This week, Shafi was in charge of choosing a match for the nerd group to watch together and he went for the least bought big five WWE PPV pre network - Survivor Series 95.
However, it is a hidden classic 8 man woman match!
Aja Kong, Bertha Faye, Lioness Asuka & Tomoko Watanabe (w/Harvey Wippleman) vs. Alundra Blayze, Chaparita Asari, Kyoko Inoue & Sakie Hasegawa
Let's tuck in!
Pete - 8pm still?
Muhammad - Yes from me
Dom - Yep
Pete - Cool
Dom - What’s the match there Shafi? Got it loaded up on the network for us?
Simon - I’m good for 8
Muhammad - I don't know what that means?
Dom - Sorry. I’ll talk like an adult
Muhammad - Lol it's OK I just didn't know if I was supposed to send you a link or something
Dom - Nah. I’m just excited to make sure I find it OK.
Pete - Nah just give us the time stamp
Dom - Haha
Muhammad - I think you will like my pick, cos you like strong style, and you like women's wrestling
Pete - Is it ‘that’ Jackie Gayda match
Muhammad - And I doubt that everyone has seen this match
Dom - This is a great build. I’m buzzing
Muhammad - The event is survivor series 95, time stamp is 28:52. Gonna go eat, I will see you guys at 8pm for something a little bit different
James - The only disappointing thing about this build is it's almost guaranteed to have no Mr Ass in it. The positive thing is it's almost guaranteed to have no Undertaker in it.
Pete - I'm loaded up
Simon - Mine never lets me pause
Dom - I’m good to go, I think. Paused on Owen and dean Douglas backstage?
James - Yeah I'm ready as well. Possibly a second ahead Of Dom
Dom - You love being a second ahead and stealing all my zingers
James – Haha!
Muhammad - I'm ready
Simon - I’m ready
Muhammad – 3, 2, 1 Go!
James - And we're off
Pete - Awesome I'm excited for this one
Muhammad - Jobber entrance to begin
James - Harvey Wippleman. Brilliant
Simon - Gotta admit. I do not know the build up to this match
Dom - Awesome stuff. I didn’t peek what the match was so popped when it was this. Ring announcer probably butchered that but I wouldn’t know any better.
Pete - I think Vince cared so little for women's wrestling at this point that they ended up having a solid women's division for a hot minute, the best they’d had until NXT/the Revolution started
James - Aja Kong is in it. Wow
Pete - Title was defended outside the company at points
Muhammad - Someone give me a time stamp
Pete - There is some serious talent in this match
James - She's 25 here. I saw her in 2018. Must have been 44
Pete - 31:10
Muhammad - Cheers
James - Big Giant Swing
Dom - Holy shit. Just drills her with a spinning heel kick
Pete - Chaparita Asari innovated the corkscrew moonsault
Simon - Cesaro swing!
Muhammad - She killed her
Simon - Was that even a kick out
Pete - Joshi Bridge!
James - There it is Pete
Muhammad - What a fucking move. In 1995 WWF!
Pete - If it wasn't obvious Lioness Asuka was the namesake for Kana's WWE name
James - Well she's not lasted long
Dom - She almost went 540 with the corkscrew.
Pete - The work is so good here - but the eliminations are fast as hell
Simon - Can’t blink in this one
James - Suplex City
Simon - 5 in a row
Pete - Just wrecking her with tiger suplexes
Dom - Perfect chips in with some Casual sexism
James - 'These women should be at home making their old man something to eat'. It's alright though. It's the 90s before sexism was bad
Dom - #gillette
Pete - If you haven't seen the Aja Kong vs Chapparita Asari match I highly recommend it. It's one of the best squashes ever and all Vince does is talk about HBK.
Muhammad - The Spanish commentators are loving it
Pete - Aja still looks much the same today. Impressive
Dom - Back drop driver! Dangerous!!!
Muhammad - Jeez what a back suplex
Simon - Nearly killed her
Pete - Loved that no sell. Oh, Jesus that splash, she beat Viper with that last year
Muhammad - Proper splash
Simon - Nice tag there
Dom - National spokesman for orange juice in Japan! Well she just got squeezed
Muhammad - This match would be even better if only JR was on commentary
James - I couldn't remember what she beat Viper with, it was after a day of SSS and a York Hall show in one
Simon - Bah gawd
Muhammad - Ultimate warrior kicked out!
