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  1. Loss
    Piper makes the Bret/Shawn main event at Wrestlemania a 60-minute Ironman match. And Vince sure does love it when Shawn lowers his tights to show off his abs. Could Vince have possibly laid on the Shawn love any thicker?
  2. Loss
    Mankind's mother used to wake him up late to play piano for her friends. Then she sent him away. Mankind is pain and Mankind is suffering. This promo is him hanging out with a rat in a boiler room.
  3. Loss
    Well, the WWF was always good at promoting Warrior, and this is a well-done video.
  4. Loss
    Sunny uses her sex voice while wearing a bikini on the beach. 10 second spot.
  5. Loss
    Hashimoto was very, very over in his day. Terrific match. Very stiff of course, but the best part is the crowd literally popping huge for every little move Hashimoto makes. Very good all-action sprint built around strikes and matwork.
  6. Loss
    Picking a match of the month for February is going to be very difficult, I'll say that. Wow. Otani seems a little bitter about his January loss to Samurai and gets a little big for his britches, and of course Samurai will have none of it and semi-obliterates him for the finish. Everyone is mechanically awesome here, but Otani/Samurai is the pairing to watch especially. Again, Otani beats himself by not keeping his emotions in check. That energy spills over to everyone else in the match, and of course, all of these guys are amazing, so keep your expectations high.
  7. Loss
    This is INCREDIBLE. This was Dundee's return after he was legit fired after a knife incident with Wolfie D. He comes out unexpected and says people keep coming up to him and asking him where he has been, so he wanted to explain. Lance Russell tries everything he can to get him to not talk about this on the air. Dundee starts throwing insults at Brian Christopher and then at PG-13, and JC Ice comes down to calm him down. They get in an argument over him not using the name Jamie Dundee, which leads to Dundee insulting Wolfie D. This brings Wolfie D out, and Dundee said he can't believe he got fired over just trying to solve a problem face-to-face, and Wolfie responds that it involved a lot more than just face to face and he knows it. But Wolfie says talking about it on TV is really inappropriate, and that if people want to know what happened, Dave Meltzer can tell everyone in the sheets! He encourages JC to just leave, and then Dundee is continuing to go on and on about it and finally, Lawler comes out to calm him down and gets him to come backstage and sit down. Lawler is awesome as mediator also. This definitely left me wanting more of all this. Great, great stuff.
  8. Loss
    I like this just fine, but it's not really a War Games match, it just has some similarities. Pinfalls count and there's only one ring. Still, I do enjoy watching FMW, as it may be the most Memphis-influenced wrestling product in Japan. I wouldn't go to bat for it as a great match, but it's pretty entertaining.
  9. Loss
    Up until now, this is the best TV match these guys have had, as both work hard and give a good performance. Great heat as well. Post-match, Brutus Beefcake re-runs yet another not-the-Barber gimmick, this time as The Booty Man. Funny to hear Hogan calling him the Bootybootybooty man.
  10. Loss
    Larry Fling Live! This was one of the few skits that was actually funny in spots. The Huckster calls in and asks for a week off because he's been hit with a woman's high-heeled shoe, which is the best part. Then, Jane from Hanoi calls to let him know his suits are ready from Sears and the skit dies. They also mention that Hogan's salary is paid by a division of the company that's actually profitable instead of WCW.
  11. Loss
    Probably their worst big show match, and considering the booking of Bret's title matches, it's a little weird that he would be surprised that he was just keeping the belt warm for Michaels. The focus is always on building feuds between other top guys, and the Davey Boy match is the only time he got any type of meaningful victory over a challenger. Bret is the champ during this time period, but doesn't really become a key part of the company focus until the build starts for Mania.
  12. Loss
    This match holds up really well. I love the braggart babyface showboating early on with the hairpulling stuff, and the enzuigiri was worked into this match really well. You can sort of see some of the warning signs that Michaels isn't going to be the savior they thought he would be, in the sense that his entrance that they obviously thought was so cool dropping from the In Your House roof was kind of annoying, and the dancing was pretty obnoxious too. Great match for both guys, great booking with Michaels settling the score with Owen before moving on to bigger things, and the contrast in heat between this match and the main event is pretty noticeable.
  13. Loss
    So this is Brandon Baxter? He wears a tuxedo without a shirt and has hair like a member of the one-hit wonder group of the early 90s Nelson. Awesome! Outstanding match! It's like they were playing on every cliched Southern tag finish you can think of and then not ending the match that way. There were at least five times I was sure this was the finish, and the match kept going. Going through them all would give away too much of the element of surprise in watching this for yourself, but this was great! Jesse James Armstrong is the lesser guy of everyone involved in this match, but who knew ROAD DOGG had the ability to stick to a role and be a perfectly acceptable heel in a series of really strong Southern tags. Speaking of Road Dogg, after the match, Brandon Baxter tears into him for losing the match, saying he doesn't associate with losers, and Smothers ends up attacking him from behind and getting a check from Baxter for his deed. I love Memphis. In spite of the world changing around them, they stay consistent and are still very Memphis in everything they do. I'd be tempted to call it staying true to their principles if it wasn't a territory run by such slimeballs.
