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  1. Loss
    Last few minutes. Pillman is injured, so Regal takes his place, and Arn and Roma win the tag titles when Arn pins Austin. What's shown is good.
  2. Loss
    Bungee jumping freaks me out. I got queasy just watching the 18 year old tape of it, I can't imagine doing it. This is a good match. Lots of struggle, I assume because the Rock & Rolls had no interest in jumping. Crazy idea for a match. Only in wrestling. Pritchard's jump is seriously nerve-racking.
  3. Loss
    Eddie asks Jay Sulli what he's going to do when his wife finds out his name is in Heidi's little black book. Gilbert says he's going to give $5,000 to the first person he sees. He finds some guy on the street with major problems. The Gilbert wank is getting old. I'd rather see him in a feud doing wrestling promos than what he was doing most of 1993, hanging out and making jokes on camera.
  4. Loss
    Vince's hatred of pronouns is apparently not a new thing, as he has some really awkward sentences on commentary in this match because he refuses to use the word "he". Kind of a sloppy match, Kid seems to be having an off night, but this is a good addition to show how over the "1-2-3" gimmick was at this point, and how good a job they did building him up. IRS attacks Kid for the DQ until the Steiners make the save.
  5. Loss
    Devil Masami at her best is too good for words. She is one of the best ever at working holds and keeping them interesting. Fukuoka gives her an awesome rolling cradle, which is a move I really enjoy when it's not Kyoko Inoue doing it in every single match. Mostly basic holds on the mat, but the facial expressions and sense of despair from both is so strong that it doesn't really matter what they are doing. Devil is a women's GOAT candidate when you consider how long she was good and the style variety in her best matches. They do a lot of spots you don't see every day in Joshi -- 10 punches in the corner, atomic drops, etc. I remember saying Devil/Bull earlier in the year was awesome but felt dated, but I've kinda reversed my stance on that the more I watched. After a Devil match, I can remember almost everything that happened in the match. How many Joshi matches can you truthfully say that about?
  6. Loss
    Total Memphis-style match, with Cornette making every excuse he can think of to not get in the ring, then getting what has been coming to him for months. Really fun! Crowd chants "9-1-1" when he's KO'd for the Bob Armstrong win.
  7. Loss
    Take back what I said about Smothers/Lee, this is the best SMW match of the set to this point. Any match where Ricky Morton bleeds for a half hour while the crowd goes insane every time they tease handcuffing him to the cage is going to be fun, but there's lots to love here. Steve and Scott Armstrong are way better than they get credit for. Cornette picking his spots is awesome, and the buildup for Bob Armstrong finally getting his hands on Cornette is outstanding. Great finish with all the heels finally being handcuffed to the cage, leaving Cornette by himself against Armstrong. Not on the level of a War Games match, but really good by SMW standards.
  8. Loss
    Dusty was a great wrestling mind who didn't pace his ideas well and burned himself out. Someone to temper him and encourage him to take vacations would have helped a lot.
  9. Loss
    To El-P's point, which I agree with, there's nothing wrong with pushing someone until they get over. In fact, that's a good thing. It took a while, but HHH did eventually get over, and good for him. The problem is after HHH made it to the top, they never really stuck it out that long with someone again. If they didn't catch on immediately, that was it. (Sometimes, if they did catch on immediately, that was still it.) HHH got a huge push. The company got a return on their investment. Good for everyone involved. The reason that gets brought up is that HHH is usually the first to point out when someone isn't getting over big immediately. It's hard to argue everyone in wrestling does it the same way when not everyone in wrestling does it the same way. Flair? A little bit of a headcase as he became more insecure, but never had problems selling for people or making them look strong. Savage? Got tired of being beaten up every week by the NWO for months, but didn't make a career out of making everyone else look bad. Rock? Kept himself strong through his promos and could do an infinite number of jobs and retain his heat. Austin? Very selective about when and how he lost, but didn't go so far as everyone who worked with him coming out looking worse. Hogan? Not exactly known for his selflessness, but most of the time, what was right for Hogan was what was right for the company. Admittedly, there were times it wasn't, but overall, Hogan being pushed strong and winning most of his matches was the right decision far more often than it was the wrong decision. He's not quite as bad as Hall and Nash. He and Michaels are pretty much the same, the only difference being Shawn was much more blatant.
  10. Loss
    WWE has pretty much always treated tag teams like a division instead of a potential main event thing. The difference in the past was that they had enough teams to make the division feel complete. The times over the last few years when the belts have meant the most is when singles wrestlers show interest. But WWE has typically looked at tag teams the way WCW looked at cruiserweights. In a perfect world, you'd have guys who team regularly, and all the singles stars would also have a regular tag team partner that they team with when they go for the tag titles. Sometimes, they'd win, sometimes, they'd lose. They actually did a great job rebuilding the belts when they were headlining PPVs with Jericho/Big Show vs DX, but as soon as that feud ended, the belts really lost their meaning again.
  11. Loss

