What are some good or overlooked storylines during what are otherwise considered really bad creative periods in wrestling?
Not one offs or angles that started hot and got bad.
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#OnThisDay in 1984: UWF: Korakuen Hall: Yoshiaki Fujiwara overcome after he and Osamu Kido beat Super Tiger & Akira Maeda. Fujiwara reversed Tiger's own chickenwing facelock and used it to force the stoppage.
Fujiwara called this one of the most memorable matches of his career.
#OnThisDay in 1983: At Tokyo's Keio Plaza Hotel, Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi, Killer Khan and the returning Yoshiaki Yatsu formally present Ishin Gundan, consolidating Choshu's rebel faction within New Japan.
PAC (representing International Pro Wrestling: UK) vs. Nigel McGuinness (representing Ring of Honor)
King of Europe Cup 2007 (Day 2)
Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool, England
April 29, 2007
#OnThisDay in 1990: All Japan: Ishinomaki City Gymnasium, Miyagi: Giant Baba and André the Giant backstage before teaming with Rusher Kimura to defeat Masanobu Fuchi, Haruka Eigen and Motoshi Okuma.
#OnThisDay in 1997: Brian Pillman was found dead in a hotel room in Bloomington, Minnesota. He was just 35 years old.
Autopsy revealed that it was an undetected heart condition that contributed to his death, same condition that lead to the death of his Dad.
RIP.
The opening ceremony of the MMA event 'Jungle Fight' in Brazil, Antonio Inoki decided to swim across the Amazon river to arrive at the venue in an interesting way. What he didn't realise was that the section of the river was filled with crocodiles and piranhas. (1)
Inoki thought the locals shouting at him to stop and get out of the river were cheering him on as he did not understand their language. He arrived safely on the other side and continued with the opening celebrations. (2)