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  2. Loss
    Really good brawl. Fire throwing, blood, great punches and weapons ... everything you'd expect from these two. Gilbert finally says I Quit when Funk takes a wooden stool and basically beats him into quitting.
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    Dustin hated the way he won the U.S. title and offered Steamboat a chance to challenge for the title. Tempers flare and they wrestle to a draw. Fun match that feels like laying groundwork for a longer match with a more decisive finish.
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    My Top 100 Matches of 1996

    Loss replied to Loss's topic in 1996

    #40 - Nobuhiko Takada & Masahito Kakihara vs Tatsumi Fujinami & Yoshiaki Fujiwara (UWFI 06/26/96) -- Flashy, stiff and visceral. Really accessible with a nice pro/UWFI styles contrast. #39 - Toshiaki Kawada vs Akira Taue (AJPW 03/31/96) -- Tremendous build to the series of powerbombs in this 30-minute draw. #38 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Yoji Anjo (WAR 07/21/96) -- Hell of a spectacle, with Anjo's facial expressions being awesome! Short, but they do a lot with the time they have. #37 - Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama vs Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (AJPW 05/23/96) -- Great match designed to get over the Misawa/Akiyama tag team, or more specifically Akiyama, and it worked really well. Akiyama secures the win and tag titles for his team. #36 - Yuki Ishikawa & Alexander Otsuka vs Daisuke Ikeda & Takeshi Ono (BattlARTS 10/30/96) -- The match that sold me on BattlARTS. Because of the crowd, more heat than any BattlARTS match on the set, and lots of surprises in offense that caught me off guard. #35 - Genichiro Tenryu vs Nobuhiko Takada (UWFI 09/11/96) -- Another tremendous spectacle, this time centered around Tenryu's chops and Takada's kicks. #34 - Manami Toyota & Mima Shimoda vs Mariko Yoshida & Kaoru Ito (AJW 09/28/96) -- All out spotfest, and one of the best ones you'll ever see. Kaoru Ito has tons of fun double-stomp offense. Relentlessly paced. #33 - Steve Williams vs Akira Taue (AJPW 04/20/96) -- This is all about the storyline of Doc's big comeback to me, but what a storyline. Really heated Carny final, and one of my favorite matches of the year. #32 - Mayumi Ozaki vs Takako Inoue (JWP 05/18/96) -- Texas Death match rules! Not quite as much emotion and drama as Kudo/Toyoda, but probably better wrestling sequences. Violent and heated. #31 - Nobuhiko Takada vs Genichiro Tenryu (WAR 12/13/96) -- Better match than the UWFI one, if only because they had more freedom to brawl around the ring and tease chairs. Just as heated and as much of a spectacle as the UWFI match with a superior match layout.
  5. Loss
    Cactus and the Barbarian (who turned face also to stand by his friend) are interviewed by Larry Zbyszko. Cactus calls Tex Slazenger & Shanghai Pierce SCALLYWAGS.
  6. Loss
    "Sting accepted an invitation to a party ... at the WHITE CASTLE OF FEAR in the Rocky Mountains." This is hilarious, as Sting keeps suspecting something is up and Vader keeps being interspersed while being obviously covered in fake snow. The party takes place in a cave with a bunch of women trying to feed him food sexually ... or something. Cheatum the Evil Midget makes a cameo, screaming that Sting should play the game. Sting: "YOU again!" Sting: "Vader, nice place you have here. Reminds me of your personality, COLD." Oooh. They both attach a strap and suddenly, there's a fire as they have a tug-o-war and synth music plays. Sting almost gets pulled into the fire. What happens? Well, it's TO BE CONTINUED at SuperBrawl III. I won't complain about this too much, but wow is this terrible.
  7. Loss
    Excellent sprint, with a lot more bomb throwing and a faster pace than at the Clash. Windham takes it home with a jumping DDT. About 8 minutes long and all action.
  8. Loss
    Sting talks about his 1992 as they show clips of the two PPV matches with Vader while talking strategy with Tony Schiavone. It's interesting that most of the things that people associate with '93 WCW (Blonds vs Steamboat/Douglas, Vader vs Sting, Hollywood Blonds, etc) were started at the tail end of the Watts run and continued by the new regime.
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    Not quite sure who Mr. Tennessee is, but he's wearing a red mask and he's upset about something involving The Bullet. They cut to a taped promo sent in from SMW of Jim Cornette and the Bodies. Cornette says the favorite dinner of someone from Alabama is whatever is too slow crossing the highway. He adds that he knows The Bullet is Bob Armstrong, and that something fishy is going on. Cornette says he's sending Mr. Tennessee to USA Wrestling to get to the bottom of this. Cool find.
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    Bob Caudle interviews Dutch Mantell on a tape sent in from SMW. Quick segment, not much to it.
