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    jdw made the same basic point I made in the last Liger match thread, with more to back it up. Yeah, just differing perspectives is all. Loss was watching this without having watched 6 other Yearbooks first. Anyway, this is a nice little bout, but that's about all. It made me want to see it in full, though.
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    I get the jobbers=special teams thing, but Tajiri really should do the kicking for Team ECW. And Paul Diamond (former pro soccer-er) for the AWA. Now, can we make a starting roster of guys who dabbled in wrasslin'? Note, eligible roster guys must have at least been college players of note, if not pros. QB Erik Watts RB Marcus Dupree RB Bronko Nagurski WR WR TE Russ Francis T Dr. Bill Miller G Bill Fralic C Vader T Bradshaw G Dick the Bruiser DE Jeff Gaylord DT Ron Simmons DT Ernie Ladd DE Reggie White LB Lawrence Taylor LB Wahoo McDaniel LB Kevin Greene CB Pacman Jones CB S Brian Pillman (even though he was a lineman in college and special-teams in the pros) S K P KR And...I give up for now. We have an embarrassment of riches for the lines, especially defensive lines, not so much at the skill positions.
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    I admire his commitment to it, but I thought the "booker man" angle was eye rolling at the time (I even remember being in a Prodigy chat room getting live PBP of Uncensored) and in hindsight it's worse--fairly or not--simply because we know it doesn't lead to anything, even if Heyman is trying for Pillman vs. Douglas. Pillman's workrate was also plummeting even before the auto wreck, as I'm sure injuries had already piled up. It's like Fall Brawl was a last gasp of greatness.
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    NXT Takeover Arrival

    PeteF3 replied to shoe's topic in WWE

    I actually liked how Breeze blew her off. Fits his narcissistic character.
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    Also, "I retired Bruno and/or Bockwinkel" and a reference to General Cornwallis.
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    I'll vote for Arn too, but I think this is closer than some people may want to believe. Actually Waltman in 1990-91 WCW would have been off the charts awesome.
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    Fun commercial with Jerry Lawler being tormented in Hell by Elvis, Kong, Don, and various other Kings. Vince is in the ring with Lawler, thus giving us a rare WWF interview segment where we're spared anyone talking over it. Lawler, in the spirit of peace after costing Warrior a KOTR berth, offers a comic book-inspired portrait of the Warrior. Well done, Jerry. Warrior rebuts, and I'll grudgingly credit him for updating his manner of speaking 6 years after his peak, giving a bit of lip service to the mystical hoohah but concentrating mostly on talking about kicking ass. Lawler shatters the glass portrait on his head but Warrior no-sells.
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    You may give Arn an edge for longevity (though Anderson's career actually wasn't as long as it may seem), but goddamn, Waltman was awesome for the first 6 years of the '90s. Like, as in from 1990 when he was 20 years old onward.
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    We start with Heenan cutting a great psychotic promo, paranoid over having to deal with Randy Savage at the Bash. Then he bails again, and that only means one thing... Hall is back out to antagonize Ken Doll, and KEVIN NASH is here behind Eric! We get the soundbite that opens up every episode of a certain PTBN podcast. "Look at the adjective: PLAY." That unfortunate bit of phrasing aside--and the Marge Schott/Mein Kampf reference that I don't get--this is a hell of a promo by Nash. "You couldn't get a paleontologist to get a couple of these fossils cleared? You couldn't get three guys off dialysis to get a team together?!" Bischoff agrees to try to get them 3 guys if they're willing to show up at the Bash. Yeah, it doesn't need to be repeated how great the build to this was. "Who's the third man?" would become the only topic in wrestling anyone wanted to talk about for the next month.
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    This was okay, and given a good amount of time. Sting works a pretty good FIP segment and Flair and Arn do some good blind-tagging. Rather predictable run-in finish but the post-match is HOT. Sting, Scott Steiner, and Luger all waylay the Giant with chairs but can't bring him down, and Jimmy Hart has to drag him away from the ring as the crowd erupts into "LU-GER" chants. This is a hell of a booking job to get the general public this excited for a Luger-Giant main event.
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    Good build to this main event match, pity they didn't actually do anything with it at the Bash itself. But I guess there was enough elsewhere to make up for it. A fascinating insight into the Mongo/Greene training sessions follow--Kevin is inspired by the Slim Jim in his hand to pick out their "coach." Flair and Arn strike back by bringing in the Brain to coach them.
