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    I like this a lot, and it's cool to see Ono involve in just the few matches he has on this set. All four look really good, and there are too many great kicks to count. Usuda also looks awesome, like a guy who could translate to NJ juniors without making too many adjustments to his style and have some excellent matches. Ikeda's body punches on Ono look great. I also love Otsuka and Ikeda doing a spike powerbomb and it not looking the slightest bit out of place amongst the other more shooty, mat-based stuff. Pretty amazing match, maybe the best BattlARTS of the year.
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    "Born In The USA"? Am I watching Mid South? Or is Terry Funk having the most awesome entrance ever being led by an American flag and a flaming branding iron? Even if this match sucks, it's worth it just for the intro. And it's Funk/Finlay, it can help but at the very least be fun. All the punches look great and Funk does his standard punch drunk selling. Cool seeing Finlay in Europe as the total babyface.
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    Monday Night Memories is the show with the 10-way legends of Memphis main event, right?
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    Thanks for the recommendations. For Trio Fantasia vs Thundercats, is this CMLL and would Jeff Lynch have the groups listed in a different way? Who is in Trio Fantasia and who is in Thundercats?
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    Owen-Mankind is the only one missing.
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    Slightly out of order, but this is the interview with the Outsiders challenging the Faces of Fear later in the show. Hall and Nash do an almost total babyface promo playing to the crowd and everything.
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    The match is really short, and serves as more of a backdrop to get a bunch of extra people in the NWO, probably because they have a Souled Out show in January to build and need more people. VK Wallstreet, Bubba Rogers, Masa Chono and Scott Norton all join, and the group is officially oversaturated. The entire roster comes out and the ring fills up with people brawling. Sting comes out and everyone stops. Arn gets in his face and Sting pops him, which leads to Steve McMichael going after him and Rey doing the same. Hot segment, but this killed the NWO.
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    It's supposed to be Sting vs Rick Steiner. Sting starts in the rafters and comes through the crowd. Or so we think, as it's the NWO Sting. He and the real Sting end up in the ring at the same time, and Sting lays out the impostor. He then gives Rick Steiner his baseball bat and takes off. These segments were cool at first, and were way overdone within a few months.
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    Before the match, there's a video of Benoit and Woman at a low lit restaurant, which I have to just fast forward. Just too weird. These two have a wild match brawling through the crowd, and it's also Arn's last match ever. Arn gets a thumb to the eye and accidentally DDTs Mark Curtis, which is always awesome when that spot happens. Arn counters the tree of woe with a fist to the, um, lower abdomen. Hugh Morrus comes out and gets a DDT. Finally, the Dungeon of Doom numbers catch up and Sullivan gets the win. There's this morbid curiosity where I wonder, if they pulled Arn out of the ring for a few months and built him up huge, emphasizing his victory over Hogan, if they could have had a PPV main event that was Arn's last match. Probably not, but fun to think about.
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    The first few minutes of this is Bischoff and DiBiase taking over the announce booth and making Zbyszko leave. Bischoff starts talking about the NWO taking over New Japan. The crowd is REALLY into this match, even the somewhat basic armbar stuff at the beginning. I can't stress that enough. This match has more heat than almost all of the WWF PPV main events on this set. It took me by surprise. Bischoff talks about how much he loves wrestlers who throw good kicks. Tom is proven right! This is an outstanding match, maybe the best Nitro match of the year. These two do amazing things on the mat, and Psicosis puts on a tremendous babyface performance, selling his arm through his comeback. All of the false finishes get huge pops because they're built so well, and because this is an amazing crowd.
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    Bret does an unscheduled promo about how things have changed since he left and that you can't trust anyone anymore, and that everyone breaks the rules. And really, Bret wasn't approached about turning heel until two weeks before Wrestlemania, which is surprising. Fans chant this and that things at him and you hear everything, which is funny. Bret then announces he will be in the Royal Rumble and sticks around to do commentary. This is a hell of a match. Vader controls the first few minutes, then Austin takes over and goes crazy, and Vader steps up his game in kind. Austin facing another heel and playing de facto face is an interesting sign of things to come. Bret ends up attacking him at ringside, getting some heat for attacking Austin unprovoked. He locks in a sharpshooter and has to be pulled off of Austin. Great segment, but again, it amazes me that there was no planned heel turn for him at this point, or at least not one Bret had been presented with.
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    Childs is right, although I'd say it will be in my top 5 of the year. It's a classic, as everyone is more in tune with their match by this point, and while the 10/10 match was great, this takes it to another level. There's too much happening too fast and too furious to attempt to describe it all. This is almost a greatest hits of the 10/10, 12/1 and 12/9 matches, with better psychology and pacing than any of those. I feel like a doofus saying that, because all of these matches are great, but this one is the best. I love Delphin and Sasuke sneaking up on Funaki with a double missile dropkick, and the Togo/Yakushiji solo stuff in the final stretch is just awesome, especially when Sasuke throws a chair at his head to knock him off the top rope. And to seal the deal, KDX actually eats a loss, which makes Hamada a hero! This is great wrestling in a great year.
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    Last few minutes. Shawn seems to be going through a tough personal time and is a mess on commentary. The match is a little clumsy. Bret would go on to carry Sid to some really strong matches, but this isn't one. Sid shoves Shawn, who gets on the apron and runs into Bret, leading to a Sid victory. Shawn takes an incredible bump. Bret ends up slugging Shawn after the match. I'm surprised they didn't book him any type of retaliation at all. Shawn ends up trying to do a promo vowing to kick Bret's teeth down his throat but his mic goes out. Then, he gets heckled by a fan on his way out. Bad night for him.
