Vader vs. The Boss (WCW Spring Stampede 1994) Review

Vader vs. The Boss (WCW Spring Stampede 1994)

So, I love a fucking big super heavyweight clash, and when it involves Big Van Vader, it ups the quality ten fold. This match has always been one of my favourites and is one of Bossman's best matches to boot and probably the best thing he did in WCW.

We start off in the locker room with Vader and Rick Rude having a pull apart. Man, Vader/Rude would have been pretty awesome if Rude was healthy and if he had turned face sometime.

Boss is first out. Hard times, you'll be serving hard time..............oh wait, this is WCW. Damn.

He pretty much is The Big Bossman, it's hardly a wonder WWF ended up suing them and forcing them to change his gimmick. The Man; Vader is out next, of course with Harley Race.

Boss doesn't wait until Vader gets in the ring and jumps him on the isle and they start trading blows before Harley grabs Boss and Vader comes running straight for him, but Boss moves and Vader plants his massive frame plum onto Race.

Boss starts stiff punching the fuck out of Vader and clotheslines him over the top rope and finally into the ring. He continues with the palm and fist strikes, before whipping Vader off the ropes and delivering a BIG BOOT. This of course doesn't knock Vader down of course, so Boss just runs at him and with one stiff ass punch, sends him crashing over the top rope. Both on the outside now as Boss still pounds on Vader with right hands. Vader fights back with his own BIG CLUBS to Boos, before crashing him down with a short clothesline.

It's already a big hoss battle with these two.

Vader picks Boss up and slams him back into the ring. He walks back up the ramp and takes a run at the ring and FLIES OVER THE TOP ROPE and onto Boss.

But Boss gets his knees up in time. He continues to be in control as he lands some drop elbows onto Vader, before clotheslining him back out the ring and onto the outside. He whips Vader front first into and over the guardrail

Vader is one big bastard as we know, but fuck did he take some bumps. No wonder he had quite a few injuries in his time.

Boss picks him up again and dumps him back onto the same guardrail. Vader really in trouble as they are both back in the ring and Boss continues to stiff him with strikes, before delivering a big splash clothesline in the corner. He picks Vader up again and powerslams him onto the mat.

Vader is back to his feet and he starts pancaking Boss with his famous clubs to the head. Boss fights back with a thumb to the eye and kick in the gut. He tries to whip Vader off the ropes, but is reversed and Vader sends him onto the top rope, but Boss just manages to grab the top rope, but it still sends him to the outside, where Race gives him a few sly kicks for good measure.

Vader's eye is bleeding now too, probably from the strikes he's been receiving so far.

Boss gets back onto the ring apron and Vader SUPLEXES him over the rope and back into the ring. Vader follows this up with a Vader splash and gets the first 2 count of the match. Vader then gets Boss just where he wants him and every opponent; In the corner. He starts wailing at Boss with some heavy clubs to the head. Vader is like “Have this”

Boss fights right back at Vader though with his own clubs to the head.

IS THERE ANYTHING BETTER THAN TWO BIG BASTARDS STIFFING EACH OTHER

Vader quickly puts a stop to this with a hard right to Boss. Vader goes to put Boss into a headlock,. But Boss picks him up and backdrops him onto the mat. Both men are down now and I assume, fucking drained of energy with the amount of shit they have threw at each other.

Vader really is bleeding from that eye now, as Boss whips him off the ropes and gives him a stiff ass forearm clothesline. Race is shouting “NO PAIN” at Vader, think even Vader is beginning to doubt that at the moment, tbh. Vader catches Boss with a big boot to the jaw and nails him with his own stiff ass clothesline to the mat. Vader then goes to the corner and gets up on the middle rope; possible Vader splash coming up?

But Boss is back up and just grabs Vader and sends him crashing onto the mat.

