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  1. Loss
    Pretty sloppy in quite a few spots, but lots of personality. It's fun seeing the Steiners bitch out over all the Hase/Muto showboating. The spot where Rick struggles to apply the powerlift to get out of Muto's hammerlock is pretty great. They play off the Dome match a little, as Hase runs in to block Scott attempting the screwdriver on Muto. Scott takes a lot of punishment in this match -- a suplex from the apron to the floor followed by the giant swing. Rick runs in and tries to save Scott and he looks like he's about to club Hase and instead is met with a uranage in a fun moment. Muto does one of his dumbass running lariats on the entrance ramp. From an execution standpoint, the Tokyo Dome match is much better, but this one is pretty fun for drama and big moves.
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    I've never heard anyone in wrestling say it. I wonder if they even know the term exists. I am guessing that it was made up by some teenager whose voice hadn't changed yet. Just my prediction.
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    Another classic match, only one that isn't as talked about as much as the J Cup, which obviously happened on a much memorable show. For me, this was every bit as good (possibly better - it's worth some thought anyway) but it is worked differently. It's more of an even and action-packed match. Sasuke does a few out of this world dives. Liger spends a big part of the match selling and they do some amazing highspots and nearfalls down the stretch. This is more like Sasuke/Shinzaki than the first Liger/Sasuke. Liger pins Sasuke after a top rope brainbuster, but it's still like Sasuke won, because he dominated most of the match and Liger happened to get lucky with a big move. This is a match that feels like it should be talked about as one of Liger's best matches.
  4. Loss
    Cory Maclin mentions that this is for the YOUNIFIED world title about 3,000 times. Solid match. Slightly clipped.
  5. Loss
    This is all about making Kid look strong going into the Bret match the following week. Savage hypes his accomplishments and Lawler gets to carry the talking, which is smart. Lawler wants Kid to do his bidding for him, but Kid says he has no hate for Bret and thinks he's the best in the world. Kid acting the exact same way a few years later would have gotten him booed out of the building. Not a good segment, though, mainly because Lawler and Kid have nothing to talk about and Kid is not at all good as a promo at this point.
  6. Loss
    Talk about it here.
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    I will try to get over Flair not being Flair anymore so I'm not mentioning it in every comment. Because this is a good promo, but he's not as good as he was in the first half of the year.
  8. Loss
    The most preposterous workout session I've ever seen.
  9. Loss
    Bambi comes out with the Rock & Rolls. Tammy shows up at the booth and insists that Candido & Lee do something to get back at the Rock & Rolls. She ends up knocking out Bambi at ringside with her purse and her team hits the ring. Tammy pulls out scissors and starts cutting Ricky Morton's hair, but the Armstrongs run them off before they take much hair off.
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    Matches of the month

    Loss replied to Loss's topic in 1994

    June: #1 - Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada (AJPW 06/03/94) ***** #2 - Yumiko Hotta vs Toshiyo Yamada (AJW 06/03/94) ****1/2 #3 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Gary Albright (UWFI 06/10/94) ****1/4 #4 - Manami Toyota vs Sakie Hasegawa (AJW 06/03/94) **** #5 - Kazushi Sakuraba & Masahito Kakihara vs Gene Lydick & Steve Nelson (UWFI 06/10/94) **** #6 - Ciclon Ramirez vs Javier Cruz (CMLL 06/07/94) **** #7 - El Hijo del Santo, Heavy Metal & Mascara Sagrada vs Jerry Estrada, La Parka & Psicosis (AAA 06/03/94) ***3/4 #8 - Jushin Liger, Shinjiro Otani, El Samurai & Tokimitsu Ishikawa vs Great Sasuke, Shiryu, Sato & Taka Michinoku (NJPW 06/15/94) ***3/4 #9 - Riki Choshu, Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara vs Masa Chono, Shinya Hashimoto & Hiroshi Hase (NJPW 06/08/94) ***1/2 #10 - Steven Regal vs Larry Zbyszko (WCW Pro 06/25/94) ***1/2 #11 - Riki Choshu vs Shinya Hashimoto (NJPW 06/15/94) ***1/2 #12 - Steven Regal vs Larry Zbyszko (WCW Clash of the Champions XXVII 06/23/94) ***1/2 #13 - Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama vs Akira Taue & Tamon Honda (AJPW 06/03/94) ***1/4 #14 - Vader vs Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 06/10/94) ***1/4 #15 - Owen Hart vs 1-2-3 Kid (WWF King of the Ring 06/16/94) ***1/4 #16 - Bret Hart vs Diesel (WWF King of the Ring 06/16/94) *** #17 - Aja Kong vs Dynamite Kansai (JWP 06/04/94) #18 - Shinya Hashimoto vs Yoshiaki Fujiwara (NJPW 06/01/94) #19 - Cactus Jack vs Sabu (ECW Hostile City Showdown 06/24/94) #20 - Ric Flair vs Sting (WCW Clash of the Champions XXVII 06/23/94) #21 - Owen Hart vs Razor Ramon (WWF King of the Ring 06/16/94) #22 - Public Enemy vs Dory & Terry Funk (ECW Hostile City Showdown 06/24/94) Overall thoughts: June 3 was quite the day!
