WCW Fall Brawl 1998 (1998)

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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good movie but grossly overrated

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

1. Disco Inferno/Alex Wright Vs. British Bulldog/Jim Niedhart - Lol, Davey Boy won something in WCW. 6.5/10 2. WCW World TV Champ-Chris Jericho Vs. Bogus Goldberg - 6.5/10 3. Norman Smiley Vs. The Cat - Poor performance of "the Cat" I think he has nothing to do on PPV. 6/10 4. Scott Steiner Vs. Rick Steiner - Total bullshit, match ended (who knows why) when Bagwell 7 minutes plays he was hurt. That was spit on paying fans. 5/10 5. WCW Cruiserweight Title Match: Champ-Juventud Guerrera Vs. Silver King - First better match, nice reverse Top Rope Frankensteiner from Juvi. 8/10 6. Raven Vs. Saturn - That was an awesome match! Saturn's career on the top! And he kicked-out Evenflow and cleanly beat Raven. Best match of the night even crowd was unbelievably into it. 10/10 7. Curt Hennig Vs. Dean Malenko - Yeah DQ ending, super. Arn Anderson came for save, big deal... 6/10 8. Scott Hall Vs. Konnan - I couldn't look on Mr. Proper, he easily can't wrestle. Sham he beat Hall because of that stupid plot of Hall's alcoholism. SHAME! 4/10 9. War Games: Team WCW: DDP/Piper/Warrior Vs. Wolfpac: Sting/Nash/Luger Vs. NWO: Hogan/Ray/Bret Hart - Cheap trick with smoke Warrior's in & out, Hogan let the cage locked and Warrior couldn't get out. WTF, then I never understand why there were teams, when everybody obvious wanted a title shot, didn't they? Some stupid things but I'm glad that DDP won that. 7.5/10

This was such a bad PPV. The only match that was anywhere close to good was Raven vs. Perry Saturn. Some matches, such as The British Bulldog and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart vs. Alex Wright and Disco Inferno, were seemingly thrown onto the card with no reason to be there other than to give those guys something to do. The main event, War Games, was the worst of its kind and killed off the match as the Fall Brawl main event forever. (Read: the 2 years, 6 months and 13 days WCW had left). The Cruiserweight Title match between Juventud Guerrera and Silver King should have been much better. The highly talented Norman Smiley is reduced to carrying then-boss Eric Bischoff's useless buddy Ernest "The Cat" Miller. The heavily hyped return of the Ultimate Warrior only served to make the product worse. Don't watch this show. Ever.

I am only writing this review because this is the last time that a war games match was ever featured. War Games is my all time favorite gimmick match and it was ruined like so many careers in late WCW. And it was not even a true War Games. The (Ultimate) Warrior was in this event and they were hyping the botched Hogan/Warrior 2 match. The War Games are supposed to be a team on team. But this made no sense as there were three "teams" and yet it was "every man for himself." and unlike any other war games pin falls count. It pitted Hogan-vs-Bret Hart-vs-Stevie Ray(nwo)-vs-Luger-vs-Nash-vs-Sting(wolfpac)-vs-Piper-vs-The Ultimate Warrior-vs-DDP. The ending is beyond crap. And the other matches were enormous let downs, especially when I see that they have no clue what to do with Davey Boy Smith the British Bulldog and also the feud between Curt Hennig and Dean Malenko should have yielded many, many classic technical matches, instead like with all nwo matches, they ended in a run-in. The only good part about this is when it ended and I realized I borrowed it from a friend and never shelled out the $30 to buy it.