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It's rare that we get to see a full memohis match that means something, so for that reason alone this would have been a treat. But Jeff and Brian outdid themselves here, putting on one of the best studio bouts I can remember regardless of promotion. They treated the WMC studio like it was a jam-packed Mid-South Coliseum, which seldom happens in the studio environment. Jeff was excellent here, but Brian was the star. After some nice heeling at the beginning, he turned his focus to the match and delivered his best performance yet. I loved his work on Jeff's shoulder, which had to have been taught to him by someone other than his dad, since the Kingfish has seldom if ever worked a body part that I've seen. Eventually we got to the nearfalls, but they worked here better than they did elsewhere in the world at this time; you really feel the struggle over not only the belt, but Brian's pride, which he stands to lose a great deal of if Jeff can cost him a shaved head. Kudos to Dave, who really told the ongoing story of the match well. He's a vastly underrated play-by-play guy, and with Memphis slowly starting to lose relevance in a world that's rapidly becoming WWF- and WCW-centric, it's really a shame that only geeks like us will ever truly know how good he was. Corey was almost indecipherable when he really got excited, but he didn't kill the bout like he's done with others in the past. An extra special shoutout to the camerapeople; with the other wrestlers surrounding the ring, they were forced to do more closeups than normal, but these really added to the intensity of the bout. It wasn't quite Lawler winning the AWA belt, as Dave suggested, but it was important and treated as such by all involved. I didn't mind the finish, as this feud had to last a while and help draw some houses, both at the MSC and around the circuit. They didn't want to stop Brian's momentum dead with a clean loss, and that's perfectly understandable, but Brian also wasn't quite ready to beat Jeff cleanly either. By the end of the year, maybe, but not now. Besides, we're also set now for some tag matches with King and Doll vs. Jeff and a partner, and maybe a six-man or two with Christopher and probably Lawler added to the mix. I liked the King handing out the drawings of a bald Brian to the ringside fans. I just hope he got Brian's approval before he did it, and possibly his (Brian's) mother's as well. I know referees are supposed to be above personal feelings in most cases, but it had to be awkward for Kevin to be involved with big angles involving both his father and his brother, especially when they were on opposite sides of the fence. Thankfully for us fans, he did his job so well that we never sensed any awkwardness. He may be the best ref the USWA has right now, though the competition isn't exactly stiff, with the likes of Frank Morrell and Paul Neighbors.
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This was almost a total Sting squash. Between the cut which was already mentioned and the knee injury he suffered earlier, Norton was reduced to a punching bag, and Sting was uncharacteristically vicious in working over both the knee and the cut. The only burst of energy Norton really showed was when he went crazy on everyone in sight after the ref stopped the match. If he'd done that three or four minutes earlier we might have had something. Even before that, he looked like an idiot doing moves that required lifting Sting and holding him up while he had a bad knee. If this was supposed to have been a matchup at Slamboree, I'm glad we were spared. Was Sting really supposed to be the heel here? It sure seemed like it, because if this had been in the States he almost certainly would have come back to stop Norton's postmatch tantrum instead of just walking away like he did.
