WWF 305 Live: Earthquake vs. Bam Bam

Earthquake vs. Bam Bam Bigelow WWF Superstars 2/20/93 - VERY GOOD

ER: I love when we'd get a surprise high profile match on Superstars, and this one is exciting. I don't think they even announced this match on that week's Raw, they just went straight into the Superstars intro with a Sears photo shoot of Bam Bam and Earthquake yelling at each other. It was always exciting to turn on Superstars and see a match between two "actual guys". This is a big one. I mean, I was a dumb enough kid that I was also excited for the Virgil/Bastion Booger rematch, but this match actually feels big. Bam Bam is wearing his yellow-dominant flame gear, which always makes him look like a gigantic 9 year old wearing his fire jammies. He also gets in the ring and yells along to his theme song, timing out the Bams, and it's just one of those things that makes Bigelow so perfect. He looks like only he looks, he wears his all-over yellow flame jammers, and he goes around yelling his own name. He's a gigantic toddler and he has my favorite face. The camera does small shaking movements as Earthquake comes out, camera manipulation done right, and it's wild to see how much larger Earthquake is than Bam Bam. Bigelow is huge, but there are a couple of camera angles that reveal just how much taller, wider, and bigger Earthquake was, and the crowd is hyped for it. Lawler even points out how he can't believe Earthquake is bigger than Bigelow. I've been to an NXT house show/TV taping in this building (more modernized than it was in 1993, but the angles and lines were the same) and this is a great match for that room. It's a more vertically built room with no second level, so you get a good view down on the ring, and brother these two filled that ring. 

I really liked how they bounced into each other. The played to the top of the room, Bigelow hitting fun hopping shoulderblocks that don't move Earthquake, then Earthquake charging at Bam Bam with a belly bounce. You get some great Earthquake deep leans into the ropes and his huge missed elbowdrop. Bigelow is a lot of fun in control, hitting two slow lift back suplexes that draw a lot of oooooos and ahhhhhhs from the crowd when they both land (and both of them do land hard). In between the two big suplexes that sent two big boys crashing to the mat, Bigelow stomped and clubbed at Quake, yelling at fans while doing so. They went immediately into Earthquake's comeback, which was the match's only real flaw. The two back suplexes were such cool spots, but once Bigelow missed a falling headbutt after the second suplex they just went into the big finishing sprint. The finish was cool, with Earthquake coming back and hitting a pair of high leap avalanches, but Bam Bam slips out underneath a third, and Earthquake takes a cool topple over the top, to the apron, to the floor, to the count out. I don't think they would have had to put too much else before Earthquake's comeback to make it all feel a bit more complete, but what we got was good. 

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