Rare Wrestling Finds: Halloween Havoc 89 VHS

This week's rare wrestling find has me looking through amazon to search for a good copy of WCW Halloween Havoc 1989 on vhs. This was never released on dvd, and it is relatively rare. I know a lot of people didn't watch WCW because it was not WWF or WWE, but the late 80's and mid 90's stuff was awesome. I promise it's worth the investment.

The matches that occurred at Halloween Havoc 1989 live from the Philadelphia Civic Center featured many old stars, including:

Tom Zenk defeated Mike Rotunda

The Samoan Swat Team (Samu, Fatu and The Samoan Savage) defeated The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) and Steve Williams (with Jim Cornette)

Tommy Rich defeated The Cuban Assassin

The Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace) (with Jim Cornette)

Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) (with Woman) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott)


Lex Luger defeated Brian Pillman

The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) (with Paul Ellering) defeated The Skyscrapers (Sid Vicious and Dan Spivey) (with Teddy Long)

Ric Flair and Sting (with Ole Anderson) defeated The Great Muta and Terry Funk (with Gary Hart) (with Bruno Sammartino as special guest referee) in a Thunderdome match

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The Week In Wrestling New Year 2011 Edition

This week in wrestling started with a bang after Christmas. I watched the last Smackdown of 2010 during New Year's Day. My wife has a job, but I don't, so I was at home bored to death. It's 6 degrees outside and I'm thinking about professional wrestling, because I don't have anything else to do.

This week in wrestling was one of the most memorable for me. So here it is a small look back at the week in wrestling.

Best Show

The best show has to be WWE Raw. This week's Raw really came to an amazing ending. Not only did John Cena get laid out by the Nexus, giving him a huge beat down. But CM PUNK came out and is now the leader of NEXUS and is replacing Wade Barrett. I'm hoping that WWE doesn't screw this one up.

Worst Show

TNA Impact stunk up the year and didn't finish 2010 with greatness. I don't remember anything worth mentioning about this week's impact. I think there was a minor swerve, and maybe teasing an Aj Style face turn, I don't know. I can't stand the current TNA product, but I keep watching because I'm an idiot.

Best Match

Match of the week has to go to the triple threat Intercontinental championship match between Kofi Kingston, Jack Swagger, and Dolph Ziggler. I'm so glad that the IC title is getting pushed more in recent years. The match was good and had some nice spots back and forth action and overall good wrestling in an era with terrible wrestling. The ending was lame, but up until then, it was good.

That's about it for this last week in wrestling. Happy New Year. Thank you for reading, and leave a comment, if you're reading come on, help me out!

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WWE Friday Night Smackdown 12/31/10 Results and Review

WWE Friday Night Smackdown 12/31/10 Results

Drew McIntyre defeated Trent Barretta
The Big Show defeated Cody Rhodes via disqualification
Edge & Rey Mysterio defeated Kane & Alberto Del Rio
Beth Phoenix & Natalya defeated Laycool
Dolph Ziggler defeated Jack Swagger & Kofi Kingston in a triple threat match

WWE Friday Night Smackdown 12/31/10 Review

HAPPY NEW YEAR for all of you out there reading this blog. All 3 of you! I still have no job, still have no internet access the house, and am writing you this from the local public library. I'm hoping that changes this year. If you'd like to help out, visit amazon.com here, and spend some money, every little bit helps.

The night opened up with Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero getting booed out of the building. Vickie said she had Vertigo and deserved compassion. After some talking out came Kofi Kingston and he got on the mic and said that Vickie's condition was BS.

I loved this segment. Kofi's not half bad on the mic, especially when he's just talking straight up. He doesn't need that Jamaican accent.

Jack Swagger has a new shirt and it is amazing. The new JACK SWAGGER SHIRT! WOOT! I'd buy it if I had a few dollars. Jack Swagger came out to the ring and cut a promo as well about the ladder match at TLC and how stupid it ended.

The three started to fight and out came Teddy Long and set up a triple threat Intercontinental Championship match for later.

