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  1. Loss
    Solid, fast-paced TV match with a tag title change! Not worth going out of the way to see or anything, but really solid and worth watching. The Rock & Roll Express cut the victory part short, upset that the Thugz got their scheduled title match. Dissension in the ranks!
  2. Loss
    Tommy Rich hates rednecks! Projection. Gordy is done at this point, but I enjoy this.
  3. Loss
    Undertaker and Paul Bearer are not happy with Jim Cornette trying to pull the wool over their eyes. They're returning to SMW at Bob Armstrong's request to take on Unabomb. This is pretty cool.
  4. Loss
    Pretty novel match, and Matt and Jeff do get in a little bit of offense, so what do you know?
  5. Loss
    Now, we have Cornette and Landell in the USWA! Landell is coming in for a title match against Jerry Lawler. The promos in July 1995 are out of this world. Buddy Landell gives yet another classic. "Up 'till about a year ago, I was my own worst enemy. I've been on top of this business, and I've made an awful lot of money, man. And I blew it! But a year ago, I defeated my own worst enemy, which is myself. I lost 50 lbs! Smoky Mountain Heavyweight Champion! I've defeated everybody here, and I come there a couple of weeks ago, and you have the audacity to stick me in the ring with a puke like Steve Dunn? I blew him up in three minutes, kicked a mudhole in him, and walked it dry. But now, I need that Unified title to accomplish another goal. I wanna be a World champion, whether it's gonna be in the WWF, wherever it's gonna be, I'm world championship material. And let me explain something to you. An awful lot of people have written Smoky Mountain Wrestling off. Let me tell you something, Smoky Mountain Wrestling is where it's at! See, because guys that are here can't get a job nowhere else because we're mean and nasty. I was once told by Eddie Marlin, 'Pack your bags up and leave, we're a family business, and you don't fit in with our plans.' Well that's fine, because I found a place where I fit in and fit in well, and that's Smoky Mountain Wrestling baby! I'm the man that stirs the drink here, jack. So Jerry Lawler, you've been around a long time. You've lived a good life. But let me clue you in on something -- I'm better than I've ever been before in my life."
  6. Loss
    Finish of the match from MSC. Morton eats the pin and Mark Curtis ends up handing them his boot for a post-match attack, which sees the Rock & Rolls with Mark Curtis kicking ass. Pretty nice post-match beating, and I wish we had more complete matches from this feud. Scott Studd and Brickhouse Brown try to make the save and don't get very far, and Lawler and Brian Christopher finally run them off. Hales juices, and the Rock & Rolls should have had a major league heel run at some point. Had they stuck around in 1988 JCP when the audience had grown tired of them, that would have been the perfect time for it. To make this even more awesome, we get lots of STILLS after the fact and they sell this as a serious, hardcore angle. Back at the studio, Russell is doing an outstanding job selling and explaining this entire angle. "Mark Curtis, you are no head referee, you are a thug!" This makes the case for him as the best wrestling announcer who ever lived. We cut to a dim-lit promo of the Rock & Rolls and Mark Curtis. Again, Curtis can cut a solid heel promo, and Ricky Morton is outstanding. They hype a Texas Death Match coming up. Morton is just so focused and angry and I can't say enough for how good he is in this. Now, we go back to the studio and Mark Curtis tries to snatch the mic from Lance Russell's hand, which Lance doesn't take to that very well. They start to get physical, with Russell about to throw a punch! PG-13 comes out to run Mark Curtis off. We get a really somber PG-13 promo. Both are great, with Jamie Dundee doing a really serious, fired-up, almost Dusty-esque promo. Russell tells them that if not for Dave Brown and Randy Hales, he wouldn't have come back, so this is really hitting close to home for him. ALL of these guys are such professionals who know who they are and what they're doing, and this is just fantastic -- taken all together, it's one of the best hype jobs for a match I think I've ever seen.
  7. Loss
    This was everything I hoped it would be between four of my favorites. UWFI tags don't generally do as much for me as singles matches, but this was still excellent, and one of the few exceptions to that rule. Anjo and Takayama are among my absolute favorites, so seeing Kakihara and Kanehara work at (or possibly even above) their level was pretty awesome. Every single pairing worked. Excellent match.
  8. Loss
    I like that you spend so much time complaining about this. It really adds to things.
  9. Loss
    The Gangstas attack Public Enemy in the middle of the night after they've been doing local promos pretty late. This is a pretty old school angle. I love that they explained the camera presence by having Joey Styles introduce the clip by saying they hired their own videographer. Then we get a Gangstas promo, and they're a much better fit in ECW than they were in SMW.
  10. Loss
    Ted DiBiase and Sid introduce the lumberjacks that will be at ringside for the In Your House main event.
  11. Loss
    This commercial has half the WWF roster and a bunch of extras invading this guy's house. His mom comes home and is not happy, and suddenly he's by himself in what I think is a pair of long underwear.