Boss puts Vader onto the middle turnbuckle and delivers a DDT right off of it!!!! He goes for the cover, but only gets a two count. Vader gets back up, just as Boss climbs onto the top rope turnbuckle and hits Vader with flying shoulder charge and goes for another pin attempt, but Vader has his arm on the ropes. Boss again goes onto the top rope turnbuckle, but this time it's a case of going to the well one too many times, as Vader catches him and powerslams Boss onto the mat.

These two have took some shit, maaaaan.

Race is screaming at Vader now to finish him. Vader drags Boss over towards the corner, seemingly for a Vader splash attempt. He does indeed hit the Vader Splash, so this is it now. He goes for the cover, 1,2..........................NO, BOSS GOES AND KICKS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vader again goes to the turnbuckle, but this time climbs onto the top rope, for a possible Vadersault.

VADER HITS A WONDERFUL VADERSAULT

Surely this'll finish the big man off. He goes again for the cover. 1,2.........................3, yup, Vader gets the win.

Seems like Race and Vader are not finished with Boss yet though. Race goes over and grabs the nightstick and handcuffs. He tries to put them onto Boss, but Boss gets up and starts beating the shit out of Race. Vader doesn't know what the fuck is coming as Boss lamps him over the back with the nightstick. Boss then goes APE FUCKING SHIT on poor Harley with the nightstick and just starts non stop wailing at him with it. He's like a man possessed with the damn thing.

Nick Bockwinkel then comes to the ring to try and get Boss to cease with this shit. Vader then climbs back in the ring and he and Boss have a stand off as Boss still has the nightstick waiving in his hand. Bockwinkel orders Boss to get the fuck out of there. No way is this feud over yet by the looks of it. Race is still down as Vader goes over to the commentary table and screams “WHO'S THE MAN, NOW? WHO'S THE MAN?”

Oh you certainly are, Vader my son.

Backstage, Bockwinkel strips Boss of his handcuffs and nightstick and says he can no longer be 'The Boss'. I guess this is where WWF were really asserting pressure for them to do this TBH.

TWO BIG BASTARDS BEATING THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER. Vader takes some shit in this I have to say. His eye is fucked up, again, and they both land plenty of snarly shit at each other throughout, too. Bombs are thrown all over the place, not entirely all clean, but they all looked very impressive, esp Boss, who just threw Vader around all over the place. Vader took more than his fair share of bumps, as he very often does, in this match and gave Boss a lot to do and work with. In fact, Vader was insane with the bumps he continued to take. It's still the best Boss ever did in WCW and one of the highlights of his whole career. It's also one of Vader's best ever performances, too.

Just an awesome match that still ranks as one of my favourites.

Recommended.

Vader, Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith vs. Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson & Sid (WWF In Your House 9: International Incident) Review

Vader, Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith vs. Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson & Sid (WWF In Your House 9: International Incident)

So, it's been years since I have seen this match TBH and I always remember it being rather good. The Ultimate Warrior was due to be in the match, but was suspended for missing dates, so was replaced by Sid. Considering the time frame of this match, I'm kinda glad. Earlier on in the night, Cornette and Lothario had a debate in the ring, which resulted in Corny trying to whack Jose with the racket and Vader/Shawn having a pull apart face off, to add even further heat to the match.

Nice slide in by HBK there.

So the faces are actually labelled as 'The People's Posse'

LOL

Should be interesting given the recent history between Sid and Shawn over the past year and all involved have been going at it with each other for the majority of the year too TBH. HBK is out first, to a big pop too in Canada. The fans are that excited, they fall over the barricade

Lawler's laugh on commentary is funny during this. Already interesting that the faces are the ones to come out first in this and not the heels. Ahmed Johnson is out next with the 'People's Intercontinental Championship Belt'. Got a feeling this is going to take a while to actually start lol. You know who that leaves; SID, and he's next out to that iconic music and a pop of his own.

“THE MAN IS HERE”

The heels are next out and they all come down together with Jim Cornette. Vader/Owen/Davey. Just on paper that is a fucking great team. So it looks like this is finally ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. Owen has a cast on his arm for this, still recovering from his 'broken wrist'. Wonder if that'll come into play.............

