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It's rapidly approaching time for the Gangstas to move on.
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GEE BEE VEE! GEE BEE VEE! Sorry, marking out for my all-time favorite band making the Menu soundtrack. Kudos to whoever made that call. Christopher seems to be beginning a full-blown turn, making excuses for Bill Dundee shoving him to the ground and cutting promos on the "old coots" coming in for the legends reunion. There's an upcoming match for a shot at Owen Hart & Yokozuna, and Christopher wants Wolfie D to be his partner for it! He tries to orchestrate a rift in PG-13, telling Wolfie that he's carried the team and that Jamie Dundee has been badmouthing him. Bill comes out to set Christopher straight...and asks for a tag match pitting the Dundees against Christopher and Wolfie! Uh-oh. And THAT sets off Bill and Wolfie cutting promos on each other as Christopher is absolutely giddy in the background--the master plan he talked about at the top of his promo is coming together. This is all pretty complicated, but these are all Memphis pros and they know how to make this feel natural. This is also Brian Christopher's possible high watermark.
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It only marginally has to do with the GOAT thread (though I think the matches bolster Lawler's case at least a little), but I'd love, love, love to get your thoughts on the Lawler/Snowman angle(s), Parv. I'd also watch the 5/26/90 AJPW 6-man tag before diving into the rest of the All-Japan stuff, as it fully establishes the Misawa-Jumbo feud that would fuel the promotion for the subsequent 2 and a half years.
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If I had to turn in a ballot tomorrow, Bull and Dynamite Kansai would be my two highest-ranking joshi workers. That Bull was able to get tangibly over in front of a WWF audience is further proof of her broad appeal.
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Breaking down the European WON HOF Candidates
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Haystacks worked far more places in general than Daddy, though rarely very successfully. Stampede, New Zealand (had a match against Andre the Giant there), WCW, even All-Japan for one tour. Maybe some other out-of-the-way places internationally as well. -
I know a good editing job can make any wrestler or match look like a classic, but the clips of Garvin in Knoxville show an absolute fucking whirlwind. I have no doubt that he was a Best in the World candidate as early as the mid-'70s if not earlier.
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Baba may be the smartest worker of all-time. Not the best, and nowhere near the most athletic. But he was Andre with possibly even better smarts and better longevity even as his body was going through similar problems. #30 is nuts, but I definitely want to make room for him.
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Hayes is great here. He did this same shtick with Savio Vega and the Spanish announcers at KOTR.
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Bob stays in character but seems to be genuinely having a lot of fun at the same time.
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This looks atrocious, with Cactus and Shane cutting promos on each other while being weakly held apart. I hate to keep harping on it but Cactus and Shane are AWFUL together, I don't care if they're friends, friends in conflict, or enemies. Shit or get off the pot, Paul E.--get these two to start hating each other instead of constantly going back to their past friendship that we don't give a fuck about.
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Raven jumps Dreamer at a bar in Ybor City, Florida. Stevie, Cactus, and others eventually break them up.
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There are more shots of the music video than of Mikey, but this is a well-done piece. Mikey is now starting to flash some offense.
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All those shots to a completely out of it Sandman's head are uncomfortable. This by the Cult, who had some good songs, but man oh man...
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Tragedy ensues as this boat fails to sink with PE still on it.
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It's Cactus vs. Shane Douglas in a #1 contenders match, and Douglas doesn't appreciate his friend standing in the way of a shot at his title. Then Sandman hits a weak cane shot and Woman cuts a promo toward Shane while looking at the camera, even though Shane's right there. Just an awful segment. This is a stunningly poorly produced piece of work, and I continue to hate hate hate Cactus and Douglas together.
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WHO IS BAM BAM BIGELOW? He rather clumsily incorporates "having a good time," New Generation talking points into his self-examination. He stops just short of talking about putting smiles on faces. Bam Bam lost to one of the greatest football players and athletes ever, then lost again to Diesel last week. There had to be a way to pull this off with Bigelow without bitching him out to this degree--let him have the upper hand on Diesel and then lose on botched Corporation interference.
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ZONY. Chris and Tammy are good here, and this isn't a totally dead-end gimmick compared to the Dumpster or HOG or others around this time, but I always hated the name(s).
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You know what...I'm noping the fuck out of here. I love high-end joshi but I've had enough 60-minute draws on this Yearbook in a style I like even better. I'll take y'all's word for it that this was an amazing athletic endeavor. They go at it for 60, they don't settle anything, got it. Next.
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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.