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    Fuller and Golden want a tag title shot.
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    A Tracey Smothers profile and music video set to "All I Can Do Is Write About It" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. We run down Tracey's amateur credentials, which all seem authentic. This is fairly cool even if it sometimes come off more as a dating video than a wrestling promo.
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    I'm actually on board with a Moondogs face turn, but a.) it probably came too late, b.) Mike Samples & Mike Miller are not the ideal catalysts for it, and c.) Richard Lee is less ideal as a Lawler buddy than the Moondogs as hired babyface guns.
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    From the South Pole...oh my God, was Luke or Butch actually Xanta Klaus? I don't need to hear about Butch talking about bloody poles, by the way.
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    I've never, ever been able to differentiate between Mitsuya Nagai and Masashi Aoyagi. I'm not entirely convinced that one is not a secret identity of the other and would welcome proof that they've been seen in the same place at the same time. Nagai does come off as a gutsy bastard, as Sergei basically takes him down and ties him up at will for most of this ,while also throwing some beautiful kicks at him. Nagai creates distance with some awesome kicks of his own before finally landing one that puts Sousserov down.
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    Memphis vs. World of Sport! Talk about two different worlds colliding. Gilbert brings his working boots and unleashes some new stuff, like the abdominal stretch roll-up and a dropkick off the top. Still, quite a lot of stalling--and Finlay is as guilty if not moreso than Gilbert. Really fun closing stretch of reversals and counters, before Finlay murders Gilbert with a sick tombstone for the victory. Finlay would have fit in perfectly in Memphis, especially if he still had Princess Paula as part of his act. This was overlong, but I'm still glad I saw it.
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    Schumann seems like a lost worker--he came after the era of televised European wrestling and before the era of maybe landing an undercard cruiserweight spot in WCW. I think he worked a Top of the Super Junior tournament but that was it as far as Japan. He's looked really good in the tag match and this, and I thought this was pretty great overall. You could have maybe asked for more pure matwork, but some of the takedown sequences they worked looked very nice. And of course Liger is familiar with this style and knows how to pace things through a round system. These Austro-German crowds normally come off as very provincial so it was cool to see such a pro-Liger crowd here.
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    The crazy thing is that angle promptly led to Dusty ditching the yellow polka dots and morphing into Crockett Dusty all over again, just in time for him to leave. It was a goofy premise but Dusty was cutting the most heated promos of his WWF stint. Then it went to another level when DiBiase busted Dustin up on SNME, which is a fabulous angle that's almost right out of JCP-land. I hope you get to the end of the '90 Yearbook, Parv, so you can see for yourself. Dusty vs. Savage is possibly my least favorite WWF feud of the '84-'92 era, but the follow-up feud actually could have gone places. It's not really up there at the top but I have a soft spot for Val vs. Rikishi from 2000. It was one of the first mid-card feuds of the Attitude Era based on two guys just fucking hating each other, rather than skits. Not to get too back-in-my-day but I honestly wonder if there's been as good and intense of a mid-card WWF feud since (Edge vs. Matt Hardy, I guess).
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    This was a good brawling performance by Hase but all that blood made this just plain uncomfortable. I've never really had an issue with the biting of cuts but seeing Hase do it here felt like it went over the line.
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    I was chalking this up as a disappointment due to a slow start where Koshinaka sat in a Fujiwara armbar doing his best Doc/Gordy impersonation, not accomplishing much. But eventually Tenryu busts him open with kicks and this gets really good really fast. That "did he or didn't he?" reversal pin attempt by Koshinaka that Loss brings up was great, like an actual controversial call you'd see in a real sporting event rather than the typical blind pro wrestling officiating. This feud continues to be a blast.
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    A very good closing chapter on a terrific year for joshi in '92. AJW, with some help, picked up the slack in a major way as the other promotions fell off from their unsustainably great first half of 'the year. I really liked how they went through a big closing stretch where the only big "finishing" move that actually hit was Kyoko's Niagara Driver. Everything else--Kong's backfist, Toyota's JOCS, and Yamada's Gory bomb--was attempted, teased, and countered, sometimes more than once, but never hit. Great way to get those moves over as killers while also educating fans that falls can happen on other moves, too.
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    Rude supposedly once dared anyone in a WCW locker room to try to take him down. The man who stepped up and succeeded: one Erik Watts.