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I seem to recall reading somewhere (maybe on this board, even) that Flair wasn't allowed to wrestle when he first came back to WCW because of a non-compete clause in his WWF contract, but WCW had to do something with him, so this is what they came up with. If that's true, their hearts were in the right place. If it's not and this segment was just a way to keep him off to the side somewhere, what a lowdown dirty shame. It had its merits: Vader again proved that he's a great talker without Harley, and he pulled off his comedy material with Fifi very well, especially the bits with the food. (By the way, let me congratulate Flair on his taste in fifth wives; if she's still half as beautiful as she was here, he ought to be very happy for a very long time.) I liked Vader rattling off all the men he's hurt in his School of Pain, and his answer to Flair's question about why he wears the mask was a classic. Harley seemed greatly amused by it all somehow, almost as if he was another guest who had nothing to do with Vader at all. As for our not-so-humble host, I'm not sure how to take his performance. If he was legally unable to get in the ring, his demeanor was understandable; they couldn't even tease an in-ring return for him until the non-compete ran out, no matter how a guest might act. On the other hand, if this was just Flair trying to be above it all for whatever reason, it stank. Why have Vader as a guest if you're not going to start building a Flair-Vader feud? It's the same thing with Barry the following week. These are the two people whom WCW fans want to see Flair wrestle most, so wait on them as guests until the feuds are ready to be activated. Have Arn as a first guest, or someone young who needs a rub from a legend like Buff Bagwell. Don't have Flair acting like a wuss on his own segment; it only reinforces the notion that he's past it, and if you at WCW believe that he's past it, why did you resign him? If all he's going to do is rot, let him do it on Vince's payroll, not yours. The best Flair line of the segment was the quote was the line about cookin' and smokin'. I've heard it quite a few times, and I think the archrival that Flair was referring to was Dusty, but that line was also said by someone else who could have been considered an archenemy of Flair's in the recent past: Roddy Piper. Whichever one Flair was thinking of, using the line was a nice touch. I'm looking forward to more of these so I can tell if they improved or not, although I have my doubts. Still, Fifi's nice enough to look at, and even if you don't agree with Flair's attitude, he's still a great talker, so these shouldn't be too painful, unlike WCW's last interview segment (The Bull Drop Inn).
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I wondered why Tammy came in so long before Chris did, but it turns out Chris was in SMW all along. I wondered how they were going to keep the Smothers-Anthony feud hot after Tracy scored such a definitive victory at the Bluegrass Brawl, and between Tony's postmatch attack that night and what he did here, they certianly managed it. Tony didn't really paint Tracy's back in a straight line, though; it ended up looking more like a big yellow splotch. That's a nitpick, though. Tracy and Tim's promos afterward were both very good, and Tim's served as a nice reminder that he was infinished business with Tony himself. Tim seemed angrier about what Tony did to Tracy than he ever did when Tony did things to him, or maybe he was just getting the hang of doing an angry, fired-up promo. Tracy made a mistake; he should have called Tony and Ron "no-ggod stinkin' Rebels". After all, they voluntarily dosowned the South and are proud New Yorkers now, so why would you complikment them by calling them Yankees? Random question: Just what would a sympathy orchestra sound like? I guess it makes sense that it would have lights, being as how it would be dedicated to showing people sympathy. In all seriousness, though, they should have reshot the promo, since that line is a prime candidate for Most Nonsensical Line from a Promo in 1993.
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This was a reprise of their earlier interview, this time done in front of a live audience with the Nightstalker's betraytal as an added subplot. While it didn't (and couldn't) top the first interview for sheer weirdness. it was still excellent. This is the best work I've seen out of Sully; he's still certifiably crazy, but he's saying and doing things that the average fan can understand rather than spouting a bunch of mystical mumbo-jumbo. Dutch is a great straight man, and compared to Sully he definitely seems sane and scholarly. I can't wait for the next chapter of this situation! Bryan Clarke seems to be the first guy Corny set up for a push in SMW who bailed to one of the Big Two before the push could be executed. Before him, guys like Paul Orndorff and the Stud Stable worked on top at least briefly before they left. (In the Studs' case, they main-evented the biggest card SMW has had to date.)
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I thought for sure that Rude would take a shot at Dusty before this was all over, but he didn't. Unless I've missed a cameo here and there, this was Dusty's first appearance on WCW TV since early June of '91, when the disaster that was The Bull Drop Inn was canceled. I can't wait to see if he adds anything else to this feud in the future. This was too short to mean much by itself, but it's good to have Rude back and ready to go. It'll be interesting to see if he can recapture the momentum he had a few short months ago, when he seemed a sure bet to take the World title from Simmons. On a side note, great to see Rude's mustache again. Who was doing color with Tony here? I've narrowed it down to two people: Teddy Long and Robert Fuller. When did the Stud debut the Col. Parker gimmick? I know it wasn't too long after this.
