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I think the reason the ability to have a few beers and get recognized in airports and other bullshit is seen how it is is probably because I don't think wrestlers distinguish being good in the ring from being good overall. I think they're more inclined to look at the overall package. And wrestlers who can live their gimmick around the clock amidst a brutal travel schedule are going to be respected.
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Calling spots audibly enough that they can be heard.
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We put on every single thing that was recommended. I would have loved to have included more lucha, but no one really spoke up and gave a full list of stuff we should consider. -
Last few minutes. Undertaker is face in peril and makes the hot tag to Austin. Austin gets a stunner on Road Dogg and pins him to retain the tag titles. Billy Gunn eats a chokeslam from Undertaker post-match. Austin tosses Undertaker a beer, which is the closest thing he can ever give to an apology, and Undertaker gets a huge pop for chugging the beer. But Kane and Mankind attack Austin from behind. Undertaker comes to the rescue and that's a wrap.
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Lawler reports that Vince has ruled that since body paint does not constitute a bikini, so Sable is disqualified from the contest and Jacqueline is the winner. She is hilarious selling this like it's the happiest moment of her life. Sable said she doesn't need the stupid victory trophy, as the fans spoke for themselves. She thinks Vince should have been man enough to tell her this to her face, which brings him out. Vince has dealt with a lot of ingrates that he's made stars, but he never thought Sable would be in that category. Vince gets pelted with a drink and tells fans next time they do that, they'll hit her. Vince points out that he brought Sable back because of her overwhelming popularity and that he does everything he can for WWF fans. But people like Sable are a dime a dozen. Vince could snap his fingers and replace Sable with any number of bimbos and airheads just like that. Vince tells Sable she owes him and says he generally collects when people like her owe him. He tells her she can stay gamefully employed in the WWF as long as she doesn't become an ungrateful bitch. When Vince turns his back, Sable flips him off. Then she strips to her bikini. This was AWESOME. Vince is THE MAN.
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Val is in the shower with Mrs. Yamaguchi-san.
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Fun workrate-style match with everyone involved looking really good. As layouts go, this is pretty much every triple threat match, but they keep the action moving and the crowd is into it. I like that X-Pac is being presented on equal footing with HHH and Rock. Both guys would eventually shoot past him, and rightfully so, but this was a good time period for him. HHH and X-Pac end up fighting each other and don't notice that Rock took the IC title and bailed. Good stuff.
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Pretty famous match obviously. I didn't realize this was so long. A deserved boring chant starts until the place goes insane for the surprise finish. Surreal. I kept looking for signs Jim Ross was trying to gain his composure but he was a pro.
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This segment is so 90s.
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Undertaker demands Austin come out and apologize to him. Instead, we are greeted by Vince's voice mocking that idea. Vince still thinks Undertaker and Kane are conspiring - he thinks Undertaker only tombstoned Kane to quell the rumors. He wisely pointed out that it took three tombstones to beat Kane at Wrestlemania and only one at Fully Loaded, so he's not buying the story. Vince says if anyone deserves an apology, it's him. "Do you realize what you did to me? You put your hands on me last week." - Vince's delivery of that is great Vince announces Austin-Undertaker vs New Age Outlaws for tonight. As Vince demands his apology, Austin comes out. Austin plans on fighting the NAO tonight straight up, but flips Undertaker off when he demands the apology.
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This is a lot different from their 1997 match because DDP actually gets a decent amount of offense. I like that progression. Hogan also has a tendency to look far more credible against Page than he does anyone else for whatever reason. This doesn't go as long as the '97 version either. The NWO run in when Page has the match won before the Wolfpac enter the ring and we have a pier-six brawl. Goldberg comes out to join the fracas (to nowhere near the pop he got earlier before that interview) and clears the ring before Giant attacks him from behind and gives him a chokeslam. I realize he's the world champion now and they have to set up feuds, but I don't think Giant laying him out was wise either. He lost some steam on this particular evening.
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God, this was such a mistake. There was no reason for this guy to ever speak. He stumbles through an interview. He tries and it's not terrible, but it's not really good either and it's a really poor decision that chips away at some of his aura. We should still not know what he sounds like. And why does he need the full court security entrance just to do an interview? On a complete side note, I always hated that entrance. I thought it made him look like an entitled prima donna who couldn't be bothered to leave his locker room even when his music was playing, not to mention that having all that security made him seem like kind of a coward. I think too much.
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Here it is - Dean's last chance! As much as this has been built up as a personal feud, they make some decisions in how to work this match that I don't quite understand. Jericho has worked so hard to be hated, yet he's busting out all of these highspots. Malenko is doing sunset flip-type rollups, instead of grounding Jericho and punching him in the face. They're playing it too straight, and the hatred that was there in the build, while not completely absent, is awfully subdued. This is a technically good cruiserweight match, but this feud demanded something bigger. Good match, but not the right match. This is so well-worked that I hate to bag on it too much, as they had the crowd biting on some of those nearfalls and pulled out some really cool new spots. But they had an issue, which didn't seem to matter at all until it was time to do the finish. I love the DQ I will say. Some may like this more than me, and I can see the argument for ranking it higher than I will.
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Last few minutes. The biggest problem the WWF had at this time, which was somewhat unavoidable, was that they had so little depth on top that it became tough to distinguish their TV and PPV main events. We've seen so many combinations of these four guys, and while they weren't at the point yet where it was completely stale, this wasn't really a worthy PPV main event either. Undertaker stands on the apron, leaving Austin to work most of this match by himself. But when Austin makes the hot tag, Undertaker seems to have a change of heart. Crowd comes unglued for that, because they frame it as an end to the conspiracy rumors. Undertaker pins Kane, which gives Austin and Undertaker the tag titles, giving us the second version of Tag Team Partners Who Hate Each Other to build up a main event feud.
