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    Man is this arena dark. Bret almost breaks his neck leveling LaFitte with a tope before the bell. Pierre has some great agility and spots but really doesn't know how to control or pace a match. Lots of weak clubbering in between the highspots. Ross is really sticking out like a sore thumb at this point--eventually the Vince/Ross/Lawler trio would gel into a strong commentary team but they're not there yet. About 50% of this match is the closing sequence, and that's where this gets good. LaFitte takes a sick flat back bump to the floor when missing the somersault plancha and then even tops Bret's chest-first turnbuckle bump. Bret puts LaFitte away with his put-the-Sharpshooter-on-from-his-back move after LaFitte had blocked the first attempt. I thought this was going to be a disappointment after the slow start, but this turned into a hell of a bout. Now let's get Bret out of the damned mid-card.
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    WHO IS LEX LUGER? Lex makes some good points but also comes off just a tad disingenuous when denying that he hit Savage intentionally. Luger promises a confrontation on Nitro. Good production work and a good segment.
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    Dusty has been in "very tough negotations the past couple of months with TBS Sports." I'm sure. Schiavone ridiculously fawns over Dusty's Hollywood career, Shriners Hospital work, and football coaching. There have been James Lipton interviews that are more hard-hitting. Dusty of course is as entertaining as ever.
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    Ric imitating Sting's howl is fantastic. I have to admit that I never quite got what the purpose of this grand plan was. Did Flair and Arn have a legit falling out and secret reformation, or was this whole thing a long con? If it was the latter, why go to all that trouble just to kick Sting's ass? I tend to groan when the previous 30 minutes of a TV show or movie was the VILLAIN'S PLAN ALL ALONG, so as great as Ric is I've never been quite as high on this angle as others.
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    Southern as a boiled peanut. Cactus is a better storyteller, but Landell is better at talking you into an arena.
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    Lawler's all excited about the Indians and Browns--oh Jerry, neither you nor any of us were prepared for how that Browns season would end. *sniff* (Or the Indians season, for that matter). 2-to-1 says either the cap or helmet get destroyed before the show is out. Lawler also has fun with Brian/Roadie/Jesse's constantly changing monikers. Onto the match, Armstrong's Memphis chickenshit stalling is a lot more tolerable than his WWF-style dancing stalling. Armstrong uses *two* chains to pin Lawler for a rare studio Unified title change...or is it? Brian Christopher's out to set the record straight, and Bill Rush reverses the decision.
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    The story I heard about Blanchard vs. Douglas was that Blanchard blew up about 20 minutes into the planned draw and Douglas had to sit in restholds the rest of the way (and they eventually threw in the towel and rang the bell at around 45 minutes). I don't get the logic in booking Tully to go Broadway to begin with--when did he ever do that even in his prime?
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    I made a note in the 1990 forums for posterity, but in case it's missed/skipped there: Ray Odyssey revealed in a KFM post about a month ago that the infamous Dawna of ICW Teen Report fame was Tony Rumble's stepdaughter.
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    BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Well, not that breaking--it was posted a month ago on Kayfabe Memories, but I just saw it now. Ray Odyssey has revealed to the world that Dawna was, in fact, the stepdaughter of Tony Rumble. Now we know.
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    Ross and Lawler inform us that Gorilla Monsoon has ensured a title change by waiving the DQ/countout rule. Before Shawn and Diesel can speak, Yokozuna's music hits and the heels are standing at...the podium (!). Thought that thing was long gone. Vince is INCENSED. Heels made so many toupee jokes around this time that I figured he must have really had one--it wasn't until 3/4 of the way through 1998 when I figured it wasn't because Austin hadn't ripped it off yet. Shawn, inspired by his buddy next to him, makes a hip-with-the-times reference to Mannix that's too old even for me to get. Then Diesel calls Cornette "Dr. Redundancy" before reciting Shawn's previous spiel almost to the letter. Not much to this--these are the types of promos and angles that Jim Ross is talking about when it comes to lack of heat, lack of drama, and lack of heels being heels.
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    This time Goldust calls out Bret Hart in a Tim Burton Batman-inspired promo.
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    Xenophobia out the wazoo for this, with the mere mention of "Puerto Rico" drawing boos and both guys decked out in the flags of their homelands. King disappointed me, as it didn't seem like he was interested in doing much until busting out the big dives. Those were impressive, but his selling in particular was not. Perez was great again, though, and carried most of this. Some primo heeling, and some great offense from both a flashiness and stiffness standpoint. Perez wins clean to take King's hair. Finish wasn't perfectly done, but I'm not sure if that was King's fault or if Perez was just too big or King too small to be doing that spot. Pretty good match, but the earlier Perez matches were better. What's with Silver King's hissy fit after the match? You got pinned clean as a sheet, dude.
