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    A cage match in the TV studio--there can't have been too many of these, in any territory. Paul Neighbors--and in a GREAT moment Dave Brown explains that he used to be in charge of transporting the ring, so of course he'd have a spare set--unlocks the cage door and tries to toss Rich a chain. Jarrett uses it instead for a 3-count, but Neighbors clobbers Jarrett and rolls Rich on top. A dazed Frank Morrell awards the bout to Rich. An irate Eddie Marlin holds the belt up and appoints himself the referee for the rematch! Great chaotic post-match scene. Hey WCW, here's how you book a scene of guys screaming over top of each other correctly, with all the pertinent points still coming across.
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    Vince's tape didn't arrive, to the delight of Dave Brown and the studio audience. Lawler sticks up for local business (FedEx) and says it's because he's regained the Unified World title. Lawler issues another challenge to Vince to appear in Memphis, which sadly never comes about. Actually what I'd kill (or at least maim) to see is Vince in the WMC studio, interacting with Dave.
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    Boni Blackstone makes a Yearbook appearance. Cornette gloats about how there's no competition left for Yokozuna with Lex Luger out of the picture. Then the lights go out and the Undertaker is standing behind Cornette, who pratfalls out of view. Bearer and the Undertaker issue a challenge. I hated this program but this was a very well-done segment. Even babyface Paul Bearer was good here. Good touch not to have Yokozuna back down and show fear, the way he typically would in this feud.
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    Borga is amusingly horrified at the state of the environment in the U.S., and blames Americans for ruining this beautiful river. Instead of feuding, you'd think he and Tatanka would be natural allies.
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    Rambo does one of the all-time great "loss of blood" sells you'll ever see, assuming he was selling at all. Such a great traditional face/heel dynamic, with Tirantes making his presence known without smothering the match. Another incredibly clever ending, something right out of the United States but fresh in this setting, as Rambo does an Iceman Parsons butt-bump but misses and nails Tirantes. He takes advantage by fouling Villano and locking in a submission, as Tirantes crawls back in and calls for the bell. The arena goes DEAD SILENT when that happens--like Bruno-losing-to-Ivan-Koloff levels of shock. Then the SWERVE as Tirantes called for the bell because he disqualified Rambo for hitting him! Great, cunning use of a quasi-Dusty Finish.
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    This is basically Hase wrestling a broomstick for about 22 minutes, if broomsticks were capable of throwing great dropkicks. Muto finally steps up his game by countering the uranage with a judo takedown that's about the most awesome thing he's ever done. Fantastic overall bout, as Hase continues to establish himself as being every bit as good as the AJPW Four Corners as a heavyweight worker.
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    Koslowski was an Olympian with a great look and some killer suplexes--had he come along some years earlier, I think Verne Gagne could have made him a star. He controls the majority of this match before putting Ishikawa away with sort of a combination hammerlock/chicken wing, after casually murdering him with a German suplex. I need to see more of this guy and of his brother Dennis.
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    This sort of ended as it was getting going. Rare for me to say this about any shootstyle match but I felt this could have gone longer.
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    Quite the shock finish there, as Flynn spends most of this absolutely murdering Anderson with some beautiful kicks, but tries one too many and gets caught in a half crab. This was looking like an extended shootstyle squash before then.
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    Finish was a little unexpected, but it does nicely establish the WAR Special as a legit move, when Tenryu really didn't have anything besides the power bomb to put people away with before. Awesome little match--watching Hase one may want him to be pushed at the level of the other Musketeers, but at the same time he's SO good at being the gutsy underdog...it's not far off from Daniel Bryan now, in fact, if Bryan had less ridiculous facial hair.
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    Rocco Rock stresses that PE aren't here for fun, they're here for the NWA Tag Titles. Quite the jarring contrast to the more familiar image of Public Enemy. Grunge seems awfully apprehensive and blows his partner's name. Dangerously has the cap on, slowly morphing into the more familiar ECW Paul E. He talks of blood and guts but still sells pain when he slams the phone against his hand.
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    Pancrase had rules that more or less prohibited strikes on the ground, hence the toned-down ground game stuff. Very interesting comparison to the worked stuff. It's hard to tell the difference, though as mentioned the opening is much more aggressive and stiffer. And of course, the finish is where it really hits home--the UWFI and PWFG finishes were almost always pure pro-wrasslin' in their build and in their effort to put across maximum drama. Here, Shamrock just methodically applies a facelock and gets the tapout. At 6:15 this was twice as long as any other match on this show. The backlash against this forced Pancrase, going forward, to work some fights and have guys "carry" others to longer matches but with a legitimate result.
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    Really good match thanks to Hash--possibly the best post-NWA Muta-under-the-paint match. He wrestles on the level for most of this, and only goes to the garbage tendencies once he starts to get desperate. And even that's worked well--Hash kicks the timekeeper's hammer away from him and the use of the chair and timely ref bump are all creative and well-done. In the end Hash shrugs it all off and DDTs his way to the IWGP Championship.
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    Easily the worst WarGames to this point, nothing else will even come close until the Dungeon of Doom stuff. Booker T takes some fairly hellacious bumps here. Schiavone marvels as the Shockmaster navigates his way through the cage door and not one, but two sets of ring ropes. He almost immediately bearhugs Booker/Kole for an absurdly anticlimactic and heatless submission. Wow, Shockmaster tapped Kole--that sure settles this issue. Shockmaster pratfalls in celebration, just to make the heels look completely foolish instead of mostly foolish. What a shitty fucking company.
