Jim Cornette Reviews The First Clash Of The Champions - March 27, 1988

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From Episode 337 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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  • @mzrk92
    @mzrk923 жыл бұрын

    "Steiner who's a maniac and Sullivan who's a lunatic" Lol!

  • @guardianofchaosBD
    @guardianofchaosBD Жыл бұрын

    I’m back for another listen, 2 years later!

  • @bbarber31
    @bbarber31 Жыл бұрын

    I remember that Sting/Flair match. Amazing match. I remember Sting in UWF prior when he was aligned with Eddie Gilbert & Rick Steiner. That match with Flair made me a fan of Sting to this day.

  • @kafan439

    @kafan439

    7 ай бұрын

    I was a huge fan of Sting, Steiner and Eddie Gilbert in the U.W.F. , and was so stoked when Sting came and got such a great push with Crockett Promotions.

  • @johnnyj6718
    @johnnyj67184 жыл бұрын

    I liked all the matches on this card. The crowd was into everything they did. I miss the 80's pro wrestling.

  • @Gravydog316

    @Gravydog316

    4 жыл бұрын

    i was i was alive in the 80s :( i would love to go to these shows

  • @sidneygwaltney9931

    @sidneygwaltney9931

    4 жыл бұрын

    it was real to be live great story line not to many mistake go out there and wrestle i wish i could go back in time where blood and sweat that what make real wrestling so special nwa wrestling forever

  • @sidneygwaltney9931

    @sidneygwaltney9931

    4 жыл бұрын

    wwe to many mistake wack story line you can question the moves not good wrestling

  • @j.d.6915
    @j.d.69154 жыл бұрын

    So glad I got USA, ESPN, and TBS on cable as a kid. I was able to see NWA, WCCW, AWA and WWF.

  • @NYGiants5680

    @NYGiants5680

    4 жыл бұрын

    J.D. don’t forget USWA in late 80s.

  • @DavidLucas-oj6ju

    @DavidLucas-oj6ju

    4 жыл бұрын

    J.D. i uses watch AWA NWA WCCW WCW WWF I loved everyone of them

  • @joshuaeuvrard6532

    @joshuaeuvrard6532

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too bro

  • @we-tha-ones

    @we-tha-ones

    3 жыл бұрын

    ME TOO

  • @davey3884

    @davey3884

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here!

  • @knowyourroleboulevard7119
    @knowyourroleboulevard71194 жыл бұрын

    WCW's answer to Saturday Nights Main Event.

  • @RicGagger

    @RicGagger

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can see that

  • @chrischar9428

    @chrischar9428

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ummm no

  • @paulsonj72

    @paulsonj72

    3 жыл бұрын

    This card was in retaliation for a couple of stunts the WWF did. The WWF threatened cable companies that showed StarCade 87 by withholding WrestleMania IV. THEN the WWF did the 1st Royal Rumble on USA while JCP had the Bunkhouse Stampede on PPV. So in retaliation JCP put the first Clash on TBS against the WWF and WrestleMania on PPV. JCP did the same thing the next year.

  • @jeffreyriley8742
    @jeffreyriley87424 жыл бұрын

    29:03 I feel like damn near crying. Finally Luger gets the respect for that period he deserves.

  • @mattellis3297

    @mattellis3297

    3 жыл бұрын

    You should cry for the girl he helped OD

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mattellis3297 that wasn't no girl!! That was Miss Elizabeth!! 😁

  • @DrGreenthumb820803

    @DrGreenthumb820803

    2 жыл бұрын

    Luther deserves NO respect. Miss Elizabeth would still be alive if it wasn't for that scumbag.

  • @trevorromano2231

    @trevorromano2231

    2 жыл бұрын

    Watch OSW Review ( you’ll thank me later if you haven’t already discovered it ) they put Lex over well.

  • @JuliusC1973

    @JuliusC1973

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mattellis3297 Wasn't she trying to keep up with him when it came to recreation drugs and performance enhancing drugs and he outweighed her by at least 150lbs? Miss Elizabeth was a Grown Adult and had to take responsibility for her own actions.

  • @sabusteveswrestlinghistory5914
    @sabusteveswrestlinghistory59144 жыл бұрын

    Keeping old school alive.. We need much more Jim Cornettes in our wrestling universe

  • @we-tha-ones

    @we-tha-ones

    3 жыл бұрын

    U damn right

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    There's only one Corny though!! 😉

  • @davey3884
    @davey38844 жыл бұрын

    You need to do more of these "supercard" reviews

  • @25hztolife86
    @25hztolife864 жыл бұрын

    I luv hearing Jim talk back-in-the-day wrestling; he's a living history legend.

