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    I liked the previous match a lot better--for whatever reason this felt more like meandering than the earlier, equally deliberate matwork did. That was building into Albright unleashing the heavy artillery. Here this goes until Albright just gets on a cross armbreaker and that's it. Big win for Gary but it should have felt bigger.
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    Had a little more trouble getting into this. To me it seemed like they were constantly teasing taking it into another gear but then would back off and slow it down again. The ending is certainly very good, though. I liked how Yamazaki applied the cross armbreaker so casually, as though he knew he already had the match won. Felt like something out of a TV squash match, even though he certainly didn't arrive at that point in the usual squash match way.
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    Slow-paced but a good fundamental little match. Kitahara gets some good runs of offense but is low enough on the totem pole that Tenryu doesn't even need to bust out the power bomb to put him away.
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    Uncle Burt Ray in his Mat Mania newsletters constantly bitched and moaned about the big, slow, boring slugs in WWWF main events. This was during the First Bruno Era.
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    Kind of a tepid pop for the newly crowned champ. Nash in Bo-like fashion misinterprets various New Yorkers' encouragements to DO THE JOB, BIG DADDY. We're immediately in Shiny Happy Diesel mode, and the only thing separating this from the Lex Express push is at least there was some build-up to the babyface turn. Other than that, the character reinvention is just as ineffective and incredibly, Vince has gone from waiting too long to pull the trigger to pulling it too early. Tease of Diesel vs. Bret, another monumentally dumb booking idea for your New #1 Babyface.
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    "No submission"...what a crock of shit. Backlund stalls FOREVER before Diesel's entrance. Big heat for his whole thing, though. Diesel wins in 8 seconds, a supremely dumb idea.
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    Pretty basic brawl but some fun moments, particularly Robert Gibson having his feet tied together and trying to fight his way out of the predicament. And it can't be accused of overstaying its welcome. New Jack places a board over Morton's head as D'Lo holds him down and then headbutts the board, knocking Ricky out for the pin. Nice to see a guy (or team) win their own specialty match for once.
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    That's amazing what people are saying about Orndorff, as he's always come off as incredibly prickly to me. Haven't had a chance to listen yet but that's a pretty good accomplishment by Cornette.
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    Fuck, I don't even know. What I was TRYING to say is AVClub comments switched to being the same Disqus you see across every other website that uses it, with centralized all-purpose accounts instead of accounts exclusive to AVClub, allowing anyone with any Disqus account anywhere to run in and comment on an article, and for anyone to see where any account had commented elsewhere.
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    This is a month and a half later but I'd like to see a feasible alternative to Disqus (and certainly alternative to Facebook) for comments. AVClub has seen a noticeable quality dip since all Disqus comments went "uniform" and certain articles and reviews have been overrun by trolls and brigades from other sites, as just happened with the Dinesh Disouza America docu review. Granted, "pro wresting only" is a bit more isolated than a pop cultuer site, but the last thing I want is some site vs. site "war." Baseballthinkfactory has its own commenting system and is also well-patrolled, and that leads to generally intelligent and informed discussion even in divisive threads, which is the ideal I think we want.
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    That's supposed to be an O'CONNOR Roll, and that goes way back, since it was a Pat O'Connor move.
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    What the fuck is this? Halfway-decent action? Solid booking to set up future matches? This ain't quite the Mid-South Duggan, but it's as close as we've seen in 7 years. Not only am I looking forward to seeing if this Starrcade match lives up to its rep, this had me wanting to see this Main Event tag match, too. I agree--at least so far, Duggan is not just coasting on his rep and his connections. Hacksaw was always, even at his lowest, a good and effective seller, and that can go a long way with the right opponent.
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    Sort of Southern Wrestling 101--not great action but all four guys fit themselves into the standard template well enough. I do like all these interweaving storylines, with a Gangstas match segueing directly into the Cactus/Candido feud.
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    New Jack is incredulous that the Rock 'n Roll Express woudl challenge the Gangstas to a Ghetto Street Fight. Cornette shamelessly tries to kiss up to New Jack, and the contrast in these two heel characters is very amusing. Yes, Cornette knows how to book characters to interact with each other in fresh ways, even if they're both heels. Cornette offers to help the Gangstas out in dealing with promoters and better hiding their tactics so they can eliminate the Rock 'n Rolls for good. New Jack don't need no white boy tellin' him what they can do! Finally something fresh for Cornette--I know where this is going but I'm looking forward to watching it. Candido & Boo Bradley will be facing Cactus Jack & Brian Lee at Thanksgiving Thunder. Boo likes Cactus Jack, but Tammy informs him that he tried to kick Boots the kitty last week, and that sets Boo off. Cactus Jack responds as only he can--we'll get to see him enjoy the missionary position at Thanksgiving Thunder! Er, no thanks.
