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    This actually starts of pretty promising. The matwork is well-done considering matwork is almost the precise opposite of Savage's forte. And Savage's escalating aggression is cool to watch. But the match kind of dies off after that--Savage's control segment isn't particularly compelling and the ending is pretty out-of-nowhere, though Savage doing a clean tapout isn't something you see that often. These guys do win over the Japanese crowd but it's basically a WWF house show match with Japanese-style audience responses. This would be an acceptable house show match after the conflict at MSG in the Savage/Lawler match but the WWF's first independent main event in Japan probably could have been better.
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    Flair apparently ransacked my grandfather's couch for the material in that shirt. Arn wishes Flair luck in his Steamboat rematch and then talks of reforming the Horsemen. This goes nowhere but I am SO not excited to see them reincarnated again, at least at this point. I'm lost as to who the other two members would be.
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    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess Tony was not actually at the Fukuoka Dome that night.
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    Jake would have come across young Anthony in both Mid-Atlantic and Mid-South. His insistence on calling his opponent "Tony" and making fun of his eye injury are great. Roberts is much more of a smartass in this setting than usual, but is still creepy and evil.
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    I don't know why, but the bodybuilder silhouette guy transitioning scenes is really cool. Cornette cuts an awesome promo on Randy Savage, and does his best to get over Bruiser Bedlam as a major threat to him. Bedlam is as generic of a musclehead as it gets but Cornette singlehandedly makes this. Getting his stomach claw over by having him put nails through a board is such a fantastic idea. Loss wishing a video like this would take place today has me thinking over who would benefit from it the most. I'd actually like to see Bray Wyatt training his family members like this.
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    Also, Russell's incredulous response to the footage is really great. To him, having missed the heel turn in December, Jarrett was still a wide-eyed youngster.
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    LANCE! Back in the studio! For good (?). I think I said this at Memphis Memories, but all is right with the world. Lawler seemingly has Dream Machine beat in a taped-fist match, but Jeff Jarrett makes a shock appearance and a 2-on-1 beatdown is on. For a guy still relatively new to heeldom, Jeff applies a damned effective-looking beating. A dropkick in cowboy boots rarely fails to be awesome. The attack goes on for a little while, but was still a pretty crazy event.
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    Pretty good but seemingly inconsequential shoot match.
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    Missy did pay lip service to it in the post-match promo, she just did it really badly.
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    These two do more with less than any two guys in Japan, or all of wrestling for that matter. The result is a match that verges on being a little *too* minimalist, but these two know how to milk the most out of every pause and every moment. There are only a few explosion spots but they're all sold big, usually by the opponent as well as the guy taking the move. Onita is one gutsy bastard but falls right when you're thinking that all the powerbombs are getting excessive.
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    Paul E. is pretty blatantly channeling Roddy Piper here--or is it Dr. Tom Prichard? He then switches to voiceover mode explaining the history of the Dangerous Alliance through Apter mag photos.
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    Funk is an old fart, but he doesn't run around with his nose up the ass of Tod Gordon *or* Eric Bischoff. Arn vs. Sabu sounds like one of the all-time WTF style clashes.
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    Cairo is sticking up for the ECW fans, so I guess he's the babyface. Peaches talks of lifting up Woman's skirt and whipping her fat cellulite can, and closes by describing an even more disturbing visual. God help me but I thought both of them cut a pretty good promo. Sandman basically says that Cairo is paying Peaches to be his whore, if I understand him correctly. Why the fuck does Styles have to be there? Get his stupid face-acting off my screen, please.
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    Agreed with Jerome and the others, this is pretty much the last "traditional" WWF tag title reign, at least for a long while. After this, it was makeshift teams with singles guys and overly gimmicky teams trading the belts with no real reigns of consequence. The action here is decent enough and there's a huge pop for the Headshrinkers' victory.
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    Total American-style match, with Rude's tights getting pulled down and doing his comedic atomic drop selling. And a REF BUMP. And Rude using his valet (whoever she is-- looks like Marisa Tomei but I suspect it's not her) as a shield! Where AM I?? Crowd is reacting to all the right things, I have to admit that. Sting kicks out of a belt shot but Rude executes a piledriver and kneedrop off the top to regain the NWA title. No sign of a major injury from the footage we see, though Rude certainly seems to be in pain after the match. God speed, Rick--his work fell off badly but just as with his buddy Mr. Perfect in the WWF, I think the promotion is worse off without him. Sadly things won't end well for either man.
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    This set-up is more than a tad contrived. Actually a pretty good acting job by Traylor, though.
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    Can't wait to watch this feud. Regal's reactions are accordingly priceless.
