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  1. garretta
    This is the first Flair promo that's felt wrong since he's been in the WWF. As you all know by now, I'm no fan of screaming Flair. It goes against what his character is designed to be and makes him look like a total fool. Here, we get some nonsense about Warrior's veins cramping up when he's in the figure four. HUH? We also get very little mention of Savage except when Flair dismisses him as a wimp. I'm not sure he ever got a major rematch, and considering what a flake Warrior was known to be even then, Vince would have wise not to banish Randy to the sidelines as quickly as he did. He'd have come in awfully handy when Warrior walked out. No offense to Bret, but if you'd taken a fan poll at this time I'm guessing most people would have rather seen a third Savage title reign instead of Bret's first. Not that Bret wouldn't have been a fine champion eventually (as indeed he was), but Randy still had some meat left on his carcass, if you would. I agree about the Atlanta mention not being a coincidence. I wouldn't be surprised if there were already talks going on between Flair and WCW, since Ric had to know that he was going to drop the belt pretty quickly this time, whether it was to Warrior, Bret, or whomever else. I'm not sure which announcer performance was worse: Okerlund lecturing Flair about defending the title with dignity or Gino pretty much guaranteeing a Warrior victory. I'm not one to worry too much about announcers getting themselves over at the expense of the product, since unlike in non-fixed sports they're as much a part of the product as the wrestlers. But to hear Gino totally dismiss Flair as nothing even though he'd just won the belt back bothered the hell out of me. He's becoming unbearable to listen to, and it's breaking my little mark heart, since there was a time when I considered him one of the best announcers I'd ever heard, regardless of sport. (Yes, I'm serious.) I knew he was going downhill, but he's doing it even faster than I feared. The same goes for Okerlund unless he gets the hell off his moral soapbox. He's always been an indignant little cuss around the heels, which was part of his charm. But seeing and hearing him do everything but going after them with a paddle for being bad little boys is getting real old real fast. I never thought I'd see the day when I could make a legitimate case for Bobby Heenan being the best overall announcer in the WWF, as much as I like him. But as of now, he's number one.
  2. garretta
    I didn't know that, Pete. Still, to blame Bret's loss at SummerSlam on Shango's curse when Shango wasn't mentioned at any point during the match not only cheapens Davey's victory, but smacks of either poor planning or desperation on Vince's part. Thanks for the info!
  3. garretta
    Talk about cheapening a great match. Did they actually expect anyone to buy this, especially since there was absolutely no mention whatsoever of Shango targeting Bret prior to SummerSlam that anyone's aware of? I'd have much rather heard about a possible rematch with Davey, or maybe Bret turning around and going after Flair, which would have really fried Heenan and Curt. I loved Bret asking why Shango didn't just turn him into a newt instead of bothering to put a curse on him. Bret has a very underrated sense of humor at times. After that line, Curt's attempts at fanning the flames of the feud really seemed lame. I also loved the shot Bret took at Curt himself, although he had to know the real reason Curt wasn't wrestling. Heenan's question about the Hart family Christmas gifts might have gotten a pretty good answer too If Vince hadn't jumped all over it. This show is where midcarders go to die. Hillbilly, Hacksaw, Sarge.....I know Vince had to use them somehow, but they contributed just as little as I remembered on Prime Time, and Sarge wasn't even there that week because of Nailz' attack. It should have been just Vince and Heenan, or better yet Vince never should have messed with the classic Gino/Bobby team in the first place.
  4. garretta
    Between the endless mat sequences in the first half and the lack of high-impact moves, I found this match much duller than it should have been, particularly with a shot at the NWA World title at stake. I wasn't alone, as the crowd seemed deader than a sack of hammers. They tried a little bit of storytelling with Chono's neck, but it never really want anywhere. We've seen much better from each man before, and hopefully we will again from Chono in the finals against Rude. What was it with that Chono boot to the head/Muta dropkick sequence right at the end? They repeated it no less than seven times by my count. In fact, the finish came after Chono swatted away Muta's seventh attempted dropkick and locked in the STF. Was this sequence planned or did each man's groove get stuck in the heat of battle?
