Typhoon keeps up the punishment, but finally eats a boot trying an avalanche and Hawk plasters him down. Quake hits one of his own, then dumps Hawk like a sack of shit through a ringside table. They tag out and Typhoon choke-lifts Hawk, impressing the crowd (you do NOT see the Road Warriors getting manhandled on their Japanese tours like this), then he catches him on a cross-body and hits his backbreaker. And again! Animal is stunned after the second, and goes down to a running tackle, but ducks a clothesline and hits a jumping one of his own to bring the big man down! Double-clothesline spot and they’re both down! So Animal looks around and friggin’ MIRRORS HIM- crowd marks the fuck out as they collide. Earthquake comes in to clobber Animal, but he shouldertackles Typhoon instead (inadvertent FAT MAN STAND-OFF!) and Hawk knocks the Disasters over with a Flying Double-Shoulderblock! And then, in the greatest spot in recorded history, Tenta comes in and goes into a SUMO STANCE (complete with stomps!), demanding Animal come at him. They finally lock up in the ring with Typhoon/Hawk, but grapples go nowhere and then Animal press-slams Hawk INTO Typhoon, who just catches him to the blown minds of the crowd (what’s Japanese for “HOLY FUCK!”?)- Animal dropkicks them over to be awesome. Animal pastes Quake with chairshots, so a furious Tenta just shreds a table in rage and takes a swing with a chair of his own- he misses and Animal clobbers him again. There’s a shoving match before the bell, so Hebner just calls for the start and everyone brawls outside. Like, Hawk & Animal ain’t small but Ottman has a couple inches on either one. Right away I’m astounded as the two teams square up and even Typhoon is MUCH larger than either man. Earthquake is of course known and respected in Japan as a former sumo (undefeated but quit over injuries and cultural rules and such)- he’s billed “Earthquake” John Tenta here. Even with the cartoon WWF red & black spikes it’s a totally different effect, as awesome as their WWF music was- this was BORN to be a wrestling theme. The Road Warriors are of course famous in Japan and here come out to their old-school theme, “Iron Man”, and HOLY SHIT is that a massive game-changer to their act. * Okay, this is a fantastic one I saw split up in two on YouTube. THE NATURAL DISASTERS (Earthquake & Typhoon, w/ Jimmy Hart): He made a return to the ring in 2010 and continued to wrestle in Mexico until 2012.And I found a great grab-bag of weird stuff for the column today: Did you know that when the Truth Commission split up, Bull Buchanan and the other guy were paired up for a couple of weeks as a team before being sent away and repackaged? Yup- come see “Armageddon” take on The Quebecers! Also my “Best of Roadblock” series continues as he’s set up against a pissed-off, lethal Giant! More of Jimmy Del Ray’s weird run as “Jimmy Graffiti” as he takes on Eddie Guerrero during Eddie’s early babyface push! And we cap off with Al Snow and a very young, green Kane as “Unabom” up against… Matt Hardy and Joey Abs? God SMW was weird. Roadblock defeated Jim Powers in his last WCW match on the Augepisode of Saturday Night.ĭ’Acquisto initially retired from wrestling in 1999. He was eliminated by the eventual winner The Giant. He made his only pay-per-view appearance in WCW at World War 3 on November 24 by participating in the namesake battle royal for a future World Heavyweight Championship opportunity. After the match, Roadblock challenged Lex Luger to a match to take place two nights later on Monday Nitro, which Acquisto lost. Roadblock made his televised debut in WCW on the Octoepisode of Saturday Night by defeating Dale Wolfe, a replacement for D’Acquisto’s originally scheduled opponent Randy Savage. In keeping with his ring name, D’Acquisto would carry a roadblock or a sawhorse to the ring. He would also wrestle for the Universal Wrestling Association in Mexico, where he competed under the masked gimmick of Torre Infernal (“Infernal Tower”) and after months of chaos D’Acquisto lost his mask in a match against the legendary UWA World Heavyweight Championship El Canek.ĭuring the late 1990s, D’Acquisto competed as a preliminary wrestler for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Roadblock (also spelled as Road Block). In 1992, D’Acquisto made several appearances with the Japanese W*ING promotion, where he feuded with Jason the Terrible. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Roadblock's net worth $5 Million. Roadblock is one of the richest Professional Wrestler & listed on most popular Professional Wrestler.
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