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  1. garretta
    I love how Dave seemed infinitely more enthused about showing Jeff Jarrett highlights then listening to Lawler defend the validity of the Unified title. Actually, the "company champion" stuff works both ways; I'm sure that there were fans wondering, "If you're so great, and the Unified title is the best, why not show up on TBS or Superstars and challenge Flair or Hogan on their turf?" Of course, these fans had no way of knowing that Lawler wouldn't have been allowed near the buildings unless he gave up the Unified belt and sold his stake in the USWA in exchange for an exclusive WCW or WWF contract, but I still would have liked to have heard him field the question. The most likely answer would have been that he was the Unified champion and it was Flair and Hogan's responsibility to come to Memphis or Dallas, knowing all the while that it wouldn't happen (at least for three more years).
  2. garretta
    Nice job by Ole here, explaining that the Horsemen compromised who they are to see if Sting had the makeup to join them, then realized he didn't when he broke the cardinal rule: never challenge the big boss (Flair). Arn and Ole seem a lot more comfortable as their old heel selves, and Flair's back to the cocky style that made him a legend. However poorly executed the turn might have been, the Horsemen are back on track and hot times are ahead.
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    I actually remember this commercial dimly. I wonder if Bruno and Lou had anything to do with it after filming the commercial; I can't imagine Bruno being too happy once he found out what a scam it was. Lou's sporting the Super Mario mustache here.
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    I wonder if anyone bought this tape, watched it, and then tried to get themselves hired by Jarrett and/or Lawler right after doing so. I can just imagine the two of them picking themselves up off the ground after falling down laughing at the poor soul who thinks he can wrestle after watching this thing. Seriously, I hope one of the ABCs was "Find a long-term trainer".
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    Was that really Adams doing the voiceover? It sounded like him, but he's not exactly the first person you'd expect to be doing something like that. I guess Marc was busy that day.
  6. garretta
    If this was a promo duel, it would be the blowout Lawler predicted. Dundee's the best of the three, and Lawler's a step above him. Kerry and Jarrett are fine for earnest babyfaces, but that's all. I'm surprised Jeff still seems so ill at ease on the mic. We know he legitimately grew up watching the King; you mean to tell me he didn't pick up a few points about being entertaining as a babyface, or at least tying a former partnership (such as his with Travis) into a current feud?
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    I like the intensity of all the Lawler Dallas promos; it's a welcome change from his Memphis stuff, which can get a bit too comic at times. I don't think he's burying Garvin as much as acknowledging that he's not on his (Lawler) and Travis's level in order to set up him pinning Kerry as Kerry's (and the fans') ultimate humiliation. You want to talk about new ways to keep a feud fresh? Lawler and Dundee have been going at it off and on for over fifteen years at this point, but it still feels as if their feud just started yesterday. What performers those two are!
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    Sort of poignant for a wrestling music video. Most videos of this type are up-tempo, with lots of action and smiling. This works, though, because it presents Dundee as a down-to-earth guy, unlike Lawler and his crowd. Impressive use of archival footage as well; I was pleasantly surprised to see Jimmy Hart and the Moondogs as part of a USWA video in 1990. Pity that they cut it off in the middle, coincidentally (I think) right after the lyrics "We pulled out of Charlotte.........", which was still WCW territory.
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    JYD sounds better than he did at times in the WWF, mostly because he doesn't have to worry about barking and panting during the interview. Nice job hyping The Soultaker as a gatekeeper for Lawler, thus keeping that feud alive as well.
  10. garretta
    A little more intense than is usual for the King on the Memphis side of the territory, but still first-rate. I like how he treats Travis as an equal here.
  11. garretta
    It almost seems like the ad for the school was run as part of the never-ending feud between Lawler and Dundee; in other words, something for Lawler to laugh at and insult Dundee over. I'm not saying that the school wasn't legit; it was just strange that the ad was run in that particular context. Put me down as another poor schlump who'd like to know something about Rockin' Randy.