  5. garretta
    This was very good. I liked the variety of submissions these guys performed, especially the ones centered around the legs. Anjoh dominated for the most part, but I could tell that they were going for a draw finish when he let Tamura hook him and take him down so easily in the last couple of minutes. Tamura was very plucky in hanging on for the draw, but he was clearly outclassed on this night. I liked the regulation pro-style matwork and submissions, and apparently the crowd did too. I've seen it crop up more and more in these matches as the yearbooks have gone on, and as long as it doesn't begin to completely dominate the style I think it's fine. In matches with shorter time limits, you'd need to decrease the target score proportionately so you wouldn't limit the finishes to knockouts or draws. In a twenty-minute match, first one to ten wins; in a fifteen-minute match, first one to eight wins; in a ten-minute match, first one to five wins, and so on.
  6. garretta
    Jumbo looked to be in good shape for the shape he was in. Certainly not a hundred percent, but more than good enough to give the MVC the most competitive match I've seen them in yet. Taue looked especially good in his sequences against Doc; I wonder how a singles bout between them would turn out. Doc and Bamm Bamm targeted both natives' legs, but that almost seemed like an afterthought. I actually thought that Jumbo and Taue were more effective targeting Doc's stomach and ribs earlier on, if only because it was one of the few times I've seen the MVC's opponents take control of a match for even a brief while. Taue got to chokeslam Doc twice and look good doing it both times. which is more than most teams facing the MVC get these days. The crowd seemed really pleased to see Jumbo back, although I'm sure they'll feel differently when he's beating up natives again. Just like with the Misawa and Kobashi match, I'm wondering which of the MVC's titles, if any, were on the line. They didn't wear any belts to the ring, and the match had a forty-five minute time limit instead of an hour, so if I had to guess I'd say that neither title was defended. Any special reason why they hid Jumbo's real condition? I'd guess it was a privacy thing, but maybe they wanted to put whoever was supposed to have "injured" him over. Did they mention who was supposed to have done it?
  7. garretta
    Now that I know why there was so much armwork on Misawa. my opinion of this has gone up a bit. I still prefer Hansen the out-of-control brawler, but at least him slowing the bout down in order to target Misawa's bad shoulder makes a bit more sense now. It was well done in any case, as was Misawa's work on Hansen's lariat arm in return. But this really started to pick up when they started throwing forearms and kicks. The one knockout forearm from Misawa really took me by surprise, since he's been using the facelock as his finisher for quite some time. I liked that you could actually hear Higuchi gibing commands, particularly to Stan. I especially liked him telling Stan "No more outside!" like he was talking to a naughty puppy. (Not that Stan listened to him, of course.) It's nice to see Misawa as the new king of All-Japan, even if his "coronation" could have stood to be a lot more exciting. The question is: With Jumbo out of the title picture (and soon to be out of the promotion), who's going to be Misawa's top challenger after Stan gets his rematch?
  8. garretta
    There was actually some psychology to this, if you can believe it. The fire was supposed to work like a cage, a weapon designed to keep the participants inside. At least that's what I thought, but then why did each man throw their opponent clear out of the ring several times? In other words, this whole mess was confusing and dangerous, and other than the fact that Pogo wrestled matches like this as a matter of routine I wonder why they booked it. It got so dangerous that the referees had to come into the ring with water at least twice to throw water on the flames so they wouldn't go too far out of control. I think the fireworks were supposed to add to the flames at regular intervals, which is why you heard the ring announcer counting in Japanese. Thank God no one was actually burned alive, although Matsunaga was close a few times when Pogo almost pushed him into the fire. Under these circumstances, I can't really complain about the quality of the match, because I think it's a miracle that they were able to have a match at all. Quinones' part of the postmatch took too long and was too brutal. I guess Pogo was supposed to be slow to respond because of the match he'd just had, but Quinones really looked like an experienced tough guy slapping Pogo around like that, which I'm sure wasn't the intention at all. Things picked up once Pogo got the upper hand, and really got good once Pogo began his brawl with the Headhunters and the other wrestlers. Is the Danny Davis Tim talked about above the same one that was also in SMW at the time? I know he had some experience over in Japan, but I thought that it was with one of the more traditional promotions.
