1995 King of the Deathmatch DVD Review
 

I bought the DVD a few years ago, it was "produced" by Barb Wire Entertainment and is region free.

11 Matches in all, no commentary (which is fine since I don't want to listen to ICP or the Japanese announcers) and is pretty good visually.

I originally got tricked into buying a different king of the deathmatch DVD which turned out not to be several different matches that had nothing to do with this night.

For Foley fans this is a must-buy. Just reading about it isn't enough to truly understand what went on that night. As for casual wrestling fans and people who don't enjoy blood, this is definitely not for you.

Image: 5/5
Audio: 4/5
Match Quality: 3.5/5 average

I give the entire show a 4/5 for the sheer shock and awe of the main event in addition to the fact that this event helped create Foley as the "Hardcore Legend". The Main Event is unintentionally poetic and the Cactus Jack and Terry Funk promos are priceless (probably better than the wrestling in these matches.) I figure that since Foley only ever got a $300 payday for his work we could at least appreciate it for what it was. Two men sacrificing their bodies for the entertainment of the audience.

*Notes: Dan Severn VS. Tarzan Goto for the NWA World Title...weirdness.

I made a highlight reel on youtube...here it is
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song is Corpse and Carcass by 31 Knots

"Through my disdain
and endless bravado
I've published such lust
It's thought of as curious
Now I imply dead space we can't trust.
So what? So we say so. Yes, but

Who's the gospel and who is the plain truth?
Who's the misprint and who is just slander?
And who's the corpse and who is the carcass?
Show me a saint and I'll show you their blood lust.

Through my disdain
and endless bravado
I've published such lust
It's thought of as curious
Now I imply dead space we can't trust
So what? So we say so. Yes, but

Who's the gospel and who's the plain truth?
And who's the misprint, and who is just slander?
And who's the corpse, and who is the carcass?
Show me a saint and I'll show you their blood lust."


Tonight I'm going out like
A pusher to a cockfight
So cocksure, cavorting
My way to the spotlight

And then and then and then and then
I will see what I mean"

Kill yourself you stupid shithead. Nobody cares.

What?

What's the point of this thread?

I'll get right to that, sir.

p.s. Are you the real Joel Gertner?

Huh?

I'll wager a bet he doesn't know what he means here

Who?

wager a bet is a bit redundant.

I know what I mean here, do you?

Stop avoiding the question. I'm hungover, you're just stupid.

I just took a poll asking people if they care. The overwhelming response was that you're a shithead, and nobody cares,

Get AIDS and fuckoff.

:rofl:

Typical, blame it on the alcohol. This is why CM Punk is better than you.

Oh, and what question?

lol :D

That's not what Rasmussen's Polls have shown, perhaps you're not asking likely voters?

I remember Terry Gordy's promos were funny as hell just for all the swearing and sheer awkwardness.

Please shut up....

What did you mean by 'unintentionally poetic'? I'm befuddled

I'll take that under advisement...I do appreciate that you're asking nicely.

This is why I dislike the wrestling forum now. It's terrible. At least we used to have retards with a purpose.

DeathtotheSwiss is a chartered member of the IWC who is a huge pretentious douchebag and tries to show off by following Indy and Japanesse wrestling, and then belittle all things mainstream. He doesn't realize that nobody gives a fuck about his opinion and that he just needs to go away and die.

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I wasn't asking nicely....

That wasn't a request.... Just shut the fuck up already

:roll:

In the Foley's book he talks about how the end of the match was supposed to be much more climactic. Terry gets up and pushes the ladder over sending Cactus into the barbwire then collapses, Cactus crawls over and covers the Terry for the win.

The crowd was confused. It wasn't supposed to happen that way.

But, I think it was actually the best finish that Foley and Funk ever had with eachother. Terry Funk's last offense turned out to be his own finisher. This match was sort of Terry Funk passing the torch to one of his best friends.

In reality though, both men were so exhausted from the entire day of wrestling and unhealthy amount of blood loss that this was the only way they could end the match.

Troll troll troll troll

Rinse and repeat

Wow, it's like you know me.

Except, not.

Aaaaaaaannnnnddd...no.

lol trust me, it is and you know it. I can sniff out these IWC snobs in a second.

So, what you could've said was it was a symbolic, and both performers gave their all? But instead you wanted to appear all edumicated and came across pretentious and out of your depth.

Thanks for all that then :y:

........NOT!

:rofl:

Is that my motive? I'm sorry, I could have sworn it wasn't.

I'm done here. Mods to aisle five please, clean-up needed.

This guy is such a fucking pretentious little snob

Trust a man who calls himself Gertner on an internet forum devoted to professional wrestling, I think not.

Perhaps I am a "IWC snob" though, but anyone using "IWC" is automatically part of the group so I guess I'm in your company.

What's sad though, is your assumption and how silly it is.

This video review proves one thing and one thing only. That's I'm a recovering Foley mark and to you that means I'm into all things Japanese and indie. Bit of a leap there.

And as to the accusation of trolling, wow, that's hilarious considering that you kids immediately came in and jumped onto this thread touting yourselves as forum regulars just trying to protect their territory. You guys are the worse and most pathetic kinds of trolls on the internet.

"I've been posting here for years, I'm VERY RESPECTED as are my thoughts. You shut the hell up NEWB! LOLZ"

Beautiful. What's more is you can't bare doing the one thing actual trolls can't handle, that being ignoring the troll and moving on with your day which suggests to me that you're more interested in a flame war than anything else.

But, please, continue. You guys are either getting a lot of enjoyment out of this or getting extremely pissed off that some newcomer would dare talk back to you on your own forum.

You shut the hell up NEWB! LOLZ

Sorry, I couldn't stay away

Flame war

Sig worthy

Which proves my point.

You guys post thousands of threads, get to the point where you think you're part of something, then see anyone doing anything anywhere and decide you have to butt in. All three of you together have posted over 20,000 posts on this forum, and with the short/snarky/trolling style that you guys have exhibited I can see why. I bet I could get 10k by the end of the way if all I did was copy and paste "you're gay, go get aids and die." into every thread I disagree with. Though, somehow, I don't believe you guys show much intelligence regardless of the thread.

I don't come here to 'show intelligence'

Even if I had any

I'm so giving you neg rep.

Neg repping you so bad right now