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    Again, the fans eat up the King's insults with a spoon. Dave tries to do the apologetic announcer bit, but can't quite pull it off under the circumstances. Jerry's trying, but his subjects just won't boo him. Try this in Dallas and he'd need a police escort to get out of the building!
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    Great promo from Fuller, which is par for the course. Lee could have been a stagehand for all he mattered.
  14. garretta
    Nice little time filler here. Dave's really the star of this; all he wants to do is get the program back to wrestling, but he knows that the Kingfish will be impossible to live with until he's catered to, so he suffers interruption after interruption. Somehow I doubt this segment would have worked quite as well with Lance, who would have probably blown up and told Lawler off before it was over. Still, I would have liked to have seen for myself.
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    For a non-wrestler, Bruce takes bumps rather well. They really should have kept The Snake Pit, since Jake was their best all-around talker after Piper retired. If Vince had to have Brother Love, he should have stayed on Challenge, with either Jake or Rod doing their Pit on Superstars. Vince has almost too good a time mocking Brother Love here. Then again, Brother Love was one of the few characters whom babyface Vince could feel superior to. The highlight of the segment was Vince's mocking "I LOOOOOOVE YOU!" at the end. The only thing that would have made it better was if he would have tried the accent.
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    Not bad for something so short. Buster delivered his little joke well.
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    I'm becoming more and more convinced that they actually wanted to turn Warrior full-on heel and backed off at the last moment. Why? All he needed was a mouthpiece to make sense out of his gibberish and he would have been ideal. Have him beat Hogan at Mania VI, tear the WWF apart for a year, make it seem that there's no hope........and then, Hogan comes back and defeats him at Mania VII. Booking so easy Vince Sr. could do it from his grave. But as usual, Junior had to try and look smarter than everyone else, which led to babyface Warrior and Iraqi sympathizer Slaughter and damn near killed his business. At any rate, I still have no idea what the man said in his promo, except that Hogan's afraid of him, the Chosen One. That might be his most coherent statement yet. Bravo could have been anyone here.
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    Slick's opening line sounded like "Good goobledy goo!" What is it about Vince and managers not named Heenan (or Sherri) being literally unintelligible? Fuji's got a Japanese accent six feet thick, Jimmy Hart sounds more and more like he's got his underwear bunched around his ears, and Slick talks like he's got a mouth full of fried chicken and watermelon with buttermilk pancakes on the side (racial stereotyping intentional). Give me Corny, Ole, Woman, and Peanuthead Teddy Long any day! Gang (which is who he'll always be in my eyes) might have cut the best promo of the month in the WWF here. I was almost disappointed to see Teddy come out and cut him off. I agree with those above me who liked the fact that the Jake/DiBiase issue and the Bossman/Gang issue intersected. Usually, the WWF at this time kept feuds isolated so the little Hulksters wouldn't have to think too much, poor darlings. Why on earth did they keep Brother Love's music playing all through his show? They've never done that for anyone else before or since that I know of.
  19. garretta
    Translation of the Warrior's promo: Hulk Hogan, you're a gutless coward for not facing me. Oh wait, you will at WrestleMania VI! If belts supposedly don't matter in the Warrior's universe, why is he even wearing his, and why would he want Hogan's? "I MADE YOU BREATHE, HULK HOGAN........" Gee, I didn't know Warrior's real name was Peter Bollea (Terry's dad). The things you learn from watching wrestling. And he's much younger than I pictured him, too! Once and for all, can't we go back twenty-five years and put Bobby Heenan in this crazy man's corner? Hogan sounds downright erudite by comparison. Any chance of him drawing as champion was killed before he ever won the belt. Seriously, if you were a parent of a child between the ages of eight and fourteen in 1990, would you fork over your hard-earned money to watch your son or daughter cheer this psychopath?