  9. garretta
    This was an excellent scientific wrestling match. Dragon dominated the first fall with his work on Casas' leg, and Casas got what I guess could be called a flash submission with the scorpion deathlock to even things up. The thing that stood out to me was Dragon's lack of aggression; every time he had Casas on the run, he was a step slow following up, thus letting him off the hook. It even played into the final fall, as he was a bit slow straightening up after going over Casas' back, which allowed Casas to execute the winning small package. I'm always fascinated by what they choose to show during the replay sequences on lucha shows. Usually it's the pinfalls or some good-looking dives, but here they showed Dragon's superplex three different times. I wonder why. Was the superplex an uncommon spot in lucha that they felt they had to call attention to? Come to think of it, I don't remember many superplexes in the lucha bouts I've seen.
  10. garretta
    I didn't think it was possible after Savage-Warrior turned into such a debacle, but Vince got this one right all the way down the line. There wasn't a false note to be found anywhere, from the prematch promos (Davey's was the best I've ever heard from him, and Bret's was in the top two or three) to the bagpipers and the returning Hot Rod (he sounded really good for an amateur), to the match itself and the reconciliation afterward. Even Diana was used just right. She wasn't a professional at this time, but she didn't need to be. She was the innocent bystander caught in the middle, someone who'd never wanted the spotlight but had it forced upon her because her husband and brother insisted on fighting each other. She played it beautifully from start to finish, and I can see why Vince decided to use her again in '95 when he decided to revisit this feud. As for the match, Bret is full of crap. Yes, he obviously called the match, but to claim that he was the only one who did anything worthwhile is ego talking. The last time Davey looked this good, Captain Lou still managed him and Dynamite. If he had one good singles match in him before his body went south, this was it. He not only kept up with Bret, but he pulled out moves like the superplex that I'd never seen him use before. He wasn't quite in his prime, but for where he was in his career it was impossible for him to look much better. A carry job? Not on your life. Was Davey gassed toward the end? Of course he was, but he didn't noticeably slow down, and Bret didn't have to drag his worthless carcass around the ring or anything close to it. As for Bret's performance, I've seen better, but this was supposed to be Davey's show, so it makes sense that he would be the one shining. Bret did what he was supposed to do about as well as he could, and even heeled briefly so the crowd would stay on Davey's side. I loved that Russian legsweep from the apron to the floor, which I'd never seen done before in my life, and his teases of turning his back on Davey once he'd been beaten only made the final embrace and reconciliation sweeter. Vince was right for once; what a moment. Vince was noticeably less annoying here, although he threw in one Anglophilic line that made no sense when Davey was down: "The pound isn't the only thing taking a beating." I loved Heenan's retort: "The pound where he (Davey) lives?" There was also an unfortunate pun about Davey being top dog, but two bad lines in forty minutes is a lot fewer than I expected. He called the reverse atomic drop a reverse piledriver for the second match in a row, but I've heard other announcers do that, so it's not that big a deal under the circumstances. Heenan's high point was when he was ragging on the bagpipers. That's the type of act that's tailor made for his sense of humor. His constant digs at the family relationship between Bret and Davey got a bit much after the first ten minutes; so did his shots at Diana. But his act was never built to sustain a forty-minute segment, either. It was built to do short TV matches on Challenge and brief segments leading into and out of commercials on Prime Time. That was WCW's mistake as well; they should have used him for syndie shows and possibly Clashes and kept Jesse for pay-per-views. I wasn't a fan of the King of England routine either, although it explained why he was wearing a crown at the beginning of Savage-Warrior. For all the publicity Lennox Lewis got, you'd think we would have at least seen a camera shot or two of him during the match, but other than one plug for his fight with Ruddock, he was forgotten completely once the match began. I think I can safely say that this was the WWF's singles match of the year to date, edging out Bret-Piper slightly and with nothing compelling in third place. It was definitely the feel-good moment of the decade in the WWF so far, even better than the Savage-Liz reunion at Mania VII given the setting and circumstances. I'm racking my brain, but right now I can't think of a WWF match or segment after this that came off so perfectly until the dawn of the Attitude Era four or five years later, Congratulations to all involved!
