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  1. PeteF3
    Well, this is everything that Tammy video was not. Storm has seriously been wrestling for "12 years" by this point? That's not the way to get these guys over as the Youth of Canada America. I thought the girls looked fine, '80s hair aside. Jericho's goofy Mentos-commercial take at the camera, on the other hand, was not.
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    The Tammy video is one of the funniest things on any Yearbook. I'd love to know who came up with all the various scenarios and camera pans. Fytch COMPLETELY contradicts most of the Tips she gave out--people who lie through wrestling vignettes are just the worst. The Dirty White Girl's gets the point across, I guess, but was inevitably going to be a disappointment.
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    It'll be Bullet Bob vs. Cornette & Murdoch in a handicap match--no wonder Cornette is so out of sorts. I'm getting sad now that Dick is only about a year away from the end, because despite his age and his look he's such a compelling talker that he may well have had more to offer, at least as a mouthpiece.
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    Bob Caudle lays out the main event for Bluegrass Brawl: SMW tag titles on the line between the Rock 'n Roll Express and the Heavenly Bodies, in a cage, there must be a winner, and the losing team is out of SMW. We cut to a taped announcement from Bob Armstrong, but we quickly cut back per the demands of Jim Cornette! JC lays down the promo of the year so far--April 1 in Pikeville will be the Day the Music Dies.
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    Bearer's delivery has suffered greatly in comparison to when this was a regular segment. His guest is The Rocket...Owen...Haaaart??? Bearer as the defender of family honor in this setting doesn't work at all--and this is before we knew he'd knocked up the Undertaker's mom and raised his half-brother! Decent promo from Owen in a bad setting.
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    This was awesome! In fact by the closing stretch I liked this better than 11/93. There's a 60-minute time limit to this one when the RWTL went 30, and since you know Baba ain't going an hour, the "There Must Be a Winner" vibe is there throughout. Once Kobashi starts getting double-teamed leading to the big Hansen lariat, this turns into one of the better AJPW tag closing stretches of the '90s to this point. Even accepting Baba's limitations and his strikes--he once again pulls out every stop that he can, both offensively and defensively. Historic finish to pay all the long work off.
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    Delphin comes out to the Mr. Perfect theme, which is equal parts appropriate and hilarious. I didn't mind the lack of comedy--it's an apuestas match after all--but until they really started trading strikes toward the end this was not a match fought with much urgency. It was just a normal match, which didn't fit the stip even if the work was inoffensive. It did get better towards the end and Delphin's winning cradle looked impossible to escape from while also looking fluky.
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    Toyota and Kong as partners is an eyebrow-raising event, so this has something positive going for it right from the start. I wasn't as high on this as most of the others but I did love the crazy submissions that Toyota kept getting put in. Kyoko was pretty awesome all-around here, in all facets.
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    Tend to agree with everyone else, though I thought that by the end both women had really run out of things to do. Doing a ten-count or dueling sleeperholds can be very dramatic, and it was here. But doing them over and over and over again...I was like, "Evidently she's not going to go down from being kicked, TRY SOMETHING ELSE." This needed to be reigned in a bit, because Hasegawa as underneath babyface could be very compelling. It brings to mind Dusty Rhodes' comments about why he didn't book the Rock 'n Roll Express to go 30+.
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    This may be a completely wacky pick, but Al Snow vs. Road Dogg for the Hardcore title at a Raw in, I think, Cleveland (RD was the champ). I don't think I've seen it since it aired but I immediately thought it stood out in a positive way from the myriad other Hardcore matches of the time.
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    Hmm...yep, I'll buy it: this is the Match of the Year through 2 months. Goto's a big bruiser but also throws in some spectacular dives off the top rope. Onita and Tenryu could blow their noses and have the crowd going nuts. And this is probably the best Hara performance I've ever seen, as he gets into headbutt battles with both members of Team FMW and then takes an epic shitkicking. It's the first time I think I've ever seen Hara as sympathetic babyface and against all odds he pulls it off. They sort of re-do the 12/89 Baba injury storyline as Hara is out of commission getting his ribs taped, leaving Tenryu alone to get massacred. He puts up a valiant effort and Hara makes an effort to get involved, but by that time it's Tenryu who's banged up and injured and helpless to stop Hara from being doubleteamed into oblivion on the floor. The finish was a little sloppily done but the premise was great--Goto levels Tenryu with enzuigiris, and when Tenryu ducks one he leaves himself a sitting duck for the Thunder Fire Power Bomb. If they'd executed that smoothly instead of Onita having to re-do the power bomb pick-up, it'd have been perfect. I really hope to keep a spot in the Top 10 MOTY list for this.
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    Not good. This was badly disjointed all the way through, and they pissed me off right from the getgo by doing that stupid fucking "pop up from a piledriver and piledrive the other guy who pops up..." shit that Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid foisted on us. There was some good stuff here, but every time they felt close to building something special, I'd get knocked out of it--Sasuke ruins the dive train with a horribly blown space flying tiger drop, Dragon runs *right* at Sasuke on the apron just to Sasuke can kick him in the back, etc. Lots of my turn/your turn stuff down the stretch, and Orihara was pretty useless altogether--which says something, considering how little I care for his partner. Ultimo, for a scant few seconds, actually attempted to show something vaguely resembling a personality at one point, with a rather disdainful and casual kick at Sasuke's head while he made a cover, but it didn't last.
