This Thursday, Rewind-A-Wai kicks off 2025 with a special retrospective on the 1989 feud between Ric Flair and Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat.
Wai Ting & John Pollock will review four matches from their '89 series and discuss the feud more broadly and the state of WCW that year and its first year under the ownership of Turner Broadcasting.
Leave us your feedback and questions and tune in this Thursday on the POST Wrestling Café to listen.
WCW Chi-Town Rumble 1989 (2/20/89)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lu4nw
Flair vs Steamboat: WCW House Show in Landover, MD (3/18/89)
Clash of the Champions VI (4/2/89)
WrestleWar 1989 (5/7/89)
Jesse from the 6
John, you reviewed the first match in this series with Wai when you two reviewed the Chi-Town Rumble in 2015. However, Wai, you’ve reviewed the whole trilogy for an episode of Review-A-Wai you did with Dan “The Mouth” Lovranski in July 2017 when John was on paternity leave.
I wonder if, like that review, today’s episode will:
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Begin with a discussion of surf rock and the question as to why there aren’t more surf rock themes in wrestling.
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Question whether George Lucas had the whole Star Wars Trilogy, or even the entire Skywalker Saga, planned out when he wrote A New Hope.
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Involve a debate about whose shoulders were really down for the final fall of the Two-Out-of-Three falls match.
I would give at least one of these matches, probably the Clash match, a Double XL Coffee rating. That got me thinking.
Judging by the in-ring standards of today, would either of you give any of these matches a Double XL rating? And, if so, would these be the earliest matches to earn that rating from you? Or do you think an even older match, such as Steamboat-Savage, Dynamite Kid-Tiger Mask, or some All Japan match might be worthy of a Double XL?
Take Care
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