{"id":411,"date":"2011-06-16T22:58:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/?p=411"},"modified":"2011-06-16T22:58:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:58:50","slug":"big-van-vader-vs-dustin-rhodes-%e2%80%93-saturday-night-21111992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Big Van Vader vs. Dustin Rhodes \u2013 Saturday Night 21\/11\/1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Big Van Vader vs. Dustin Rhodes \u2013 Saturday Night 21\/11\/1992<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before  the match Sting levels Vader with a 2&#215;4&#8230; I think. Don\u2019t actually see  it on the beginning of this match lol, which kinda sucks. Bill Watts  shows up and tells Race that the match is still happening, and Race is  banned from ringside!<\/p>\n<p>Vader gets in Dustin\u2019s face at the start,  and Dustin shows no fear. Vader pie faces the young kid and Dustin  responds with a right hand and a flurry of rights and clotheslines! As  fun as that is though, it\u2019s got nothing on Vader\u2019s control segment. As  usual, his offence is awesomesauce, but Dustin is such a great FIP that  he makes Vader\u2019s offence look even better than normal.<\/p>\n<p>Oh man, I  don\u2019t know what else to say about this match other than the awesomeness  of Vader\u2019s offence and the awesomeness of Dustin\u2019s selling of it. It  really is fucking amazing. Dustin is young, he\u2019s about what, 6ft 6? And  here he is getting punched in the face repeatedly and selling it like  fucking death. There are guys way smaller than Dustin that can\u2019t take  beatings from big men like Vader nearly this good. I remember reading  Dustin\u2019s book and him saying how he tried to pattern himself after Barry  Windham, and watching him sell the way he does despite his size,  essentially making him seem like a small guy, you really can see how he  does his best to be like Windham. Think I might dig out some Windham  matches later actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh man (again lol), Dustin takes one of  those clotheslines where he flips over (as we see from many people, not  just Dustin of course lol)&#8230; ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR. That HAD to  fucking hurt. Looked amazing though, and led to the finish as well so it  wasn\u2019t some random wasted spot, which makes it even better.<\/p>\n<p>Loved  this, gonna have to watch their match from 1994 that I have on hand  now. Oh, and I\u2019m fairly certain this is making my list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: ***1\/2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Van Vader vs. Dustin Rhodes \u2013 Saturday Night 21\/11\/1992 Before the match Sting levels Vader with a 2&#215;4&#8230; I think. Don\u2019t actually see it on the beginning of this match lol, which kinda sucks. Bill Watts shows up and tells Race that the match is still happening, and Race is banned from ringside! Vader &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/?p=411\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Van Vader vs. Dustin Rhodes \u2013 Saturday Night 21\/11\/1992<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wcw-project","category-writtenreviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrestlingview.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}