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  1. PeteF3
    SMH isn't a positive thing, though.
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    Flair mentioning "Atlanta, G-A!" couldn't have been a coincidence. His Warrior impersonation is a marvelous sight. Monsoon of course treats it like it's a foregone conclusion that the belt is going to Warrior, which is a great way to get this big main event over.
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    Sting will get to choose his method of execution at Halloween Havoc.
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    Dutch gets contradicted re: the Stud Stable, but it's sort of a subtle build to the three-way feud that develops. Match isn't as good as the house show bout but it's not a retread in the slightest--the tighter format and different story being told makes for a match worked in a totally different way, but still effective. SMW has the best tag division in North America, which the Big Two ought to be ashamed of.
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    I like how all the heels are focused on getting the bounty on Brian Lee. Orndorff is after him, as are Killer Kyle & Cornette. Then hype for the tag title match--this is quite the loaded episode.
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    Very good match for its length and setting, with some crisp offense by Horner and good heeling by the White Boy. Horner gets a small package for the non-title victory. Wright's pratfall out of his wheelchair is absolutely awesome.
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    Yeah, the announcer talking the towel up before the match starts pretty badly telegraphs this. If Garvin throws the towel out every night, why is he so attached to them? Oh well, there still aren't many guys who do a beatdown better than Mr. Wonderful. "IT'S A 1992 LYNCHING!" WOW. Garvin's delivery is good, but yeah, weird that the towel is getting more play than Garvin getting hanged. This is a promising feud from an in-ring standpoint. Orndorff talks up collecting the Brian Lee bounty then has to be prompted by Caudle as to who this Garvin guy is. Multiple storylines put over at once!
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    I didn't know they were still printing Spotlight in late '92. This is all poured on really thick. Okerlund and Vince completely gush over Savage and then Savage calls Warrior "the greatest friend I've ever had, or ever could have." Come on, REALLY? That's the kind of history-erasing that the WWF engages in that people complain about. Savage is out to target Razor Ramon while Warrior will be going after Flair's title. Warrior comes out and responds to Savage's OOH YEAH with a "Dig It!" The mutual admiration and gift exchange going on here is borderline homoerotic. I'm really, really glad this alliance ended as soon as it began. As bad as business got, I'm ready for the Bret Hart Era.
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    I think this is the second of the 3 hair matches. Not as good as '90, but an improvement over '91 as the falls were more credibly spaced out with some good false finishes in the primera caida, and the referee was less of a factor. Lucha referees as a rule generally aren't very good but the guy here (Roberto Angel?) is the best of the bad bunch that I've seen. Anyway, this is down and dirty and awesome, with some great wrestling mixed in as well. Good finish as Dandy tries a tapatia and Satanico falls back with all four shoulders on the mat. Satanico grabs the ropes and bridges and gets the pin to win the rubber match. But wait...Atlantis pleads his case to the Box y Lucha commission and this match MUST CONTINUE. Dandy absolutely levels Satanico with clotheslines, Warrior-style, then gets the Dandina for the real victory. I liked the ending's execution (both the false one and the real one) but I too would have preferred a longer post-restart, to give it that epic past-midnight push. Still a low-level lucha MOTYC.
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    Yet another enjoyably "low-key" match in a series. I know this is on for historical reasons but it's also a good chance to see a mid-card-style AJPW match that shows off the sick amount of depth the promotion had at one time. Akiyama gets a good kickout and then hits a German suplex for a near-fall that feels like a victory in and of itself. He can't apply the Northern Lights though, and Kobashi comes back and debuts the Kentucky Bomb (pumphandle power bomb--don't ask me where the name comes from) for the win.
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    Uh-oh, nobody show this match to Jerry Lawler. One of his interview staples is now torpedoed. Flair pulls out all sorts of new shit here, most of which Loss mentioned. He also does a thing where he picks Tenryu up for his standard knee breaker and then falls back with a suplex, and at one point Tenryu counters the kneebreaker with a cross body, which sets up the first fall finish. This thing is shot so tightly that the struggle and stiff shots and the verbal stuff (mostly from Flair) really come through, like a studio match. Flair heels it up a bit and in this setting it comes off as fresh. At one point he drops to his knees to beg off and then pops up and pokes Tenryu in the eye. It's a spot we've seen in a million Flair matches but Flair pulls it off with more energy and giddiniess than I've ever seen him do, and it gets a big reaction from the crowd. Tenryu deserves some credit as well, because he sells it like it's Muta's mist. The stalemate over the figure four is fucking awesome, where both guys have dueling submission holds at the same time--I was marking out in my chair watching that. There are other twists--Flair has a counter for when Tenryu tries the standard figure four, so when Tenryu gets him in position later in the match, he does a leg scissors instead that's worked and sold the same way. Tenryu throws some roll-up near falls at Flair in the 3rd fall and then we sort of lose our way, as we meander towards the finish. I groaned and almost laid my head on the keyboard at the DCOR, because I really wanted to see Flair pull out a win (or Tenryu but in a title match that wasn't happening). That said, Tenryu's frantic struggle to get Flair into the ring was well-done and Flair deadweighting himself with no intention of returning to the ring was pretty sound strategy. This really stands out because it's out of a time capsule--other than Tenryu's power bomb there isn't a spot in this that would look out of place in 1975. The first 2/3 of this would put this in the top 10 MOTYs. The closing stretch and ending hurt it slightly, but I'd call it the best Flair match and performance since WrestleWar '90, and the best Tenryu match since leaving All-Japan.
