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Randy Hales only wanted to prevent "unjustice". The Gangstas immediately interrupt and call them Vanilla Ice rejects. The Thugz see the Gangstas and PG-13 and decide to get rowdy and suddenly everyone is hitting everyone. Good stuff.
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Ok, this has potential. Lawler brings out PG-13, Dundee and Brian Christopher, makes them all sit down and listen to him, stop fighting and make amends. Lawler is at his absolute best, and this should probably be part of any case for him as GOAT. Smart babyfaces who realize infighting is happening unnecessarily and make it stop, what a concept. This is seriously an all-time classic segment and is probably in the top handful of Lawler interviews ever. "Thing" (match or otherwise) of the year candidate. Some version of this segment should have happened during WCW vs NWO with Arn Anderson as mediator getting through to everyone on the roster to stop fighting each other and focus on the NWO instead. It would have been great.
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Dave Brown and Lance Russell do an absolutely awesome job introducing this, and we get clips of lots of Memphis fans at an autograph signing of the wrestlers. Worth watching just for Brown and Russell being so good.
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Last few minutes. I know this match gets panned, but what's here is far from terrible. The rollup pin is pretty weak, but it's decent. Anyway, Misawa regains the Triple Crown. Love the post-match angle. Hansen was not a particularly gracious loser.
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Cactus does a tremendous promo talking about growing up and why he's the way he is. He also mentions the Flair "no one cares about you/you'll end up in a wheelchair at 30" story without mentioning Flair's name. Now, he's one week away from his birthday and he's not there yet. Must-see.
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Just the finish. Michaels pins Bundy after a superkick, then Diesel and Michaels make amends with Bigelow in tow as a third wheel there to just clap.
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I MUST TRANSCRIBE THIS. "Although the plebeians have a tremendous amount of abomination for Mr. Bob Backlund, I always knew that you agreed with my viewpoints." MR. BACKLUND ON EDUCATION "The echo-system in education in the United States is running amuck! And one of the first things I will do as President is make sure that every individual out there gets a job. And has the ability to save enough money. So he can purchase a dictionary. And augment his ability to read." MR. BACKLUND ON READING "I'm gonna demand that everyone get motivated to read at least one classic American novel each week." MR. BACKLUND ON WRITING "I advocate the abolishment of the spell check." (QUOTE OF THE YEAR) MR. BACKLUND ON ARITHMETIC "Under my administration, there would be no more calculators in the school system. The plebeians need to learn to work with their minds. And remember, a computer society is a defunct society mentally." MR. BACKLUND ON SUMMER VACATIONS "The educational system is regressing, ladies and gentlemen. Our youth aren't receiving the education that they should be getting. They are illiterate. The Japanese people have 100% literacy! Therefore, I'm demanding that our youth go to school 12 months out of the year. And there will be no summer vacations." The views expressed by Mr. Backlund do not necessary reflect those of the World Wrestling Federation.
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Bret approaches Lawler at the announce booth and tears into him in a really good promo then gets physical. Good segment.
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Last few minutes. Yes, it's Flair first major match after his comeback and he's going to be carrying house shows over summer with Savage, but he still takes the fall. I hate the finish of this, as the Horsemen aren't dumb enough to try that spot. They make up for it a little in the post-match with Flair and Arn double-teaming Poffo to set up the Bash match with Savage. Bischoff is even worse at this point than he was as an announcer on Nitro.
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The last few minutes of this are actually pretty hot. The Nasty Boys win the WCW tag team titles. Sherri takes a big bump to the floor (she's caught, but it's still risky ...)
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Nice ceremony that just feels so out of place smacked in the middle of the Hogan cartoon stuff. Wahoo, Funk (who speaks in an oddly deliberate way), Poffo, Inoki ("Goodwill among nations!"), Studd (Solie wears his disappointment with this induction on his sleeve, his son who accepts the induction is a big kid), and Dusty go in. Whoa, YOUNG CODY. And of course, Gordon Solie does Oscar-level acting feigning surprise at his HOF induction.
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Funny to see Funk showing up all over the place in 1995. Just two days ago, he assisted in burning Bob Armstrong and now he's acting all humble legend-like. Talk about multiple personality disorder.
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Talk about it here.
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I'll say it one more time: I really like these three together as a top heel group. Flair goes all local in his promo for some reason, talking about "this part of the country". Pretty good.