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This is wonderful. Just like last week the only person to take Tammy seriously is Tammy. Lee dismisses her as one step above a groupie, and Bullet Bob is condescending, paternalistic and chauvinistic all at once. Tammy's not ready ro be anything major yet, having just come into SMW the previous week, but she's handling the bits and pieces they're giving her like a pro. I like that she didn't launch into a long promo that she might have stumbled over once Lee rejected her; her one-liner is more than enough, and it could apply to Caudle and Bullet Bob too. I'm looking forward to more of this, and it might be time for Tammy to visit Dr. Dutch on Down and Dirty before too much longer.
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I wondered why they squashed Bobby and forgot about him so quickly. I notice that Magnum said above that it was Bullet Bob who found out that Bobby hadn't gotten his release from Atlanta and agreed to send him back. I take it that means that this was an angle of some sort that was played out on TV, because if it had been real life, Bobby wouldn't have had a job to go back to. Nice to see Kyle again; we haven't heard from him since before the Bluegrass Brawl. I guess he'll be the one teaming with Stan and Dr. Tom now that Bobby's gone. They're already hyping Rage in the Cage, which looks at the moment to be Rock 'n' Roll, Lee, and two other faces against the Bodies, Kyle, Corny, and one more heel. I know this lineup changes a lot over the summer, and it'll be fun to track those changes as we move along. Boy, Corny seems to get a kick out of beating up Morton in particular. He gives racquet shots to almost everyone, but when it comes time to punch or kick someone, Ricky's almost always his target. He also seems to love to pick on Mark Curtis/Brian Hildebrand, who in real life became one of his closest friends in SMW.
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Back in April, I suggested that Lawler could have gotten away with piledriving Sherri after his cage match with Savage becuase she'd been asking for it all night long. Well, I got my wish, and that's what happens when I open my big fat mouth. A piledriver would have been bad enough, but a spike piledriver? God love Sherri for agreeing to take it, but she never should have had to, because it should never have been so much as thought of. If they wanted to spike someone, it should have been Raven. He's a trained male worker, and being piledriven by a woman would have given the fans of Memphis something to tease him with for the rest of his run. Kudos to him for playing the concerned pseudo-boyfriend about as well as possible, and of course Sherri is brilliant, managing to sound menacing while selling her neck beautifully at the same time. Not bad for a washed-up old broad, eh, Vince? Right about now, I'm rooting for someone to come in and break Lawler's neck, because he deserves it, King of Memphis or not. Papa deserved to lose his time slot on WMC as well, and I'm surprised he didn't. Let an indie station deal with this kind of bullshit; as an NBC affiliate, WMC needed to present a classier image to the public. I'm aware of the ratings they would have lost if they'd done this, but the scandal that would have arisen if they'd said why they were dumping wrestling would have damaged its ratings anyway, perhaps irreparably. On another note, Corey continues to shine as a beacon of knowledge and perspicacity. Let me get this straight: Sherri deserved to be piledriven because she interfered in a match she was a participant in? Did Corey truly forget the rules of a match he'd just called, or was he just manufacturing moral outrage for no particular reason? Whatever happened to just holding the microphone and letting the wrestlers do the talking? I used to think that that was a boring way to be an on-air personality in wrestling, but after hearing crock after crock of garbage from this man, I've changed my mind almost completely. I love Lance in SMW, but I can't wait until he leaves and comes back home to Memphis where he belongs so this imitator can go back to running tape machines on infomercials or whatever else he did before someone got the brilliant idea to put him on a wrestling show.
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If their upcoming matches arre anywhere near as entetaining as this promo was, Funk-Gilbert ought to be one of the best feuds of the year. Let's just hope that their eventual ECW matches aren't trainwrecks like a couple of the bouts they've had so far in Philly this year. I can't wait to see what response, if any, Eddie has to this. He won't top it, but he can be pretty clever himself if the mood strikes him. I see by the May match listing that we have at least two more of these to go. For all of our sakes, I hope they're different from this one. After all, how many extended fart jokes, even brilliant ones, can we possibly take?
