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  1. PeteF3
    Is DDP at Classy Motors in Knoxville, too? I hope he and Buddy ran into each other. DDP buys toys for the Diamond Doll and Maxx, but wants a Ferrari Testosterone for himself.
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    May 19 is going to be the worst day of PG-13's life, as they have to come to Knoxville.
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    Landell is the man. Nothing more to say.
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    The Texas Militia is here--in its entirety! He and Bob Armstrong aren't so different after all. He then breaks out into a sterling rendition of "You Gotta Have Heart," then promises to fly into the Gangstas like he flew into My Lai! Then this gets uncomfortable as Funk rants about "gooks in Vietnam." He then promises to tear Bob Armstrong apart and hang and electrocute him if Bob loses the match. Weird middle tangent aside, this is a MUST-SEE.
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    You need to have the protective gear that that FMW referee had to safely watch this segment. Christopher cuts a heelish promo about wanting to amass more title belts. Dundee doesn't want to wrestle against PG-13 in a battle royal for the tag titles. Christopher attempts to divert Dundee's efforts toward Wolfie D instead of JC Ice, which draws the ire of D. Even PG-13 are glittering, as all street toughs from the 'hood do.
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    I HATE it when second refs randomly decide that this match, of all other title matches to end in screwy fashion, is suddenly a wrong that needs righted. Let Morrell find the phone himself and have him make the decision to restart. Now Sid is here as a babyface, for some reason, and he distracts Ramon leading to a Lawler victory.
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    I've said it before, but this FMW ring announcer is just the worst. This definitely got Hayabusa over big in defeat--both with the crowd and myself. His kickout of the power bomb after the big ring explosion was huge, one of the better near-falls ever, and the crowd reacted accordingly. It was also fun for this Hayabusa novice to see him in a gritty fight rather than a high-flying stunt show. There's only one big high-flying spot in the match, and it's built to organically with Hayabusa having to resort to desperate measures with the moonsault off the cage. In an ideal world Onita would have put him over here, but it was still basically Onita's company and he was the one with all the leverage, so we get what we got. But it still did wonders for Hayabusa. One of the better and more emotional FMW deathmatches.
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    Hogan vs. Abdullah from NJPW in '83 (or maybe '82) isn't exactly a ****1/2 classic but it's tons of fun. It's exactly what you would want out of Workrate Hulkster vs. Abby. I like both Abdullah-Billy Robinson matches. One is Robinson in a crazy brawl, one's Abby in a wrestling match. Those two have much better chemistry than you would expect. Abby also had two fun matches in Ft. Worth that encompass what made him so scary: his demolition of Jerry Oski and his brawl with Brody (that actually ends with Brody laying in a bloody unconscious mess and Abdullah attacking everything that moves, including Gary Hart). I don't know if I'll vote for Abby but I'm definitely considering it. He's pretty much the ultimate "character work" candidate--moreso than Piper, moreso than Hogan, moreso than Dusty. But he played that character to the hilt.
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    I would suspect that Santo dominating so much was a concession to him that had to be made. It's not uncommon for a guy doing a clean job, especially to a guy "beneath" him to control most of the offense--whether that match is in the U.S., Japan, or Mexico. That said, yes, Psicosis' two wins both kind of look like flukes, and the fact that in the first fall he taps Santo to his own submission hold is sort of glossed over when you'd think that could be put over as a huge deal. Still, the action here is tremendous and these two-straight-fall victories are a necessity sometimes, just to keep the average 2nd fall from being the most predictable thing ever. It's sort of a wonky layout, but understandably so. I think I'm the high vote on how good this match is.
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    Dr. Death has lost a TON of weight since his drug bust, and--oh, that's Mutoh. He wins the IWGP title. Yay. Hash had had a stranglehold on the belt for the past year and a half, minus an inexplicable quickie reign by Tatsumi Fujinami, but I wasn't quite ready for him to lose the belt just yet.
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    Well-done video, particularly the opera-to-Metallica transition. Once Enter Sandman kicks in the shots are mostly of Sandman and Woman standing there, but I'll take footage of 1995 Woman standing there over most of what else is on this Yearbook, up to and including the high-end AJPW matches. Sandman explaining why he should be a role model to the youth of America at the end is also really funny.
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    Teen Spirit was 4 years old and Kurt was dead, but this is still far more with-the-times than anyone or anything in the Big Two.
  13. PeteF3
    It's a bad time for the WWF, but Bret still manages to rise above the material more often than not and come off as credible.
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    Sid leaps through the fireworks in a cool visual to clobber Razor from behind and lay him out with two power bombs. A rare case of Sid being allowed to get heat on someone, but not too much as Diesel runs him off.
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    And I thought Leveque wanted to get away from the aristocrat gimmick when he left WCW. He's traded in a fake French accent for a fake transatlantic one.
  16. PeteF3
    Nick Turturro's still around? The best of these NYPD Blue knockoffs was the one with Bob Backlund screaming at an empty chair about his robbery at MSG, while Nick had gone out to get lunch.
  17. PeteF3
    Just go away already.
  18. PeteF3
    Better than last week's, though the wedding dress thing is a funny concept done in by bad editing. I don't mind looking at Kim in these, no sir. Maxx Muscle is way more entertaining than he should be, or than I remember--"absolutely."
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    In SMW continuity, PG-13 are still the USWA Tag Champs. Them vs. the THUGs sounds way more enticing than the THUGs against Brickhouse Brown & the Gambler. Standard boilerplate promo. Tracy and Tony rebut, and the seeds of the USWA-SMW feud are being sown. T is for Terrible, H is for Hell, U is for Ugly, and G is for Jail 'cuz a Thug can't spell. New Jack is out and is incensed that the THUGs have earned a USWA tag title shot despite teaming up for a week. New Jack is still good but this act is pretty played out. It was daring and dangerous for awhile but now I can't think of anywhere else to go with this gimmick in this promotion.
  20. PeteF3
    Fun stuff from Snow, following another good promo from Morton. Andrea or whatever her name is isn't too convincing, but Snow's antics (the Ali shuffle, hiding behind Les Thatcher) make up for it.
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    I love all the nods to SMW history here--Bob Armstrong being the only man to defeat Terry Funk in a Texas Death Match, and Armstrong's old money-back guarantee for hospitalizing Jim Cornette. Cornette has given Sandy Scott a $50,000 cashier's check that will go to the attendees of Volunteer Slam if Bob & Terry can't defeat the Gangstas.
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    Landell is hilarious, shopping for a suitable car for a coal-mine-breathing puke like Bobby Blaze. Budro's simmering contempt for Ashland, Kentucky is glorious.
  23. PeteF3
    That's quite a comedown from feuding with Rich & Gilbert.
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    Bigelow's on quite the losing streak, which generally isn't a great way of building what is supposed to be a top-3 babyface. This comes at the end of an astoundingly bad, overlong 19-minute match. DiBiase runs down all of Bam Bam's screwups since the Royal Rumble and fires him. Tatanka attacks but Bigelow makes his own save. "YOU can't fire me--I QUIT." This scenario really could have used a manager who could take bumps. IRS and Sid put a beatdown on Bigelow before Diesel makes the save. An underwhelming payoff to the slow build of Bam Bam's face turn, that looks more underwhelming knowing what's to come of it.
  25. PeteF3
    Bam Bam's eye looks nasty as hell.
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