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    Vince's "Oh, I know that's right" black voice cracks me up. That aside, Flash Funk is a terrible gimmick. Scorpio didn't need it, the outfit made him look silly, and the name screams midcard for a guy who they could have groomed. Really, you could probably say the same for Snow. And these guys were kept in these roles at a time when the WWF desperately needed all the stars they could get. I don't think WCW cruiserweight matches are a good comparison to this match, since these guys are heavies. But one thing that stood out to me when watching this is that Jim Ross would have been really great at getting over the cruiser matches in WCW. I'm not a huge fan of this match, but you do see the potential in both guys watching it. What's funny is that their WWF gimmicks made them look more indy than their "I'm a wrestler" gimmicks did when they were actually in the indies.
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    PG-13 play the Nation of Domination theme music during their entire interview, and even have Miss Texas with them. JC Ice says he got approval from Faarooq to add Bill Dundee to the NOD. Dundee refuses to join, and kinda points at holes in the whole group, saying that JC grew up in a nice house and was not from the streets at all. Wolfie gets in his face over it and Dundee slaps him. Wolfie and Dundee end up having an impromptu brawl outside into the parking lot. The NOD attacks Dundee and JC says that's what he gets and helps beat up Dundee and handcuffs him to some pole in the parking lot. Finally, Lawler, Steven Dunn and Flash Flanagan make the save. Interesting how they did so many turns throughout the year and ended up the exact opposite of where the year started.
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    Before the match, there is a great commercial for the USWA Feel The Rage t-shirt involving Lawler. The match is No DQ, and Lawler is hoping that their years-long feud can finally end today. Lawler is also wearing his 80s gear: blue and yellow colors! This isn't a long match, or an essential one in the series, but it's still good to see. Even in 1996, when wrestling all over the world was pretty damned great, there are little touches and details that these two guys do better than anyone. It's the kind of mastering of fundamentals that could take some guys to the next level. Because it's no DQ, we even get a piledriver, and Lawler has no problem breaking holds with a thumb to the eye! PG-13 ends up accidentally hitting Dundee with a hubcap, ensuring that Lawler retains the title.
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    Tenryu doesn't shake hands, Takada, you idiot! Well, to Takada's credit, he realizes the game being played quickly, and even uncharacteristically gets into the taunting and oneupmanship. I wish he wouldn't sell Tenryu's offense like an annoying alarm clock just woke him up, but what can you do? This and the UWFI match are a good comparison. It's much easier to do things like grab chairs and vary the style a little bit more than normal, and even though Takada's drab matwork early on took me out of the moment a little, I still think this is the better overall match. There is tremendous drama over the submission attempts and kicks and strikes, and everything looks great. This is the best WAR match of the set, and if the '93 WAR matches are better than this, we're in for quite the treat.
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    Agreed, and I want to include all of that for sure. Regal and Eaton are a great team on paper, but none of their matches stand out to me. Obviously, the vignettes of Eaton being Pygmalioned are a must, but are there any Blue Bloods matches that should definitely go on?
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    A shorter and less heated version of the World War 3 match. No reason to read the Cliffs Notes when the actual book isn't terribly long anyway.
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    I agree that it's not as good as most of the FMW on the set, but the production values are so much better, with better camerawork and and no distracting announcer like in August-September. It's not really anything new, but I always get a kick out of American wrestlers waving the flag as heels in other places. This was a TV special, correct?
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    I just watched this. I'm not sure I'd put it ahead of Sting/Austin (on the same episode I believe), Pillman/Badd, Flair/Arn, Benoit/Eddy from SN or Pillman/Wright from Main Event (completely going off memory on the last one), but still very good and a match I'd agree should be included. Really, the WWF and WCW weren't having strong years in '95, so the good news is that we shouldn't have to cut too many things from them.
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    Good stuff. I haven't seen the Lawler/Embry handheld listed anywhere. Could you point me in the right direction? Funk/Backlund is really good and I definitely want to include it. Was the teased Rude/Orndorff feud covered in the Apter mags at the time in IWCCW or am I thinking of something else? Really, there's lots of interesting Rude for '91 since he was traveling so much. There's the AJ six-man that Dave gave **** that he's part of, there's his WCW stuff later in the year, and there's IWCCW. I think he had a match against Demolition Axe somewhere that I've seen praised in some places also. Any other indy rude stand out? I never knew about this, but that's very cool. What else did Cornette do in '91? I know he was in the USWA early in the year managing the Fabs as part of the Memphis Mafia angle, but I have no clue after that. I can't imagine him sitting on the sidelines during the entire post-WCW pre-SMW time, and I'm sure some of whatever he did made tape. This I didn't know. I was able to match up quite a bit of the Fredo dates just by going through the WON results for the UWA. Copps Coliseum, right?
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    These will definitely go on. Thanks for all the recommendations. From your list, is there anything that may not look good on paper (like a Bravo match, just as an example) that should still be considered for some other reason? Thanks for these. Can you recommend any Hamada's UWF?
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    Since 1990 seems to be the start of the Three Musketeers push, I wanted to see if there are any matches that are important in their ascension that should go on a yearbook, even if the matches themselves aren't great. We can always do finish only if it's a big win that was key in making one of those guys a star. I also wanted to ask if there are any All Japan matches that may not jump off the page when looking at the list of WON ratings that are important for a different reason and should go on. I would especially be interested in pre-May recommendations. I'm guessing the last Jumbo/Tenryu match is a must, especially when we can add an SWS match not too long after to show him jumping ship.
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