  • @tammyforbes2101

    @tammyforbes2101

    4 жыл бұрын

    You must be very young cause this stuff ain’t been that long ago it’s not history if everyone over 30 knows about it 😂! Now 50-100 years ago sure nobody remembers what it was like except really old people! But heck I’m 42 and I grew up around Jim’s neck of the woods in Ky! Smokers mountain did charity shows for my footballs team we got to hang out with Jim and set the chairs and stuff up he would buy us pizza and shoot the shit and talk wrestling with us! I was 6’3” and 220lbs of muscle so he liked me, I looked like I may could get huge he probably thought 💭! 🤔 And I wrestled, played basketball, and football, and done MMA training with some of the football players family! I looked like I could whip half the guns wrestling 🤦🏼‍♂️😂

  • @subgrappling805

    @subgrappling805

    4 жыл бұрын

    You sound like quite the handful, Tammy.

  • @tnbk_andrxw4474

    @tnbk_andrxw4474

    4 жыл бұрын

    This Tammy person is quite the ignorant type.

  • @bradnimbus4836

    @bradnimbus4836

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tammyforbes2101 Lies

  • @25hztolife86

    @25hztolife86

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tammyforbes2101....Are you a t-r-a-n-s-w-o-m-e-n?

  • @chrisshill1252
    @chrisshill12524 жыл бұрын

    I miss the old Georgia wrestling Championship/ Wcw..I watched Raw the other night and it made little or no sense..

  • @denniswhite1317
    @denniswhite13174 жыл бұрын

    "For this event, there must be a winner" Ring announcer before the Flair-Sting match that ended in a draw.

  • @jonbaird8835

    @jonbaird8835

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bad booking was around in the 80s too. Just need to dive deep to find it. Now a days you could throw a stone with a blindfold on and hit 6 instances of bad booking or 8 different mudshows.

  • @leeherring8880

    @leeherring8880

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ric was the winner. He retained the title.

  • @chrischar9428

    @chrischar9428

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leeherring8880 um draw

  • @78bcat

    @78bcat

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's always fascinating how wrestling fans regress with age, becoming dumber every year...or they were morons to begin with. I watched this as a 9 year old and instantly understood that "for this event there must be a winner"" referred to the judges. I'd already been watching real fighting for years and knew that draws still happened, that judges were meant to ensure there was a declared winner after the "time limit"...but it didn't always work out. It was easy to grasp that the NWA and Jim Crockett promotions added this stipulation to take one of Flair's "escapes" away...but he still could have had JJ get him DQ'd or simply lose by count out and keep the title. I was 9 and "got it"

  • @geocooley1976

    @geocooley1976

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s a way to get people to keep coming back.

  • @jeffreyriley8742
    @jeffreyriley87424 жыл бұрын

    Rewatched Sting vs. Flair a few days ago. Sting improved SO much from the end of his UWF days to this match. He could barely put together a match in the UWF (granted he was primarily a tag team wrestler) but he got so much better in such a short period of time.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    That was Stings prime for sure!! He would never get no better than that. He is just a horrible worker to fans like myself that enjoys really stellar ring work. Now he was miles above&beyond his old partner The Ultimate Douche.. AKA The Dingleberry Warrior but we all knows thats not saying too much either. 😂

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tht being said I must make it clear tht as a kid, and it being early into my wrestling fan days I did love Sting as much as everybody else, but as I got older and many more years of being a fan under my belt I just realized his spark for good ring work was very short lived before somebody blew his wick out. Not to mention I became a bigger fan of the heels overall as well.

  • @725slashbum
    @725slashbum4 жыл бұрын

    Now THIS! This is what the show needs, this is what Cornette needs to do on a more regular basis. Review old school wrestling. Great. Tremendous.

  • @sidneygwaltney9931

    @sidneygwaltney9931

    4 жыл бұрын

    i wish Jim cornette get back in wrestling he will be new owner of the new wcw he would have the best talent great roster he know eat breath live wrestling cant pull nothing over cornette

  • @kvsimagination7299

    @kvsimagination7299

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jim reviewing a Historic show from top to bottom and a watch along. THIS is "such good shit"! PLEASE DO MORE!

