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  1. dawho5
    I really hope the payoff involves Eddie ambushing Embry with some kind of weapon.
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    You're not wrong. The WCW section was very good and I liked a lot of the info in there. But the book itself really gets rolling at the end and gets hard to put down. Well, up until that last little bit where you're wondering if there's even the faintest hope of a happy ending for somebody.
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    I saw the Morales stone and wondered myself. This is all way too fresh to be trying to turn it around. I'm not saying the promos themselves are bad. But the timing of them is just wrong. I agree that it should have been shelved for a few months first.
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    Good, quick promo from Flair on Piper. Knowing what we do about Roddy that may or may not be the best of things to say.
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    They at least keep this short. It's not overly good, but it's also not going to stick around long enough to be a problem.
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    I loved Eddie not being able to pick which side of his face Bagwell hit him on. Really great finish and it's awesome to see Eddie Gilbert again.
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    I get all the downplay of this match. It's the same tired Flair formula match that really doesn't belong on TV. So I chose to look at Santana and what he did with it. I'd say even though he was being phased down, he still had quite a bit left in the tank. He sold when it made sense, and well. He brought the fire on offense and made things look really good too. The flying forearm looked great, partially due to Flair. So while I would not say this was a hugely successful debut for Flair, it was certainly not a disappointment. Unless you were looking for a really spectacular in-ring debut for Flair.
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    I thought Tony's commentary was really good here as well. This gimmick really gimps Borne as he has to wrestle most of the match like he..can't? Anyway, good enough but it's not going to set the world on fire. Austin's diving clothesline thingy was pretty good.
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    Ricky Morton as a heel is surprisingly awesome. Brian Pillman as the plucky babyface is in no way surprisingly awesome. He's been great the last two years. They put on a really good match to hype up Havoc and then do the dumbest finish ever to make sure it's not remembered as a great match. I'll agree that the York Foundation really is well done. I would have never guessed Taylor and Morton were near as good as they were at being heels based on the majority of their work. Morton in particular is so good at changing the way he handles himself in the ring. I'm starting to think maybe he should get a serious look as a top 20 or 30 in the U.S. wrestler.
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    Ross really does a great job in this interview of trying to be as far away as possible from these two psychos and looking both scared and disgusted. Abby gnawing on everything he could get his hands on was pretty incredible. Mick's promo tops both, he really kills it and comes off as completely insane but still intelligent.
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    I'd say that given the state of WCW when this aired, they really did well with this ad. They got Elvira to do it and both Simmons and Luger looked good. Judging this solely on the current state of WCW, this was actually one of their successes of the time. If you look at the rest of the world it's probably pretty low end. I tend to think small things that work should be highlighted when a company is as downtrodden as WCW right now.
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    Larry's promo is ridiculous kinds of great. Arn's is only slightly below, which is saying way more than you think. Because it's one of the better Arn promos I've ever heard. It's not fair that these guys are in 1991 WCW.
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    What a great, great segment. Piper playing nice only to get the cheapshot by Flair is absolutely perfect. Vince taking the chairshot from Piper is...I'm still shocked that it happened. It's just so out of place in the best way possible. Then Flair takes advantage of the confusion to put Piper down with the chair and it has ot be pried form his hands before he does more damage. Amazing stuff and I'll agree the lack of announcing really puts this over the top.
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    That whole card is shut up and take my money.
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    The Steamboat/Spivey matches look really good. The true highlight here is the Slaughter/Blackwell pair of matches. Those look wild and incredible. I can see Pillman out of the Varsity Club sooner rather than later.
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    Jake is tremendous here. I'm trying to think of anything he's done so far that reaches this level of both awesome and completely dark. The way he's cutting that eerie, aggressive promo while pissing off a cobra that is wrapped around his glove and not getting bitten himself is completely insane.
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    Not sure why this was so short, but ti was really fun while it lasted!