Vader and Ahmed look to start this off, but Vader points at Shawn and demands he's in with him (yeah, I bet HBK is relishing this). Ahmed tags him in and it's Vader/HBK off the bat. They both lock up and HBK is like “Bring it” (now are you SURE??). Shawn pounds away with hard rights at Vader, but this doesn't face the big man one bit and Vader just nails Shawn with a big strike to the throat to knock him down.

Yup Shawn, maybe think again on that one. Shawn though gets up and ends up hitting a Hurricinrana on Vader followed by a flying crossbody. He runs at Vader with another crossbody, knocking both of them to the outside. Shawn gets back in the ring and nails Vader with a baseball slide, followed by yet another flying crossbody, this time over the top rope, right onto Vader. HBK using his high flying skills to try and keep the Mastodon down. He goes to the well one too many times though, as he jumps off the apron, but Vader moves and HBK ends up face first off the guardrail.

Both back in the ring now and Vader has HBK just where he wants him; in the corner. He pancakes away at him with hard rights to the face and body (yeah, bet Shawn is loving this, eh). Crowd are chanting for SID, SID, SID at this point. Vader tries for an atomic drop, but Shawn flips right over Vader and makes the hot tag to...............SID!! Crowd ERUPTS.

Sid and Vader finally going to go at it. Sid comes in and starts landing some big fucking strikes on Vader, followed by some quick kicks to the gut and a clothesline to knock Vader down.

Owen and Davey fly in to try and help out, but Sid just fucking cleans house and throws all three of them over the top and to the outside. Fuck Sid is grand when he's like this. All the faces are now in the ring celebrating and Sid and HBK do a chest bump to demonstrate this

Hot start to the match. Owen tries to blind-side Sid, but ends up eating a clothesline and Sid tags Ahmed in. He takes Owen to

BOTCH SUPLEX CITY BOTCH.

I assume they are supposed to be German's rather than a side suplex TBH. Didn't look great.

Ahmed then goes for a big elbow, but Owen moves out of the way and tags Davey in. He takes control straight away and starts with big clubbing hands to the back. He flings Ahmed off the ropes, but he reverses it and plants Davey with a spinebuster. He follows this up with the Pearl River Plunge

But Vader makes the save. Vader gets Ahmed in the corner and starts slapping him around. Crows are still chanting loudly for SID lol. Ahmed turns it around and clubs Vader with some whirlwind right hands. Vader does the old 'thumb in the eye', sends Ahmed into the opposite corner and gives him a BIG VADER SPLASH. He then keeps him there and starts pounding away at him with Vader fashion with big right hooks to the face and body. Vader then runs at Ahmed and tries for another VADER SPLASH, but Ahmed uses his power and catches Vader into a powerslam for a nearfall pin.

Vader manages to get up first and tags in Owen, who immediately starts kicking away at Ahmed, before hitting him with a spinning heel kick. Ahmed turns it around as he whips Owen hard into the turnbuckle before using his power and lifting Owen up high for a big body slam. He then tags Sid in (crowd fucking love this guy lol). He levels poor Owen with a BIG BOOT, before sending him back first into the turnbuckle. I loved the bump Owen took here as he tagged Davey in straight away

The powerhouse is in now; Davey. Sid sends him off the ropes, but Davey kicks Sid in the face and puts him high up for a great extended, standing suplex

Great power by the bulldog. Vader takes this opportunity to pop in and drop an elbow on Sid as Davey distracts the ref. Sid then kicks out of a pin attempt in emphatic style. Vader now back in and it's another round of Sid/Vader :mark: Crowd are still chanting SID, SID, SID. Vader takes him down with a big standing body splash, before tagging Davey back in. Good team work here with these quick tags to try and get at Sid. Davey tries nailing Sid with some punches, but Sid is having none of it. He no sells these and plants Davey with a big right hand, before going over to tag HBK in.