  11. Loss
    The Honky Tonk Man shows up at the Memphis studio! HTM says Eddie Marlin has "all-timers" and as a result, HTM can't get the kind of matches he deserves. Marlin comes out and acknowledges that they've talked on the phone many times, but that you don't pick and choose your matches in the USWA, you work your way up. HTM points out the hypocrisy in promoting their open door policy and then not getting the matches they come in for. He singles out Jeff Jarrett getting preferential treatment and Jarrett comes out to dispute this. HTM: "I don't think I know this young man." Funny. HTM again says Jarrett is protected. Jarrett says they should wrestle today and that if he beats him, he will be a top contender. HTM says he has no interest in wasting his time not wrestling in championship matches and walks out. Good segment.
  12. Loss
    The matwork with Santo and Espanto in the opening minutes is really basic and looks terrific. Santo catches him in a headscissors in the middle of a criss-cross sequence, which looks amazing. After a few minutes of fairly polite wrestling, things get heated, so Eddy and Estrada come in. Their stuff is way more advanced and fast-paced, but they're still largely staying on the mat. Now the two of them are getting angry and all four of them seem a bit fired up. Estrada takes some amazing bumps and is at his best. The first fall is a nice heat match on its own, with Eddy and Santo picking up the win. Espanto botches Eddy and Santo's Steinersesque top rope bulldog by not falling off of Eddy's shoulders, but they recover well. To begin the second fall, Espanto offers a handshake and Eddy is hesitant, so Espanto instead beats him up. Santo and Estrada are now paired off and look great again. In an awesome moment, Eddy and Espanto are about to lock up and Estrada sneaks in behind him and clips him, and both refs get distracted long enough for him to sneak in a kick to the balls too. Soon, all four are brawling and Espanto does an awesome Vader-like slingshot splash on Santo, but from the middle of the ropes instead of the corner. Estrada and Espanto take the second fall when Estrada locks in some type of octopus-style submission on Eddy. The third fall begins with Espanto and Estrada riding the wave of momentum from the second fall. Santo gets attacked on the floor and is now being isolated. The rudos go crazy ripping on Santo's mask until Eddy finall has enough of watching this from the apron and jumps in and changes the direction of the match. Eddy does a vertical suplex on Santo on to Espanto in a fun spot and Santo backflips Eddy on to Estrada in another fun spot. Then the dive train starts, with Santo's top rope dive to the floor being the highlight. Eddy gets in a top rope superplex on Espanto, a big move at this point that wasn't really yet the norm anywhere. Santo follows with a senton and they pin both the rudos to take the fall and the match. This is technically a very good match with some good high-flying and a nice layout, but it just doesn't get to the next level for me. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but it falls short of being a great match. It's weird that it feels in some ways like they were going through the motions, maybe because of the lack of aggression. Still, I'd recommend seeing this, but I expect to see much better stuff in 1993.
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    Last few minutes of a match for the vacant US title. Dustin tries the bridge up spot, but doesn't quite do it. I've always been ridiculously impressed with that spot because it looks so good and probably requires so much strength. Windham comes out and DDTs Steamboat on the concrete after a ref bump. Steamboat gets counted out and Dustin wins the match and title by countout, not aware of Windham's interference. Good action, what was shown.
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    Forget the Loose Cannon stuff, this may be the best serious Pillman promo I've ever heard, talking about wanting a 2/3 falls match against Steamboat and Douglas because they get stronger as matches go long and how anyone can get lucky in a quick fall. Austin was already developing into a guy with some personality by this point too.
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    They show clip of fan video of Watts signing an autograph at a gas station in Charlotte. Arn shows up in Zubaz pants and goes to beat him up. Watts ends up getting him in the STF and the cops show up quickly and arrest both guys. Watts does an okay promo addressing this. This angle felt really desperate, but Arn was really good in it.
  16. Loss
    They show footage where the Bodies and Cornette are about to start filming a promo in the locker room. Cornette doesn't want to do the promo with the Stud Stable, which is what the interview was scheduled to be. They end up having a word of words and things get heated. Then they cut to a live interview with Cornette and the Bodies to talk about it. Bob Armstrong interrupts to tell them there will be a title match in two weeks on SMW TV with the Rock & Rolls defending against either the Stud Stable or the Bodies. He also tells Pritchard he's been watching him use his boot and will be doing an investigation, and if there's a problem with his boot, he's in trouble. He leaves by saying he's keeping an eye on his foot, which prompts this great Cornette line: "Keeping an eye on a man's foot? Who does he think he is, Mel Phillips?" Pritchard is SOOOO a Roddy Piper clone on promos.
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    Not a good match at all, but Dutch Mantell is tremendous on color commentary. However, he starts making the point about how Smothers isn't wrestling as smart of a match as he should be, which is fine for a heel color guy to say, but then Caudle starts agreeing with him. It's a bit weird. But this is a four-way elimination match for the TV title. Killer Kyle/Tracy Smothers is done within a minute, and Jimmy Golden/Tracy Smothers is pretty actively bad. But Tracy Smothers/Tony Anthony is almost decent. I don't want to get in a big discussion about the Confederate flag, but I will say there's something uncomfortable to me about Smothers wearing it on his tights and waving it proudly in an audience full of white people. For the finish, Smothers wins the match by rolling through on a DWB flying bodypress and picks up $1,000 and the title. Smothers' post-match promo is an excellent babyface promo though, putting over himself and his opponents and selling the match big time. I hope SMW picks up in the ring. I've enjoyed many angles I've seen prior to watching this yearbook, but not many matches that are very good.
