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  2. Loss
    Averno is awesome!
  3. Loss
    Fun stuff! Espectrito is awesome. All I've really seen of him before is the Sagrada singles match from '94. There's a size dynamic at play, as Estrada and Espectrito are much bigger than their opponents, so the match has lots of bullying, and Octagoncito and Sagrada are game for taking crazy bumps. No real structure to speak of, but really good action.
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    Wow, this was spectacular. One of the best matches of the year. I can't tell you how many times I was sure we had seen the finish and the match continued. This made me want to see more matches between these two, as Kansai pushed Kong about as far as she could. The finishing stuff is incredibly dramatic with Kansai slowly getting to her feet after a few backhands from Kong, only to be knocked down again. I think Kansai may have come out of this match looking better in losing than she would have had she won. There's also some great leg work in this. Tremendous stuff, probably second only to Hokuto/Kandori so far for me in terms of women's matches.
  5. Loss
    "This is not wrestling the way it used to be and the way you like it, oh no, this is wrestling the way it's gonna be and the way we know that you like it. Blood, guts, violence and the best wrestling entertainment you have ever seen in your life." Between Douglas's debut and the shooty comments, this is slowly starting to resemble ECW.
  6. Loss
    Shane Douglas debuts in ECW for the first time. Immediately, Eddie Gilbert, Don Muraco, Dark Patriot and Jimmy Snuka, flanked by Paul E., come out and interrupt. It looks like they're about to ambush him, but he ends up joining him! Paul E. calls him "a man, who, like me and like Eddie, told Ted and Jane to go screw themselves." Douglas thanks Ted Turner for $10,000 (I'm sure there's a story there I don't get), which Douglas promptly puts up in an open challenge to anyone that can beat him. Don E. Allen, who I only know as #500 in the PWI 500 one year, gets made quick work of.
  7. Loss
    This is an awesomely preposterous setup, as they appear to be in some TV studio with a completely pink background and the ring is completely surrounded by photographers. Good match, but a little flat.
  8. Loss
    Lawler does an interview with an Elvis impersonator and they make jokes about Helen Hart's age. Bret responds by saying Lawler has crossed the line with his insults about the Hart family and does a great fired up promo to hype Summerslam.
  9. Loss
    This is the blowoff of this feud, and the conclusion of Ted DiBiase's last big feud. This is a little different from your usual WWF cage match, because the rules are that both team members have to leave the match. So at one point, Scott is out of the ring, but Rick is in there by himself getting beat up, so Scott comes back in. Rick keeps pulling DiBiase's trunks down, which something tells me DiBiase wasn't okay with. Then, IRS is out by himself while DiBiase is in and they tease IRS staying out but when both the Steiners try to climb out, he comes back in. So it's a different dynamic. Still too much climbing for my tastes, but it works. As they work one guy being on the outside while the other one is in like it's face in peril. Another interesting spot when Rick puts IRS on his shoulders to avoid him hitting the floor. Really well-worked considering what they had to work with.
  10. Loss
    Really basic and accessible. MS-1 still has it, which is great to see, as most footage I have seen from him is from the 80s. This is a really good match, especially the third fall. I thought the brawl involving the seconds in the first fall was outstanding. There were also some nice pinning combos and some matwork that I loved. Wrestled more like a title match than a hair match. This feels like the lucha version of Devil Masami/Bull Nakano in some ways, meaning that it's not as contemporary as some other stuff going on in the style, but the mastery of the basics is so awesome that it really doesn't matter. Huge pop for the finish, which was Caras winning.
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    This match has lots of positives and negatives. Overall, it was a good match, but considering how much time they got and how lively the crowd was, it probably should have been better. Flair and Sting have worked each other a ridiculous amount of times, but there were quite a few moments -- especially in the first 20 minutes or so -- where it seems like they had crossed signals. Sting was easing into one of their sequences we had seen a million times but Flair seemed to have a different idea. They tried some different matwork than we normally see from them early in the match, and most of it was really good. They also kept a really good pace. From an action standpoint, this was as good as any Flair/Sting. But there were a few times when it seemed like Flair was drawing blanks. 25 minutes or so into the match, they were in a groove, and from then on, the match was excellent.
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    They show an interview from the Clash after the show went off the air of Cactus doing an interview in front of the live crowd. This is a really good promo vowing revenge on Vader and it's good to see him again.
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    Jim Cornette politely asks for just five minutes of Big Boss Man's time. Cornette talks about his WWF exploits and how Bob Armstrong is trying to keep him from "cornering the market" on wrestling by beating him at Rage in the Cage.
