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Glass Hand Dissolving: Rob Van Dam & Sabu

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vs Bam Bam Bigelow & Sandman (ECW 1/24/1998) This is supposed to be RVD vs Bam Bam, but Sabu gets involved, and Bam Bam doesn't have a partner. He asks Taz to be his partner, but Taz says fuck a lot and gets attacked by Brakkus. RVD says nobody is dumb enough to team with Bigelow, which brings out Sandman. He comes to the ring, attempts to drink a beer, but gets attacked, and we are off. A lot of brawling, a few weapons shots, then Lance Storm and Chris Candido hit the ring. Shortly after that, Shane Douglas is out there, too. In the melee, Sabu puts Sandman through a table, Bigelow fights off the 3 on 1 assault, and is able enough to powerbomb Sabu, and climbs the rope to hit a flying headbutt on Sabu, but somehow kinda hits Sandman, and in such a way that Sabu gets up, hits Bigelow with a cane, Sandman with a ladder, and Sabu gets the pin. This whole thing is a total mess.  vs Axl Rotten & Balls Mahoney (ECW 7/3/1998) This is just guys doing stuff for 8 minutes. RVD does ...
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Glass Hand Dissolving: The Lightning Express

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 vs Hollywood Blondes (Memphis 11/10/1984) This is a pretty good TV tag match. Tim Horner was such a good tag team wrestler; his offense looked good, he could sell, he could fire up. Armstrong is fine, but I'm starting to become a big Tim Horner guy. Nothing about this match really stands out, but it is entertaining. Eventually, Ron Garvin hits the ring, and the whole thing gets thrown out.  vs Ivan Koloff & Krusher Kruschev (JCP 10/26/1986) This is worked exactly how you would draw it up. Horner and Armstrong show promise early, but get cut off by the Russians, who then proceed to isolate and punish Horner for a bit portion of the match. Darsow gets a large portion of that, and despite being able to do it more effectively in Demolition, he really isn't up to it here in a way that makes the match exciting. Ivan carries his end of the load, though. Armstrong finally gets the tag and some in on fire, and it looks like Armstrong is going to pin Ivan for the titles, but nanose...
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Glass Hand Dissolving: Terry Funk & Dory Funk Jr.

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  vs Abdullah the Butcher & The Sheik (AJPW 12/13/1979) Man, is this violent. Guys are stabbing and getting stabbed. Guys are bleeding, being bled on, punching each other in the head wound.  Even Dory gets dragged into the fray. Somehow, amongst all of that, there is also a pretty standard tag match, where Terry gets worked over and makes a hot tag ot Dory Jr. Spoiler, but this is easily the best match of this set of 5 and a very, very solid match for 1979.  vs Tommy Rogers & El Gran Apollo (Georgia 1/2/1982) This is pretty much a squash. They give a fair bit to Tommy Rogers and a little bit to Apollo, but this is pretty much non-competitive. I don't know what you can really take away from a match like this other than The Funks do a couple of cool things. Terry hits a good elbow drop, the Dory uppercuts look good, as does the butterfly suplex. That's about it.  vs Bruiser Brody & Stan Hansen (AJPW 4/22/1983) Brody and Hansen eat up a lot of this match, as...
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Glass Hand Dissolving: Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas

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vs Brian Pillman & Steve Austin (10/25/1992) This is the marquee matchup for Steamboat and Douglas. They get some time and have a fairly decent match. Steamboat gets a segment in control, then Douglas, then Steamboat takes a beating, then Douglas takes a beating. Things get a bit lawless, and in the chaos, Pillman throws Douglas over the top rope, and the Hollywood Blondes get DQ'd. I think this is actually a bit disappointing. They get plenty of time, and they don't do anything of note, and the finish doesn't do them any favors.  vs Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton (11/7/1992) Steamboat starts this off, but unlike a lot of the other matches of this team, this isn't about Steamboat selling for big portions of the bout, nor is it about Steamboat having to essentially save Douglas. Things are pretty back and forth. Steamboat does take a bit of a beating toward the end, and Shane is able to get a hot tag and clean house. Brian Pillman hits the ring as it looks like Dougl...
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Glass Hand Dissolving: Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez

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  vs Kerry Von Erich & Mike Von Erich (WCCW 11/26/1984) I went back and rewatched this like 5 times, because none of it really stood out, besides a few minor things: Mike Von Erich is bad, it is what it is, there's not a whole lot you can do with him, he can't even really sell compellingly. The Von Erich, by design, eat up a lot of any match they're in, so anything like this is going to have a certain ceiling on it. Chris Adams looks really good beating up Kerry. Outside of those things, this is a match, and I think so much of this team's resume being against the Von Erichs is going to put them at a disadvantage. vs The Great Kabuki & Scott Casey (WCCW 5/5/1985) Two matches in, and I'm starting to think Gino Hernandez is a guy whose reputation exceeds what you see in the footage. I just don't see it, in the ring anyway. On the other hand, Chris Adams is great. He is compelling in the ring, his stuff looks good, and he can get beaten up when it's call...
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Glass Hand Dissolving: Rey Mysterio Jr & Billy Kidman

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vs Raven & Saturn (WCW 4/5/1999)  This is all action early, big moves, mostly with Rey on the receiving end. Kidman gets a tag and attempts to turn the tide, they have some limited success, but eventually Kidman takes a belly-to-belly from the ring to the outside. From that point, Saturn and Raven really take it to Kidman, drop toe hold on a chair, bug top rope splash, but somehow Kidman reverses a Raven powerbomb and tags in Rey. Mysterio comes in with fire, but Raven kicks him in the junk when Rey attempts a broncobuster. Things quickly become lawless, and to add to the chaos, the ref gets bumped, and Malenko and Benoit hit the ring, attack Saturn, and Kidman gets the pin. This is pretty good. A lot of the big moves don't really seem to register, but it is short, and I guess over the course of five minutes, you can't expect much attrition.  vs ICP (WCW 8/23/1999) I didn't expect this to be good. It isn't. ICP will bump, not in a way that's always convincing or...
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[09-17-2006] John Cena vs Edge (TLC Match)

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  We are in Toronto, last time we were in Boston. This is a TLC, so theoretically, the deck is stacked against Cena, and so is the crowd. The previous match saw Edge win by hitting Cena with a foreign object, so you can see why the elevated stipulation, plus Edge has now defended the title against Cena twice and won, so if Cena's going to get another shot, it is on Edge's terms. I've sort of been lukewarm on these matches, especially because they have this reputation of making Cena, or being Cena's best feud, and up to this point, I'd say JBL did more for Cena in one night than Edge has done for him.  So, of course, we're going to get a lot of plunder here, a lot of setting up of spots here, that's par for the course, but in a tag match, or especially a three-way tag match, you have a lot going on while someone is setting up some big spot. In a singles match, things have to stop to a certain degree. It changes the flow, but I think both guys do a good job of...
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