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  1. PeteF3
    Yamamoto's such a terrific underdog putting in such a great over-his-head performance that the crowd actively BOOS Maeda when he retakes control. Wild. Pretty compelling match for that reason alone.
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    EVERY mainstream article on wrestling has to use the term "slams" or "bodyslams" in the headline. It was annoying when Jesse Ventura "bodyslammed" his way into the governor's office, it's a hair-pullingly excruciating cliche now. I bring this up after various articles on WWE layoffs predictably used it.
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    I have nothing to say about this, other than this was fast-paced and enjoyable.
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    The talk of hipster wrestling fans at NXT has me wanting CJ Parker to do a sellout-hippie gimmick, giving the same spiel as before but also praising the business practices of Nestle or hawking Fruitopia (which may not be a thing anymore) and coming out to phony-psych music from Strawberry Alarm Clock. Probably too high-concept for a wrestling audience, even a hipster one.
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    Two good segments. Cactus putting over ongoing WCW storylines is shockingly professional considering the way he left--I dug it. Logic and storylines trumping a guy's personal agenda, even across promotions. Woman doesn't appreciate what Cactus is saying about Sullivan and that leads to another Sandman sneak attack. Poor Mikey was feeling bad enough already, and this certainly won't help. Now after the previous Sandman/Cairo attack, Cactus announces his new alignment with Tommy Dreamer.
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    I didn't know Cairo even stuck around after Dreamer took him out. He's aligned with Sandman now for no reason in particular. Both babyfaces stupidly turn their back on him while he's holding a Singapore cane, and that ends predictably.
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    Count me as someone who liked the matwork too. That could be colored by me coming off watching some 2014 G1 Climax stuff where it seemed every match was fought stand-up with strike exchanges, and this felt like a breath of fresh air by comparison. These guys are just so good at the fundamentals that even the more deliberate, less dynamic work can be compelling. Great psychology once they start unleashing the bombs too. Hashimoto works over Hase's ribs while Hase seems to have scouted all of Hash's big moves--he rolls through the DDT and blocks a superplex attempt. After a hot run by Hase he attempts one Northern Lights too many (this is where that rib work pays off!), but with Hash not able to execute his DDTs he turns it around into an inverted DDT instead. Awesome stuff. He then absolutely kills Hase with a spin kick and then a fisherman buster to decisively put him away, but not without earning it. This was Hase's one and only shot at the IWGP title and he really deserved more of them.
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    So apparently there is a Dongs squash where *Paul E* rips on them, which makes more sense as Cornette was a babyface still. That settles an issue I've spent entirely too much time thinking about. I agree that every single possible Funk promo should be on the set and that 6/5/89 be bumped if that's what it takes to make it happen. The "Rick Flaire" segment I'm sure is a lock, but I'm also begging for the two segments on Pro where Funk lays waste to two jobbers, and then a week later brings one of them back out and quizzes him on whether he or Flair is the better man. The job guy answers in favor of Funk every time, with Funk wrapping things up by reminding him, "Flattery will get you nowhere!" and giving him another piledriver on the interview set.
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    I'd take Dave by himself over a few different guys in this poll. Not Lance of course, but Brown was far more than just a hanger-on.
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    Right. "Botch" is a perfectly valid English word by itself. But in addition to the above, I think it's needlessly vague. For the title of a series of web videos it's fine, but for general wrestling discussion...if a spot gets blown, just call it a blown spot (or hell, even a botched spot). If a cue is missed, call it a missing the cue. If an interview line is flubbed...you can tell where I'm going with this. I think MOVEZ is an ironic term, a backlash against fans who tend to rate wrestlers by how large their moveset is (most of whom haven't seem to have existed since the late '90s/early '00s). Someone who cares to run a search can probably find me using it myself in the Yearbooks threads, but it certainly can come across as overly cutesy. "High-end offense" is another term that's used sarcastically (by me, a lot) more than it's used literally.
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    Get a WWF Holiday Wish Bear. This Raw is notable for taking place in, quite literally, a high school gym. The WWF banner at the entrance way is practically at eye level. For the past 12 months the WWF has continued to find new ways in which to bottom out. I'm fine with intimate settings but this glorified indy set-up would look bad on a 1986 edition of NWA Pro. Lawler tosses some feeble jokes at the crowd. IRS is our guest on the King's Court, and his Druids are with him. This was something that seemed to be building to a big reveal and then the whole thing was completely dropped after the Rumble. IRS cuts a promo on various tax-cheating baseball players before getting to the Undertaker, who's skimping on taxes owed on his urn. What an utterly bizarre feud.
