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  1. dawho5
    It was...golf...and it seems JR feels the same way I do about golf. Great opening with Steamer cutting a ridiculous pace. Liked the transition with Madusa interfering. Really good TV match and Austin is looking better all the time.
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    Hase really ripped it up here. Chono hit a few of his signatures really good, but for the most part was not great. For all of Kosh's demanding help, he didn't seem that interested in tagging when he had the chance. Just kept throwing stuff out like he hadn't been begging for help a minute or so earlier. Not a great match, but another really good Hase performance. I'm starting to think he will be my second favorite after Hash of the newer generation of NJPW guys.
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    I think the ref was getting on Caras for not breaking clean off the ropes. He could have kept it shorter than he did both times. Really good mat match with great selling by Canek and great submission work by Caras. Canek is awkward at times then surprises you with his execution others. Both are guys I need to see more of.
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    Looking forward to seeing what SMW becomes. Corny gives a great mission statement despite (as mentioned above) WCW's turnaround with the DA. A southern wrestling promotion based on tag team wrestling with a focus on the actual in-ring sounds pretty awesome to me. I did like how he accomplished that and still heeled himself with the fans.
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    Yeah, I thought Dave got upset with Idol for that physical interaction as well. And why not? He'd been threatened by both Embry and the Moondogs earlier in the show. Idol's story is pretty out there, but again I think this whole show was way over the top and out there. Easily one of the craziest (and probably best) Memphis episodes in a long, long time. The brawl was classic Memphis and I loved it.
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    Coraluzzo's promo went quite a ways too far, but that is a theme of this week's show it seems. I liked Koko's promo and singing a lot, even if I thought Lawler had a better promo. Good to see Koko able to do something other than be a ridiculous gimmick for Vince.
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    Embry did great with this promo, I love how the old Embry is nowhere near gone despite the new look. The man on woman violence I can do without, even if Kim got her revenge within minutes.
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    Love his feud and it's only getting better. Well, except for no more amazing Robert Fuller promos. Have I mentioned how awesome he is at fired up babyface promos? As soon as Jarrett started in with the piledriver I knew it wasn't Lee, but it still works and I want to see them get their comeuppance more now.
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    I hope they paid these guys an extra couple bucks or something for getting beaten like this. And apparently this wasn't even one of the bad ones. Being a Memphis jobber is not on mys list of dream jobs. The Moondogs tear the studio up as only they can and it is a treat to watch despite what the jobbers had to be thinking.
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    About as good a press conference as you will get from the WWF/E. Sid's reaction and promo were gold and make me wonder who the real heel is here.
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    I'd say Sherri came across as crazy for this promo just fine. But I agree that it was just done to signify that Shawn was getting a push.
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    Hey, now we got a voodoo guy! And another racist gimmick to give black wrestlers all at the same time, yay?
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    Not a bad match at all. The thing that stood out for me was the camera shot of a kid in Warrior make-up who looked like Christmas had been canceled. It is barely there, but it definitely stands out.
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    Good way to further the Orndorff/Sammartino feud. Snuka and Blackjack should be a wild feud. Good use of jobber matches on this card. Hacksaw and Taylor would make an interesting pair. Hot Property so close, but the Andersons are a stejp ahead.
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    I could tell from the get-go that this match was about the seconds. Which absolutely killed it for me. Fuerza saves it in the third caida with his crane kick oops off the top and then they did that insane dive to a backwards Fuerza that looked like both piled into the seats in painful ways. Fuerza gave a good rudo performance here, but Octagon sucks and the seconds being on camera for at least one third of the match took me out of this. Oh yeah, and Konnan really, really, really sucks. I'm not entirely sure I can express that enough.
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    Check. And in return. Buddy Rose and Rip Rogers vs babyfaces Adrian Adonis and Ron Starr. Video is in three parts. I liked this tag a lot. I am familiar with all 4 guys and it was cool to see where they were as workers in June of 1979. Rip Rogers had some fun comments on all of the videos too. Review is below. Thanks for the match MattD. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/41337-rip-rogers-buddy-rose-vs-ron-starr-adrian-adonis-portland-tv-63079/
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    First fall was all shine and Rogers seems like a guy who got how to shine up a babyface early on. Rose tries to act like he was the guy in the ring at the end of fall 1 but nobody is buying the act. Second fall was mostly Adonis working FIP (and doing a really good job of building sympathy) with a hot tag to Starr. Heels keep up the cheating and double teaming to get the fall. Third fall breaks down after a bit and Rogers tosses a chair into the ring that Starr ends up using. Sandy Barr becomes the center of attention with the resulting DQ and argument. I have always liked the announcer for Portland wrestling, he may not know the move names, but the guy gets over what is happening with the best of them. I don't even mind when he talks about football. Rogers is definitely in over his head here but he has a ton of energy and seems to follow the lead of everybody else well. Starr is already good, but he gets more snug with his striking somewhere in the next 7 years. His selling and bumping are already really good. And he comes up with some sequences that I have not seen in matches after this one. Adonis is really energetic and plays a solid FIP. His offense is one of the highlights of the match. When you see Adonis before he got really overweight he comes off as a really great worker and a star. Buddy Rose was great in the role I feel like he was born to play, the cowardly, yet deadly heel. He'll rip you apart any way he can, but shows so much unwillingness to fight fair or do much at all when his opponent can actually hit back it's hard to not hate him (in a kayfabe sense). Really good tag and a look at 4 guys I think highly of at different stages of their career.
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    One of the better Jumbo/Hansen matches I've seen. It follows the same basic formula as most, Jumbo works the lariat arm, but Hansen's work on Jumbo's leg and Jumbo selling the leg put it over the top. Good, hot finish to boot.
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    The fans at the Scope got a great show with all of the above mentioned matches. Glad to see Idol and I am interested in what you have planned.
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    I liked that Orndorff/Sammartino segment as well. It tied something new in with what has been going on and that goes a long way. Cooley and Johnson as a tag team should be fun. Duggan makes a big impact and in a very fitting way. Looking forward to Duggan brawling with Smirnoff and the Sheik.
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    I get that Villano 3 had to work around Benoit's lack of familiarity/comfort with the lucha style. The first caida still dragged more than I liked. Too many holds where the person in the hold had only one limb (at most) free and had to just wait until it was released. Good enough match with a lot of cool stuff, but it didn't click for me.
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    Savage/Windham would steal the show for me as well. Hogan/DiBiase has had a great build, but I'd give it third to the earlier mentioned and Andre/Hansen. great card all around and a very good building show.
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    Regal and Link lasting that long with Gordy is really impressive. Morgan and Satanico is entertaining as always. Tonga and Martin having troubles...
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    Jarrett getting the win over Landell was big. Magnum's debut was massive! I immediately want that same tag match as gordi. I get the loss for Devastation as Warlord took the pin. Warrior and Barbarian were doing double duty that night. Nation is falling apart and Slater again wearing a dress! I just know Wahoo is going to pay somehow.
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    Garvin and Embry really bring the house down with their promo, but the Funk promo that follows was so damn great that I think I like it better. Studd looks like a beast and I am looking forward to Lawler vs. another monster. Great show!
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