My screen shook on that powerslam
Dom - Genuinely don’t know the result. Just wanted to get in early.
Ninetiesmike - Here it comes!
Ross - HART ATTACK!
Pete - HART ATTACK
Dom - Test the theory
Pete - HE ATTACKED THE REF
Ninetiesmike - 1-1!!!!!!!!!!
JCH - Pathetic from Roberts
Pete - Was breaking up a pin not a thing then?
Ross - Crush could have just broke up the tag. HEELS ARE STUPID
Pete - Yeah but that's not cool Ross
Ross - Love it
Matt - He saw red
Ninetiesmike - Pete, he assaulted Hebner!
Dom - He’d already broken up one right?
JCH - The New Day rule
Pete - Hebner just did Bret a solid there
JCH - Ah Talking Smack
Matt - Hebner makes the rules up as he goes anyway
Pete - Frankly they were even after Montreal
Ross - Ax sneaks under the ring
Pete - I don't get what Bret was so bitter about
JCH - Hang on. Some goober is hiding under the ring - The Axe
Ross - Whats his game?!
JCH - Aaron Mokoena
Ninetiesmike - Some. Goober.
Dom - Ax is the best worker of the trio apparently
Ninetiesmike - Bret is so good. Everything looks legit
Matt - The Hart Foundation are just excellent
Pete - Crowd has settled down. People in 1990 were smarter than we thought. They realised that run in was silly
Ross - WOW what a move!
Dom - That was great
Ross - Great camera angle too
Ninetiesmike - How did that not finish it?
Pete - He kicked out, Mike
Ninetiesmike - Great acting!
Matt - More Hebner bullshit
JCH - ROBERTS
Dom - “How can you tell?” Hahaha
Ninetiesmike - HAHAHA. Piper is the greatest
Dom - I can’t stop laughing
Pete - It's like if the Bella Twins had a Bella triplet, who was also Nia Jax
JCH - ROBERTS it’s a different man.
Pete - That bump
Ninetiesmike - Vintage Bret
Pete - It's so good. Boing
Dom - Hart took the best buckles in the industry
Ross - Double team on the outside!
Pete - This is out of order! Sort things out Roberts!
Dom - It’s cause he came up in stampede.
JCH - ROBERTS FUCKING LOOK
Ninetiesmike - Wait for it....
Dom - They call it the stampede buckle. Everyone from stampede took incredible buckles.
Pete - IT'S THE ROAD WARRIORS
Matt - ROAD WARRIOR POP
Ninetiesmike - Here to serve justice
Pete - HE GOT EM
Ross - HARTS WIN
Ninetiesmike - Boooom
JCH - WHY IS ROBERTS ALLOWING THIS
Dom - Great finish!
Ninetiesmike - And newwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ross - No one kissed a belt quite like bret
Pete - Was that the end to the old record length reign?
Ninetiesmike - I don't think so
Dom - Slingshot shoulder block with Bret doing the schoolyard kneel behind Crush for the roll up
JCH - Great finish
Pete - Yeah it was cool - the camera almost didn't catch it
Ninetiesmike - No cheating, can anyone remember the main event of this PPV?
Matt - I know
JCH - Rick Rude vs Ultimate Warrior?
Ninetiesmike - JCH with the win!
NERD RATINGS
Pete - I'm kinda in the same mind as I was on the women's 2/3 falls tag from recently. The first two falls were quite good but the final fall was a total mess, but with a great finish. And this match only had 1 Bret as opposed to 2 Jumping Bomb Angels.
I'm giving this a potentially sacrilegious 6/10
Ross - I'm giving this one a solid 7/10. The wrestling was decent, there was only a minute or so of down time after the second fall that dragged a little, we had some silly wrestling stuff and an L.O.D pop.
Matt - I thought it was great! Hot crowd. Heels that cheated. Babyfaces hitting big moves and popping folks. Top finish. I guess Hebner's bullshit is the only hindrance but that is also the point. I'll give it a 9.
JCH - The 2018 Jacksonville Jaguars. A great defence and not so good offence. The Hart Foundation playing the part of the defence. Demolition and Roberts playing the part of the Offence. I enjoyed it though.
Dom - What’s old is new again. I thought I’d seen everything in wrestling but goodness you’ve only gotta go back to 1990 to see some new stuff. 7/10
ninetiesmike - Bret Hart, wrestler under the ring, Hebner losing his mind, title change, "and neeeeeeewwwwwwww". It has aged surprisingly well, I'd go 7.5/10
OVERALL NERD RATING 7.5/10
NERD WATCH WEDNESDAY TABLE
09/01/2019 – SIMON – TLC (WRESTLEMANIA 17) – 9/10
30/01/2019 – DOM – SUPER CRAZY v YOSHIHIRO TAJIRI (GUILTY AS CHARGED) – 9/10
13/02/2019 - JAMES - CESARO v SAMI ZAYN (NXT ARRIVAL) - 8.75/10
05/12/2018 – PETE - 6 MAN HELL IN A CELL (ARMAGEDDON 2000) – 8.5/10
21/11/2018 – ROSS - RICKY STEAMBOAT v STEVE AUSTIN (CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS) – 8/10
12/12/2018 – DOM – SHAWN MICHAELS v MANKIND (MIND GAMES) – 8/10
06/03/2019 - MIKE - DEMOLITION v HART FOUNDATION (SUMMERSLAM) 7.5/10
16/01/2019 – SHAFI – WOMEN’S TAG (SURVIVOR SERIES 95) – 7/10
24/01/2019 – ROSS – DOOM v STEINER BROS (CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS X) – 7/10
28/11/2018 - MAT - UNDERTAKER v JEFF HARDY (RAW) – 6.5/10
06/02/2019 - PETE - JUMPING BOMB ANGELS v GLAMOUR GIRLS (ROYAL RUMBLE 88) - 6.5/10
19/12/2018 – JAMES – ROCK N SOCK v NEW AGE OUTLAWS (ARMAGEDDON 99) – 3.5/10
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