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  1. WingedEagle
    After the progression through the first quarter with back & forth matches in the feud, this feels bigger than the 1/4 match. Choshu with a slap as ref separates them in case you forgot they dn't like each other. Basic Struggle over strikes and control in the corner feels tense and important. It slows down a little as Choshu works a for scorpion, slightly reinforcing that Choshu looks better in tags. Nice lunging elbow from Tenryu, then working his kicks and foot scrapes for good heel heat. Choshu struggles to block but eventually eats a powerbomb, only to take a diving elbow from Tenryu on the floor. Choshu is busted open and they blow the spot flipping Tenryu to the floor but recover nicely. Choshu superplex for a big high spot. Riki Lariato and backdrop suplex for near falls aplenty. Awesome top rope knee to Tenryu's back. Powerbomb for near fall, then Tenryu hits an enzuigiri and another power bomb while continuing to sell. He's incredible at mixing in selling while controlling. Tenryu hits his top rope back elbow, but Choshu comes back with a backdrop suplex. Tenryu kicks out of another lariat. DDT and 3 lariats finish Tenryu. I can see why some don't like it because its not as quick as some others in the feud, but it was a lot of fun. Kojima looks so young at ringside here. Big win for Choshu, and didn't knock Tenryu down or reduce my interest in Tenryu vs. Hash. ****
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    Dragon dropkicks Liger outside the ropes at the bell. Liger's strikes and pacing so great, especially for juniors who often don't even pause to breath. Looking forward to him vs. heavies. Samurai/Dragon sequence very smooth, really working in sync with one another. Honaga drapes Samurai over the ropes and goes to work on him with dropping him on the knee, camel clutch, bodyslams. Awesome Liger palm blows on Honaga. I was never too hot for Dragon even when he was touted as something incredible back in the WCW days, but his matwork here is really great and Samurai seems pretty underrated in that regard. Dragon sends Liger to the floor, but quickly rebounds and then Honaga lariat inside and a dive train that sees Dragon tope to the floor, Samurai somersault plancha and Honaga dive. Liger eats a tombstone, spike piledriver and jumping piledriver, but still can't be put away. He hot tags Samurai and they have a little run before Dragon pins Samurai with an Asai moonsault and rana. Would have rather seen Liger eat the pin after all those piledrivers. I enjoyed this. ***1/2
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    Video clips of Sandman in his surfer gimmick to Billy Joel's "Big Shot." How about Surfing Sandman vs. Scotty Flamingo? Safe to say he eventually found his true calling.
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    ECW! Jay Sulli and Stevie Wunderful. Tod Gordon out with the ECW title which will go to a tournament winner, and says a living legend will join the announce team, but Eddie Gilbert is out. Clip of Terry Funk on Quantum Leap sets him up as third announcer.
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    Bret takes Yoko down with a flying clothesline, then Yoko bumps into an exposed corner and Bret applies sharpshooter. Fuji throws salt in Bret's eyes and Yoko pins him to win the title -- super weak finish. Hogan out immediately, as in before Yoko even gets his hands on the actual belt, explaining how Bret was robbed. Now that is opportunism. Fuji challenges Hogan right then and Hart nobly tells him to go for it. Hogan in, ducks Fuji salt and Yoko takes it. Clothesline, leg drop and Hogan wins the title. We get our 2nd Hogan posing session of the night. Wrestlemania 9.
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    We jump to Beefcake hot tagging Hogan, who lays out Dibiase & IRS after a ref bump. Jimmy Hart flips his jacket to reveal referee stripes and counts the pin after an eternity. They take the tag belts but another ref is out who revives Hebner and its called a DQ. Hogan celebrates and cups ears with Beefcake & Hart in the ring. An absolute ridiculous amount of time wasted on that. They open Money Inc's briefcase with a brick and cash, and hand some money to people ringside. Hogan interview backstage afterwards. His eye is gross. Challenges the winner of Hart-Yoko, he wants Hart or the Jap. Well this was certainly terrible.
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    Gorilla introduces Jim Ross in his WWF debut, in a toga. I guess its just their version of rookie hazing. Double main event of Hart vs. Yoko and Hogan & Beefcake vs. Money Inc. Caesar & Cleopatra ride into the arena. Savage carried out next. Then Heenan out backwards on a camel for comedy.
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    Sullivan is fed grapes by a good looking woman (lowercase w) while lying on a couch in his shrink's office. He's still coming for Brian Lee. I know he's short, but Sullivan is a great, crazed heel.
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    Cornette promo setting up a tag title match with the Studds. He then says the Beat the Champ challenger for Eaton's TV Title match next week will be picked today, and Caudle picks Tom Pritchard as his opponent. Love Cornette's reaction.
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    Basic promo by Hart the day before Mania, not afraid of Yoko and a little sore from the attack at the contract signing, but otherwise in okay shape.
