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  1. ajtroma
    One of the job guys, Ross Lindsay, is actually Ross Hart of the Hart clan. Just throwing that in there for trivia. Rude's repeated use of "bullshit" probably thrilled Vince to no end.
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    I spent the whole thing wondering how the hell Rip ended up in the Maritimes promotion. Could he not get booked ANYWHERE else? He might have been another who boycotted Puerto Rico after Brody's death, so WWC might not have been an option, but come on. Rip is announced as from New Orleans instead of Seymour, Indiana. I was so disapointed. Not for nothing but there is a town near Seymour named Orleans. Met a girl from there in college who facially looked EXACTLY like Robert Gibson. It made me wonder. I mean, Robert did spend a lot of years in this territory... It sounded like the announcer said they were at the "Cocaine Arena". I'd never seen Pettipas before and he just really did nothing here interesting at all. As stated, I spent the match lamenting Rip's bad luck.
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    Those ring girls might not have been to Airport Toyota but something makes me think they work at certain establishments near an airport. I'll bet each one of them left some stink on Lawler's rosey royal fingers. The long-haired guy is that bitchy little smarky fucker that did the MCW TV show whose name escapes me.
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    Blindfold Battle Royals are usually quite awful. I cant judge this particular one here because we only see like a minute of it. Lawler delivers some serious phony baloney "aw shucks" bullshit about the Snowman. God, just tear into him, King. We know you want to.
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    Well I'd forgotten about Rocky King as Little Richard Marley, Freebird roadie.
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    I'll admit to not really watching all the WWF stuff on these discs (I NEVER want to see another Brother Love as long as I live). I just find it all about as repulsive as I find todays WWE. So, if Dusty said she was the love of his life, then I missed it. I just, as stated earlier, thought it was a really lackluster way (much like Rude and Heenan doing the Yo Mama jokes to start their run with the Bossman) to switch guys into their new programs. Did the Dibiase-Bossman stuff even have an ending?
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    Kamala sure took his sweet time getting down there. Jeff and all of Devastation are obviously just standing there waiting for him to hit the aisle
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    Sam Lowe is also now dressing like Sam Bass did. Bass was never really a fashion plate-type.
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    Ox Baker just being in front of a camera is a win. Iowa Ringside Wrestling is another damn indy I've never ever heard of. Who's got the lowdown on this one? This is clearly a way to gauge towns to run (see where these postcards are coming from, rent the National Guard Armory and blah blah).
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    Dundee states he's "never seen a mad turtle". Im sure though he's seen mad small animals. Well, terrified small animals before Jamie shoved a firecracker up their asses.
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    Anyone else catch Flair saying "This is for you, Herd!" before blasting Lex in the chest with a chop?
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    Ok, fine. He's a dick. But it was also a clumsy, lazy way to get Dibiase to a fued with Dusty.
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    IIRC, the Evansville tape was aired on Sunday instead of the usual Saturday. It happened time to time so you always had to consult your weekly TV listings if you couldnt make the Coliseum on Wednesday (they always announced if it was not in the regular slot). There ended up being a HELLUVA lot of word of mouth on this one. The next week's ratings had to be way up. If you look for it, its painfully obvious that Lawler had huge elbow and kneepads under his clothes (not that I blame him). I hated that one asshole in the audience verbally shitting on the whole deal. A nice hushed silence would have been so good here. The story I've heard was that they borrowed Brian Lee's car and did pretty good damage to the windshield. Eddie had to drive around Memphis for a little bit since the fans in Memphis so thoughtfully called the police and an ambulance. To have seen Brian Lee's reaction to this...
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    It should be noted that the Memphis side of the territory NEVER heard of or seen this angle. Jarrett never showed any signs of burning. The first I'd heard of this was one of Bob Smith's horrible slash-fic articles in Inside Wrestling, which gave detail of the burn unit of Dallas General.
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    The word is that the Memphis P.D. were getting several calls about the attempted live vehicular homicide. Lawler went out there, basically, to keep the cops cool and save Eddie's ass from them. They could have done this from the backstage area with Lawler being iced down and attended to but this was a live TV show and they didnt have time (or just flat didnt) think of it.
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    I never noticed how massive David Webb's head was. I also never understood why Dave Brown never acknowledged the commentators on the Memphis footage. They never mentioned those guys' names. I had to ask Eddie Marlin once at a house show and he just did that mumbling thing that you couldnt understand and went right back to selling hot dogs. I wonder which way Eddie drove into Evansville. The Coliseum is about two blocks from the river into Kentucky, so if he comes in from the south, then he really wouldnt have had to see that much of Evansville. It is kind of a depressing area, if your not into ancient buildings. 1990 was also long before the Casino and the new arena the WWE runs now. Its not as bad as it was. If they stayed over in Louisville and came west, then yeah, they saw quite a bit of Evansville and its really nothing special but not that bad either. Typical small market town, I figure, much like a Knoxville or a Wheeling.
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    Lets just call this the blowoff because besides from maybe a hair match, where else can they go with this one? Percy and Jeanie's pre-match hug was as glorious as Chris Von Erich's dropkick was hideous. The dropkick was on the "Renegade at that one Bash at the Beach" level. Chris Von Erich seemed to have had a Class of 88 key chain, which sounds about right. Chris is another that just missed his calling. Wrestling needs referees too. Referees that from time to time get lured into a grudge match with a heel manager. Chris really should have been doing that but a dream is a dream, I guess.
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    "Mama says it beez that way sometimes" is STILL a catchphrase amongst Jarrett Promotion wrestling fans of that era. Bruno wasnt that bad, really. When he first rolled in, around 1986, he was quite...entertaining, for lack of a better word rambling at the speed of sound about his days on Fort Duquane Boulevard, beating up trannys. Im not shitting you either. Jeff Gaylord, I think, just missed his calling in life. He was born to be a gym/health class teacher/high school football coach. Made to do steroids, belittle fat kids and kids he thought were "Marys", make AIDS jokes, have a drinking problem and slapping around a few wives.
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    It always looked so stupid compared to the chain-link fence type cage. To be fair, I guess I like the WWF cage over those chicken-wire and two-by-four monstrosities they had in the 70s down South.
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    I'll have to take your word for that one.
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    Kevin Dillenger is former TBS job guy Alan Martin. He wasnt a bad talker in the few weeks in '89 that he was in Memphis. There he did a losing streak gimmick but also a world class athelete gimmick as well. You know, one week with golf clubs, one week with the bowling ball, one week with a football, talking up his amazing abilities in sport.
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    This may have been the best thing on SummerSlam that year. Power and Glory burst out of the gate. They looked like true threats after this one.
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    The point of buying Sapphire has always eluded me.
  24. ajtroma
    I've always hated those cheesy blue bars cage. That said, this was....okay. They must have been running low on time because this was way too rushed.
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    I cannot hate those hideous WWF pre-written interviews aimed at the most submental 10-year-old any more than I already hate them. First fall was okay. Then Ax rolls in to do the "illegal partner" bullshit and the match goes right into the toilet. The differences between Ax and Smash are abundantly clear (even Vince made it clear he knew it was Smash under the hood before the match) so either the referee (looking right at him) is on Demolition's side or is a complete and total idiot. Fuck this match.
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