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  1. WingedEagle
    Call me old school or crazy, but I enjoy having and keeping a hard copy. I also like being able to flip back to past issues. Someone here was helpful in providing a template for formatting it if I wanted to subscribe online and print them, but haven't made that leap yet.
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    Looking forward to catching up on this thread next week. Avoiding until then so that I can crack the WON without spoilers when it arrives.
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    Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell its the Big Show! Maybe not most boring ever, but outside of working with Bryan & Henry, and getting destroyed by the Shield, I don't recall the last time I found him remotely interesting.
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    WAR! The crowd is absolutely on fire here beginning at the intros and continuing all the way through the post-match angle. The heat for the WAR guys is off the charts and helps makes for one of the best spectacles and atmospheres on the entire set. Everyone's key spots, antics and even little things -- like Kosh throwing a ruckus on the apron waiting to get tagged in -- only further amp the intensity. This feels more heated than just about anything else in the world this year. Its stiff, well paced and would probably excite anyone with even minimal knowledge of the stars / promotions. Superb finishing sequence with them teasing Tenryu taking the fall before he finally wins it. Afterwards Tenryu and and his Jackson 5 hair call call out Choshu as the building goes goes nuts. There's your Tokyo Dome main event, as he also calls Inoki into the ring. ****1/2 Maybe I overrated this having only seen a few highlights of the feud from '93, but man did I love this more than anything I'd watched on the set in a while. I'll have to go check out the other matches that didn't make the yearbook mentioned above.
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    Great shine & fire from Dustin early with fists, lariats and a bulldog. Vader looks like arguably the best selling big man ever here. He can take a beating and make his opponent look like a star while never looking like some sort of fat pushover. Love how he shakes his head to clear the cobwebs. Vader soon turns the tables and roughs him up with roundhouse forearms, before they go outside where Dustin takes an awesome bump on the floor for a lariat. Vader wins clean with splash off middle rope back in the ring. This would've been an awesome feud. More Dustin! Too short to be great, but very, very good. ***1/2
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    Sasaki & Matsuda training Watts how to execute the STF. Perhaps Sasaki also tried to teach him charisma and personality. Bagwell looks to be having a great time.
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    Cornette sprays Morton in the eyes at the start to give the heels a 3 on 2 advantage. Its really something how over the RNR are. Morton appears afterwards with a bandaged eye for the save and to deliver a great promo.
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    Cornette starts off talking about 6 man with him & Garvin, then delivers an awesome promo setting up all of the Thanksgiving Thunder matches b/w Bodies & RNR. Does a hell of a job selling the shows because he's so zeroed in on a particular message and selling those shows. This is so awesome compared with his promos where he's rambling and throwing out tired one liners.
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    Lawler & Doug Gilbert explaining a match getting where you get dunked in dirty water. Then Lee with a promo while Moondogs are being crazy on a boat w/ tag titles wrapped around the bow rail. At least the promo on a boat was cool.
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    Clips of a 6-man from the MSC. Fun looking brawl around the ringside area with lots of weapons. Gilbert pins Lee and the brawl continues afterwards.
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    Quick, solid work early. Barry & Dustin were such a great team, working a cool suplex/elbow combo and so capable of working any style depending on the opponent. Other than Dustin being the one to deck Barry, I thought it was a pretty effective heel turn for Windham and a hell of a follow up after the match and backstage. Really looking forward to his last run as a singles. ***1/2
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    Zbyszko, Hiro Matsuda & Ole Anderson are our judges just in case it’s a draw. Sting's working Rude's midsection was solid. Then things slow down. A lot. This felt a lot longer than it was. **1/2
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    Terrible video of them getting fitted for suits. Terrible mullets. WCW's version of the Crush videos, but at least this is only here once.
