The Rap Sheet - by the Crimefighter
Special Streaming Video Edition #5
5/8/2K3

This Rap Sheet is posted in rec.sport.pro-wrestling.info where many promotions could utilize but don't, and the collection of all the Rap Sheets are in the Dossier at http://abermud.tripod.com/rapsheet.

Here's another set of videos to plow through, though it appears I'm shortly going to run out of them to put in a collection. Here are the selection of videos I've tracked down for this edition, many of which are only available for a limited time:

Zero-One out of Japan

Samoa Joe vs. CW Anderson
Samoa Joe vs. Masato Tanaka

Pro Championship Wrestling out of California

Skitzo Mafioso vs. Mr. Primetime - PCW Heavyweight Title

American Wrestling Association out of Minnesota

The Road Warriors vs. Curt Hennig & Baron Von Raschke - AWA Tag Titles

Ring of Honor out of Pennsylvania

"Spanky" Brian Kendrick vs. Jody Fleisch

World Wrestling Federation out of Connecticut

Hurricane Helms vs. The Big Show - WWF European Title

World Championship Wrestling out of Georgia

Hollywood Hulk Hogan vs. Bill Goldberg - WCW Heavyweight Title
War Games 1998


I’m about out of material to review that isn’t WCW or WWF remaining, so the next streaming video Rap Sheet will consist of WWF and WCW bouts that are available out there. Perhaps I can figure out this RAR thing for file compression and spitting cause there’s some of those out there too and no instruction manuals on what software to use to assemble those things together.

Leading off, a match from Japan http://www.clanrtl.com/asylum/joes/wmv/joevsanderson.WMV from the promotion known as Zero-One, and this match is claimed to be slightly clipped at 96K video quality.

Samoa Joe 6'2" 280lbs. American Samoa vs. C.W. Anderson 6'2" 230lbs. Raleigh, NC - CW was given the Anderson family name, even though he has no relation to Ole, Arn, Gene, or any of the other famed Andersons. CW are the initials of his real name, when he couldn't come up with his own original Anderson name. The commentary is in Japanese and someone annoyingly keeps making the same two sounds for half the video. Lockup, shove Joe. Skip ahead, go behind by CW, hammerlock Joe and a takedown, going into the Code Red submission. CW makes the ropes, lockup, Joe with a headlock and takedown. CW uses the leg to get out, shoulderblock no effect, missed clothesline, another shoulderblock sends CW down hard. Pickup, Irish whip to the corner, and a flying side kick to the gut. Uppercuts Joe, kick to the face, flying back kick to the head knocks CW down. Punch away Joe, Irish whip, clothesline, CW bails. Joe teases a suicide dive, but hits the brakes, CW pointing to his head and gets kicked by Joe. Skip ahead. Chop Joe, Irish whip reversed, forearm shot to the head of CW, CW hits back, CW hits a stone cold stunner! Punch out going now, Joe punches out, kick blocked, CW with a takedown and a Code Red submission, but Joe makes the ropes. Skip ahead, CW Irish whip to the corner, reverse, CW tries to hop and gets a low blow kick. Joe goes up, CW meets him, grabs an arm, Joe fights out, 3/4 face lock and does a neckbreaker from the top! Skip ahead, trading chop away on the mat, to their feet, Northern Lights suplex, German suplex, full-nelson belly to back suplex (Chimeraplex?) gets a two count! Skip ahead, spinebuster CW gets two. Skip ahead, CW tries a kick, block, pickup Joe, powerslam aka the Island Driver, 1..2..3! Decent enough, the clipping got annoying too.

WINNER: Samoa Joe pin -> 6:30 mins. shown **

Well it seems there's more than one there, this next match that's also clipped is from http://www.clanrtl.com/asylum/joes/wmv/samoavstanaka.WMV at 96K video quality.

