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  1. Loss
    Lawler tries to narrate a full history of the Lawler vs Gilbert family feud to hype up his match against Doug Gilbert and Gilbert takes offense to him showing footage of Eddie on TV without his permission. Lawler and Doug Gilbert get into it, with Scott Bowden helping jump Lawler. Good stuff.
  2. Loss
    Finally, All Japan! But just a finish to see Hansen and Albright win the tag titles. It's a short clip, but Kawada's cross-eyed selling is awesome.
  3. Loss
    This was the start of the Ric Flair megapush that only lasted a few weeks, but was incredibly fun while it lasted. Not much of a match, but it was pretty hyped up on WCW TV at the time, so that's why the last few minutes are here.
  4. Loss
    I forgot about the "Mrs. Guerrero's chili" jokes Bobby Heenan loved to make. But this match is way more famous for the "What the fuck are you doing?" slip Heenan made on live TV. He's pretty shook by Pillman grabbing him and has to walk around ringside to regain his composure, and he spends the rest of the match trying to regain his composure. Pillman seems to know he messed him up and even exits the ring by scooting across the announce table for kicks. The match itself is too short to really be anything.
  5. Loss
    The Road Warriors show up and challenge Sting and Luger, but Luger would rather wrestle the State Patrol! Fun stuff.
  6. Loss
    I LOVE these by the way. In five minutes, they get the message across about 2-3 big angles, and it's also a cutting edge concept for the time. This one focuses on Raven/Dreamer and Beulah's pregnancy reveal and the Eliminators/Pit Bulls feud, with some other stuff sprinkled in.
  7. Loss
    Sting and Luger are fired up here early on. Booker catches Sting with an awesome scissors kick to break up a scorpion attempt on Stevie Ray and just looks really good in general in this match. A tag title change also. Still, in spite of the hot shotting, RAW won the night 2.9 to 2.7.
  8. Loss
    This was a pretty big deal at the time, as the world title changed hands on free TV. Okay match, big pop for the finish, and of course, Hogan is out immediately before and immediately after to make sure the focus is on him. Also, Woman has arrived! Also, they're already teasing Hogan/Savage in Las Vegas, which I think they had decided on for the Halloween Havoc main event even before Hogan ever turned heel.
  9. Loss
    Not much to comment on here, except that I'm not sure what was different, but Cornette never clicked as a manager in the WWF. Here, he goads Shawn into putting his Wrestlemania title shot on the line against Owen Hart at In Your House.
  10. Loss
    WCW can't come up with any ideas not stolen from the WWF. Scheme Gene has an idea, but you have to call the Hotline to find out what it is. This was no more or less whiny than the others have been, but as we know, it gets worse.
  11. Loss
    Listen to the pop Vader gets and see all the signs in the audience and don't tell me he shouldn't have gone way further in the WWF. They definitely started off on the right foot, as this was a GREAT way to debut him, attacking Vega after the match, beating up two referees, getting suspended, and then destroyed Gorilla Monsoon. Using Gorilla in this capacity was a great idea. And the pop Shawn and Razor got coming out for the save showed that at this point, there was money in Shawn/Vader several months down the line. Of course, lots happened between this angle and Summerslam.
  12. Loss
    1996 I expect to be an interesting year for AJW matches, because I never hear anyone talk about anything that came out of the year. We're off to a good start for this promotion, as Toyota and Hotta deliver a really strong match. Toyota's screaming drives me crazy, but I'm trying to learn to condition myself to it so I can be somewhat objective about her. But really, there was a lot of hate and fire and blood, and of course the typically insane variety of Toyota suplexes and dives. Pretty sure this was Toyota's first defense on a big show (I might be off on that), and this seemed like a good way to establish her.
  13. Loss
    The final few minutes of the match are decent, but these two have had way better. Diesel is awesome here and is the highlight, getting Bret DQ'd purposely and flipping off Undertaker before leaving ringside.
  14. Loss
    I *think* '96 was the first year that entrance music accompanied ring entrances. This is the last few minutes of the Rumble, starting with the entrance of #25. Austin gives Michaels this amazing clothesline and then does the Shawn pose. There is no heat for much of this unless Michaels is going at it with Owen, Davey Boy or Jannetty, and there is a huge pop for the finish. Pretty obvious why they saw Michaels as the guy of the future when you see the way the crowd reacted to him compared to pretty much everyone else.
  15. Loss
    Just the finish of Goldust winning the IC title, and Kid doing a run-in pulling off some sort of awesome spinning kick from the top rope that was a little over Razor's head. I still love the whole original idea for the Goldust character.
  16. Loss
    I'm not sure what else I could say about this match. It's still an all-time classic, still has matwork on another level and still kickstarts an awesome year for Otani. It still has that unexplained older guy at ringside who is at all Otani matches around this time. It's still really brutal and as many others have already said, represents what would have been an interesting style shift for the NJ juniors. Still has awesome moments like Otani's desperation headbutts or biting Samurai's calf because it's the only way he can break a hold. Still has Otani understanding his role at this point perfectly, getting outclassed most of the way despite probably being the more talented of the two, because he can't keep his emotions in check. I say this not to bag on Samurai, but this is the Otani show, and Otani probably could have had this match with anyone competent in the style, because this is all about his selling, his reactions and his story, while at the same time this match is clearly making a philosophical point about the wrestling style used in the division. Beautiful match. Quite the year when this isn't the unquestioned MOTY, although it's still very much in the running for New Japan match of the decade.
