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  1. dawho5
    I would count myself as a Marc Lowrance fan. Also, after a few things on this set I am a Billy Joe Travis fan. The guy is a stellar heel. Ending angle is all kinds of awesome. This ranks only behind Tenryu's meltdowns so far for me on the set.
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    I _love_ Tenryu in this match. Whatever Takagi did to piss Tenryu off, don't ever do that. Tenryu goes after Takagi like a maniac and makes another throwaway tag something special. Oh and he also goes after everyone at ringside not wearing a Revolution jacket. God damn I love Tenryu!
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    Tenryu is really the only reason to watch this. He seems like he's finally finding that "Tenryu" character and beginning to explore it where in 89 he was still just "the guy chasing Jumbo who is slightly angry about it".
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    i'd agree that the match could have lost 5 minutes and been much better. It was a perfectly good match for being a set-up to the 6-man match though. And we get a beleivable false finish to go with some incredible spots towards the finish. Works for me.
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    I thought it was a really good TV match. I don't think the point was to have a blow-you-away great match, so what they did was just right. I agree that we could have used a little more Arn comeback at the end, but that's quibbling.
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    So can someone describe to me why Brutus was ever considered a babyface or over with the fans? Not seeing it.
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    I thought Heenan was brilliant here. Slick and Sherri did really well also. Hart didn't sound real convincing, but that would have been hard and I've never been much of a Fuji fan.
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    Count me in on the Sting looking out of place feeling. There's got to be something up because fresh-faced, innocent, pure Sting does not fit the Horsemen mold at all.
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    Here is my dilemma after watching this. People can't watch Benoit matches because he murdered his family. I get that. But they can watch Lawler promos where he is flat out racist, which could be the truth of it, without batting an eye? I understand that racism is not murder. And I can separate performance and the human being behind the performance. It's just afterwards that I start wondering how much of what Lawler says is nonsense to get over as a heel and how much he actually agrees with. All that said, he is absolutely brilliant here in the role he plays. Marlin and Brown do great as well, but they've both been in their respective roles long enough that it's no surprise. I suppose the reason Cobra was champ had a lot to do waith a. race-baiting by Lawler to get him over as a heel and b. not many guys are going to sit through that for the kind of money they would get in Memphis.
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    That's two amazing videos featuring some of the most godawful singing and dancing you've ever seen so far...on disc 1 alone! Something about the Memphis area and great uses of music to enhance character on TV should be mentioned as well. Not many ever did it better.
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    I liked Lawler missing the bit where Cobra bought into the match because he was on the phone also. Played off of the earlier segment so damn perfectly. Not sure of the racism from Lawler is funny or a little disturbing, but it makes him a great heel. Also, count me among the impressed on the "scentless" exchange. Wrestling needs way, way more on-the-fly promos.
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    I loved this for all the reasons mentioned above. I thought Dave Brown did a tremendous job also. Lawler is really great cutting a heel promo, probably better than as a babyface because he can work more of his too-clever jokes in as an annoyance.
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    Being a Kawada fanboy (proud to say I am still one) I missed a lot of the Fuyuki hype on earlier watchings of Footloose. He is clearly at least as good as Kawada at this point and I'm wondering when he fell off a cliff. This match is one of those great AJPW midcard workrate matches that didn't necessarily need a lot of psychology to do it's job. Just some guys out there killing themselves to put on a show. Kada, Fuyuki and Fulton killing themselves to add some hate to it was just a bonus.
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    Young Eddie is really great. Santo is awesome as always. Mando is better than Blue Demon by far, as already mentioned. Angle at the end is annoying at best because it's just so stupid. Hard to believe anyone could fall for that.
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    Loved this bit of cheese. The fat guys dancing around while walking down the street and clearly getting into it is just so....bizarre and train-wrecky....it absolutely works! Great intro to the set.
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    I liked one exchange with Yamazaki stopping himself from going after Anjoh so he got the "down", then Anjoh getting pissed and not doing anything of the sort. So once Yamazaki gets back in charge he does the same, beating down Anjoh with headbutts. Anjoh seemd to have learned from this and settles down to get is own " down" on Yamazaki moments later. Good stuff. I don't mind shootstyle and these guys did a good job of structuring things.
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    I enjoyed Tenryu as much as most here. Seeing Misawa as the plucky FIP was great also. Fuyuki helping Tenryu get the upper hand on Jumbo after the hot tag was an interesting twist. Jumbo having to fight through the superior teamwork was the wrinkle that made this match really pop for me. The ending was interesting with Tenryu eventually causing Fuyuki's doom and then walking away in disgust. What a glorious asshole move.
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    I thought this was a great competitive squash. Sullivan missed his calling as a commentator unless he started working somewhere I'm not aware of after he retired from active wrestling. Cactus looked great, so did Lee Scott when you think about it. Sullivan's comment about Foley's health was prophetic when you think about it.
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    Not a big fan of joshi pacing or the way they will spam the same move in threes or more, but the sleeper war was great. Mita and Hotta were awkward and not exactly convincing at times, but overall better than most joshi I've seen.
