dawho5
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I liked the first fall a lot, the heels really shined up the babyfaces as mentioned. Both Eaton and Arn were phenomenal. second fall I was expecting the heels to take control. I get what they were going for with how they wrestled this match though. Larry is supposed to look like the guy who is causing all of the problems in the DA. I just love me a good southern tag is all. The FIP on Steamer is great and the finish just drives home the story the match was supposed to tell. Had this just been another tag match they could have had the shine-FIP-hot tag structure that would probably have gone over a lot better and been a lot more exciting. As it was, the story is the most important part and it works really well when you look at it from that angle. -
I loved seeing Bischoff treated like this too. We all have our petty moments. Precious was the best part of this segment by far. It seems like WCW has lost all direction and is just throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it works. And then quickly reversing itself in puzzling ways when it doesn't.
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DDP was laying it on super thick. I'm glad he had toned it down some when he got to his big babyface run that should have lasted way longer. This was weird for reasons mentioned above. DDP outing Heyman is just way out of left field. Did he turn face after this?
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The ropes that were left were super loose too. Embry's pre- and post-match promos were both amazing. Loving this run in Memphis. Was waiting on the Dogs run-in, good match bit it was doomed from the start. Brian Christopher has really good heel mannerisms. Fun brawl with the obvious save.
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My guess is that they wanted Pritchard do get a visual pin on Christopher in case he ever came back. Billy Travis is back, yes! Looking forward to that match-up.
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Gilbert was really great here. If Flair had been watching would he have sued?
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I think the jacket was also tied to the deal where they mentioned the catalog earlier. Gotta show off that merch. I enjoyed how Gene felt the need to translate Warrior's gibberish at one point.
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Strange promo for sure. I agree the woman kind of looked like Liz, which is kind of creepy. The entrance music playing on tape was strange. Perfect swatting everything away like it was his gum was indeed great. And that answering machine recording was soooooooo good.
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All the this-idea-is-awful stuff aside (which I completely agree with), It almost seems like this is a perfect feud for a guy who spouts mystic mumbo jumbo like Warrior.
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Match was pretty uneventful. Orndorff's promo was pretty good, not sure why they let Brian Lee talk.
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On yet another rewatch I still love this. The crowd HATES TAUE so bad. He looks at a babyface funny and he gets booed. The punishment and then antagonization of Fuchi (and Fuchi's later revenger) by Kawada were fucking great. Fuchi's expression when he was heeling it up on Kawada was priceless. The later year of the Jumbo/Misawa era of AJPW is my favorite in-ring acton-wise. Everyone knew their role so well and played it to perfection.
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I can't ad anything so I will just say this is easily MOTY at this point in the year. WITHOUT any kind of a build to the match itself (they built to the rivalries).
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I am no big fan of the Steiners, mostly due to the fact that their match structure tends to involve them suplexing people to death and guzzling them unless they make their own openings. The suplexes and double teams are cool and look really good, when they don't damn near kill someone. Maybe the reason this one looks so different from their matches against American opponents is they know how tough Fujinami and Iizuka actually are. They aren't holding back as much s normal. And yes, Scott does give Iizuka some really good offense early on. I tend to fall on the side of not as unprofessional as first glance due to the Japanese wrestlers playing along for the finish, which would not have worked without them going with the move. As a whole I do not love this match. Watching the Steiners guzzle another tag team just doesn't do it for me.
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Masaaki Mochizuki defends the Open the Dream Gate Title There is a nice escalation early on leading to a Yokosuka slap after a rope break. Both end up ramming their primary weapon (Mochi's leg, Yokosuka's arm) into the post early. The selling is not what I like, but it works into the story of the early match. Mochi using kicks to the arm is a really good way to use his strength against a targeted bodypart. Yokosuka really works over Mochi's leg and I am digging this match as an arm vs. leg match. Yokosuka countering Mochi's knee counter to a leg grab is a nice nod to their history as partners. I liked seeing a figure four not get turned over. The second figure four has a great Mochi counter. I do like how Mochi tends to fight back against things, unlike a lot of DG/Toryumon guys who just jump on into the hold/move if it isn't being reversed. After the first part of the match they forget about the limb damage (Yokosuka does remember once) unless it is being worked on. I guess it's kind of a difficult proposition working the leg on a guy who is 50% kicks. Immediately after 5-7 minutes of legwork they are doing the high speed corner running spot. They do briefly go back to leg vs. arm and I still really like this match. Finishing sequence forgets all that and we see a Hansen to Kobashi lariat out of the corner from Yokosuka! That had me marking out. Way too many lariat no-selling and kick/lariat exchanges as we reach the end. Especially considering Yokosuka throws a nice lariat and if he did it a couple times a match it would be HUGE. Overall I appreciate a lot of aspects of the style so far. I just think that there are a few really glaring issues for me, such as the blowing off of the leg (don't work the leg so heavy) and the need to do the macho, let's-hit-each-other-to-prove-who-is-tougher nonsense. I realize these come with the territory and I can still enjoy the positive aspects of the match. I will say Mochi is really a giving wrestler and he always seems to make his teammates/opponents look really good.