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    They're attempting a token effort at re-establishing the Unified title as a "World" or at least national title, talking up Sid title defenses in Vegas and Chicago. Lawler wants another title shot at Sid--hey, you agreed to the "last title shot" stip Jerry, be a man of your word. Spellbinder is still clinging to the #1 contendership.
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    In-between Backlund's near-falsetto rants about being the new champion, he finds time to complain to Jack Tunney (remember him?) about swapping Diesel in for the injured Bret Hart. Diesel is a big voluminous man, but he can't defeat Mr. Backlund. Diesel rebuts. Nash makes a hip-with-the-times Barney Miller reference and proclaims himself the New Generation and goes into an odd non sequitur about American manufacturing. All-American Diesel is as bad or worse than Smily Happy Diesel. An early sign that Vince had learned absolutely fuck-all from the Lex Express push. Anti-heroes were in. Superhero babyfaces were out. Bad promo from Diesel but this is a very cool find, as I suspect this only aired in New York. It had the feel of the late-'80s/early-'90s Event Centers, which seemed weird and out of place in '94. Henry Godwinn stands by in Bitters, Arkansas. No clue how anyone expected an Evil Hillbilly Jim to get over.
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    Not at the level of their other bouts but a fine match nevertheless. I think I pegged this as a draw from the start, not because they were killing time but just because it's the only result that makes booking sense at this point. All four guys are established as equals (well, Misawa's still the top dog, but you know what I mean) to a degree probably greater than even their May match. Everyone gets a chance to shine and everyone seems in danger of losing at some point. Kawada and Taue bust out a new powerbomb/chokeslam combo that would have killed Kobashi dead, but Misawa makes the save. Kawada escaping from a Kobashi full nelson to save Taue, who's busy working an intricate reversal sequence with Misawa, leading to another counter-and-counter sequence between Kawada and Misawa, was just a gorgeous piece of wrestling. Kawada goes nuts with backdrops at the very end getting over how meaningful it'd be to pin Misawa, but the time runs out. Pretty amazing that these guys can put on a match this good and have it be the "least" of the series.
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    And so ends the career of Yokozuna having any legitimate, main event meaning. Overall I believe this was a feud that did relatively decent box office compared to WWF standards of the time.
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    So I actively went back and looked for this and couldn't find any crowd shots at all. The only match at Big Egg Universe with a case for being as good as this one is Toyota vs. Kong. This had some terrific counter-wrestling and is really one of the better technical matches in WWF/E history. I like how both guys went to alternate submission moves when their trademark holds kept getting countered. And, despite his problems getting a hero's reaction on past Raws, Bret is over enough here that he manages to keep this crowd emotionally invested all the way through a fairly dry, slow-paced technical bout with no near-falls and a ten-minute hold at the end. Owen's performance is spectacular and this is one of the better and more creative ways to get around any towel or flag-waving stipulation--it seems that most such matches end with the cornermen brawling and either a flag being waved or a towel accidentally flying into the ring, and they went with another route here that allowed the babyfaces to save face while not completely welching on the stipulation. Very good match and even better booking. Owen's post-match promo is fun but Backlund's is transcendent, easily the best interview of his career. (It's on the WWE Youtube channel, thank goodness). Backlund goes halfway into Bray Wyatt territory talking of pasteurize, homogenize, and synchronize society back into morality, and now I'm envisioning a whole stable of "followers" running roughshod over the company like a proto-RTC-meets-proto-NWO and shaking my head at the missed opportunity.
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    Pretty good action down the stretch, as Diesel steamrolls through 4/5 of the babyfaces and works a good long sequence with Ramon, but Shawn wants to eliminate Razor personally, and for the third time accidentally clobbers Diesel with a kick. Diesel goes through his teammates trying to get at Shawn and they all get counted out. Second-cheapest Survivor Series finish to this point, behind the "everyone gets counted out except for Flair" one from '91. But what we saw was good, and the turn executed well both as a climax and fitting of the build that had been taking place since SummerSlam. Too bad about the follow-up, though.
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    Another good match between these two, big shock. I do love how they constantly call back to Kong hitting the insta-KO on Kansai in ThunderQueen. That's pretty much Kansai's kryptonite, here and elsewhere. Also I wasn't paying attention to this in the early-round matches but I like using an LLPW referee here--felt like a World Cup or college bowl game with the ostensibly neutral officiating crew.
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