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  1. Loss
    Have at it!
  2. Loss
    Solid match. Johnny Ace didn't seem to be very over though, even though Kawada gave him quite a bit of the match. They worked the stretch plum finish really well.
  3. Loss
    Flair has words for Steamboat and Hogan. Flair does this well, but they aren't really treating Flair/Steamboat as a PPV calibre match.
  4. Loss
    These promos should have landed James Mitchell a shot at the big time. Another great one.
  5. Loss
    Yes, Stu apparently worked with them to lay out a different match when they asked him for help.
  6. Loss
    Eddie Marlin sends in a taped promo to tell the Rock & Rolls and Heavenly Bodies that whoever loses is welcome in SMW. They are copying the Lawler/Dundee hype from 1983. Then, VINCE does a WWF STYLE HYPE JOB for Bluegrass Brawl and I'm completely weirded out. He says the same thing -- that the losing team can join them. But seeing Vince talk about the Heavenly Bodies and Rock & Roll Express and the Bluegrass Brawl in his WWF Announcer Vince McMahon Voice is surreal. He calls Jim Cornette a combination of Rhett Butler, Ted Turner, Red Barber and Col. Sanders all rolled into one! Then, we cut to a promo from Cornette and the Bodies. I love the focus on this being the culmination of a 10-year rivalry between Cornette and the Rock & Rolls. Then, we get the famous promo of Morton reading the goodbye letter, which is just incredible. Morton lays it all out. He says if they don't win this match, he'll never wrestle again. This is all outstanding.
  7. Loss
    They show footage from a Lawler/Gilbert match at a Mississippi house show where Lawler regained the USWA title. We know he sees wrestling for what it is, but Lawler really seems genuinely excited about how into the match the fans were in this building. In a funny moment, Dave Brown asks Lawler if he'll come out and do color commentary later in the show and Lawler jokes that he's never done anything like that.
  8. Loss
    I will put your lazy kids to work and take their allowances.
  9. Loss
    I love that all that really happens in this match is that Taue works over Kobashi's neck, Kobashi makes a big comeback to eat up the crowd, then Taue takes him down again and does the same thing. It's just that over and over followed by a lot of 2.9's in the closing stretch, and it works. The reason it works is because Taue has so many ways to work over Kobashi's neck and Kobashi has so many ways to keep coming back, so they're able to make it seem like they're changing up what they're doing when they're really just doing the same general thing over and over. There are a few lapses from each of them. Taue loses focus and just randomly grabs a half crab for a minute when it has nothing to do with anything, and Kobashi grabs a side headlock after building a big crescendo for a comeback which they work inexplicably for a minute or two mid-match. It's all to set up Taue's big release belly-to-back so they can go back to working Kobashi's neck, but it was an odd way to get there. All that aside, this was really fun. Empty compared to the better All Japan matches, and I've seen better from these two against each other, but I liked their general approach here.
  10. Loss
    Vince is spectacular as an interviewer. He's pretty hoarse. Everyone was happy to see Bret back on top, but the dark arena and the not-exactly-huge reaction Bret got shows that there were still some pretty big problems in the WWF, and putting Bret on top by itself wasn't going to change much.
  11. Loss
    Last few minutes. I've always loved this post-match celebration. This should happen in modern wrestling when babyfaces win the big one.
  12. Loss
    This match has been discussed to death through the years. It's impossible for it to look as good now as it did in 1994, but considering the audience it was worked for, it was pretty great. I do still think it holds up as an excellent match, but the wow factor is gone because they topped themselves in '95, and also because this is one of the most copied matches of all time.
  13. Loss
    This is tremendous. Maybe Cornette's best WWF promo.
  14. Loss
    Horrible finish.
  15. Loss
    Watching wrestling in the way I've been watching it on these yearbooks, where U.S. wrestling typically suffers the most is not in the offense on display, or that the matches aren't given enough time, or that the psychology isn't as good, or that the crowd isn't as involved. Nothing like that. The biggest issue is that wrestlers don't hit each other very hard. Seeing Kawada kick someone really hard in the face, then watching a Shawn Michaels match filled with lots of rope running, leapfrogs, inside cradles, etc., the kick has a lot more impact. That's not to say U.S. guys haven't had great matches, and it's not to say there haven't been some pretty snug U.S. matches, like Vader vs Sting for example. But the lack of laying shots in is the biggest difference. Clotheslines don't look as good. Chops don't look as good. Strikes don't look as good. So with that in mind, I was expecting to come into this match and not hold it in as high regard as I have in the past. I thought I'd see it as a good match, but one that felt "soft", too finesse-y and lacking aggression. I have seen this match probably two dozen times. If I had to name my 10 most watched matches ever, this is probably in the top five, maybe even the top two or three. I've seen it enough that I can call most of the spots before they happen. There was nothing here that I had forgotten -- except how great this match is. It's not that they're hitting each other really hard. It's that they're having a great wrestling match. It's that Bret's selling is on display and Owen's offense is on display. I don't know if they're laying their stuff in. It really doesn't matter, because everything they do looks really good. It also works really well as a first match in a feud. Owen needed to win to keep the feud going. People needed to think he could beat Bret. But they also needed to think he got lucky. The point they were selling here was that Owen could beat Bret if Bret didn't take him seriously, or had his guard down on a bad night. And they did a great job of making that point. It almost feels like a waste of time in some ways to walk through everything I liked about the match. Part of that is because it seems so self-evident, and maybe I assume that everyone has seen it as many times as I have. But Owen showboating and Bret outwrestling him and Owen's gut check, leading to back and forth wrestling with each guy getting his shots in, leading to Owen getting a lucky break when Bret injured his knee diving to the outside, leading to Owen doing some great work on Bret's knee, leading to Bret teasing a comeback, leading to Owen beating him just by shifting his weight in a basic wrestling rollup by Bret, is just spot on. I think the progression, the way one thing leads so smoothly to another, is the best part of this. It has been pointed out before that Bret likes to work his matches as a series of five-minute mini-matches stitched together and this is definitely a case of that. As much as I like the Austin matches, I don't think this decimates them by any means. But I do think that this was the finest hour for both Bret and Owen -- the best match either guy ever had.
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  17. Loss