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    Slow start, but I dug the shoot-style matwork between Mutoh and Scott here. Much better than the matwork in the Dome match. Still, this is overall pretty listless until Rick heaves Hase halfway across the ring onto his fucking head, and then this picks up. Not to the point where it's as good as the best Steiners match, but a good solid bout with some cool twists--Rick gets two huge kickouts, one from a Mutoh moonsault, after it looks like he's dead. Hase's Golden Arm Bomber is still one of the all-time great transition spots. SuperCena The SuperSteiners win yet again.
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    Goddamned if I didn't like the Bully vignette myself. WCW did a shockingly good job of making it really look authentic, and Parker was really good as you would expect. Even the officer was good. Hogan actually deigns to put Sting over somewhat. Not much else to this. Avalanche is billed as 6'10", 500 pounds, which is on the same level as Andre being "700 pounds."
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    An agent from California is calling SMW insisting that his client get a title shot at the Dirty White Boy. Ron West insists that this guy work his way up to the #1 spot, but DWB has turned back Jake Roberts and Terry Gordy and is fine signing an open contract. DWB has been in desperate need for a legitimate challenger since Jake left. I giggle involuntarily at Ross' closing, "Good luck, White Boy." Cornette is still a full-fledged heel despite his new alignment. Chip Kessler narrates a video piece in front of door behind which is a bunch of shouting. Cornette is still confident, but Ross wants to talk Ricky & Robert out of this arrangement. Another great segment from Cornette, who is doing his damnedest with this late run to overtake New Jack for the Best Interview Award. It's wintertime, so Boo Bradley has been updgraded from a cardboard box to Chris & Tammy's apartment building boiler room. Tammy will take Boo's cat until he runs Cactus Jack out of SMW, or else the cat takes a trip to the river. Cactus responds in chilling fashion, after having been taken to the limit by Candido the previous week. New Jack is unabashedly proud of how much cheating the Gangstas do to hang onto the tag titles. The race-war aspect of this feud is pretty much gone, but New Jack is as effective of a talker as ever. We just saw the top 3 interviews of '94 back-to-back-to-back.
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    I thought it was an improvement over Royal Rumble, though having Luna take up a roster spot was dumb. Yes, this is very Attitude-like. And I was legitimately surprised that his ad featured UT, Bret, Razor, and Diesel all whaling on each other. The 1989-90 WWF would never, ever have done that...this was a company that made sure not to show Hogan or Warrior toys showing vulnerability, after all. Kind of shows what a horrible situation the heel side was in at this point.
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    Dundee is great, and Gilbert is pretty good too. This might be the best run of his career. Lots and lots of invoking of George Barnes lately, which seems like an odd way to go from a heat standpoint.
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    We're all slop-eatin' hogs. These aren't as bad as the Dumpster vignettes but they're not a whole lot better. I remembered the Headshrinkers commercial but don't think I've thought about it since it aired. Fatu and the Barbarian in tuxes is pretty much a guaranteed laugh, and Alfred's appalled voiceover is pretty great.
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    Last few minutes of some decent action as Hasegawa gets in a bunch of hope spots but is ultimately put down by Aja. Next match is all about the monsters guzzling Toyota & Inoue, and it's pretty effective as instead of Toyota flying all over the place she does what she does better than anyone, which is get twisted into knots. Aja & Bennett dominate the entire match but Toyota gets in her Victory Star Drop on Aja for a shock pinfall. Out-of-nowhere, but that move is treated as a killer so I can buy it. So evidently this is a round-robin or gauntlet or something, because back come Hasegawa & the Other Inoue. Last match starts off slow then turns into a sprint towards the end. Not a psychological masterpiece--I didn't like Toyota's JOCS getting basically blown off the first time she does it--but they do hit all their spots and this doesn't drift too far into excess. Toyota scores both pins and it looks like her WWWA title push is underway.
