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  1. Loss
    It's a Down and Dirty. Cornette's explanation for his interference is pretty funny, so is his rolling around in the cash.
  2. Loss
    I like this match way better than the barbed wire match. The No DQ stip opened up a lot of possibilities, and I was thinking we'd probably get a normal 80s style match where No DQ didn't mean anything, but it did here. SMW usually felt a little overbooked to me, but this worked.
  3. Loss
    Cornette produces $20,000 cash money with the VP of the bank in Morristown where SMW has an account.
  4. Loss
    Miss Texas is going to be in the corner of Jarrett and Lawler to neutralize Lauren Davenport in an upcoming match against Eddie and Doug Gilbert. Not sure why, but I always thought Jacqueline was awesome.
  5. Loss
    The Sheepherders are coming in to face The Moondogs, which genuinely does seem like a match that would draw a good house in the short term.
  6. Loss
    Buddy Landell is there by phone because he's out buying a ranch?? This is funny because he's making fun of the old people who are being foreclosed and the old woman outside pushing a mule, and he says they are going to have to work for them for six months for free, but this makes no sense at all.
  7. Loss
    Two minutes of highlights of a Mid South Coliseum cage match, which has Buddy Landell getting into the cage and attacking Dundee. The match only lasted about 9 minutes total, so I don't feel so bad about missing a potentially great match.
  8. Loss
    At the time, these were maybe two of the three or four best wrestlers in CMLL, so expectations for a great match are high. This falls slightly short of that, but is still really good. I love the controversial finish. This lacks the cohesion of Atlantis/Charles or the crispness and focus of Dandy/Casas, but it's still a very good match.
  9. Loss
    We had this exact same conversation last year, and possibly the year before that. Gorilla was not critical to the boom. Hogan was. Vince was. To a lesser degree, people like Piper, Heenan and Savage were. It still would have happened without Gorilla. Dave has said he liked Gorilla personally, but thought he wasn't a good announcer and has explained why. Many times. People who don't want to believe it choose to ignore it. Tell me, what did Gorilla do backstage?
  10. Loss
    The sound mixing on this Coliseum stuff is awful. More of a novel match than anything, as I'm pretty sure this is their only match until 2002.
  11. Loss
    I'm expecting Edge to go in, and also to be annoyed if Dave starts making a case for Batista.
  12. Loss
    Yep. Vince wasn't happy about it.
  13. Loss
    And I appreciate that. So far, I think you've picked two matches to nicely make your case. Sometimes a list of best matches doesn't do that.
  14. Loss
    Fun match, but it's not a sleeper to me. Doing more than one off the top rope DQ in the same match is too much, and I think the match should have gone twice as long since it was elimination rules, since it felt a little rushed. Still, there are some really good moments. I'm guessing the Steiners made a stink about jobbing since Sting and Nikita both ate pinfalls, but they didn't. I liked Jake in WCW. I thought it was a good fit and he seemed like an important headliner. He also drew well on the only PPV he headlined. A shame it didn't last.
  15. Loss
    This was a great video. They definitely gave it the old college try to make Simmons a star with this push. It just wasn't going to work.
  16. Loss
    Dusty Rhodes, Stan Hansen, Ron Garvin, Tony Atlas, Magnum T.A., Buzz Sawyer, Mr. Wrestling II, Great Kabuki, Ted DiBiase, Bill Watts, Wahoo McDaniel, Masked Superstar, Jimmy Valiant, King Kong Bundy, The Spoiler, Iron Sheik, Tully Blanchard, Ric Flair, Terry Funk, Tommy Rich and Roddy Piper are spotlighted.
  17. Loss
    Brian Pillman turns heel for the first time ever in an anti-climatic way. Brad Armstrong had to forfeit his light heavyweight title due to injury and Pillman was supposed to get a shot tonight. Pillman yells at him a bit then slaps him in the face and walks off.
  18. Loss
    Bruno talks about how the WWF (without saying their name) has been an embarrassment and he's proud to see WCW bringing back the kind of wrestling he remembers. Then we segue to Teddy Long in the VIP room, and we see Gordon Solie, Andre the Giant, Bob Armstrong and Thunderbolt Patterson.
  19. Loss
    Great clips of the Assassins, Brisco Brothers, Freebirds and Rock & Roll Express at the Techwood Drive Studios.
  20. Loss
    Quite the scene to see everyone decked out in tuxes at Center Stage. I am laughing at Will not editing the 11-year old Oklahoma girl singing the Star Spangled Banner. Steamboat wins the TV title in a solid match. This isn't one of their better matches together, but I always like Austin vs Steamboat.
  21. Loss
    Nice match! I like Takahashi from what I've seen of him on the '92 yearbook, and I've said the same about Vale before. Takahashi in particular seems like a guy who should have been a star. Not sure why he wasn't.
  22. Loss
    I was surprised at how much I liked this. Is this a fantastic, earth shattering match? No. Is this on par with whatever typical WCW 10-minute matches were like in syndication during their peak periods? Yes, without a doubt. I think this was a good pick because criticisms of a uniform house style tend to fall by the wayside when you see some of the nice matwork on display. The layout of this and Masters/McIntyre have similarities in that they both target the knee of the babyface, but that's really where the comparisons end. It's not RINGS or UWFI, and it's not Regal's past matches with Benoit and Finlay. But it's as good as most TV title defenses from Regal in the mid 90s. Nice match.
  23. Loss
    I can only suspect the idea behind putting the belt on Flair was for him to drop it to Warrior before everything changed. Not a good match, and Savage definitely outworked Flair. Savage's leg selling is pretty much always great. Considering how disappointing this was, I can only imagine what the first version of this match looked like where Vince made them start all over.
  24. Loss

