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  1. WingedEagle
    Armstrong there to promote the elimination team match at Bluegrass Brawl. Every wrestling TV show should have an Arn Anderson promo. In 1994, 2004 or 2014.
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    Dutch has a background in pre-law, pre-mid and pre-psychiatry, so he's going to dig a little with Sullivan. Sullivan calls him Doctor, identifies himself as Master of the Wrestling Universe. Lying down in the ring. Sullivan submitted a list of match stipulations for wrestling Brian Lee. Sounds like stips will be determined by rolling the dice. Typically good stuff from Sully.
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    DWB with a promo supposedly from Central Park, promoting a chain match with Smothers. Ron Wright never lost a chain match and he won't bring shame on it. Simple but effective, makes you want to see the match. Cut to another vignette where he takes the chain to a bag of flour and a melon.
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    The champs -- both Steamboat and Douglas -- look great dominating the early action here. I like that they highlight Douglas's knee injury from the Omni attack. We even get Steamboat & Douglas effectively using an abdominal stretch, tagging in & out and going back to stretching Austin. The extended shine for the champions and announcers focusing on Douglas's knee telegraphs a title change, but that's a good thing. Pillman chokes Douglas outside with his towel to give Austin control. Pillman lays out Steamboat and brawls with him on the floor which lets Austin continue choking Douglas in the ring as the Blonds are now working like a regular team rather than a makeshift pairing. Steamboat eventually in on a hot tag, cleaning house to a big pop building since the Blonds' towel antics. Steamboat with a flying cross body and then avoids an incoming Austin attack leaving Pillman to take it for a near fall. Austin nails Steamboat with the belt while the ref is distracted and Pillman covers him to win the titles. Great finishing stretch. ***3/4
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    Lots of heel stalling and complaining by Christopher. Lawler with good punches, then Christopher pulls something out of his tights and decks Lawler. Harlem Knights (Mo and Mabel!) interfere and lay out Lawler. Funny they say Mo is 325 pounds. At least I think they were referring to Mo.
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    Michaels promo sitting at the pool talking about Jarrett challenging the IC Champion. Promo isn't anything so great, but he's already got awesome heel presence.
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    Duggan at a lumber yard, has a brand new 2x4 for Yokozuna.
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    Cool video,then cuts to Hacksaw, Tatanka, Bossman. Almost sounds like a Survivor Series promo though. Fun enough, but doesn't feel too unique.
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    Bombs, escalating hatred between partners and another step for the elbow as the ultimate killswitch in wrestling. Conditioned to domestic wrestling you want some definitive angle splitting this team but perhaps it really was best the way it played out over years without any inciting incident. ****1/4
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    Who are his investors and what do they believe they're buying?
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    Can we put Steamboat/Savage and by virtue Mania 3 as one of the more overrated of all time? There's a match that doesn't do much for me.
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    Great staredown between Tenryu and Fujinami, with Fujinami then laying out Tenryu while he's talking to Choshu. Dropkick and plancha and the building comes unglued. Fujinami & Choshu control early as they work holds at a slower clip than typical for this feud. Even at that slow pace, Choshu & Fujinami are just so great at projecting hate and how important this is. Tenryu always seems able to pull out a desperation enzuigiri to stem NJ's efforts. Tenryu wrenching a half crab on Fujinami and then Ishikawa putting him in dragon sleeper to good heat. You have to love Choshu in tags, working the apron and then coming in with great fury. Here he nails Ishikawa with a a running elbow and 2 backdrop suplexes that set up a lariat for a near fall that Tenryu has to save. Ishikawa eventually pins Fujinami with a running lariat. Too short to be great, but the heat and character work in this feud are top notch, and Ishikawa taking the win is a nice wrinkle. ***3/4
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    Clips of Cindy Crawford, Leslie Neilsen, Hogan, Savage at Landon Awards. More stuff on WWF superstars telling kids not to smoke, do drugs, etc. Closes with a shot of Vince which identifies him as CEO. Then more of Hogan speaking, introducing McMahon for an award from the charity. Extended time for Hogan should've been a sign he was coming back for more than just Mania. Solid speech from Vince. Then we cut to a video announcing Andre for the WWF HOF. Great footage of him with Hogan celebrating title win, on Carson, with Vince, other classic shots. Nice video.