The Big Show defeated Cody Rhodes via disqualification

Big Show came out to some cheers and he too had a new shirt, which looked good. Show seems a big lighter than usual,and he took it to COdy Rhodes. Rhodes really got beat down in this match, and it was not as "fake" as people seem to think. Dashing Cody Rhodes really got beat up, and the crowd was all over this match, especially when The Big Show put his BUTT in Cody Rhodes face. Dashing Cody Rhodes eventually walked away and got counted out as Big Show was just "too" much for the guy.

Backstage there was a party and it was ok. Some little moments and funny segments. Cole poked fun at Kaval for losing to Drew McIntyre.

There is NO heat on Drew. In fact, if you check out Botchamania's latest episode there's footage from the arenas, and NO ONE CARES! This guy sucks. I hate him.

Drew McIntyre defeated Trent Barretta

This match was interesting to see, and wasn't half bad. There was some nice back and forth action, but it took a nasty looking turn towards the end. Drew managed to get out of the way as Trent flew over the top rope and landed completely on his back and neck. He was going for a Suicide Dive over the top rope and just knocked himself out. The match did had some nice brutality from Drew, and it was interesting to see. Barretta lands funny and it looked like he legit knocked himself out.

After the match he got the Future Shock DDT and it was over. I liked it. Yes, I liked it, even though I hate Drew.

Edge's music hits and I mark out huge! His music is just so awesome, and him as champion isn't half bad, I just hope they find a good opponent for him, because if they rehash Rey Mysterio or Kane, I'll be very sad.

Edge & Rey Mysterio defeated Kane & Alberto Del Rio

This match wasn't that great. It had some nice spots, good back and forth fast paced offense from all the guys, but they barely broke a sweat. Mysterio was isolated for a good part of the match, but Edge would eventually get the hot tag, and get Kane knocked out of the match, and hit Del Rio with a sick Spear to win the match. The 619 went straight into the Spear and that was awesome, so the good guys win again, and everyone goes home happy. It was a good sequence, I liked it, and the crowd was definitely into it, which was nice.

Beth Phoenix & Natalya defeated Laycool

Not a terrible match and interesting to see what real women's wrestlers can do. The match had some nice offense, with a good amount of time given. Laycool lost again, and that was that. This is going to get stale though.

Dolph Ziggler defeated Jack Swagger & Kofi Kingston in a triple threat match

I like the idea of the IC Title being given main even status. It's nice to see how things are going well in this division, and watching Kofi and Swagger's interaction with Dolph Ziggler was great. The offense was fast at some points and slowed down towards the end with some nice back and forth actions. Swagger was completely knocked out by Kofi with a nice ddt. Vickie kept getting involved to stop pins. Dolph Ziggler was able to win after trouble in paradise took out swagger and that was that. Ziggler rolled up Kofi and retained the title, which was interesting to see.

Dolph's continual roll up wins was great, but he put on a show with the other two guys in this match. I liked the match and am glad that the WWE is doing a lot more wrestling with the secondary titles. Ziggler and Daniel Bryan are great up and coming stars and I hope they turn into world champion s someday. A good overall match a good overall night of wrestling with nothing too stupid.

Next week Rey Mysterio will face Alberto Del Rio in a 2 out of 3 falls match up on Smackdown. They'll also have the World Title match with Kane and Edge in a last man standing match...I'm already bored.

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TNA Impact 12/30/10 Results and Review

TNA Impact 12/30/10 Results

Robert Roode defeated Chris Sabin
Rob Van Dam defeated Robbie E
Sarita defeated Velvet Sky in a Leather Strap Match
Jeff Jarrett vs Amazing Red's Brother
Aj Styles & Rob Terry defeated Magnus & Douglas Williams
Matt Morgan & Devon defeated Ken Anderson & Bubba Ray

TNA Impact 12/30/10 Review

The last impact of 2010, and I was very tired this morning. I haven't made any sales on this site from amazon, I still have no job, and earlier this morning the only video of Superstars had an AWA track on it, so that's why there's no review for Superstars this week.

Here are my thoughts of TNA.

TNA had Foley chants piped in with this entrance music, it sounded so fake.

Mick Foley and Anderson got in the ring and started talking, I didn't care. Matt Morgan came out and he got involved too. The whole point of this was to further set up the match between Anderson and Matt Morgan. Of course, Anderson's concussion.

