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Grilling JR

Episode 5: WCW Capital Combat '90

Grilling JR

Podcast Heat

Sports, Wrestling

4.76.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Grilling JR with WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross & Conrad Thompson, the guys talk Starrcast Week and of course AEW Double Or Nothing, before delving in to WCW Capital Combat '90! What was going on in WCW at that time? How and why did Robocop get involved for his infamoous appearance after the main event? What was the relationship between Ole Anderson and Ric Flair like at this time! Plus, talk about matches involving Flair, Lex Luger, Doom, The Steiner Bros., The Midnight Express, Paul Ellering, The Freebirds, Brian Pillman, "Mean" Mark Callous, and so much more! Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! New episodes every Thursday at 6 AM Hit JR on Twitter: @JRsBBQ Find JR on Facebook/Instagram: @JimRossBBQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now let's get to why we're really here.

0:02.7

Capital combat.

0:05.2

This is going to be an interesting topic.

0:07.5

This show went down on May 19, 1990 in Washington, DC

0:11.8

at the DC Armory.

0:13.4

And it's most remembered for one thing, RoboCop.

0:18.9

Jim, when I first told you we were going

0:20.3

to be covering capital combat, what do you think?

0:24.3

Did you immediately go to RoboCop?

0:25.9

Or do you remember this for something else?

0:27.6

No, it was RoboCop.

0:30.0

RoboCop, that it out.

0:31.2

And unfortunately, the sad part about that

0:36.1

is other than the idea sucked.

0:39.6

But the best part that we haven't talked about is that that card

0:43.6

actually had a lot of real good matches on it.

0:45.7

And some really interesting names that paired up

0:48.4

and then even more some interesting finishes

0:51.1

because of the changing of the guard and the booking category,

0:54.2

things always got chaotic.

0:55.5

And in that era of WCW, you know,

0:59.1

Calamity and Chaos was in order of the day.

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