So I guess this is what’s going to make the WWE folks sweep the whole “Jake Hager busted for pot possession” under the rug, right? Because you know they’re supposed to punish the guy for something like that, right? Isn’t that what happened to RVD when he was busted years ago?
WWE Wellness Program detractors, I’m offering you fuel to validate your arguments. Make the most of it.
So Dwayne debuted a new WWE Championship; the one that’s been rumored for some time now. I suppose anything would be a step above John Cena’s Vanity Belt that they’ve been using for years… although I must admit that it is a nice looking title belt, even if the design seems a bit lazy, for lack of a better word.
Hey, here’s a fun idea for WWE. Track down every former WWE Champion between 2005 and 2013 and give them replicas of this title belt so they can replace the crappy spinner belt.
Quickie Update: Just to refresh some people’s memories, this is the blog post that featured the first leak of the new championship. (Not claiming I got it first; it only links to another page that may or may not be there.)
The ragin’ cagin’ climax!
(2020 Update: Replaced the old embed with a new 2018 edit.)
So I’ve recently popped in a VHS tape of WCW Uncensored ’95 – because why the hell not? – and decided to do a quick musing of this show. Not necessarily a review or a report, but rather some ramblings and thoughts.
The recurring concept of Uncensored was that it was an event that, in storylines, the (fictional) WCW Board of Directors had washed their hands of. Thus, each match on the card was ostensibly “unsanctioned”, meaning they were not subject to the normal rules of WCW-sanctioned wrestling matches. Of course, in reality, it was a normally-booked WCW show, albeit one with a tendency to feature more “gimmick” matches than usual. This notion, however, was downplayed during the last few years that it was part of the WCW PPV schedule.
Most folks may recall the Doomsday Cage match thing at Uncensored 96 which featured Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man overcoming the odds and defeating eight guys in a single match… a rather atrocious match that would have the final nail in the coffin for the revived Hulkamania before the nWo came along and gave Hogan’s career a much needed shot in the balls… sorry, poor choice of words.
But this is the 1995 edition of WCW Uncensored… the original show under this label.
I never saw the PPV during its original airing, as I didn’t get into wrestling until the late-90s. However, during the early 2000s, there was a shop selling video tapes and DVD of various things… and the shop had a number of retail tapes from WWF and a couple WCW tapes when they were made available. So that’s how I got my grubby little mits on this thing, along with a couple other tapes along the way.
So, yeah, on with the show…
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