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  1. dawho5
    Okay, if we call it something that is NOT the secret Santo I quit. And secondly, thanks for the match Matt D. Definitely my kind of wrestling and I'd never seen it.
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    Tony did a pretty good job on commentary. He did take a shot at JR involving time-outs in wrestling that was pretty amusing too. Arn is really good at shining a babyface up and he really tries to make Barry look good here. The leg-arm stuff is incredible and done about as well as you're going to see it done. Arn only loses that focus a little bit when he forgets to sell the leg after dropping the 3 or 4 knees on Barry's arm. I liked the finish a lot, the false one anyway. I always hate when the ref reverses his own decision because somebody comes out and tells him something. If you didn't see it, how are you gonna call it? Even so, this was easily one of the best worked TV matches I have ever seen. Everything has a purpose and consequences. They don't do a whole lot just for the sake of killing time, they actually make all of the work matter. That's a very rare thing.
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    Alright, I will hit that match Matt gave me later this evening. Or tomorrow morning, whatever. I had two I was looking at and one is not on youtube so I'd have to do some chicanery to find a way for Matt to watch. So I went with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5LKear9iLs It's a tag match from Puerto Rico in 1988. Post-match is as good as the match itself. Watch it all the way through.
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    That Varsity Club Rush has some very big names on the list. Chris Adams!! I shoulda known what with all the superkicks. Khan on a massive rampage as well, great start for the AWA in 86.
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    That awkward start was really odd, seemed like Toyota was just missing things entirely. I agree that the work on the leg by both got blown off pretty much instantly when it was the other's turn to go on offense. That took me out of the match, but I could see the makings of a really good to great match in the opening matwork. It's just not really the style to keep that thread going throughout and for me it works against the match.
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    Konnan is pretty terrible. Match kind of makes sense after it is done. The referee controversy went on almost as long as the entire first caida. I hope Konnan doesn't get Davies as his ref anytime in the near future or he is scuh-rewed.
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    Couldn't we have just had the Steiners pull out of the tournament and some kind of squash match to give the titles to the Enforcers? It would have been more entertaining and far less idiotic. What we got was esentially a two-part squash anyway, Ricky going over on the Enforcers and the Enforcers going over on Kazmaier.
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    I think Dusty has been watching his Lawler stuff from Memphis for these 2 videos. They get over the idea that Simmons is a great role model, but save them for WCWSN or something. The Bowden interview was more than enough. And then we get the race-baiting, yay! Why do you feel the need to shot yourself in the foot when you are building steam WCW? Oh, and the white limo Luger ran away in was just great symbolism too. Really.
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    Good way to put Simmons over that works far better than anything else they have tried. I did wish out loud that JR would shut up about football though during his intro.
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    I would agree they need somebody besides Diamond Studd to get Simmons over. He just hasn't been built up enough to mean anything. Interview seems really useless except for the impression that Luger is avoiding Simmons.
  11. dawho5
    Sting vs. Cactus is already shaping up to be better than anything WCW has done in months. That bump to the arena floor by Foley is absolutely ridiculous. Foley being put over as one of the toughest guys in wrestling makes a lot of sense.
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    Kazmaier is certainly impressive with the feat of strength. But trying to tell me that a big time weightlifter = a big time wrestler is not going to fly. I guess Vince's (and probably a little of Ross here too) influence is felt everywhere.
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    Match is forgettable, but Badd shows some promise. I hated that the distractions pot for Badd was so LONG. How long does it take to understand, "Go hit that guy!"? Then both Sting and Badd just stop and stare at the box. Nothing else important going on I guess. Foley almost saves this for me, but it's just too stupid.
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    Yeah I felt like Tony killed any cred this might have built. Really good spotfest with tones of both guys bringing intensity to go after a championship. You could tell that WCW was pretty lukewarm (maybe cold by now) on the idea but Ross and Tony in their misguided way try to sell us that these guys are exciting to watch.
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    Yeah, way too many stops and starts. Half the time it seemed like nobody knew what was coming next. My disdain for Kendo grows with each match I see. Also, it looked as much like a gymnastics exhibition as a wrestling match more often than it looked like a wrestling match. I'll echo Asai looking like the most polished guy in there.
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    I guess we can chalk up the goofy Lawler opponents to Embry keeping Lawler busy with familiar opponents then. Makes a little more sense why Lawler hasn't forced the issue with Embry also.
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    Taue's facebuster out of the corner is a really awkward spot and probably should go. Misawa getting taped up for all that time to just rip it off as soon as he got back in was kind of a misfire, but it ended up making it look even more like an epic struggle. Jumbo paid off his own little sleeper thing on Kikuchi from earlier on Kawada, but way way too early to make a difference. Kawada looks great and the first 3/4 of the match are more about him being at a high enough level to keep things held down while Misawa is pre-occupied with his useless tape. Easily one of the better tags in this feud for drama and action. Misawa getting the submission win over Jumbo is basically his 6/9/95 win. He is right at the doorstep of putting Jumbo away definitively in singles.
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    He was booking while they had Tagar, Leatherface and Dragon master running around? That really smacks of Lawler having the book to me.
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    All of this insulting the belt is getting to be a bit much. Did Vince ever have any intention of making Flair a respectable challenge for anyone? It doesn't seem like it yet.
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    I didn't mind that they made Rude the babyface. Who else was it gonna be, Honky? I mean, if you're going to put this out there (which they shouldn't have) it has to be the way to go. That interviewer wass beyond awful and Gorge Napolitano looked like there were several thousand places he'd rather be.
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    Dutch doing the Stan Hansen routine cracked me up. Stan had a sense of humor so maybe if they talked to him and just had him show up for a few minutes to pay it off for a couple hundred bucks it might have worked. Either way I thought this way of playing it off was far better than any of the WCW mini-series Westerns. Memphis is really struggling for compelling stories over the last few weeks if what we have seen is any indication.
  22. dawho5
    I really like the JWP style so much more than AJW. Things get time to breathe and there is more room for selling. Really good match and I wish more joshi like this existed than the go-go-go stuff.
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    Yeah, they seem to be de-valuing the NWA title more by the week. Not the smartest move, but ego sometimes gets in the way.
  24. dawho5
    Loving the way they flow. You go from WCW to WWF to USWA to All Japan with some more underground stuff like the occasional Japanese shootstyle, joshi and lucha libre match to add even more variety. Some of it is garbage, but the good stuff and the unexpected way more than make up for it. That and you see what everybody was doing at roughly the same time, fascinating to see in a lot of ways.
  25. dawho5
    Madusa seemed like she was trying things above her skill level. You give her credit for trying, but wish she would stick to stuff she can do on something like this. The match itself is a huge mess and nothing seems to mean much besides Saito's ridiculous blade job. It was nice of Madusa and Kansai to not actively step on Saito while they were celebrating their win though.
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