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  1. dawho5
    Yeah, I expected to not like this and it kept getting better. The action builds up as the match goes in a very organic way. I thought they could have done with more awareness of what was going on with the other two fighting at times, but overall very very good.
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    I'm gonna be the lone dissenting vote on this one. Not into it. I'll agree the rudos didn't bring a lot to the table. They should have cut off their 5 on one stuff in less than half the time they took. Robin Hood did take a ridiculous floor bump after being crotched on the turnbuckle after the second fall though. Really nasty looking. Dive train was pretty incredible, but I just wasn't into the rest of the match. I do respect that they did what they did in the costumes. May have to revisit this.
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    Hase did really well as the aggressor here. I didn't think he was going to win, but once Fujinami kicked out of those three ridiculously brutal uranages I was damn sure Hase didn't have anything to put him away. I honestly thought Fujinami looked better in the 2007 match I saw him wrestle than here.
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    Great show and the team of Footloose & Fuchi is just too damn good. Even in 85. Tenryu vs. Flair is one to look forward to for sure.
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    I wonder what the IRS did to Vince to warrant all of this. I mean, he's going REALLY far to make it seem like they are massive pricks. Some of that tax advice seems pretty sound actually.
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    Paul E. already has the phone, good stuff. Bobby Fulton is a favorite as well. Armand is really doing well, good to see the youngest Rougeau succeeding.
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    As a Kabuki fan I appreciate that he's getting a good run here. The guy was better than people give him credit for.
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    Flair cuts a great promo and seems like he's enjoying himself, but it's just...not there. I don't know if garretta is right about the WWF wanting to bury Flair from the start, but it sure seems accurate with the evidence we have so far.
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    Such a strange match. They are in the Japanese version of the WMC studio I think. It just seemed so fitting that Davis and Pritchard would be in that setting. And I am again very underwhelmed by the Headhunters. Good thing the majority of the match was Davis and Pritchard. I'll compare it to the tag match I just watched (Enforcers vs. Hardliners). It's not a match where the structure is going to blow you away, just like that one. It has 2 guys who are good to great at what they do and motivated, where the other had 4. And both have aspects to them that are fun and worth watching. Davis and Pritchard beat the shit out of each other and put on a good show. It ultimately gets little to no response, but I enjoyed watching them and wish they had a program in Memphis. Danny Davis is really good when he gets the chance to go, it'd be fun to see what he could do with an actual feud that got airtime and matches we saw.
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    I was excited to see these 4 guys work. Some miscommunication and no crowd heat, but it's heel vs heel in a cold promotion. The work on Arn's arm was really good and I loved the stiff shots they gave each other throughout. I'll go with this as a fun, pointless match, but one that gives you what you would expect from 4 solid pros in the ring.
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    I thought Sting and Heyman were really good at playing off of one another. More box shenanigans, but this time it's something Sting would want? It seemed odd that the woman was very pro-Sting while she was delivering a note from Cactus. Wouldn't that normally be some kind of set-up or are we just trying to say that Sting has a way with the ladies?
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    Ted gives a pretty good promo, didn't think much of Beefcake here. I liked Sherri better with Savage.
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    Boring match that had me wondering why they even bothered.
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    So what happened to the whole "open contract" thing? Shouldn't Jerry be talking to Eddie Marlin about this? I'm curious as to how awful the Dragon Master was myself. Jackie allowing herself to be shaved bald is pretty impressive. She shows a pretty good grasp of the idea that heels have to take their lumps. Embry has beaten DWB 872,000 times! How did he keep track? I would agree that this promo seems like a guy who is caught in a bit of a trap and doesn't know the way out yet. But he kind of is, so it makes sense. Or maybe he and Pritchard aren't really fighting and he just wants us to think that? Who knows?
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    Kyoko really shines here. She doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning this, but she puts up enough fight for any two challengers. I loved Bull breaking out the cartwheel, 180 roundouse off the second rope and the moonsault. Really puts Kyoko over for having the toughness and skill to threaten her enough to warrant those risks. Even if I never once believed Kyoko was going to win, it's more like the Kobashi vs. Jumbo matches. One of the better joshi matches I've ever seen and I'd say both contributed a lot to that.
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    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.
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