Stunning Steve Austin vs. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat

by Jeff on January 17, 2013 at 2:58 pm
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I’ve been watching WWE’s Best of the Clash of the Champions DVD lately. One of the best matches on it is one that I talked about on the blog a few years ago, but now I’ve found it online so you guys can check it out as well. At the August 28th, 1994 Clash of the Champions the United States Championship was defended by Stunning Steve Austin against Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, his chief rival in WCW. For a match that the commentary doesn’t even pretend to give half a shit about, it turns into one of the most underrated classics of all time.


WCW Clash of the Champions: Steve Austin vs… by MatasakoScar

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20 Man/Creature Battle Royale Pencils

by Jeff on January 13, 2013 at 4:05 pm
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I’ve had this ready to go for close to two months now, but I knew I’d need some content to post during my break so I held off on it. Classic Wrestling Moments 11 features a battle royale to crown the first Heavyweight Champion of Galactic Wrestling’s developmental territory, Championship Wrestling from Evseedub, and this image is from the first panel where we see all twenty guys/monsters in the ring. I found a bunch of old images of Andre the Giant battle royales, which I believe were from the ’70s or early ’80s, and combined bits and pieces of them into this image. Can you spot where Andre would have been in the photos?

HEAT battle royal pencils

Can you spot all twenty wrestlers in the ring?

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New Fan Art!

by Jeff on January 6, 2013 at 5:48 pm
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I got a new piece of Fan Art from Dead//Life’s Rudi Gunther last week, and have finally gotten some time to get it posted. Check out the Fan Art gallery to see all the other drawings I’ve gotten from fans. If you want your art included there, send it to jeff (at) rentathugcomics.com or hit up @HEATcomic on Twitter.

This drawing is a reference to one of Rudi’s Dead//Life stories which featured Beerman and Rudenstein attending a HEAT match-up that pitted the cyborg Black Decker against Wrestletron 5000, a robotic wrestler that made the journey from my sketchbook to Rudi’s comic. You can read it here!

RudiDicktheBastardWrestletronFanArt

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Ultimo Dragon vs. Shinjiro Otani, J-Crown 1996 Semi-Final

by Jeff on December 19, 2012 at 10:22 pm
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I just watched this match on DVD earlier today, and HOLY CRAP you guys need to see this.

There’s a little bit of set-up to this match. First, it was the semi-final in the J-Crown 1996 tournament, a tournament in which junior heavyweight champions from promotions all over the world gathered to determine the best junior in the world. The buy-in for the tournament was for each champion to put up his title belt, with the winner of each match gaining his opponent’s accumulated titles (which is why both Dragon and Otani both have two belts during their entrances).

In the first round, Dragon beat Jushin “Thunder” Liger in probably the best two minute match I’ve ever seen, with a magistral cradle. That’s important to know because Dragon and Otani reference that part of the Liger match quite a bit. Otani defeated Negro Casas in a much longer but also good match.

J-Crown 1996 is available on DVD or download from RudoReels, which is where I got it from.

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ROH – Joe vs. Kobashi

by Jeff on December 12, 2012 at 2:41 am
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I first saw this match when the Fight Network was airing ’05/’06 ROH (this was in 2008 or 9 or so). They pretty much just cut ROH DVDs into 1 hour chunks and aired them as programming, back when that channel was good. I recently stumbled across it thanks to the folks over at the Old School Wrestling Podcast, and figured a lot of you would appreciate it. If you haven’t seen it before, clear a half hour from your schedule, because this is, in my estimation, the greatest match that ever took place in an ROH ring.


Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe by RaphaelBrazil

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