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    I thought it was at the very least a good look at two different strategies. Anjo was going in just fishing for something to work, throwing things out there willy nilly. Sometimes it worked, other times it got him caught. Yamazaki was fighting defensively and waiting for a big opening before he let loose with much. Then he started getting behind in points and had to get more aggressive. Nothing super great or even above good, but I won't say anything bad for it.
  19. dawho5
    I never said anything about not trusting her claims. I fully believe her. I said that the way she handled the problem was wrong and would not lead to a solution. And please believe me when I say that this is a problem that needs solving sooner rather than later.
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    Damn good way to start in a new arena!
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    Renegades getting the win is a nice twist. I'm sure the Bolsheviks won't be back to cause any trouble later...
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    I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes sense. And pro wrestling is much more positively looked at in Japan even without the shootstyle elements as heavily involved in the mainstream wrestling style. I know we all love All Japan with the 4 Pillars, but a lot of the Japanese fans had to re-get into it after Baba and Jumbo were out of the main event picture. It wasn't a HUGE period of time, but there was a lull there. It's not like there was a ton of martial arts/shoot elements involved in AJPW during the Baba/Jumbo years.
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    I think it has long been admitted that Japanese wrestling is the closest in form to American pro wrestling. I thought Dylan was absolutely correct in the reasons for it. I'd say there are still cultural aspects of Japanese wrestling that a lot of fans don't get. The biggest one I've heard/seen is the more martial arts style kicks. They are either looked at as some kind of effeminate, lesser way of fighting or "cool". I think one thing that ties certain aspects of all male wrestling together is that machismo that leads to strikes being exchanged. It is way overdone in a lot of instances, but it is a common thread through all of it.
  24. dawho5
    King of the Mountain was grrrreat! Luger and warrior teaming up would have been a big highlight for the fans.
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    I thought that your view of the final top 20 was dead on. If the only wrestling in the world was in the U.S. and Japan, yes that is a perfectly fine list. But you look at Mexico and I'll just do a hypothetical. What if el Santo lost his mask in a match? Would the Mexico City police force be enough to quell the riots? I doubt it. And you're telling me that kind of fanatical devotion to a babyface doesn't warrant a place in the top 20 wrestlers ever? I think that lucha, WoS, shootstyle and yes, even joshi are highly under-represented. I barely like joshi. Getting through a lot of matches is a massive grind for me. But if you tell me that Arn Anderson is somehow more important to wrestling as a whole than somebody like Dump, Bull and Aja (who are all very skilled workers in-ring), I'd immediately argue that is not the case. I don't have to like the style to see that. I'd even go as far as to add things like Puerto Rico and the lucharesu stuff, even if I don't care for Dragon Gate at all, to those other styles. I get not putting Invader 1 and Colon on that list. But somebody like Invader 3, Ron Starr and Chicky Starr would have made a ballot for me no question due to the work I've seen from them in PR. Maybe lower end as we don't have a crap ton of footage, but still there. Your views on All Japan surprised me. I mean, I was at one time a HUGE advocate of it as the best wrestling ever. And if you go up to 1994 I'd still agree with that. But the decline of the promotion and the way people seem to shrug off the signs of it are things I have had trouble dealing with. And I go farther than that in saying that it poisoned pro wrestling as a whole when many of the more overt aspects of it were borrowed without the more subtle parts that tied them together in a meaningful way. I'm pretty sure I get an eye roll when I say things like that from most, so it surprised me that you seemed to look at it along the same lines. So yeah, in a perfect world we do get people like Jimmy Breaks, Casas, Santo, Aja, Akira Hokuto, Devil Masami, Fujiwara, Maeda, Chicky Starr, maybe even Ultimo dragon since he did pioneer a style all his own on most of the ballots because people watched all of these different styles and recognize that even if they did not love the styles, they can see who the people are that pushed those styles to their limits and made them what they are. They really mastered the style according to the expectations the fans demanded and to me that is where a list like this should have been. What else is wrestling about?
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