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  1. Loss
    Vince is such a micromanager that he's always going to take the lion's share of the criticism when something goes wrong in his company, just like he takes the lion's share of the praise.
  2. Loss
    My usual defense of FMW against the allegations of just being gratuitous blood and guts is that there is also a lot of good wrestling, and also that even the death matches usually have a lot of good wrestling mixed in and are worked in smart fashion. But this? This is just gratuitous blood and guts. That doesn't mean there's no typical death match goofy fun. I mean, wrestlers are taking bumps into pools of exploding water. But Pogo is using an AX as a weapon and carving a whole in Onita's stomach. Seriously. On the awesome side, Onita's team rides to the ring on a motorboat! Fun at times, crosses a line into being too gory at times. But here is Onita's FMW in all its glory, for better or worse.
  3. Loss
    Flair and Sherri are back out later in the show. Dave is out again. Flair calls him WCW's Forrest Gump and tells him if he makes the mistake of showing up tomorrow night, he'll make whatever is wrong with him a lot worse. Kevin is out to control him again. Please make Flair stop calling himself The Real World Champion. Seriously, get right on it.
  4. Loss
    Flair is funny wearing the belt over his suit. It's such a weird looking belt. They weren't using the WCW World Title they used during the International years and they weren't using the Big Gold Belt. It looked fake. Evad Sullivan interrupts and tells Flair he ain't the world champion. Flair tells him to get back on his meds and to never interrupt his interviews again, but tries to be nice. Dave interrupts him again, and Kevin is out to yell at him for interrupting. This "Real World Champion" talk is too WWF and makes Flair seem less Flair.
  5. Loss
    Bischoff announces that Hogan/Flair at Havoc will be in a cage, and that Muhammad Ali will present the title to the winner of the match. Mr. T will be the referee. Could they telegraph Flair losing anymore than that? Flair cuts a killer promo, mentioning that he was in the ring every night while Hogan was getting all the notoriety. Flair points out that this will be a clash between the two best ever and gives him his due. That's nice, but what surprises me is Hogan paying Flair a compliment as being the top wrestler in the world. That's the first time I've seen Hogan say anything nice about his opponent in a promo ... ever.
  6. Loss
    Candido is bragging about his recent conquests when Bob Armstrong interrupts. Candido is suspended for four weeks for performing a piledriver! Tammy is furious and wants to call her lawyer. I think he had an All Japan tour. That is a pretty stiff penalty.
  7. Loss
    Morton is working pretty hard in this feud and cuts a good promo. Gibson is there.
  8. Loss
    New Jack points out that some caucasian on a hill in Kentucky didn't create rock and roll, but that "we just let you borrow it for a while". He also says he's gonna beat Ricky Morton like Morton's slave-owning ancestors used to beat their slaves.
  9. Loss
    This is all Lawler trying to take Doug's mask off, and Doug freaking out and running away from him. Finally, Scott Bowden lends a helping hand, which leads to Doug hitting Lawler with a football helmet which Scott claimed was signed by his uncle. Buddy Landell ends up running in for the DQ when Lawler gets his hands on the helmet. Fun match that I wish could have gotten more time. Doug Gilbert could go in the ring at this point, if this and the highlighted Brian Christopher match are any indication.
  10. Loss
    I'm not going to defend Ole Anderson. But make a list of the top 20 problems with today's wrestling landscape, and if you look at where they originated, you can probably credit more than half of them to Russo. He has been so bad for wrestling, and in my view, the problems he has caused are so self-evident, that I don't think anyone else is in the ballpark. If you look at people in wrestling who have had power that have caused problems, there's plenty more blame to go around, and Russo isn't the sole instigator. But Vince Russo takes the prize as a booker. Herb Abrams ran a glorified indy fed and killed it through incompetence. But his incompetence didn't have an effect outside of his own failure.
  11. Loss
    Hair vs Hair match from Mid South Coliseum! Well, Lance Russell did say these two were giving Lawler and Dundee a run of their money for having the best matches ever in Memphis. I don't know if that's quite the case, but this is an excellent match. It's mostly highlight form, but the logical progression of the editing tells me all they did was edit out the stalling/non-action parts. It's enough to get a feel for what this was most likely like. Christopher takes some great bumps and was really turning into an excellent working babyface, and these two have really good chemistry. A table makes its way into the match as it goes on, with Doug Gilbert doing a DDT on it. Lawler and Scott Bowden are seconds. Sid Vicious shows up and jumps Lawler. Christopher tries using a chain that Doug brought into the match and the ref catches him, which leads to a ref bump. Post-bump, Doug tries to go after Brian with an ether-soaked rag, but Lawler intercepts and Brian gets Doug with it. He loses the match, then has his head shaved, and isn't even conscious. We got about 5 minutes of highlights of a 17-minute match, and what we got was excellent. The best Memphis thing I've seen in a pretty disappointing year for the group. Back at the studio, a masked Doug Gilbert shows up with Buddy Landell and Scott Bowden. The crowd throws "Baldie!" chants at him, which gets under his skin. Doug is down, but not out - he's a listmaker, baby! I relate to that, as I do the same when it feels like things are spiraling out of control. He names ten things he has decided to do. I can't say shaving Jerry Lawler bald has ever made my list of goals, but maybe I'm not doing it right.