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    I'll agree with Parv that Rick's having fun with this character; it must have been a relief for him to be able to cut loose a little after playing such a bland babyface. The problem was, he never went anywhere; he wasn't even a contender for any titles (except for the IC title battle royal in '93, where he was one of the final two and ended up losing to Razor Ramon). Sure, he got paid for it and everything, but the wrestlers getting bigger paydays doesn't mean anything to the fans unless it translates to a big push on the screen, and in Rick's case, it didn't. I'm going to miss the back and forth between Vince and the Bod once Jesse leaves; Vince never had a better color man/foil.
  21. garretta
    The promos in this clip are from the previous week and are available on Disc 3. The only new material is Tunney's announcement. They were probably still figuring out who would go over; if Hogan was, they wouldn't have put the IC belt on the line. The announcement of it being a double championship match is a dead giveaway in retrospect, although the way Vince promoted Warrior, he should have been able to defend both belts at once and share the tag titles besides!
  22. garretta
    Sort of a mini-history to set up a Lawler/Travis-Kerry/Jarrett match at the Mid-South Coliseum for the following Monday. This sequence shows why they could never adequately replace Lawler in Memphis: good, bad, or indifferent, he's the only guy on the roster who can both work and talk at anything approaching a world-class level. The two people who come closest, Dundee and Mantel, are his direct contemporaries; the next generation, led by Jarrett, may be good enough in the ring but can't talk the people into the building. In his promo here, Jeff's all over the place, first promising not to yell and scream, then kissing Lawler's ass, then screaming at Billy Joe and calling Lawler gutless. Kerry's the together one, which is scary in itself. Maybe he could have at least taken over Memphis temporarily if he'd kept himself together, but his heart was in Dallas until Vince came calling later in the year. As for what Parv said about Lawler's promos breaking the "rules", I don't think there was much danger of that; Dave's acting as the voice of the fan here, and he's dismissed Lawler's steroid claims as bunk quite thoroughly. Besides, even if Lawler knew he was crossing the line, who in Memphis (or Dallas, for that matter) was going to stop him at this point? The only man I could see remotely capable of that was Fritz, and he was long gone; if Jarrett had tried and Lawler had told him to shove it, there was no one to take his (Lawler's) place. If ever there was a man in wrestling bigger than his employer, it was Lawler.
  23. garretta
    Nice mixture of semi-shoot and comedy shtick by Lawler, and he's about the only one who can pull off such a combination well. Wacky tester aside, you could tell he was serious about opposing steroids, and for that I seriously applaud him. Of course, he ties it all in to his feud with Kerry and Jarrett, which is the point. Great stuff, although Jarrett still doesn't look like a user at this time. Bonus clip as they were going to break showing the King piledriving a jobber, which allowed another jobber to get the win. That's what Dave was grumbling about at the beginning of the segment, in case anyone was wondering.
  24. garretta
    I just realized what felt so wrong about this turn: The Horsemen were always about competition in the eighties. Not necessarily fair or honest competition, but competition nonetheless. Here, they try and get out of wrestling not just Sting, but the Steiners (as we'll see when their match with the Andersons is announced). Now, they're not only heels, but cowards, and the Horsemen were always the one group of heels who never ran scared. On a more aesthetic note, if you've got Arn and Flair, two of the best promo men in the business, behind you, why are you talking, Ole? You were a fifth wheel in this group on your best day with it four years ago. Let the masters do the promo work. (To be fair, Ole can be an effective, even menacing talker, but he pales next to Arn and Flair by this time.)
  25. garretta
    Unfortunately, the clip up above where JR accidentally names Reed as one of Doom has been removed from YouTube. The most interesting part of this to me was that Gary Cappetta no-sold Reed's unmasking in his postmatch announcement. Note that he said that Simmons will be suspended if he doesn't unmask, "along with his tag team partner". At the risk of sounding like a mark and an idiot, was Reed's unmasking before the end of the bout planned, or was it an accident that JR and Corny went along with in order not to come off as completely braindead? It sure looks like it could have been accidental, and we know the Steiners didn't always do as they were expected to do. I've always heard that Simmons and Reed were the only two black heels on the NWA roster at the time. If that's true, no wonder this whole deal sounded so dumb. Couldn't they have at least turned Rocky King heel to create some suspense?
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