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  1. Loss
    Shane and Taz with another confrontation in the feud that never ends or goes anywhere. I've checked out.
  2. Loss

    Eddie Gilbert

    Loss replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    Eddie Gilbert has plenty of singles matches actually. By the 90s, Eddie Gilbert was doing the Lawler thing better than Lawler. He'll make my list for sure. Everyone should check out these matches: - Gilbert vs Cactus Jack (Power Hour 3/23/90) - Gilbert vs Jerry Lawler (WWA 11/09/90) - Gilbert vs Jeff Jarrett (USWA-TX 12/29/90, 1/5/91 on the YB in error) - Gilbert vs Jeff Jarrett (USWA-TX 2/22/91) - Gilbert/Christopher vs Pritchard/DWB (USWA Studio 5/18/91) - Gilbert vs Cactus Jack (TWA 8/3/91 3 match series) - Gilbert vs Terry Funk (WWA 1/23/93) - Gilbert vs Terry Funk (ECW 6/19/93) I'm not a fan of it, but Lawler fans will love the Lawler-Gilbert match on 2/15/91 as well. There are also a metric ton of Mid South Coliseum main events from 1990-1992 that look amazing that we sadly don't have in full. He also has good babyface workrate matches with Pillman in 1989-1990 and some fun stuff with Flair in the same time frame. I liked the Samu feud. Those are the 90s matches that make his case with more in the 80s to support it. I think this guy is criminally underrated.
  3. Loss
    You've seen Rude-Manny vs Rock & Rolls from the studio, right? Just after Starrcade with the Rock & Rolls still selling injuries. I'm not a guy to praise pre-89 Rude, but I do like that match.
  4. Loss
    This was great, probably the best singles match these two had in WCW and the best WCW TV match of the year. They did a great job working "big" by selling fatigue, doing lots of crowd-involving stuff and selling really well. They went long and did the overtime gimmick for a title shot, which I guess you could call a staple of Bischoff era booking going all the way back to Vader-Sting at Fall Brawl '94. I like this because it was wrestled like a big heavyweight main event but they added in the high-flying stuff only they can do to distinguish it. Rey wins the match, but a title change on Nitro changed the WW3 match from Rey/Kidman to something else.
  5. Loss
    Rock wore this ring gear while recovering from surgery to have his bitch tits removed. I didn't realize he wore it this early, but I don't think he was wearing it every time out at this point. He'd dress like this in 1999 all the way to Wrestlemania, which I hated at the time. The highlight of this from an in-ring standpoint is the setup for Rock to get a vertical suplex on a "400 lb man", but I won't kid myself into thinking Henry was any good yet. He's doing some okay things mechanically, but he's missing the mean streak and sense of purpose he would later develop. This has a lot of heat, but it's a Rock match and it's also really storyline driven. Boss Man interferes and tries to handcuff Rock to the ringpost, but Rock reverses the table on him. D-Lo pulls the ref out of the ring mid-pinfall count in their neverending attempt to recreate Over The Edge with Austin-Dude Love. Rock does the people's elbow and it's obvious to me that Shane is going to come out and do the three count. He does and Rock is back in Survivor Series. Once again, an electric pop. This is the kind of thing that was so overdone through the years but really felt fresh in 1998 before it was repeated to death. Post-match, Rock gets his hands on Vince by throwing him into the ring, but Patterson and Brisco defend their boss. Patterson sure can sell a punch! Vince slaps Rock and ends up eating a Rock Bottom and a People's Elbow. Vince is great, Rock is great, the WWF is great.
  6. Loss
    Muto is simultaneously great and annoying. There's too many moments where he's risen to the occasion to be ignored, but he's wildly inconsistent. A strange career path too, I can't really think of anyone analogous.
  7. Loss

