Saturday Night’s Main Event – Demolition Ax

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Aug 102022
 

Hello everyone and welcome to Saturday Night’s Main Event (on Wednesday)! I’m your host Carja McMahon and we have some great wrestling mash-up action for you tonight. Let’s go down to ringside for our opening contest!

Here comes the Ax! And here comes the Smasher! The Demolition, walking disaster! Pain and destruction is our middle name! Yes, it’s D-Day, D for Demolition! I wasn’t a huge fan of the Demos as a team, but I dig their entrance music. My favorite Demolition match is the 2 out of 3 fall match on Saturday Night’s Main Event when they lost the tag titles to the Brain Busters. So yeah.

Mina is here as Ax, who I consider the leader of Demolition. Mina could never be the subordinate of course. It’s a fun enough piece. It’s always fun to draw someone’s tongue sticking out.

That’s all for this week!

Saturday Night’s Main Event – Brutus ‘the Barber’ Beefcake

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Aug 032022
 

Good Wednesday to you! Thanks for coming back for a visit. Let’s go right to the main event shall we? Get it? Main event! Because we’re doing the wrestling theme? Clever huh?

The year of Mina continues with her foray into the wild and wacky world of professional wrestling. Here she is as Brutus ‘the Barber’ Beefcake. His shears always worried me. Seems like they could have accidentally hurt someone.

That’s all for this week. Next week, we visit the bad guys’ locker room. Who’s it gonna be? Come back to find out!

Sunday Morning’s Main Event

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Apr 292018
 

Hey there! It’s the day after Saturday and I forgot to post a mash-up. In all fairness I was at home and awake a total of about a half hour on Saturday. Anyway! let’s finish this theme!

Jimmy Hart was an annoying pipsqueak of a manager. For a while in the 80s he was the most successful manager as his charges won plenty of gold. Then he transitioned into a good guy becoming the real life manager of Hulk Hogan (or so the story goes). He’s a talented musician responsible for some of the classic wrestling themes of the time.

So Chae rounds things out as The Mouth of the South. The sunglasses were an interesting detail given how widespread her eyes are. I think they worked out okay.

That’s all for the wrestling folks. New theme starts next week. As it’s new, look for the mash-ups to return to Wednesdays!

Saturday Night’s Main Event – Jesse “The Body” Ventura

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Apr 212018
 

Hello everyone and welcome to Saturday Night’s Main Event, the show where we mash ’em up just like wrestling superstars in the ring.

Jesse “The Body” Ventura was not the most gifted wrestler in the ring. But he was colourful and he could talk. Boy could he ever talk. It got him the plum heel announcer role on WWE programming. Jesse and Vince made a great pair, with Ventura praising the heels and belittling McMahon at every opportunity. When Jesse would pair up with Gorilla Monsoon for pay per views, he was a little more respectful and objective, though his heel bias would still poke through. I remember when he first joined the booth with Vince and Bruno Sammartino (RIP). Bruno got so mad (in character) at Jesse that he walked out. I kept waiting for Bruno to come back and kick Jesse out of the booth, but he never did. Now, when I go back and listen to some of that old commentary I get a kick out of Jesse’s heel persona. It was highly entertaining. And how many wrestlers do YOU know who became governor of a state? Interesting fact, The Body was the first LJN wrestling action figure (more like inaction figure, since they had no articulation) I ever bought. I dug his colourful attire even though I had no idea who he was at the time.

Here’s Skitter as The Body. He’s showing so much attitude I barely recognize him!

That’s all for this week. One more wrestling mash-up to go folks!

Saturday Night’s Main (Flashback) Event – The Model

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Apr 142018
 

Good evening ladies and gentlemen! It’s time to get down to ringside.

Rick Martel was the quintessential baby face…until he wasn’t anymore. At Wrestlemania V, Strike Force reunited after almost a year where Martel had to take some time off, I believe, to take care of his ailing wife. I was jazzed to see him and Tito back together again. And they were facing the Brain Busters, another of my favorite teams (despite being heels). Then the unthinkable happened. Tito missed a flying forearm and hit Rick by mistake. After Tito got worked over Martel walked out on him and the heel turn began. He transformed into the narcissistic Model and I hated him. He was really good at being bad. He’s one of the only wrestlers I’ve met in real life and he’s really a class act. My hats off to The Model.

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Here’s Red Rich dressed as The Model. He was the perfect choice for this role.

Here’s the comparison to the original. The original was probably one of my favorite pieces of that set, but it’s so off…model.

That’s all for the flashbacks. Two new wrestling pieces coming up and we’re on to something new!

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