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    These two have great chemistry. Funk can go along with any crazy spot Sabu wants to do but keeps a semblance of psychology and raw intensity about the match. Too bad such a fun match had such an awful finish, but I guess the tradition of the Sheik cuts in multiple ways.
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    Another good promo by Michaels (whose hair now looks eerily similar to hairpiece-era Stan Lane) with really oddly edited jump cuts. Michaels swipes Lane's microphone from him but we still hear Stan asking questions.
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    Man, I liked this a lot. Okay, the first fall is kind of throwaway until a decent finishing stretch, but Hasegawa going balls-out in the second, carrying the load for the team and going all-out in an effort to tie things up was pretty awesome, and the rapidfire countering with Toyota was cool without being overindulgent, with a fun payoff as Hasegawa scores the pin. The third fall may have been a little overlong but I had less of a problem with it than I have with other joshi matches. I liked the efforts by both teams to isolate their opponents and try to work them over, and Hasegawa was sufficiently beaten down for a sensible finish. Aja made a bunch of saves and then just sort of stopped, which was a legit flaw--a lurking force like that needed to be more decisively dealt with. Still a good coming-out party for Sakie, though. I get the criticism over the table spots, but...they looked really cool, and I didn't mind the lack of effort to score a pin so much. It gave Toyota & Yamada a chance to let the moves breathe by selling and being put into more or less dire straits. The crowd may not have bitten on the subsequent near-falls, but let's be real: there was very little throughout the match that they *were* biting on. It was a shockingly subdued audience and it's part of why this is a hell of a match, but not really near the high-end Toyota/Yamada matches.
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    Incredibly fun sub-10-minute match, with Steamboat and Vader busting out all kinds of cool shit in the midst of beating the crap out of each other. Steamer does a chop off the middle of the top rope to the floor, and Vader busts out a second-rope sunset flip(!). This blows their lumberjack match out of the water. Race is overinvolved but he can't be accused of not working for his money, either. And yes, I too am sad about the upcoming SN look. Center Stage was always rather sterile but the stupid Star Trek entryway and mechanical motif made it moreso.
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    Del Ray busting out the crucifix power bomb was a shock, definitely. Fun little bout that's a little on the short side, but a CHAOTIC post-match makes up for it. Morton is beaten to a bloody pulp as Cornette, from higher ground with the racket, picks off every babyface who tries to run in.
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    I would have to bet on WWC if forced, and St. Louis after that. But I think World of Sport is a dark horse possibility.
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    I suspect that Mama Cornette and Maris Crane are the same person. I love Murdoch treating Cornette as sort of a nephew--"don't be thinkin' about hurtin' that boy!"
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    The FIRST thing I was going to ask if there wasn't a fucking radio edit of that song that they could have used instead. That just kept going. I can't believe the metalhead Jericho didn't offer up a better alternative. Jericho and Storm feed bears, bungee jump, feed goats, play Skee-Ball, play Whack-a-Mole, compare Scooby-Doo dolls, and play with "the Spider" which actually looks genuinely cool--all the thrills of East Tennessee have officially been sought.
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    Johnny Polo, in a sort of unjustifiably forgotten stint on Superstars. I miss his sound machine. Strong to-the-point promo from Shawn that hits the notes that needed to be hit. They're still making "...has left the building" references this late.
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    The build to Liger finally being able to unleash his big moves was very well-done. He can't do the surfboard--and boy, does the size difference matter way more here than it did when Liger was unable to lift Tenryu--or various other moves, so he mostly settles for relentlessly attacking Hash's legs. Then when he *does* bust out the Liger Bomb, the moment is that much more special. Incidentally, I think, just to be difficult or whatever, the Budokan imposed special rules on NJPW that All-Japan didn't have to worry about: the card had to end at a certain time, and no fighting on the floor. So the one thing this match is missing is Liger busting out the big dives, which would have made psychological sense. But these guys are so good that that's easily overcome. Hash's cutoffs of Liger's big run of finishers is fantastic, looking like a desperate man while still convincingly killing Liger dead.
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    Definitely a contender for lucha MOTY, I don't know if it will be a serious top 10-5 candidate overall. The work here was gritty as everyone mentioned, but it was very psychologically sound on top of it with some cool payback spots in the third fall when Dandy tries to rip up Llanes' arm the same way Llanes went after his. I actually really liked Panico's interference, as it was a well-timed spot and not something you see in a lucha title bout, and as a mere tease of a finish rather than a real finish it worked fine. The actual ending did not work fine. There are a lot of parallels here between this and Arn vs. Regal, but for whatever reason that bullshit finish worked better, if only because we still got a real winner out of it. I never really thought about it, even after reading the Worst Blowjobs thread, but Dandy with the short hair really *is* an ugly motherfucker. But Llanes' Very Hungry Caterpillar tights may be enough to tack on an extra 1/2-* or so.
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    I could MAYBE buy that a few of those early BattleBowls they did a shoot drawing weeks beforehand and then booked around the results, but there's no way those were random, improvised matches. At least one guy at the first BattleBowl, I forget who, got up and started heading toward the ring before his name was announced. And what would happen if Sting and Luger were drawn on opposite sides?
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    They actually began a feud between that guy and Steve Blackman, which never went anywhere. Then of course there was Kerwin Silfies' moment in the sun, reporting from Brian Pillman's house about the "explosions" (speaking of linguistic quirks) emanating from inside.
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