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    Vince & Lawler find HBK tanning on a cloudy day at Caesars, talking about Tatanka, who's luck will run out.
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    Savage promo heading into Memphis to face Lawler.
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    Nothing so special, but Raven is clearly pretty incredibly versatile as a performer and wrestling mind.
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    Loved the pre-match promos from Studd Stable with them doing bicep curls, then hearing from RNR & Arn. Great stuff. Pritchard remains my favorite promo in the Bodies group. Crowd is really hot for this, with even a strong face pop for the Studds. Say what you want about the horrific mini movies, but I am most bitter towards 1993 WCW for Stealing Robert Fuller. Dutch working Pritchard with his whip, Lane using a garbage can lid, there's so much happening its kind of tough to follow. Fuller whipping people with his belt. Garbage can, singapore cane, tire around Eaton's neck, just chaos. Fans pelting the ring with trash. Eaton hangs Gibson. Lots of juice, especially Pritchard. Dutch goes after Cornette but Pritchard saves. Gibson pins Fuller to eliminate the Studds in an awful booking decision. Bodies with a pair of rocket launchers onto Morton, but Gibson saves. Arn in with a fire extinguisher and DDTs all 3 Bodies. Gibson figure fours Cornette but Pritchard hits him with a supposed loaded knee and the Bodies win. How can Cornette dump on ECW when this is what he's doing? Tough to rate as a match, but a fun spectacle and probably great fun live. ***1/4
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    Nice savate kick by Smothers sends DWB to the floor. They work surprisingly well early on with the chain not really limiting things as it often does. I still don't get how the Confederate Flag works as a babyface prop in 1993. Or I do, but, yeah, that's for another time and place. Really effective shine from Smothers here with his offense and working the crowd. Smothers goes to the top but White Boy yanks the chain to crotch him in a nice transition. Smothers blades from the chain and DWB works that over. Feels like a textbook gimmick match, which is a good thing. Smothers with a great crimson mask as we're on a nice run of blood between this and Hokuto. Smothers pulls DWB off the top and works him with punches and a jumping elbow. Wright trips Smothers as he's carrying DWB around to touch the posts. They do the bit where each touches the turnbuckles when dragged around, then DWB flips Smothers over which lets him touch the 4th post in a pretty creative finish to win the SMW Title. Really fun match & finish. Lance Russell interviews Smothers post-match before DWB attacks. Can't be sure without looking back over my yearbook rankings, but right up near the top of SMW's best matches. ***3/4
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    Heels attack early and clear the ring before Konnan comes back as superman but is taken down 3 on 1. Universo tries to take off Santo's mask and the heel beatdown continues. Caras standing on Konnan's back isn't exactly impactful offense. Heels clear the ring again. Faces are back to take over before it resets and Caras takes out an oblivious Konnan. Santo takes a nice backdrop. Santo with a nice somersault senton, but Caras immediately rips his mask off and Eddy covers his face. Looks like that was a DQ for first fall. 3 on 2 to start the second fall, until Santo returns. Universo accidentally takes out Ano 2000 on a dive and Eddy & Santo to senton him on floor. This leaves Konnan/Caras inside where Konnan pins Caras to win after ref was distracted on a Caras fall. Seems to build for their stadium match, but the issue doesn't feel all that heated or special. Lucha has not been knocking my socks off in 1993. **3/4
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    You could go with those 2 sentences, or even just 1 of them, and get the picture here. Intensity for Hash/Tenryu at the start is great. Stiff kicks and chops are great. Hash's kicks are almost the New Japan version of Misawa's elbows as a supreme equalizer. Tenryu's offense is so basic but he mixes it up with his speeds, intensity, facials and selling into an all time great package. Just spectacular. Tenryu throws down ref as the road team are clearly the faces here. Hash murders Tenryu with kicks on the ropes, but Ishikawa cuts him off with a great kick. Hash''s nose is busted open. Tenryu powerbombs Hash but Choshu breaks it up. Hash pins Ishikawa with a jumping DDT after countering with a kick while Tenryu tied up with Choshu. Tenryu keeps it going afterwards. Tenryu vs. Hash singles is still the big dream match teased and pushed. They've done such a good job building it that it almost has to be a little underwhelming when it comes, because the push has been that great. Almost. More greatness from this feud. ***3/4
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    The brawling here starts before the bell even begins. This may be on WAR's turf, but the crowd is definitely pro-NJPW. Kosh & Ohara are ripping at Machine's mask early on because these guys hate at each other and aren't here to work holds. Saito, who's in a gi for some reason, is surprisingly enough the standout here as he's just on fire when he tags in and the crowd picks up on it right away. Hara chopping the hell out of Saito. Kosh & Hara trading headbutts before a butt bump. Kitahara is tossed outside where he eats a sliding kick from Kosh and follows up with chairshots, a posting and DDT. VIOLENCE! Fuyuki is piledrived on a table. Saito in with kicks to Hara and rips his own gi off. Kitahara kicks the hell out of Kobayashi and hits a German on Kosh for a near fall. Kitahara climbs the rope but in absolutely fitting fashion a chair is thrown at him which sets him up for a Kosh powerbomb for the win. This didn't feature the feud's aces, but slots in nicely to the story of this feud because of it. Not everything on a card can be a main event. I feel like I'm saying it at at every turn, but probably my favorite feud ever. ***1/2
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    That would be an absolute riot. Probably too good of a promo to fit within the standards they'd insist upon.
