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  1. Loss
    This Doink stuff is too much! Now, Brian Christopher tries to goad Jeff Jarrett into a fight. Meanwhile, Doink pours vegetable oil all over the floor, Christopher tricks Jarrett into chasing him, Jarrett falls, and Doink and Christopher beat him up just like they did Lawler, who quickly runs out for the save. Awesome!
  2. Loss
    Miss Texas is out in boxing gloves to respond to Prentice. Prentice comes back out and calls her a man in drag and says she's slept with half the wrestling promoters. It's all an ambush for Doink to throw a pie in Miss Texas' face. Prentice then throws her down on the floor and beats her up as Christopher and Doink laugh hysterically. Lawler and Jarrett come back out for the save. Doink throwing a pie in Miss Texas' face makes this whole segment worth it, in spite of the unneeded man-on-woman violence.
  3. Loss
    Lawler makes quick work of The Shadow and Brian Christopher gets on the mic calling Lawler out. Meanwhile, Doink is putting banana peels all over the ringside area. It was all a trick to attack Lawler, as Lawler ends up slipping on the banana peels when chasing Lawler out of the ring. Finally, Jeff Jarrett comes to Lawler's rescue. Immediately after Lawler and Jarrett leave, Bert Prentice comes out in boxing gloves and does a promo against someone named Bubba Johnson. Love the Doink stuff.
  4. Loss
    This is a challenge match to knock Yokozuna off his feet. This is actually pretty great. They did a good job building up Yokozuna quickly for Wrestlemania, considering he debuted in late '92. After four attempts, he knocks Yoko off his feet and the crowd goes insane. Duggan is celebrating as the fans are screaming for him to turn around, which is awesome, and Yoko blinds Duggan with Fuji's salt and then does three bansai drops before burying Duggan under an American flag and doing yet another bansai drop. Yoko has tons of heat and Vince is incredible in getting this over on commentary. Duggan starts bleeding from his mouth and does a stretcher job. The production values of the WWF really shine through here. I wish Vince still booked like this.
  5. Loss
    This update focuses on Giant Gonzales' debut at the Royal Rumble, interfering in the match and laying out Undertaker. For some reason, he keeps posting Undertaker's leg on the ringpost, which makes no sense when Taker is already selling being unconscious, but whatever. Harvey Whippleman does an interview standing next to Giant Gonzales after they show the clip, which demonstrates the amazing height difference nicely.
  6. Loss
    Before the action even begins, Tenryu and Hashimoto have a staredown to make it clear that match is the "headline" pairing. The staredown on its own is pretty awesome. The crowd is beside themselves that they're the ones starting out. And Hashimoto immediately kicks Tenryu in the head and knocks him off his feet, leading to the other guys rushing the ring and almost getting into it. You can cut the tension with a knife. Tenryu tags out and the match calms down a little, as Hashimoto follows suit. But a few minutes later, they're back in again. I love this layout. At one point, the entire NJ team isolates Tenryu and triple teams him and the audience goes insane. As the match continues, I start to think this is really a clear MOTYC and an awesome match that I've never heard much about. The heel/face dynamic is strong, and in that regard, it has strong elements of a U.S. match but way better action than the U.S. stuff at the time. What I mean by that is that the match is filled with great stuff to put shine on the New Japan guys, and Tenryu I wouldn't say stooges out, but he is more cautious than he normally would be, which I love. Ishikawa pins Nogami to take the match home for Tenryu's team. Bring on all the other matches with these guys, as this was tremendous!
  7. Loss
    The WWF does a classy, understated 10-bell salute to Andre the Giant. Wrestling (and fans, including myself, for that matter) was much less cynical in 1993 than it would become. This is nice.
  8. Loss
    I'm guessing it would go Rikidozan, Inoki, Baba, Takada, Choshu if listing the top five draws ever in the country ... is that accurate?