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    This was a pretty crazy show from a copyright/trademark standpoint. We have Flair and Rude fighting for the "Big Gold Belt" and earlier, the "Big Van" part of Cactus Jack's promo was muted. Hearing Jesse rip on Flair like he's any other babyface is weird and it just doesn't work. Jesse could go after Hogan because he thought Hogan was a hypocrite who was protected--when you have a guy who calls himself the Dirtiest Player in the Game, even as a babyface, that tack doesn't really work. Flair busts out a top-rope chop to the floor! Well, that was cool. Flair works hard, looks good overall, and is really energetic here, but Rude looks just about done. Rude pulls brass knucks out of his trunks while he's in the figure four and cold cocks Flair to win the Anonymous World title. Three screwjob heel title victories on one show is too many, considering how similar the finishes all were.
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    Recap of the Jack/Vader feud, complete with Lost in Cleveland footage. This is an excellent way to showcase how this angle went from legitimately harrowing and emotional to stupid as all hell to something salvageable. All "Lost in Cleveland" is basically chalked up to Jack playing mind games.
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    This is not a particularly vocal crowd, and I don't recall any reason being given for anyone to care about this match to begin with. Damned if Roma isn't pretty energetic upon getting the hot tag. Nasties win the tag titles, yippee. Halloween Havoc '90 this wasn't. Never really grasped what Missy was supposed to add to this duo. She didn't even play a role in the finish. EDIT: If Missy could talk worth a damn, then her motivation (getting back at Ric Flair for continuously blowing her off) would be something I'd regard as pretty cool long-term storytelling. But she can't, so I won't.
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    I remember this being decent, but the TV matches held promise of something great and I don't think we got it here. They try to recreate the Starrcade '84 magic as Steamboat comes into this with hurt ribs, courtesy of an umbrella attack on TV by Regal. Cool finish as Steamboat skins the cat but Dundee whacks him with the umbrella in a well-done spot.
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    The Headhuntahs against Miguel Perez, Juniah and Crash tha Terminatah. Total Japan hardcore set-up, as both teams start from opposite ends of the building and run to the center to get baseball bats. Clever start to have Crash slam the baseball bat against the ringposts, letting everyone know that it's an honest-to-God bat. Chaotic brawl that ends up back in the ring, and dammit, I liked this quite a bit. The Headhunters are always fun, at least in small doses, with their big fat man bumping and high-flying, and there's even some good offense on display here in addition to all the weapons shots. Crash misses a moonsault and one of the Headhunters lands one of his own to retain the W*ING tag titles. I KNOW he gets better...he has to. But as it is now, I'm rooting for Joey Styles to die in a car fire. His commentary consists of about 6 lines repeated over and over again, spiced up with various lame puns and pop culture references that are weaved in with the subtlety of a flying hammer. ALL AT THE SAME CONSTANT SHOUTING VOLUME.
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    Did Gilbert walk out already? Great fuckin' payoff to the King of Philadelphia shit. Kevin Sullivan is in, and this is about what you'd expect. Not bad, but not something that really ages that well and really not anywhere near as chaotic as the 3-way Smoky Mountain brawl. Oh shit, Gilbert runs in with a chair! I don't know if he's legit injured or what, but hey, they got me. Having a Texas Tornado Match end in a disqualification is pretty fucking lame, though. Kevin turns on Abdullah, because why not? The post-match is actually better than the match itself. Take a drink every time Joey uses anaphora in his commentary: "This is ridiculous! This is wild!" "Somebody call the paramedics! Somebody call 911!" "...as is Terry Funk! As is Kevin Sullivan!" Your liver will want to kill you.
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    Is that really Joey Styles? That New England accent is WAY more pronounced at this point. JT Smith almost Cornettes his knee bumping off the scaffold, and Styles (or whoever it is) sells this monumental event by making a "fallen and I can't get up" MedicAlert crack. Oh joy--it's either Joey Styles or a New Englander Craig Johnson. Patriot beats up Smith through the crowd while Styles ridiculously oversells all this. "CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD!" Oh, shut the fuck up.
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    Dutch shamelessly kisses up to the new Commissioner in hilarious fashion. Decent action and a very clever finish.
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    Sherri vs. Tammy? Yes, I approve of this.
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    Footage from a different and presumably earlier show than before. An attempted switch by the twins is unsuccessful, and the double dropkick nets the tag titles back. I'm sure the fact that their matches are almost all finish-only on these sets, but as little excitement as I feel over the Harris Twins, I haven't seen anything that's made me want to jump on the FF/Skip button either. Cornette and the twins are back on TV--Cornette is angry that the Harrises forgot his coaching while he was laid up, and were spending too much time listening to Kevin Sullivan. The Bruise Brothers are now on double-secret probation, and the Heavenly Bodies will leapfrog them for title shots.
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    Commissioner Cornette is here! Back when this concept was totally fresh, believe it or not. He's gotten a brand new tux for Dutch Mantell and fired Bob Caudle. Not all the news is good--before Cornette achieved commissionership, the Rock 'n Roll Express regained the tag titles from the Bruise Brothers. Then another cock-up by Dutch, as Jimmy Del Ray's Beat the Champ challenge will come in the form of Robert Gibson. Armstrong/Funk highlights. Bullet Bob still throws an awesome punch. Overbooked finish as we get run-ins from Dr. Tom, Scott Armstrong, the Harrises, Ricky Morton, and Brian Armstrong. Cornette relied on these sorts of finishes too much, and Mark Curtis tended to come across as an idiot as he turns around and pays attention to the brawling for no reason, allowing Funk to clobber Armstrong with the branding iron for the win. Cornette is positively giddy backstage, wearing the green commissioner's cap. Funk humbly expresses his gratitude to the Lord for his victory--awesome! Back to the taping, and Cornette promises more changes, acknowledging that some pre-existing contracts can't be undone.
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