He immediately hits Davey with a elbow off the top rope and straight into a 2 count. He slings Davey back first into the turnbuckle and tries to follow it up with a running shoulder barge, but Davey moves and HBK goes shoulder first into the post. He hits HBK with a headbutt and a couple of strikes, but ends up getting slung into the ropes where Vader is standing, knocking the big man over. Owen then breaks up a pin attempt by HBK, who tosses Owen over the top rope and tries again, but only gets a 2.

Davey then tags Owen in, who has his back to the ring, so HBK flings him over the rope and back into the ring. The two then get involved in a game of rolling pin attempts, as Earl tries to keep up

Always good to have Owen and HBK share a ring though. We get an excellent segment of various flips and rolls by them both in pin attempts, just showing just how well these two work together. Owen ends up solving this by hitting HBK with a hard clothesline for another nearfall. He tags Davey back in, who immediately sends HBK over in a back body drop and a leg drop for a quick nearfall. He follows this up with a powerslam and into another nearfall. He then tries an elbow, but HBK moves out the way to possibly seize his chance of a comeback.

Davey sends HBK to the ropes and immediately into Owen, who takes this opportunity to cheapshot HBK over the head with his damn cast. Doesn't get any better for Shawn, as Vader is now tagged in. Crowd are still chanting Sid, Sid, Sid. He puts HBK into the corner and pounds away with big right hooks again. Not a place you want to be again, Shawn. He's picking him apart here and he sends HBK into the opposite corner and into a big bump

Vader gives Sid a cheap slap to distract the ref as Owen goes to the outside and kicks away at Shawn and flings him back into the ring. Vader nails Shawn with a short clothesline. HBK really in trouble here. Vader decides to punish HBK and puts him in a choke/bearhug. 

A fucking FAN tries to jump into the ring at this point lol

As Vader is in there? Are you crazy or have a damn death wish? Ahmed and Davey 'team up' to chase him away. Vader continues to apply this bearhug as he also pounds away with punches to the midriff. HBK tries a mini comeback with some punches of his own to Vader, but is quickly shit down and placed firmly back into the hold. Vader is the ever so clever heel here, as he yanks on Shawn's hair as the red can't see. Then when the ref goes to the back of HBK to check, Vader starts choking Shawn via his Adam's Apple. Great, subtle work there.

HBK really in trouble here and desperately needs to make a tag. He starts hammering away at Vader, but is caught again with a big standing Vader Splash. Vader follows this up with a body splash off the ropes. Ahmed decides he's had enough of this shit, and flies in and nails Vader with a clothesline. Shawn is fucked as he climbs over Vader in an attempt at finally making a tag. Vader does get a tag though, and Davey jumps in and just about stops HBK from making that elusive tag. HBK keeps trying to get up, but keeps getting knocked right back down again by Davey's punches to the head. Davey gets HBK up, looks like a piledriver, but ends up putting him into a backbreaker. Shawn tries to counter this, but is knocked back down with a Samoan Drop.

Davey whips HBK into the corner, he follows it up, but Shawn moves out the way and Davey goes head first into the ring post.

OUCH.

This is HBK's chance now, he has to take it.

Davey manages to tag Owen back in and he and HBK start exchanging punches. Owen flies off the ropes as HBK turns around and they end up colliding with one another and knocking each other over. They are both down on the mat. Davey gets tagged in and sends HBK back to the mat with his finishing running powerslam. THIS IS IT!!!! He goes for the cover but Sid breaks it up, by deciding that a simple blow to the head won't suffice, I need to give Davey a big leg drop lol. HBK has been in there a loooooooooong time now.

Davey tags Vader in and FINALLY, HBK GETS THE HOT TAG TO................AHMED..................but blind Earl didn't see the fucking tag. Vader/Owen/Davey take this opportunity to kick the shit out of HBK as Earl is busy trying to back the faces off. Davey/Owen are now double teaming HBK and Owen tries a missile drop kick, but HBK moves and he hits Davey instead. Shawn has to make the tag now FFS.

