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  1. PeteF3
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Just go away already.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Bam Bam's eye looks nasty as hell.
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    Sting vs. Arn Anderson, WCW Saturday Night 4/22/95 This is from the first round of the U.S. title tournament. I didn't think much of most of the action here, but they won me over by the end. Sting did a lot of punch-kickery but he also targeted Arn's leg, which paid off in a big way later. Arn had some great counters here--a spinebuster out of nowhere, the "wind up a punch and DDT the guy when he ducks" spot that I love so dearly, and catching Sting with a back elbow when he attempted one too many Stinger splashes. Hot closing stretch in general, leading to a clean submission victory thanks to Sting's earlier work on the leg.
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    More of DDP trying too hard. What else is new.
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    That's barely a coffin, just a bunch of wood put together by a local shop class. I'm half-serious when I wonder why they didn't arrange for a coffin to be brought down with the Undertaker so they could use that. I admire the effort and the idea, but the execution wasn't all there. Snow has some good lines but is also awkward at times.
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    Rich's voice is getting more gravelly by the week. He issues a 1-on-2 challenge to Bill Dundee & Brian Christopher. Christopher is about to join Dundee in answering when he's leveled by powder from Doug Gilbert, leaving Dundee alone as the heels go after his arm. Hey, a new over-the-ring-area camera angle from WMC. PG-13 eventually make the save.
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    I thought this was pretty good, and a fun change of pace for a lucha title match as they really go balls-out here with no conceit of trying to prove who's the superior mat wrestler. That plays to both guys' strengths. Each guy busts out a joshi-style suplex to win their respective fall, then Rey levels Juvy with a spectacular springboard dive over the guardrail, leading to a double countout. Weak finish. Good sort of gateway for lucha novices, though I don't see this as a strong lucha match for the year either.
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    Good stuff, but the '94 bout is definitely more memorable. After getting KO'd then, Takada has to take a more thinking man's approach, keeping his distance and hitting leg kicks before he can think about stuff like the cross armbreaker. Vader still has the advantage almost every time Takada gets close, but the power bomb doesn't put him away this time. Agreed that Takada got up way too early. Vader makes us forget that by charging across the ring and leveling him, and then busting out some new submissions. Good way to get Vader over and to get Takada over by forcing Vader to go out of his comfort zone. They tease a submission, but Takada comes back to KO Vader with a series of kicks. A worthy final match in the trilogy, but not the MOTYC that '94 was. Lou Thesz says that all the judges think Takada won--thanks for that insight, Lou.
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    The all-time classic is Paul Bearer and Undertaker hyping the Headlock on Hunger. Because even though they love death, in Somalia, TOO MANY people are dying, and they're not cool with that.
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