Robert Roode defeated Chris Sabin

This match wasn't half bad. It featured a lot of back and forth wrestling, and lots of spots where Sabin looked far better than Roode. I couldn't believe how good Roode reacted to a great deal of the offense from Sabin. Sabin tried to go to the top too many times, because Roode was able to catch him and deliver a nice spine buster and picked up the win. This was probably the best match I've seen on TNA in a long time.

The backstage segments with Orlando Jordan and Erik Young sucks. Shark boy showed up and it was funny.

Rob Van Dam defeated Robbie E

Not a good match here, and Rob Van dam looked winded early. Robbie E was buried here. It wasn't a very good match. You could imagine what happened here, RVD's move set isn't very big and Robbie E is just hanging on by a thread since losing the x-division title.

Post match, Jeff Hardy got on the screen and said RVD had to pass a test at Genesis. They didn't reveal who the opponent was, but if RVD won, he'd get a shot at Jeff Hardy.

Sarita defeated Velvet Sky in a Leather Strap Match

This was just weird. This leather strap match had some interesting points, but it wasn't a great wrestling match up. A lot of points looked like it legit hurt. This match had very little wrestling, it was just a brawl until Sarita won by hitting the 4th corner. The concept is ok, but in action it was just boring.

Jeff Jarrett vs Amazing Red's Brother

Amazin Red's supposed brother came out for the Double J challenge. It ended with Amazing Red smashing a guitar. This was stupid...I hate Jarrett, so maybe he's doing his job well.

Aj Styles & Rob Terry defeated Magnus & Douglas Williams

This match was boring to me. However, the ending was awesome. Aj Styles put Magnus through the Rolling Chaos Theory finisher and I was marking out huge. That was the best part of this match up. HOpefullly Aj loses at Genesis, cause i can't stand his gimmick.

Madison Rayne came to the ring in an evening gown. Mickie James came down and beat her up than stripped her of her dress. Yep. Hardcore Country! I don't care about these women.

Matt Morgan & Devon defeated Ken Anderson & Bubba Ray

This match wasn't that great either. There was some nice back and forth action. Ray and Bubba didn't fight much as Bubba kept running from Devon. Anderson and Morgan work well together. The ending was interesting, Matt Morgan tried to clobber Devon, I think, I don't know, but he ended up hitting Anderson in the back of the head, nearly knocking out Anderson.

Matt Morgan apparently had a heel swerve here? I don't know, it seemed weird. We'll see what will happen sooner than later.

The show was convoluted, there were a lot of things pushed forward here, but no sign of the x-division, and not a lot of great wrestling. It was better than most weeks of Impact, but not nearly as good as WWE's Raw this week.

Top 5 Best Selling Wrestling Merch December 2010

For those of you that are looking for pro wrestling items on amazon.com, I've collected the best selling things that you can purchase today. Every month I'll update this blog with the best selling items from the last 30 days, and if you'd like to purchase them, you can click the links below and get them shipped to your home. Spend $25 and get free shipping.

The top 5 best selling pro-wrestling dvd's for the month of December 2010:

1. WWE: Top 50 Superstars of All Time

2. WWE: Bobby "The Brain" Heenan

3. WWE: Survivor Series 2010

4. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (odd I know)

5. WWE: SummerSlam 2010 BLU RAY

For those looking for other wrestling items, here's the top 5 best selling wrestling books:

1. WWE Encyclopedia by Brian Shields

2. Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out of the Darkness by Dustin Rhodes

3. Countdown to Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal by Mick Foley

4. Tales From A Dirt Road by Dutch Mantell

5. A Lion's Tale: Around The World In Spandex by Chris Jericho

For those looking for pro wrestling toys, these are the top 5 selling toys for the month of December:

1. WWE Sheamus Figure #7

2. WWE Tag Team Championship Belt

3. WWE Wrestling Jakk's Pacific John Cena Chain Gang Belt

4. WWE Superstar Match-Ups John Cena

5. WWE Unlikely Allies The Miz & Big Show Series #7

The above links are live, so you can click them and order yourself some of the best selling pro-wrestling items from December. Every order helps this blog out, specifically me, so that I can improve the site, get a domain name, and start a podcast. It costs you no extra, and helps me, so why not?