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    Kuniaki Kobayashi

    PeteF3 replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    I think he was pretty clearly Sayama's best opponent, or at least the best opponent he wrestled multiple times. And goddamn, do I love that AJPW match with Fuchi, though I guess it's more of a feather in Fuchi's cap. Even all-washed-up Kobayashi put on a pretty kickass match with Koki Kitahara during the NJPW-WAR feud. I don't know if it'll be enough for him to rate, but he would definitely make a top 150 for me.
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    This takes the Rey-Psicosis template and adds a lucha title stip to the equation, kicking everything up a notch. The opening matwork actually comes off as serving a purpose rather than their usual perfunctory, let's-get-this-out-of-the-way juniors style matwork. More dramatic near-falls. Bigger build to the big dives. Submissions to end all three falls instead of the usual pinning combos. The best lucha match of the year and a candidate for the year's top-10 and top-15. Rey and Psicosis did so many touring matches in so many environments that this feels like their most complete match together--like the culmination of a major rivalry rather than the (still very enjoyable) Lucha 101 intro we're used to seeing.
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    A full history of Raven, Dreamer, and Cactus Jack. It doesn't get more mid-'90s than this video.
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    Dudley Dudley informs us that when Big Daddy Dudley toured the reservations of Oklahoma, he...poked-a-hontas. Dances With cuts a promo in...Spanish(?). Big Dick grunts.
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    "Hardcore is not swinging chairs and using weapons, it's a whole style of going out there and giving it your hardest." Trite, but...you know, that *is* truly what's separating ECW from the Big Two. The rest of the promo is standard whiny Dreamer bullshit.
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    Everyone's seen this or read the transcript in Have a Nice Day, I think. These are some spectacularly done monologues by Foley, but if they have one weakness it's that they work better as dramatic monologues than on selling you on a wrestling match. But, as a table-setter for the anti-hardcore gimmick to come, this knocks it out of the park.
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    Dig those multiple cameras, including a magical POV shot from the dash of the monster truck. Wight is unintentionally hilarious--you can't blame him but he's got a looong way to go as a performer.
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    WHY IS RIC FLAIR HELPING RANDY SAVAGE??! That was INFURIATING. I hate the electric-guitar version of Pomp & Circumstance. Savage has the decency to call out Flair for getting involved in his business. Savage is upset at Luger for cheapshotting him at WarGames, and Sting for sticking up for him! He believes that they and Jimmy Hart in cahoots with the Dungeon of Doom, and that draws out Lex. I like the contrast of Savage being a bundle of rage and Lex being too cool for school.
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    Greatest entrance in wrestling history. And...uh-oh. McMichael just dropped a Warren Zevon lyric at the end of this. Don't start getting cool and respectable on me, Mongo.
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    AMERICAN MALES. AMERICAN MALES. AMERICAN MALES. Between this and Mr. Wonderful truly this was a golden age in WCW theme music. I was more intrigued by Razor vs. Kid than the Males at the time, so I never knew until just now that there was an originally scheduled match with the Bluebloods and an impromptu challenge by Harlem Heat. Shockingly good action--Booker looks *great*, Riggs looks really good, Bagwell pulls his weight, and even Stevie freaking Ray works a few nice brick-wall spots. Shock title change follows--the WCW Tag Titles were soon to slide into irrelevance as Bischoff was never big on tag wrestling, to the company's detriment, but this was a good call that was yet another reminder that Nitro had a blink-or-you'll-miss-it atmosphere that Raw couldn't yet touch.
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    A face vs. face and heel vs. heel match on one show. Yeah, the WWF was at least attempting to pull out the stops early on in the War. Neat finish as Owen hits Mo with a drop toe hold and Yoko drops a leg, with Owen executing a unique cover as Mabel pratfalls as Yoko trips him while attempting the save. Shawn makes the first nose joke of Owen's WWF career. Two Dudes with Attitudes, baby. Camp Cornette rebuts. Jim stirs shit up by reminding us what happened the last time Shawn & Diesel were a team, and questioning if they value their friendship over their respective titles.
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    Razor has words for De Bookworm.
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    Lots of aggression here for a 1995 WWF babyface match, as they really lay into each other and Razor unleashes some pretty heavy artillery on offense. Still no hint of a turn from either guy yet--Kid gets an "out" for his cheap victory as it seems that he didn't see what happened with the Dean. Douglas gives Kid a D for Dumb afterward, with the seeming intent of trying to get into the Kid's head. Razor gets an E for Elevate, and for himself an A, and an N for No-Brainer for the result at In Your House. DEAN! The "grading" stuff is still lame, as is the fingernails on the board for heat, but Douglas is starting to put it together on promos now that the monotone has proven to be unworkable. I still maintain than in another world, this gimmick could have worked.
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