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    Vince also had visions of using Honky to create his own version of Jerry Lawler. Note that babyface Honky had suspenders to yank down as part of his comeback routine, and at first used a flying fistdrop as a finisher instead of the Shake, Rattle, 'n Roll.
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    No, he was meant to be a true babyface. He even had endorsements from Hulk Hogan, which never would have been done for a guy they actually planned to turn. It was a rare instance of '80s WWF fans rebelling and a classic example of Vince turning chicken shit into chicken salad.
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    Because I refuse to let this go, let the record show that the Ding Dongs only had 2 matches on Worldwide--a match on 8/5 against the New Zealand Militia and 8/29 against the Skyscrapers (which as mentioned would be a fun bonus if there's room). I don't know if Cornette was even on the show at that point--the Skyscrapers squash is Ross solo. They didn't wrestle on Pro or on Power Hour. I'm starting to think this Scott Keith character isn't the most reliable. NBC stuff for the WWF... 2/3 Main Event: *** MegaPowers vs. Twin Towers. *** Post-match first aid room confrontation with Savage clobbering Hogan. Original airing if you can get it, so we can get Beefcake's blooper (entering the shot early). * End of the show, with Hogan moaning and then setting out to find Savage, beating up the Hart Foundation and Rockers in the process. 3/11 SNME: ** Opening video (I know you love these). ** Hulk Hogan vs. Bad News Brown. Probably Bad News' high watermark. Worth it just for his in-match promo. *** Elizabeth interview, where she reveals whose corner she'll be in at WM5. *** Rockers vs. Brain Busters. 5/27 SNME: ** Opening video *** Hulk Hogan vs. Big Boss Man in the cage. There are at least 3 of these (SNME, MSG, Boston) that are all pretty much the same. This has Zeus' debut, which probably is the historical tiebreak. * Demolition vs. Brain Busters (**finish). I think OJ gave some praise to this, but will probably be a victim of how hot everything else in the world was. 7/29: * Greg Valentine vs. Jimmy Snuka finish (ending advances the Garvin referee angle). *** Brutus Beefcake vs. Randy Savage. Hard-sell match for SummerSlam. Meltzer and a few others have declared this the best Beefcake match ever. ** Demolition vs. Brain Busters (***finish). The JCP boys take the belts from the WWF Machine. 10/14: ** Hogan vs. DiBiase finish. Zeus and Jake the Snake get involved. ** Post-match interviews with DiBiase and Hogan. * Rick Martel vs. Tito Santana. Strike Force Explodes. Probably not as good as the 6-man tag at SummerSlam. 11/25: * Ultimate Warrior vs. Andre the Giant. The Wrestling Observer's Worst Match of the Year. The 30-second squash job at MSG is a definite must. ***** Hulk Hogan vs. The Genius. Among the matches of 1989 most guaranteed to make this set are the Flair/Steamboat trilogy, the Flair/Funk matches, the Jumbo/Tenryu 6/5/89...and this. *** Post-match interviews with Perfect (destroying the belt) and Hogan's response. Hulk's promo is a 100% MUST--it's up there with his comeback promo announcing that he'd wrestle Earthquake as far as his very best performances. ** Rockers vs. Brain Busters. The final burial for Arn & Tully.
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  23. PeteF3
    There hasn't been an MSG Raw since 2009. Since '06 the only MSG Raw not headlined by Cena anyway was the one Parv mentioned with Vince vs. Triple H and Cena in a semi-main 6-man.
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    It was stopped in '82 because it wasn't drawing (as tournaments tend not to do, though the RWTL was always a big deal), and because in the days of DCORs and people not jobbing, it was getting too difficult to book.
  25. PeteF3
    i think he appeared on TV after havoc but not sure He had one appearance on Up Close on the 11/7 show, making threats towards Ron Simmons and Dustin Rhodes. The next week, Watts said Jake was out dealing with personal issues, his spot in the King of Cable tournament was taken by the Barbarian, and that was that. He had a first-round King of Cable match against Dustin (which is quite good) on WCWSN. TV matches against Marcus Bagwell and Nikita. A 6-man pitting Jake, Cactus, & Barbarian against Nikita, Dustin, & Windham. Jake & Barb vs. Simmons & Windham in another tag. Plus a few squashes. That's just TV, not counting house show bouts most of which were singles or tag bouts against Sting. He was on more than I remembered, actually.
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