  14. Loss
    This may be my favorite ECW match. Quite the struggle, with Scorpio having a really good understanding of how to work with Sabu. Scorpio was Sabu's best opponent. You'll notice that while he definitely does his share of high-risk moves, Scorp does tone down the highspots from his normal level to make Sabu's highspots to stand out more. Really good, and maybe the one Sabu match that not only do I like, but I would actually take a step further and argue as being really good in a wrestling match sort of way.
  15. Loss
    Pillman's debut is still pretty shocking to watch, and was a really well done angle. I have to give credit to Pillman for deciding he was sick of waiting to be a star and deciding to work the system, even if he didn't really get the end result he wanted.
  16. Loss
    Last few minutes of a successful title defense for Hansen and Albright, with Kawada nearly losing his head off of a brutal lariat at the finish.
  17. Loss
    I love that this match features a lot of older guys from late 80s and early 90s EMLL providing the best lucha match on this set so far. I don't think I've ever seen an Emilio Charles match after 1990, so this was a treat, and he hasn't missed a beat. He looks like he's been living in a cave since 1990 and came out just for this match. He and El Dandy still have the same chemistry, doing some really nice looking matwork for the first few minutes of this and wow, everyone in this match is just awesome. Dos Caras may be my favorite guy, picking Apolo Dantes up and literally running around the ring with him for about two minutes while Dantes is in a panic before finally showing a little mercy and dropping him. You want to see this.
  18. Loss
    This was great! Lots of dramatic saves that were made better by the element of surprise, since the camerawork was spectacular. All action with Liger and Tiger heeling it up quite a bit. This also seems to be the start of the Junior Four Horsemen stuff in New Japan. One of my favorite matches on the set so far, and another notch in Otani's belt in 1996.
  19. Loss
    This is notable for Arn getting a pinfall victory over Hogan. (The previous week, he also got a DQ win.) It's really telling how fast Hogan was sinking at this point, as Flair walking down to ringside gets three times the reaction Hogan gets for cleaning house on Arn. Hogan is on offense 90% of the match, so this wasn't much of a job of course. Flair and Arn take over the broadcast booth (hmmm, maybe heels should try that out sometime in the future) and do a promo on the headset until Hogan and Savage chase them off. Pretty hot ending to Nitro.
  20. Loss
    This is one of my favorite Flair promos ever. Woman and Elizabeth wheel out a hospital bed and Flair pops out of it wearing a suit and sunglasses, and holding the world title. He's overly excited and totally in his element. Elizabeth has a few lines to get in which she almost fumbles, but makes it through. A hot program with Flair acting more like himself than he had in many years.
  21. Loss
    A total spotfest, but one of the best ones I've ever seen, with everything hit clean and tons of 2.9 nearfalls. If that's your thing, you'll love this match, because it's a near-perfect match in that style. There's not much substance beyond that, aside from the basic mood of desperation the entire match. I enjoyed it. The best comparison seems like it would be the Michinoku Pro matches, but those had a better face/heel structure, so I don't think it would be a favorable comparison. Still, see this for tons of great highspots and offense.
  22. Loss
    Weird match. Flair stalls so long early on that it kills the heat a little when they finally lock up. Then they get the crowd back into it and Savage goes for a quick nearfall early on, and the ref isn't there to count because he's fumbling locking the cage. It takes a while for the match to get going again, but when it does, it's very good, with Flair doing all his 80s-era cage spots, like having his trunks pulled down, crotching himself on the ring ropes, etc. Good Flair performance after some early problems, and a great memorable angle at the end with Liz handing Flair her shoe and turning on Savage, helping Flair win his 13th world title.
  23. Loss
    I think we can safely say Vince was right about his talent level. But I'll be curious when we get to 1997-1998 if he's as over as I remember him being. Because even if he wasn't any good, if he was capable of getting over, then I guess he had some value.
  24. Loss
    The infamous fake shoot. "I respect you, bookerman." Believe it or not, they edited the word "bookerman" out of the commercial release! Anyway, they worked really stiff and this was well done, even if it did go over the heads of most people. What gets forgotten is Arn coming in and taking Pillman's place and the crowd popping big for that until Flair comes down and convinces them to stop fighting.
  25. Loss
    Flair does a fantastic promo to hype Superbrawl to start things off. Fun to see him back with Woman again. Flair seems ecstatic over that and has some really funny lines.
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