  11. garretta
    I'm not sure if it was this thread's influence or not, but I was let down here. Why do the MVC never seem to be in real danger at any time during their matches? Misawa and Kobashi got a close nearfall or two on Doc, but I never really felt that they were close to actually winning the titles. Not even the Steiners have been able to do much with them in that regard. At times they look like Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy squashing Ricky Ataki and Joe Mirto, even against the best competition WCW or AJPW has to offer. Having said that, I liked Doc's belly-to-belly off the top on Kobashi, which looked really good. You'd think that he and Bamm Bamm would break out more flashy power offense like that from time to time, but they never do, for whatever reason. Bamm Bamm especially sticks to restholds like chinlocks and front facelocks unless he's pushed, which he seldom is. I'd much prefer the high-impact style they both executed so well in the States, but maybe the partying and drugs have already begun to catch up to Bamm Bamm. I'm not sure what Doc's excuse is. Which titles were on the line here, if any? I'm guessing that the NWA belts were on the line at least. Was WCW's agreement with New Japan exclusive? Was it legally permissible for Baba to book a WCW World tag team title match? By the way, Loss, as you can tell, I found this match. It was in the middle of Disc 22.
  12. garretta
    I loved Flair's imitation of Warrior here. That was the highlight of the segment, which otherwise consisted of the return of late eighties Flair (which is a bad thing), and Curt making lame puns (which is even worse). I'm not sure about jumping the shark, but something seems to have gone out of their act, even with Flair as champion again. Maybe they should have let Warrior win the belt and have both Flair and Savage chase him, though what would have happened if Warrior had left while champion I can't even begin to guess. Did Warrior and Flair ever meet in house shows other than the one where Warrior hurt Flair's ear? I'll check Graham's listings when I have a moment, but they're by no means complete. Maybe one of you can come up with a match he might have missed.
  13. garretta
    Hall's promo is too short to really comment on. On the other hand, I loved Flair here. He looks like he's having the time of his life. So is Heenan, and it's a damn shame that he wasn't at ringside enough to be considered Flair's manager, because he deserved to manage a WWF champion. Curt, on the other hand, felt out of place for the first time in a while. He didn't seem too into this, for whatever reason. Maybe he was itching to get off the sidelines and get back into the ring, or maybe he just wanted some of the focus to be on himself, and I mean that in a both a character and a real life sense. Mr. Perfect really isn't a gimmick that lends itself to being a manager or second banana, and I can see where taking that role would begin to wear on both the character's nerves onscreen and Curt's nerves in real life. Razor joins the celebration in order to cement his partnership with Flair and Curt. Somehow or other, this works, although Razor Ramon is the last person you'd think a high-class guy like Flair would willingly associate with. Loved the reprise of "We're not the type of guys to say we told you so, but........WE TOLD YOU SO!"
  14. garretta
    I would have loved to see Savage keep the gold long enough for a Savage-Razor feud to mean something. The character seems too important to be reduced to Flair and Curt's running buddy right off the bat, though I suppose they needed someone fresh to be Flair's partner against Savage and Warrior (which is where they thought they were headed at the time). I can't believe how well Hall's nailed this gimmick from day one. The more I think about it, the more I'd put Razor right up there with The Million Dollar Man as the top two heel gimmicks of the Hulkamania era (which is still going on, at least technically). Even Curt didn't do this well with Mr. Perfect, and I consider Bossman an extension of the real Ray Traylor rather than a WWF-created gimmick. I loved Heenan talking about cruising the hood in Razor's car with dice hanging from the mirror, which would normally embarrass a man like him to death. I don't know if I'd have put him with Hall if he was still managing, though. There's something a bit rough about Razor that simply doesn't fit the Brain's style. Gino wanted so badly to crap on and dismiss Razor, but couldn't bring himself to do it. At this late date, that's what passes for high praise from him when it comes to heels, at least on the air.
  15. garretta
    Not buying the excuse, AJ. If you need to throw out random lines for heat, you and your angle are in big trouble. If you don't want your audience to think of JYD as the next black world heavyweight champion (whiich I'm assuming this means), then either tell Buddy not to say it or edit the reference out if he ad-libs it. Simple as that. Just because it's wrestling doesn't mean you can say anything and everything in the name of so-called "heat". .