  • @rickvamos4203
    @rickvamos42034 жыл бұрын

    I have been watching professional wrestling for 32 years I am 36 years old. You are great

  • @dhornjr1
    @dhornjr14 жыл бұрын

    I say this a lot but I could never say it enough. I could listen to Jim Cornette talk all day long about wrestling. I grew up on the NWA/WCW in the eighties and early nineties and to hear him break down stuff that I watched at the time is just awesome.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    I couldn't agree more!!!

  • @matthillegas3099
    @matthillegas30994 жыл бұрын

    I forgot about Schiavone having the 'stache.

  • @ilovefatpussy11722

    @ilovefatpussy11722

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ron Jeremy

  • @sidneygwaltney9931

    @sidneygwaltney9931

    4 жыл бұрын

    one of the best play by play caller of all time

  • @jasonmichael7752

    @jasonmichael7752

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's odd because sometimes it's the only thing that I remember :\

  • @RobberStormfire
    @RobberStormfire4 жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear a little defense of Lex Luger - from 1987-1989 he was my favorite wrestler. He looked great and he was nowhere near as bad a worker as the perception is now. I didn't like him as much as he continued on - but take a look at the NWA matches from this era, he is really not that bad. A lot of guys that looked as good as Lex usually couldn't work at all.

  • @thepubknight6144

    @thepubknight6144

    2 жыл бұрын

    You gotta remember this was the era where you needed to be able to sell ..he was green but he was a hard worker.. luger got better at selling even though he was hilarious with his sound effects

  • @masada667

    @masada667

    2 жыл бұрын

    There were a lot worse workers. He was a little stiff but that's because he was flexing the entire time. I'd have put him in a mask and made him a psycho heel from the git go.

  • @anthonywilliams2754

    @anthonywilliams2754

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think it was his selling people had a problem with, but he was great on the comeback.

  • @JuliusC1973

    @JuliusC1973

    Жыл бұрын

    @@anthonywilliams2754 WCW should have sent Lugar to All Japan Pro Wresting during that era, he certainly would have learned to sell if he had to work with The Wrestlers on that Roster.

  • @jgfear
    @jgfear3 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching it live when I was in ninth grade. My friend at the time wanted me to watch Wrestlemania IV with him. I said no I’d rather stay home and watch Clash for free rather then paying to watch Wrestlemania on closed circuit tv. Besides in my eyes Clash had a better card. Well this caused a disagreement between him and I . But I stood my ground. When the show aired I was glued to my tv. The Flair/Sting match left me breathless. Simply a clinic. So the next day I ran into my friend and asked “ how was Mania ?” He replied “ it sucked,it was too long the matches were boring and my sister fell asleep” plus he hated the fact that Savage went over as champ ( he was the biggest Hogan mark) . So yeah needless to say still a great show for JCP .

  • @three-quartersbadger2929

    @three-quartersbadger2929

    11 ай бұрын

    Difference between a wrestling fan and a sports entertainment fan. Hogan was rubbish and completely non-credible.

  • @exidy-yt
    @exidy-yt Жыл бұрын

    I had just watched the first Clash just before this came up in my feed, and it was just ASTOUNDING how into it the crowd was. They absolutely LOST IT when Lex and Barry took the belts from Tully & Arn, it was electric! It totally did tear the house down. During the Broadway with Ric and Sting, no one was seated the whole damn time. How great the whole show was. It was the best time to be a wrestling fan.

  • @masada667
    @masada6672 жыл бұрын

    "Are you from Jersey?" I'm so glad that the cult classic film Frankenhooker came up. Awesome as always Corny..

  • @emptyhand777
    @emptyhand777 Жыл бұрын

    JJ Dillon tripping over the ropes as he jumps in the ring to prevent t Lugar's pin looked pretty good.

  • @thechairman74
    @thechairman742 жыл бұрын

    I remember when Sting was breaking into WCW from UWF teaming with Eddie Gilbert.

  • @VlogHype123
    @VlogHype123 Жыл бұрын

    I just got done watching this on KZread. I had to remind myself of this show. Yes I was watching NWA when I was 12 or 13 lol. Rest in peace Dusty.

  • @christopherorlando206
    @christopherorlando2064 жыл бұрын

    The following day on The Today Show I remember Bryant Gumbel started to talk about the big Mania show but he said he was more enthralled with the Flair-Sting match and he couldn't wait to see more from both of them.