Samoa Joe 6'2" 280lbs. American Samoa vs. Masato Tanaka 5'11" 235lbs. Wakayama City, Japan - More Japanese commentary, but you can hear a hold said in English once in a while. Joe charges Tanaka before the ring announcer finishes and we got a brawl, shoulder block charges, knockdown Tanaka. Skip ahead. Joe goes to work on the arm. Irish whip, splash in the corner, high kick. Later, big suicide dive from Joe on Tanaka outside, Joe gets a chair and throws it at him, a second one, Tanaka takes a chair and they clash with their chairs, Tanaka hits Joe's leg. Later, Tanaka with a running charge with a chair on the ramp, then a set up for a Tornado DDT off the chair. In the ring later, attempted Tornado DDT is turned into a spinebuster by Joe that gets two. Joe with a hard clotheslines gets two. Later, German suplex, full-nelson suplex, crossed arms suplex gets two. Irish whip to the corner, Tanaka with a spear. Skip ahead, Pedigree Joe gets two. Arm wringer, whip to the corner, Tanaka with a flipping neckbreaker off the top cover gets two before a foot's on the rope. Tanaka on top again, attempt of the same neckbreaker but Joe does the Island Driver and wins it.

WINNER: Samoa Joe pin -> 4:30 mins. shown **

Now back to the states, and from last time I said I had a sizable pile of matches to look at from PCW. Alas though, I've only got one left from PCW as the rest are AVI files of clips less than a minute long. I see why they jumped from AVI to MP4, as MP4 does better video compression. Hopefully, we have some better ones to show than we had last time at http://www.pcw-wrestling.com/multi.html.

PCW Heavyweight Title Match
(c)Mr. Prime Time 5'11" 215lbs. Philadelphia, PA vs. Skitzo Mafioso 6'0" 228lbs. Del Paso Heights, CA - As I stated in Streaming Video Edition #4, Skitzo Mafioso, real name Anthony Antonucci, put out a BOGUS press release that he was killed in a car crash just a couple months ago. Yes that's right, this guy in an attempt to psyche out a bunch of wrestlers at a show in April, put out a LIE that he was killed and then runs in out of nowhere to interfere in a match in one of the most DISGRACEFUL, OFFENSIVE acts in the business in light of many people WHO HAVE DIED for real recently. Whoever in PCW it was that cleared this angle should be horsewhipped alongside Skitzo himself for such incredible poor judgement. The Workfarm April Fools Joke was an okay hoax to play, this was not and I got suckered into reporting it last Rap Sheet and having to issue a correction. Skitzo is the PCW US champ at this point, but he's got the mike and asks who's insane? Crowd: you suck! Skitzo: I'm insane! He's not happy about his current title and wants a different belt, that being the belt held by Prime Time. Boy is that a small building for wrestling, we get a shot of the side of the building I haven't seen before, and we see some weight training equipment mixed among the people. They say they have moved out of this building they've deemed the workfarm into a new facility, but not before playing a big April Fools Joke of the place supposedly burning to the ground. Skitzo shouts who's insane, then gets into an arguement with a kid, funny. The camera pans for the kid and there's no room for people there either. A minute of stalling before they finally lock up. Arm drag MPT. Skitzo argues with the kid some more before another lockup and headlock by Skitzo. Takedown Skitzo, rollup MPT for two, shoveoff, shoulderblock Skitzo. Lockup, forearms, vertical suplex Skitzo, then he does some push-ups. Lockup, headlock Skitzo, shoveoff shoulderblock, another and a cover by Skitzo gets two. Skitzo, headlock, rear chinlock, forearm to the head, slam cover for two. Irish whip, tilt-a-whril backbreaker, rear chinlock by Skitzo. Irish whip, tilt-a-whirl slam gets two for Skitzo. Fisherman's spinning neckbreaker by Skitzo. Headlock, shoveoff, shoulderblock Skitzo, superkick MPT gets two. MPT with an armbar, to the ropes, chops, whip, drop kick gets two. Another whip reversal, enzergiri gets two for MPT. Skitzo with a LOW BLOW, the ref ain't looking as usual. Suplex attempt, MPT gets out of it, DDT MPT. Skitzo up first, but MPT punches away, whip reversal, clotheslines miss, rollup MPT gets two. Clothesline Skitzo gets two. Pickup, whip, reversal shoulderblock, clothesline gets two for Skitzo. Pickup for a slam, MPT wiggles out and gets an Edge drop. Running elbow by MPT, whip reversal superkick that barely touches, Lionsault gets two but here's Helfyre! Chokeslam by Helfyre and the ref DQ's Skitzo. Skitzo shoves Helfyre before getting the mike to curse, then a chair, chairshot to MPT, and whips him with a kendo stick. Skitzo gets another chair and hits him in the gut. Inserts the arm, Skitzo on the second rope, argues with the kid, jumps and stomps the chair. Skitzo gets the stick again and nails MPT with it. The ring announcer presents MPT with the belt as the refs help him out of the ring. Oh no, Skitzo's back and pounding MPT some more before being restrained.

