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  1. Loss
    Tracy Smothers is in, and finally, SMW has the top babyface it has needed.
  2. Loss
    Lawler wants the Moondogs! I want them gone!
  3. Loss
    The Bushwhackers in Santa suits hawking WWF merchandise. Yes.
  4. Loss
    Inevitably, these guys in RINGS who I've never heard of and will likely never see again impress the hell out of me. In this case, it's Sergei Sousserov, who is an outstanding athlete and has some gorgeous reversals and surprise takedowns. Great finish and a big moment for Nagai, who takes Sousserov off his feet with a great high kick.
  5. Loss
    I like watching Eddie heel it up in a different environment, but again, it's hard to really say how good this is in the context of everything else when it's just a one-off match and I'm not versed enough in the style.
  6. Loss
    I can only assume he fried his brain.
  7. Loss
    Luger was jockeying to get back into WWE at that point. During this time period, I remember it going in the WON that he was spreading rumors throughout the indies that WWE was pursuing him in an attempt to drive up his asking price. Lex was financially fucked and his life had taken such a downward spiral that he couldn't afford to burn bridges. His story is a really sad one if you think about it. Nash has talked about Luger before, saying the late 90s party atmosphere in WCW is what wrecked his life. Before that, he was a really bright guy with tons of interests outside of wrestling. He made big money and appeared to be financially set. Dave always said he figured Luger would be one of the guys with zero issues adapting to life after wrestling, because he didn't even enjoy it, so he'd have no difficulty leaving. But by the end of the 90s, he was divorced and his children refused to speak to him, and his fortune faded fast. He did get a lot of heat in wrestling for a variety of reasons -- getting a big money contract and push from Crockett without any sort of track record, openly complaining about wrestlers not having benefits or health insurance, not really being a lifelong fan, referring to himself in third person when discussing booking ideas and not being the easiest guy to befriend or work with. Some of it is bullshit, some of it is valid.
  8. Loss
    Hard to really give European footage the credit and focus it deserves when there's just not a lot of 90s footage available to put on these things, because everything else is being watched in context, and this is more novel. So there were things I liked about it, but in order to properly rank it, I think I'd need to know more about what else was happening in Europe throughout the year. It's Liger, so of course there are enjoyable things, and it's cool to see him a different environment. But it's hard for me to really say what I think beyond that.
  9. Loss
    Famous for the grotesque amount of blood pouring out of Muta's head, and the match where the famed Muta Scale came from. This is a solid match and it has some great moments, but I think all the blood causes people to overrate it.
  10. Loss
    Any reason not to expect this to be fun? Both guys are surrounded by their stablemates and Koshinaka rushes Tenryu at the opening bell, taking the fight to him. He dominates most of this and Tenryu does a great job selling for him. Eventually, Tenryu gets the upper hand and Kosh bleeds a ton (bloody show, this one) while coming back. Considering their respective places on the card at the time, it's impressive how much the crowd buys teases of Koshinaka going over. I love the ref getting heat after an especially close call at one point, but there are quite a few great moments like that. One of those great Tenryu matches that gets over all the big picture stuff beautifully and has some awesome visuals. Tenryu never stops wrestling like he's in a dome. I could have been happy seeing these two get the chance to work a full series against each other, because they got off to a great start.
  11. Loss
    Koshinaka is a guy I've gotten into quite a bit since starting on the yearbooks. Considering he has a pretty good body of work and some longevity, what is it that keeps him from being talked about at the same level as the Three Musketeers? Also, didn't he train under Baba? Is there a reason he jumped to New Japan?
  12. Loss
    I'm just surprised that they all forgot how injury prone and NOT OVER he was in his 2002-2003 comeback, especially after the NWO was disbanded. Remember the RAW where he yelled at heel Jericho and got booed out of the building?
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  14. Loss
    It's hard for me to not see everything in the context of Dream Rush. The staredown between Kong and Yamada before the match is a good start. Yamada's been through so much in the previous few months that there's not really anything Kong can do to scare her. The action is hot and heavy to start, then slows down a bit when they isolate Yamada from Toyota and start working her over with holds. Kong in particular is really fun, furthering personal issues with Yamada, and when Kyoko has Yamada in a surfboard, Kong calmly enters the ring and talks trash to Toyota, daring her to save her partner. She then starts screaming in Yamada's face while she is in this agonizing position before the ref finally persuades her to leave the ring. She has all the cockiness you'd expect from a new champ. This whole time, they are building a hell of a comeback for Yamada. She gets in brief hope spots but falls just short of a full comeback every time. Finally, Toyota gets tagged in and you think this is going to be the big comeback, but Kong outfights her and Kyoko outsmarts her. And it's here I realize how great the booking is in AJW, because these four have crossed paths in so many different settings throughout the years and have all had their own stories going on, and now they're bringing those experiences to this match. Toyota and Yamada finally getting Kyoko where they want her feels weirdly therapeutic. And just when you think Toyota and Yamada are getting somewhere, Kyoko fights back and pushes Yamada out of the ring where Kong drags her all over the arena and throws chairs at her, in what you might as well call a signature spot at this point. So there's the awesomeness -- every time you think you are seeing the big heroic comeback from Toyota and Yamada, they keep cutting it off at *just* the right moment. Down the final stretch, things get really great, especially when Toyota ends up powerbombing Kong through sheer happenstance. Kong stopping the Toyota pinfall on Kyoko at the last ... millisecond was an amazing close call. Yamada managing to do the same just a couple of minutes later was great too. I would have liked this more if Toyota and Yamada went over since the match seemed to be building to that, with them overcoming odds in a big way, but this was still an outstanding match.