  • @ericmartindale4333
    @ericmartindale43334 жыл бұрын

    I could watch Sting vs. Flair for the next 5,000 years.

  • @patrickgesuele8292
    @patrickgesuele82923 жыл бұрын

    I love these old stories!

  • @davidfrederick6003
    @davidfrederick60032 жыл бұрын

    TBS It was NOT available in the Philadelphia market (despite the syndicated world wide wrestling was on UHF local) BECAUSE cable wiring was NOT yet installed entirely in Philadelphia homes. It did reach our demographic area by the winter of 1988. Though they were not finished installation until March 1990

  • @adestra6840

    @adestra6840

    2 ай бұрын

    Interesting. I had it, loved TBS JCP, that’s what made me go to Halloween Havoc at the Civic Center.

  • @holmesmoss540
    @holmesmoss5402 жыл бұрын

    Such a great memory. I remember this so well.

  • @jackmcgregor4025
    @jackmcgregor40254 жыл бұрын

    Sting is a legend

  • @guardianofchaosBD
    @guardianofchaosBD4 жыл бұрын

    This was an excellent event! Thanks Corny...I cover this on the ole #Twitter Machine @bigdaddyGOC🔥

  • @tyronewaters7117
    @tyronewaters7117 Жыл бұрын

    "And then people creamed their jeans again." Lmao. Another award winning saying.

  • @BenAndersonify
    @BenAndersonify4 жыл бұрын

    Frankenhooker. Classic.

  • @joewilson4151
    @joewilson41512 жыл бұрын

    remember this well, watched it on TBS, remember the Mello Yello cans with the wrestlers. loved this stuff as a teenager.

  • @hotsetbye
    @hotsetbye4 жыл бұрын

    What I love most about listening to the "Mr. Jimmy Crack Corn-ette & The Great Brian Last I Don't Care Show." Is that it feels like going to a buddy's house and talk the breeze about wrestling.

  • @kurtvanderbogarde8402

    @kurtvanderbogarde8402

    4 жыл бұрын

    esp at a time when you *can't* go round a buddy's house.

  • @mrwednesdaynight
    @mrwednesdaynight3 жыл бұрын

    It is much better to here Cornette loving wrestling than hating it. We need more stuff like this.

  • @fatalsniper3413

    @fatalsniper3413

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me and you can have a wrestling match, no clothes on though, just to show him some more good wrestling. Are you down? Ive got a good sleeper to put on you

  • @TheBooneswava
    @TheBooneswava4 жыл бұрын

    Please keep doing these old school reviews I grew up on these brought back great memories ...of when wrestling was wrestling.not the teenage dance recitals we get now

  • @DavidLucas-oj6ju
    @DavidLucas-oj6ju4 жыл бұрын

    The first CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS THE MATCH WITH RIC FLAIR AND STING WAS AWESOME

  • @neils9739
    @neils97394 жыл бұрын

    Also a good thing about these PPV's back then was that their running time of a show perfect. 2 hours for a show is a good amount of time without burnout. These WWE more recent PPV'S run 6-8 hours. Good God that is just too much BS. Too much meaningless stuff going on.

  • @andrecoleman9200
    @andrecoleman92003 жыл бұрын

    Jim nailed everybody with the racket in the Midnight Express match - even Bobby gets a shot

  • @tommymclaughlin3203
    @tommymclaughlin32034 жыл бұрын

    If I recall wasn't Sting vs Flair supposed to go an hour originally?

  • @naturalbornthriller9025

    @naturalbornthriller9025

    4 жыл бұрын

    It sure was, they billed it as an hour long all the way up until the show itself. I’m pretty sure it was to guarantee they wouldn’t go over 2 hours for the whole show.

  • @seanbonella
    @seanbonellaАй бұрын

    Who's listening in May 2024

  • @brandtdowney6819

    @brandtdowney6819

    3 күн бұрын

    June

  • @Mooney_Da_Mayor
    @Mooney_Da_Mayor Жыл бұрын

    Could listen to Cornette talk for hours on hours about wrestling!

  • @RicGagger
    @RicGagger4 жыл бұрын

    This was such a good program I forgot about the judging botch lol

  • @JackBarrett7
    @JackBarrett7 Жыл бұрын

    Funny Corny compared Nikita to Drago, since he almost got the part of Drago. Also, it was funny that Ivan (a Canadian) and Nikita (an American) who were supposed to be Russian AND related both spoke with two different accents. Ivans was more non-descript European/Eurasian and could have made him from anywhere and Nikitas sounded like an American trying to do Russian.