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    They show a clip from a WWF TV taping of Vince McMahon as Jerry Lawler's guest on King's Court. Vince is introduced as "the voice of the WWF". Vince says Bret got the 1-2-3 on him on Monday night in Memphis! They are actually hyping a Mid South Coliseum match at a WWF taping! I am guessing this never aired on WWF TV and was aired specifically to be aired on USWA TV.
  15. Loss
    They both worked hard, but I couldn't get into this. Hotta sometimes seems like she's wrestling in a vacuum, like what her opponent is doing isn't impacting her. It's not no-selling as much as it no-reacting. I know Jerome chalks it up to unprofessionalism, but I wonder if it's more just that compared to her peers, she's limited. Because of the pacing and match layout, this is still a pretty good match, but that's almost all on Hokuto carrying this. Excellent individual performance and a good match.
  16. Loss
    Great match! Hokuto's selling is on a completely different level from everyone else in Joshi. I love how she sells Toyota's dropkicks by grabbing her jaw. Her injuries are always a bullseye, and after making a good early showing, Toyota gets the chance to work on her taped up knee. Hokuto finally mounts a comeback and dishes out quite the beating, including piledriving Toyota on the floor a couple of times. Both do some nice dives to the floor, which are totally made by the selling as if something terrible has happened. They feel like the most important dives ever. Some of the best nearfalls you'll ever see, including Hokuto countering the straitjacket suplex into a victory roll. Hokuto finally secures the win in the end. Toyota's stock has risen considerably for me in watching the '93 yearbook. She does things that annoy me at times, but she has quite a few strengths too.
  17. Loss
    Fuchi seems to get a unique joy out of stretching Akiyama in '93. He bends his leg in a way the leg is just not supposed to bend, which opens the door for Kawada and Taue to do their own holds on him too. Great moment when Kikuchi tries to save Misawa by clubbering Kawada, and Kawada responds by casually slugging him once and knocking him off his feet, which he sells for minutes afterwards. Misawa takes a crazy headdrop bump, one of few I've seen all year actually, which decommissions him. Never a quitter, Kikuchi once again attempts a save -- this time on Akiyama -- but meets the same fate. Finally, Kawada pins Akiyama with a powerbomb to secure the win for his team. It looks like Kawada was being rebuilt at this point. Not that he was in a bad position, but Misawa and Kawada exchanges didn't have nearly as much heat in this match as they did before the TC match. Very good match, not one of the elite All Japan matches on the set for me, but a lot of positives. Misawa getting all the medical attention post-match after a bad head bump is a little close for comfort.
  18. Loss
    This was amazing. I wish the whole match was available, because what's shown is fantastic. It's Japanese-style action with American-style psychology. Asako takes a ridiculous beating -- bleeding from the mouth big time -- and the crowd explodes as he finally inches closer to tagging in Kobashi, but he is repeatedly cut off. The hot tag stuff is great, with Kobashi getting ridiculous pops for a series of lariats. Aside from a botched Frankensteiner from Furnas, this is pretty flawless. Kroffat finally puts Asako away after two tiger bombs.
  19. Loss
    This is surreal. Cornette is surprisingly athletic, not so much in pulling off highspots but cutting a solid pace and taking some decent bumps. I thought this would be all comedy, but it's actually a perfectly acceptable show opener. If anything, this match shows how far having a good grasp of psychology can take one in wrestling, even if one is not a great athlete. Nearly 20 minutes!
  20. Loss
    Michinoku Pro is fun to watch at this stage just to compare it to what they were doing in 1996. There are some sequences they've abandoned entirely, some they've cleaned up, and some they weren't doing yet at all. I think the '94 and '95 yearbooks in between will help fill the picture and we'll be able to see exactly how the MPro style became what it became. So this was fun not because it was a great match, but because you watch knowing what these guys would be able to do with a few years to hone the style.
  21. Loss
    This was an excellent match, probably Davey Boy's best WCW match. The hang time on the vertical suplex on the ramp is amazing. These two also match up well offensively. I liked Slamboree, but this was much better, plus the Cactus run-in post match was awesome.
  22. Loss
    Last few minutes. These two did their best to wash the stink of the Shockmaster off of this show. Steamboat wins the TV title in an action-packed final stretch.
  23. Loss
    John, there were stories at the time that for some reason, other companies had made higher offers for WCW but they still sold to Vince. What Sullivan is referring to is Stu Snyder, who negotiated the sale on behalf of AOL/Turner and previously worked for the WWF I believe.
  24. Loss
    I agree that this was an insane issue. The Savage bio is one of his best.
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    I guess I don't have to say too much about this, do I? I'll just say Sid being unphased while Flair and Sting both audibly groaned when he fell is something that should be praised. Sid actually did an okay job of covering.
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