YES IT IS, HE HOT TAGS IT STRAIGHT TO..................SID. Crowd go expectedly nuts as Sid flies in and nails Vader with a clothesline and CHOKESLAM. Owen comes in and he eats one too. Oh and ditto for Davey too. Sid is cleaning fucking house. He tags Ahmed in and they double team on Vader and take him down with a double clothesline. HBK gets on the top turnbuckle as Sid picks him up and throws him onto Vader, but Davey comes in to break the pin attempt up.

All hell is now breaking loose as Owen/Davey are lamping Ahmed on the outside, as Sid goes over to help. Meanwhile, Cornette makes his first appearance as he's on the apron and HBK is choking him as Vader picks up the TENNIS RACKET. Shawn turns around in time and punches Vader before picking up the racket, and whacking Vader right over the head with it.

1............2......................WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT, KICK OUT BY VADER!!!!!!!!

HBK goes into the corner and signals for 'Sweet Chin Music' to finish this thing, but Cornette grabs his damn foot as the ref's back is turned and Vader runs over and squashes Shawn. Vader then gets up on the second rope and hits

VADERBOMB

1...........2................................3. Camp Cornette wins. Sid/Ahmed are obviously not happy about this, and attack Owen/Vader as they are celebrating. Poor Davey ends up eating a Sid Powerbomb at the end of this. He's probably sick of these bumps by now lol. Owen also eats one too for good measure.

POWERBOMB FOR VADER TOO????!!! Nah, Sid tries but Davey pulls Vader out the ring just in time. Vader doesn't quite escape though, as Shawn runs and flies over the top rope and hits Vader with a Plancha.

After not watching this thing in years, this certainly holds up as an excellent, kind of forgotten/overlooked, WWF match TBH. HBK has a really good FIP segment, Vader does some good, stiff shit. Sid is over as fuck and is also good in his quick spurts. Owen/Davey work hard and bring the flash from the heel side. Ahmed is........Ahmed. Sloppy at times, but he was only briefly in the match so he didn't really detract anything from it. Good finishing stretch and ending too that helps set up the Vader/Shawn match at Summerslam. Really good transitions in this match too, with both teams having a chance to shine with varying offense.

A top tier multi man match form the WWF here.

Recommended.

Vader vs. Sting (Strap Match) (WCW Superbrawl III) Review

Vader vs. Sting (Strap Match) (WCW Superbrawl III)

People  know how much of a Sting and Vader mark I am, and I was browsing through 1993 and had the urge to revisit this classic match again. Of course, these two already had history before this match. In 1992 they had two other wonderful matches at Great American Bash and at Starrcade. People remember the build up for the infamous 'White Castle Of Fear' video:

Which was a rather wacky element to an other wise, strong rivalry. In the run up to Superbrawl, Sting and Vader both did excellent, individual promos hyping the match up and were involved in matches that further built towards the PPV. There was a Barry Windham & Vader vs. Sting & Dustin Rhodes match on Saturday Night, that resulted in Windham holding Sting, whilst Vader whipped him with the strap, before the babyfaces made the save;

Sting got his revenge the week later when he faced Windham and he used the strap to hang Barry from the rope, until Vader helped Windham and Sting was alone in the ring with the strap, swinging it around in front of Vader;

Vader had a squash match against Rick Thames on Saturday Night, where Race ended up covering his face with red paint to send a message to Sting, whilst Vader held the strap that would be used;

Now, onto the match.

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Here we go.

'LIGHTS OUT, LEATHER STRAP MATCH – NOT SANCTIONED'

Vader, the man, the heavyweight champion, is first out. With Harley Race of course and dressed in a white robe

Sting is out next, as energetic as always and gets a massive pop from the crowd. He and Vader square off and start jawing at each other as the ref tries to separate them. Harley has the strap and the ref finally ties them both together.

Already you can feel the intensity here and just how bad Vader was just by the look he gives Sting.