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Not many matches from Toryumon/DG have clean starts. Don't love that. Shingo looks like he wants Mochi to come to the floor and brawl early on, probably wise not to take the bait. For a short time it looks like this could be really good with an arm vs. leg battle. I liked Mochi struggling to get power on kicks due to using the wrong leg even if it didn't last. Some of the no-sells in the middle-to late-middle portion were good, blow off a kick/lariat to hit something then sell. Those work with both getting up at relatively the same time. Shingo's offense hasn't impressed me in the few matches I've seen. It's all lariats and power moves that look like they should be somebody's finisher. The counter roll-up ending after all the big offense may seem a little anti-climactic. I like to think that those kind of endings are especially important in juniors wrestling though. Decent match with some impressive highspots. Some of Shingo's power moves literally require a guy to do a specific thing to set him up in a situation where it makes no sense to do that thing. I wish they would have kept things a little simpler and stuck with arm vs. leg instead of having to get their shit in. My gut tells me I will see plenty more of that from DG.
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I liked Jesse trying to stir things up. Despite the one major blown spot (crossbody) the finishing run was really good and I also prefer it to the Liger match. And as an aside, JR mentions Lance Russell is on the hotline. You have Lance fucking Russel and you man the hotline with him? One of the best wrestling announcers of all time and he is on the hotline. WCW had some genius types working there, let me tell you.
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I enjoted Savage's line, but I do agree it would have been a good counter to Flair before. Then again, is Savage really the guy to be clever when there is ass-kicking to be done?
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Beginning of the match was really good old school matwork. They lost me on the ending.
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Hard to fault Rude here, he does great with what he is given. Just hard to swallow the whole way this was booked.
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Steamer cuts an intense promo that undoes some of the earlier damage that this stalker angle has done to the feud. I tend to believe he wants the belt not the woman. And yes, Tony did mention WrestleWar. Glad somebody did.
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Whatever the real injury, Lawler putting his name on a charity name for the kid is great. Awesome stuff, even if there is a chance it is just for the PR.
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Great segment with Lawler and Embry really bringing it on the mic. Oh to have lived in Memphis, Tennessee...
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Great story! Man, I hope Eddie Gilbert remembered never to go back to Texas. This was an awesome segment. I thought Lawler came off as a guy who was sick of Eddie Gilbert's shit. It's hard to deny it might be heelish if it were Dundee. But Gilbert had it coming and basically admitted it was true with the temper tantrum.
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Lee took a lot of punishment for sure and I liked his staggering sell. Embry making the save is good booking. I want to point out again that the amount of weapon shots, etc. is ridiculous. Made moreso by the fact that piledrivers somehow are MORE dangerous than a 15 minute match filled with chairs and metal poles. Oh, and the point about "too violent and bloody for kids on TV" has to be brought up. I mean, what percent of this audience was kids?
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YOSSINO puts 3 times the movement he needs to in pretty much everything he does for the first minute. Not a huge fan of that. Quick-paced juniors match with both outside groups jumping in. And a midget in a gorilla costume attacking YOSSINO liberally. This match in particular (without the interference) seems like it is the spiritual successor of those cruiserweight matches in WCW. Two little guys flying around and generally doing entertaining stuff that doesn't amount to much of substance. Fun at best. On a side note, Horiguchi has a weird charisma to him, hard to explain and I'm not sure he would ever be a superstar. But he's easy to pick out.