  12. Loss
    Ronnie P. Gossett in the WWF? Well okay then. Jeff Jarrett is trying to arrange some type of meeting in Nashville and can't get in. This is followed by a trip to Las Vegas where he runs into Rip Taylor.
  13. Loss
    Jim Ross loves to make chauvinist comments toward Sunny. HOROWITZ WINS! HOROWITZ WINS! HOROWITZ WINS! This was a pretty transparent attempt to recreate the success of the 1-2-3 Kid angle, but it was still fun.
  14. Loss
    "Father, I'm looking into the sea and I just don't understand!" "Come to me, my son! The next warrior comes from 200,000 leagues from the bottom of the sea. The scavenger of the seven seas and the four oceans." Anyway, this is all leading to John Tenta being repackaged as Shark and joining the Dungeon of Doom. SHARK ATTACK. SHARK ATTACK. SHARK ATTACK. SHARK ATTACK. I RODE A TIDAL WAVE FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEA TO WAIKIKI, AND NOW I'M ON YOUR HOME TURF.
  15. Loss
    Last few minutes. Armstrong has Landell pinned for two when Cornette rings the bell, then rolls under the ring. While the ref is trying to figure out what is going on, this gives Unabomb a chance to slip Landell brass knucks. He pins Armstrong to retain. Tracy Smothers runs out to right the wrong, and the ref restarts the match. Armstrong gets an immediate Russian legsweep and wins the match. Overbooked like crazy, but pretty creative nonetheless.
  16. Loss
    More Randy Hales/Mark Curtis fighting. Curtis ends up attacking Hales in a fight over who gets to referee Rock & Roll Express vs PG-13, but he misses a middle rope elbow drop. The Rock & Roll Express quickly come to the rescue with Morton and Gibson doubleteaming Hales, basically replaying the same angle from SMW with the roles reversed. I always dig Morton slightly changing his hair when working heel. Then we get the closing moments of the match. Wolfie goes to cover Morton after hitting him with the chain Morton brought in, but Curtis refuses to count, then hits Wolfie with the hubcap, leading to a Morton win. PG-13 get their heat back on Curtis, but the Rock & Rolls are ready to attack them with powder. Hales tries to make the save with the hubcap, we get lots of brawling, and the Rock & Rolls are tremendous in this role. We close up with Mark Curtis doing a serviceable heel promo before the Rock & Rolls step in, Morton in sunglasses being awesome.
  17. Loss
    I have by far enjoyed AAA in 1995 more than I have any other year so far. This is another excellent match of many. It's easy for them to run together because there were so many strong matches involving the same participants in such a short time span, so I'll focus on what makes this one stand out. First, there's Fuerza doing his endless bag of tricks. I especially love when Psicosis and Fuerza get into it, and Fuerza ends up punching him and kicking him while he's down before cooler heads prevail. There's also Fuerza tricking Octagon into thinking they're friends so he can sucker punch him. There's bringing a chair into the ring. Really, this is a big rudos performance more than anything. Estrada sort of gets in the way, but the other three are really good. I always enjoy a good mask being tied to ring ropes. While the other matches had more of a rhythm and flow, this one downplays that a little and is more about rudo-generated chaos. There is some awesome stuff at the end where Fuerza gets his mask turned around and beats up the referee and his own partners.
  18. Loss
    This was tremendous. Every Espectrito singles match I've seen (full disclosure: I've now only seen two) feels like the most important match in the universe. Credit that to his ability to pace a match and anticipate crowd reaction. He's a pretty basic wrestler for the most part, but he does everything with such great timing that it works really well. The pop for Super Munequito's win is electric, and the post-match celebration is spectacular.
  19. Loss
    On here for sheer weirdness.
  20. Loss
    Such pristine quality. Jericho has the goodhelmet set, he could have used this on his WWE DVD instead of the crappy version he did use. That out of the way, why is Ultimo dressed like this? Anyway, yes, this is a really fun, if overhyped match, and probably Jericho's first real breakout singles match in Japan.
  21. Loss
    Fancam footage of the Gangstas running in and attacking Public Enemy, costing Public Enemy the titles and giving the win to Raven and Richards. But they do a DOUBLE Dusty finish that favors the babyfaces at first when a second ref runs in and points out what happened, which is odd for ECW. Something happens with Bill Alfonso after the match and I can't make out what he says, but the belts end up going to Raven and Richards yet again.
  22. Loss
    Super Muneco isn't as crisp and fast as the other luchadores in this match -- not many are -- but he has a likable charisma about him. Fuerza and Psicosis put him over strong in the opening moments of this. I think I've made this point a few times about 1995 lucha, but the first fall really is the perfect shine part of a Rock & Roll Express match, with all the athleticism and showboating designed to get the technicos over. If this was a showcase match that AAA threw out when going to other promotions, I think it would be remembered as the best showcase match of all time, even though the rudos won, in the sense that it was a really fun, rhythmic spotfest that was easy to follow because of the strong face/heel divide. It's a little bit emptier than the best lucha, but it's as fun and action-packed as just about anything I can recall.
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