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  1. PeteF3
    Easily the best AAA match so far, nothing else is int he same stratosphere, and seems to be an easy top-5 lucha MOTY pick. Astro's tope en reversa seems like a move that's better in concept than in execution, but he finds a way to hit it on the nose every time from a multitude of positions, and make it look like it hurts. I knew Astro as a shticky guy who could provide some great flying despite his body shape, but this is a great exhibition of him as a more complete wrestler, which was refreshing.
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    Jumbo is filling out some more now. He looks better than he did upon his comeback, when he seriously looked like a recovering chemo patient. As a worker he doesn't seem to have missed much--you definitely wouldn't peg him as being "done" just by this match. Anyway, this was awesome--the MVCs work as hard as they ever have and they work very quickly. When they grab holds, they grab some new ones we haven't seen much of and don't lay in them for very long. Really awesome closing stretch too, and TAUE PINS GORDY! This really was the Akira Show for most of this. As the final significant match of Jumbo's career it's a worthy finale, and there's a bit of serendipity that Taue scored the biggest pinfall of his life to that point (I would assume) in such a match, even though that surely wasn't the intention.
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    Does the definition of "idolized" include Mr. Electricity Steve Regal? I suppose not, but I've never heard much of anything against him until the '80s project started.
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    This was a step down from the awesome JWP stuff on the earlier Yearbooks, as this got a little closer to the unfocused go-go style. It got better down the stretch and the stuff was well-executed, but...I didn't much care about anything that was happening, the "stuff" wasn't as spectacular as AJW, and there were some eye-rolling moments like Ozaki & Suzuki doing like four double-teams in a row while Kansai is on the apron picking her nose and the opening flurry where Suzuki unleashes some of the worst strikes I've ever seen. This makes it sound worse than it really was, but this was kind of a disappointment.
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    It didn't register in the Malenko match because Joe's not a tall guy, but these Russians are fucking towering. It's shallow but these guys are honestly way more intimidating-looking than the NJPW Soviets. Chabadze throws Fujiwara down with suplexes, but Fuj establishes himself with a fucking incredible shot to the mouth that drops Zaour instantly. Chabadze has Fujiwara tied up but leaves his heel open for Fujiwara to hook it for the submission. Great big vs. little man match-up. I can deal with these bite-sized shootstyle matches, even in bunches.
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    These two work really well together, but I agree the January match was better. Still some great kicks and suplexes, but there was more time to develop stuff in the earlier match.
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    This is okay but I'm kind of glad it was as short as it was. Malenko takes it with a submission that I recognize out of FirePro but can barely describe.
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    Interesting contrast to the previous 6-man. That was very shticky and broad but made by a red-hot crowd. This is very gritty and hard-hitting but Doc & Gordy are not over in the slightest. Now, they do eventually win the crowd over so that they're into things by the end of it, and the finish is very good and really comes off as a monumental upset. And babyface locker rooms emptying to celebrate title wins are always awesome. This was well-done but I wasn't as high on this as everyone else. Dustin got the winning move, Windham got the pin, and Windham takes all four belts and takes credit for his superplex getting the win. The seeds are sown.
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    I like this tandem and I like Barbarian, but dsepite Watts' best efforts it was way, way too soon for him to be challenging for the World title.
  10. PeteF3
    Pretty crazy how the Franchise act eventually completely overshadowed the Dynamic Dude and the promising youngster Shane of the WWF. Big push of the belly-to-belly suplex as a finisher--when it's hit, no man can kick out. Yeah, we sure had that beaten into our skulls. Sarcasm aside, this was pretty okay as far as white meat babyface interviews go.
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    Eaton must be pretty banged up--not that that would be a surprise--because his contributions have been minimal in 1992. This is an okay match not on the level of the earlier 6-mans, but it's made by an absolutely molten crowd. Why kill each other with big suplexes and bumps when the crowd is going nuts for hip swivels? I never liked how the Dangerous Alliance just sort of half-heartedly faded away. Now Paul E. isn't even at ringside.
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    Bob Armstrong has declared DWB has gone one step over the line--what was last week, exactly? Cornette is fed up with the fallen Tim Horner taking up his interview time, so he makes his own time--he's got an INJUNCTION barring Bob Armstrong from setting a title match between the Heavenly Bodies and the Rock 'n Roll Express. Not while Dan Davis & Dixie-Dynomite and Joe Cazana & Pat Rose are out there deserving of title shots. I do love these overlapping segments with Cornette paying lip service to the other issues going on.
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    Horner cuts a decent promo discussing how it felt to be hanged. Tony, Ron, and Dutch are out to expose the fact that SMW CUT OUT the portions where Horner threatened to kill Ron Wright, thus explaining that he and DWB were acting in self-defense. DWB calls out Horner for sending in threats by tape instead of being at the arena, so Horner comes out and decks him. He's about to do the same to Wright, or teases it, when DWB breaks a beer bottle over his head. Ooh, a Mrs. Horner cameo. If they were squeamish about replaying the hanging, that's pretty hilarious because for months the SMW fundraising ad video prominently showed one of the Fultons getting hanged by a Russian chain. Good, clean, wrestling entertainment.