WINNER and STILL CHAMP: Mr. Prime Time DQ -> 9:50 mins. *½

Alas, that's it for PCW, the rest of the stuff I found was highlight reels in AVI format. So, let's jump to another site and see what's there. From http://www.wrestlinghit.com/videohtml/fullmatches.html a match from the American Wrestling Association back in 1985 at 450K video quality.

AWA Tag Team Title Match
(c)The Road Warriors - Hawk & Animal w/ Precious Paul Ellering vs. "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig & Baron Von Raschke - Larry "The Axe" Hennig is calling the action with another individual. Curt starts off with Animal, lockup, throw off Animal. Animal, shoveoff and shoulderblock. Tag Hawk. To the corner, Hawk misses a shot at Curt. Lockup, to the Warrior's corner, clean break. Tag Baron. Lockup, shoveoff, shoulderblocks no effect, Baron threatens the claw. Lockup, arm drag Baron, works on the arm. Tag Curt, axe handle on the arm, Hawk slugs Curt, press slam Hawk, flying punch gets two. Rear chinlock Hawk, Curt fights his way up, Irish whip Hawk to the corner, gets a double boot. Tag Animal, tag Baron, kicks away at everyone, Irish whip back body drop Baron, Iron Claw Baron. Hawk breaks it up. Hennig tagged in, drop kick off the second rope, Curt with a charge and carelessly gets his head tied up in the ropes. Larry gets up to free Curt, the Road Warriors prevent any help, Larry comes in with a chair, Warriors steal it and hit Curt in the head for the apparent DQ.

WINNERS: "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig & Baron Von Raschke DQ -> 5:45 mins. *

Ah but there's more on the page to view, so let's fill this out with more matches from that site. Now jumping over to Ring of Honor…and this is the Block A final from the ROH Title Tournament in June 2002 when it has gotten down to just eight men left.

"Spanky" Brian Kendrick 5'8" 175lbs. Olympia, WA vs. Jody Fleisch 5'5" 154lbs. Manchester, UK- Joined in progress ten seconds in, Jody reverses an arm bar, Spanky reverses it but Jody flips out of it, arm drag off an Irish whip, rollup for two Jody as Kendrick takes a break outside. Hammerlock Spanky, Jody tries to flip out of it but Spanky takes him to the mat, another attempt frees him and does a flying headscissors and a back kick to send him out. Jody tries a suicide dive off the top rope, but Spanky causes him to crotch himself on the top rope. Suplex Kendrick gets two. Irish whip drop kick Spanky gets two. Headlock Spanky, side belly to back gets two. Jody punches back, Irish whip reversed, kick, Spanky goes for Sliced Bread #2 but gets crotched on the top rope and falls out. Jody leaps on the top rope and does a suicide springboard moonsault on Spanky crashing into the barrier. Jody’s up, puts Spanky in, to the top Jody, shooting star attempt but lands on his feet when Spanky moves. Spanky swings and misses, Jody with a Frankensteiner attempt blocked, climbs over for a sunset flip that gets two. Irish whip reversed, splash misses Spanky, twisting drive from the top Jody misses, rollup Spanky two. Jody goes for a death valley driver, Spanky squirms out of it and hits Sliced Bread #2 for the win!