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The video package before the "match" makes me happy because of all the awful insults that are so bad they manage to be good. Dustin leading the crowd in prayer before the match is perfectly timed. Jacqueline has a wardrobe malfunction. Lawler hosts and acts like he has never seen boobs before, as always. Sable has the handprints painted on her chest and no actual top. Sable sure likes being naked. Vince comes out to make Sable put on his blazer before escorting her away. I am not the target audience for this.
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Holy shit! I could have watched this all day. This was an absolute barnburner, probably the best five-minute match of all time. There's the brutality and creativity of the spots, but this also has great psychology. Owen is the more resourceful one, which makes sense because he knows the room! I feel like I could write so, so much about this. They are laying in their shots knowing they are being filmed up close. A match this short has no business being this great. I want a longer match between these two. Looking forward to Summerslam. This blew me away.
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Honma sure is awesome. I didn't expect to like this nearly as much as I did, and putting it in words is tough when they're doing a style that I loathe. I don't know if it's Honma's athleticism or selling or just the blood-soaked visual, but he really turned what I expected to be crap into something awfully compelling. This is quite the violent spectacle, with Shadow tying the barbed wire around Honma's head and punching the shit out of him, making him look like some type of war-scarred Messiah. I can't believe I'm watching some of this stuff, and Honma doing a diving headbutt with barbed wire wrapped around his forehead is ridiculous. I'm conflicted - how can I love a match that has a lot of what I hate in wrestling in it? I don't know, but I do.
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Lawler and Dundee are suddenly a team again. The more things change ... Lawler sure is proud of his action figure, because he's been hawking it on Memphis TV for nearly a year at this point. Fun TV match while it lasts. Cool to see that Travis still had it in 1998. I don't recognize the Russian guy who does the run-in. Lawler and Dundee's valet seems to be doing a Baby Doll tribute.
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Downtown Bruno escorts Hales out in a neckbrace and wheelchair. He says Lawler tried to kill him at Mid South Coliseum. Brandon Baxter assures Hales he has his back, but runs off as soon as Lawler shows up. Lawler ends up wheeling Hales out of the building and takes his key! I don't think there are too many circumstances where a babyface dumping a guy in a wheelchair onto the ground is acceptable, regardless of the context.
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I love these Power Pro video packages for Mid South Coliseum matches. It's an interesting way of presenting arena footage that looks really fresh. Lawler knows how to work with monster types, so the match doesn't look completely horrid, but that could just be the slo-mo effects and music talking. Hales got his hands on Lawler. He is below Vince in many ways, but one significant way is in how much less awkward Vince's physical involvement tends to look. Looks like Hales took a big run of piledrivers. This week, Hales is nowhere to be found and Lawler is in the production truck running the show. He wants to show everyone at Power Pro what it's like to have a fan-friendly guy running the show and cues up his music while Stacy hands out free merchandise. I liked this segment.
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Venom is DVDVR favorite Joey Abs, and now I can finally see him and see what all the hoopla was about at the time. I thought this was a great, if flawed, tag team match given plenty of time to develop. The Hardys dominated for a long time in the early part of this match, to the point that I think the Heel In Peril stuff may have gone a little long. But once this got cooking with Jeff as FIP, it really got cooking. These guys are definitely working for heat, but they aren't pandering for it, and they are also incorporating modern highspots into the usual tag formula. This was looking like a group of young guys that had a different outlook on heat and athleticism when it started, one where the attempts to do the heel/face stuff are very much still there, but because kayfabe is eroded, it has to be more subdued than it would have been ten years earlier. But then they brought in a table for the finish and lost me. I'll give them credit for at least making it a finish when they did the big table spot, but a well-worked 30-minute tag team match laid the groundwork for a finish much different than that. This is excessive, but not in the way people often associate 90s wrestling with excess - this is less guys doing a bunch of stupid stuff and more guys who are obviously full of ideas and overreaching in some ways because they are so enthusiastic about what they are doing. The stuff they're doing is great, but they are cramming ideas that would get them through three or four big matches into one match. I still loved this in spite of that. I even found it endearing, if only because it felt like they were making a statement. But I'd be remiss if I didn't point it out.
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This is a beautiful wrestling match. Kobashi goes out of his way to make Akiyama look great by giving him so much of the match, and Akiyama does some outstanding work on Kobashi's bad knee. It's the obvious route, sure, but it's also the best route for this match. What impressed me here was the variety from both guys - Akiyama has a lot of varied offense focused on the knee while Kobashi's brief teased comebacks are full of all kinds of great striking and lariats, with the final one being enough to eek out a win for him. If there's a flaw here (and it's debatable that it is one), it's Kobashi getting so decimated in his first Triple Crown title defense. But the flip side to that is that Akiyama looks like a world beater. I thought this was a total classic. I need to reflect more, but I think it's my #2 MOTY right now.
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When did Scott Keith talk about Hashimoto? Great American Bash '92 review? He had that same effect on me with regards to Gedo. While Gedo is hardly a consistently great worker, he's pretty far from the horrible embarrassment of a worker he was made out to be.
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We're trying to coordinate the right people to do a 1992 show.
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Yeah, forgot him.