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    Good stuff all-around. Steamboat and Windham had a hot confrontation for a few seconds but Rhodes blew Ricky out of the water.
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    Madusa "gave a favor" to a doctor friend of Simmons', and Rude now has x-ray evidence of a lingering shoulder injury for Simmons. These segments continue to be really good.
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    Cornette will be training intensely for his handicap match at the Rock 'n Roll Express, sweatin' to the oldies with his good friend Richard Simmons. Further tension is teased between the Bodies and the Stud Stable. Cornette's closing line is a howler, the third "did that just happen?" moment of the past few segments.
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    This is up there with Wright, Bagwell, et al on the beach.
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    Lawler makes sure to mention that Koko has a big house in Germantown, a ritzy suburb of Memphis that's to Tennessee what Edina is to Minnesota, or Shaker Heights to Ohio. In a pleasant bit of wrestling news during a time when there was very little of it in the U.S., that great Koko/Lawler TV confrontation led to one of the bigger attendance figures the MSC had seen in awhile. Lawler shrugs off interference from Samples & Prentice (Prentice ducking a Lawler punch and catching him in a full nelson is just comical). Lawler gets back at Koko by getting a job co-hosting the WWF! Ha! What a fantastic way to kayfabe all this to the USWA viewers. Koko declares that Lawler won't be getting any Unified title shots without the permission of Koko's good friend, Vince Mack-Man, and that it will have to take place in MSG, the Meadowlands, or the Boston Garden. Lawler promises bad things for Prentice and Samples, and teases a fire appearance.
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    Yokozuna being pulled up in a rickshaw was even bigger "Oh, WOW" moment than Razor's line about executions. Flair and Shawn together seems so natural, that one wishes could have been explored more. This is total damage control spin that's even more obvious when you realize what was happening in real life at this time. Incredibly Mooney does NOT say anything about "putting smiles on faces."
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    Razor isn't as good as Bobby and Flair, who are outstanding even by their standards. But his line about "knowing all about execution" got an eyebrow raise from me, at least. Very good segment overall.
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    Wow. See, a standard match layout especially in Japan sees the guy who's taking the fall get most of the offense in the match, so both guys can ostensibly look strong. So I had this big write-up in my mind as I was watching this expanding on that. Even when it's designed to get the guy over, that type of layout can be counterproductive--a lower-ranked guy kicks his opponent's ass six ways from Sunday, but the higher-ranked guy basically shrugs it off when coming back at the end, which ironically can make the guy doing the job weaker, not stronger. That's exactly where I figured this was going since of course Chono wasn't doing a singles job to Hase. Well, that whole idea went for nought (not that it kept me from writing it up anyway). Hase levels Chono with almost everything he's got and a few more wrinkles--and even busts out an STF and a series of Yakuza kicks, just to mess with him...and it all pays off when he pins him. I guess this is another example of my AJPW-centric thinking and another testament to Riki Choshu, as that one blindsided me. Hase was absolutely terrific, with some huge bombs like the Northern Lights superplex and Chono's moves which had you really buying into the upset-tease-that-wasn't-a-tease-at-all. Chono was kind of just there, but it was a stunningly selfless performance, and the ending was one of the most markout-worthy moments of this Yearbook for me.
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    Bret/Magee was a TV taping dark match and apparently Meltzer has seen it, as a source got him the tape. I always thought the Kerry-fucked-up match was from Hawaii, but I could be conflating things since that match happened in so many places.
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    Heck, I'm not sure they've mentioned it at the time I'm up to. The implication was simply that Perfect went into consulting after losing his title, and that Heenan was deliberately keeping him out of the ring, away from Flair. I think the Apter mags talked up the back injury, but the first on-air mention of it that I can recall was by Jim Ross at WM9.
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    I could be completely crazy and I haven't watched it since it first aired, but Triple H vs. Kane from '99 sticks with me. Possibly for the result, which HHH won and which came across as a monumental upset as Kane was still fairly protected.
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    Really surprised at all the love for Pedro Morales. The guy was over and there are indications that he was good in the early '70s when there's less footage, but having 4+ matches on the WWF '80s Set was not something I would have ever predicted.
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    This isn't as good or as heated as the previous WAR/NJPW matches, and Kanemoto is still finding himself for most of this. But the closing stretch is great with all four guys looking good. That dive train was the biggest highlight--it's about time we saw the 1991 WON Move of the Year as busted out by Orihara.
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