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  1. WingedEagle
    Gilbert back out with PWI showing he's ranked #5 behind Savage, Vader, Rude and Hart, and he points out he's ahead of Flair, Sting and Hogan. Not bad. Doug Gilbert is out and interfering early. Lawler there for the save before out for the save. Reno Riggins & Mike Samples also get involved.
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    Landel & Rich give promos for their match with Dundee & JYD. Rich's was awesome.
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    Ramon promo after the title switch has aired, with Perfect pouring champagne like a well coiffed gopher and Flair on fire. Heenan is there for the party as well. I forgot how well they established Ramon at the top right away before he had any major matches.
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    Taue dominaties early sending Kawada to floor and piledriving him on a table, and he's relentless in controlling the action. Taue again worked great as a heel here, kicking Kawada in the head while he's down. Kawada eventually turns things around and forces Taue to work out of a tight headlock after Taue had him in the same spot earlier. Kawada hits a lariat for a hot near fall before Taue lands a big slap that looks to set up the finish as Kawada kicks out of one nodowa, gets a foot on the rope on the second and twice blocks a third attempt before going to the submissions with a Misawa facelock, stretch plum and another stretch plum for the win. Great finishing stretch. ***3/4
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    Maybe we can wait a little on the RNR. Lots of stalling by the heels early before the match begins - over 8 minutes before they lock up. This feels like a house show match not designed for mass consumption. I wasn't in the house, so I didn't really love this even though the crowd seems crazed for everything. **1/2
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    I didn't love the first match, but this was great. Dustin attacks Cactus in the aisle and we're off to the races. Cactus hits his sunset flip to the floor and at least comes down on mat, then a suplex on the stage as he's not sparing himself at all. Dustin brutalizes Cactus with a chair before Cactus hits his elbow to the floor for the win. Hell of a performance by Cactus and Dustin was game for the brawl as well. I preferred this to the Sting match at Beach Blast. ***1/2
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    Razor promo targeting Savage. He definitely feels like a hot, fresh character.
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    Dutch interviews Cornette & Bodies. Cornette gives a great promo about providing first aid for the Fantastics.
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    Even without looking back to confirm, I'm pretty comfortable calling this the best SMW match on the set yet. Good use of the stip by the Bodies to differentiate this from your standard tag. On the other side of the coin, it was odd seeing the rep not letting Bobby Fulton in without a clean tag. The finishing sequence with the ref bump, face near falls and climax was well laid out and told a great story. Let's get to the RNR already. ***1/2
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    Cornette brings out $20K in cash out to put on the line in a tag title match vs. the Fantastics.
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    Lawler & Jarrett bring in Ms. Texas to counter Lauren Davenport in the Gilberts' corner.
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    What he said.
  13. WingedEagle
    Rich is out for a promo and Landell calls in to set up a tag vs. Dundee & JYD.
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    Buddy Landell jumps in for a 2 on 1 attack on Dundee and non-finish. Its a shame we don't have the footage to swap in a lot of MSC matches for studio segments.
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    This was good. The work was solid throughout as both excel on the mat and this in particular featured some excellent transitions, as well as a neat finish to the first fall. Something was definitely lost in translation on the finish in the third as I didn't really pick up on the controversy until reading about it here and even upon a rewatch it wasn't that obvious to me. This was missing some of the ups & downs in flow and storyline that I look for as it felt more like a well done by the book routine. ***
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    Truth. It was the Kahwi Leonard of the night. Or at the Kahwi before Parker got hurt, at which point this would be the Tony Parker of the night.
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    I might normally say the same thing if I hadn't watched the match. But this was very good, and I'm not someone in any way in love with Del Rio. It was a well laid out and executed world title match and better than the #3 match on most great shows. You should really watch it before knocking it for not carrying its weight.
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    Sign me up.
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    I'm already pretty comfortable calling it the best Summerslam ever. Which year had 2 matches on par with Lesnar/Punk and Cena/Bryan? As far as where it ranks with other PPVs, you've got Canadian Stampede, one or MITB shows, and a few manias which are stacked and as our legit super bowl are tough to knock off the top. If you want to talk about deeper shows, those are out there. But I'd always prefer that the top 2 or 3 big matches are blowaways rather than solid up and down the card with nothing memorable on top.
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    I'm all for Taue as Pippin and ashamed for not looking at it that way myself initially. I was thinking some may want to put him in the range of a Tony Parker but I like your idea much better.
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    I now love that line 1000 times more than I originally did. And I loved it last night.
  22. WingedEagle
    Love this topic. Vader strikes me as an ideal candidate for tier 2 or 3. Similar to Dylan's point above about Cena, what do people think about Austin? Clearly doesn't have the longevity on top but he was a part of some classics and pretty consistent throughout his run on top. What about Taue? On the one hand it seems silly to mention him here. On the other, he was a big enough part of enough great matches that you can't just say he was along for the ride. But I'm not sure if he makes a 3rd/4th tier or is more of an honorable mention type candidate. I know I'm in the distinct minority here, but I've never seen the consensus on Lawler & Tenryu. Lawler's always been a hell of a one trick pony to me, and while he's responsible for a great number of rides, they don't rank with anyone else on this list. On the other hand I love a ton of Tenryu's work, but outside of a few gems he's someone who's never let me down but also never really consistently taken things to that next level. I'd be interested to compare him with Taue at some point.
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    Flair takes a few decent bumps for Taker, who basically no sells the whole way and does little on offense other than a couple power spots. Taker comes back from the dead during a figure four prompting Perfect's interference for the DQ. Nothing special here. **1/2
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    Weird that Vader is the 3rd heel introduced. Vader & Rude looked really good here, and Jake absolutely felt like a legit main eventer. I didn't love much we got from the faces here. Fortunately Nikita & Herc are gone pretty quickly. Vader bumped like hell for Rick, though you probably don't want your monster #1 heel getting thrown around like that, even if he looks great doing it. Rick of course then returns the favor by not going up for a chokeslam. Then we get three garbage eliminations of the Steiners and Vader, who should be there at the end. At least Jake got to stand tall. Pretty awful booking but Vader and a good finish saved it. ***
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    Another great video with awesome clips of Simmons at FSU, with Bobby Bowden and having his number retired. Its mixed in with clips of him in the ring, including winning the title from Vader. Pretty great production here, which was never WCW's calling card.
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