  12. Loss
    Who is this guy introducing this? THE NEW GENERATION brings back a guy who headlined Wrestlemania II!
  13. Loss
    Lots of fun. All the stalemates are really well-executed, and Fujiwara throws more strikes and kicks than he has in previous matches I've seen from him. Fujiwara is trying to lure Liger into losing his temper as well. Sure enough, Liger gets a little peeved and Fujiwara is ready for it, mounting him and throwing some ugly punches to his ribs. Great finish too, as he lets Liger do the dirty work for him. All he has to do is casually side step a koppo kick from the middle rope and Liger beats himself.
  14. Loss
    Mikey is there, but Cactus does most of the talking. Cactus is awesome, but Mikey is hilarious. He looks frightened the whole time just to be standing there.
  15. Loss
    Cactus Jack interrupts a Shane Douglas conference to congratulate him. Douglas is good in this role.
  16. Loss
    BORNE AGAIN. Matt Borne is awesome! Douglas is good here too. Self-important as hell, but that's his gimmick. Good promo from both, even though they didn't really have a feud to talk about.
  17. Loss
    No booker has done more damage to wrestling - both financially and aesthetically - than Vince Russo. To me, it's a no-brainer. He literally has zero redeeming qualities.
  18. Loss
    Everything Bob Backlund says in his interview is true. My favorite kind of heel! They weren't playing up the comedy at this point as much as they would later. Backlund wants to put the chicken wing on Vince to demonstrate that no one can get out of it and he's not having it, so one of the WWF magazine writers volunteers. You can guess how that ended up.
  19. Loss
    This was a really great match! Quite a few things stood out about it. I think the order of entrants was perfect. The Dustin/Arn action was really good. This yearbook is making me like Terry Funk less than ever. He always seems like he's acting, both in the ring and on promos. *runs and hides* Dusty gets the hero's pop and this is the perfect way to use him at this stage. But more than all that, what stood out was Col. Parker. I'm always impressed when wrestlers who are trained (and in Parker's case, actively good) can make themselves seem incompetent. It requires deceptive talent. I thought he was fantastic here as the guy who couldn't really execute much, because he was probably working harder to not look like a wrestler than showed. It reminded me of the famous JJ Dillon/Alan Martin match from TBS. The match doesn't really lose much for the lack of blood because it's so well laid out and there are so many good payoffs.
  20. Loss
    The first 6-7 months of the year are incredible, and there's a slight dip after that. I still think there is plenty of good stuff after that, but each promotion was churning out less worthwhile stuff in the final quarter. It's evident when you see how little there is for September, for example. WCW falling off a cliff slowed things down. All Japan scaling back TV slowed things down. That said, the yearbook is still excellent, and there are more matches I am looking forward to seeing that I have not yet watched. Looking ahead, Big Egg Universe is probably the show I'm most excited about, but I'm also looking forward to some other things, like seeing how Cornette interjected himself into a feud with the Gangstas.
  21. Loss
    I think they had a WCW SN match in October.
  22. Loss
    Hogan gets booed pretty loudly on the Turnertron and is once again pretty unbearable. Flair is pretty likable. How could anyone see Hogan and Flair in this segment and not cheer Flair and hate Hogan and this promotion? Anyway, Hogan agrees to put his career on the line if he can get Flair in the ring one more time and Flair can beat him. Hogan reveals that now his knee is fine, proving that he's smarter than Flair and that no heel is capable of doing any damage to him, I guess.
  23. Loss
    Typically very good match between these two. Last time I watched this, I liked it a lot more than I did this time around. I think Sting's comebacks work better when he takes less offense. Vader dominating things and Sting fighting back with power spots is the dynamic that works the best for these two. Here, you have Sting doing all the power spots without any real setup where he is in peril. I also really don't like the "first guy to touch his feet" stuff in the final few minutes, because it really screams screwjob and the finish is terrible, even though the work itself borders on epic. It's a total boxing style match at that point and there are some awesome teases. Still, even with the flaws, these two will always produce something excellent and worth watching, and I still like this quite a bit.
  24. Loss
    Last few minutes of Vader/Guardian Angel are typical Vader fun, but it's a few levels below what Vader was doing with everyone else at the time.
  25. Loss
    Yuck. Yuck yuck yuck. Some of these decisions by WCW look remarkably stupid now, don't they?
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