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I must be the only one who thinks that this blew Sting/Vader away. It was every bit as violent and bloody, and the finish was a damn sight more creative; I've never seen one guy go over another guy's back to touch the fourth turnbuckle before. Kudos to Tracy for tapping an artery to help the cause. The only wrestler in SMW that I can recall bleeding more outside of Kanemura was Chris Jericho a year and some change later, and that was semi-accidental. The finish wasn't messed up; there were some punches in between Tony's attempts, which was a legitimate way to stop the buckle count. Speaking of which, Tracy's timing on his comebacks was impeccable. He knew just when to make them in order to get the fans on their feet. Tony was instrumental in this as well, with his cocky attempts to drag Tracy around the ring which left the door wide open for Tracy to save himself. Mark Curtis made a rare blunder here by checking Tracy's arm when Tony was choking him down with the chain. The rules stated that the match wasn't to be stopped for any reason, which presumably includes unconsciousness of the wrestlers. Lance and Les were excellent here, and as much as I love Bob and Dutch I wonder if SMW TV wouldn't have been better with them on a weekly basis, They got over the match and what it meant as well as anyone I've ever heard, and their strategical analysis was tremendous as well. My favorite bit was when Lance said that he would tell Tracy to pound on Tony between corners to soften him up, which was exactly what Tracy did the next time he tried to drag Tony around. I also liked Les giving his personal perspective on what it was like to be in a Tennessee chain match against Ron Wright and the advantage Tony had due to being taught the ins and outs of this kind of match by its master. Lance had some personal insight of his own on Tracy's early days and how he was slow to adapt to the professional style of wrestling. This might be the best broadcast of a match so far this year, at least in the English language. Line of the Night goes to Les, as he discusses Ron and Tony supposedly living in New York. To paraphrase: "Given how many times Ron has lied over the years, they could be living in the back of this building for all I know." I loved Tony attacking Tracy during the postmatch interview, and for a second I thought he was going to take a swing at Lance while he was at it. This feud is far from over, and I for one can't wait to see what happens next. .
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When Corny's the worst promo in any set of promos, you know you've heard some good talking. Nobody really disappointed, but Dutch and Arn were the best of the lot. I especially thought Dutch was good; you can tell he's been holding back for months while he's been in the booth and is happy to be back in the ring where he belongs. As for the match, I'm through the first fall, and this has been way too chaotic for its own good. I'd have rather seen a three-match round-robin series, with each combination fighting each other. It's not the fact that there are multiple guys or weapons, it may be that they needed to put a cage up and do WarGames if they insisted on having all three teams fight at once. It not only would have focused the wrestlers better, it would have done the same with the cameramen. WarGames has one more guy than this in its classic form, spread out over two rings, and yet I've never felt that I've missed anything important in those matches. The standard long shot/closeup/back to long shot doesn't cut it here, and if Corny hadn't had seasoned pros like Lance (Welcome back, Lancer!) and Les in the booth, this would have been damn near unwatchable. Why did the Studs go out first? It's simple; Dutch was going back to the booth full-time, and Fuller and Golden were headed for Atlanta. I'm surprised that they lasted over fifteen minutes under the circumstances; I might have beaten them in the first five minutes and gone most of the way with just six guys plus Corny, which would have made for an easier match to follow. The finish absolutely reeked. First of all, if Gibson had a bad leg as the announcers claimed he did, why was he trying for the figure four on someone who wasn't even in the match? Lance had to cover for this bit of stupidity by surmising that maybe Corny could legally be defeated, which was bunk and he knew it. Worse than that was beating Rock 'n' Roll at all here. When you bring a special surprise like Arn, who's way beyond high school gyms in Pikeville, Kentucky or anywhere else, in as a guest on your card, he goes over. Period, no questions asked. Piper and Orndorff didn't beat Mr. T at Mania 1, whether they should have or not. Boxers always got the best of wrestlers in some way whenever possible, Ali-Inoki aside. Even Jay Leno went over in a tag match, and I'm a better wrestler than he is, even with cerebral palsy. The fire extinguisher, the table spot, and Arn DDTing Stan, Dr. Tom, and Bobby should have been the finish. Use Bobby to eat the fall since he's not staying long, and have that be the end of it. But the Bodies went over so Corny could remain his own top heel, as if he couldn't regain his heat the first time he opened his mouth the next weekend on TV. For this we needed Arn? Use Tim Horner as the third guy for Ricky and Robert, or being in some prelim schlub like Ben Jordan or Tommy Angel. I'm guessing Arn didn't have a problem with this since he wrestled the match, but it really fried me. I could have understood if the belts had somehow been on the line, but the Bodies had nothing substantial to lose here except a bit of Corny's overinflated pride. The more I watch of SMW, the less I like Corny as a booker. I'll always admire his verbal ability, and I can listen to him rant and rave for hours on end, but he's everything he despises Paul Heyman for with the pencil in his hand. Let's just hope he doesn't start copying (four years before the fact, no less) his other most favorite person in the world, Vince Russo.