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    Replay of the Fuller vs. Moondogs match from about 11 months earlier. What prompted this quickie title change? Did something come up or is this the start of something with Jarrett?
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    The same Blackhearts from Abrams' UWF and All-Japan? I guess. Duggan and Memphis is such a perfect fit that I can't believe it took this long for it to happen.
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    A giddy Richard Lee Heyman is out to buy the WMC studio and make it LeeTV. Clips from the Memphis Fairgrounds of Lawler & JYD vs. the Moondogs with the Moondogs getting a tag title shot if they win. Lee supplies wonderfully obnoxious two-faced commentary, and the Dogs get the win with the help of a "scientific finishing maneuver" (a bone to the head). Jarrett's not arrived yet, so Lee has to wait for his title shot. Lee is still happy, because he gets to bring out his newest protoge, the TAZMANIAC!
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    This seems REALLY out of place considering what else the WWF was doing--the other company debuts this year included an ex-con, a voodoo priest, and a guy from Minnesota with a Cuban accent. Backlund's goal is to become WWF Champion once again--well, score one for him on that.
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    Bruno's gravitas is so evident every time you see him. He was surprisingly good calling Dustin/Jake, too.
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    I liked this a LOT, actually. Not only did Jake execute the phony knee injury well, the punch he levels Dustin with is spectacular--Michael Hayes-esque, I daresay. That fakeout gets a LOT of heat from the Center Stage crowd, and yet a few seconds later the "D-D-T" chants start. I think it's pretty awesome that Jake could draw that kind of reaction, honestly. I don't know if a finisher can get as over as Jake's DDT did, in a world of a bunch of slam variations and a few submissions finishing people off. Anyway, as everyone else said, this is basic, but it all works and all makes sense. Dustin makes a good comeback but bulldogs Jake too close to the ropes, and during his celebration Jake gets a kick to the back and levels him with the DDT for the clean victory. The way Dustin has been used recently, the "push a guy hard and then start jobbing him" method of booking isn't exactly a recent WWE invention. Best Jake match in a long while--it wasn't nearly as heated or intense but it may have been better worked than even the Savage bouts. Ths must be the TV taping that Butch Reed no-showed. Jake promises that Barbarian will have a partner.
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    The Stud Stable deserved a big WWF push at the time, the way they're promoting a drug-free lifestyle. They and Lawler could have formed a proto-Straight Edge Society. Tim Horner has been hounding Ron Wright more than any bill collector has! Caudle's reactions to Wright's ranting are hilarious, and I love how Wright goes from loud and angry to quiet and afraid as soon as Horner shows up. Tragically Wright's crippling arthritis has prevented him from signing a title match contract. Horner gets nailed from behind by the DWB, handcuffed, and wrapped in a NOOSE (!), where he's dragged to the ring. This is a semi-redo of the infamous Dirty White Girl black eye angle in Continental, but it's not quite as effective as that was. Robbie "The 'Stro" Eagle makes a cameo appearance trying to make the save, and Horner is spitting up blood! This is crazy as hell, and maybe more than a little desperate. If anything, it undermined what's to come with Brian Lee and the Master.
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    They're still acknowledging Jimmy Hart's suspension from the Mid-South Coliseum, which goes all the way back to his departing the territory in 1985! Let's see any other promotion pay that much attention to detail. The Howard Hughes Connection consisted of Mr. Hughes and Jeff Gaylord--I don't know where the "Howard" part comes in. You have not lived until you've seen Jeff Gaylord wrestle in a shirt, tie, and suspenders. Two goofs in facepaint--Screamer and "Brue"? Bruise? Brood?--are coming to Memphis with some Tony Rumble wannabe manager, who's angry about "something said at a social gathering." Holy shit, what a heavy issue to fight over.
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    What exactly was "Plan A" anyway? Evidently whatever they tried at SummerSlam didn't work, the way everyone's selling it.
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    This was pretty one-sided, with the Steiners basically asserting themselves over and over without giving much to the natives. Where this really picks up is with Sasaki trying to hang on long enough while Hase is out on the apron. Sasaki kicks out of a bunch of big bombs and eventually makes a stirring comeback and tag, leading to an even more dramatic sequence with Hase trying to put Rick away with flash pins. Eventually Scott comes in and the Steiners play divide-and-conquer. It would work really well but Scott tries a reverse Frankensteiner that's cooler in theory than practice, then almost kills himself trying to do one to Sasaki. Definitely a far cry from their 1991 Dome encounter, as that was tighter and better executed. Sasaki isn't great but he's a tremendous bundle of energy who puts everything he has into every move, and he and Hase really saved this down the stretch.
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    That was brutal-looking. They go almost immediately to the finish and do it in a better way than Austin and Owen did, but I don't know how. How much did THIS affect Chono at Halloween Havoc?
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    The opening was slow, but I think it's a little tough to say they were "laying around." It wasn't overly dramatic but Albright was working hard and long to lock in a kimura at one point. Great build to the closing stretch--Takada can't apply the cross armbreaker and that looks like the last bullet he has, but he manages to either avoid or withstand Albright's suplexes and keep him at bay with kicks long enough to take him down and apply it for the win. I wouldn't say this is the shootstyle MOTY but it was very good, even if it seemed like Albright was mostly leading the way.
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