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    In the span of a week, Cyberpunk Ice and Bill Dundee are both sent packing--Ice in a loser-leaves tag and Dundee in an impromptu studio match. I suspect this ends up with both teams allowing the opposing partner to return in exchange for the other, but we'll see.
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    This was solid, but little more. The hot tag title match seems to have sapped the crowd of a bit of energy, though they're hardly dead, and this match had quite a bit to live up to. These two can sleepwalk through a lot of trademark sequences, but the finish doesn't really build well and comes off as an anticlimax. This is one instance where 16 or so minutes isn't long enough for the story they were telling.
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    This is the AJPW Match of the Year to this point, surpassing Taue vs. Doc, and that puts it at #3 for the year at the moment. There is definitely a foreshadowing of the head-droppy nature of late-'90s All-Japan to come, but they're worked in well here, knocking guys out for extended periods and being treated as huge momentum shifters. Akiyama gets to shine again, as does Ace down the stretch when Doc is finally taken out, after being a deadly lurking force for most of the match. Ace succumbs but looks like a tough bastard in his own right for surviving as long as he did.
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    Yeah, Eddy really has morphed into a complete worker by this point. The fans practically pleading with Otani to go for the cover as he began his last comeback was also a treat--this time, Otani goes for the kill when he can, and successfully puts Tiger away to end a very good match, that blended studio wrasslin' style body part work with high-flying juniors action.
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    We open with Coach Bobby Heenan, who didn't realize when he signed up for that position that Randy Savage would be "coaching" Mongo & Kevin Greene, and is trying to weasel out of it. Scott Hall shows up, and Bobby bails. Super-hot confrontation between Hall and Sting follows--Sting wants him one-on-one right now, but Hall refuses to be told what to do and when, so he promises a little--no, a BIG surprise next week.
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    Vince's reaction to Goldust's CPR continues to be top form. You'd think Goldust had forcibly sodomized him. Goldust is in his "den," appearing to be completely naked except for his robe and a strategically placed IC title belt. Goldust regales us with the exhileration of tasting chocolate. This and the Piper vignette were examples of the character arguably crossing the line.
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    RIP Marty Garner you were my favorite anonymous OMEGA guy.
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    There's still a lot of Cactus here, to Foley and the WWF's credit. Goes without saying that Mankind is Undertaker's freshest opponent possibly ever.
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    This was pretty fun, if a bit samey at times compared to matches past and the Peace Festival bout. Rey and Pierroth do some fun Hogan-Zeus type spots, but it doesn't lead to any kind of payoff, which was disappointing. This comes down to Psicosis vs. Rey, as we'd expect, and since this isn't a Rey showcase in front of an unfamiliar audience, they get to work a more traditional technico-rudo bout with Rey getting beaten down and making a comeback, rather than Rey cycling through a bunch of his flying spots. I sure am sick of that finish, though. I don't want to continuously bitch about it, but they keep doing it.
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    Well, it wouldn't have been much of a main event if he'd dragged Diesel to Hell 30 seconds in...
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    Cornette was completely sour on the national wrestling scene at the time (thanks, Evil Jim Herd) and thought he could make a go of reviving a territory. He sure as hell would have been an improvement over Coach.
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    I don't *know*, I just wonder. It almost seemed like every manager got a "turn" on top against Hogan. He went from Blassie to Heenan to Slick, then to...well, the Genius, then to Jimmy Hart, then to Adnan, then to...well, that sort of blows my theory up because Heenan was heavily involved with Ric Flair, but that was partially because Jim Cornette turned them down. Then lastly to Fuji.
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    I've started the greatest thread in the history of PWO. Since Matt D's article basically asks the question, this match was taped on 10/15 in Huntsville. This one has a terrific start, as Arn and Windham have a mini-debate right in the center of the ring after the bell, with Arn complaining about how Windham wouldn't listen to him trying to teach him "to be a team player," and then hauls off and slaps Barry. And that awesome start leads to one of the best meat-and-potatoes TV matches you'll ever see. Windham tears up Arn's leg and Arn tears up Windham's arm, and it isn't just to fill time--it's a focus for both guys for the entire match and both guys use the limb work to execute counters later on. Also I've been very down on 1991 Jim Ross but he is absolutely fantastic here, and this may well be one of my favorite calls of his, period. He plugs the right shit (WCW live, upcoming matches) and does a terrific job of getting over both the body part psychology and the backstory. Even the re-start ending works, as it keeps both guys looking strong without coming off as cheap as a DQ, plus it pushes the ill-fated Windham/Simmons team that Ross put over earlier.
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    Talk about it here.
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