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After a long streak of joshi just being blah to me, this is the second match in a row I've really enjoyed. The quick first fall was the key, as the drama was turned way up because of it. The champions were fighting nearly impossble odds by trying to take two straight falls against opponents who'd just wiped them out, while the chalengers learned that Toyota and Yamada wouldn't be quite so easily vanquished a second time. I found the kick battle between Dynamite and Yamada to be an interesting subplot. Each of those kicks were absolutely brutal, and Dynamite looked like she was knocked woozy quite a few times after being blasted right in the external occipital protuberance. Yamada, of course, was knocked all the way out at least twice. I applaud Dynamite for mucking in with the rest as far as bump taking went. I've said in the past that monsters shouldn't bunp much if at all, but that has to go by the wayside if the match is supposed to last three falls and almost forty minutes. There were a ton of nearfalls in both the second and third stanzas, but they never felt by the book, particularly in the second fall when Toyota and Yamade were working their butts off not to get swept. It all got a little much toward the end, but the match had gone over half an hour by that point, so I guess repetition was inevitable. You'd never have known that Ozaki and Dynamite were enemies in JWP from the way they worked together here. They're an exremely cohesive and talented team, and it's a shame that we won't see more of them. It was great to see JWP's mass celebration at the end, especially as a contrast to Yamada's disappointment over losing. I'm surprised that this took place at an AJW-promoted card, but I guess they wanted to show that title changes could happen anywhrere at any time.
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[1993-04-02-AJW-Dream Slam I] Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori
garretta replied to Loss's topic in April 1993
I find it difficult to talk about this match in artistic terms. Work or no work, I was concerned about the health and well-being of the participants, especially toward the end, which I guess is to the credit of these two incredible performers. This was a human demoltiton derby, plain and simple. The posters above have spoken about what happened to Hokuto, but let's not forget that Kandori bled too, and absorbed enough of a beating that she had to be helped back to the locker room. In fact, Hokuto was executing her moves better at the end, which I can buy as being in shock and unable to feel the pain she was in or even to register much of the world around her. I didn't actually see how Kandori originally injured Hokuto's shoulder, but I was impressed that she kept going back to it for the entire bout. Usually in AJW, limbwork only happens for the first ten minutes or so, then we get highspots until the finish. I liked the one ring girl helping Hokuto by holding Kandori still so she (Hokuto) could hit a dropkick off the top. It was a subtle acknowledgment that Hokuto would need all the help she could get if she was to survive, let alone win. Hokuto bleeding as badly as she did may have hurt Kandori's ability to win the match at times, especially when she applied the sleeper, which should have worked like a charm, as out of it as Hokuto was. But she couldn't really hook it in, and Hokuto got to the ropes. This was a great bit of storytelling, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been used more often. I'm honestly not sure if I can stand a rematch between these two, but if it happens, the bar has been set impossibly high. This is without a doubt the best women's match I've seen, and may be in the top five most violent matches I've seen. Magnum-Tully at Starrcade '85 and a couple of WarGames matches are in the discussion, but given that this was a women's bout, it may be closer to number one than number five. -
I had trouble telling the New Japan gius apart here. Not only did they wear identical ring gear except for Saito's gi, but there were no ring announcements. When I don;t get ring announcements in a non-English speaking match, I'm in trouble. There wasn't anything fancy about this at all, just wight guys beating the living stew out of each other. Does anyone know why the NJPW guys were cheered so heavily here despite supposedly being the enemy? I loved the clothesline train on Kosh (I think) toward the end. It was one of the few moves in this match which you could call even remotely artistic or athletic. New Japan gets two big wins on the same card. While I don't agree with most of you that this is the best feud in wrestling at this time (it's not even the best feud in Japan; that beloings to Misawa's Army against Taue's group in AJPW), it's still superb, and I can't wait to see where it goes from here now that WAR is the side on the defensive.
