dawho5
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So somehow after Ole leaves the booking gets worse? And then we get horseshit nonsense like this to add to the topsy-turvy booking of the actual wrestling. What. The. Fuck. I love Dusty, but this is beyond awful.
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Ricky Morton as a heel just seems wrong.
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Embry with an incredible heel promo. I like how he addressed everything, but still managed to make Lawler the true focal point of the thing.
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Eddie's punches are incredible in this. They manage to overshadow the match for me. It also strikes me that I like Eric Embry the wrestler waaaaay more than Eric Embry the booker.
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Great segment just as a last hurrah for Andre. The big man showed a lot of heart even doing as much as he did, given his clear lack of mobility. 8th Wonder of the World indeed.
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That was...yeah...let's not do that again. Ever.
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On rewatch (again) here's the thing. Crowd is ROLLING after that opening. Williams goes into that amateur hold he always does and the crowd immediately goes to sleep. Belly to belly kind of gets the crowd to notice after that, a second belly to belly puts them right back to sleep. Great job murdering the crowd Steve.
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Misawa's elbow is on it's way to becoming a deadly strike that can end matches against anyone. This is, to my recollection, the first time he's gotten a pinfall over a big name guy with it. Fun bombfest without all the usual Gordy boring stuff.
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Yeah you have a stacked roster man. Blackwell and Bundy in 85 are both still big deals. Bock, Koko, Buddy & Doug, the Bulldogs in their prime. Sarge, hall, Sullivan and both the Hi Flyers in AWA. So much to work with there.
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Great power spots and all, but aren't Sasaki/Hase supposed to be a big deal or something? Looked to me like a super-extended squash. Ricky was far better than Scott when it came to giving something back. Scott sure killed the hot tag to Hase after they beat down Sasaki for a while. -
I was impressed with this match. Liger just gets royally pissed and loses his shit enough to go too far when he should be pinning Honaga. So he leaves the slightest of openings and Honaga siezes the opportunity the only way he knows how, cheating to win.
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Always like seeing Kabuki treated well. Tony Atlas is somebody I really liked as a promo, so it's great to see him in a prominent position as well. Orndorff vs. Hennig for an hour in 1985 would have been really good.
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Owen doesn't fare badly here, but I thought it was a little less aggressive of a match (form what we saw) than I would expect for mask vs. mask.
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I'm with the not-so-impressed contingent. I could see some of those goofy spots where Aja was basically saying "nope, not right now" and that wasn't bad. Both did way too much screaming. Some fun desperation stuff at the end. Funny how Aja's selling was actually better than Toyota's here. Match did its' job in elevating Toyota I guess.
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Good, stiff work here with a nice underdog win. Hotta was indeed in a mood if her kicks are any indication. Here's the thing that took me out of it. I thought Yamada's headlock and sleeper were well done as well.
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I know whether to laugh or cry. It's cry, 100 times out of 100. Just awful.
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Robert Fuller as a promo has been one of the highlights of this set.
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Good reunion between the Dundees. Using the loophole for good was needed here after the months of being run over.
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Good sleazy interview from Embry.
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There was a massive disconnect between Veronica's attitude and movements while walking to and from the ring and her "personality" when she was interviewing. Austin definitely has presence though.
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I can send you Invader 3. Sweet dropkick (seriously, look it up on youtube) and a somersault senton off the top would be his big moves.
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That was one Hell of a documentary. For the most part I liked it. David Flair comes across as this guy who against all odds grew up to be a decent human being because of his awful childhood. Props to him on that. Setting aside some issues I have with the earlier stuff, that part near the end with Ashley talking about how she's living Reid's dream and not hers. The look she gives the camera during and after that is absolutely heartbreaking.
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What strikes me about the Bushwhackers ice cream commercial the most is how they take that same insane energy that made them into demons when they were going around the territories and turn it into (still insane and disturbed) goofy shit to sell stuff to kids. Both Bearer and Jake really killed it in this segment and I loved the little exchange between Roddy and Macho as well. Jake is already hinting at a heel turn while remaining babyface, such a master.
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[1991-03-29-USWA Texas] Bill Dundee vs Eric Embry (Cage)
dawho5 replied to Loss's topic in March 1991
For me, Tojo dumping that shit all over would have had to have some ill effects on him. But I guess I'll put that aside. Great stuff from Dundee with the cuffs and I dug the match. Just the finish somehow being illegal was more than a little wonky. I'll also second the idea thta a cage with that much clearance above the mat isn't truly meant to keep anyone out. -
[1991-03-29-USWA Texas] Jeff Jarrett vs Tom Prichard (Cage)
dawho5 replied to Loss's topic in March 1991
Honestly, that finish to me looks like it was a well-covered botch. Jeff does the exact same setup that Pritchard gives him for the actual finish, then they call it a wash and re-do it the right way. And it somehow works better for a finish to the match than just once. Great wrestling from both guys. The fact that they booked a cage match for ESPN after previous weeks of ridiculous stip match being screwed up by the rules is just awful. wait, didn't it get mentioned we have not one but TWO cage matches? Yeah, that's just incredible.