  20. dawho5
    That is a tough one. I can still watch matches with Benoit, Invader 1 and Snuka and see what they are as workers, etc. But somewhere in the back of my mind I realize what they did and somehow manage to separate the performer from the human being. I don't in any way condone what they did, it's just the same as watching the Naked Gun movies and buying O.J. as a sympathetic, comedic character despite the reality of the man. I think it's part of the suspension of disbelief while something is being viewed. Outside of that, it's hard to see even somebody like Benoit, who obviously had some psychological issues and needed help he didn't try to find, in any kind of positive light. But there is something to be said for separating somebody's art from their horrible low moments that got the light of day shone on them. Imagine if the media/internet were as pervasive as it were 100 years ago. Would somebody like Babe Ruth or Lou Gherig, Sandy Koufax, Dick Butkus, Lou Thesz....the list goes on and on, would they have had massive character flaws? Shit, I know he's not any kind of sacred cow but take a look at Kensuke Sasaki. He killed a kid trying to learn to wrestle in the dojo. Sure it was probably an accident, but murder, intended or not, should be treated as such. And Sasaki's case was not all that scrutinized that I remember. Did some of the heroes of yesteryear have the same kinds of (or worse) skeletons in their closet that just never were uncovered? I'm not saying it makes murder in any way okay, but to me there is a separation of what a [performer did in their chosen field and who they were away from that profession.
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    On this one I'm not sure. I go back to when I would listen to co-workers tell me about movies and how this or that movie was really funny. Then I'd watch the movie and not think it was funny at all. If a certain person reviews matches and consistently likes matches that you don't it's probably a good bet their opinion is going to carry less weight for you. It has nothing to do with the validity of their opinion, just more a matter of their taste not at all matching with yours. That being said, the Hart vs. Khali argument is a tough one to swalllow. Is it safe to say that there are a certain amount of quantifiable factors that have a big effect on how opinions are formed? I could watch two wrestlers (I'm on disc 7 of PNW so let's go with Billy Jack and Rip Oliver) and tell you a lot about the differences. Billy is definitely more explosive and probably stronger, as well as really looking the part. But he's incredibly limited and struggles to stay away from headlocks for any amount of time. Rip has a lot more tools to work with and seems to know when to employ which tool to it's fullest more often than not. These are things that it's very hard to argue against, but it's possible to prefer Billy Jack in 1983 to Rip Oliver. I went with a closer (but not as much as you think) comparison to highlight the more grey areas of the argument.
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    There is a certain charm to Don Owens. Some wrestling terms, like "tag team," he just refuses to utter. It's always "team" or "relay team". And he's always got that annoyed-sounding dad tone when he's dealing with anyone that's the least bit heelish. Either he's a TRUE old-old-old-school wrestling guy who refuses to use all the flashy new terms or he never was into wrestling and doesn't care to learn the jargon. Either way he comes across like a crotchedy old bastard who doesn't care one bit about what you think, which I can dig. Far as the match goes it is more of the same from the previous match between Rose and Borne. Good pacing, lots of blood and guts and...yeah Borne almost no-selling the chain which was pretty bad. So a step below, but still one of my favorites on the set so far.
  23. dawho5
    So this match...yeah. Buddy starts off by assaulting Borne as he's taking off his sweatpants. Borne finally lands a good shot and Buddy goes into bump-and-feed mode which is incredible with Borne knowing exactly what to do. The earlier Borne/Rose rivalry had a very inexperienced Matt Borne and it showed. This time around Borne is way less green. Quick (very well executed as well) counter sequence and Borne puts Rose away. Buddy starts off the next fall by knocking Borne into a ringpost. A chairshot follows and Buddy distracts the crowd while Borne blades by menacing a few people in the front row with a chair. Brilliant stuff that, you forget Borne is even around while Buddy is making like he's going to hit a fan with a chair. Rose destroys Borne with a big chairshot from outside in and gets the second fall. Borne makes a comeback in the third and bloodies Rose. It's payback time and the crowd is loving it. I love how they are re-establishing Borne as a face with this match. Shows a wonderful grasp of how to work a crowd. Match spills outside and we get a countout, but it doesn't end there. They continue brawling and Buddy starts swinging a chair at anyone who comes out to stop the fight. Dutch Savage comes out and after ducking a chairshot or two informs everyone that Don Owens is PISSED. Next week is a lights out match where anything goes. With lumberjacks. BUT NOT ON TV???? FUCK YOU!! As it turns out, my completely valid (and not over) reaction to this not being on TV is too soon as Borne and Rose are hooking it up in a lumberjack match two weeks later that wasn't supposed to be on TV. One aside here is that this was only 13 minutes long in it's entirety. I like the style, but a lot of the 2/3 falls matches could benefit from shorter falls. There's a lot of meandering and just back and forth stuff to keep things moving. It works, but it takes a condensed and hate-fueled brawl like this to make me wish ten minutes had been cut off of most of the TV main events. You throw in even a good headlock or armbar sequence and it kills the momentum these guys kept all the way through. Imagine if a few of the Piper matches had been this length!
  24. dawho5
    When is overbooked getting his backing? I'm looking forward to that promotion.
  25. dawho5
    I would agree that yes, you could make a case for shootstyle with pins involved for just the reasons mentioned. You force your opponent to leave openings for you by kicking out. So early attempts at pinfalls become more a strategy against an opponent who is countering your attempts to improve your position well instead of just something to do to kill time. It would also place emphasis on the different ways a wrestler can get out of a pinfall attempt, i.e. which shoulder they choose to roll, which direction they kick themselves up, in an effort to protect against a pass or an attack on a wounded body part. I also think that effective use of strikes and selling of strikes, both initially and progressively can make a big difference in a match.
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