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  1. WingedEagle
    HTM is out wanting title matches, and Eddie Marlin says he has to earn it. HTM calls out Jarrett, who challenges him to a match. Recycling stale, old WWF gimmicks doesn't do Memphis any favors.
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    Santo & Espanto trade holds early with a couple near falls and Santo is smooth as can be. Guerrero & Estrada tag in and go at a much faster pace. The pace remains brisk from then on, with heels avoiding any dives when out on the floor. Santo butchers a bulldog off of Eddy's shoulders, and faces win first fall shortly thereafter. Estrada with a cheap shot to Eddy's knee and the heels isolate him and kick him low for great heat before Estrada wins the second fall over Eddy via submission. Things get more heated in the 3rd as the heels rip apart Santo's mask while Eddy sells the low blow much of the way. Cool spot where Eddy suplexes Santo onto Espanto for a near fall. Hot closing stretch and finish with a double pin for Santo & Eddy. This was pretty good and built the intensity up from the opening bell through to the finish, with enough wrinkles along the way to keep things interesting. ***3/4
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    Dustin's timing and pacing is so spectacular. He never feels rushed, which I'm really appreciating as its becoming more and more important to me. Ref bump and they both go over the top, where Windham DDT's Steamboat on the floor and Rhodes wins US Title tourney via countout. How come we never got a Barry/Dustin PPV shot?
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    Still not going by the Blonds moniker quite yet, but they establish themselves as a dedicated team and #1 contender focused on the titles. Pillman wants a 2/3 falls match. Solid stuff.
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    Clips of Watts signing an autograph for a little girl, when Arn in his finest Zubaz attacks him. Watts of course turns the tables and him in in the STF at a gas station before police break it up. Watts gives a dumb promo afterwards. Arn Anderon may not be able to make chicken salad out of everything, but he's going to try his best.
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    Bodies & Cornette are setting up a backstage promo when the Studds come in and generate some heel on heel heat. They start shoving each other and its quickly broken up. The Bodies deliver a promo looking for a tag title shot at the RNR, but Bob Armstrong is out to say that while the #1 contender will get a title shot in a few weeks, he'll decide who that is. Good furthering of the storyline here. More Studds!
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    Smothers immediately pins Kyle with a small package. I enjoy Golden as a strong stooging, bitching midcard heel with his antics and facials complaining to the ref & accidentally nailing DWB. Smothers pins Golden with a sunset flip and DWB attacks right away. Smothers rolls through a DWB cross body for the win and TV title, while also going over as a top contender. Would definitely like to have seen Sullivan/Stomper from the same show. There was nothing really bad here, but absolutely nothing so special either other than Golden as a solid tv heel and the beginning of a Smothers push. **1/2
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    Some guy named Rivers interfering on Christopher's behalf. Another stiff then interferes, but Christopher escapes again. Christopher gets the pin using the feet for leverage. I guess USWA needs some love this year, but this wasn't exactly anything to write home about.
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    After a Crush squash, Doink gives him a flower and attacks him with a fake arm. Savage already relegated to commentary not 2 months after Survivor Series. Bill Alfonso one of the refs breaking it up. They actually bring in EMTs for Crush. Pretty strong injury angle given the nature of the attack and placement on the card. I remain very excited to rewatch Doink & Bret throughout the year after hating on it back in the day.
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    I actually just watched the Backlund-Valentine draw from '79 and rematch over the weekend. WW(W)F pre-mid 80s is a pretty big blind spot for me outside of some random selections here or there. Both matches were really, really different from what I'm used to and felt like ages ago. That's not a bad thing, just very different. Headlocks may be a rest spot most of the time nowadays, and they may have been one here as well. But they worked them in the draw and there was a tangible struggle that made them matter beyond filling time. I didn't love the draw, but I did like it and thought they did a great job keeping things interesting and compelling. I'm not a fan of Valentine doing his best Flair taking face first bumps so frequently. Not sure the best way to describe this, but it was almost like after going years of watching incredible TV with special effects, characters, sets, plot twists and HD, here was a basic, simple script that told a story. Not an amazing, classic story, but something very simple with a beginning, middle and end. Here's a 60 minute match with elbows, headlocks and maybe a vertical suplex and atomic drop as high spots that gets the job done. Really looking forward to more of Backlund and this era.
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    I could deal with this once or twice a match in the right spot if it looked particularly impactful. This just looks like a weaker powerslam with the degree of difficulty turned up.
  12. WingedEagle
    I Quits do generally suck. Flair & Funk simply overcame that. But the Bash was still a cut above, even without the insane post-match.
  13. WingedEagle
    Hadn't even thought about it but there really were a lot of those finishes in '89 NWA.