  • @BriggsSeekins
    @BriggsSeekins2 жыл бұрын

    Being a pretty good state level wrester in Georgia back whenever Jimmy Garvin did it is sure a whole other thing than being Captain Mike Rotundo, lettering at Syracuse at Defensive End and as an All American heavyweight wrestler.

  • @rickvamos4203
    @rickvamos42034 жыл бұрын

    You are amazing Jim I am from Pittsburgh

  • @subgrappling805
    @subgrappling8054 жыл бұрын

    Jason Hervey...now there’s some star power.

  • @chadk890

    @chadk890

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was 1988 and the show was getting popular but Fred Savage was the star on that show.

  • @kurtvanderbogarde8402

    @kurtvanderbogarde8402

    4 жыл бұрын

    Missy wasn't in JCP/WCW at the time, she was in the CWA in Memphis with Mr Missy, Eddie Gilbert, feuding with Lawler. That was about the most sinister version of Missy, laughing sadistically as her hubby fireballed the King.

  • @num1Jaysta

    @num1Jaysta

    4 жыл бұрын

    Didn't he end up working for the business years later?

  • @lindseysummers5351

    @lindseysummers5351

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, they also had Corney doing an interview with Mr. Eddie Haskell himself to help promote The New Leave It To Beaver (or was it Still The Beaver?)

  • @philaman1972
    @philaman19723 жыл бұрын

    This was a great show in my book. I saw it live as a 16 year old kid on TBS. A young and excited Jim Ross was incredible in commentary during this time...

  • @subgrappling805

    @subgrappling805

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was just a few months from 14 at the time and couldn’t have loved this stuff more. So many great memories are tied to this time period in the business...good times indeed.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@subgrappling805 wrestling is the only thing in my life ( I started watching at 7yrs old) that has great memories/feelings and nostalgia tied to it tht makes me feel a certain way like music!! I been a drummer in original metal bands( meaning not a cover band) since basically exact amount of time as I been a wrestling fan ( which im just now realizing as I was typing this) and amazingly enough they both can spark the greatest memories just from a certain match of ppv/events etc .. Its seriously a beautiful thing. 💪

  • @subgrappling805

    @subgrappling805

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielwilson9724 …it sure the hell is. Although I can’t play a lick, music has always been that thing for me too, I definitely get you there. Not many things in life can bring me to the places that the feelings and nostalgia of good music and those early days of the wrestling business do…it truly is a special, unique and beautiful thing. Thanks for sharing that bro…I needed that reminder this morning. Take care of yourself, my friend.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@subgrappling805 completely agree man, and no problem about sharing glad I could help 😁 Cheers!!

  • @brianconnelly1238
    @brianconnelly1238 Жыл бұрын

    Back when TBS had actual wrestling on it, good wrestling at that

  • @RicGagger
    @RicGagger4 жыл бұрын

    I think this is the best clash ever... I remember my grandparents recorded it for me on vhs ... if this came out March 86 I was 7 yrs old... this is the best sting vs flair ever in my opinion

  • @awojhoski84

    @awojhoski84

    4 жыл бұрын

    It was March of 88. I was not quite 4yo.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    My best friend and I watched SOOO MUCH great wrestling at his grandma&grandpa's house!! They had all the cable ANDDD 2 tv's ANDDD a vcr in each room so we recorded EVERYTHING!! My classic wrestling library just from their house alone is pretty impressive from WWF/WCW/NWA/WCCW(one of my favorite classics) AWA and even ECW too!! I miss those days of wrestling and enjoying it with my best friend ( who passed in 07')

  • @RicGagger

    @RicGagger

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@awojhoski84 that makes more sense. I thought I was older than 7

  • @RicGagger

    @RicGagger

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielwilson9724 sorry Bout your loss. My grandparents used to record these Clashes for me. Along with lots of other wrestling too. I'm in indianapolis so we used to watch dick the bruiser promotion here as well but it went off the air long long ago. I was very young

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RicGagger dude!! Im in Indianapolis too!! 😂 small world.. Southwestside " The Hill" close to " the valley"

  • @roberthealey7739
    @roberthealey77393 жыл бұрын

    Flair vs Sting was like Race vs Flair in 83 you could FEEL this guy (Sting) was the next stud up. Flair picked him and picked wisely

  • @ShaneOfThe6
    @ShaneOfThe62 жыл бұрын

    The way Dusty booked Sting’s rise to the title. Should be put in the hall of fame like Belichik’s defense

  • @rickstalentedtongue910

    @rickstalentedtongue910

    Жыл бұрын

    Belichik was allowed to cheat, c'mon man.

