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Wcw roadblock
Wcw roadblock







We’ve pretty much nihilistically destroyed this episode in the first quarter hour. The nWo sits in on commentary for the entire thing and Scott Hall does his best to bury everyone in sight, calling referee Scott Dickenson the “time to make the donuts guy” and calling Rick Steiner “Robby,” his actual name. Meng is just like, “f*ck that Doomsday DDT, pick me up and put me down and let’s leave.” The match just sort of ends about five minutes in when Scott tags in and hits a belly-to-belly. So … they’re wrestling for nothing?Īnyway, the Steiners and the Faces of Fear is always pretty good in that way certain matches are, where you can tell nobody involved talked about the match beforehand and decided to just hit each other in the face as hard as possible. You could say this is to make sure they’re the official #1 contenders, but does it even matter now? We’ve shown that the guy in charge of the company runs both WCW and the nWo, meaning he has to sanction all the title shots and can reverse them if he doesn’t like them. He just wasn’t counting on the Internet turning wrestling audiences heel at the same time.īest/Worst: The Faces Of Transitional FearĪs mentioned, the Steiners now have to open the show in a match against the Faces of Fear. The more I watch these episodes, the more I see Bischoff doing everything possible to turn the nWo into the most hated organization in wrestling history.

wcw roadblock

Nothing makes a hot title change matter less than dulling it down to corporate minutia! They even reference Anderson’s “rough year,” aka his battle with testicular cancer, before firing him. Hall wants to beat the sh*t out of Pee-Wee, but Bischoff turns it into a “payola” scandal, saying Anderson got those Souled Out tickets from someone at WCW as a gift and was thereby violating company policy. This week’s Nitro STARTS with the nWo in the booth, and Bischoff calling out Randy Anderson so he can reverse the decision and publicly fire him. If you were hoping someone from WCW would step in, validate the title change and take a stand against the nWo … brother, what show are you watching? Eric Bischoff immediately insisted that the decision would be reversed, and spent the rest of the night openly complaining about it. In roughly three hours of nWo Souled Out, there was one pro-WCW moment: referee Randy Anderson jumping the rail in street clothes to count the three on Scott Hall and give the Steiner Brothers the WCW Tag Team Championship.

  • Ranked No.Worst: In Case You Enjoyed That One Feel-Good Moment From Souled Out.
  • Eastern States Heavyweight Championship (1 time).
  • Roadblock defeated Jim Powers in his last WCW match on the Augepisode of Saturday Night.Īfter leaving WCW in 1998, Roadblock appeared sporadically on the independent circuit, wrestling his final match to date in 2012.Ĭhampionships and accomplishments Roadblock spent the next two years in WCW working mainly on WCW Saturday Night, WCW Pro, and WCW Monday Nitro against the likes of Meng, Chris Benoit, The Giant, Lex Luger, Jim Duggan, and Diamond Dallas Page. He was eliminated by the eventual winner The Giant. He made his only pay-per-view appearance in WCW at World War 3 on November 24 by participating in the namesake battle royal for a future World Heavyweight Championship opportunity. After the match, Roadblock challenged Lex Luger to a match to take place two nights later on Monday Nitro, which Acquisto lost. Roadblock made his televised debut in WCW on the Octoepisode of Saturday Night by defeating Dale Wolfe, a replacement for D'Acquisto's originally scheduled opponent Randy Savage. In keeping with his ring name, D'Acquisto would carry a roadblock or a sawhorse to the ring. World Championship Wrestling (1996–1998) ĭuring the late 1990s, D'Acquisto competed as a preliminary wrestler for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as "Roadblock". D'Acquisto's final match in the UWA was a mask versus mask match against UWA World Heavyweight Championship El Canek, which Canek would win. He would also wrestle for the Universal Wrestling Association in Mexico, where he competed under the masked gimmick of "Torre Infernal" ("Infernal Tower"). In 1992, D'Acquisto made several appearances with the Japanese W*ING promotion, where he feuded with Jason the Terrible. In 1991 he made some appearances in the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. In 1990, D'Acquisto was the subject of an article by journalist Glen Duffy published in Rolling Stone.

    wcw roadblock

    He competed in New England and East Coast independent promotions during the 1980s and 1990s, most notably as a mainstay of International World Class Championship Wrestling, where he wrestled as "The Rochester Roadblock".

    wcw roadblock

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    Professional wrestling career Early career (1987–1996) ĭ'Acquisto debuted on October 28, 1987.







    Wcw roadblock