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We get a recap of Lex Luger slamming Yokozuna on the USS Intrepid. They announce that Luger is touring America in a Call To Action campaign to promote America and lobby for a title shot against Yokozuna at Summerslam. Gorilla aggressively pushes for fans to write and fax Jack Tunney. We also get our first shot of the Lex Express!
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Chono puts on a great performance here, as most of the match is Tenryu and Hara punishing him while Fujinami comes in, looks strong and gets out. In some ways, this feels like a condensed version of an All Japan tag, structured almost entirely around selling, specific roles being a big part of the match, dramatic saves from Fujinami and a super awesome tope to the floor from Fujinami on Tenryu. Chono ends up securing an out of nowhere submission win for his team. Tremendous match that feels like it could have used five more minutes, as the final stretch was cut short. -
For FMW death matches, I'd either go with Funk/Onita from 5/5/93, which is a ridiculous spectacle that feels more Quentin Tarantino than pro wrestling, or Megumi Kudo vs Combat Toyoda from 5/5/96, which for my money is one of the greatest matches of all time.
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I was impressed. Dave LEAPS into the 1990s! Really, Dave has the same relationship with his existing WON format that Eric Bischoff has with Hulk Hogan.
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Some other matches that come to mind: * Larry Zbyszko vs Bruno Sammartino from Shea Stadium * Steve Austin vs The Rock from Wrestlemania X-7 (Defined and wrapped up an era) * Dory Funk Jr vs Jack Brisco from AJPW, 1/30/74 (Not their best match, but their most talked about match) * Rock & Roll Express vs Heavenly Bodies from SMW Bluegrass Brawl '94 (Presented as the blowoff of the 10-year rivalry between Jim Cornette and the Rock & Roll Express) * Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood vs Sgt Slaughter & Don Kernodle (3/12/83 Cage match, which gave birth to the Starrcade concept) More later.
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It's not a great match, and I agree with all the criticisms I've seen lately regarding the match itself and how the angle wasn't executed very well, but Ric Flair vs Kerry Von Erich from the Star Wars show on Christmas of '82 should probably go on a list like this too. I might also add the Texas Stadium match from May of '84 (27 years ago tomorrow!) where Kerry won the NWA title. There are better Flair/Kerry matches, but those are the most famous.
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I haven't really done a review, per se, but the background is basically that Hokuto has had big injuries come at inopportune times in her past. There's a famous match where she legit broke her neck and pushed her head into place so she could still have the match. Anyway, this match is worked, but plays off of Hokuto's very real history of injuries. Kandori is a submissions expert from another promotion that stepped up to challenge anyone in AJW. Hokuto accepted, and the storyline was basically that she may have bitten off more than she could chew by doing so, given Kandori's area of strength and Hokuto's past. This was at the height of the interpromotional stuff between AJW and JWP that drew big money, but Kandori represented LLPW, which she actually owned. Hokuto also sold the injuries from this match in other matches she had for a little while, which is probably one of the reasons it's so remembered. There are people who are more versed on AJW than me, but that's always been my interpretation of it. If I missed out on something key or was wrong about something, please correct me.
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Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori from Dreamslam I is pretty epic and a pretty famous match in Japan as well. I think your longtime fans would probably point to Lioness Asuka vs Jaguar Yokota as the standard 80s Joshi match, but I'd probably go with the Chigusa Nagayo vs Dump Matsumoto hair match from 8/28/85. It is by far the most heated and emotional match in wrestling history. Nothing else comes close.
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Sure. The whole thing is a combination of Flair being horrible at managing his career and most people who had power in WCW hating him.
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Possibly '98. I just wasn't aware of '98 at all. I do know he was around very briefly in '99. I remember him saying on the old Eyada show that he said in a meeting that everyone (himself included) needed to start booking for business instead of just using the meetings to find ways to bury everyone they didn't like.
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I've always loved this match, not necessarily because it's a great match, but more because it's a really great Yokozuna performance as a menacing monster heel. Crush can't do much of anything, and everything he does looks awkward. But Yokozuna carries him and the match is decent as a result. Knowing what we know about emphasis on bump timing in the WWF style, it's easy to see why Yoko was as pushed as he was, as he timed his bumps exceptionally well. The post-match sees Yoko drop four Bonsai drops on Crush. Various wrestlers run in and try to stop it and get slaughtered. Finally, Savage, who has a contract that states he is not allowed to get involved, comes in and drags Crush out of the ring. That will be important later in the year.