  • @kbobdonahue1966
    @kbobdonahue19664 жыл бұрын

    Hey Jim, do you still have that red blazer with a pair of tennis rackets on the back? Where would you get a jacket like that? Just wondering.

  • @stevezylla2350
    @stevezylla2350 Жыл бұрын

    Did the watch along on the Midnights vs Fantastics . Jim's walk through the match was fascinating. I'm glad Jim is doing his own thing and under his own conditions and doing well . But the Pro Wrestling World would be so much better off if Jim was still involved hands on .

  • @Skydog3
    @Skydog34 жыл бұрын

    Good shit

  • @drelane79
    @drelane794 жыл бұрын

    This is a perfect review

  • @kbobdonahue1966
    @kbobdonahue19664 жыл бұрын

    Gotta love old school wrestling. What great memories and all those blazers Corny would wear. What fun. I miss those days.

  • @VlogHype123
    @VlogHype123 Жыл бұрын

    yes I remember Jim Cornett when he had to dodge the crowed js when he was younger lol

  • @arthurdaffos1490
    @arthurdaffos14904 жыл бұрын

    When you hear cornette saying wrestling is an art i envision the big pictures with every characters in the paintings being at their place, difficult methods of paintings, requiring patience and control but in the end everything is beautiful. When i hear omega talking about it as an art, i envision a guy painting a picture with a pencil stuck up in his ass for the sake of the performance no matter of how stupid it might looks and how ugly the picture might be in the end

  • @thomashenley1903
    @thomashenley19032 ай бұрын

    My favorite Clash of the Champions is the first Clash of the Champions. Flair vs. Sting, a big title change, and crazy brawls.

  • @kacebox174
    @kacebox1744 жыл бұрын

    "What time does the bus get here?"

  • @matthewgabbard6415
    @matthewgabbard64152 жыл бұрын

    One thing I’ve always wondered was what was that kid from the Wonder Years connection to wrestling? Jason Kirby or Hirby, Herpes? Whatever his name was

  • @nealfeldpausch715
    @nealfeldpausch7154 жыл бұрын

    The Clash began right at the peak of my young kid days of its still real and I just liked babyfaces and I didn't know anything about bookers and work rate and ratings and etc... This was the best time of my "wrestling fan" part of my life!

  • @coachmikesfilmroom3111

    @coachmikesfilmroom3111

    4 жыл бұрын

    I remember how mad I was that our cable company didn't have ppl yet so I couldn't watch mania. That was until I saw Sting vs Flair. I still haven't seen a better match.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@coachmikesfilmroom3111 serious question here.. Did u stop watching wrestling after that match maybe? Just asking cause as classic a match as it was I don't know how u havent caught handfuls of classics better than, or at least just as good as Sting VS Flair.

  • @coachmikesfilmroom3111

    @coachmikesfilmroom3111

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielwilson9724 no, I watched wrestling through the WCW days, didn't watch much after Benoit. Got back into it with TNA. watched WWE again when I was taking care of my dad up to his passing 3 years ago. There's alot of great matches of course.

  • @distantandvague
    @distantandvague3 жыл бұрын

    Brian Last had to have watched Joe Bob Briggs on TNT and TMC in the 80s and 90s, based off his Frankenhooker talk

  • @kevinharris1981
    @kevinharris198111 ай бұрын

    Dr Tom By God Miller. His call of Dusty beating Flair lives in my head full time. Rent Free.

  • @furfledurfle
    @furfledurfle4 жыл бұрын

    I had wondered how five judges wound up casting three votes.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @jeffrose1672
    @jeffrose16724 жыл бұрын

    The first clash of the champions was a damn good show and the match between Ric flair and sting was awesome

  • @victor-ed4rp
    @victor-ed4rp4 жыл бұрын

    That's a good show Mister Ed the talking horse 2 🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘

  • @sadetwizelve
    @sadetwizelve2 жыл бұрын

    10:27 "tuba four"

  • @josemuniz4454
    @josemuniz44544 жыл бұрын

    Jim and brian, keep up the great work!!!👍

  • @jeffreyriley8742
    @jeffreyriley87424 жыл бұрын

    Jim Ross' call for the tag title change is incredible. "The Twin Towers! A new era in tag team wrestling has begun!"