  11. Loss
    Paul E. threatens Cactus to stay away. Famous promo where Cactus spits on the WCW tag title. Good stuff.
  12. Loss
    Owen's scepter is kinda cool. It would make an awesome cupcake decoration. Gorilla Monsoon undercutting the top heel at the booth is annoying but unsurprising. Owen's big moment promos aren't always good, but he was a better talker than he got credit for.
  13. Loss
    I love the overproduction of the intro to the press conference. ATLANTA, GEORGIA - HOME OF THE CABLE NEWS NETWORK. Ted Turner is present and goes into full shill mode about the Braves, CNN and WCW. This setting isn't really a fitting one for Hogan. Flair thrives in these types of angles and is awesome at points, but even he has the volume turned up too high. Turner's smiling the whole time cracks me up.
  14. Loss
    The biggest difference between Tennessee and Texas is that Texas produces good athletes. The people of Tennessee are terrible people. Terry has never been the most coherent promo, but his delivery always feels sincere. I like this one a lot.
  15. Loss
    DWB wants to take a finger, Jake will take an arm. Tony is out of his league if he wants to play mind game. Jake talks about his moral code, which he changes at will, and says his father taught him how to lie and how to cheat. He hypes Summerblast and this is another feud that I think may be nearing the end, and that I will miss dearly when it does.
  16. Loss
    I think this is their last match on the yearbook, which makes me sad, as I am by no means tired of the feud. It's yet another really good match. This reminds me of Regal/Finlay, and they show a lot more hate at this point than in previous matches. Regal grounds him at one point and throws repeated forearms in his face before rubbing his face in the mat, which is pretty awesome. The fight over the butterfly suplex is the sort of super cool thing that very few feuds in wrestling could produce at this point. Larry has this awesome comeback where he's trying to shake off Regal's stiff forearms and can't quite do it. His Indian Deathlock/Figure Four thing is really cool too. Things eventually get out of hand when Dundee runs in with the umbrella, and we get a DQ, which based on this match is the perfect finish. I'll miss this fantastic feud dearly.
  17. Loss
    Dory sure can roll up a guy. He has no concept of the kind of match he's wrestling - this is a wild brawl, and he's doing European uppercuts and a spinning toehold. (Terry does the spinning toehold in brawls too, and it annoys me just as much.) Terry is MIA for big parts of this. Aside from the cool crimson visuals with Terry Funk, not much to this. I'm guessing it was an important ECW match because of the generation thing.
  18. Loss
    One of the first matches of its kind. The Funk/Sabu matches were wild in a different way. This feels more like the typical ECW brawl we'd get accustomed to, with gimmicked tables, fans bringing weapons and such. This means I don't really like it all that much. They did a hell of a job hyping it, and the match seems like a fairly big deal, but they spend less time brawling than you'd expect, spending far more time doing sub-par wrestling. Do I really need to see these two doing suplex counters and waistlocks mixed in with the crowd brawling and weapons shots?
  19. Loss
    Oh, and to answer the question, lots of money to burn (I'm talking hundreds of millions of dollars); prime time television; time and patience; a fresh promotional concept; big names; a decent vision for where they want to be in one, three and five years; a strategy for maximizing each revenue stream and lots of luck. Even with those things, it still probably wouldn't work.
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    Interesting, sometimes-forgotten thing: In purchasing the TBS timeslot from Vince McMahon for $1 million, Jim Crockett ostensibly financed Wrestlemania. Vince was right when he told Crockett, as legend goes, "You'll choke on that million."
  22. Loss
    Then why was everyone saying Rock was working Summerslam a few months ago? I am just going based on what people on this board kept saying over and over. Then one day no one was talking about it anymore. This isn't based on the WON.
  23. Loss
    Everything WWE does is a work for attention. Was Ted Turner truly "predatory", as the WWF often described him?
  24. Loss
    Oh, you all know it was figurative. Come on. No, it wasn't pornography, but the WWF was marketing some pretty risque stuff to children in the late 90s and early 00s, and that is absolutely worth discussing in this campaign.
  25. Loss
    We've known for a long time that Rock is working Summerslam. I kept mentioning how terrible of an idea it was for Cena to lose at WM, and so many people were quick to tell me he was working Summerslam. So I suspect he'll be in the main event. Hopefully one of these days, Punk will get an actual main event spot while champion and Cena will be in the semi-main spot. Also, Bryan Alvarez's predictions are almost always wrong, because he hates life and himself.
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