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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. -
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?
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I didn't insist that anyone feel deep emotion about Reid Flair's passing. And I don't think it was "lashing out" to suggest that the amateur background comment seemed a little out of proportion with the sudden death of a 25-year-old. That said, Neil's follow-up comments have been perfectly reasonable, and I have no desire to fight about it.
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It's too bad that he got addicted to heroin and died because he once seemed like a good amateur? That's really the root of the tragedy for you?
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How do you know that they didn't try to get him help?
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[1991-04-27-WCW-Worldwide] Barry Windham vs Brian Pillman
Childs replied to Loss's topic in April 1991
Are you sure you have the right match? Didn't think this one compared well to either the 4/6 match or the taped fist match, though it was solid stuff for TV. -
I'm generally fine with Honaga, but this was a Benoit production all the way. He contributed all of the interesting offense, and frankly, the bumps he took on missed moves seemed a lot more devastating than anything Honaga hit. As a result, Honaga's flash pin off a short clothesline bordered on preposterous.
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[1991-04-27-WCW-Saturday Night] Interview: Nikita Koloff
Childs replied to Loss's topic in April 1991
I don't get the sense that even Nikita believed in his character at this point. -
Fuller was an impressive guy physically, and it was strange to watch this match with the knowledge that he'd be Col. Parker in the not-distant future.
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[1991-04-29-AJW] Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs Manami Toyota & Esther Moreno
Childs replied to Loss's topic in April 1991
I often feel a disconnect with FLIK's joshi picks but not in this case. This was a hell of a fun match. Big and nasty vs. little and courageous is one of your classic wrestling dynamics, and they played it to the hilt. Moreno and Toyota did a great job of establishing their approach in the first fall; they had to swarm from every direction at 100 mph to have a chance. Then, Moreno turned in a great face-in-peril segment complete with lots and lots of blood. I've now really liked her in both that elimination match from late 1990 and in this. The finishing stretch was all action, but it felt like a greater payoff than your typical AJW spotfest because the body of the match had established the underlying dynamic between the teams. The whole thing came off wild and exciting without being stupid. -
This felt like a clear step up from their 1990 match. They still did the flashy stuff, but they worked a lot harder when going for basic holds and fighting for ring position. As a result, this felt like a contest more than an exhibition.
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Horner wasn't as good at baseball as Doc was at wrestling. And yes, Windham should feel insulted by that comparison. He was more like a Cesar Cedeno or even a Dick Allen. I have an irrational love for ballplayer-wrestler comparisons.