  9. Loss

    Matches of the Month

    Loss posted a topic in 1993

    I'll keep a separate thread for my rankings this time around. Here are my favorites in order for the month of January: #1 - Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai vs Takako Inoue & Yumiko Hotta (JWP 01/15/93) ****1/2 #2 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshiaki Kawada vs Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (AJPW 01/30/93) ****1/2 #3 - Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Jun Akiyama & Yoshinari Ogawa (AJPW 01/24/93) ****1/4 #4 - Ric Flair vs Bret Hart (WWF Boston, MA 01/09/93) ****1/4 #5 - Riki Choshu vs Genichiro Tenryu (NJPW Tokyo Dome 01/04/93) ***3/4 #6 - Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs Hollywood Blonds (WCW Clash of the Champions XXII 01/13/93) ***3/4 #7 - Eddy Guerrero & El Hijo del Santo vs Jerry Estrada & Espanto Jr. (AAA 01/22/93) ***3/4 #8 - Barry Windham vs Ricky Steamboat (WCW Saturday Night 01/23/93) ***3/4 #9 - Eddie Gilbert vs Terry Funk (ECW/WWA Battle of the Belts 01/23/93) ***1/2 #10 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi vs Akira Taue & Masa Fuchi & Jun Akiyama (AJPW 01/08/93) ***1/2 #11 - Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs Hollywood Blonds (WCW Worldwide 01/30/93) ***1/2 #12 - Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas vs Barry Windham & Brian Pillman (WCW Worldwide 01/02/93) ***1/2 #13 - Jushin Liger vs Ultimo Dragon (NJPW Tokyo Dome 01/04/93) ***1/2 #14 - Ricky Steamboat vs Dustin Rhodes (WCW Saturday Night 01/23/93) ***1/4 #15 - Cactus Jack vs Paul Orndorff (WCW Main Event 01/10/93, Street Fight) ***1/4 #16 - Rock & Roll Express vs Heavenly Bodies (SMW TV 01/30/93) *** #17 - Rick & Scott Steiner vs Hell Raisers (NJPW Tokyo Dome 01/04/93) *** #18 - Great Muta vs Masa Chono (NJPW 01/04/93) *** #19 - Ric Flair vs Mr. Perfect (WWF Monday Night RAW 01/25/93) *** #20 - Barry Windham vs 2 Cold Scorpio (WCW Saturday Night 01/23/93) #21 - Tracy Smothers vs Dirty White Boy vs Killer Kyle vs Jimmy Golden (SMW TV 01/16/93)
  10. Loss
    There was at one time a stat in the WON that Choshu has headlined more shows with $1 million+ gates than any wrestler in history. Not sure if that's still the case, but he is one of the five or ten biggest draws in the history of Japanese wrestling, so yeah, he's above Bret.
  11. Loss
    Last few minutes. Windham and Race hold Sting so Vader can whip him with his strap. Short clip.
  12. Loss
    This is Regal's U.S. debut! Watts had the idea to bring him in as a tough guy babyface, which is interesting. If you look at who Watts brought in after getting past some retreads early on -- Regal, Benoit, Scorpio, Van Dam -- and look at the guys already around who were starting to get pushed harder -- Austin, Pillman, Douglas, Cactus -- this is a guy who didn't come in knowing who the best young talents were, but he figured it out quickly. He had a terrible last part of 1992, but with him bringing in guys like this and luring Flair back, I'm curious what would have happened with another 6-12 months of time. It may have suffered the same end fate, but he may have been able to rebuild.
  13. Loss
    This is SOOOO cheesy, and I'm SOOOOOOO glad it's on this set. Some kids are playing basketball and a limo pulls up. Scorpio comes out and tells them they should be in school trying to get an education and then everyone starts dancing to his theme song, which has the most awful female vocalist ever for what it's worth. Funny stuff.
  14. Loss
    Austin Idol does a sit down interview talking about The Iron Sheik. In the middle of the interview, a FedEx comes through from "T.F. Collections" and a letter included says "Austin Idol, you know me, it's time to pay up. -- TF" Cool to see some of this rare stuff.
  15. Loss
    Cornette does a great promo gloating over the title win right after the Rock & Rolls/Bodies match. The Stud Stable confront them. Cornette blows his cover by saying they came up with a story of having four flat tires and expect people to believe it. Fuller: "Four flat tires? You son of a ..." And the brawl is on! All three teams beat each other up. Love this angle.