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    Couldn't agree more. He looked great here and the crowd was incredibly hot for him. On the other hand, absolutely nothing about the presentation of this match suggested that Ron Simmons is a world champion, but rather a plucky, powerhouse babyface. I would've liked it if the announcers had a name for Scorpio given how long the match went, as it would've been more effective in establishing him than having Simmons introduce him afterwards. **3/4
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    This was just phenomenal, and I imagine only better seeing it build and play out over a 2 hour show. Heenan is the absolute star here laughing this off early, slowly losing his cool and then absolutely blowing his top at the end and getting physical with Perfect. Hell of a way to rebook a main event with such little notice, and really couldn't have been done much better. Just great performances from everyone involved.
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    Hart interview with matches coming up against Papa Shango and Flair. I like the idea of him taking on all comers, but this wasn't exactly a murderer's row of challengers. Imagine if Watts had done this with Simmons facing off against Rude, Vader, Jake, Windham and others instead of the Barbarian.
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    This was kind of tough to follow and really rate given the production and how all over the place they were, but these two can definitely brawl. Great punching, weapon shots and bumping around the gym (especially Gilbert's straight away back bump on a punch). I also liked how they incorporated a bunch of falls here without each successive one feeling like a new match with fresh wrestlers. They sold the hell out of this throughout. I can see why this was such a spectacle for 1992 that I believe Meltzer went a full 5 stars or close to it, and while it doesn't hold up as any kind of classic, its a fun look at what was going on and what these two could do in this setting.
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    Hart celebrates a recent defense until HBK interrupts to promote Survivor Series title match. Solid promo from HBK tying in Hart's loss at Summerslam to DBS, who Michaels just beat. Not exactly a main event world title build, but Michaels stepped up his game here. I may be in the minority (at least in this thread) but I *love* some HBK music.
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    An earlier update which I assume originally aired after SNME? Otherwise not sure why they'd spoil this in advance of Prime Time.
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    This was much more fun than I recalled and a pretty great performance from HBK considering who he was working with. The heat here was pretty great, unless it was piped in and I missed it, as they didn't look as hot as they sounded. He mastered the role in '97, but Michaels was such a great heel here with his facials. Solid focus on DBS' back leading into a logical finish. ***1/2
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    First of all, this was an awesome idea and the kind of fun that makes this place great. As for these dates: 1/4 -- I'd go for Nakamura/Sakuraba from this year. 2/28 -- The AJ tag was my #1 match on that set so it definitely takes this date. 2/15 -- Eddy wins! 3/27 -- Gun to my head I'd take the Horsemen sprint over MX/Fantastics but can't go wrong with either. Flair will have his days here. And his long matches, including many that hold up a ton better. 5/22/92 -- AJ 6-man is probably my match of an all around spectacular year, so it takes the prize. 8/18 -- Brock/Punk. No worse than top 3 MOTY for me at this point. 8/31 -- Doc/Kobashi, but I'm often times an irrational Kobashi fan. 11/20 -- I'm with you on Kong/Toyota.
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    Barbarian with a nice catch & powerslam on Dustin coming off the turnbuckle in one of the cut-offs Pete noted above. This was a well paced TV match that showcases Dustin's versatility as he sells really well here, making Barbie's offense look better than it does against most. He also puts this together without one of his great sequences on top where he's wailing away on an opponent, instead working underneath most of the wayDustin wins on on a roll up after Barbarian hits the post on a spear. **3/4
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    Watts says Jake is out of WCW to deal with personal issues and Barbarian is taking his s place in King of Cable tourney. Real disappointing as there were a ton of potential for him in WCW following such a strong debut.
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    Armstrong interview where he says Sullivan is banned from TV, but Brian Lee can get his hands on him at an SMW show off of TV. Probably effective to promote local shows. Says at Thanksgiving Thunder Sullivan gets the Mongolian Stomper, shown here in clips that looked decades old. Then a paid commercial from Sullivan. Completely over the top, but feels better here than WCW in 1995. Enjoyable now even if it wouldn't necessarily work. One of the real highlights from SMW thus far.
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