  16. garretta
    This has to be the most annoying pay-per-view main event (or co-main event) in history. First, and worst, we had thirty-six and a half straight minutes of Vince McMahon puking up his internal organs and calling it commentary. My God, how horrible. I knew he'd slipped over the years, but this was beyond the worst commentating job I've ever heard. I actually think he was trying to drive the audience mad for whatever reason. This match was nobody's classic to start with, but if you began with five stars, the commentary would take off at least three. Vince never took a breath, seldom lowered his voice beyond that awful spoken singsong wretch, and was so busy debating who had or hadn't sold out to Curt that the match was barely even an afterthought. Before I forget, additional minus points to him for his awful British references. "Cliimbing the Tower of London"? "Leaping across the Thames"? The sad part is, there will probably be a few more in the Bret-Davey Boy match, since Davey's actually British. Okay, so we have our theoretical two stars left. Now, we turn to the whole mess with Flair and Curt. Simply put, even if Gordon Solie in his prime would have been on commentary, the execution of this storyline would have taken away at least one star, maybe more. It dominated the match even when they weren't out there yet, as I think Savage and Warrior were running through their offense at warp speed because they knew that Flair and Curt would be the center of attention once they arrived. I've never seen so many nearfalls in the first ten minutes of a title match, and they were going for them after almost every move. The Mania VII match had time to build its drama and get us invested in the struggle; this one was a complete sprint, and not a very well-done one, because the minute Flair and Curt came out, the match in the ring might as well have been over. Heenan made more sense than he ever knew with his comment toward the end that there were three separate matches going on: not only Warrior vs. Savage, but Flair against each of them. The trouble was, two of them weren't supposed to be taking every scrap of the fans' attention away from the third, which was the one they actually paid for. Not only that, but the whole mess had to be set up by Savage deliberately choosing to engage Flair outside the ring instead of putting Warrior away inside. At least have Flair run in and break up the pin once Randy hits the elbow instead. He could have done both the chair shot and the figure four inside the ring as well as he did it on the floor. What galls me the most is, the payoff of this isn't even going to be on Superstars or SNME. No, it's going to be on Prime Time, which has never been anything more than a recap show even when Gino and Bobby made it perhaps the most entertaining wrestling show on TV five and six years earlier. Now, it's got that lousy roundtable format with geniuses like Hacksaw Duggan and Hillbily Jim as co-hosts. So a pay-per-view for which we the fans paid thirty or forty bucks is being used to set up the WWF's answer to public access TV. Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Is it any wonder why the WWF was going down the drain so badly that they had to hotshot the belt six times in nine months (Savage-Flair-Bret-Yoko-Hogan-Yoko) which probably should have been seven in a year (Luger at SummerSlam '93)? Line of the segment: I guess the byplay at the beginning between Vince and Heenan that Pete referenced above. Who used Okerlund's teacup for a urinal in the postmatch, by the way? I've seen him get in a heel's face before, but here I was actually rooting for Curt to sock him. Between the commentary and the fact that this whole bout was a tease for another bout which we'd eventually see for free, I was as unimpressed as I could be here. The presentation and outside bologna made the in-ring work itself almost superfluous. If they had to involve Flair and Curt, one of them should have been the special guest referee (most likely Flair, since he could bump) and the other should have factored only in the postmatch beatdown. If Flair could work at all (and I assume he could, since he won the title back just two days later), they should have just done the title change here, had Warrior face Shango, and used the IC title change to send everyone home happy. But that would take common sense and respect for the fans, neither of which Vince had any of then and still has none of today, if what I read on boards like this is right.
  17. garretta
    Thanks for the info, Tim. Even so, that must have been one long, hard day!