  • @lindseysummers5351
    @lindseysummers53513 жыл бұрын

    My take on the matches: 1.) Mike Rotunda vs. Jimmy Garvin, College Rules Match. Sorry, but I just don't care for either of these guys, and the College Rules stipulation was goofy at best. I thought it stunk. 2/10. 2.) Midnight Express vs. The Fantastics, US Tag Team Championship. Another infuriating Dusty Finish, but don't let that spoil the exciting match they had. Bonus points for Corney going to town on Bobby Fulton by whipping him like a dog with his belt and then clubbing Tommy Young with the racquet. "Woooooo!!! They just got, the lesson of their lives!!!" 7.5/10. 3.) Road Warriors and Dusty Rhodes vs. Powers if Pain and Ivan Kollof, Barbed Wire Match. Great spectacle but the match was boring. Because of all the beef in the ring and the barbed wire on the ropes, they couldn't do much besides punch-kick. They couldn't move around for nothing. After the match, Animal was a little too obvious with his face flop, trying to garner sympathy by throwing his face mask off. 3/10. 4.) Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard vs. Barry Windham and Lex Luger. Fast paced match in which both teams crammed all their best moves into the first few minutes of action. The finish was stupid, but that doesn't diminish the match. The crowd ate it up when the Twin Towers held up the belts at the end. 7/10. 5.) Ric Flair vs. Sting. I was a huge Sting fan in 1988. Sting was the complete package, with power, speed, aerial ability, and just enough technical mat wrestling. Ric Flair brought a maturity out of him and carried him for 45 minutes. Sting dominated the match, and it was disappointing to see the judges call it a draw. It's still a classic and remains one of my very favorite matches over 30 years later. 9/10.

  • @Dave-rf1zj

    @Dave-rf1zj

    3 жыл бұрын

    Really good assessment of the card. Agree with you about all the matches. Though, I did like Jimmy Garvin & Mike Rotunda myself, especially when Mike Rotunda was teaming with Steve Williams in the Varsity Club. That was a very underrated heel tag team in my opinion. As far as Jimmy Garvin goes, I wasn't the biggest fan of him in this era as a babyface. I thought he was great in World Class as the pretty boy, chicken shit heel though. But definitely agree that the college rules match was a horrible idea. The two of them could have had a very good, 10-15 minute, opening match that got the fans excited. The college rules thing was silly to me and took away from them in my opinion.

  • @twentytolife4401
    @twentytolife4401 Жыл бұрын

    Brian's Nikita impressions🤣

  • @Mastro_
    @Mastro_4 жыл бұрын

    Clash Of The Champions 1: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zpeq26StndDcidY.html

  • @enochancient9931
    @enochancient99312 ай бұрын

    I hooe you guys have more watch alongs

  • @kenshiman90
    @kenshiman90Ай бұрын

    holy cow, cornette was spot on that steve williams is like scott steiner in that promo. once he said that I couldn't unsee it. loved that opening match too, they need to do that more one fall matches, then again if they do I'm sure they'll ruin it and run it into the ground like everything else.

  • @rickpowers3677
    @rickpowers36773 жыл бұрын

    I disagree about the attendance. Watching a live event in person is a lot better than watching it on tv . Cornette is wrong about Nikita Koloff being an Ivan Drago ripoff because Nikita debuted in 84' and Rocky 4 wasn't made until 85.

  • @john_blues
    @john_blues2 жыл бұрын

    Ma, I forgot how much I liked Sweet Stan's kicks. They looked smooth.

  • @davidfrederick6003
    @davidfrederick60032 жыл бұрын

    Cornette should do more reviews!

  • @roberthaji9085
    @roberthaji90852 жыл бұрын

    I never stopped being a “little Stinger” .

  • @mihaivrabies2977
    @mihaivrabies29772 жыл бұрын

    March 27, 2 years later on the day I was born! 👌😅

  • @corymoore1530
    @corymoore15303 жыл бұрын

    Sting theam was awesome here .