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Just a really wild, intense, bloody brawl. Great action, including New Jack doing a lariat from the ring apron to the floor that looked awesome. The weapons shots look good, but it's not the weapons that make this good, it's the intensity. It feels more FMW than SMW at times, especially when they start brawling into the crowd after the pinfall takes place, using fan's chairs as weapons and fighting up on whatever the elevated thing is in the building. When you watch this, you really have to take the whole thing into consideration, as we get an additional few minutes of great action after the bell. Worth checking out, one of the better complete SMW matches I have seen.
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I can't quite make out the stock music, but it REALLY sounds like a fake "State of Shock", which is really funny considering the ICW video. Anyway, they are on the beach hyping Slamboree.
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Eric Bischoff tries to interview Kimberly on a golf course, and DDP hits him with a golf cart in a funny moment to run him off. DDP wears an expectedly obnoxious outfit to play golf and makes some terrible hits. Max Muscle playing golf in his ring gear is funny and sounds like something Vince McMahon would think of. Meanwhile, Kimberly is lugging around all the clubs.
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Snow's selling of Morton's fury early on is sublime. And the dive off the top of the cage, while not that high of a jump compared to some of the bigger dives in wrestling history, still makes more a great visual. Snow just really knows how to incorporate the martial arts stuff into his regular arsenal. It's starting to depress me how much his career fell short. After a ref bump, Morton gets a piledriver, which a great revenge spot. In a great finish, Unabomb comes from under the ring, and we find that the Unabomb at ringside was an impostor. Wrestlers try to jump in the cage to make a save and get punched down, and suddenly this looks like an Omni house show. Finally, they get into the cage by crawling under the ring and Snow and Unabomb bail. I am loving this feud, and from what I could tell, the match was excellent leading into the finish. After the match, we get a taped promo from the Rock & Rolls vowing that this isn't over. Fine by me.
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We get just the finish, but it's a bloody brawl that looks really good. After the match, we get a promo from each team, with New Jack making the obvious comments about his ancestors and chains. The Thugz promo is one for the ages. Both guys are at their best on the mic.
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I always liked this angle. Flair and Vader are preparing to wrestle a pair of masked jobbers in the Worldwide Arena, and they're actually Hogan and Savage under masks. The post-match interview is pretty funny.
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It's far from terrible, but I'm not generally a fan of Texas Death matches with too many pinfalls because regular one-fall matches are never that short. This is a really strangely laid out match, but Funk's body language in his selling is second to none. This is famous for the angle at the end with Cornette throwing fire and turning on Armstrong while Funk helps beat him up. There goes the Cornette babyface run. While I like the way this was executed and realize that Cornette as a babyface is always going to have short-term value at best, I still have to complain about him pushing himself as a near physical equal to wrestlers, and I can also see this getting the wrong kind of heat and turning people off. Anyway, this sparks a variety of attempted saves and cut-offs of those saves to establish Cornette's militia. Who is Full Nelson guy? -
My expectations were through the roof for this, and this was a fun match. Probably not a "great" match -- I'd say the best way to describe it is as a really high-level house show match. There is more stalling than action, but the stalling is well done enough and entertaining enough that it's enjoyable. Also, JC Ice is on par with Negro Casas as the best apron worker of all time. All the mock Fargo strutting is a lot of fun and they milk the audience homophobia for all its worth (I don't say that as a negative thing). They do a fake walkout, grab the house mic and accuse Mark Curtis and the fans of extreme bias, come back ... pretty much every tactic you can think of to get the heat pitch perfect before they really get going. I liked Smothers' double DDT to build to to the hot tag, and the Dusty finish actually works within the context of an interpromotional feud. I don't think this is the PG-13 match to trot out to win people over, since it has a lot of the stuff in it that people who don't care for them specifically cite as reasons for not liking them, but PG-13 fans will probably enjoy this.
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This was a really fun match. It was laid out in a really smart way, as Ikeda/Ishikawa is really obviously the pairing you want to see, and they make you wait for it. The general shittiness of the Funaki/Usuda stuff at the beginning will make you appreciate Ikeda/Ishikawa even more when it finally does happen too. As the match progresses, it continues to get better. The Ikeda/Ishikawa stuff with tempers flaring, slapping, kicks, punches and brawling made the match suddenly feel like both were out to prove a point and that something real was at stake. I wish this could have gone longer, because it ended when it was starting to heat up.
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I realize this was cool at the time, but (I say that A LOT about ECW I've noticed), tying Stevie Richards to Kurt Cobain culturally is pretty unintentionally funny. Good highlight video though, to "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
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IIRC, the show peaked in quarter hours with Flair-Luger, but was still high for the final segment. The point was that to the average fan watching at home, because of the crowd reactions, Sting seemed like an afterthought compared to Flair and Luger.