    Matches of the Month

    Loss replied to Loss's topic in 1992

    August: #1 - Atlantis vs Emilio Charles Jr. (CMLL 08/11/92) ****1/2 #2 - Angel Azteca, Solar I & Super Astro vs Blue Panther, La Parka & Rambo (AAA 08/21/92) ****1/2 #3 - Volk Han vs Dick Vrij (RINGS 08/21/92) ****1/2 #4 - Rick Rude vs Masa Chono (NJPW 08/12/92) ****1/2 #5 - Jushin Liger vs Wild Pegasus (NJPW 08/12/92) ****1/2 #6 - Manami Toyota vs Toshiyo Yamada (AJW 08/15/92) ****1/4 #7 - Bret Hart vs Davey Boy Smith (WWF Summerslam 08/29/92) ****1/4 #8 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Jumbo Tsuruta, Akira Taue & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW 08/20/92) ****1/4 #9 - Rick & Scott Steiner vs Keiji Muto & Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW 08/12/92) ***3/4 #10 - Rick Rude vs Kensuke Sasaki (NJPW 08/11/92) ***1/2 #11 - Kiyoshi Tamura vs Yoji Anjo (UWFI 08/28/92) ***1/2 #12 - Manami Toyota vs Mariko Yoshida (AJW 08/30/92) ***1/2 #13 - Jumbo Tsuruta & Akira Taue vs Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (AJPW 08/22/92) ***1/2 #14 - Ultimo Dragon vs Negro Casas (CMLL 08/27/92) ***1/4 #15 - Grom Zaza vs Shtorm Koba (RINGS 08/21/92) *** Honestly, lots of matches that were solid, but didn't really stand out this month, although the high-end stuff is superb.
  25. Loss
    Good to have a full-length match between these two since none are available from the USWA and they did spend a significant chunk of the year feuding. The show appears to be outdoors to a pretty small crowd in a semi-big venue to accommodate it. This gets going after a while, but considering the match was only slightly over 10 minutes and maybe 4-5 of those minutes were devoted to action, it was a little disappointing. I wish they'd had more time, because you have to love Gilbert using a fan's crutch as a weapon. Cool find though, and Gilbert gets some nice color.
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