    Butch Reed

    Loss replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    For those into super high-end stuff, the matches with Flair (8/10/85 & 10/11/85), Murdoch (8/11/85 & 10/14/85) are a great 1-2-3-4 punch. For the Matt D types who want some variety, the match with Skip Young is a really good established guy versus lower ranked guy match. I love Butch Reed. And that 12/83 tag is one of my favorite matches of the 80s that I really think got slept on in the DVDVR results.
  8. Loss
    Vince has no sympathy for Rock and is ready for him to show his face and gets some heat with the Dallas crowd for dissing the Cowboys. Shane comes out and Vince tells him he didn't ask for a lowly referee, he asked for The Rock. Shane asks him to cut the crap and stop taking his frustrations out on everyone. Vince gets in his I HATE STONE COLD line that was a soundbyte forever. Vince tells Shane if he is going to channel his anger toward someone, channel it toward Shane since he always did anyway. Vince obliges and sends Boss Man after Shane. Austin ends up making the save to an electric pop.
  9. Loss
    They wisely show clips of them in a previous match during Shamrock's entrance to build excitement for this encounter. Always a nice touch. Mankind's look here is incredible. He's clean shaven, has his hair pulled back and is wearing a full tuxedo, but still has the mask on. He's even wearing loafers. He also sports the Hardcore Title. Vince is out to watch the match. The kind of fun TV match that is heated and energetic while not really being much more than that which Shamrock has had with a nice cross section of guys lately. Foley working such a sadistic style while tuxedo clad makes for a great visual. Boss Man interferes on Mankind's behalf without his knowledge to give Mick the win. Vince giving him such a huge hug while Mankind calls him "dad" and the piano outro plays is awesome.
  10. Loss