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    I'm not sure if this is complete: http://starratingslist.blogspot.com/2009/0...tings-list.html
  15. WingedEagle
    What about the other side of the coin? What matches has Meltzer panned or lukewarmly reviewed that people think he sold short?
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    I have no idea what to expect on Sunday. If I had to bet I'd place my money on Batista. What I am sure of is that before last night I was absolutely ordering the show and now I am strongly leaning against it. I thought Bryan would be featured in the Rumble and now I'm going on blind faith that he'll be in it at all. Combine that with an awful, boring show closing angle and I don't know why I'd buy it now. I'm not a fan of the Authority angle / character, but is it asking too much that they're booked as either faces or heels and not both depending upon which quarter hour we're in? I'd been waiting a while on this one, but I also don't think I'm feeling Bray Wyatt at all. Its an awesome ring entrance. Rowan & Harper are a solid asset in the tag team division. But absolutely nothing about Wyatt makes me want to see him in a top of the card program. When the lights go on and the music stops, this is Waylon Mercy 2.0, not the panhandle Shield.
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    Which was the other?
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    "Worst match ever" feels like taking it too far in the other direction. Both guys looked like competent pro wrestlers, and, most importantly, they had the crowd with them the whole way. The truly terrible matches tend to lose a lot of the heat they had at the start. Yeah, its not something you can point to that suffers from awful execution or that makes an absolute joke out of wrestling. Its just incredibly long with nothing compelling happening much of the way. That's tough for me to sit through.
  19. WingedEagle
    *That* is awesome 2.0.
  20. WingedEagle
    That it's boring and repetitive. That they spend too much time climbing. I don't even think it's good. All of that and then some. It wasn't as violent or intense as a cage match should be, they did nothing to generate heat missing from the lack of falls and basically worked a slow, repetitive chase and repeat for 30-35 minutes. I haven't watched it in forever, so I could easily think otherwise the next time I watch it, but this is the type of thing that comes to mind for worst the match ever thread. Slow, never ending and not at all appropriate for the feud and build.
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    No question, the sheer volume of material that the regular headliners had to come up with doesn't make an entirely fair comparison with Fuller. If he was responsible for that much its possible I'd think a lot less of him. That being said, I didn't find any other headliner there nearly as grating as Cornette when he was in punch line mode.
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    I came into this without any hype or notion of what to expect. Wow. Talk about pleasant surprises. We get a tense handshake to start and a crowd that is super hot right away. Quick, intense trading of strikes between Hotta & Kansai early and this would continue throughout. Kansai destroys Takako with kicks and a sleeper before Hotta kicks her brains in. We then get a reverse chinlock, but this is not Rick Rude or Randy Orton style. This is wrenched and worked as a legitimate impact hold. Oz gets a turn to have her face kicked in but roars back with a sick DDT on Hotta, who continues what has to be her career performance with an inverted gutwrench and absolutely sick piledriver / power bomb on Oz. The heat for AJW as heels here is just off the chats, and continues with chair shots and brawling outside. Yeah, the Takako armdrag spot is completely blown but turn your attention to Hotta taunting the crowd and ladies kicking each other's heads in and you'll move right past it. Hot sequence with Hotta laying out Oz with a lariat, then eating a Kansai lariat, who goes down for a Takako dropkick. Hotta hits a *disgusting* piledriver on Kansai, but Oz breaks it up. The finishing stretch is great with rapid bombs, saves, stiffness and hate. Oz finally pins Takako with a dragon suplex after a strong run ton of counters at 29:44. What an incredible match. Big JWP celebration afterwards with crowd chanting Ozaki. They bring a picture of someone into the ring and it seems like a hell of a joyous scene. I have the Hotta/Kansai match from Dream Slam on another comp and definitely need to give it another look, although I know it never reached anything like this level. At this point its certainly my MOTY through the first 3 months. ****1/2
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    I'd definitely add Dutch & Bob to the list as well. I know I'm alone on Fuller and perfectly okay with that. I absolutely ate up his mic work during the 3 way feud with the Bodies & RNR. That promo where he's doing curls before the match? Hilarious. There's a guy who doesn't need any character direction at all. Whether its on point or over the top, it always comes across as legit with him. At least to my jaded yankee ears
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    Who do you feel was a better promo than James E. in Smoky Mountain? Without pulling up the roster and relying solely on a few names I've watched recently -- Fuller, Wright, Sytch, Pritchard and Sullivan. Don't get me wrong, when Cornette chose to focus on a particular match and the surrounding issue he could be really entertaining and effective. But way too often it seems like he's more interested in hearing his own voice and trying out material for a radio or stand up show.
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    How about Jim Cornette? Not a wrestler, but his mic work is not holding up as anything particularly remarkable. I don't know if he'd end up in my top 3 or 5 promos in SMW.
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