  18. garretta
    Bull and Aja are quite the tag team, just as I expected. They don't have their teamwork quite down yet, but when you're as individually powerful as these two, you can dominate even while you're learning how to work together. Even without their differences, it would have been difficult for Hokuto and Yamada to win; when they fought with each other like they did, it was a wonder that they survived. As violent as this match was, I'm surprised that they booked Yamada to do it the same night as her hair match with Toyota. If that wasn't bad enough, she took the lion's share of the punishment, plus she and Hokuto brawled to the back after the match. I know from previewing the disc that the hair match from the beginning of the segment to the end was about a half hour, so if there's seven or eight minutes taken up with the pre- and postmatch festivities, that still leaves a highly emotional twenty-two minute bout with her best friend and tag team partner. I'll be interested to see how on earth she pulls it off. Thanks for the above discussion of weapon use in AJW. I'll have to keep that in mind when watching future bouts. I know these girls don't bother to sell much as a rule, but Yamada taking what looked like a nightstick shot in the throat on the floor, then running back to the ring full speed to break up a pin attempt completely boggles my mind. She never even registered pain that I could tell. House style or not, that was one of the most ridiculous sequences I've seen yet in wrestling, and that's saying a mouthful.
  19. garretta
    This was a great showcase for Horner, showing that he could beat Tony on any given day. Tony did just enough so that this wasn't a squash, which is all that was expected of him. Dutch was tremendous on commentary, and Bob really sets him up perfectly. My favorite line was, "If I tell you that a chicken chews tobacco, look under his left wing and a can of Copenhagen will fall out." He's also figured out how to be a heel on commentary without automatically disparaging everything a babyface does. As much trash as he talks about guys like Horner and the Fultons, he always puts them over as tough and gives them credit for good moves and tough victories. He also knows when a heel goes too far in an attack, as you'll hear in the upcoming piece where Tony hangs Horner from the ringpost. You never hear Heenan disparage a heel for anything, and even Jesse tends to go too far in sticking up for them at times. After his one-of-a-kind performance in this match, if there was a poll for Manager of the Year in SMW Ron may have beaten out Corny, if for no other reason than that his greatness was so unexpected. Eagle said up above that he thought someone could try to pull off the crippled old man schtick today. Well, maybe the right guy could, but I doubt that he'd throw himself into the role the way Ron did. The only other guy who was even handicapped at ringside was Freddie Blassie, who I'm pretty sure legitimately needed his cane, although Vince never talked about injuries in relation to him and his men still used the cane as a weapon. Tony's wonderful performance as the concerned protégé helps out too.
  20. garretta
    Not much of a match at all. It looks like they might have been setting up a six-man for the following Monday night at the MSC: Lawler, Jeff and Riggins against the Gilberts and Samples. Who knew that Reno Riggins, whom I used to see get squashed on almost every WWF television show going in the late eighties, could actually fight? What a fantastic heel performance out of Eddie. He does a promo bragging about his rankings and demanding respect from the announcers and fans, then he and Doug spend the entire match beating up on Jeff two against one. It has to be seen to be believed. Twenty more pounds and he'd have been dynamite at the IC level for Vince, provided he didn't try a hostile takeover of the booking office. We didn't see below Sting in the PWI rankings, but it isn't too far out of the realm of possibility that Apter kept Hogan toward the bottom of their top ten "out of respect for his contributions to the sport" or some such. He probably knew that Vince was bringing Hogan back soon, since we were already into September. It was just a question of how and when. Wasn't Samples an official of some sort, which would explain why he came down in a suit (unless he was channeling Mr. Hughes)?
  21. garretta
    It looked like Austin dropped Chono right on his forehead, and Chono was clearly favoring his neck and shoulder in the postmatch What a brutal accident. As a few have said above me, kudos to Chono for finishing the match at all. Was this the injury which eventually forced Chono to retire from wrestling?