    Arn Anderson

    Loss replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    Arn has a few standout singles matches that I think are great. The first two that come to mind are the Regal match and his WCWSN match with Dustin Rhodes in 1992, but there are definitely others. The Barry Windham 2/3 falls match, Flair at Fall Brawl '95, a long-ish Ron Garvin match in the 80s and probably more. I don't really see that as an issue for Arn. His career isn't chock full of them, but they are there.
  11. Loss
    Vince meets Mankind in the back and tells him he's going to have a really special night. He wants him to get a makeover since if he is going to be somebody, he has to look like somebody. We get various clips of Mick getting a full makeover. I remember his one-night look being awesome. We'll see when we get to it.
  12. Loss
    Nice spot for Survivor Series before we see Kane throw a fireball intended for Undertaker right at X-Pac, burning his eyes. That spot looked great.
  13. Loss
    Jericho has a new great hairstyle. It's his birthday and he's back on Long Island, where he was born. And he says he's glad he left because this place sucks! JERICHO - 4, GREENBERG - 0. Chris points out that the "Goldberg" chant sounds a lot like "Boring". Jericho says Ralphus confirmed for him that Goldberg is not in the building, as Ralphus confirmed for him. Gene isn't so sure that's right. We see Goldberg arriving in the building during Jericho's interview unaware of what is being said and watching on the monitor before getting mad at what's on the monitor and tearing up his dressing room. Goldberg runs to the ring and appears at the entrance ramp without Jericho's knowledge. He ends up spearing Jericho into next week, with Jericho taking a ridiculous bump. This was sadly the blowoff to the feud and the end of Jericho's WCW push. Jericho writes about this in his book, but he put together this segment himself and did a great job. This is an example of WCW being dreadfully out of touch, even though looking back Jericho wasn't as over in 1998 as it seemed like he was at the time.
  14. Loss
    YES! Believe I'm a bus! I liked the piano sample and this video looks surprisingly major league. Tony Schiavone having to feign that he really liked it for the next few weeks was great!
  15. Loss
    Hogan gets a grand Secret Service entrance, but they hide that it's him at first, teasing that Bill Clinton might be about to appear on Nitro. How pathetic. It shows how little they think of their fanbase that they actually think people would believe this. Hogan congratulates Jesse "The Mind" Ventura on becoming governor of Minnesota. Hogan claims he has been fielding calls asking if he would be willing to run for President. He sat down with Bischoff, his new campaign manager, and decided he's willing to do it if he can find one great American (be it Oprah, Iacocca or his brother Bubba) to run with him. This was what they came with to take Hogan off of TV for a while and give him a break, as Bischoff (and Hogan, for that matter) correctly felt he was overexposed.
  16. Loss
    The Wolfpac interrupt a match between Alex Wright and Barry Horowitz. I'm fairly certain Kevin Nash had the book by this point but I'd have to check Torch archives to confirm. Nash quotes Popeye because he's that cool and wants Hall in the ring somehow tonight. Bischoff comes out and Nash calls him Estrogen Boy for some reason. He says the Wolfpac is boring the hell out of him and I concur.
  17. Loss
    The Rock is out to confront Vince McMahon over losing his spot at Survivor Series. Vince comes out, still in his wheelchair, and says it's not at all personal. It's just business. Rock has it all wrong, you see. Vince's issue with Rock is that he has a problem with the people, which means he has a problem with the people's champion. He just sees Rock as another piece of meat on the WWF roster and Vince continues to amaze. Vince announces Rock vs Henry where if Rock doesn't win by pinfall or submission, he'll be fired. However, if he wins, he can go right into Survivor Series. Vince calls him the people's ass and actually constructs a logical reason for that assessment. Rock says he'd much rather be the people's ass than to ever kiss Vince's and that's a segment.
  18. Loss
    This was a great tag match, reminiscent of the November tags from the previous year's league. It has a nice slow build that escalates to a really hot finishing stretch at the end. This is hurt in some ways by the crowd volume being turned down for the sake of the announcers, but I thought this was terrific overall. Delphin and Naniwa are the early aggressors before Hoshikawa and Yakushiji manage a comeback, leaving a final few minutes where this is anybody's to win. They may have overreached by doing such a long finishing stretch, but the work itself was outstanding and this was one of the best surprises of the year. A nice example of Michinoku Pro doing something really good even after their peak of 1996-1997 was behind them.
  19. Loss
    Arn sarcastically congratulates the NWO on taking six guys to beat the Disco Inferno in the previous match. He pleads with Bischoff to pull the trigger on Horsemen vs NWO. Benoit and Malenko have a few words and Flair wraps us up by congratulating Jesse Ventura and promises to take the big office one day, but says first he's going to take Eric's job in WCW. "Ric Flair is gonna one day tell Hulk Hogan what to do. WHOOO!" Flair has a few other great lines. Arn is right that it's time to pull the trigger on this. I like these segments, but something needs to happen now.
  20. Loss
    Rey has turned down previous invitations to join the LWO. If he loses this match, he has to join the group. This is a pretty solid match, but Eddy has to pull teeth to get a reaction, which surprises me in a strong wrestling town. Eddy works over Rey's injured knee and Rey sells it very well. Eddy ends up taking Rey's brace off and applying some awesome submissions. They think Rey has submitted, but it turns out the TV time expired, so Rey is not in the NWO. This would have been worlds better with time calls, as it would have added so much drama to this. A shame this didn't really get over.
  21. Loss
    I don't know what that means.
  22. Loss
    Taue got booed, especially in the early 90s. He probably got booed more consistently than anyone in the upper echelon of All Japan in the same time frame. I see what you're saying to an extent, but the crowd reaction lends cred to Taue as a strong heel.
  23. Loss

    Arn Anderson

    Loss replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    I tried searching for that recently and couldn't find it. If someone can find it, I really want to watch it.
  24. Loss

    Dump Matsumoto

    Loss replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    Dump Matsumoto is not really comparable to Hogan in my opinion. She wasn't nearly as formulaic or propped up by booking. Hogan generated heat by being pushed (most of the time) while Dump generated heat by doing awful things. I think a better comparison is Abdullah the Butcher, Mr. Pogo or The Sheik. If you like the madman types, you'll like Dump. I'd have her above all three of them myself.
  25. Loss
    Making cases for people based on what's on tape is what we do. What is the preferred method? How many World of Sport matches have you seen live?
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