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I didn't think as much of this as some of you did. It was a good solid match to be sure, but hardly one of the greats. The finish surprised me, as I thought they'd save the big NJPW win on WAR turf for a singles blowoff. I know that Choshu, Hash, and Tenryu are going to bring it every time, but Ishikawa continues to impress me with how well he fits with Tenryu. When this feud ends, I'd love to see him in NJPW either in singles or tags. I'm guessing that Hash's nose was at least bloodied for real, if not broken for real. That's hardly a surprise considering the kind of kicks the WAR team was throwing at it whenever they had the chance. The ref got a little too involved for the kind of grudge match this was and got abused as a result, which served him right. Next time, he should take Gorilla Monsoon's advice and stay in the corner while these two sides fight it out. My view of the finish was obstructed, so I didn't know Hash got the fall with the DDT until I read it here. They're definitely pushing a Tenryu-Hash singles bout, judging from the video package we got at the end. If and when there is one, I hope we see it on the set!
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Thanks for the info, Zenjo!
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[1993-02-22-WWF-Raw] The Undertaker vs Skinner
garretta replied to SirEdger's topic in February 1993
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This was a good, well-worked match at first. Then Honaga began powerbombing everything that moved on the floor and it became excellent, as now the NJPW side was desperate to escape with its life and the WAR side couldn't believe that NJPW was still fighting after all they'd been through. There was great teamwork between the sides, with a similar dynamic: One member of each team (Liger, Dragon) preferred to win by the rules, while the other (Samurai, Honaga) would take victory any way they could get it. Neither team fought over their differences, though; instead, both teams possessed a keen sense of when each member was needed and made their tags accordingly This was especially true of Dragon and Honaga, whose styles are almost a hundred and eighty degrees apart from each other. Some of the pin saves in the closing stretch were absolutely amazing. Honaga in particular deserves a medal for making so many saves for Dragon in so short a time. Honaga's actually improved as a technical wrestler, as evidenced by his exchanges with both Liger and Honaga early on. Then again, how could he not improve with excellent workers like those two opposite him consistently? The juniors were slow to get into the spirit of the NJPW-WAR feud, but they're sure into it now. As interpromotional feuds go, this has the best in-ring action I've seen, although the North American one are more emotionally compelling because we get to see character work and promos from the sides instead of just isolated matches. NJPW needs more wins, though; regardless of match quality, they've simply taken too many clean losses like this one for this to be considered a truly great feud, at least to this point.
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I'm honestly not sure that you could call this a wrestling match. This seems to be a collection of ridiculous-looking spots followed by an unsatisfactory non-finish. Given what we saw, the only acceptable conclusion was both of these guys being taken out of the arena on stretchers, bloody and unconscious. Spots are fine, but this looked like a game of "Can You Top This?" more than anything that was supposed to tell a cohesive story. Nice to see Humpy again, but it was ridiculous that he had to be the one to bust Waltman open. I don't mind managers taking cheap shots and wrestlers selling them, but at least let the wrestlers do the initial damage. If this match got Waltman his WWF gig, it had to be because of the way he connected with the crowd, because Vince wouldn't be ready for the kind of spots Waltman did here for a few more years at least. Karch and his partner did a great job of establishing just how crazy Sabu was right off the bat. His connection with The Sheik might have meant more in a place where the fans saw The Exalted One more often in his glory days, though, such as Detroit or Toronto. (I don't recall him working for Verne too often,) The rest of the commentary was excellent and really put over the chaotic atmosphere without being too over the top. I touched on this up above, but regardless of the reason, the finish was unacceptable here. They should have canned the Waltman dropkick on the ref and just had Waltman and Sabu beat each other senseless until the ref threw the whole match out. That would have been more in tune with the madness we saw. .