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    This is absolutely the key here as not only did they put on an all timer, but everything had to time to breathe and sink in as opposed to rushing into the next spot. This is ridiculously stiff from the opening elbow KO by Hokuto, who follows it up talking trash. WAR. Kandori now wrenching Hokuto's wrist & shoulder, and she sells it outside. The stiffness continues with slaps, knees and forearms. Kandori is zeroed in on Hokuto's shoulder with submissions and looks like she will in fact rip it off of her body. Kandori breaks out some Tenryu foot scrapes. Now we get the tombstone that dents the table which is just crazy. Hokuto does her all-time blade job there, selling the tombstone as killer and coming up a mess. Kandori continues the attack with punches and kicks to the head, now keying in on the wound. Hokuto catches a kick and takes it back outside, bashing Kandori into into the seats and railing. Again, this is a classic blade job. We call it wrestling, but this is violence more analogous to Sullivan/Kanemura only with intensity and emotion rather than an over the top horror movie vibe. Kandor is bloodied as well. She fights back in the ring, dumps Hoktuo and hits a plancha, then returns to the arm and shoulder attack. Again, Hokuto's selling here is out of this world. Such great struggle working toward the ropes looking for a break. Hokuto's blonde hair and face are literally red now. You almost wonder if this was lacking a little heat at this stage due to shock at the violence. We then get a fitting and awesome finishing stretch that is taken to another level with Hokuto flooring Kandori with a spin kick, then somersault plancha and a dropkick to the floor that is just insanity. Big pop for the northern lights bomb, but Kandori counters with an armbar. Hokuto with a near fall countering into a high angle backdrop suplex. Northern lights bomb only gets 2 as crowd is with it finally into it. Kandori hits one of her own for near fall. Hokuto KO punch. Kandori KO punch. Both up and they hit double KO punches for the finish. Kandori up first while Hokuto is in tears and bleeding buckets, needing help just to get out of the ring. Absolute classic. Having already finished 1993, I've got no problems stating this was my Match of the Year. The Tag League finals and Dream Slam 2 tag were close, but they weren't this. To this point the only Kandori I've seen is what's been highlighted on the '93 yearbook and first quarter of '94. But based on that she seems like one of the more under-appreciated workers out there. ***** easy, and it rarely snows that much.
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    Great lighting and production here for an AJW show. Good exchanges with Takako & Oz early before Kyoko & Suzuki are in for giant swing and quicker pace. Suzuki back with German on Takako and Oz comes in to kick & stomp her, because she is awesome and can do this. Nice quick tagging by both squads throughout. Kyoko goes for a shoulder off the top, but Oz stops her and hits a nice somersault dive. Cuty dragon suplexes Kyoko for a near fall, then she and Oz hit 5 successive top rope stomps before Takako breaks it up. That looked painful and was great. Kyoko pulls off a power bomb on Oz and is finally able to tag out. Oz flips out a couple powerbomb attempts as well as an armdrag and counters with a rana because she is the man. I seriously love her. Along with Bull easily one of my 2 favorite women. Kyoko does hit another power bomb but Suzuki with a last second save. Interesting to see Oz the one bailed out here down the stretch. Takako eventually slams Oz off of Kyoko's shoulders for the win. Ozaki! She makes everything good. ****
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    Yoko attacks Bret at the contract signing and Banzai Drops him. Hart manages to get back up, then falls down, which puts him over as stronger than anyone else that had taken the Banzai to that point. Then we get a Hart video to "Respect" with clips of him against various opponents and Yoko looking menacing.
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    Barry takes simple moves like an armdrag so well and smoothly for a guy his size. Dustin sells for a bit, great powerslam and then 6 way with the heels colliding in the middle. Steamboat wins with a flying crossbody. Not bad but pretty short and given who was involved it didn't meet expectations. **3/4
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    Can't wait for the Payne/Hammer feud. Feels like a really bad guitar hero commercial.
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    Incredible leapfrog by Brian Hildebrand over both of them, which sees Cornette slug Horner with the racket letting Eaton get the pin and win the Beat the Champ TV Title.
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