Sting starts out cautiously, moving around and Vader slowly stalks him. They have a mini tug of war which Vader ends up winning and throwing Sting to the mat. Vader's dominance already in effect here. Once again, they have a tug of war and again, Vader throws Sting down with the strap. Vader drags Sting ever closer to him with the strap and they end up face to face, before Vader gives the Stinger a big clothesline

Vader in control early as he delivers some big elbows to Sting. He starts whipping Sting's back with the strap before getting on the turnbuckle for a big splash. Sting then tries to mount a comeback as he gets up and yanks the strap under Vader's legs (Watch the family jewel, now). Crowd pop big for this as you'd expect. Sting follows this up by running at Vader with some right hooks to the head and finally knocking the big man down. Sting gets onto the turnbuckle but Vader gets up, so Sting smacks him in the face with a big kick followed by a big clothesline

Now the Stinger is in control and he has Vader on the mat. He continues to use the ariel offense as he delivers not one, but TWO big splashes. Crowd is going fucking NUTS for Sting. He untangles the strap from Vader and

IT'S PAYBACK TIME, BITCH

Sting starts whipping the back of Vader and the crowd are LOVING this, esp one of Sting's biggest fans, I'm sure

He continues to whip Vader big style with the strap, Harley gets on the apron, and Sting clumps him as well with the strap for his troubles. Big Van Vader is in trouble here as Sting is fully in control and is dominating the big man. Vader ends up rolling out the ring as Harley recovers and tries to get Vader going again. Sting then goes to the outside, Vader gets up, but Sting has the strap in between him and drags Vader right into the post, TWICE.

At this point, Vader's back is RED AS FUCK (A little help from Race, there :side: ). Sting gets him up and drags him to a post and to mark that is one down (remember, you have to drag your opponent to all four corners, and touch the corners to win). Sting PICKS UP VADER and slams him to the mat with a big powerslam. Sting is the babyface in this, but he has the physical power to still bring it to Vader.

Sting starts dragging Vader around to another corner, that's TWO now. He tries to drag Vader to a third, but Vader sends him into the guardrail

I sense this is where Vader regains control. Plus, those two corners mean nothing now as you have to touch all four corners in one successive motion. Sting gets up thou8gh and drags Vader back into the ring and gives Vader a Fireman's carry back drop. Sting runs at Vader but is met with a BIG Vader body bounce, not once, but twice. Vader kicks him in the gut and shouts 'POWERBOMB'. Oh oh, Sting is in trouble here. But Sting blacks it and gives Vader a back drop. Sting is still bringing it here, but ends up making his first real mistake too. He goes to the top turnbuckle again, where he's already been successful, and tries another splash, but Vader moves out the way this time and Sting goes face first onto the mat.

Now this is surely where Vader has enough of this.

He goes off the ropes and delivers his own big splash to Sting, before pancaking him with big punches to the face. We all know you DON'T want to get caught taking any of those from Vader. Crowd is cheering Sting on and willing him on, but Vader squashes that enthusiasm as he picks Sting up and plants him down with a back drop.

Yeah, this is now Vader's yard.

He gets on the turnbuckle and gives Sting his Vaderbomb, as Harley starts taunting him with “How do you like that, Sting?”.

Sting is now in real trouble as Vader starts whipping him again with the strap, the sound effects perfectly demonstrating the pain and anguish he's currently in. This is not where he wants to be . Vader picks Sting up again, gets on the turnbuckle, and delivers a FUCKING BACK BODY DROP

Fuuuuuuuuuuck, Sting is in deep, deep shit atm. Sting is helpless now as Vader drags him to his first corner spot, that's one down. He drags him to another, that's two, only another two to go and this thing is over. Sting is desperately trying to stop this and is grabbing the strap as tight as he can. Just as Vader is close to the third corner, Sting digs deep and kicks Vader right in the mush. Sting is still in trouble, but at least he's broken up the corners.