    Michael Hayes

    Loss replied to Log's topic in Pro Wrestling

    Great article, and a really cool story. And yeah, that's an interesting name to break into wrestling with.
  12. Loss
    A large part of the reason no one takes wins and losses seriously anymore and it's harder to build up new guys is that HHH made a career of putting people over in meaningless fashion. Doing a banana peel job then belittling the guy on promos for weeks on end isn't really anything to claim in his favor. A few points: * HHH was a big part of the reason Jericho wasn't hot. * HHH was a big part of the reason Booker wasn't hot. * HHH doing the job to Cena was to get over his face turn. (1) Not everyone would do that, and it's overly cynical to suggest otherwise. There are plenty of people in wrestling who have had success who haven't been quite like that. (2) HHH wasn't really entertaining enough to ignore it. (3) Who cares who knew who personally? If you're a fan of someone who seems like they're about to break through, only to see them lose to HHH, then it's disappointing as a fan. It's not really hypocritical. "Be pushed strongly all you want as long as it's what people want to see and you are enjoyable to watch. If you're not, don't" is a consistent position.
  13. Loss
    Another really good match between these two. Is this the best match of Brian Lee's life? They kept a good pace and had good energy for the whole match, and I really like all the drama surrounding the climbing, believe it or not. Lee gets the win when DWB interferes behind the ref's back and hits Smothers with a chair. Lee and DWB beat up Smothers after the match until Mark Curtis threatens to suspend them for life.
  14. Loss
    The full version of what was clipped on the previous Special Report.
  15. Loss
    Again, more passing mention of the MSG show the night before. Shawn and Razor do a face-to-face to hype an upcoming match at the Nassau Coliseum. Good, brief interaction after Gene runs down the card.
  16. Loss
    This is where the yearbook is awesome. Lawler mentions having a match against Savage at MSG the night before and kicking his butt, and I got to see the handheld. Lawler does yet another great promo. He even says his mother could beat Bret's mother! Sadly, no Helen Hart vs Hazel Lawler handheld could be found.
  17. Loss
    "It's not Graceland, it's Disgraceland!" -- Bret Hart on Memphis Bret does another colorful, awesome promo, making threats and giving grammar lessons all at the same time.
  18. Loss
    Excellent cage match! If anyone is wondering how we picked this one when there were a few Bret/Yoko cage handhelds available, we went with the best VQ since they basically worked the same match in every city. Bret and Yoko always worked really well together and this is not an exception to that. It's a WWF style cage match, and all the flaws that are inherent in WWF cage matches are certainly there, but they are way less annoying. This is really the best possible WWF style cage match. Yokozuna was a tremendous performer, mainly because his in-ring timing was so spot on and he wasn't afraid to sell. Every Yoko bump tends to get an enormous pop because he builds up the big fall so well. One of the best U.S. matches of the year. This is slightly different than the others for Lawler's involvement. He does many of the same spots Fuji normally would do from ringside. There is another pro-shot version later on the yearbook, which is also a really strong match. With a few months difference, I'm curious if they're still working the same match or not. We shall see.
  19. Loss
    If there's anything from '95 that looks intriguing on paper that you've never heard of, sure, that would be great. We can go from there and make edits. Thanks for your efforts by the way.
  20. Loss
    Insanely heated. Lawler seriously is ridiculously over. There's one point where he tells a Helen Hart joke before the match, and the crowd stops booing for approximately 3 seconds to laugh then immediately returns to booing. Savage is an afterthought here, getting in almost no offense on Lawler and when Bret comes down to get in Lawler's face and eventually attack him -- resulting in Lawler winning by DQ -- Savage just kinda stands there like a bump on a log. I will continue repeating it as I watch this set -- Vince thought Savage was done way before he actually was.
  21. Loss
    So does a booker in a promotion like All Japan even serve a purpose if that's the case? I'm willing to concede the point, but why even have a booker?
  22. Loss
    This was my favorite SMW match so far. Scott and Steve can WORK! (Not) Surprisingly, so can Cornette! Cornette actually did the Michaels bump into the corner! Del Ray was there to catch him in case he broke his neck, but still.
  23. Loss
    I was dreading watching this since aside from a few really good moments, SMW just hasn't inspired me. It's 2011, all wrestling watching for me is from the past, so a nostalgia promotion seems a bit redundant now. Everything you see can be seen done better during an era where they weren't dealing with a wrestling business that had been seriously damaged. I also feel uncomfortable seeing the Confederate flag used as a babyface thing. But this match surprised me in a positive way. It was really good action and while it didn't last long, you got a good feel for what these guys could do. Smothers has some really fun counters to moves. He seems like the kind of guy whose matches in long feuds probably get better over time when he gets in sync with his opponent and develops even more counters. Lee is also better than I gave him credit for in this match. Not a great match or even something I'd say is worth going out of your way to see, but really fun and a good addition to the yearbook.
  24. Loss
    Vince hasn't done much, but the few things that have been done that have worked can be credited to Vince. I agree that he's lost the Midas touch, but he's one of very few people in the company who has any degree of understanding wrestling. The idea of HHH having more influence being a good thing is laughable every time someone says it. (I know you weren't saying that.) If anything, the past decade has shown us what happens when HHH gets more influence. I agree that wrestling is done. There's enough footage of good and great wrestling that has already happened to keep anyone entertained for a lifetime, so it doesn't really sadden me all that much anymore.
  25. Loss
    Vince does a lot of things I don't care for, but I can't imagine things would be better without him. He has a lot of good and bad, as opposed to almost everyone else in the company, who just has a lot of bad.
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