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    Man was this ever underwhelming. Lots of trading moves and clumsy countering by Malenko. Just feels like they'll hit a spot then pause and regroup for the next one. Even Liger seems less engaged than usual as I can't pin this all on Malenko. Liger catches Malenko coming out of the corner in a frankensteiner for the pin out of nowhere. On to the next one. **1/2
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    Anderson says he's dirty and capable of doing to the Bodies just what Sullivan did to the Japanese kid. Typically great promo from one of the best.
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    One of the few SMW angles I vividly remember hearing about back in the day. Sullivan attacks when Caudle is attempting a pre-match interview. Kanemura is busted open right away and we've got blood splashing on fans as he has a gross cut above his eye. Loved the visual of disgust on a mother's face as her young kids look on from point blank range. Disgusted or not, that family isn't going anywhere. Sullivan is just ripping at Kanemura's face. Kanemura surprisingly gets a little comeback with kicks and chops, which ends when Sullivan spikes his arm out of nowhere. Digging the spike into his arm while TV censors it. Nighstalker prevents anyone from saving until Brian Lee is in and bails out Kanemura. Sick, sick angle. And AWESOME.
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    Eddie promo saying he's a main eventer, wants to go after Bert Prentice & Rock and Roll Family.
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    Looking back on all the praise for this I may need to give it a rewatch. Solid mat work and countering as they work holds early. The execution and grace was there which wasn't a surprise given who was involved, but I didn't see much here that grabbed my attention. That may be on me, as more often than not I don't seem to rank a lot of lucha outside of some brawls as highly as others. Not sure I can quite quite pinpoint why, but it usually feels a lot more like an exhibition and fit the profile of working light. Maybe the light bulb just hasn't gone off yet. Back to the match, as none of that is to say I didn't like this, but rather that it just didn't resonate as anything much better than good. I liked Casas working in a comedy spot taking a spill climbing the ropes and doing so without rendering the whole thing a joke, just a brief, isolated moment. ***1/4
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    We jump to Vader missing a Vader bomb. Sting with one of his cool Koppo kicks, then DDT and top rope DDT. Vader goes up for a release German and near fall that sees Race get involved, which looked like a chore for him. Stinger splash, ref bump, missed Stinger splash, Race interferes and Vader wins with a power bomb. Looked good from the finish. I'd forgotten they did this back & forth deal on the tour.
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    Lucharesu! Made up words! Hamada's headbutts are pretty cool. He moves so well and would continue to do so for years. Sasuke with an Asai moonsault, which gives Hamada time to work some nice pinfall combos inside. Then Sasuke with a sick dive off the top. This isn't great but its very fun, which is good enough. Seems to be a DQ right after the dive? Post-match beatdown that looks like its taking out Taka Michinoku. **3/4
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    Shrinkers throw some nice superkicks. Its a fun flashback to see these acts do their thing, which is one of the real joys of the yearbooks. Match isn't anything so great, but the crowd seems pretty hot for it. Both Shrinkers, especially Fatu, are bumping well. Then it becomes a 1993 WWF version of the Memphis concession stand brawl and a double countout. Okay for what it was. Lots of condiment action.
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    JYD delivers a promo about Zhukov while in a neckbrace.
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    How is Banks on the mic? She looks great in the ring, but between her size, athleticism and looks, on top of work, it doesn't at all strike me as a stretch to imagine her being a focal point of the division.
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    Always love reading your recaps. Been avoiding much of the thoughts on specific matches and angles since I'm going to '95 when I eventually get through '94, but its always fun to compare my thoughts with yours and others when going through it.
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    Misawa definitely turns to slow, methodical starts. Perhaps I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I find this appropriate and often compelling given how strongly he was established as the top dog in All Japan. He defeats Jumbo and eventually takes the title from Hansen, after which his elbow is arguably the most protected move in the business. Not always as a finisher like the Rainmaker, but its the all time equalizer. He breaks that out and down goes the opponent. As he vanquishes foe after foe, and is able to turn the tide against anyone with that elbow, it becomes incumbent on the challenger to overcome him. This allows him to very often let the match come to him and pick his spots. At least when I'm watching, the anticipation really builds waiting to see what his opponent brings and when/how he'll turn it on. Take a look at the Akiyama matches in 2000 AJ and 2001 NOAH . Watching the 2001 match last night was the earliest Misawa has looked like a grizzled old vet, almost Tenryu-like. The athleticism isn't there but he almost does a Tenryu impersonation but with his own offense, centered around the elbows, of fighting off the rising star who overcame him the year before. Loved it.
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