    Other 1994 worth watching

    Loss replied to jdw's topic in 1994

    The one on Wrestlefest '94 happened in '93 and was on that yearbook, I believe. I'll check later.
  18. Loss
    Gene is such a shit disturber -- coming out telling Steamboat that Flair would rather talk about Hogan when Gene is the one who led the interview in that direction! Flair just told someone to keep their mouth shut - yep, he's a heel! Not a very over the top one, but a heel nonetheless. Flair tells Steamboat he'll talk about whatever he wants in his interviews. Things get heated, and Steamboat mentions the legendary '89 series. "I beat you twice in '89 ..." ... would anyone in 2012 say "I beat you twice back in '07"?? Anyway, good stuff.
  19. Loss
    Gene is the height of annoying here -- starting the interview by mentioning Hogan, then criticizing Flair for mentioning Hogan more than Steamboat. Flair is inching toward a heel turn. He wants to know what it is that Hogan sees happening for himself in WCW. They're about to talk about Steamboat and the interview was out of time.
  20. Loss
    I have no idea what's going on. Rude signed something and Sting has two women with him. Rude is obviously upset, so it must have been bad.
  21. Loss
    It's impossible not to compare this to Shawn/Razor, especially in a yearbook format, considering that the matches were happening at the same time. The ladder isn't nearly as much of a dance partner in this match, but the wrestling itself is better. Again, they're working a pace and intensity above anyone else in SMW. Candido takes a crazy gourdbuster from the top of the ladder before Smothers wins. Candido attacks him post-match to show that this isn't over! I'm happy to hear that.
  22. Loss
    Tammy Fytch and Brian Lee are the guests. They talk up the mixed tag match coming up. They are clearly trying to draw based on the promise of seeing Tammy naked. DWB stands there *forever* letting Kimberly shake and try to get away before finally punching him. He rips Brian Lee's clothes off while Tammy watches hopelessly from ringside. Hot segment. No, not like that.
  23. Loss
    A pair of interviews after the Ironman. The Bodies using an inhaler after this is too exaggerated to me, especially when you've seen the match and they were fine 50 minutes into it. The Rock & Rolls are back in the "studio" hyping up the Loser Leaves SMW match again. Morton suggests Cornette loves the Bodies "in more than one way". I like Morton as a promo, but this one isn't very good.
  24. Loss
    Love these guys, but feuding over a van? And a Ford Aerostar at that? This is just the finish. We don't actually get the full match, as it looks like it didn't air, or the source footage cut it out for some reason. Anyway, Lawler tries to leave in the van and Gilbert throws a fire extinguisher through the windshield, so there's that. Angles feuding over something no one gives a shit about are one of my favorite dumb wrestling things.
  25. Loss
    Excellent recap of all the twists and turns that led to Shawn and Razor locking up in a ladder match at Wrestlemania.
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