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Disc 14 is another winner. Lawler vs. Dundee We get a post match angle with Lawler and Lance. This was awesome. Lawler has a black eye, puts over Dundee as his toughest opponent. Now the match is incredible and super heated. To get over the importance of the match the babyfaces and heels are seated around ringside and cheering and booing like they should. The match was built around nasty thrown punches and brawling. The bumps that these guys took were big. This was worked to perfection. The bout was hate filled. Lawler bleeding from the eye. Lance getting over the visual of the blood filling the eye was well done and enhanced the match. Their is pne punch exchange on the floor was amazing. The finish here is really great. Towards the end Dundee front clipped Lawler. He tries again and runs right into a Lawler punch. If anyone who has delivered this blow or recieved one knows this is a finish. When I was a goalie in the 8th grade, I came off the line to punch the ball while a player went for a header. I ended up punching the ball and my follow through knocked the player out cold. He went to the hospital, the football game next to us stopped because of the sound. On top of this Lawler delivers a pile driver. An easy 4 3/4 * match. Lawler vs, Man Mountain Link It's clipped and Lawler does the job for this stiff. Who is he? We get some promo from Hart with Link acting all weird. The break up between Kaufman and Hart is amazing. I can't put it over enough. The match with Hart/Kaufman vs. Lawler was so much fun. I smiled the whole way. Jerry Lawler & Austin Idol vs. Bruise Brothers This is a so so tag. Nothing wrong we are JIP 4 minutes in of an 11 minute match. I'd say it was in the 2 1/2 * range. Andy Kaufman vs. Jimmy Hart These guys have a real fun fight. It's worked in the vein of Corny and Paul E from 89. Kaufman is so hated in Memphis it turns Hart face for the match. Sweet Daddy comes in for the finish and they destroy Kaufman. Jerry Lawler + Andy Kaufman Kaufman begs Lawler to be his partner to face Hart. Andy Kaufman & Jimmy Hart + The Assassins / Jerry Lawler & Andy Kaufman vs. Assassin #1 & Jimmy Hart Andy turns on Lawler in the match. We get Andy in the studio and he's amazing. He gets the audience so hot. He has the crown on. This segment is amazing. Andy on this disc is amazing. Jerry Lawler vs. Ken Patera (JIP) (7/25/83) We get about 8 minutes of a 14 minute match. The work is solid, but plodding at times. I wish we would have seen it in whole. I'd say 2 1/2* match. erry Lawler & Austin Idol vs. Assassins (Arena Clips) (7/25/83) Jimmy Hart Interview + Andy Kaufman Promo (7/30/83) Jimmy Hart Interview & Andy Kaufman Promo (8/6/83) Andy Kaufman Promo + Jerry Lawler Interview + Jimmy Hart Response (8/13/83) Andy Kaufman Promo (8/20/13) All the promos and segments are great. Jerry Lawler, Austin Idol & Jimmy Valiant vs. The Assassins & Ken Patera We get 8 minutes of an 11 minute match. Valiant gets a huge pop.This is just a kick ass Memphis brawl. I couldn't keep my eyes off Valiant. He's such a character. We get chairs, and what Valiant does with the ref is must see. I'd say 4* Jerry Lawler Interview (8/27/83) (on Andy Kaufman) First Family Interview (9/3/83) We close out with this and it's great. The 1st family is huge. We also get a returning Bill Dundee. Oh yea. Also Cornette returns and seems much more polished after working on top in the small Georgia territory. He just seems like he has more pressence. What a great disc for promos, angles, and matches.

Corino really comes across as a real cool cat who loves wrestling.

Warrior. Their we go Jim Hellwig inducts the Warrior.

Some??? He has one of the 5 best piledrivers in my opinion.

Batista?

On the same show we reviewed Bob/Race I brought up Lawer/Race. Johnny and I love it. I thought Parv would fucking hate it.

Kahn and Larry are coming up Parv.

The Sammartino point is interesting. I will agree in the Larry Z feud he did sell for Larry. In a few if the matches we watched Bruno took a lot of the match. Volkoff comes to mind. When we watch the 70's footage I think we'll have a more rounded look at Bruno. My take Bruno would sell for people he respected. Some of the others were out on their own. Again though I'm open minded enough to wait to the 70's stuff to draw conclusions . He seems willing to Sell for Superstar Graham, Spiros Arion not so much.

Totally.

John I'm not a fan of the match. I really liked the headlock work mixed in with the Highspots. The cut offs were well done. My problem is I thought they were milking the cutoffs to building to Harley getting to kick some ass. We never got it so the match felt hollow to me . I felt they didn't do it was because they were establishing Bob as the superior champ. I get that. The finishing run was good. I feel if Harley got a true heat sequence I would have liked the match more. I watched it again for a 3rd time and liked it better than my 1st 2 viewings. Though it still is a flawed match. 2 3/4 * maybe 3. Mechanically the match was fine. I just felt the story was lacking.

Plus their's Parv's 3 faces of Flair which is pretty interesting to read through.

I agree with everything you say here. Except to the crowd they came away feeling that Bob was the real champ. Which I think the WWF was going for.

Parv I believe you are short changing Kelly . He understood the concept of why they were doing it too. Plus Kelly likes the match . I don't like it for a lot of the reasons you mentioned. Though I get the concept. He'll even the promos were designed to make Bob look good. Does it make it right . No, but if their goal was to make WWF champion stronger. Their goal was accomplished.

Wrestling isn't a movie. I don't like the match for a lot if the same reasons you don't, but I get why they did what they did. They wanted their champion look strong.

The basic wrestling concept is making the hometown boy who has to wrestle in MSG next month look strong. I'm not a fan of the match , but understand the concept behind it.

Loss that really is a good example of both brawls.

Loss scroll further down. It's there.

Now Scott I found it odd that you were more offended by Tony, while Heenan was busting out pineapple juice references aimed at Steamer. Liked the show guys.

Loss you said the Dustin/Buck match had a different sensibility than the Tag brawl. What exactly do you mean? Plus dirty south is great. cracked me up Loss great point about Harley. I said on Titans Harley was the best and worst manager of all time. Part of the problem is people like Steamboat sold for Harley like it was 78.

Listening to Meltzer pod kinda cool that Austin says he's only seen 1 Ray Stevens match, and is looking forward to see more.

LMAO

This is where I feel I might end up becoming.