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    Bockwinkel explains in greater detail his decision at Spring Stampede--the benefit of the doubt always goes to the champion. Bockwinkel announces that the title is held up and promises further news "later," but Flair is out and demands answers NOW. Hey, a fighting heel champion. Steamboat rebuts, and he's come off pretty whiny ever since that decision was announced.
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    This didn't do much for SMW's credibility to have the WWF's most bottom-feeding team in as pushed talent. Well Dunn are surprisingly decent on the stick, especially Timothy. And compared to the Thrillseekers in general and Lance specifically, they may as well be Dusty & Lawler. Jericho steps it up when he has to drop the phony asskissing persona and gets to show some fire.
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    Randy Savage vs. Bruiser Bedlam! Believe it or not, Savage did the job in that match. Also in is another big name: Jake Roberts will be challenging the Dirty White Boy for the SMW title. Jake is in a study somewhere, quizzing us on the deeds he's done to Andre the Giant, Randy Savage, Rick Rude, and Sting. Good to see Jake back in primo form on the mic, even if he's woefully out of shape. Dirty White Boy took a faceful of mist from Kendo the Samurai, hence the eye bandages.
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    Heenan starting to explain the history of the Queensbury Cup was amusing. "You see, in 1545 Queen Victoria..." and then Schiavone pulls the mic away. This is almost a total World of Sport-style match, and way outside of Ric's usual comfort zone. Then again, he presumably booked this, so good for him. I may be run out of town on a rail for this, but I actually like the Worldwide set. It's the antiseptic cue-carded crowd that kills things--booing Regal for doing a snap mare...really? Regal wins round 1 and round 2 is a draw, despite Flair being in control for a majority of it. Jesse joins us for round 3 and damned if I haven't missed him. He immediately cracks Schiavone up by ragging on the Marines, in reference to judge Craig Pittman. Flair has been busting out some new stuff here, he even does a semi-cross armbreaker at one point. Round 3 is the best so far, as they ramp up the intensity and they pay off Flair attempting to get in the figure four. That said, this is when it becomes apparent that this would work better as a straight-up, one-week WOS match. Round 5+6 top this off beautifully--they get the story over perfectly of Regal winning the final round, but having points deducted due to an umbrella shot from Sir William. That prompts a classic old-style Ventura meltdown. Flair eventually puts this away with 30 seconds to go in the sudden-death round. Hard to rate this compared to a standard match or even a standard match with rounds, but this was awesome. This is Flair working almost a totally different style than normal, but in a hell of a lot better way than at Starrcade '90. It's the freshest he's looked in some time and as fresh as he'll look for some time to come as well.
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    This was part of a deal where they'd, if I remember this right, pick two random names to wrestle each other and then draw a gimmick match on top of it. Vader accuses Dusty of rigging the draw to make it a Texas "Tornado" match. I would love for them to have referenced the alleged 1985 NBA lottery fix full-bore and show surveillance footage of Dusty refrigerating the Texas Tornado envelope. Schiavone is in a studio somewhere and not at Disney, so he gets to call it a "Death" match and complain about liberals while doing it. I get Cactus' point--Schiavone fails to mention Halloween Havoc, fails to mention the power bomb on concrete in '93, fails to mention the ripped ear...just absurd. I'll give Heenan more of a pass, since he wasn't around for most of this program's history. These two do what they can with the restrictions placed on them. Cactus murders Vader with some stiff punches and some brutal chair shots. Heenan actually says "REST HOLD," which I can't say that I've ever heard on an actual wrestling telecast before. Race hits Jack so hard with a chair that HE goes down. The finish goes a bit differently than in Foley's book--Heenan's quip is different than what's described, and Jack never actually gets up from the power bomb, though he doesn't do a stretcher job either.
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    Local promos here, it looks like. Graham has got a title match with Lawler somewhere outside of Memphis. Lawler retorts Dream Machine's talk about his broken leg by bringing up his own broken leg, and how Jimmy Hart double-crossed him by signing...Dream Machine. Another strong chapter in a hot feud.
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    Razor getting Diesel up in the electric chair was neat. The action is OK, with Razor doing an adequate job of carrying things. He runs into an exposed turnbuckle and is Jackknifed for the title change. Diesel pretty much shatters the mold of IC champions past.
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    Yes, I remain a mark for brawling in entrance gear. Throw in entrance-gear brawling AND crazy dives, and I'm in wrestling heaven. This is easily on the level of the J-Cup matches, as Shinzaki adds a different dynamic to the usual juniors fare. He can match guys dive for dive, but he's still a heavyweight and that adds another layer of sympathy to Sasuke and his brethren. Excellent bout in one of the better months for in-ring action of any year so far.
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