  22. garretta
    I can't speak to the rest of the feud, since we don't have it here on the set, but put me in the "this is kind of dumb" camp as it relates to this angle. First of all, I've seen what Ronnie really does with his towels: he simply throws them out into the crowd, not to one fan in particular. A certain fan may end up with it, but that's not the intent. This is Corny trying to copy the WWF and the ritual with Bret Hart's sunglasses, with the difference being that he never actually does it until the night that Orndorff doesn't allow him to. Second, whoever the dweeb is narrating this footage must have been under orders not to use the word "kill". Tying a guy's neck in a towel and hanging him from the top rope is attempted murder, and should be sold as such. If ever we needed an announcer to take a class in hysteria from Vince, it's here. The best we get, unfortunately, is that it might cut off the flow of blood to the brain, just like your garden-variety sleeperhold. Oh hell, is that all? Why don't we arm the wrestlers with towels which they can use during their matches if that's the case? As for the promos, I think Paul's was better, mostly because he worked in a plug for the following week's match with Brian Lee over the bounty (which he denies putting on Lee's head, though he'll be happy to collect it). He needs to learn to use another verb other than "stick", though, at least when he's looking for the same type of word three times in thirty seconds. Ronnie's was intense, but I'd like to have heard at least a hint of how he plans revenge against Paul. About the only object Paul brings to the ring is his robe, and the thought of Ronnie cutting up an expensive ring robe is pleasing to me just to see Orndorff throwing a tantrum like you know he would. I wish we would have gotten just one match between these two on the set; it seems like they're still capable of some real barnburners.
  23. garretta
    I haven't seen the match from the previous week yet, but it makes sense that the Studs would interfere. I found Fuller talking about how drug-free Ricky Nelson and (especially) Elvis were to be rich. Look, I like Fuller's bullshit as much as anyone, but I'd have preferred more talk about the stretcher match that they were supposedly put there to promote. Sometimes Foghorn Leghorn/Yosemite Sam is amusing, but at other times we need The Terminator: short, totally serious, and deadly. Unfortunately, Fuller doesn't seem capable of that, and Golden doesn't seem capable of stringing more than three English words together. These guys are headed for comedy match heaven in a runaway truck. Maybe it's because I watched the Garvin-Orndorff stuff before this, but I really didn't care for the hanging at all. Between hanging and plastic bags around the head, SMW did entirely too many angles that would have meant instant death outside of a wrestling context. Then Corny turned around and went after Heyman and ECW for being too extreme. Yeah, sure. At least the violence and weapons there were so cartoonish that you knew no one was going to die, at least not then and there. Couldn't Tony have just done the standard kick-and-punch beatdown? Didn't someone tell Corny that they'd just televised Garvin's hanging the week before, and that two in a row was entirely too many? They probably did; he just didn't give a damn. What a waste of great mic work from Ron Wright, at least in my eyes.
  24. garretta
    Sort of an all-purpose Corny interview here. Not much we haven't heard before in terms of threats, but I loved the story about him and Kyle at the restaurant. He told it so well I almost believed it. Dutch threatening to slap the fans isn't as remotely funny as Corny threatening to do it. Stick to complaining about Bullet Bob killing your ratings, Dutchman. Maybe if Kyle wasn't wearing the exact same suit that Bossman wore as Bubba, he'd have a better chance of getting over on his own. Workers like Bossman are rare, Corny. Just because you managed to find something almost as good as the MX with the Bodies, don't be fooled into believing that your magic will work every time. Find the guy a different outfit at the very least.
  25. garretta
    Putting the two promos back-to-back shows just how much more charismatic the Bodies are than the Fultons, even though Bobby's been surprisingly good during this feud. I'm getting used to Stan's hair now that he's taken the headgear off during interviews. I liked the part where he said he's risking permanent brain damage if the fans don't keep the noise down. It would have been a hoot if Stan had snapped in the middle of an interview one time and started speaking gibberish and making unintelligible noises, and Corny had said "See? We told you he'd get brain damage if you idiots made too much noise, and now he's got it!!" Nice plug by Corny for Killer Kyle's pursuit of Brian Lee and the $10,000 bounty, which we haven't heard about on the Yearbook since the original segment when it was introduced. They're ramping up the Corny-Bullet Bob stuff now, as they'll be handcuffed together during the Bodies' rematch with the Fultons. Soon, this will be the only feud that means anything in SMW, with even Rock 'n' Roll-Bodies taking a backseat. Speaking of which, nice way to promote the first televised match between the two teams for the following week. Of course, we get a match before that on the Yearbook. I love Bob Caudle, but showing outrage in the way he did over Corny's actions when the match was no-DQ (which I'd forgotten myself) isn't exactly professional. Look, Bob, I know the guy's annoying, but what he did in this match was legal, and even intelligent in a perverse sort of way, since he saved his guys from actually having to risk injury to take the belts. Give the devil his due, no matter how much it may gall you.
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