Nobuhiko Takada vs Trevor Berbick
UWF-I was a pro wrestling promotion, but their matches were worked to look like shoots. It was similar to the original UWF in Japan, which was extremely popular based on the same concept.
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UWF-I was a pro wrestling promotion, but their matches were worked to look like shoots. It was similar to the original UWF in Japan, which was extremely popular based on the same concept.
Read MoreThe Great Sasuke was an exciting wrestler from Japan who made quite a name for himself overseas, to the point the WWF hired him briefly in 1997. Unfortunately his attitude rubbed many the wrong way, and he didn’t last there long.
Read MoreChris Jericho and Bill Goldberg had heat dating back to their WCW days, so when Goldberg came to WWE in his first week and expressed his thoughts on Jericho, it ended up as getting physical. And the result may surprise you.
Read MoreBret Hart was not the first wrestler to punch a promoter when he decked Vince McMahon after the Survivor Series in 1997. Tony Galento did the same thing to Bill Johnson some 46 years earlier.
Read MoreMike Awesome got a run with WCW following his time in ECW, and got a decent push doing a 1970s guy gimmick that was beyond lame. Awesome’s gimmick was just one example of the awful booking and character development that defined WCW when Vince Russo took over the creative end and the company fell apart.
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