Childs
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Really liked the opening of the tag match, playing off of last year. The Big E power stuff on Kane looked cool. Match was a fun burst of action overall. Can't complain too much about the first hour of the show.
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The Shellshock after the match was stupid. If you want that to be the moment, make it the moment. I liked the original finish fine. The bearhug stuff was a bad idea in that setting. A lot of the fans probably weren't predisposed to like the match, so stick to the high-impact stuff. Henry's power offense always looks great.
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Opener was good though not as good as the last Shield PPV match. Didn't think the Show thing was a turn as much as playing out the theme that they couldn't work as a team. I'm not sure the crowd noise is going to come across well at any point in the show.
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Dylan, can you hurry up and watch the Tanahashi-Okada and confirm for us that it was the greatest match of all time.
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This was a straight spotfest but damn, those were some impressive spots. I agree with Loss that it was more impressive than the Steiners' more heralded matches from 3/21 and 5/19. Scott was lucky he didn't kill Hase with his shitty Frankensteiner at the end. Otherwise, everything looked great. -
Anytime the Liger mask gets ripped off to reveal a pissed Keichi Yamada, it's a good thing. He delivered a furious beating that made this match memorable. Their 4/30 match was better; Liger's fury was such that his dominance carried on a bit long and became one-note. The execution of the finish seemed dodgy as well. That said, kudos to them for keeping the feud lively by doing something different and compelling.
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I've never quite gotten why this match was so acclaimed. It was a very good example of Jumbo being generous with a lower-ranked guy and of Kobashi doing Kobashi stuff. But Dave had it as one of the promotion's best matches of the year, and jdw had it as his No. 19 All Japan match of the decade. Just for the year to date, I have it behind Jumbo's singles matches against Misawa and Kawada.
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I need to rewatch this. I always find it technically strong but only modestly engaging.
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Wilkins was a top-notch offensive wrestler as we saw in his 1990 match against Waltman. I loved how he tried to get nasty with Fujiwara, which is the rough equivalent of trying to pinch a crab. Fujiwara's almost casual joy in taking him out was a lot of fun to watch.
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They cut a hell of a pace for shootstyle, with very little lying around in 25 minutes. I remember being stunned at Shamrock's performance the first time I saw this. If anything, he was the more dynamic guy for most of the match. It felt like Sano had to dig up all his tricks just to survive this super-athletic attacker. Great finish too with Sano pouring on the offense. I knew this was a favorite, and it didn't disappoint this time around.
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Where the 12/7/90 match between the Horsemen and Doom felt like a full match at less than 10 minutes, this really could have used more time. The intensity and stiffness were great. But for a match that was built to mean something in perhaps the promotion's best feud, it just kind of ended. I'm not sure it's better than their 4/6 TV match, which surprised me.
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I 've never been a fan of this match and saw it the same way as Pete on this viewing. The opening minutes paid off the dream match billing, but the whole thing petered out from there on the way to an unsatisfying finish. I get why people liked it at the time. That doesn't make it good.
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Yeah, bringing in Fujinami was just stupid. He was a great wrestler, of course, but he wasn't going to do any of the stuff that might have gotten him over quickly. Though the work was solid, it wasn't anything special, even in purely mechanical terms. I can't really blame the fans for not reacting. WCW booking was deep in the toilet.
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I've always really liked this match and regard it as a contender for Gordy's best singles outing in All Japan. Nothing deep, just a heavyweight bombfest that got the crowd rolling. It might have benefited from being JIP.
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That was completely bizarre and in no way explained by anything in the story. Not like it's a slow week for content.
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Do we have to do this again? Didn't we pretty well cover it in the first 348 posts?
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The 911 call is public information that fills in details on the death of a person who's of interest to readers/viewers. We can try to pretend we live in a world where it's possible for good taste (a relative concept anyway) to trump that desire to know. But we don't live in that world.
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It's not at all uncommon for 911 calls to be released to the public. I don't see the philosophical problem with that.
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This continued the extremely strong in-ring year for USWA. I see where Shoe is coming from: there is a little cognitive dissonance when you see them wearing the jeans and boots and they don't go completely nuts. But this was a heck of match, structured yet nasty. Jarrett and Fuller looked like one of the best teams in the world, which is not something I would have expected to say coming into this set. And the finishing stretch clicked, which hasn't been a given with all of the good USWA matches.
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The dive train was about the greatest thing ever. It would take a coldhearted bastard to complain about a match that pitted prime Super Porky against Popitekus. The Brazos have dominated the lucha on the yearbook to date, which has led to a very different feel than we got in 1990 with all the Dandy-Satanico stuff. But I'm never sorry when they come on the screen.
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This was probably the worst of the early Onita matches we've seen on the yearbooks. The explosions sounded impressive and popped the crowd, but the broadcast didn't do a good job of conveying what they meant to the wrestlers in terms of damage. And it seemed foolish for Onita to waste an explosion on Pogo's henchmen with half the match left to go. Onita was the master of dramatic comebacks. In this match, he didn't seem to be coming back from anything.
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I liked this a bunch and thought it made an awesome 1-2 pairing with Liger-Honaga. I agree that Hase was very good in the match, but honestly, everyone brought plenty of intensity. I've liked young Sasaki a lot more than expected as the power-explosiveness complement to Hase the workhorse. Choshu was one of the great tag wrestlers of all time because of his ability to make the big moments count. And he certainly did that here with those lariats. No fat on this match.
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Loss nailed it by saying these guys created a "big" feeling. Honaga was best when he really embraced his heel side, which he did here with the mask ripping, etc. As a result, I got the feeling Liger was fighting for something in a way that hadn't come across since the end of the Sano feud. The finishing stretch was exceptional with genuine swings in momentum rather than my-turn-your-turn moves. And the crowd gave them the appreciation they earned. This could easily hold up as the best Japanese juniors match of the year.
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Great opening that didn't portend a great match as it turned out. Both matches that we have between these guys were entertaining but slight.
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I tried to read the piece about this movie on the WON site, but it was incoherent even by WON contributor standards. Anybody here seen a screener? Thoughts?