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  1. dawho5
    Good standard babyface interview. I'll admit the belly-to-belly is well past it's time as a finish and Magnum TA isn't going to give Shane the rub in 92. If the belly-to-belly is so great why are the Steiners using it (better even) as a mid-match highspot?
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    One thing I've noticed when listening to Cornette talk on his podcast is that a part of what made him great as a manager (the insulting witticisms) can come off as really, really insensitive or even bigoted when not being said by a heel character in a wrestling promotion. Which makes me think that it is extremely likely the man has always had some attitudes and beliefs that I disagree with. Somehow the context they were being presented in made them less likely to offend due to the fact they were coming from a guy you were supposed to want to see get his ass kicked. That being said, his opinion of modern wrestling and mine tend to align. I think he goes a little far bemoaning the evils of it, but it's coming from a place I can agree with. In general, when he talks about wrestling and the presentation of it (not the people involved that he doesn't like) he comes across as a super intelligent guy who gets what it's all about.
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    Liked this a lot. The crowd was nuts, especially for Sting. Sting's hip swivel after the posedown was great. I know he never truly got his chance due to booking and poor management of the company, but the guy got it and should have had a big run. The Steiners really weren't doing their usual act here, as mentioned above. If Rude doing a bearhug to Scotty is weird, what would you describe Bobby doing a bearhug to Scotty as? Batshit insane?
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    I really enjoy how Corny will interject the other angles and a little humor about them (the remark about having a woman come in and clean) into his promos without affecting the seriousness of what he is trying to get across. Great promo all-around.
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    i thought it was easily Horner's best promo. Wright and DWB of course blew it away. Seems like Horner is quite a bit smaller than DWB so having him as the underdog makes sense, as long as he doesn't look too weak.
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    For as goofy as it is Ronnie Garvin getting more upset over a towel than the hanging he is cutting good promos. I get not highlihgting that as we have Horner dealing with the same issue on the same show. Maybe only book one hanging next time.
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    Bruno definitely has an axe to grind with the WWF. It's also the same axe I would grind with them, but maybe dial it back a bit and talk about more of what you like about WCW. Bruno putting over Simmons makes a ton of sense.
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    Not much more to be said about this one. Really well-worked, solid, basic match. Which, to Sleaze's point earlier in the thread, should have been the heart of every WCW card...oh, ever. Funny how a guy like Jake could make a match like this that should seem run-of-the-mill seem great and yet not have his personal shit figured out. And on the opposite side of the coin how all the flash and movez of the modern day somehow don't do the same in the ring and the workers are much more likely to have their act together outside the ring. Seems wrong.
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    I thought the Robert Fuller promo was great. The idea of a Fuller/Lawler alliance in the WWF and being anti-drug in a heel ways is super fun. The hanging was really well-done, but I didn't buy Bob's "I've never seen anything like this!" line. Did we not just see Orndorff do the same with a torn up towel a week or two ago? And yeah, Horner was never gonna be your main babyface.
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    Loved Hart's promo, but the second one was utter nonsense. Was it me or did the manager in it have to keep himself from laughing at Screamer and not quite succeed?
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    I liked it better when Flair was talking about beating up Sting in not so many words. Even with the hilarious impression of Warrior running.
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    Lackluster Steiners performance for sure. Hase tried to get the crowd up for the match in the beginning but it didn't seem to work. Would agree that Sasaki was the guy most worth watching here.
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    Chono going on with the match after that is something. Was thinking of the whole weird karma with this and the Owen incident as I watched.
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    Groundwork was slow, but they were generally working towards something the whole time. Admittedly not the most exciting matwork you'll see. Exciting finish, pretty good match. Will agree with garetta on the lack of scoring being shown. Kinda need that as I don't mentally keep track of all of the KDs and rope breaks. I enjoted the whole "3 judges watched and agreed that Takada won" deal. If they hadn't agreed would Takada have not won the title??
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    Fun Flair promo with a mention of Atlanta, G-A, which has to have some sort of significance.
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    I know it wasn't ever going to happen, but I wish that he hadn't refrenced "Spin the Wheel...". Either way, perfectly fine promo.
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    I liked the way this match used all of the history in SMW (and some not) to it's advantage. Really good TV match and a lot of fun as well. I will echo the love for the house show match from earlier though.
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    Loved Corny and Dutch here. Dutch is just a great, great heel color guy. And Corny is pretty okay as a manager too. Wondering if Kyle will be any less bland when he wrestles.
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    Horner looks great here. Totally lost career for Horner as a mdicard babyface in WCW just churning out good sub-10 minute matches and then occasionally having a good match with an upper card match guy where Horner is the underdog with the good hope spots. Nothing wrong with being that kind of worker, as long as you aren't pushed as a top babyface.... Loved Wright here, amazing stuff post-match.
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    I will throw another vote in the camp of "silly" for this being about a towel. Had he reacted that way to the hanging he had been subjected to, it would have been amazing. Orndorff is really good here. Please tell me more of this made the SMW set because I kinda need to see how Garvin handles this. The match (even if the promo was about a towel) promises to be all kinds of violent.
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    The whole kneepad (love Savage for still selling the knee) and glasses thing was pure cheese. I'm sure somebody ate it up, but it wasn't me. Total Megapowers rip-off, as previously mentioned.
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    To start with I fucking hate this ref. He has destroyed almost every match I have seen him in with his bullshit. Fuck you and stay away from wrestling rings forever. Dandy and Satanico did great work, but I would agree the 90 match was better and this one was odd in that Dandy walked through a bunch of stuff that ought to have had him selling like death. Kind of a flaw when you start thinking about it. There was a lot of great stuff that made the match worth watching, a lot of it mentioned here already, I just think that if Satanico is going to get away with murder over and over again it ought to be sold as such for at least the next 30 seconds to a minute. The false finish sucked too. Great job ref, completely missed the guy's hand on the ropes. Or "didn't want to see it" because he is rudo too, whatever. I think with a half decent ref enforcing the rules on both guys this could have been a great match. As it was it was a good match with amazing sequences in there.
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    For a debut match this is amazing. Kobashi gives Akiyama a lot of good mat counters while not killing his own image, which is a super hard thing to do. And he gets Kawada levels of vicious at points, which Akiyama responds really well to. Also, that German by Akiyama was superb with the way he bridged into it. Really fun midcard match. A lot more matwork than you might expect, but both of these guys are good on the mat so it works.
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    I love this match. Along with the April match I would say that Flair and Tenryu make great, great opponents (in 1992). The production values help a lot and the viciousness Flair shows is just great. I have thought for a while that holds like the figure four, crossface, etc. start out really great as finishing holds, but end up losing a lot of respect over time due to how everyone can stay in them for ages. It's a finishing hold, make it one. I know tapping out isn't manly, but wrestling is based on fighting. In MMA if you don't tap you are out with a broken leg or arm for much longer than if you tap and try again next time. Where is the shame in that in what is called a finishing hold. Not a criticism of this match, just the pro wrestling philosophy overall.
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    I liked this a lot actually. There was a story throughout with limited (and mostly sensible) no-selling. Not only that, but both Bull and Aja showed vulnerability when targeted and isolated by the opposing team. Really good structure to it and it took a few turns I didn't see coming. Good match and one of my favorite joshi matches so far.
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