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Dave has started using the term "prelims" a lot more lately too.
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It would be interesting to figure out the best All Japan matches of the decade not involving Misawa, Kobashi, Kawada or Taue. This has to be in the running. It is easily the best RVD match I've ever seen. If only Van Dam could have worked his whole career against the Can-Ams, because I think his singles matches against Furnas and Kroffat are the two best matches he ever had. He looks good here, but he's clearly working within a template set up by Kroffat, and Kroffat is clearly carrying him. It's almost like he was born to work with RVD, because he does a great job eating his offense and allows RVD to do the stuff he does well like the footwork and flying, the split-legged moonsault and the awesome looking spin bump off the lariat. I also enjoyed the hair pulling surfboard. Excellent match, and I'm glad I finally got the chance to see it.
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Last few minutes. Douglas takes a few good bumps, and Sandman does a surprisingly good vertical suplex and even a somersault legdrop. Cactus tries to cost Douglas the match when he pushes his foot off the bottom rope, but not so fast. Referee extraordinaire Bill Alfonso restarts the match and the heat is great for Sandman teasing hitting him with the Singapore cane. After some distraction, Douglas rolls Sandman up for the pin and Alfonso counts it, but the referees see things differently. Cactus and Douglas are about to go at it, but Malenko sneak attacks Cactus while Douglas casually looks on. Tommy Dreamer finally makes the save, and his presence gets Raven and Richards out for an attack. I always like stuff like this where they manage to encompass several feuds in one altercation. I'm not sure if Douglas's victory counted or not and I'm too lazy to check title histories, so I'll just wait for the next bit of footage to see how things shake out.
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Nice to see a Paul E. interview. They have dropped the Tazmaniac gimmick and now he's just Taz.
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Bret as an interview is easy to underappreciate, as I mentioned in a previous thread. He's not overly witty or colorful, but he says everything with great conviction, and it works.
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Lawler is getting his feet as dirty and filthy and disgusting as he possibly can in preparation for King of the Ring.
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Again, terrible misuse of these two, but I do like the gimmick.
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If these two have ever had a bad match against each other, I sure haven't seen it. They seem to bring out the best in each other. In terms of number of good-great matches, Owen isn't the #1 guy in the WWF, but when he does show up, he's a guy who shows up in a big way. He was just so, so good. These two do things that aren't common moves in the WWF, like Owen's spinning leg lariat, and Davey Boy's fisherman's suplex, delayed vertical suplex and surfboard. Nice stretch of nearfalls at the end, to a point where you think there might actually be a last-minute finish. Of course it's a WWF match, so Owen is the guy who gets screwed by the draw, but what can you do. I don't know if this would place all that highly on a 90s WWF set, but this would have stood out in a big way on an 80s WWF set. It definitely feels like the ultimate MSG undercard draw.
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It would be great if someone else would walk through the set with me. And while I always enjoy reading their posts and I'm sure they'll show up at some point, it doesn't always have to be childs, shoe or Time Evans.
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Pretty good highlight video to his theme song.
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Savage rushes Flair before he even gets out to the entrance and we get a great brawl. The match ends up ruled a no contest and both are eliminated from the U.S. title tournament. They did a nice job hyping the Bash, and I really liked this. This is the only time I can recall an angle shot at Center Stage going away from the ring area and outside.
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Arn does a pretty nice job tearing into Savage. I love that sleepwalking Arn Anderson promos are still better than most promos.
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Of course everyone knows how great these are.
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As far as I know, Rocky King was never involved in any lawsuits. The story is that Thunderbolt Patterson threatened to have the NAACP picket CNN Center if he wasn't given a role on television.
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They debuted at the Clash, but if they were scheduled to debut at the Clash, they may have announced the match on a syndicated show taped prior to the Clash airing because things were already planned. That's what I meant.
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Scott had his arm injured legit either in the Clash match, or in the post-match angle. Don't remember which. They may have announced it before the Clash aired, so they didn't know Scott was injured when they taped the show.
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May: #1 - The Gangstas vs The Thugz (SMW Charlotte Memories 05/20/95) ***3/4 #2 - Bret Hart vs Hakushi (WWF In Your House 05/14/95) ***3/4 #3 - Hayabusa vs Atsushi Onita (FMW 05/05/95) ***3/4 #4 - Manami Toyota vs Kyoko Inoue (AJW 05/07/95) ***1/2 #5 - PG-13 vs The Thugz (SMW Volunteer Slam IV 05/19/95) ***1/4 #6 - Daisuke Ikeda & Katsumi Usuda vs Yuki Ishikawa & Shoichi Funaki (PWFG 05/19/95) ***1/4 #7 - Tommy Dreamer & Mikey Whipwreck vs Raven & Stevie Richards (ECW Enter the Sandman 05/13/95) *** #8 - El Hijo del Santo vs Psicosis (AAA 05/03/95) *** #9 - Bob Armstrong & Terry Funk vs The Gangstas (SMW Volunteer Slam IV 05/19/95) #10 - Bret Hart vs Jerry Lawler (WWF In Your House 05/14/95) Overall thoughts: For wrestling, not the best month of the set, but for angles and interviews, it's the best so far. Lawler getting PG-13, Bill Dundee and Brian Christopher on the same page so they can focus on the bigger picture is really one of the best segments I have ever seen, and is in contention for the best wrestling "thing" (match or otherwise) of the year for me to this point. It's great watching Al Snow continue to improve, and I really love the Snow/Unabomb vs Rock & Rolls feud. Toyota/Kyoko had enough going for it in spite of the weaknesses that it deserved a decent rating. It was a good match. It was not an MOTY by any means. Bret/Hakushi from a wrestling action standpoint was the best match of the month, but the heat and intensity in the Gangstas/Thugz match pushes that one slightly ahead. I wish I would have liked Santo/Psicosis more, and Muto/Hash will make a supplemental unedited when we do it, because the finish looked good. I'm even morbidly curious about seeing the full Misawa/Hansen, so we'll see.
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Last few minutes. Sandman takes a nasty bump to the floor when Foley pushes him off the table. A Shane Douglas distraction leads to a Sandman win.
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More Dreamer feud stuff.
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Backlund will require that kids listen to classical music and that this rock and roll music be abolished! Just look at the crime rate!
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They show footage of Diesel post-surgery, explaining that he landed wrong on his elbow after a Sid chokeslam and powerbomb. Dr. Andrews says he's on his way to recovery, and Andrews gets a little free pub for his research institute as wel.
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Arn can do all this with a Renegade feud? Pretty impressive.
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Cornette is back to his old self and does a great gloating promo with Funk, Landell and the Punisher.
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Here's a pro-shot version of the Cornette turn on Armstrong with commentary.
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Snow and Unabomb have hung Ricky Morton now after Snow lost a scaffold match. Snow does another promo that is better than any he has done before this. Snow mentions his fans in Mexico Eddy, Chavo and Hector, saying next time he hangs Morton, he'll have a pinata party and invite everyone. He says the Rock & Rolls won't make it out of this feud with their careers, which in a roundabout way ended up being indirectly true. Then, we get an interview with Morton in the other locker room saying it's time to finally settle this with a tag match since Unabomb keeps showing up anytime there's a singles match.