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    "Southern tag" refers to the typical U.S. structure for laying out a tag match where one guy gets isolated from his teammate and they build to a hot tag where the fresh guy comes in and cleans house. Occasionally, people complain about the formulaic nature of it, but it has probably produced more good matches than any other formula in wrestling history.
  19. Loss
    I actually really enjoyed that period of time when they were on the refs like that. It made for better matches.
  20. Loss
    Highlights of a match from Mid South Coliseum. Brian Christopher's manager is some guy named Zeke Rivers (Did I get that right??). Lots of run-ins here secure the win for Christopher to give him the Southern title.
  21. Loss
    Crush exits the ring after making quick work of some jobber and Doink is at ringside with his arm in a sling. Doink goes to make amends and offers a flower and Crush blows him off. Doink then takes the cast off his arm (it was a fake) and repeatedly beats Crush with it until the referees (including Bill Alphonso) run him off. Sort of a violent heel beatdown by WWF standards of the time. Crush is unconscious and does a stretcher job. Great way to set Doink up as a wrestler.
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    The difference in 1993 and 1996 Joshi is pretty staggering. This match is already better than every single women's match on the 1996 set except possibly Kudo/Toyoda, and it's the first women's match of the year! I WANT A SINGLES MATCH BETWEEN HOTTA AND KANSAI. I guess it's a little late to request that. Believe it or not, this is the first time I have ever seen a Yumiko Hotta match, and I love the shooty stuff mixed in with pro stuff. Her kicks look great, and so does her spinning back elbow off the middle rope and even her chairshots! Is she already one of my favorite wrestlers? Kansai is so great in that she is perfectly capable of mixing it up with her in that style. Everyone kinda follows Hotta's lead in fact, as this is a pretty mat-based affair, although there's some great traditional stuff mixed in too, like Ozaki's DDT. I also all the leg submissions from everyone, and there is a more seamless and logical transition from move to move than there would be in most of the '96 stuff I saw. I LOVE the finish, as Takako has Ozaki in position for a German suplex, Kansai goes for a lariat to break it up, but Takako sees it coming and ducks, but then falls prey to what I think was a dragon suplex (hard to tell from the camera angle) from Ozaki. This whole match is an amazing combination of wrestling, brawling, heat, stiffness, matwork and execution.
  23. Loss
    Well this deserves a revisit. This was a fantastic match. The announcers push hard that the match has a 30-minute time limit instead of a 60-minute time limit due to TV constraints, so as a result we should expect a faster-paced match. And I suspect the direction Watts gave to these guys was to wrestle a fast pace, because they most certainly did. Jesse Ventura loves to make fun of Shane Douglas's right-wing leanings and calls him the Rush Limbaugh of WCW. Jim Ross: "I hear Rush Limbaugh is a big WCW fan." Jesse Ventura: "Don't make me puke right here on the air." I start to wonder if we can credit Steamboat for helping Austin become a great worker. They were essentially programmed together for the better part of three years (1991-1994), and during that time, Austin improved considerably. There are some tremendous spots here, especially Pillman doing his trademark throat-first guardrail bump, and Pillman doing an accidental Air Pillman on Austin. For the finish, Pillman nails Douglas with the title belt, and Douglas blades, which is a nice touch. Weapons shots should be treated as a big deal and not sold like wrestling offense, so I really liked that. Douglas does a great fired up babyface promo promising revenge with his head bandaged after the match. Shane Douglas never looked as good as he did during this little run. This makes me wonder where his career would have gone had Watts had more time to book him.
  24. Loss
    First we get an "Unbelievable" commercial with soft saxophone music and a woman trying to get her husband to fool around, but he'd rather watch Raw. The woman resembles Chyna. Then, we have Bobby Heenan trying to get in the building and Sean Mooney tells him he isn't hosting the show, and he can't buy a ticket because the show is sold out. Then, we get a Heenan promo about Narcissus once again in a great promo. Back outside, Heenan dresses like a rabbi trying to get inside and can't. This time he's dressed as a rabbi calling himself Uncle Morty. No dice.
  25. Loss
    Hard-hitting match where the winner goes into Thundercage at the Clash. These two have a brutal, "Come As You Are" streetfight, and Race keeps throwing Cactus back in the ring when he falls to the outside. Cactus finally has enough and clotheslines Race from the apron. So Vader runs out and he and Orndorff do a number on Cactus. After commercial, Michael Hayes does an interview with Vader, Orndorff and Race, and Cactus officially turns babyface for the first time, hitting everyone with a shovel in a great moment.
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