FEBRUARY 29
1992
UWFI held a card at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall which included a great **** match between Hiromitsu Kanehara and Masakazu Maeda.
Ron Wright shamelessly attempted to solicit money from fans on SMW television, insincerely reading a fake letter from a fan recognizing him as a “good, clean, Christian scientific wrestler” even when his opponents tried to maim him. The supposed fan included $5.00 in the letter with the writer saying he wished it could be more.
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USWA television included footage from Mid South Coliseum where Eric Embry shockingly punched the Dirty White Girl in the face before Pat Tanaka hit the ring and laid a brutal kick on Embry’s face. Embry did a promo vowing revenge while his eye was swollen shut. Also on the show, footage from another wild brawl at Mid South Coliseum aired, this time with Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Lawler teaming with the Junkyard Dog against The Moondogs and their newest charge: the Big Black Dog.
WWF Superstars included a great Funeral Parlor segment where Jake Roberts was the guest. Jake repeatedly blasted Undertaker with chair shots, and Undertaker kept coming back again and again.
The UWA held a card in Naucalpan that included a great, ****1/2 proto-Michinoku Pro match where Silver King, El Texano and Gran Hamada teamed to face Negro Casas, Dr. Wagner Jr. and Rambo.
WCW aired the SuperBrawl II pay-per-view live from Milwaukee, WI, in front of 5,000 fans. It was my personal favorite pay-per-view of all time with many great matches. In the main event, Sting defeated Lex Luger to win the WCW World Title. Luger was on his way out of the promotion and was headed to Vince McMahon’s WBF. He was so massively muscular here that he had trouble working the match and Executive Vice President Kip Frey actually had to apologize for his appearance. Also on the show, Rick Rude defended the U.S. Title against Ricky Steamboat in a **** match, Arn Anderson and Bobby Eaton defended the World Tag Team Titles against The Steiner Brothers in another **** match and Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes faced Steve Austin and Larry Zbyszko in a ****1/4 match. However, the show is most remembered for the opener where Brian Pillman defeated Jushin Liger to win the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship in yet another **** match. Even though it took a few years to feel the impact, it was a match that helped change perceptions among American wrestling fans about smaller guys. The show did just under 200,000 buys, and you can watch it on the WWE Network.