  17. Loss
    A split-screen interview with Flair and Savage. I wish Flair could have been a 12-time champion longer, if only because it was cool to hear him talking about making it "an even baker's dozen". Flair name drops Elizabeth. You don't think ...?
  18. Loss
    Unless something else on this set tops it, this is the best thing Road Dogg has ever been part of in his life! Tremendous old school tag match that goes to a time-limit draw. It's built around destroying Jamie Dundee's knee, with Smothers and Armstrong doing all sorts of nasty things and working really stiff. The post-match brawl has almost every heel in the promotion ganging up on PG-13 and Smothers gets in some brutal flagpole shots on Dundee's knee. Very good match, great segment.
  19. Loss
    This isn't a TLC match, but it might as well be, as tables, ladders and chairs all get involved here. Psicosis is superhuman, doing all the standard Michaels ladder match bumps with extra gusto. The WM X spot where Shawn rode the ladder to the ground, Psicosis slightly modifies and uses it to propel himself and does a super legdrop. He also takes a mid-air chairshot off of a tope that rivals the Benoit/Jericho Rumble spot. There some fun spots that feel like Fuerza tributes at ringside, and I'm not sure if Fuerza ever did them or not, but I kept thinking this is exactly what Fuerza Guerrera would do in a ladder match. Psicosis wants to show off and do a moonsault off a ladder through a table which he finally does, but first, he can't quite get the table in the right spot and keeps missing. It may be a little Sabu-esque in terms of repeating a blown spot until you get it right, but Psicosis has typically been above shit like that, so I'm going to pretend it's a Fuerza tribute, whether it actually is or not. Lots of great weapons brawling with Konnan, Rey, and tons of others getting involved, and Rey using the ladder to do tons of highspots to the floor from greater height on the other rudos at ringside. Psicosis tries doing a piledriver on a table in the middle of the ring, but the table collapses before he can execute the move. Psicosis takes a powerbomb from the apron onto a ringside table and lives to tell about it, even though the table isn't locked in place and slides out of the way so he only partially breaks his fall. He takes a ridiculous head-first bump from the top rope to the floor when he completely misses a dive. It's funny that for all the insanity, Psicosis sneaking in a low blow to counter a tombstone piledriver gets the biggest pop of the match. Ultraman is kinda sloppy, and the finish is botched, with him trying a DDT from the top rope onto a chair (!) but losing his grip. Still, it's the finish. Probably 40% great match, 60% trainwreck, but definitely worth watching. I'm curious to hear if others love or hate this, as I think it will be polarizing. Lots to love and be annoyed by in this one. It's just hard to criticize much about that effort from Psicosis though, even when he fell short.
  20. Loss
    The typical Flair/Sting match with all the standard spots. I will say that I've never seen a Flair/Sting match that didn't have the crowd really into it, and this is no exception. Sting started working the top rope superplex into their matches around '95 or so, and there's a good one here. This is pretty typical "dumb Sting" also, as Luger clearly hits him with the megaphone to cost him the match and Hogan and Savage come out to point it out for him. His response? "I need to hear it from the horse's mouth. I'm gonna go talk to him and make sure!" Funny stuff. Then, Hogan gets really obnoxious (I was about to say all of a sudden, but it's not really a new development) and starts blaming Savage for losing so many matches to Luger, saying he's hurting their momentum, and Savage has enough and walks away. No wonder crowds were hating Hogan at this point.
  21. Loss
    So a Horsemen/DoD match is scheduled, but instead all the Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom members walk out. I crack up at Arn yelling at Pillman. "I thought I told you to dress up. This is a business meeting." Yeah, Pillman is wearing a t-shirt and jeans, but Kevin Sullivan is wearing giant yellow robe and face paint. Pillman gets overly excited and starts yelling at the Dungeon and Arn slaps him hard! Great stuff, with Arn especially being a standout.
  22. Loss
    Fun brawl that spills outside into the snow. Goldust finally gets in his gold Cadillac and speeds off.
  23. Loss
    More pettiness than before, complaining about WCW signing away WWF wrestlers, saying it fits Ted Turner's business model of buying old assets and repackaging them as new assets (i.e. colorizing Casablanca).
  24. Loss
    Lawler wants Doug Gilbert to come out and explain himself after hitting Lawler with a chain from behind in the previous match. Gilbert says he knows what they did and they should really take this conversation off TV. Lawler says he has no idea what he's talking about and even accuses Gilbert of drug use! "I don't know what you were doing last night, because your brain ain't right." Doug finally admits that the problem is that Lawler wouldn't work on the Eddie Gilbert memorial. Lawler than cuts an amazing promo on Dennis Coraluzzo, saying Dennis once spread a rumor that he had illegitimate children running around Philly, so there was no way he was working for him. Doug says how could you put that ahead of Eddie after everything my brother did for you, and Lawler says instead of talking about what you and your brother did for me, let's talk about everything you and your brother did to me, and starts reading off a laundry list of past Memphis angles involving them both. Tommy Rich comes out to defend Doug against Lawler and Lawler brings up him costing him his hair in the Austin Idol match and the groin ringpost thing. Lawler tries to walk away, but Rich and Gilbert blindside him an end up giving him a spike piledriver on the studio floor. AMAZING angle, even better than it sounds.
  25. Loss
    Lots of feeling out that doesn't really go anywhere. I'm glad this match was on the set for the novelty of it, even if it's not that good. The match was kind of a backdrop to build to a Rich heel turn.
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