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I'm not sure why, but this match was the molasses of this set for me. I didn't want to come back to it, because the match didn't excite me at all. This is weird in and of itself, since I was the reason this got included, as I remember John McAdam really liking it on his old tapelist. So the match has its fun moments, but feels more like a quick TV match to set up a program than anything, even though it's a fancam. Gilbert tries to throw a fireball at Hawk and ends up blinding the ref. Some guy who looks like Verne Gagne that I don't think is runs in to calm Gilbert down and gets pummeled for his trouble. Feels like it was over before it began, but it was fun to watch, and good to see these guys in '93. I remember Paul Heyman peddling some line in the Torch about how Hawk was resurgent around this time. There isn't a ton of footage of him available, so I can't speak to that, but he looked like the same old Hawk to me.
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To clarify, Dusty came on board around spring of '99, but I don't recall him being involved in '98. And yeah, the ongoing humiliation of Flair during Nash's booking run could not have been more exaggerated. During Nash's time as booker, Flair had a heart attack, did a job for Eric Bischoff after Bischoff kissed his wife, had authority but was outsmarted every single week by the heels, lost a title match that drew big money after his son turned on him and then turned heel to ensure that he no longer could draw. In turning heel, he won the title in one of the most overbooked PPV main events in history (to that point) and had the title quickly taken off of him as he took the fall for dropping ratings, despite being the company's biggest ratings draw. In the few weeks after dropping the title, he did clean jobs for both Sting and Kevin Nash and was committed to a mental institution before finally losing his Presidency and being taken off TV completely, only to return when Nash was no longer booking. Pretty impressive.
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I don't recall Batista having a constant facial expression like he smelled something.
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Watched Raw for the first time in ages. Mason Ryan looks embarrassing in an era when supposedly no one is on steroids.
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Wasn't it just breaking at the very end? Yeah, that's why I was curious. It definitely wouldn't be a criticism if they didn't acknowledge it but it was a big news story in the middle of a PPV, which there's really not a precedent for, so I just wondered how they would approach it, if at all.
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Just curious: did they acknowledge Bin Laden's capture on the live show?
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Yeah, stupid comment, but not worth hammering him over too much.
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To be completely honest, on-air authority figure is what made me hesitant to respond. *shrug* Why does there have to be one?
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Does anyone know the source of the Flair/Davey Boy match from London where Flair pinned Davey Boy? I have seen that match on tape lists, but it was never released commercially. Was it a handheld?
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"Collette and Dewey" show up to job Cactus's memory, but Miss Bang Bang has moved camp so no one knows where he is, until Wendell, reformed homeless guy now wearing a tie and clean shaven, takes them where they need to go. Why am I typing this? Anyway, even when seeing his wife and son, he doesn't remember who they are.
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Joined in progress. Typical last few minutes of a Rock & Rolls match. The Bruise Brothers switch out when Cornette distracts Gibson. Cornette whacks Gibson with a racket to give the Bruise Brothers the titles. I kinda wish the switcheroo would have been the finish because it would have kept the focus on the teams instead of Cornette, but I guess Cornette felt he had to stay the top heel because he knew he'd always be around.
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As Smothers is vowing revenge, Brian Lee and Tammy quickly interrupt. Tammy says she would have turned on him too, because she'd be so embarrassed to have such a redneck friend. Smothers gets in a few good lines on Tammy and then we get a brawl. This feud heated up quickly. Smothers is getting the better of it, but Tammy sprays him in the eyes with her perfume. The Armstrongs finally come out to run them off.
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Didn't realize Raven and Disco went back this far. Disco is stunned at the lack of discos in Memphis as "Get Down Tonight" by KC & The Sunshine Band plays.
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It's scary how much Christopher looks like Lawler here. At first, I thought it actually was him standing in the ring. Lawler's music plays for a long time before he finally comes out. I smelled an angle, but nothing. Paul Neighbors is the ref, which Lawler objects to since he's scheduled to team with Christopher in an upcoming match at MSC. He does a half ass job of checking Christopher before the match, counts especially fast when Lawler is outside the ring, overlooks hair pulling and accuses Lawler of pulling hair after a clean takedown until Lawler finally loses his temper. He brawls with Christopher and bumps into Paul Neighbors. Bert Prentice shows up with a chain, which Lawler gets away and uses to punch Christopher. Finally, Vampire Warrior (Better known as GANGREL) comes out to attack Lawler from behind and attacks Lawler, which they actually make kind of a scary angle because he starts biting Lawler's forehead until he draws blood! Scotty 2 Hotty makes a cameo as Scott Taylor trying to make the save. Chaotic! I was kinda hoping after all of this, the ref would come to and count a pin, as that would have put a big bow on this, but it didn't happen.