Vader is pissed and goes back to the turnbuckle and goes for another Vaderbomb. Ohhhhhhhhh shit. He goes for it, but Sting gets some resilience, and moves out of the way. Sting needs to dig deep again here as this could be his moment. Crowd once again go FUCKING NUTS. Vader though gets up and gets back onto the top turnbuckle, he's either supremely or supremely confident. Just as he gets up there though, Sting yanks hard on the strap and it plants Vader down on his, erm, family jewels.

'Don't rub 'em Son, count 'em'

Now this is where Sting can get his shit going again. Vader manages to get up and back onto the top turnbuckle, but Sting again yanks on the strap, only this time it sends Vader over and flying into the ring

Both men and down and, I'd imagine, fucked at what they have been through so far TBH. Vader is gets up on his knees and powders Sting with some of his famous club right hands. Sting blocks on of them and whacks Vader back with a big punch of his own. I love Sting's jumping punches here, as he shows how fucked he is, but he's still trying and fighting. Vader picks him up again though and plants him onto the top turnbuckle. He gives Sting a SUPERPLEX

Sting is dead on the mat as Vader starts going for the four corners again. He gets one. Vader screams “IT'S OVER” as he gets two. He goes for the third, and gets it. ONE MORE AND THIS ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OVER. He tries to drag Sting over to the fourth, but Sting wraps his legs around the ropes and clings on for dear life

He gives Vader one hell of a big boot, knocking the big man onto the mat. Once again, as much as anything, Sting has saved the match and has the chance of a comeback here. Don't speak so soon though as Vader gets Sting in the corner

YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE IN A RING CORNER WITH VADER FACING YOU

Vader pancakes him with big ass clubs to the head

Big Van Vader just wants to fucking KILL this man. Sting is BUSTED OPEN as Vader continues to destroy him. But Sting gets some energy from somewhere and plants Vader with a CAPULO KICK to the head

COME ON STINGER

Fantastic desperation move by Sting to try and get this monster off of him. Vader is still back to his feet, like some fucking horror movie villain though. Sting plants him with some rights and takes him to

Crowd are going nuts as this is Sting's big chance to finally take over. He nails Vader with a DDT. He puts Vader into the corner and starts giving Vader some fucking PAYBACK with some right hooks. I just love Sting's facial expressions here, he perfectly shows the agony and madness he was feeling at Vader. His face is bleeding and he's just pounding on Vader and laying into him with all his frustrations.

STING HAS FUCKING SNAPPED as he's just killing Vader with punch after punch. He rips Vader's mask off, picks him up off his back and touches one of the corners. But as he does that, Vader's foot catches the ref and knocks him down.

REF BUMP

Sting goes onto to touch THREE corners as Vader's ear is spouting blood heavily at this point. Sting goes for the final corner, but trips over the ref and just misses the corner with his hand. FUCK SAKE. Vader is a BLOODY MESS atm. Ref is back up, but so is Vader and he flies off the ropes and onto Sting. Vader ties Sting's feet up with the strap and drags him into the corner foe ONE. Then to the other corner for TWO. Sting is down and out and is being dragged around like a lifeless body at this point. Vader drags him to a third turnbuckle for a THREE.

JUST ONE MORE

Sting clings onto the ropes for dear life to stop Vader dragging him to that fourth corner. He kicks Vader back to try and get out of this, but the power of the kick sends Vader back and right in the corner for the win. Man, Vader really is a BLOODY MESS

Sting gets the strap and starts whipping Vader out of the ring.

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Well, where does one start with this one? IT'S A FUCKING WAR, A FUCKING WAR. Violent, destructive, monstrous. Vader is just a non stop killing machine who has no mercy or remorse and Sting plays the perfect babyface, timing his hope spots and comebacks to perfection but also showing he can bring the power to Vader when he has to. Still one of the best WCW matches ever and the best match of it's kind. Vader and Sting were always perfect for each other and this match demonstrates this as well as any of their matches. This match shows why I'm such a fan of both too, esp Sting.

Thanks for reading.

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