  • @johnjames3592
    @johnjames359229 күн бұрын

    I think a lot of fans turned up in Greensboro for a chance to get on TV

  • @barrystewart5946
    @barrystewart59464 жыл бұрын

    Such a brilliant BW heel turn because unlike Orange Goblin you didn’t see this coming. Orndorff,Andre and Savage heel turns were blatantly obvious (then Sid🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️). Even though Barry was teased BOOM in the rematch the unthinkable. Windham says “fook it”. You get the belts and I join up cause I can’t count on Lex, JJ is right. All in mid match. Again brilliant as opposed to months of ego postering causing friends to “turn”.

  • @madmantrader

    @madmantrader

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wish they would have talked about that more rather than cornette tell Bryan ..whatever lol...the heel turn was great!!

  • @jamalabdelbaset6635
    @jamalabdelbaset66354 жыл бұрын

    6:55- My dad could not STAND Teddy Long! Lol!! I don’t know what it was. I was too small to grasp it at the time, but for whatever reason whenever my father saw Teddy was reffing, he would spit at the TV, and say, “Oh shit!” Lol!

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao 😂 sometimes in wrestling you just despise someone with no real explanation or ability to explain why. 😂

  • @emptyhand777
    @emptyhand777 Жыл бұрын

    Nikita wasn't a Dolph Lundgren Rocky IV rip-off, he was actually considered for the role, but he was so much bigger than Stallone he didn't get the part.

  • @swfcocs1
    @swfcocs13 жыл бұрын

    I take Jim's point but surely comparing todays ratings with 70s wrestling us comparing apples with oranges.Sadly those viewing figures will never be repeated in wrestling

  • @aaronroyal9449
    @aaronroyal94492 жыл бұрын

    In the 80s being in the business for 3 years means probably 900 matches mostly against veterans. Today 3 years could mean 350 matches mostly with other neophytes. Huge difference.

  • @stevesmythe8556
    @stevesmythe85564 жыл бұрын

    Even with the crappy wwe of today, there's no replacement for live events. Back in the day, even more so. Come on, Jimmy.

  • @tobygreen4257
    @tobygreen42574 жыл бұрын

    Listening to Cornette review the midnight match is like listening to Picasso teaching a painting class

  • @Seanstrong316
    @Seanstrong3165 күн бұрын

    Also if that same tag match was in ECW or AEW he would absolutely bury it for being chaos

  • @Sazikbubblefluff
    @Sazikbubblefluff2 жыл бұрын

    Shit, I was a real life Eddie Haskell. Lmao.

  • @hermonymusofsparta
    @hermonymusofsparta Жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure Royal Rumble 88 had a higher cable rating than this. The Main Event 88 (free TV) definitely did and is still the highest rated wrestling show ever. 33 million.

  • @MrChristopherHaas
    @MrChristopherHaas7 ай бұрын

    Just finished rewatching Cade #1. I realized that, if aew wrestlers went and imitated every move, every illegal object, every act of obvious cooperation…and there were many…that every wrestler did in first 3 matches Cornette would be snapping lol

  • @fayerson
    @fayerson4 жыл бұрын

    This is what he needs to stick to. This is the Corny we can love and respect.

  • @danielwilson9724

    @danielwilson9724

    3 жыл бұрын

    Everything he talks about on wrestling rules! My favorite wrestling " podcast" going

  • @testodude
    @testodude Жыл бұрын

    I always thought if Tommy Rogers was 4 inches taller and 40 pounds heavier, he could have been a contender for the world title.

  • @davidiihouston6883
    @davidiihouston68835 ай бұрын

    Last is nuts if he thinks 88 wasn't loaded with great matches and moments. It's just that it being Crockett's last year has shaded it in people's memories.

  • @mrwednesdaynight
    @mrwednesdaynight2 жыл бұрын

    Jim needs to do another palette cleaner soon.

  • @dr.floridamanphd
    @dr.floridamanphd4 жыл бұрын

    I know he’s saying 2x4 but it sounded like tubafor.

  • @Blueswailer

    @Blueswailer

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was just going to comment on this. His accent makes some mundane words funny. The mental image of a wrestler whipping another wrestler with an actual tuba kills me.

  • @kurtvanderbogarde8402

    @kurtvanderbogarde8402

    4 жыл бұрын

    When I was 14 and I first saw the 2x4 mentioned in one of Eddie Ellner's columns in PWI, I thought it was called a "two times four". Couldn't work out why they would name a piece of wood after a sum from primary school maths.

  • @SteelSunday

    @SteelSunday

    4 жыл бұрын

    What's a tubafor? Blowing

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