Pete - She went up to the top rope at least Admittedly my memory is hazy too
Muhammad - Harvey Wippleman was great
Dom - At least you boys made it there. I had a ticket and tapped out early.
Muhammad - Mike Chioda rocking that OG mullet
Simon - Wasn’t that a 3 count?
Muhammad - The ref has no idea what's going on
James - 3 count but Blayze says no. That's the equivalent of walking on an L.B.W
Pete - Piledriverrrrr!!!!! Definitely some miscommunication
Simon - Don’t think the ref can keep up. “You don’t know what you’re doing”
Pete - I'd like to see one of the current women bring back the piledriver
Muhammad - He's worse than Roberts
Dom - Bertha Faye! What. An. Athlete.
Pete - Rate the German Suplex as a finisher
James - Bertha Faye the least annoyed at getting pinned ever. Just rolled out with no expression
Pete - Flair bump!
James - Cared less than Deandre Jordan on defence
Muhammad - Good finisher except when you drop Bertha on your own head
Pete - Blayze/Madusa was badass. After wrestling she became a fucking monster truck driver
which is the coolest thing ever
Simon - Crowd in view of the camera look dead
Dom - The ECW sunglasses fan is in the front row
Pete - Standing moonsault there
James - The crowd are wishing it was 2015 and they could be on their phones
Simon - Hahahaha
Dom – “She got herrrr...NO!” Vince was bloody great. I’m so nostalgic hearing that.
Muhammad - They don't know what their watching
James - The commentary is a bag of wank
Muhammad - They are yearning for Mantaur
Pete - It's funny because they're probably working at a higher level to the rest of the show minus Owen, Bret and HBK
Muhammad - 100%
Pete - That's gotta be it! Spinning backfist
Muhammad - Wow that was brutal. Punched her right in the face
Simon - Ouch
James - Perfect is obviously the inspiration for Jerry Lawler, JR says 'top star in Japan', and Vince is just confused, maybe he's in his own headset
Pete - It has a cool name in Japanese as well which I can't spell sadly. It's part of her twitter handle I think
Dom - Surely this generic Japanese music is dubbed. It’s not what they used for her back then? It’s the same for everyone from that era!
James - Awesome finish
Simon - I’m sure I’ve heard this before
James - Bill Clinton!
Dom - Eddie Kingston calls it “backfist to the future.
Pete - I want to see Mike Tyson vs Kong too
Simon - Bill Clinton WTF
Dom - Holy Mac! Slick Willy
James - Is that what started the RD Evans future gimmick in Chikara?
Dom - “Bam Bam since he was a little boy playing with Pebbles.”
Muhammad - Wait for the bang
Pete – Oh, wow Expect to see Trump at Great Balls of Fire next year? Did Bam Bam just kill the President?
Simon - What the hell just happened?
NERD WATCH RATINGS
Muhammad - That match was so far ahead of its time for WWF. If they had twice as much time and the ref knew what the score was it could have been something great. Still a good, fun 10 minute match, I'd probably give it a 7 now but a 9 in 1995.
Pete - I quite enjoyed this. Some miscommunication but there was some awesome work and spots from the Joshi wrestlers and Alundra had a good performance too. It's still so weird that you had this decent division for a bit in the 90s and then Vince let it all be thrown in the can, literally. Imagine if they'd kept going with this style. I'm also giving it a 7.
James - Well that match was pretty good. Eliminations were a bit rushed and you didn't really get to see enough of people. I think a name graphic could have been useful. Commentators were rubbish. Nearly as bad as JR on New Japan. Do some bloody research and give them a chance.
Dom - That was bloody awesome. All it would take was to watch the rest of the show to see how special that really was in this promotion at that time, I think. Probably unfair to score it like you would a match from now. So as far as a sprint from 1995 goes, I’m just giving it a Bertha Faye sized thumbs up because I loved it. Thanks, Shafi.
Simon - It was the first time I’ve viewed this match and it was quite entertaining and fast. It Good showing by Alundra Blayze and co. Shame the crowd at the front didn’t know what was going on! 7/10. Great pick indeed
OVERALL NERD PICK - 7/10
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