The Atomic Drop

1) Recaps begin again next week, starting with this week’s TNA. I’m working again and in the mood to write. Stay tuned for that.

2) WCW once had a Six Man Tag Team Championship. Everything surrounding it was mostly terrible. Bedt part: Ricky Morton’s mullet. It is the sex.

Back again soon, cats and kittens. Love you all!

Thanks to all my recently new followers and to those that have recently picked these up on Facebook or Twitter. You guys make this fun. I especially like the interaction and hearing your thoughts, be it about wrestling, romance, politics, growing up, music or special sanitary napkins.

Additionally, I just started watching the last three months of WCW. After this Thunder episode, I’ll still hate on TNA’s booking, but I’ll never, ever complain about having to watch it. Hopefully they never hit these lows.

How does a wrestling promotion owned by a television company produce a wrestling show that looks like the output of a high school television class?

Seriously, much of WCW from 1993 looks miserable. Bischoff screwed a lot up, but at least he made the production look competent.

Sorry for the downer post, cats and kittens, but I’m still reeling from watching Paul Orndorff’s back cut a promo.

Davey Boy Smith is on the show. WCW was truly the TNA of its time.

And by that I mean it was a shelter for guys Vince fired for using steroids or other drugs.

The week before SuperBrawl III, Jim Ross and Larry Zbysko called WCW Satuday Night. There were no mats at ringside. Ric Flair was being teased on the WCW Hotline.

The week after SuperBrawl, Tony Schiavone and Jesse Ventura are on commentary, the mats are back and Ric Flair is on the building.

Bill Watts was out. They’d finally gotten him after wanting to toss him for months. Everyone knows the story by now. Some opinions should be kept to oneself and not expressed to The Pro Wrestling Torch, especially the hateful ones.

Watts is a guy I respect as a booker and athlete, but it ends there.

Eric Bischoff hadn’t taken over yet. The show still looks the same, for the most part. The same workers were being pushed.

Soon, Dusty Rhodes would be booking again. Bischoff would be in power. And then everything took off from there.

I find 1993 to be the pivital year for WCW. The changes that I’m watching unfold in these historical recordings led to Hogan coming in the next year and Nitro being created the year after that.

The best thing about these old shows: not as many dead wrestlers. I think Brian Pillman and Chris Benoit arethe only ones I’ve seen in these initial shows, and Benoit is heading back to Japan.

Raw, Impact and NXT thoughts tomorrow.

Old WCW again. This match was Pillman and Austin vs 2 Cold and Marc Mero. Great stuff for a tv match. Imagine how good this would have been in 1998 if Austin’s neck was fine, if Pillman didn’t have the car accident and did not later OD, Scorpio was healthy and not in the JOB Squad and Mero wasn’t complacent, overpaid, injured and tethered to Sable. Amazing thought, right?

Steve Regal is debuting now. Today he works as William Regal. Watts and the booking committee decided that he’d be a face. Amusing. Imagine how great this guy could have been if he stayed off the drugs and the gas.

Hmm, Bischoff now. First appearance on WCW Saturday Night in 1993.

Chris Benoit is all over WCW at this point. Hard to watch. Great worker, ended up as the biggest jerk ever. Blah.

Enough rambling. Goodnight cats and kittens.