WINNER: "Spanky" Brian Kendrick pin -> 5:00 mins. shown **

Since I’m out of the indy stuff I’ll have to jump to the majors now. Why why why a Big Show match in here? Needed something short to fill the card up.

WWF European Title Match
(c)Hurricane Helms vs. The Big Show - Hurricane says he pities us cause we don’t have a superhero to look up to, and calls out the super villain, and out comes the Big Show. This is in the middle of the WWF vs. WCW feud. Hurricane says he’s gonna make this quick and it’s hurt him more than it will hurt you. Yep. Handshake offer, Big Show crushes the hand and pitches him to a corner. Shoulderblock attempts send Hurricane to the mat, go behind Hurricane but Show shoves him off with his butt. Hurricane moves out of a charge with boots, but Show throws him back in, misses a leg drop. Slam attempt fails, arm wringer, whip to the corner, Hurricane rolls out, to the top, dive caught, press slam, Hurricane lands on his feet, choke slam attempt fails, Show going for the chokeslam but Lance Storm runs in to break it up for the DQ. But both men get double chokeslammed for it. Typical of the crap that was the WWF vs. WCW feud and Vince never learned why you don’t put cruiserweights against the Big Show.

WINNER: The Big Show DQ -> 1:40 mins. DUD

Since so many people are on this anti-Goldberg kick, and some of you haven’t seen any of Goldberg’s matches from WCW. I, the Crimefighter am going to remind of you of Goldberg’s run as WCW World Champion by going back to when he fought Hulk Hogan for the title. This is also from Wrestlinghit.com and the commentary is in German.

WCW World Heavyweight Title Match
(c)Hollywood Hulk Hogan vs. Bill Goldberg - Goldberg himself is the US Champ going into the match. Goldberg enters the ring, and the chants for Goldberg are LOUD. Piped in or not, the hands of the crowd were raised and not pointing downward. Now comes in is Hogan as he rips the shirt off. And the commentators make a comparison of the title unification here that Hogan had with the Ultimate Warrior in the WWF. Little ‘Natch Charles Robinson is the referee. Lockup, headlock Goldberg, shoveoff, shoulderblock sends Hogan to a corner. Front headlock Goldberg, to the corner, clean break. Strength test, and Hogan is on his knees, and crawls to the ropes for the break. Boy a heel Hogan is such a wuss. Hogan starts punching away, takes the belt off and whips Goldberg on the back but that only makes him mad. Lockup, hammerlocks until Goldberg locks in the full-nelson, Hogan gets out of it and punches Bill, Irish whip clothesline Hogan. Hogan chokes away on the mat, pickup, slam, elbow misses twice. Goldberg up and clotheslines Hulk who rolls outside. Hulk wastes time and puts back on his belt. Lockup to the corner, Hogan with knees and tosses him outside. Goldberg is thrown into the rail, then Hogan gets a chair and whacks him with it. Back in, pickup, slam and hits the legdrop of doom three times as Curt Hennig decides to come out, but here comes NBA player for the Utah Jazz Karl Malone if you were wondering why he was out here was actually wrestling a few matches during his off season. Cover in the ring only gets two. Malone gives Hennig the diamond cutter. Hogan with his attention drawn away, Goldberg up, spear, jackhammer, good night Hulkster. Not a great match, but it’s the one where Hogan supposedly passes the torch to Goldberg to carry the company onward and the crowd was dying to see Hogan lose.

