WingedEagle
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Kawada/Taue RNR Express Misawa/Kobashi Arn/Tully Freebirds
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Nice, glad to have you on board! Good luck catching up -
Awesome, definitely curious to see what works. Tanahashi/Suzuki is definitely long, as are some other picks I'd throw out from Japan including Liger/Samurai 4/30/92 and Jumbo/Tenryu '89, but they strike me as easily accessible. Originally I thought you might want to go for things with either great production (modern WWE) or insane crowds Joe/Kobashi, but it sounds like this crowd has more than a cursory background. Funk/Hansen should fit right in and I agree with Sean Mooney that Jumbo/Tenryu vs. Choshu/Yatsu from '86 is a great fit, but that may just be natural biases. There has to be a place for some ECW madness, whether its Tajiri, Raven/Richards vs. Pitbulls 2/3 falls or a match/angle involving Raven & Dreamer. Tough not to at least get engaged by the heat there.
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Can definitely stream a high quality copy online if you've got a tv hookup.
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I loved Tanahashi/Suzuki from last October for a modern NJ pmatch. Also great in a different way from much of what's currently on your menu.
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[1992-06-27-SMW-TV] Interview: Buddy Landell & Dirty White Boy
WingedEagle replied to Loss's topic in June 1992
Promo by Landell & DWB about wrecking havoc and losing it. Buddy was seriously underutilized. -
[1992-06-27-SMW-TV] Down and Dirty: Jim Cornette & Heavenly Bodies
WingedEagle replied to Loss's topic in June 1992
Promo about the Fantastics bloodying them up and being violent. Fantastics used a lead pipe through the car, and Cornette won't say that the Bodies will kill them, but they're coming back and won't let Fantastics do it to them first. Better than a lot of SMW thus far as it looks like they'd find a groove at the close of summer heading into the fall and '93. -
Pretty strong Canadian accent, Brian Lee bringing him in for DWB & Orndorff.
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RIP Jackie. Moondogs are out pretty quickly in a Jarrett/Lawler squash, and Fargo is out to even the odds w/ trash can. Promo afterwards setting up a cage match w/ Fargo as ref.
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[1992-06-27-USWA-TV] Music Video: Brian Christopher
WingedEagle replied to Loss's topic in June 1992
Christopher picks up a homeless guy (I can't believe that was a shoot) to do household chores for food, mixed with clips of him in the ring. He's eating a big meal and gives the homeless guy spam. That is how you do heel. -
[1992-06-27-WWF-Superstars] Legion of Doom and Rocco
WingedEagle replied to Loss's topic in June 1992
LOD & Ellering find Rocco. Amazing to see them turned into a comedy act. -
Razor dismisses a chica who's bothering him. This is more like it.
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Tatanka goes to some Native American festival. Completely stereotypical, and the mic is not his strong suit.
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The studio voiceovers in place of the crowd almost killed this for me. The workers go hard early, with Hokuto's assault on Yamada and brawling really standing out. Toyota & Yamada eat a double pin in the first fall after they miss a dive. The highlight was definitely Yamada's whirling dervish routine in the second fall, laying into Hokuto with a fury of spin kicks before closing it out in under 2 minutes with a suplex. Toyota went to the well on bridging out of pins a bit too much for me in the final stanza. I get it, the fans go for it and I'm cool with that, but this was overdone. Toyota was also a little sloppy towards the end, but we're judging things on a pretty high curve here. ***1/2
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Bigelow works well here, using his athleticism and the Steiners as as a base to show off at a level he wasn't always up to back in the states. Its really something how over the Steiners are. Vader took the frankensteiner like a real pro. Not as good as some of the Steiners other matches this year, but still solid, especially given the Liger & Hase/Sassaki matches. Hell of a show that night. ***1/4
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NBA playoffs are done which means I can get back to documenting the set. A shame the finals ended the way they did but it was a great run. Weekends may be a problem as the wife likes to get outside then during the summer, but I'm hoping to wrap this up before football season. Which means it'll definitely bleed into it.
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Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 3
WingedEagle replied to Loss's topic in Megathread archive
That's really unfortunate. You knew there were family issues but that probably explains most of the quirks you hear about him. Just have to hope he's able to find some normal. -
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Funk, Steamer and Morton/RNR. Yes I'm cheating on that one and proud of it, as it'll let me include a lot of other horsemen material.
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From today's WON update: How about that? Clean win for Bryan would've been awesome there.
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If Lesnar is still a draw, that should have zero bearing on how one looks at a Punk/Lesnar match up. The entire Lesnar aura is based on him being this ridiculously strong and athletic powerhouse from UFC who has the WWE backstory and NFL bit to amplify his star power. If the HHH feud has any impact on him as a draw, the ratings for his appearances and buyrate for summerslam should will show it, and the opponent won't matter if the idea is that he's been castrated. I just don't think that's at all the case.
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And this is how you finish the show. What a well booked episode.
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The Henry segment is exactly why you don't always need to rewrite scripts or be unpredictable. As soon as Cena was out you knew where it was going. It was further telegraphed through every shot during Henry's promo, and not the least bit surprising when it climaxed. And it was the best angle in months.
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This is literally Bischoffian. We can argue about whether or not it's wrong or right, but your argument is straight out of ATM Eric's playbook Except it isn't anywhere near as big as the main events / angles Bischoff might've given away. They were undefeated as a unit. That point had been mentioned, maybe even hyped to some extent. They'd gone down in singles and tag matches, as well the DQ loss as a unit to Cena. Had that not been the case, and had their undefeated run been consistently promoted and shoved in the audience's face as one of the biggest things happening in the company, this would be a different scenario. But that wasn't at all the situation here for better (because I don't believe this loss was giving away anything that had been built up as a draw) or worse (because it could've been built up as just such a draw).
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