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    What a weird opening--Inoue doing the Kato Kung Lee ropewalk and the girls acting like stooge heels when Nakano tags in. Good but not overwhelming action (overwhelming as in too fast and suffocating) when Yamada gets a fluke pinfall on Nakano to win a first fall that the monsters had basically dominated. The post-produced giggling commentary is just killing this for me, though. All the stuff here is executed really well and this is a lot more give-and-take than you would expect. Plus the weapons and crowd brawling is basically minimized. Yoshida looks terrific here, playing hit-and-run with her bigger opponents and showing off some nice moves in the process. It's not high-end but it's a really good, straightforward match that was actually enjoyable because it wasn't necessarily going for "epic."
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    Only the WWF could tie a thrilling technical (by its standards) clean wrestling contest in with a voodoo curse. Hennig seems to be having fun with this, but it's one odd direction for Bret to take.
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    Pretty good match--on some level I could see this as another knock against the MVCs as a team as they do guzzle things and it's not really impressive in the face of other AJPW tags, but I enjoyed myself. Kobashi gets a chance to shine again, until he takes a big belly-to-belly off the top that more or less finishes him. I wonder if the inevitable result was what hurt the crowd heat--I'd think Stevie Wonder could have seen the finish coming.
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    Did Watts seriously sign off on this? This also aired at the end of the Clash, which makes Sammartino's comments about "real wrestling" coming back all the funnier. Jake completely outdoes even the ostensibly professional actors in this thing. Jake and Sting step up to the wheel and shoot laser beams at each other out of their eyes, much like Bruno and Apache Bull Ramos did before their MSG encounter.
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    How could the Bodies "steal" the titles in a no-DQ match? Bob Caudle is INCENSED at the reprehensible act by Cornette to net the Bodies the SMW Tag Titles. I like how Lane sells his perforated eardrum. Prichard declares that the Bodies have their women FLOWN in, just like seafood. Cornette gives further hype to the upcoming feud with Bob Armstrong, who's probably used to being in handcuffs.
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    Well, I would hope Hogan wouldn't be in the top 10. Well-worked studio match with a predictable Doug Gilbert run-in finish. Lawler makes the save for Jarrett, and soon Mike Samples and Reno Riggins follow. Memphis went through a major depth problem toward the end of 1991 but now we've got a number of compelling programs all going on.
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    Landell cuts a quasi-babyface promo, vowing revenge on Bill Dundee and the Junkyard Dog for splitting his head open. Rich tapes a promo regarding a first-blood rematch. Weird that they're pushing JYD as the "Big Black Hope" considering what already has gone on in WCW. Was Snowman making noise again?
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    Ramon is satisfied with himself over costing Savage the WWF title. Flair and Perfect are popping the bubbly in their locker room. Razor joins them. I love it when a good heel plan comes together.
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    Winner of this gets a shot at the Triple Crown. I've made noise about this Army vs. Army feud having run its course, but I'm sure not tired of seeing this match-up yet, and this is the best match in the series since the 1/91 brawl. It may be Taue's best performance in a singles match, period. Loved Taue busting out the enzuilariatio that had put him down so many times, and Kawada's desperation attempts to avoid the nodowa. Kawada gets the win with the Stretch Plum and this sets up the intra-army TC match the next month. Intrigue!
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    What a fucking crowd this is. And these guys know every trick in the book to keep them as loud as they were in the beginning. There's not a lot here you haven't seen before, except maybe for Cornette getting his jacket pulled over his head and swinging wildly with the tennis racket. But what they do, they do perfectly. Good stooging comedy spots, a classic Morton-in-peril segment, and a hot finishing stretch including Gibson kicking out of a racket shot that I was sure was the finish, and this is a hell of a match. The Fantastics/Bodies match that ranked as the best in SMW through this point didn't have a long reign at the top.
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    Really fun stuff--Foley should be required to play Pat Patterson and lay out any and all falls-count-anywhere matches in all promotions. Loved him giving a suplex to a table so that it lands on Dustin, and his hug and embrace of the chairs that he uses. Dustin takes some pretty crazy bumps himself, like when he went for the bulldog on the floor and got sent into the ringpost and then bounced off the bottom of the guardrail. He misses a clothesline and tumbles to the floor, landing in perfect position for the apron dive elbowdrop to give Cactus the victory. Clean jobs by babyfaces--who would have ever thought.
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    The big Razor push is underway. If he wants Savage's gold, why'd he help Ric Flair win it? Heenan gushing over hanging out with him at the end is hilarious.
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    "Maybe he got bit by a tsetse fly!" Forgot to mention in the tag match itself but Lane suffered a horrific-looking cut to his lip or tongue in the early going--this has been more bleeding in the past month than Lane did in pretty much his entire professional career before this. This seems to be the effective end to the Bodies/Fantastics feud as the Bodies throw out a challenge to the Rock 'n Roll Express. Cornette doing a Scrooge McDuck with the money was a terrific visual.
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    Definitely the best match to appear on SMW television so far if not the best SMW match period. This whole set-up was taken from Mid-South, with Cornette replacing his banned tennis racket with ether. And the match itself is awesome, with some neat spots from the Fantastics to open and some good punishment dished out by the Bodies in return. I liked how they got over the no-DQ stip immediately by having both teams get sent over the top rope. Plus more of Bobby Fulton's awesome uppercuts. Great stuff all around.
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