  15. Loss
    Windham is supposed to face Dustin Rhodes. Barry trash talks him but Steamboat, with his hair looking like he just got out of bed, comes out and calls out Windham. Windham and Rhodes end up brawling in a hot segment. A shame this feud was cut short for whatever reason.
  16. Loss
    Rude promises to win the title from Simmons at Starrcade and give Vader the first shot.
  17. Loss
    Cornette and the Bodies warn the Stud Stable to stay out of their business to save their friendship. Cornette is at his best.
  18. Loss
    Video to Tina Turner's "Simply The Best". They keep zooming into his heartthrob poster.
  19. Loss
    Lawler is upset about dropping the belt to Koko, and we get clips of Koko winning the Unified title at MSC after interference from Bert Prentice and Mike Samples and a piledriver! Lawler then says to prove to Koko that he could go to the WWF anytime he wanted, he was able to go on WWF TV after just placing a simple phone call. We also get a locker room interview from Koko at MSC with Cory Maclin, where Koko says Lawler will not get a rematch, saying if he wants it, he has to call Vince McMahon and face him in a big arena in the WWF.
  20. Loss
    I remember seeing this when it aired, and it's just as cheesy now as it was then. This is more self promotion/PR on WWF TV, putting over their charity work.
  21. Loss
    Amazing how much they have to darken arenas at TV tapings by this time, compared to the bright lights of the early part of the year. Bret is getting criticized for defending his title too often, and Flair has predicted it will be his downfall. Bobby Heenan leaves the broadcast booth in an attempt to put Bret in his place. Heenan suddenly introduces Flair in the middle of Bret's interview, which is funny. Flair does a really fast-paced verbal smackdown on Bret, which is pretty great. Flair talking about women and belts and being The Man, and finally, he's RIC FLAIR, but too little too late. Heenan then introduces Razor Ramon, whose overly slow talking just kills this, considering Flair and Heenan doing some great work before this. Bret punches him, perhaps for killing the segment. Flair and Razor are working over Bret, but Mr. Perfect makes the save and we've got ourselves a brawl. Randy Savage has disappeared off the planet apparently. Great segment despite Razor, and good to see Bret finally mixed in with the top guys, which he really needed.
  22. Loss
    This is totally the Hase Show. Chono isn't really good or bad and doesn't get in too much offense. Most of the time, Hase is schooling him on the mat, schooling him in the air, and schooling him anywhere else he can. It's a fun match to watch because Hase has tons of good offense and shows pretty much all of his cards, but I wish it was more competitive. It's not a squash or anything, but it is mostly Hase in control. Considering how hard Chono was pushed over summer and that he's the NWA champ, I'm not sure why they worked the match like that unless the goal was to build up Hase as a challenger. The stuff Chono does get in, like the floatover DDT and piledriver, looks really good. There wasn't much doubt that Hase was going over just because he was made to look so strong in the layout. Give Chono credit (or not) for taking so many headdrops from Hase less than two months after Austin messed up his neck. All the close calls near the end are great, but this is Chono getting thrown around like a ragdoll.
  23. Loss
    I'll just C & P my comments from last time I watched this, since I don't really have anything to add:
  24. Loss
    Hillbilly Jim and Sgt. Slaughter are singing a little ditty in the Prime Time studio while Heenan seems exasperated. Heenan has a seat covered which he says he'll explain in a moment. He finally introduces Jerry Lawler to the WWF! Quite the shocker at the time, considering how much Lawler had always despised the WWF. Lawler is an immediate cartoon character, sadly.
  25. Loss
    This tells me before Rude/Simmons was called off at Starrcade due to Rude's injuries, the plan was for them to go long, as they were hyping that Rude felt his best chance of beating Simmons was to stretch out the match. Based on the Rude/Simmons interaction in this match, we should be happy the match didn't happen, because it's pretty bland. Sting/Vader is pretty fun, as you'd expect. Considering how far Rude fell in '93 and how out of it he looks here, I'm thinking some injury happened between the Chono match at the G1 and the Chono match at Havoc that he worked through as long as he could before taking time off, and then he came back before he was well. Not even a good match really, but an interesting one, if only because Vader and Sting are really willing and capable and the other two are not at their level. Rude pins Simmons after sneaking in a top rope kneedrop behind the ref's back. Great finish and good build to Starrcade.
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