Something Strange In The Neighbourhood

ROUGH NIGHT, feels like it joins a lot of the comedies I've watched lately, funny moments but ultimately something I can see myself forgetting very soon. Is great the tide is changing and seeing a film that in this style would have easily been male lead a few years back; TOUGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, a 1984 TV movie starring the legendary Mr. T, has him a bouncer who also runs a youth centre who enters a tough man competition to save a youth centre, this feel like a plot I've seen parodied more than once. I actually enjoyed this, but I do have bad taste in movies.

1999 was a popular year for the WWF, but for the most part the in-ring product sucked, it's hard to come up with great matches as you get some of the obvious out of the way. I am not here to say it's a terrible thing but the often trashy storylines it had was resonating with the audience. I mean 1999 gave us a character like Beaver Cleavage, and Mae Young was starting to show up all old and horny, Miss Kitty (younger than Young) even flashed breast at the last PPV of the millennium. The Big Show (going under his real name of Paul Wight at first) was the first major name to jump ship from WCW to WWF during the Monday Night Wars (by that I mean the likes of Boss Man and X-Pac returning where those of released wrestlers), and another name jumped ship and in August he debuted memorably with a Millenium countdown - Chris Jericho - but he himself will tell you took a few months to get into his groove. Talking of exceptions to the poor in-ring action we had an excellent ladder matc...

1998 was certainly the year the fortunes turned back around for the WWF. Stone Cold Steve Austin was the biggest star since Hulk Hogan. The Rock and Mick Foley had grew to the point that they had both been WWF Champion (Kane had also become a first time champion in this time), and even the WWF title match this night was a brutal last man standing match between the pair. DX was rising in popularity and the whole product was all lot raunchier, I mean they a wrestling pimp (The Godfather, who was a face), a wrestling porn star, and the women where dressing skimpier. That's not to say it was all perfect, we had the Hawk alcoholic angle, the Brawl For All and at times the actual in ring product not being too important. One of the things that helped spearhead all this change was The Austin/McMahon feud, it was like the blue collar worker versus evil rich boss story that obviously spoke to a lot of people and that is the key story going into this Rumble, Austin and McMahon would be...

And here we get another bonus Royal Rumble which featured members of the Corporation and D-Generation X to get the coveted number 30 spot, which was meant to be a plus but nobody had won from this spot by this point. I'll talk more about 98 and 99 product better in the actual 99 write up, but the commentators are Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler joined by Shane McMahon. #1 is Corporate member KEN SHAMROCK, wearing a Raw is War t-shirt and trousers and #2 is BILLY GUNN, Shamrock jumps over the top rope to get Billy Gunn - Randy Savage would be proud of this - and he continues to beat on Billy, as Shane screams from the commentary booth, Shamrock is still beating on Billy Gunn, as #3 Corporation member BIG BOSS MAN who had returned to the company in later 98 and rather than be a policeman he is dressed like s S.W.A.T team member, Shamrock as finally buggered off, #4 is The New Age Outlaws music but it's TEST, another Corporate member and is backstory was that he was a roadie ...