WINNER and NEW CHAMP: Bill Goldberg pin -> 9:10 mins. *

And now to the main event of the Rap Sheet, this from War Games 1998 from what was said to be one of WCW’s worst PPVs of that year. The usual rules are thrown out the window as WCW was trying something different and wrestling purists were upset over the rule change. This is a nine-man three-team match in two rings and a cage, and even though there are three teams, it’s really a nine-man match where the first pinfall or submission wins it and is #1 contender to the world title held by Goldberg. This is 346K video quality.

War Games - #1 Contenders Match
Diamond Dallas Page vs. Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Stevie Ray vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Kevin Nash vs. Lex Luger vs. Sting vs. Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior - The first two guys drawn out of a hat fight for five minutes, then the next man drawn is entered every two minutes. Bret and DDP start. Lockup to the corner, Bret slugs away, arm wringer, DDP reverses it, headlock, shove off shoulder DDP gets one. Slugfest, whip and DDP with a belly to belly gets one. Cutter blocked, DDP meets the turnbuckle. DDT Bret, legdrop, pickup, head slam into the buckle, choke, foot choke Bret. DDP up and slugs Bret in the corner, whip reverse, Bret punches some more, backbreaker, head butt to the groin. Bret goes for the suplex but DDP takes him to the mat for a two count. One minute left, Russian leg sweep by Bret gets two. Pickup small package gets one for Bret. Whip to the corner Bret, whip across catches the boot but gets clotheslined down. Stevie Ray is #3, he kicks away at DDP’s head. Choke on the ropes, Bret joins in, whip clothesline misses, DDP clotheslines them down. Stevie Ray chokes DDP. Inverted atomic drop, clothesline Ray. Sting is #4, and Stevie Ray meets up with him. Sting clobbers Ray, flying clothesline over both top ropes on Ray. Bret pounds DDP in the corner. Sting kicks away on Stevie Ray, bashes him on the fence, charge, splash. Bret hits a piledriver on DDP, to the second rope. Roddy Piper is #5. Ray press slams Sting on the top of the cage. Roddy hits everything that moves. Now this is more like a battle royal. Piper bashes DDP and Hart’s heads together. DDP fires back at Piper, rake, knockdown. Sting stomps Ray between the rings. Lex Luger is #6. Everyone’s in one ring, but Luger grabs Stevie Ray and hits the forearm. Piper and Ray have paired off, Sting knocks down DDP with a bulldog. Piper has a sleeper on Stevie Ray. Kevin Nash is #7, who breaks up Piper’s sleeper and kicks Piper in the corner. Hogan is out early as Nash tries a powerbomb. Hogan is in early, that wuss. Luger has the torture rack on Hart, but Stevie Ray has the slapjack and is whacking people out with it. Everyone’s down now, Hogan goes after DDP for punishment, and it’s the legdrop. The real time has expired and Hogan was #8. Another leg drop on DDP as they gloat. The smoke fills the ring, and it’s Warrior, early. Hogan nails him as the smoke fills the ring again, and just the jacket remains. Stupid. BTW, the trap door injured so many people. Oh it was a decoy as the Warrior comes out, early at #9 and goes after Hogan. Ray breaks it up and Hogan is being evacuated by Brutus Beefcake. Warrior with a clothesline on Ray and throws him into the fence. Beefcake KO’s the ref outside, Warrior’s wanting to get at Hogan. Hogan the wuss just walks around the cage as Warrior kicks a hole in the fence and climbs out to chase. Fight outside as security pulls them apart for no reason. The men in the ring, Ray is standing up, Bret holds DDP up but Ray hits Hart with the slapjack, DDP with the Diamond Cutter on Ray and gets the pin. Page leaves through the crowd with the title shot. It wasn’t THAT bad, but Hogan the wuss ALWAYS ruins everything.

WINNER: Diamond Dallas Page pin -> 20:05 mins. *

Eight matches are enough for this go around, though I didn't present anything earth shattering. The next Rap Sheet will consist primarily of WWF and WCW bouts, as there's a number of those around to watch alongside the indy stuff. Until next time, this is the Crimefighter saying bustin' ain't easy!