Stone Cold!!! Stone Cold!!!

Autism

I watched this just now, Chargers. Incidentally I'm wondering why the heck Hogan had the WWF title belt with him since he wasn't the champion on 3/5/93. He didn't win it back until April.

Anyway, definitely better ringwork from him there. It does look like he could have performed pretty capably if not held back by Vince's orders. I'm glad to have finally gotten to see some proof of this, since I've heard "Hogan was better in Japan" for years. I don't think it elevates his standing too terribly much for purposes of this contest because such a vast majority of his ringwork was his American stuff, but I suppose every bit helps.

I'm interested to see how the votes break down between Hogan and Flair, if that's one of the tournament semifinals. I have a leaning on how I'll vote but I'm not fully decided.

3/5/93 is 3rd of May 1993.

Ah yes. I forgot that other countries do that differently.

Ugh. This is a tough one for me. Thesz and Austin are the best of their eras.

Thesz

Austin using the Thesz press as one of his signature moves helped make me feel slightly weird about voting for him. Thesz was just so significant in the evolution of wrestling.

Yeah but Thesz never did this:

Steve Austin

Lou Thesz vs. Steve Austin

I love that clip. Heh. Zamboni.

Lou Thesz vs. Steve Austin

The last two to make the elite eight:



http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=422232



HBK vs. Kurt Angle

HBK

HBK

HBK

Michaels.

HBK.

Both.

Bad draw for whoever doesnt make it

HBK, i guess.

ughhhhhh

i think i would have voted angle over anyone other than hbk and flair

sigh

austin

hbk

HBK

Austin

HBK

All four of these quarterfinals were pretty easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0StnQVqIOi8#t=00m49s
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fojhN94-pkk

HBK vs. Kurt Angle

austin hbk