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As is the case with most AAA trios matches, this was more of a six-man battle royal than a tag match, which made it confusing and hard to follow until the one-on-one closing stretch between Caras and Konnan. Not only that, but I completely missed Eddie's part in the finish, which wouldn't really have made sense without explanation from a commentator anyway. In short, like most lucha trios matches, this was a total dud in my eyes. Del Santo was an idiot for wrestling with his mask untied for most of the first fall. He should know perfectly well that the rudos will try for it every chance they get. Surely one of the refs (preferably the tecnico-leaning one) could have noticed it and retied the thing for him. (I know, him storming back from the locker room with his mask retied got a big pop, but sometimes drama should take a back seat to common sense. I was more appalled by del Santo's foolishness than I was thrilled to see his comeback.)
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I liked this. The sequence with all four women in the ring at the end was a bit too long, but otherwise this delivered. Was the referee legitimately checking on Cutie to see if she was all right after that giant swing? It sure seemed like it. How kyoko could sustain that move for thirty-nine and a half rotations without either tearing her arms up or knocking both herself and her opponent silly I'll never know. Those top-rope stomps on Kyoko by Mayumi and Cutie looked like they at least bruised her ribs, if not out-and-out fractured them. Who said women can't be as vicious as men? I haven't seen an answer to this anywhere else, so I'll ask it here: Are Kyoko and Takako related? I know Inoue is a fairly common last name in Japan.
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[1993-04-06-NJPW-Magnitude X] Genichiro Tenryu vs Riki Choshu
garretta replied to Loss's topic in April 1993
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[1993-04-06-NJPW-Magnitude X] Genichiro Tenryu vs Riki Choshu
garretta replied to Loss's topic in April 1993
For the amount of buildup this pairing got, this match was very disappointing. Choshu's been positioned as NJPW's leader, just like Tenryu's been positioned as WAR's leader, so the heat for this one should have been off the charts........but it wasn't. This felt like Choshu telling Tenryu he needed his win back and Tenryu giving it to him in the most grudging way possible. Tenryu sold his neck injury beautifully, but other than that there's really nothing to recommend this match at all. It's slow, boring, and almost completely one-sided in favor of Choshu. Why would Choshu want to move Tenryu into a feud with Hash? Was it a way to elevate Hash into "franchise player" territory or a way to demote Tenryu, however slightly, from the top of the cards? You would think that Hash would be better served as a roadblock for Choshu to throw in front of Tenryu to prevent him from getting too close to his final target, which should have been Choshu himself. -
[1993-04-17-WCW-Worldwide] Barry Windham vs Steven Regal
garretta replied to Loss's topic in April 1993
Okay, I looked it up myself.Jesse and Mulligan were in the same ring twice, according to Wrestlingdata.com: On May 4, 1982, they were in a battle royal together on a WWF card In Portland, Maine. Cowboy Bob Orton was the eventual winner. Then on February 12, 1984, on an AWA card in Salt Lake City, Jesse and Mr. Saito (The Far East-West Connection) fought to a no-contest with Mulligan and Baron Von Raschke. As for him and Barry, they were in the same ring once. On June 6, 1985, Barry teamed with Mike Rotundo and George Steele to beat Jesse, the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff at a WWF card in Youngstown, Ohio. I'm certainly not implying that Jesse should have remembered any of these bouts; I'm just passing the information along for those who may be interested.