  16. Loss
    THIS is how you do a match with ref bumps and run-ins and make it work. So well-executed. It's a good match even before they get to the finish, but the finish is so well-constructed. Bobby Eaton ends up debuting in SMW and helping the Bodies win the SMW tag titles.
  17. Loss
    Really good, all-action sprint that goes about 10 minutes. Austin and Pillman get the win in a non-title match when Pillman pins Douglas. More heated than any WCW match on the set so far. I love this: Jesse: "Shane Douglas is just angry. He's angry at Brian Pillman, and he's angry that he's a conservative and we've got a liberal President!"
  18. Loss
    They show clips from the Royal Rumble of Lawler and Mr. Perfect getting into it. Then, Jerry Lawler does an interview. Jeff Jarrett, Danny Davis and Eddie Marlin are out to congratulate him for going after Perfect, which doesn't quite make sense to me, but Lawler does his typical great promo making sense of everything. Lawler talks about his quest to unify all the world titles in wrestling, as there should only be world champion. Lawler says when Curt Hennig laid eyes on him in the locker room, he knew there would be trouble. Lawler mentions that he beat him for the AWA title in 1988. Perfect responds in front of his WWF green screen to hype an upcoming match at Mid South Coliseum. All this interpromotional stuff is still a trip. Then we get a music video for PG-13 to an instrumental version of "Hip Hop Hooray", with their own words overdubbed! This is very very early 90s in its special effects.
  19. Loss
    Tremendous long match with a nice slow build. It's really structured more like a long singles match than a long tag match, and what I mean by that is that they go feeling out -> matwork -> momentum shift -> comeback -> finish teases. Usually, the "feeling out" stuff doesn't happen this way in tag matches. I thought this was great. Misawa is the savior of his team early on, but ends up taking the fall, as Doc pins him in the end. Not as flashy as the Kobashi/Kikuchi vs Akiyama/Ogawa match, but while both are great, I think I prefer this one.
  20. Loss
    Not as good as I remembered, as it's aimless for big parts of the match, but still good heat and energy. They just seemed to be doing a bunch of stuff to fill time until the finish. Perfect botching the clothesline and doing a reverse chinlock to cover for it was weird and took me out of the match. But he puts Flair away with the Perfectplex and just like that, Flair is out of the WWF. Hmm, will we see him again in 1993?
  21. Loss
    This starts right before #30 enters, which is Randy Savage. Almost on cue, guys start dropping like flies. Backlund, who drew #1, is still there. The Yoko/Backlund stuff is fun, but Backlund finally goes out. Then we get Savage and Yoko. Interesting how Vince made the decision in such a short period of time to phase out guys like Flair and Savage in favor of new stars, as Savage is already in a different role to put over younger guys. I always HATED this finish, as Savage was a veteran, going for a pin was a dumb mistake he shouldn't have made. But Yoko wins and is on his way to Wrestlemania.
  22. Loss
    Pretty memorable. Heenan does the most over-the-top sell job for anyone at anything ever. Lex Luger debuts in the WWF, posing in front of mirrors as Narcissus, while Heenan just fawns over him. Pretty funny. Luger then does a promo, a good one at that, directed toward Mr. Perfect. This must have been rehearsed quite a few times, because Heenan is mouthing Luger's words the whole time.
  23. Loss
    Last few minutes, which have some great action. Sherri screws up and accidentally hits Jannetty with her shoe, costing him the match. Shawn looked as good as I've ever seen him look in these few minutes in terms of putting together a match. After the match, Shawn goes after Sherri in the locker room, Jannetty comes to save her, and we get a little brawling.
  24. Loss
    Lots of spots and sequences I associate more with U.S. style, like hiptoss reversals, fast in-and-out tags in quick sequence, sunset flips, etc. Fantastic match. The amount of offense Kobashi has is pretty staggering. This blew me away. Also, Akiyama gives an incredible performance, and while Kikuchi beats him, the booking point seems to be focused more on his performance, so his stature likely improved, even in losing.
  25. Loss
    Heenan referred to himself as that to get heat for taking himself too seriously. Or at least that's what I always thought.
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