CARD WRITE-UP - LKJFEST I
Here is your link if you'd like to watch an epic card and enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...eature=mh_lolz
OPENING CONTEST: THE ROCKERS VS. THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Gorilla and Piper are as amazed on the call as we are in the PPV audience. Non-stop action, great chemistry between teams that had worked together in the AWA...this was revolutionary in a WWF that just didn't have a ton of flying teams.
Relax and enjoy a great start...and when Roddy says, "AND THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST MATCH?!?," smile knowing that the card is going to get better.
PROMO: CHRIS BENOIT JOINS THE FOUR HORSEMEN
I said previously that I'd put this on after his match, but I think that lessens the impact of the match. Benoit was very new to WCW when he got his awesome promotion, and a lot of fans still weren't that familiar yet. I think that having this intro really adds something to his match later in the card since, with all due respect to the great Eddy Guerrero, it was an absolute Benoit showcase.
BRET HART VS. MR. PERFECT
We go from two teams flying around to a more grounded match, one of the finest technical mat wrestling displays ever put on by the WWF. In the first match we saw future legend Shawn Michaels before his prime; in this match we see fellow legends Bret Hart and Curt Hennig starting to hit theirs.
Macho Man excuses himself after this match to go get ready, because he's got a match later.
WCW TAG TEAM TITLES: STEINER BROTHERS VS. STING/LEX LUGER
I very deliberately went for scarcity when it comes to title matches on my card. Unlike today's WWE, I want title matches to be a big ****ing deal. This is one of the finest tag matches that WCW ever put on, and pits one of the greatest teams of all time against two of the great singles competitors in WCW/NWA lore.
CHRIS BENOIT VS. EDDY GUERRERO
"Who the **** is this young kid that the Horsemen just gave a membership to?!?
...
Oh...my...God. He's amazing."
That's the story this match tells on my card.
PROMO: CHRIS JERICHO MOCKS DEAN MALENKO
We already had a lot of great action of varying types; now we add some comic relief from one of the funniest heels ever.
Jericho heads to the ring, tearing up an adoring fan's sign along the way, and then cuts a great heel promo on Dean Malenko, leading to...
CHRIS JERICHO VS. BORE-US MALENKO
Watching Jericho pull Bore-us on top of him slays me no matter how many times I see it. I love the way Schiavone really sounds genuinely disgusted about this whole thing.
CACTUS JACK VS. PAUL ORNDORFF - FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE
On his way to big things, Cactus Jack is getting over huge and carries this match to greatness. The crowd loves the hardcore brawl I've added to the mix.
MAIN EVENT #1 - NWA HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE - RIC FLAIR VS. RICKY STEAMBOAT
Two of the greatest of all time show how it's done. This has rarely been matched...and when it has been, it was just by these two again.
POST-MATCH PROMO: RICKY STEAMBOAT, NEW NWA CHAMPION
Steamboat wasn't a master of the mic, but his emotion sold this moment wonderfully back in the locker room. Great feel-good moment.
SEGMENT: RECALL OF SAVAGE BEING SNAKEBITTEN
One of the more shocking segments I remember seeing as a kid. This is disturbing.
PRE-MATCH PROMOS: JAKE "THE SNAKE" ROBERTS AND "MACHO MAN" RANDY SAVAGE
Two of the best to ever rock a mic doing their thing. To think, this wasn't even going to be the best mic work relating to this matchup...
JAKE "THE SNAKE" ROBERTS VS. "MACHO MAN" RANDY SAVAGE
Nice little brawl - I like Savage rage-attacking Jake from behind - but kept short so we could get to the good stuff.
AFTERMATH AND PROMO: JAKE/SAVAGE
Savage gets incapacitated. Liz gets slapped. Jake cuts the creepiest heel promo I've ever heard in my life.
JUVENTUD GUERRERA, LIZMARK JR. AND HECTOR GARZA VS. LA PARKA, PSICOSIS AND VILIANO IV
Luchadores jumping around and doing awesome high spots is my way of getting a crowd back up for the big main event after Jake just shocked the **** out of them the match before.
Unfortunately no YouTube for this, so please go to these links and enjoy just how awesome this match is.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60...1997-pt6_sport (starts around the 4:00 mark)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60...1997-pt7_sport
MAIN EVENT #2 - WWF/INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE - HULK HOGAN VS. THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR
The crowd, already loving this card, goes absolutely bonkers as two of the biggest stars of all time put the cap on this show. Hogan jobs cleanly in the middle of the ring, hands the belt over in a rare act of class (yes, rare even in kayfabe), and the torch is passed to a younger superstar. Okay, so Warrior didn't run with the ball as effectively as hoped, but that doesn't diminish this moment at all.